- Jul 3 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during WWI, dies at 86
- Jul 8 Catherinus Elling, Norwegian organist, composer, educator, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 83
- Jul 11 Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
- Jul 14 Neel Doff, Dutch-born Belgian writer (Days of Hunger and Distress), writing in French, dies at 84
- Jul 15 Denis "Sonny" Moloney, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Otago, Wellington, Canterbury), dies in WWII action at El Alamein at 31
- Jul 20 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
- Jul 23 Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and head of Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Council, dies by suicide at beginning of clearing of the Ghetto at 61
- Jul 23 Andrew Ducat, English cricketer (England 1921) and footballer, dies whilst batting at Lords Cricket Ground at 56
- Jul 23 Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary, executed by firing squad at 32
- Jul 23 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, dies at 72
- Jul 26 Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (The Seven Madmen), dies at 42
- Jul 26 Titus Brandsma, Dutch Roman Catholic priest, philosopher (spoke out against Nazi ideology), and saint, murdered by Nazis at Dachau concentration camp at 61
- Jul 27 William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
- Jul 28 Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (Merneptah Stele, measured the pyramids), dies at 89
- Jul 31 Francis Younghusband, British journalist and explorer (1904 British expedition to Tibet), dies at 79
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