Birthdays in Music
- Jul 4 Dante Fiorillo, composer
- Jul 7 Marcel Rubin, composer
- Jul 15 Dorothy Fields, lyricist (I'm in the Mood for Love)
- Jul 17 Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
- Jul 19 Boyd Neel, Blackheath, conductor (Story of an Orchestra), born in Kent, England
- Jul 19 Louis Philip Kentner, composer
- Jul 22 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
- Jul 23 Erich Itor Kahn, Rimbach, Odenwald, German composer of Jewish descent
Deaths in Music
- Jul 8 Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, dies at 70