Harry Ford Sinclair (1876-1956)
Jul 6 American industrialist who founded Sinclair Oil and implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal, born in Benwood, West Virginia
- Jul 12 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, born in Quimper, Brittany, France (d. 1944)
- Jul 17 Maxim M Litvinov [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
- Jul 17 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, lived to be 115 years old, born in Flint, Georgia (d. 1991)
- Jul 17 Vittorio Gnecchi, Italian composer (Cassandra), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1954)
- Jul 19 John Gunn, English cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 18 wickets, BB 5/76; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Hucknall, England (d. 1963)
- Jul 19 Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
- Jul 20 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
- Jul 23 William Gillies Whittaker, English composer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1944)
- Jul 26 Ernest Schelling, American child piano prodigy, conductor, and composer (A Victory Ball), born in Belvidere, New Jersey (d. 1939)
- Jul 29 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (The Wolf Man, Waterloo Bridge), born in Tula, Russian Empire (d. 1949)