August 31

August 31 is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1906: Raymond Sommer (d. 1950)
* 1909: Roy Sherman (d. 1968)
* 1918: Bill Homeier (d. 2001)
* 1942: Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi
* 1947: Luca di Montezemolo
* 1948: Harald Ertl (d. 1982)
* 1953: Miguel Ángel Guerra
* 1991: António Félix da Costa
==Deaths==
*1952: Jim Rigsby (b. 1923)
*1970: Chris Summers, race crash (b. 1908)
*2006: Mike Magill (b. 1920)
*2014: Jonathan Williams (b. 1942)
*2019: Anthoine Hubert (b. 1996)
==Races==
(Italics indicates a non-championship race)
* 1952: 
* 1980: 
* 2003: Belgian Grand Prix (cancelled)
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