| 85861 | July 29 | Death | 1979 – Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916) |
| 85862 | July 29 | Death | 1981 – Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (b. 1888) |
| 85863 | July 29 | Death | 1982 – Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (b. 1920) |
| 85864 | July 29 | Death | 1982 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (b. 1889) |
| 85865 | July 29 | Death | 1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900) |
| 85866 | July 29 | Death | 1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1896) |
| 85867 | July 29 | Death | 1983 – David Niven, English actor, singer, and producer (b. 1910) |
| 85868 | July 29 | Death | 1984 – Fred Waring, American television host and bandleader (b. 1900) |
| 85869 | July 29 | Death | 1987 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1894) |
| 85870 | July 29 | Death | 1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian academic and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911) |
| 85871 | July 29 | Death | 1992 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1952) |
| 85872 | July 29 | Death | 1994 – John Britton, American physician (b. 1925) |
| 85873 | July 29 | Death | 1994 – Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| 85874 | July 29 | Death | 1995 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1917) |
| 85875 | July 29 | Death | 1996 – Ric Nordman, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1919) |
| 85876 | July 29 | Death | 1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920) |
| 85877 | July 29 | Death | 1996 – Jason Thirsk, American singer and bass player (Pennywise and Humble Gods) (b. 1967) |
| 85878 | July 29 | Death | 1998 – Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1918) |
| 85879 | July 29 | Death | 2001 – Edward Gierek, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1913) |
| 85880 | July 29 | Death | 2001 – Wau Holland, German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951) |
| 85881 | July 29 | Death | 2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (b. 1937) |
| 85882 | July 29 | Death | 2004 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923) |
| 85883 | July 29 | Death | 2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (b. 1940) |
| 85884 | July 29 | Death | 2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928) |
| 85885 | July 29 | Death | 2007 – Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1936) |
| 85886 | July 29 | Death | 2007 – Marvin Zindler, American journalist (b. 1921) |
| 85887 | July 29 | Death | 2008 – Ishmeet Singh, Indian singer (b. 1988) |
| 85888 | July 29 | Death | 2008 – Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer and coach (b. 1948) |
| 85889 | July 29 | Death | 2009 – Gayatri Devi, English-Indian wife of Man Singh II (b. 1919) |
| 85890 | July 29 | Death | 2010 – Charles E. Wicks, American chemist and academic (b. 1925) |