| 79411 | July 12 | Death | 1944 – Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887) |
| 79412 | July 12 | Death | 1945 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871) |
| 79413 | July 12 | Death | 1945 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895) |
| 79414 | July 12 | Death | 1946 – Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870) |
| 79415 | July 12 | Death | 1947 – Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902) |
| 79416 | July 12 | Death | 1949 – Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (b. 1860) |
| 79417 | July 12 | Death | 1950 – Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865) |
| 79418 | July 12 | Death | 1961 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1879) |
| 79419 | July 12 | Death | 1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (b. 1907) |
| 79420 | July 12 | Death | 1965 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (b. 1898) |
| 79421 | July 12 | Death | 1966 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher and author (b. 1870) |
| 79422 | July 12 | Death | 1969 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (b. 1885) |
| 79423 | July 12 | Death | 1971 – Yvon Robert, Canadian wrestler (b. 1914) |
| 79424 | July 12 | Death | 1973 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906) |
| 79425 | July 12 | Death | 1975 – James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1887) |
| 79426 | July 12 | Death | 1979 – Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (Rotary Connection) (b. 1947) |
| 79427 | July 12 | Death | 1982 – Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914) |
| 79428 | July 12 | Death | 1983 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist (Traffic and Ginger Baker's Air Force) (b. 1944) |
| 79429 | July 12 | Death | 1990 – João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (b. 1917) |
| 79430 | July 12 | Death | 1992 – Caroline Pafford Miller, American journalist and author (b. 1903) |
| 79431 | July 12 | Death | 1993 – Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970) |
| 79432 | July 12 | Death | 1996 – John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927) |
| 79433 | July 12 | Death | 1996 – Jonathan Melvoin, American keyboard player (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961) |
| 79434 | July 12 | Death | 1997 – François Furet, French historian and author (b. 1927) |
| 79435 | July 12 | Death | 1998 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1907) |
| 79436 | July 12 | Death | 1998 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (b. 1925) |
| 79437 | July 12 | Death | 1998 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (b. 1941) |
| 79438 | July 12 | Death | 1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Pakistani-Indian actor and producer (b. 1929) |
| 79439 | July 12 | Death | 1999 – Bill Owen, English actor and singer (b. 1914) |
| 79440 | July 12 | Death | 2000 – Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1908) |