Events in Music
- Jul 28 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden, in NYC, by Harry Fox
Birthdays in Music
- Jul 1 Earle Warren, alto sax player
- Jul 2 Frederick Fennell, conductor (Time & Winds), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Jul 6 Jens Rohiner, composer
- Jul 7 Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
- Jul 7 Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
- Jul 8 Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Jul 11 Ahti Sonninen, composer
- Jul 18 Herbert Collum, composer
- Jul 19 Josef Palenicek, composer
- Jul 22 Cecil Effinger, composer
- Jul 24 Riccardo Malipiero, composer
- Jul 26 Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
- Jul 26 Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
- Jul 28 Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
Deaths in Music
- Jul 20 Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76