- Jul 2 José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, President of Mexico (1877-1911), dies at 84
- Jul 10 Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies
- Jul 15 Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
Ellen G. White
Jul 16 ellen white, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, dies at 87
- Jul 17 Francesco Fanciulli, American-Italian composer, dies on 62nd birthday
- Jul 18 George William Louis Marshall-Hall, English composer, dies at 53
- Jul 22 Sir Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
- Jul 26 James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (Oxford English Dictionary), dies at 78
- Jul 28 Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, Haitian rebellion leader, President of Haiti (1915), lynched by a mob at 56