- Jul 1 Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect (Helsinki Central Station; Cranbrook Educational Community (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), designer, and educator, dies at 76
- Jul 1 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician and educator (Dalcroze erythmics), dies at 84
- Jul 4 William C. Fownes Jr, American golfer and administrator (US Amateur C'ship 1910; President US Golf Ass'n 1926-27), dies at 72
- Jul 5 Private Kenneth Shadrick becomes the first identified American soldier killed in the Korean War
- Jul 5 Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
- Jul 6 Harold Weekes, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Columbia University; All American 1901), dies at 70
- Jul 6 Theodore "Fats" Navarro, American jazz trumpet player, dies from poor health following long-term heroin addiction, tuberculosis, and a weight problem, at 26
- Jul 8 Othmar Spann, Austrian economist and sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
- Jul 11 Timotei Popovici, Romanian priest, choral director, and composer, dies at 79
- Jul 12 Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
- Jul 14 Āpirana Ngata, Māori New Zealand politician and lawyer known for promoting and protecting Māori culture and language, dies at 76
- Jul 17 Evangeline Cory Booth, English-American religious leader (4th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 84
- Jul 18 Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary figure (The Nation), dies at 64
- Jul 21 Albert Riemenschneider, American pianist, educator, musicologist, and founder of America'a oldest Bach Festival, dies at 71
Mackenzie King (1874-1950)
Jul 22 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1921-30, and 1935-48), dies of pneumonia at 75
- Jul 26 Hans Lodeizen [Johannes Frederik], Dutch poet (Het innerlijk behang (The Inner Wallpaper)), dies of leukemia at 26
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