- Jul 1 Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal and President of Iraq (1968-79), born in Tikrit, Ottoman Empire (d. 1982)
- Jul 1 David Brower, American environmentalist and president (Sierra Club), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2000)
- Jul 1 Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (Vogue magazine) and manager (Lord & Taylor), born in El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma (d. 1989)
- Jul 3 Edward Jones, Northern Irish lord justice of appeals (d. 1993)
- Jul 4 Virginia Graham, American TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1998)
- Jul 4 Viviane Romance [Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns], French actress (Panic, Queen's Necklace), born in Roubaix, Nord, France (d. 1991)
- Jul 6 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (Seven Years in Tibet), born in Hüttenberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 2006)
- Jul 7 Tiny Alma [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
- Jul 10 Francis Showering, English brewer, born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England (d. 1995)
- Jul 12 Brodrick Haldane, Scottish photographer, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)
- Jul 12 Will Bradley [Wilbur Schwichtenberg], American session, jazz, and boogie-woogie trombonist and bandleader ("Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar"), born in Newton, New Jersey (d. 1989)
- Jul 14 Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)
Jul 14 American folk singer-songwriter (This Land Is Your Land) and peace activist, born in Okemah, Oklahoma
- Jul 16 Milt Bocek, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
- Jul 16 Ray Barr, American pianist (Vincent Lopez Show), born in NYC, New York (d. 1983)
- Jul 17 Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
- Jul 18 Harry Levin, American literary scholar, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1994)
- Jul 18 Henry Louis Miller, American Rear Admiral (WW II-Pacific), born in Fairbanks, Alaska (d. 1993)
- Jul 18 Max Rousié, French rugby footballer, born in Marmande, Lot-et-Garonne, France (d. 1959)
- Jul 19 Norman Carr, British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa, born in Chinde, Portuguese East Africa (d. 1997)
- Jul 20 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member
- Jul 20 George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
- Jul 20 John Dacie, hematologist
- Jul 20 Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon)
- Jul 23 Michael Wilding, British actor (Stage Fright, Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong), born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England (d. 1979)
- Jul 26 Fred Böhler, Swiss jazz bandleader, pianist, and early proponent of the Hammond organ, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1995)
- Jul 27 Hilde Domin [Hilde Palm], German writer and poet, born in Cologne (d. 2006)
- Jul 27 Igor Markevitch, Russian conductor (Le Paradis Perdu), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1983)
- Jul 27 Vernon Elliott, British bassoonist and composer, born in London (d. 1996)
- Jul 31 Bill Brown, Australian cricket batsman (22 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 206no; NSWCA, Queensland), born in Toowoomba, Australia (d. 2008)
- Jul 31 Irv Kupcinet, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark), born in Chicago, Illinois
Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Jul 31 American economist (Nobel Prize Economics 1976), born in Brooklyn, New York
About July 1912
How Old? 110 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation
Leap Year: Yes