January 31

Films

 * 1986 - Down and Out in Beverly Hills
 * 2005 - Dream On Silly Dreamer

Theme parks

 * 1992 - Professor Barnaby Owl's Photographic Art Studio opens at Disneyland
 * 1994 - CommuniCore closes at Epcot to become Innoventions
 * 2016 - Animagique has it's final performances at Walt Disney Studios to make way for a new show

VHS & DVD releases

 * 1995 - Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

DVD and Blu-ray releases

 * 2012 - Treasure Buddies
 * 2017 - Pinocchio Signature Edition, Queen of Katwe, Lilo & Stitch and The Fox and the Hound

Television

 * 1997 - The Bill Nye the Science Guy episode "Volcanoes" premieres in syndication.
 * 2003 - The Lizzie McGuire episode "Clue-Less" and the That's So Raven episode "Smell of Victory" debut on Disney Channel
 * 2008 - The drama series Eli Stone premieres on ABC
 * 2009 - My Friends Tigger & Pooh premiere on the Disney Channel with the episode "Tigger's Day at the You-See-Um"/"Skunk's Non-Scents".

Album releases

 * 2006 - Radio Disney Jams, Vol. 8

Books

 * 2004 - My Side of the Story: Cinderella/Lady Tremaine

Births

 * 1797 - Franz Schubert (composer)
 * 1892 - Eddie Cantor (comedian, dancer, singer, and actor)
 * 1921 - Carol Channing (singer and actress)
 * 1931 - James Earl Jones (voice and actor)
 * 1937 - Suzanne Pleshette (actress)
 * 1941 - Jessica Walter (actress)
 * 1947 - Jonathan Banks (actor)
 * 1959 - Kelly Lynch (actress)
 * 1964 - Dana Laurita (actress)
 * 1966 - Dexter Fletcher (actor)
 * 1970 - Minnie Driver (actress and singer-songwriter)
 * 1977 - Bobby Moynihan (actor and comedian) and Kerry Washington (actress)
 * 1981 - Justin Timberlake (singer)

Deaths

 * 1956 - A.A. Milne (author)
 * 1973 - Jack MacGowran (actor)
 * 1996 - Beth Amos (actress)
 * 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette