- Jul 4 Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
- Jul 4 Jim Chapin, American jazz drummer, and author, dies at 89
- Jul 5 Jack Ellory, British orchestral and session alto and bass flute player (Philharmonia Orchestra; The Beatles - "The Fool on the Hill"), dies at 89
- Jul 6 Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
- Jul 11 Valentinas Bagdonas, Lithuanian composer (Symphony of Peace), dies at 79
- Jul 17 Gordon Waller, Scottish pop singer (Peter & Gordon - "A World Without Love"), dies at 64
- Jul 20 Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
- Jul 23 Danny McBride, American musician (Sha Na Na, 1975-80), dies at 63
- Jul 27 George Russell, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (The Jazz Workshop; Jazz in the Space Age), and music theorist (Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 86
- Jul 28 Peter Richard Tahourdin, English-Australian composer, dies at 80
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