| 74971 | July 1 | Birth | 1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (d. 1992) |
| 74972 | July 1 | Birth | 1906 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004) |
| 74973 | July 1 | Birth | 1907 – Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (d. 1997) |
| 74974 | July 1 | Birth | 1907 – Bill Stern, American actor and sportscaster (d. 1971) |
| 74975 | July 1 | Birth | 1908 – Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (d. 1954) |
| 74976 | July 1 | Birth | 1909 – Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (d. 1971) |
| 74977 | July 1 | Birth | 1910 – Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (d. 1975) |
| 74978 | July 1 | Birth | 1911 – Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (d. 1990) |
| 74979 | July 1 | Birth | 1911 – Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (d. 2012) |
| 74980 | July 1 | Birth | 1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist, founded Sierra Club Foundation (d. 2000) |
| 74981 | July 1 | Birth | 1912 – Sally Kirkland, American journalist (d. 1989) |
| 74982 | July 1 | Birth | 1913 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998) |
| 74983 | July 1 | Birth | 1913 – Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1979) |
| 74984 | July 1 | Birth | 1914 – P. Kandiah, Ceylonese academic and politician (d. 1960) |
| 74985 | July 1 | Birth | 1915 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992) |
| 74986 | July 1 | Birth | 1915 – Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (d. 2001) |
| 74987 | July 1 | Birth | 1915 – Jean Stafford, American author and academic (d. 1979) |
| 74988 | July 1 | Birth | 1915 – Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (d. 1998) |
| 74989 | July 1 | Birth | 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, Japanese-American actress and singer |
| 74990 | July 1 | Birth | 1916 – Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985) |
| 74991 | July 1 | Birth | 1916 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer (d. 2012) |
| 74992 | July 1 | Birth | 1917 – Humphry Osmond, English-American lieutenant and psychiatrist (d. 2004) |
| 74993 | July 1 | Birth | 1919 – Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (d. 2009) |
| 74994 | July 1 | Birth | 1920 – Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (d. 2007) |
| 74995 | July 1 | Birth | 1920 – Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (d. 1982) |
| 74996 | July 1 | Birth | 1921 – Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980) |
| 74997 | July 1 | Birth | 1921 – Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (d. 2005) |
| 74998 | July 1 | Birth | 1922 – Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (d. 2013) |
| 74999 | July 1 | Birth | 1924 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013) |
| 75000 | July 1 | Birth | 1924 – Florence Stanley, American actress and director (d. 2003) |