- Jul 2 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor and theatre manager (King John, Trilby), dies at 64
- Jul 4 Johan Hendrik Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
- Jul 8 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter, drowns in unexplained circumstances at 39
- Jul 12 François Fournier, Swiss-French postage stamp forger, dies at 71
- Jul 14 Octave Lapize, French cyclist (Tour de France 1910), dies when shot down as WWI fighter pilot at 29
- Jul 16 (Ludwig) Philipp Scharwenka, German pianist, composer (Sakuntala; Album polonaise), and educator, dies at 70
- Jul 21 Christopher J. Forster, British RAF pilot and officer, dies in battle at 22
- Jul 27 Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909), dies at 75
- Jul 31 Charlie Finlason, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test), dies
- Jul 31 Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
- Jul 31 Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
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