- Jul 5 John Curtin, Victoria, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor: 1941-45), dies of heart disease at 60
- Jul 7 Salomėja Nėris [Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė], Lithuanian poet, dies of cancer at 40
- Jul 12 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
- Jul 12 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (German Air Force-WW II), dies at 49
- Jul 17 Ernst Busch, German field marshal (WWII), dies at 60
- Jul 19 George Barbier, American actor (Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary), dies at 80
- Jul 20 Arthur Seccull, South African cricketer (Test v England 1896), dies
- Jul 20 Paul Valéry [Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry], French author, philosopher and poet (La Jeune Parque), dies at 73