- Jul 1 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and musical instrument inventor (Hammond organ), dies at 78
- Jul 1 Mario Labroca, Italian composer, dies at 76
Betty Grable (1916-1973)
Jul 2 American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), dies of lung cancer at 56
- Jul 3 Karel Ančerl, Czechoslovak conductor (Czech Philharmonic, 1950-68; Toronto Symphony, 1968-73), composer, and Auschwitz survivor, dies at 65
- Jul 6 Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1933-39), and composer (Das Ziel), dies at 88
- Jul 11 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
- Jul 13 Marțian Negrea, Romanian conductor, composer (The Glacier from Scărișoara), and teacher, dies at 80
- Jul 15 Clarence White, American session and country-rock guitarist (The Byrds, 1968-73 - "Ballad of Easy Rider"), struck and killed by a drunk driver at 29
- Jul 23 Marius-François Gaillard, French pianist (DeBussy), conductor and composer (La passion noire), dies at 72
- Jul 30 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, dies at 72
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