- Jul 3 Piotr Maszyński, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1934)
- Jul 9 Paul Zilcher, German pianist, composer, and piano teacher, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1943)
- Jul 14 Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer and pianist, born in Aberystwyth, Wales (d. 1893)
- Jul 16 C. F. Abdy Williams, British organist, composer, and musicologist, born in Dawlish, England (d. 1923)
- Jul 19 Emil Paur, Austrian conductor (Boston Symphony; New York Philharmonic; Pittsburgh Symphony; Berlin State Opera), born in Czernowitz, Austria (d. 1932)
- Jul 25 Edward Solomon, English pianist and composer, chiefly of operettas, born in Lambeth, London, England (d. 1895)
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