- Jul 2 Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
Brian Jones (1942-1969)
Jul 3 British blues and rock guitarist, organist and sitar player (Rolling Stones, 1962-69), drowns in his swimming pool at 27
- Jul 3 Hermann Grabner, Austrian composer, dies at 83
- Jul 4 Georges Ronsse, Belgian road cyclist (UCI Road World C'ship 1928, 29), dies at 63
- Jul 5 Ben Alexander, American actor (Dragnet, All Quiet on the Western Front), dies of natural causes at 58
- Jul 5 Leo McCarey, American film director (The Awful Truth), dies at 70
- Jul 5 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65
- Jul 5 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
- Jul 5 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
- Jul 7 Erskine Sanford, American actor (Citizen Kane, Angel on My Shoulder), dies at 83
- Jul 7 Gladys Swarthout, American mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies of heart disease at 68
- Jul 8 Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist, dies at 45
- Jul 9 Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies
- Jul 9 Pierre Capdevielle, French conductor, composer (Élégie de Duino), music critic (Monde musicale), and teacher, dies at 63
- Jul 9 Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51
- Jul 13 Madiba Thembekile, Nelson Mandela's son, dies in a car accident at 24
- Jul 15 Peter Van Eyck [Götz von Eick], German actor (The Longest Day; The Wages of Fear), dies after long illness at 56
- Jul 18 Barbara Pepper [Marion], American actress (Foreign Correspondent, Green Acres, Rogue Tavern), dies of coronary thrombosis at 54
- Jul 19 Mary Jo Kopechne, American political campaign specialist and Ted Kennedy's car passenger, drowns off of Chappaquiddick (Massachusetts) Island at 28
- Jul 19 Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
- Jul 20 Roy Hamilton, American singer (You'll Never Walk Alone), dies at 40
- Jul 22 Hammy Love, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, played for Australia), dies
- Jul 23 Dell Floyd, American editor, author and playwright (Little Accident), dies at 82
- Jul 24 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
- Jul 25 Douglas Moore, American organist, pianist, songwriter ("Goodnight Harvard"), and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Giants in the Earth; The Ballad of Baby Doe), dies at 75
- Jul 26 Raymond Walburn, American actor (Christmas in July), dies after illness at 81
- Jul 28 Ernst Tittel, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 59
Frank Loesser (1910-1969)
Jul 28 American songwriter and composer (Guys And Dolls; "Baby, It's Cold Outside"; The Most Happy Fella), dies at 59
- Jul 28 Gabriel von Wayditch, Hungarian-American composer, dies at 80
- Jul 28 Ramón Grau, Cuban politician, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, dies at 87
- Jul 30 Oda Blinder [Yolanda Corsen], Curaçao-Dutch poet (Doorstep), dies at 50
Assassination
Car Crash
Hanging
Killed in Action
Plane Crash
Poisoning