Barry White (1944-2003)
Jul 4 American singer ("Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"; "You're The First, The Last, My Everything"), dies at 58
- Jul 6 Skip Battin, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds), dies at 69
- Jul 7 Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
- Jul 8 Kunio Toda, Japanese composer, dies at 87
- Jul 12 (Bennett) "Benny" Carter, American Grammy Award-winning jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, arranger, composer ("Harlem Renaissance Suite"), and bandleader, dies at 93
- Jul 13 Compay Segundo [Máximo Muñoz-Telles], Cuban trova guitarist, singer, and composer (Buena Vista Social Club), dies at 95
- Jul 15 Elisabeth Welch, American born British-based singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 99
- Jul 16 Celia Cruz, Cuban-American Grammy Award-winning guaracha, salsa, and bolero singer (La Sonora Matancera, 1950-65), known as 'the Queen of Salsa', dies of cancer at 77
- Jul 17 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist (Bach & Rock), dies at 88
- Jul 25 Erik Brann [Braunn], American violin prodigy and rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"), dies of congenital heart disease at 52
- Jul 27 Artie Anton, American jazz drummer, conguero, and timbalero (Stan Kenton, Jimmy Guiffre), dies at 79
- Jul 30 Sam Phillips, American record producer and founder of Sun Records and Sun Studios, dies at 80
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