Birthdays in Music
- Jul 2 Marvin Rainwater, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 2013)
Bill Haley
Jul 6 Bill Haley, American rock vocalist known as the father of Rock 'n' Roll (Rock Around the Clock), born in Highland Park, Michigan (d. 1981)
Bill Haley
- Jul 9 Alan Dale, American singer (Alan Dale Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2002)
- Jul 11 Mattiwilda Dobbs, soprano, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2015)
- Jul 11 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish opera tenor (Opera Two to Six), born in Stockholm (d. 2017)
- Jul 12 Yasushi Akutagawa, Japanese composer (Orpheus of Hiroshima, Ellora Symphony), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1989)
- Jul 14 Luis Antonio Escobar, Colombian composer and musicologist, born in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca (d. 1993)
- Jul 16 Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz musician, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1982)
- Jul 19 Sue Thompson [Eva Sue Mckee], American pop and country music singer ("Sad Movies (Make Me Cry"), born in Nevada, Missouri
- Jul 21 Lovro Zupanovic, composer
- Jul 23 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
- Jul 28 Larry Pruden, composer
- Jul 29 Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
- Jul 30 Antoine Duhamel, French composer, born in Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, France (d. 2014)
About July 1925
How Old? 94 years old
Generation: Greatest Generation or the G.I. Generation
Leap Year: No