| 75601 | July 2 | Death | 1912 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870) |
| 75602 | July 2 | Death | 1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836) |
| 75603 | July 2 | Death | 1915 – Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830) |
| 75604 | July 2 | Death | 1920 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846) |
| 75605 | July 2 | Death | 1926 – Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857) |
| 75606 | July 2 | Death | 1929 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893) |
| 75607 | July 2 | Death | 1932 – Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889) |
| 75608 | July 2 | Death | 1934 – Ernst Röhm, German commander (b. 1887) |
| 75609 | July 2 | Death | 1950 – Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872) |
| 75610 | July 2 | Death | 1955 – Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873) |
| 75611 | July 2 | Death | 1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| 75612 | July 2 | Death | 1963 – Alicia Patterson, American publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1906) |
| 75613 | July 2 | Death | 1964 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929) |
| 75614 | July 2 | Death | 1966 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900) |
| 75615 | July 2 | Death | 1969 – Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (b. 1923) |
| 75616 | July 2 | Death | 1972 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876) |
| 75617 | July 2 | Death | 1973 – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1916) |
| 75618 | July 2 | Death | 1973 – Chick Hafey, American baseball player (b. 1903) |
| 75619 | July 2 | Death | 1973 – George McBride, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880) |
| 75620 | July 2 | Death | 1973 – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892) |
| 75621 | July 2 | Death | 1975 – James Robertson Justice, English actor (b. 1907) |
| 75622 | July 2 | Death | 1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-Swiss author and academic (b. 1899) |
| 75623 | July 2 | Death | 1978 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (b. 1922) |
| 75624 | July 2 | Death | 1985 – Hector Nicol, Scottish actor and singer (b. 1920) |
| 75625 | July 2 | Death | 1986 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917) |
| 75626 | July 2 | Death | 1988 – Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894) |
| 75627 | July 2 | Death | 1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909) |
| 75628 | July 2 | Death | 1990 – Snooky Lanson, American singer (b. 1914) |
| 75629 | July 2 | Death | 1989 – Franklin J. Schaffner, Japanese-American director and producer (b. 1920) |
| 75630 | July 2 | Death | 1991 – Lee Remick, American actress and singer (b. 1935) |