| 74941 | July 1 | Birth | 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University (d. 1888) |
| 74942 | July 1 | Birth | 1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (d. 1865) |
| 74943 | July 1 | Birth | 1818 – Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist, and academic (d. 1884) |
| 74944 | July 1 | Birth | 1822 – Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and activist (d. 1888) |
| 74945 | July 1 | Birth | 1834 – Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (d. 1908) |
| 74946 | July 1 | Birth | 1838 – William Paine Lord, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911) |
| 74947 | July 1 | Birth | 1858 – Willard Metcalf, American painter (d. 1925) |
| 74948 | July 1 | Birth | 1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892) |
| 74949 | July 1 | Birth | 1869 – William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (d. 1946) |
| 74950 | July 1 | Birth | 1872 – Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (d. 1936) |
| 74951 | July 1 | Birth | 1872 – William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (d. 1917) |
| 74952 | July 1 | Birth | 1873 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968) |
| 74953 | July 1 | Birth | 1873 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1954) |
| 74954 | July 1 | Birth | 1878 – Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (d. 1944) |
| 74955 | July 1 | Birth | 1879 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954) |
| 74956 | July 1 | Birth | 1881 – Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (d. 1965) |
| 74957 | July 1 | Birth | 1882 – Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1962) |
| 74958 | July 1 | Birth | 1883 – Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1933) |
| 74959 | July 1 | Birth | 1885 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (d. 1968) |
| 74960 | July 1 | Birth | 1886 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (d. 1980) |
| 74961 | July 1 | Birth | 1887 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (d. 1981) |
| 74962 | July 1 | Birth | 1892 – James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d. 1977) |
| 74963 | July 1 | Birth | 1892 – László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1963) |
| 74964 | July 1 | Birth | 1899 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (d. 1993) |
| 74965 | July 1 | Birth | 1899 – Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (d. 1962) |
| 74966 | July 1 | Birth | 1899 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (d. 1987) |
| 74967 | July 1 | Birth | 1901 – Irna Phillips, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 74968 | July 1 | Birth | 1902 – William Wyler, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981) |
| 74969 | July 1 | Birth | 1903 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941) |
| 74970 | July 1 | Birth | 1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, English actress, director, and author (d. 1979) |