diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/JacksonParser.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/JacksonParser.scala
index 8965a81feee1..a52c3450e83d 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/JacksonParser.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/json/JacksonParser.scala
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ class JacksonParser(
                 // In Spark 1.5.0, we store the data as number of days since epoch in string.
                 // So, we just convert it to Int.
                 try {
-                  parser.getText.toInt
+                  RebaseDateTime.rebaseJulianToGregorianDays(parser.getText.toInt)
                 } catch {
                   case _: NumberFormatException => throw e
                 }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonSuite.scala
index 8d4d89f76bfc..dcea4835b5f2 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonSuite.scala
@@ -2653,13 +2653,17 @@ abstract class JsonSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSparkSession with TestJson
     }
   }
 
-  test("SPARK-30960: parse date/timestamp string with legacy format") {
-    val ds = Seq("{'t': '2020-1-12 3:23:34.12', 'd': '2020-1-12 T', 'd2': '12345'}").toDS()
-    val json = spark.read.schema("t timestamp, d date, d2 date").json(ds)
+  test("SPARK-30960, SPARK-31641: parse date/timestamp string with legacy format") {
+    val julianDay = -141704 // 1582-01-01 in Julian calendar
+    val ds = Seq(
+      s"{'t': '2020-1-12 3:23:34.12', 'd': '2020-1-12 T', 'd2': '12345', 'd3': '$julianDay'}"
+    ).toDS()
+    val json = spark.read.schema("t timestamp, d date, d2 date, d3 date").json(ds)
     checkAnswer(json, Row(
       Timestamp.valueOf("2020-1-12 3:23:34.12"),
       Date.valueOf("2020-1-12"),
-      Date.valueOf(LocalDate.ofEpochDay(12345))))
+      Date.valueOf(LocalDate.ofEpochDay(12345)),
+      Date.valueOf("1582-01-01")))
   }
 
   test("exception mode for parsing date/timestamp string") {