- Jul 2 Edward Ballantine, American composer and music professor, dies at 84
Jim Morrison (1943-1971)
Jul 3 American singer-songwriter (The Doors) and poet, dies of heart failure allegedly caused be an accidental heroin overdose at 27
- Jul 4 Don McPherson, American R&B singer (The Main Ingredient - "Everybody Plays the Fool"), dies of leukemia at 29
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Jul 6 American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly; What A Wonderful World), dies of a heart attack at 69
- Jul 8 Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player, dies at 50
- Jul 17 Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", American singer (54th Street Revue; "When You Wish Upon a Star"), dies at 76
- Jul 24 Alan Rawsthorne, English composer, dies at 66
- Jul 25 Leroy Robertson, American pianist, composer ("Oratorio from the Book of Mormon"; "Trilogy for Orchestra"), and educator (Brigham Young, 1925-48; University of Utah, 1948-62), dies at 74
- Jul 27 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor, composer, and musicologist, dies at 83
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