- Jul 1 Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1908)
- Jul 2 Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch lawyer, economist (Bank of the Netherlands) and historian, born in Zetten, Netherlands (d. 1917)
- Jul 11 James McNeill Whistler, American-British painter (Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 aka "Whistler's Mother"), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1903)
- Jul 16 Carlo Angeloni, Italian composer, born in Lucca, Duchy of Lucca (now Italy) (d. 1901)
- Jul 16 Peter Leyten, Bishop of Breda (1885-1914), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1914)
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Jul 19 French impressionist painter, sculptor and artist (The Bellelli Family), born in Paris
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