George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
Jul 3 American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), born in Providence, Rhode Island
- Jul 5 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist, conductor and composer (3 Blind Mice), born in Croydon, Surrey (d. 1958)
- Jul 6 Eino Leino, Finnish poet, born in Paltamo, Finland (d. 1926)
- Jul 8 Jimmy Quinn, Scottish soccer striker (11 caps; Celtic 272 games, 188 goals), born in Croy, Scotland (d. 1945)
- Jul 14 Donald Meek, Scottish-American stage and screen actor (You Can't Take It With You; Stagecoach), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1946)
- Jul 15 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter and graphic artist
- Jul 17 Henri Zagwijn, Dutch composer and musicologist, born in Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands (d. 1954)
- Jul 19 Robert Herman Woltjer, Dutch Minister of Education, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1955)
- Jul 22 Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto) [or born in 1879], born in Warsaw, Congress Poland (d. 1942)
- Jul 22 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)
- Jul 24 Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods), born in London (d. 1957)
- Jul 25 Heinrich Gebhard, German-born American composer, born in Sobernheim, Rhineland-Palatinate (d. 1963)
- Jul 29 Don Marquis, Ill, American journalist, poet and playwright (archy & mehitabel), born in Walnut, Illinois (d. 1937)