- Jul 4 Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
- Jul 5 Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies
- Jul 8 Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, dies at 70
- Jul 16 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
- Jul 23 Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter, dies at 76