- Jul 4 Rex Bell [George Francis Beldam], American cowboy actor (Cowboys & Injuns) and 21st Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, dies from a heart attack at 58
- Jul 6 Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal, dies at 89
- Jul 6 George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, dies at 63
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Jul 6 American author (As I Lay Dying, Nobel Prize for Literature 1949), dies at 64
- Jul 8 Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
Owen D. Young (1874-1962)
Jul 11 American industrialist (RCA) and diplomat (Young Plan), dies at 87
- Jul 12 Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader ("I'm Sitting On Top Of The World"), and aviator, dies of a heart attack at 54
- Jul 16 Jan Romein, Dutch historian and author (Low Countries by the Sea; Erflaters - both written with his wife Annie), dies at 68
- Jul 20 André Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
- Jul 20 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
- Jul 21 G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
- Jul 24 Victor Moore, American comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch), dies of a heart attack at 86
- Jul 25 Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
- Jul 27 Conrad Elvehjem, American biochemist and nutrition scientist (discovered niacin), dies at 61
- Jul 27 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
- Jul 27 James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
- Jul 27 Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
- Jul 30 Myron McCormick, American actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
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