Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Jul 10 Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor who developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil, born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia)
- Jul 15 Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa's 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (d. 1929)
- Jul 21 Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
- Jul 21 Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st American woman architect, born in Waterloo, New York (d. 1915)
- Jul 23 Arthur H. Bird, American composer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1923)
- Jul 23 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian early nationalist leader, born in Ratnagiri, British India (d. 1920)
- Jul 24 Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician, born in Paris (d. 1941)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Jul 26 Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland
- Jul 30 Richard Haldane, British viscount and lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1928)