- Jul 2 Ed Delahanty, American Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder (NL batting champion 1899, 1902), dies at Niagara Falls at 35
- Jul 7 José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, dies at 64
- Jul 9 Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist, dies at 60
- Jul 13 August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77
- Jul 17 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-British painter (Whistler's Mother), dies at 69
- Jul 20 Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93
- Jul 22 Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
- Jul 30 Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65