| 80965 | July 16 | Death | 2002 – John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925) |
| 80966 | July 16 | Death | 2003 – Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer and actress (Sonora Matancera) (b. 1924) |
| 80967 | July 16 | Death | 2003 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1935) |
| 80968 | July 16 | Death | 2004 – George Busbee, American lawyer and politician, 77th Governor of Georgia (b. 1927) |
| 80969 | July 16 | Death | 2004 – Charles Sweeney, American general and pilot (b. 1919) |
| 80970 | July 16 | Death | 2005 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920) |
| 80941 | July 16 | Death | 1982 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor and composer (b. 1947) |
| 80942 | July 16 | Death | 1982 – Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894) |
| 80943 | July 16 | Death | 1985 – Heinrich Böll, German soldier and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) |
| 80944 | July 16 | Death | 1985 – Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901) |
| 80945 | July 16 | Death | 1989 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908) |
| 80946 | July 16 | Death | 1990 – Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927) |
| 80947 | July 16 | Death | 1990 – Sidney Torch, English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908) |
| 80948 | July 16 | Death | 1991 – Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (b. 1906) |
| 80949 | July 16 | Death | 1991 – Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (b. 1915) |
| 80950 | July 16 | Death | 1991 – Frank Rizzo, American police officer and politician, 93rd Mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1920) |
| 80951 | July 16 | Death | 1992 – Buck Buchanan, American football player and coach (b. 1940) |
| 80952 | July 16 | Death | 1994 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| 80953 | July 16 | Death | 1995 – May Sarton, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1912) |
| 80954 | July 16 | Death | 1995 – Stephen Spender, English author and poet (b. 1909) |
| 80955 | July 16 | Death | 1996 – John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (b. 1948) |
| 80956 | July 16 | Death | 1996 – Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1921) |
| 80957 | July 16 | Death | 1998 – John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915) |
| 80958 | July 16 | Death | 1999 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (b. 1966) |
| 80959 | July 16 | Death | 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and publisher, co-founded George Magazine (b. 1960) |
| 80960 | July 16 | Death | 1999 – Alan Macnaughton, Canadian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1903) |
| 80961 | July 16 | Death | 1999 – Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer and actress (Country Musume) (b. 1979) |
| 80962 | July 16 | Death | 2001 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923) |
| 80963 | July 16 | Death | 2001 – Terry Gordy, American wrestler (b. 1961) |
| 80964 | July 16 | Death | 2001 – Dimitrios Holevas, Greek priest (b. 1907) |