Today
Friday July 31 2026
- Day of the year
- 212/ 365
- Week
- 312,026
- Days left
- 15358%
- Moon
- 96%Waning gibbous
Today is Friday, July 31, 2026. It is day 212 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 153 remain, and 58% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 31.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- August 9International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
- August 12International Youth Day
- August 19World Humanitarian Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Ignatius of LoyolaSpanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
- Joseph of Arimatheadisciple of Jesus, donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus
- Germanus of Auxerre5th century Bishop of Auxerre and saint
- Jacob BaradaeusNon-Chalcedonian Bishop of Edessa
- Justin de JacobisItalian Roman Catholic saint and bishop (1800–1860)
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 05:52
- Sunset
- 20:13
- Length of day
- 14h 21m−2 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:02
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Summer
began on June 21, 2026
Next season
Autumn — 53 days, September 22, 2026 (September equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Labor Day — September 7, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning gibbous
Illumination : 96%
Moon age : 17.3 days
- Next full moon
- August 28, 2026
- Next new moon
- August 12, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Leo
until August 23, 2026 — Virgo
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1009
Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII. Wikipedia
1423
Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. Wikipedia
1451
Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France. Wikipedia
1498
On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. Wikipedia
1917
World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium. Wikipedia
1941
The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question Wikipedia
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1964
Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. Wikipedia
1971
Apollo program: The Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover. Wikipedia
1991
The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles. Wikipedia
1999
Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day July 31
- 1396Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (died 1467)
- 1704Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1752)
- 1800Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist and academic (died 1882)
- 1901Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (died 1985)
- 1912Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
- 1914Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (died 1983)
- 1919Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (died 1987)
- 1921Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International (died 2005)
Died on this day July 31
- 1556Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish priest and theologian, founded the Society of Jesus (born 1491)aged 65 years
- 1784Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (born 1713)aged 71 years
- 1875Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (born 1808)aged 67 years
- 1886Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1811)aged 75 years
- 1944Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (born 1900)aged 44 years
- 1966Bud Powell, American pianist (born 1924)aged 42 years
- 2001Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (born 1914)aged 87 years
- 2009Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (born 1933)aged 76 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 05:52 and sets at 20:13, giving 14h 21m of daylight — 2 minutes less than yesterday. It has been summer since June 21, 2026; autumn opens in 53 days, on September 22, 2026 (September equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 96% illuminated. The next full moon falls on August 28, 2026 and the next new moon on August 12, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches July 31 to Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph of Arimathea and Germanus of Auxerre.
No United Nations international day falls on July 31. The next one on the calendar is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, on August 9.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII (1009); Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne (1423). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Philip III was born on July 31, 1396; Ignatius of Loyola died on July 31, 1556.
147 days remain until Christmas and 154 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — July 31 falls under the sign of Leo.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 58%
- of the year elapsed
- 147
- until Christmas
- 154
- until New Year
- 578
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26