- Jul 1 José Luis Sert, Spanish-American architect and urban developer, born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
William Wyler (1902-1981)
Jul 1 American film director (Ben-Hur, Mrs Miniver), born in Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
- Jul 3 Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests; Test selector 1958-63; president NZ Cricket Council 1964-67), born in Brightwater, NZ (d. 1996)
George Murphy (1902-1992)
Jul 4 American politician (US Senator, California), actor and dancer (MGM Parade), born in New Haven, Connecticut
Meyer Lansky (1902-1983)
Jul 4 Polish-born American mobster known as the "Mob's Accountant", born in Grodno, Russian Empire
- Jul 4 Vince Barnett, American actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1977)
- Jul 5 Frank Waters, American writer, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1995)
- Jul 5 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (Sen-R) and ambassador (West Germany, Vietnam & UN), born in Nahant, Massachusetts (d. 1985)
- Jul 7 James McCartney, father of Beatle Paul McCartney, born in Everton, Liverpool, England (d. 1976)
- Jul 7 Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- Jul 9 Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand), born in Trachenberg, Silesia (d. 1966)
- Jul 10 Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, born in Velbert (d. 1969)
- Jul 10 Jacobus Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (Terschelling), born in Amsterdam (d. 1935)
- Jul 10 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia (d. 1958)
- Jul 11 Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
- Jul 11 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist
- Jul 12 Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, born in Breslau, German Empire (d. 1992)
- Jul 14 Paul Guilfoyle, American actor and director (White Heat, Cyrano de Bergerac), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1961)
- Jul 14 Truman J. Hedding, US vice-admiral (WWII) (d. 1995)
- Jul 15 Jean Rey, Belgian President of European Commission (1967-70)
- Jul 15 Raymond Hackett, American husband of Blanche Sweet and actor (Faithless Lover), born in NYC, New York (d. 1958)
- Jul 16 Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (Higher Cortical Functions in Man), born in Kazan, Russian Empire (d. 1977)
- Jul 16 Mary Philbin, American silent film actress (Phantom of the Opera), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1993)
- Jul 17 Arnold Pihlak, Estonian soccer forward (44 caps; FK Austria Wien), born in Tallinn, Estonia (d. 1985)
- Jul 17 Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
- Jul 18 (Theodore Childress) "Chill" Wills, American pop baritone singer (Avalon Boys), and actor (The Alamo; Rounders), born in Seagoville, Texas (d. 1978)
- Jul 18 Karel Mengelberg, Dutch composer and conductor, born in Utrecht (d. 1984)
- Jul 19 (William) "Buster" Bailey, American jazz clarinetist (WC Handy; King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; Fletcher Henderson; Noble Sissle; John Kirby), and band leader, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1967)
- Jul 19 Gerard Rutten, Dutch film director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1982)
- Jul 20 Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus)
- Jul 20 Jimmy Kennedy, Irish singer-songwriter ("Teddy Bears' Picnic"; "My Prayer"), born in Omagh, Ireland (d. 1984)
- Jul 22 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, Russian composer, born in Moscow (d. 1960)
- Jul 23 Walter Burle Marx, Brazilian pianist and composer, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1990)
- Jul 24 Hans Chemin-Petit, German composer, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1981)
- Jul 24 Nora Swinburne [Leonora Mary Johnson], British actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River), born in Bath, Somerset (d. 2000)
- Jul 25 Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman and author (The True Believer), born in NYC, New York (d. 1983)
- Jul 26 Gus Aiken, American jazz and blues trumpeter (Jenkins Orphanage Band), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1973)
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
Jul 28 Austrian-British philosopher (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Poverty of Historianism), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- Jul 28 Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Dead Reckoning), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961)
- Jul 28 Vibart Wight, West Indian cricket batsman (2 Tests; v/c WI first touring team v England 1928), born in Georgetown, British Guiana (d. 1969)
- Jul 31 Sir G O "Gubby" Allen, English cricket all-rounder (25 Tests; refused to bowl 'Bodyline' tactics 1932), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1989)
About July 1902
How Old? 120 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: No