- Jul 4 Rex Bell [George Francis Beldam], American cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns) and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, dies from a heart attack at 58
William Faulkner
Jul 6 William Faulkner, American author (As I Lay Dying, Nobel Prize for Literature 1949), dies at 64
Owen D. Young
Jul 11 Owen D. Young, American industrialist (RCA) and diplomat (Young Plan), dies at 87
- Jul 12 Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader ("I'm Sitting On Top Of The World"), and aviator, dies of a heart attack at 54
- Jul 16 Jan Romein, Dutch historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies at 68
- Jul 20 André Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
- Jul 20 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
- Jul 21 G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
- Jul 24 Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
- Jul 25 Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
- Jul 27 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
- Jul 27 Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
- Jul 27 James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
- Jul 27 Conrad Elvehjem, American biochemist and nutrition scientist (discovered niacin), dies at 61
- Jul 30 Myron McCormick, American actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54