- Jul 7 Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
- Jul 8 William Parry, English Arctic explorer (Parry Channel), dies at 64
- Jul 9 FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, British Army officer (commander of the British forces during the Crimean War), dies of dysentery in Crimea at 66
- Jul 21 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish romantic poet (Blommorna (The Flowers), Lycksalighetens Ö (The Island of Bliss)) and historian (Svenska Siare och Skalder), dies at 65