- Jul 1 Lucy Reed [Dollinger], American jazz vocalist (Woody Herman; Charlie Ventura), dies at 77
- Jul 3 Danielle Bunten Berry [Dan Bunten], American software developer and game programmer (M.U.L.E.), dies of lung cancer at 49
- Jul 3 Duncan White, Ceylonese athlete (first Olympic medallist from Ceylon, silver 400m hurdles 1948), dies at 80
- Jul 3 George Lloyd, English composer (The Serf; Pervigilium Veneris (The Vigil of Venus); John Socman), dies at 85
- Jul 5 Sid Luckman, American College-Pro Football HOF quarterback (Columbia University; 4 × NFL C'ship 1940, 41, 43, 46; NFL MVP 1943; 5 × First-team All-Pro; 3 × Pro Bowl; Chicago Bears), dies at 81
- Jul 6 Roy Rogers, American cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), dies at 86
- Jul 7 Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70
- Jul 7 Moshood Abiola, 1993 Nigerian presidential election candidate and presumed winner of the inconclusive election, dies in detention at 60
- Jul 10 Victor Smith, Australian Admiral (Australian Chief of Naval Staff, 1st RAN officer promoted to admiral), dies at 85 [1]
- Jul 11 Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player (Wimbledon runner-up 1926-28), dies at 93
- Jul 12 Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician, dies at 91
- Jul 12 Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
- Jul 13 Red Badgro, American Pro Football Hall of Fame end and coach (NY Giants) and baseball outfielder (St. Louis Browns), dies after a fall at 95
- Jul 14 Beryl Bryden, British jazz and blues singer, and washboard player, dies at 78
- Jul 14 Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (McDonalds), dies at 89
- Jul 14 Robert A. W. Lowndes, American sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet), dies at 81
- Jul 15 Gennadi Volnov, Russian basketball player (Olympic gold 1972), dies at 68
- Jul 16 John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
- Jul 17 Ronald Tremain, New Zealand composer, dies at 74
- Jul 19 Antoine Tisne, French composer, dies at 65
- Jul 19 Elmer Valo, American baseball outfielder (one of only 4, four-decade MLB players 1939-61; Philadelphia, KC Athletics), dies at 77
- Jul 20 Dieter Nowka, German composer, conductor and musicologist, dies at 74
- Jul 20 June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
Alan Shepard (1923-1998)
Jul 21 American astronaut and 1st American in space, dies of leukemia at 74
- Jul 21 Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), dies at 91
- Jul 22 Antonio Saura, Spanish painter, dies at 67
- Jul 22 Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone, dies at 69
- Jul 23 John Hopkins, English TV, film and stage writer (Z-Cars), dies at 67
- Jul 23 Vladimir Dudintsev, Ukrainian Soviet writer (Not by Bread Alone), dies at 79
- Jul 25 Sal Santen, Dutch writer (You Are Jewish People), dies at 82
- Jul 25 Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist, dies at 77
- Jul 25 Tiny Rowland [Roland Fuhrop], German-British businessman and corporate raider (owned The Observer, tried to take over Harrods) dies of cancer at 80
- Jul 26 (David Allan) "Chico" Ryan, American rock bassist and singer (Sha Na Na, 1973-98), dies at 50
- Jul 27 Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 69
- Jul 27 Binnie Barnes, British actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers), dies at 95
- Jul 27 William McChesney Martin, American Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70), dies at 91
- Jul 28 Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
- Jul 28 Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and writer, dies at 73
Jerome Robbins (1918-1998)
Jul 29 American Tony and Academy Award-winning theater and ballet choreographer and director (West Side Story; Peter Pan), dies shortly after suffering a strokeat 79
- Jul 30 Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt], American TV host (Howdy Doody), dies of cancer at 80
- Jul 30 David Hunt, British diplomat winner of the BBC's Mastermind television quiz (1977), dies at 84
- Jul 30 Laila Schou Nilsen, Norwegian alpine skier (Olympic bronze combined; won non-medal downhill 1936) and speed skater (unofficial World C'ship gold 1935, 37, 38; 5 x WR), dies at 79
- Jul 31 Barbara Giuranna, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 98
- Jul 31 Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer (Death of Narcissus), dies at 73
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