- Jul 5 Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess and politician, dies at 63
- Jul 6 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
- Jul 16 Tad Lincoln, youngest son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, dies at 18
- Jul 17 Carl Tausig, Polish pianist, student and protégé of Liszt, and composer noted for his transcriptions, dies of typhoid at 29
- Jul 31 Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), dies at 46