- Jul 3 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during WWI, dies at 86
- Jul 8 Catherinus Elling, Norwegian composer, dies at 83
- Jul 11 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
- Jul 14 Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies
- Jul 15 Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937), dies
- Jul 20 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
- Jul 23 Andrew Ducat, cricketer (England 1921), dies whilst batting at 56
- Jul 23 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
- Jul 23 Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
- Jul 23 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, dies at 72
- Jul 26 Titus Brandsma [Anno Sjoerd], Dutch Roman Catholic priest and philosopher (Dachau), dies
- Jul 26 Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (The Seven Madmen), dies at 42
- Jul 27 William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
- Jul 28 Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (Merneptah Stele, measured the pyramids), dies at 89
- Jul 31 Francis Younghusband, British journalist and explorer (1904 British expedition to Tibet), dies at 79