- Jul 1 Julius van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
- Jul 5 Austen Henry Layard, British archaeologist and diplomat (work in Mesopotamia including rediscovery of Nineveh), dies at 77
- Jul 5 Betty Paoli, writer, dies
- Jul 8 Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, Russian composer, dies at 67
- Jul 13 Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
- Jul 17 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist, dies at 83
- Jul 18 Leconte de Lisle, French poet and writer, dies at 75
- Jul 30 Walter Pater, English aesthete and writer (Plato & Platonism), dies of rheumatic fever at 54
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