- Jul 3 Dolf Luque, Cuban Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1919, 33; MLB wins leader & MLB ERA leader 1923; Cincinnati Reds, NY Giants), dies at 66
- Jul 3 Judy Tyler [Judith Mae Hess], American actress (Jailhouse Rock, Bop Girl Goes Calypso) and Miss Stardust (1949), dies in car crash with 2nd husband Gregory Lafayette (19) at 24
- Jul 3 Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
- Jul 4 Gregory Lafayette, American actor, dies at 19 from injuries sustained in a car crash that killed his wife, actress Judy Tyler (24), the day earlier
- Jul 5 Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
- Jul 8 Grace Goodhue Coolidge, American First Lady (1923-29) wife of Calvin Coolidge, dies at 78
- Jul 8 Henry Février, French composer, dies at 81
- Jul 8 William Adlington Cadbury, English chocolate maker, dies at 89
- Jul 9 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Soviet-Russian pianist, and composer, dies at 80
- Jul 9 Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies
- Jul 10 Sholem Asch [Szalom Asz], Polish-Jewish-American novelist and playwright (East River; Three Cities), dies while writing at his desk at 77
Aga Khan III (1877-1957)
Jul 11 Shia Imam who was one of the founders of the All-India Muslim League and later President of the League of Nations (1937-38), dies at 79
- Jul 15 George Cleveland, Canadian vaudevillian, stage and screen character actor (Mystery Liner; Courage of Lassie: Lassie, 1954-57 - "Gramps"), dies from a heart attack at 71
- Jul 15 James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
- Jul 15 Marie van Zeggelen, Dutch writer (children's books on Indonesia, Dessajongen), dies at 87
- Jul 15 Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
- Jul 19 Curzio Malaparte [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59
- Jul 20 Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
- Jul 21 Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof vest), dies at 67 [1]
- Jul 21 Rockley Wilson, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 3 wickets; Cambridge University, Yorkshire CCC), dies at 78
- Jul 23 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian prince and writer (The Leopard), dies at 61
- Jul 24 Sacha Guitry, French actor and playwright (Deburan, The Story of a Cheat), dies at 72
- Jul 26 Carlos Castillo Armas, Dictator and President of Guatemala (1954-57), assassinated by a palace guard with leftist sympathies at 42
- Jul 28 Edith Abbott, American social worker and educator (University of Chicago Social Sciences), dies at 80
- Jul 30 Sem Dresden, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 76
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