- Jul 3 Stefano Golinelli, Italian composer, dies at 72
- Jul 4 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
- Jul 4 Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), dies at 81
- Jul 21 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51
- Jul 29 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita), dies at 70
- Jul 31 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French-Belgian glass painter, dies at 77