- Jul 1 Khalid Hasan, Pakistani cricket leg-spinner makes his Test debut against England at just 16 yrs 352 days, then world record
Tennis Open
Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Czech Jaroslav Drobný beats Ken Rosewall of Australia 13-11, 4-6, 6-2, 9-7 for his only Wimbledon singles title
Ken Rosewall
- Jul 2 England cricket batsman Denis Compton scores career best 278 in 287 mins in 2nd Test win over Pakistan at Nottingham
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly wins her 3rd consecutive Wimbledon singles title beating fellow American Louise Brough 6-2, 7-5
- Jul 3 US Open Women's Golf, Salem CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by a record 12 strokes from Betty Hicks in her comeback event 14 months after radical colon cancer surgery
- Jul 4 FIFA World Cup Final: Helmut Rahn scores twice as West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 in Bern, Switzerland
- Jul 9 83rd British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 283 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club
- Jul 12 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
- Jul 13 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
- Jul 17 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
- Jul 18 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
- Jul 20 Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
- Jul 27 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul, Minnesota
- Jul 30 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
- Jul 31 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)