- Jul 2 Tom Richardson, England cricket fast bowler (88 Test wickets), dies of a heart attack at 41
- Jul 3 Robert Hoke, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 75
- Jul 15 Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21
- Jul 17 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (Poincaré conjecture), dies at 58
- Jul 20 Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books), dies at 68
- Jul 30 Emperor Meiji [Mutsuhito], 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60