- Jul 3 Siegfried Handloser, German military physician (WWI; WWII - Chief of Armed Services Medical Services, 1942-44), and convicted Nazi war criminal, dies of cancer at 69
- Jul 6 Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
- Jul 7 Vincas Krevė-Mickevičius, Lithuanian poet, philologist and playwright (founder of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences), dies at 71
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Jul 13 Mexican painter who explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender and race in Mexican society, dies of a pulmonary embolism at 47
- Jul 13 Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37), dies from a stroke at 73
- Jul 13 Irving Pichel, American actor and director ("Madame Butterfly"; "Oliver Twist"), dies at 63
- Jul 14 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright (Nobel Prize for Literature 1922), dies at 87 [1]
- Jul 14 Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
- Jul 17 Dirk Berend Nanninga, Dutch painter, dies at 85
George "Machine Gun" Kelly (1895-1954)
Jul 18 American gangster during the Prohibition era, dies at 59
- Jul 19 Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer, dies at 81
- Jul 20 Blair Moody, American journalist (US Senator (D)-Michigan, 1951-52), dies at 52
- Jul 24 Mary Church Terrell, American educator and civil rights activist (co-founder and President National Association of Colored Women, dies at 90
- Jul 26 Ruth Bryan Owen, American politician (first woman appointed as a U.S. ambassador, Denmark 1933-36), dies at 68
- Jul 29 Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (World Alllround Speed Skating champion 1905), dies at 75
- Jul 31 Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
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