- Jul 1 Alfred Marks, British actor and comedian (Desert Mice; Scream & Scream Again), dies at 75
- Jul 1 Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (Lipstick), commits suicide with an overdose of phenobarbital, at 42
- Jul 1 Steve Tesich, Serbian-American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Breaking Away; The World According To Garp), and playwright, dies of a heart attack at 53
- Jul 3 Pim Jacobs, Dutch jazz pianist, TV host and actor (Gilas), dies at 61
- Jul 3 Raaj Kumar, Hindi actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 69
- Jul 4 Clay [David] Jones, Welsh gardener (BBC Gardener's Question Time), dies at 72
- Jul 9 Christopher Casson, Irish-English actor (Zardoz, Educating Rita, The Riordans), dies at 84
- Jul 12 John Chancellor, American journalist and news anchor (Voice Of America, 1965-67; NBC Nightly News, 1970-82), dies at 68
- Jul 13 Pandro S. Berman, American film producer, dies at 91
- Jul 15 Dana Hill, American actress (National Lampoon's European Vacation), dies from complications of diabetes at 32
- Jul 17 Sid Sussman, American beauty pageant organizer (Miss U.S.A.), dies of heart attack
- Jul 20 Peter Raleigh, English foreign correspondent and television executive, dies at 77
- Jul 21 Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), dies of emphysema 62
- Jul 21 Wolf Morris, English actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
- Jul 23 Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
- Jul 23 Aliki Vouyouklaki, Greek stage and screen actress (Madalena), dies of pancreatic cancer at 62
- Jul 23 Jean Muir, American actress (Fugitive in the Sky, The Aldrich Family) and the 1st performer to be blacklisted for being an alleged communist sympathizer, dies at 85 [1]
- Jul 24 Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (Love and Death, Delicatessen), dies at 82
- Jul 24 Virginia Christine [Ricketts], American actress (Mrs Olson, Tales of Wells Fargo), dies of cardiovascular disease at 76
Claudette Colbert (1903-1996)
Jul 30 French-born American actress (It Happened One Night, Texas Lady), dies of a stroke at 93
- Jul 30 Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
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