- Jul 1 Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies
Michael Landon (1936-1991)
Jul 1 American actor (Bonanza - "Little Joe"; Little House on the Prairie - "Charles"; Highway to Heaven - "Jonathan"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 54
- Jul 2 Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55
- Jul 3 Irina Nijinska, Russian American dancer, dies at 77
- Jul 3 Jimmy Van Alen, American tennis official (created Simplified Scoring System), dies at 88
- Jul 4 Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
- Jul 5 Howard Nemerow, American poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies
- Jul 5 Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87
- Jul 6 Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
- Jul 6 Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (Rex Morgan, M.D.), dies at 79
- Jul 6 Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78
- Jul 8 James Franciscus, American actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Mr Novak, Longstreet), dies of emphysema 57
- Jul 8 Lotte Palfi Andor, German-American actress (Lovesick, All That Jazz), dies at 87
- Jul 10 Gerome Ragni, American playwright and songwriter (Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical), dies of cancer at 55
- Jul 11 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
- Jul 11 James McCallion, Scottish actor (Coogan's Bluff, Vera Cruz), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Jul 11 Roger Christian, American radio personality and lyricist ("Don’t Worry Baby"; "Little Deuce Coupe"; "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena"), dies from kidney and liver failure at 57
- Jul 13 Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies
- Jul 15 Bert Convy, American actor and game show host (Tattletales), dies at 57
- Jul 16 Cornelis Z Forster [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
- Jul 16 Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81
- Jul 16 Frank Rizzo, American politician (Mayor-D-Philadelphia, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Jul 16 Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
- Jul 18 André Cools, Belgian Minister of Budget, murdered at 63
- Jul 18 Harold Butler, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 12 wickets; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 78
- Jul 19 Gino Negri, Italian composer, songwriter, and actor, dies at 72
- Jul 20 Earl Robinson, American composer (Ballad for Americans; Preamble to Peace), and folk music singer-songwriter ("Joe Hill"; "Black and White"), dies in a car accident at 81
- Jul 20 Rellys [Henri Marius Bourrelly], French actor (Letters from My Windmill), dies at 86
- Jul 21 Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
- Jul 21 Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
- Jul 24 Freddie Brown, English cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies at 80
- Jul 24 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American Yiddish writer (Yentl, Nobel Prize for Literature 1978), dies at 87
- Jul 24 Jørn Elniff, Danish bebop jazz drummer (Music for Mice and Men; Bud Powell), dies at 53
- Jul 25 Brian Haines, English actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70
- Jul 25 Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin, dies at 97
- Jul 25 Toni Gerry, American actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61
- Jul 27 Carol Gillies, British actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50
- Jul 27 Gino Colaussi, Italian soccer striker (26 caps; Triestina, Juventus, Vicenza, Padova), dies at 77
- Jul 27 Pierre Brunet, French figure skater (Olympic gold pairs 1928, 32 [Andrée Brunet]), dies at 89
- Jul 28 Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer who was exiled in the Netherlands, dies at 45
- Jul 29 Christian Castries, French general (Dien Bien Phu), dies at 88
- Jul 30 Ed Hall, American character actor (Medical Center; Mannix; Baby... I'm Back!), dies at 60
- Jul 30 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
- Jul 30 William Ball, American actor, director and founder of the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT), dies at 60
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