| 80521 | July 15 | Death | 1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (b. 1746) |
| 80522 | July 15 | Death | 1789 – Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1715) |
| 80523 | July 15 | Death | 1828 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741) |
| 80524 | July 15 | Death | 1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802) |
| 80525 | July 15 | Death | 1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772) |
| 80526 | July 15 | Death | 1851 – Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787) |
| 80527 | July 15 | Death | 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791) |
| 80528 | July 15 | Death | 1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806) |
| 80529 | July 15 | Death | 1871 – Tad Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1853) |
| 80530 | July 15 | Death | 1885 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837) |
| 80531 | July 15 | Death | 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819) |
| 80532 | July 15 | Death | 1898 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1825) |
| 80533 | July 15 | Death | 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (b. 1860) |
| 80534 | July 15 | Death | 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) |
| 80535 | July 15 | Death | 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874) |
| 80536 | July 15 | Death | 1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845) |
| 80537 | July 15 | Death | 1930 – Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (b. 1862) |
| 80538 | July 15 | Death | 1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868) |
| 80539 | July 15 | Death | 1932 – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873) |
| 80540 | July 15 | Death | 1933 – Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865) |
| 80541 | July 15 | Death | 1933 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890) |
| 80542 | July 15 | Death | 1940 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857) |
| 80543 | July 15 | Death | 1940 – Donald Calthrop, English actor (b. 1888) |
| 80544 | July 15 | Death | 1940 – Robert Wadlow, American giant (b. 1918) |
| 80545 | July 15 | Death | 1942 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910) |
| 80546 | July 15 | Death | 1944 – Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885) |
| 80547 | July 15 | Death | 1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877) |
| 80548 | July 15 | Death | 1947 – Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (b. 1893) |
| 80549 | July 15 | Death | 1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860) |
| 80550 | July 15 | Death | 1953 – Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882) |