| 82741 | July 21 | Death | 1932 – Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858) |
| 82742 | July 21 | Death | 1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1854) |
| 82743 | July 21 | Death | 1938 – Owen Wister, American lawyer and author (b. 1860) |
| 82744 | July 21 | Death | 1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (b. 1872) |
| 82745 | July 21 | Death | 1943 – Charley Paddock, American runner and actor (b. 1900) |
| 82746 | July 21 | Death | 1944 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier (b. 1907) |
| 82747 | July 21 | Death | 1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1908) |
| 82748 | July 21 | Death | 1948 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904) |
| 82749 | July 21 | Death | 1967 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1907) |
| 82750 | July 21 | Death | 1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) |
| 82751 | July 21 | Death | 1967 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (b. 1892) |
| 82752 | July 21 | Death | 1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878) |
| 82753 | July 21 | Death | 1970 – Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907) |
| 82754 | July 21 | Death | 1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (b. 1945) |
| 82755 | July 21 | Death | 1972 – Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (b. 1889) |
| 82756 | July 21 | Death | 1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1928) |
| 82757 | July 21 | Death | 1977 – Lee Miller, American model and photographer (b. 1907) |
| 82758 | July 21 | Death | 1982 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913) |
| 82759 | July 21 | Death | 1991 – Paul Warwick, English race car driver (b. 1969) |
| 82760 | July 21 | Death | 1994 – Marijac, French author and illustrator (b. 1908) |
| 82761 | July 21 | Death | 1997 – Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926) |
| 82762 | July 21 | Death | 1998 – Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923) |
| 82763 | July 21 | Death | 1998 – Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907) |
| 82764 | July 21 | Death | 2000 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948) |
| 82765 | July 21 | Death | 2001 – Steve Barton, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1954) |
| 82766 | July 21 | Death | 2001 – Sivaji Ganesan, Indian actor and politician (b. 1927) |
| 82767 | July 21 | Death | 2002 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908) |
| 82768 | July 21 | Death | 2003 – John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938) |
| 82769 | July 21 | Death | 2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929) |
| 82770 | July 21 | Death | 2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |