- Jul 1 Arthur Borton, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in Cheveney, Kent (d. 1933)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Jul 3 Czech author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Jul 4 Maximilian Steinberg, Russian composer, born in Vilnius, Russian Empire (d. 1946)
Rube Goldberg (1883-1970)
Jul 4 American cartoonist who made the easy outrageously difficult (Pulitzer Prize 1948), born in San Francisco, California
- Jul 6 Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), born in New York City (d. 1956)
- Jul 7 Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer, born in Vehkakoski, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (d. 1918)
- Jul 10 Johann Blaskowitz, German general (surrendered at Wageningen), born in Peterswalde, Germany (d. 1948)
- Jul 10 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1949)
- Jul 12 Joseph Crehan, American actor (The Roaring Twenties, Meeting at Midnight), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1966)
- Jul 14 Alexandru Zirra, Romanian composer (On the Plain of Moldova), and pedagogue (Treaty of Harmony), born in Roman, Romania (d. 1946)
- Jul 16 Charles Sheeler, American Modernist-Precisionist artist, commercial photographer, and the avant-garde film maker (Manhatta), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)
- Jul 17 Bart de Ligt, Dutch pacificist and anti-militarist (Acting Peace), born in Schalkwijk, Netherlands (d. 1938)
- Jul 17 Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1928)
- Jul 19 Max Fleischer, Polish-American animator and film producer (Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man), born in Kraków, Austrian Poland (d. 1972)
- Jul 23 Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British field marshal, born in Bragnieres-de-Bigorre, France (d. 1963)
- Jul 25 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, conductor (Boston Pops, 1927-29), and composer (La Giara; Concerto Romana), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1947)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Jul 29 Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy
- Jul 29 Manuel Infante, Spanish composer and conductor, born in Osuna, Seville, Spain (d. 1958)
- Jul 29 Porfirio Barba-Jacob [Miguel Ángel Osorio], Colombian poet and writer (Poemas intemporales), born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia (d. 1942)
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
80-89
Over 90