- Jul 12 Félix Godefroid, Belgian harpist and composer, dies at 78
- Jul 14 John Franklin Farnsworth, American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 77
- Jul 16 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies at 1897
- Jul 20 Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
- Jul 20 Philip Dale Roddey, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 71
- Jul 25 Athol Estes Porter, American wife of writer O. Henry, dies of tuberculosis at about 29
- Jul 29 Joost Gerard Kist, Dutch lawyer and president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
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