- Jul 1 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
- Jul 1 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
- Jul 2 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist and General Secretary of SASO, dies in automobile accident at 39
- Jul 2 Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
- Jul 3 Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
- Jul 4 Ludi Claire, American actress, dies at 70
- Jul 5 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
- Jul 6 Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
- Jul 6 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
- Jul 6 Paul Wynne, American reporter who chronicled their battle with Aids, dies of AIDS at 46
- Jul 7 Bill Cullen, American game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
- Jul 7 Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer, dies at 32
- Jul 7 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest and Buddhism Zen teacher, dies at 92
- Jul 8 Howard Duff, American actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing), dies of a heart attack at 76
- Jul 8 Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies at 61
- Jul 9 Brigitte D'Ortschy, German author, trnslator and Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
- Jul 10 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet, dies at 55
- Jul 10 Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59
- Jul 11 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift), dies at 67
- Jul 12 João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (Brazil 1969-70), dies at 73
- Jul 12 Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
- Jul 13 Lois Moran Young, American actress (Stella Dallas) dies of cancer at 81
- Jul 14 Dallas Alinder, American actor, dies at 58
- Jul 14 Philip Leacock, English director and producer, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
- Jul 15 Alison Leggatt, British character actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86
- Jul 15 Margaret Lockwood, British actress (Cast a Dark Shadow, The Lady Vanishes), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 73
- Jul 15 Troy Dixon, American rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall
- Jul 16 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), dies at 62
- Jul 16 Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and theater organist, dies from an intentional medication overdose at 82
- Jul 17 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
- Jul 17 Tony Pugsley, British rear-admiral during World War II (Walcheren attack 1944, Battle of the Scheldt), dies at 88
- Jul 18 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Astérix, Tintin), dies at 79
- Jul 18 Gerry Boulet, French Canadian rock singer (Offenbach; Rendez-vous doux), dies of colon cancer at 44
- Jul 18 Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
- Jul 18 Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
- Jul 19 Eddie Quillan, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Julia, Hell Town), dies of cancer at 83
- Jul 19 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
- Jul 19 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
- Jul 20 Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
- Jul 20 Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
- Jul 21 Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
- Jul 21 Rich Vogler, American auto racer (most combined wins in USAC history [171]), dies in a race crash at 39
- Jul 21 Sacha Piteoff, Swiss-French actor and stage director, dies of heart failure at 70
- Jul 21 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
- Jul 22 Otmar Nussio, Swiss conductor and composer (Boccaccio Suite), dies at 87
- Jul 22 Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
- Jul 23 Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
- Jul 23 Joe Turner, American jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
- Jul 23 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
- Jul 23 Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
- Jul 24 Alan Clarke, English director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
- Jul 26 Brent Mydland, American rock keyboardist and vocalist (Grateful Dead - "Hell In A Bucket"; "I Will Take You Home"), dies of a cocaine and morphine "speedball" overdose at 38
- Jul 27 Bobby Day [Robert Byrd], American rock musician (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
- Jul 27 Elizabeth Allan, English actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies at 80
- Jul 27 Kim Thomas-Friedland, American news anchor (FNN), murdered at 32
- Jul 27 Nick Pippins, American actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
- Jul 27 Salim Ali, Indian Ornithologist (Birdman of India), dies at 90
- Jul 28 Armando Frid, Argentinian horse tamer and centenarian, dies reportedly at 124
- Jul 28 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician (Chancellor, 1970-83; Foreign Minister, 1959-66), dies at 79
- Jul 28 Jill Esmond, English actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82
- Jul 28 Maurice Braddell, English actor (Things to Come), dies at 89
- Jul 29 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
- Jul 30 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
- Jul 30 Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
- Jul 31 Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (Stanley Cup 1930, 31 Montreal Canadiens), dies at 87
- Jul 31 Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72
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