- Jul 2 Dee [David] Palmer, English keyboard player and composer (Jethro Tull, 1972-80), born in Hendon, London
- Jul 3 David Shire, American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores (The Conversation; All the President's Men), born in Buffalo, New York
- Jul 6 Gene Chandler [Eugene Dixon], American rocker ("Duke of Earl"), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Jul 6 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian Grammy Award-winning pianist and conductor (Tchaikovsky Competition co-winner, 1962), born in Gorky, Russia
- Jul 10 George Young, American jazz and session saxophonist (White Elephant Orchestra; Saturday Night Live Band, 1991-96), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jul 10 Sandy Stewart [Galitz], American jazz and cabaret singer ("My Coloring Book"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jul 12 Howard "Howie" Casey, British rock saxophonist (Derry and the Seniors), born in Liverpool, England
- Jul 12 Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer ("Buenas Noches Mi Amor"), born in Thetford Mines, Quebec (d. 2021)
- Jul 19 George Hamilton IV, American country musician, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 2014)
- Jul 19 Karen Dalton (née Cariker); American country blues and folk singer, guitarist, and banjo player (In My Own Time), born in Bonham, Texas (d. 1993)
- Jul 22 Chuck Jackson, American pop and R&B singer ("Any Day Now"; "I Don't Want to Cry"; "I Keep Forgettin'"), born in Latta, South Carolina (d. 2023)
- Jul 24 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, New Zealand composer and computer scientist (MIT Media Lab), born in Wellington, New Zealand
- Jul 25 Dmitry Smolsky, Belarusian orchestral, choral, theater and pop music composer, and teacher (Belarusian State Academy of Music, 1962-2014), born in Minsk, Belorussian SSR (d. 2017)
- Jul 28 Peter Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (Peter Duchin Orchestra), born in New York City
About July 1937
How Old? 86 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: No
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