- Jul 6 Paolo Gallico, Italian-American pianist and composer (The Apocalypse), dies at 87
- Jul 7 Franco Casavola, Italian composer, music theorist, and futurist, dies at 63
- Jul 17 Bronisław Szulc, Polish conductor and composer, dies at 73
- Jul 25 Ilmari Hannikainen, Finnish composer, drowns during a sailing trip at 62
- Jul 25 Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, Soviet operetta and film composer, dies at 55