- Jul 1 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
- Jul 2 Andrés Escobar, Colombian soccer defender (51 caps, World Cup own goal vs US; SA Atlético Nacional), dies of a gunshot wound at 27
- Jul 2 Marion Williams, American gospel singer (Stars of Faith), dies of diabetes at 66
- Jul 2 Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
- Jul 2 Ralph Rinzler, American folklorist, Greenbriar Boys, founded Smithsonian Folklife Festival, dies at 59
- Jul 3 Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist, dies at 80
Lew Hoad (1934-1994)
Jul 3 Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1956-57, Australian C'ships 1956, French C'ships 1956)), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Jul 3 Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
- Jul 4 Arthur Berry, English artist and playwright, dies at 69
- Jul 4 Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
- Jul 4 Juan Gil-Albert, Spanish poet and writer, dies at 90
- Jul 4 Liesbeth Struppert, Dutch actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
- Jul 4 Rupert Davies, English methodist scholar, dies at 84
- Jul 4 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
- Jul 5 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Asst Secretary of State, dies at 67
- Jul 6 Cameron Mitchell, American actor (The High Chaparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
- Jul 6 Geoffrey McQueen, English TV writer (The Bill), dies at 46
- Jul 7 Anita Garvin, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Sailors Beware; Laurel and Hardy - Swiss Miss; Blotto; The Charlatan; Hats Off), dies at 88
- Jul 7 Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
- Jul 7 Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
- Jul 8 Christian-Jaque [Christian Maudet], French film director (Fearless Little Soldier, Race for Life, The Pearls of the Crown), dies at 89
- Jul 8 Dick Sargent [Richard Stanford Cox], American actor (Darren in "Bewitched"), dies of cancer at 64
- Jul 8 Dominic Lucero, American dancer and singer, dies of lymphatic cancer at 26
Kim Il-sung (1912-1994)
Jul 8 Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94), dies of a heart attack at 82
- Jul 8 Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
- Jul 9 Bill Mosienko, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (fastest hat trick in NHL history, 21 seconds 1952; 5-time All Star), dies at 72
- Jul 9 Cornelius Boyson, American blues bassist, dies at 57
- Jul 9 Sabby Lewis, American jazz pianist and arranger, dies at 79
- Jul 10 Earl Strum, American NBA basketball referee, dies of brain cancer at 66
- Jul 10 Henrik Blichmann, Danish swing jazz pianist, composer (92 Minutes of Yesterday), and orchestra leader, dies at 79
- Jul 10 Otto Bonsema, Dutch soccer striker (6 caps; Velocitas 1897, GVAV) and manager (SC Heerenveen, GVAV, BV Veendam), dies at 84
- Jul 11 Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82
- Jul 11 Bart Scheepens, actor/director, dies of AIDS at 50
- Jul 11 Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67
Gary Kildall (1942-1994)
Jul 11 American computer scientist and entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system, dies at 52
- Jul 11 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
- Jul 11 Lex Humphries, American jazz drummer (Sun Ra Arkestra), dies at 57
- Jul 11 Savannah [Shannon Michelle Wilsey], American pornographic film actress, dies after a suicide attempt at 23
- Jul 11 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
- Jul 12 David Malcolm Lewis, English historian, expert in Greek Epigraphy, dies at 56
- Jul 12 Henk Terlingen, Dutch radio and TV host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
- Jul 12 James Bysse Joll, British historian, dies at 76
- Jul 13 Bob Payton, American pizza magnate (The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory), dies at 50
- Jul 13 Eddie Boyd, American blues piano player, singer, and songwriter ("Five Long Years"), dies at 79
- Jul 13 Jimmie Reese, American baseball infielder and coach (LA Angels Hall of Fame), dies of aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure at 92
- Jul 14 Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist (Duo Crommelynck), commits suicide at about 49
- Jul 14 Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist and philosopher (Nuclear State), dies at 81
- Jul 14 Taeko Kuwata, Japanese Belgian pianist (Duo Crommelynck), commits suicide at about 47
- Jul 14 William D. Revelli, American bandleader, dies at 92
- Jul 15 Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies
- Jul 16 Julian Schwinger, American physicist (1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics), dies at 76
- Jul 16 M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
- Jul 16 Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey, dies at 91
Jean Borotra (1898-1994)
Jul 17 French tennis player (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 95
- Jul 17 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer (Poedjangga Baroe), dies at 86
- Jul 18 Gottfried Reinhardt [Goldmann], German/American director, dies at 83
- Jul 19 Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
- Jul 19 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
- Jul 19 Nathan Susskind, Slovak-American linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
- Jul 19 Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
- Jul 19 Ray Flaherty, American Pro Football Hall of Fame end (NFL C'ship 1934 NY Giants; First-team All-Pro 1928, 29, 32) and coach (NFL C'ship 1937, 42 Washington Redskins), dies at 90
- Jul 19 Rudolf Firkušný, Moravian-American pianist (Julliard), dies at 82
- Jul 20 Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 96
- Jul 20 Reginald Hall, English endocrinologist, dies at 83
- Jul 21 Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
- Jul 21 Hugh Scott, American lawyer and politician (Senate Minority Leader 1969-77), dies at 93
- Jul 21 John Ernest, American constructionist artist, dies at 72
- Jul 23 Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
- Jul 23 Hans J. Salter, Austrian-American film composer (The Wolf Man; Christmas Holiday; This Love Of Ours), dies at 98
- Jul 23 Henry William Collins, English artist, dies at 84
- Jul 24 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
- Jul 24 Wangila Napunyi, Kenyan welterweight boxer (Olympic gold 1988), dies after a boxing match at 26
- Jul 25 John M Dengler, American jazz multi-instrumentalist - bass sax/trumpet/trombone (The Intensely Vigorous Jazz Band), dies from cancer at 67 [1]
- Jul 26 Marino Iandiorio, Italian canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
- Jul 26 Owen "Terry" Scott, British actor and comedian (Terry and June, Carry On Films), dies of cancer at 67
- Jul 26 Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
- Jul 27 Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner (member of the Bang-Bang Club), commits suicide at 33
- Jul 27 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
- Jul 27 Tatiana Tauer, Russian classical harpist, dies of cancer at 48
- Jul 28 Bernard Delfont, Russian-British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
- Jul 28 Colin Turnbull, British-American anthropologist (The Forest People), dies at 69
- Jul 28 Ralph Herman, American Emmy Award-winning composer (From the Scriptures; Circus Time), orchestra leader, and music director (ABC-TV, 1952-71), dies after a stroke at 80
- Jul 28 Selwyn Powell, British magazine editor (The Geographical Magazine; Night & Day), dies at 82
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)
Jul 29 British biochemist who developed protein crystallography to study molecular structure, including that of vitamin B12 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964), dies of a stroke at 84 [1]
- Jul 29 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68
- Jul 29 James Herman Barrett Jr, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel killed by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill at 74
- Jul 29 John Bayard Britton, American doctor who performed abortions, and killed by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill, in Pensacola, Florida
- Jul 30 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
- Jul 30 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
- Jul 30 Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
- Jul 31 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
- Jul 31 Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara), British author (Leftover Life to Kill) and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas, dies at 80
- Jul 31 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
- Jul 31 Pieter C. Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92
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