- Jul 9 Edmund Burke, British statesman, philosopher and author (A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution in France), dies at 68
- Jul 11 Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
- Jul 29 Christoph Rheineck, German composer, dies at 48
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