- Jul 2 Dick Berardino, American baseball player, coach and scout, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Richard Petty (86 years old)
Jul 2 American auto racer (7 x NASCAR Championship, 7 x Daytona 500), born in Level Cross, North Carolina
- Jul 4 Roosevelt Taylor, American NFL safety (Pro Bowl 1963, 68; First Team All-Pro 1963; Chicago Bears, SF 49ers, Washington Redskins), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2020)
- Jul 9 Clemon Daniels, American football halfback and AFL player of year 1963 (Oak, Dallas, San Francisco), born in McKinney, Texas
- Jul 9 Marty Springstead, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor, born in Nyack, New York
- Jul 12 Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian billiards player (21 x UMB three-cushion World C'ships; 6 x UMB World one-cushion C'ships), born in Lier, Belgium
- Jul 13 Cal Ramsey, American basketball broadcaster, small forward (NY Knicks), born in Selma, Alabama (d. 2019)
- Jul 13 Charles Coody, American golfer (US Masters 1971), born in Stamford, Texas
- Jul 14 Duncan MacKay, Scottish soccer defender (14 caps; Celtic 162 games), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2019)
- Jul 21 Viktor Mamatov, Russian biathlete (Olympic gold USSR 4 × 7.5k relay 1968, 72; World C'ship gold 20k individual 1967, 4 × 7.5k relay 1969, 70, 71), born in Belovo, Russia (d. 2023)
- Jul 22 John Price, English cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 40 wickets, BB 5/73; Middlesex CCC), born in Harrow, England
- Jul 22 V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960's)
- Jul 23 Dave Webster, American football player (led his football team to a National Championship in 1958), born in Atlanta, Texas (d. 2006)
- Jul 29 Vladimer Barkaia, Georgian soccer striker (2 caps USSR; Dinamo Tbilisi 226 games), born in Gagra, Georgia (d. 2022)
- Jul 31 Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (Olympic bronze 56), born in Jakin, Georgia (d. 2017)
About July 1937
How Old? 86 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: No