| 85471 | July 28 | Death | 1971 – Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (b. 1898) |
| 85472 | July 28 | Death | 1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (b. 1903) |
| 85473 | July 28 | Death | 1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian activist and theorist (b. 1918) |
| 85474 | July 28 | Death | 1979 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902) |
| 85475 | July 28 | Death | 1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898) |
| 85476 | July 28 | Death | 1981 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (b. 1935) |
| 85477 | July 28 | Death | 1982 – Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1953) |
| 85478 | July 28 | Death | 1990 – Jill Esmond, English actress (b. 1908) |
| 85479 | July 28 | Death | 1992 – Sulev Nõmmik, Estonian actor and director (b. 1931) |
| 85480 | July 28 | Death | 1993 – Stanley Woods, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1903) |
| 85481 | July 28 | Death | 1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908) |
| 85482 | July 28 | Death | 1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920) |
| 85483 | July 28 | Death | 1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905) |
| 85484 | July 28 | Death | 1998 – Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and author (b. 1924) |
| 85485 | July 28 | Death | 1998 – Lenny McLean, English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949) |
| 85486 | July 28 | Death | 1998 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (b. 1911) |
| 85487 | July 28 | Death | 1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| 85488 | July 28 | Death | 2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918) |
| 85489 | July 28 | Death | 2001 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943) |
| 85490 | July 28 | Death | 2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| 85491 | July 28 | Death | 2003 – Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918) |
| 85492 | July 28 | Death | 2004 – Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| 85493 | July 28 | Death | 2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915) |
| 85494 | July 28 | Death | 2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938) |
| 85495 | July 28 | Death | 2006 – Patrick Allen, Malawian-English actor (b. 1927) |
| 85496 | July 28 | Death | 2006 – David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948) |
| 85497 | July 28 | Death | 2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924) |
| 85498 | July 28 | Death | 2007 – Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961) |
| 85499 | July 28 | Death | 2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer (b. 1977) |
| 85500 | July 28 | Death | 2009 – Reverend Ike, American minister (b. 1935) |