- Jul 1 Dame Gillian Lynne [Pyrke], British dancer, choreographer and actress, known for Broadway work on "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera," dies at 92
- Jul 2 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers), dies at 70
- Jul 2 Henry Butler, American jazz and blues pianist, educator, and photographer (Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers), dies of cancer at 69 [1]
- Jul 3 Bill Watrous, American jazz trombonist, dies at 79
- Jul 3 Richard Swift [Ochoa], American singer and songwriter (The Black Keys), dies of complications from hepatitis at 41
- Jul 7 Paul Fetler, American composer (December Stillness; Three Poems By Walt Whitman), dies at 98
- Jul 8 Alan Johnson, American Emmy Award-winning screen and stage choreographer (The Producers - "Springtime for Hitler"; Legs Diamond), director (To Be Or Not To Be), and dancer (West Side Story), dies at 81
- Jul 8 Oliver Knussen, British composer (Where the Wild Things Are, Chicara), dies at 66
- Jul 8 Tab Hunter [Arthur Andrew Kelm], American actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust) and singer ("Young Love"), dies of complications of deep vein thrombosis at 86
- Jul 18 Wolfgang Hufschmidt, German church musician, academic, and composer, dies at 84
- Jul 29 Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter (Astigmatic), dies of complication from lung cancer at 76
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