Editing 1972 (section)

===July===
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* [[July 2]] – [[Joseph Fielding Smith]], 10th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Raúl Leoni]], 55th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Brandon deWilde]], American actor (b. [[1942]])
* [[July 7]]
** Patriarch [[Athenagoras I of Constantinople]] (b. [[1886]])
** King [[Talal of Jordan]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Ghassan Kanafani]], Palestinian author (b. [[1936]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Geeta Dutt]], Indian singer (b. [[1930]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[Ralph Craig]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1889]])
** King [[Jigme Dorji Wangchuck]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[July 24]] − [[Lance Reventlow]], English playboy, entrepreneur and racing driver (b. [[1936]])
* [[July 25]] − [[Oscar Elton Sette]], American fisheries scientist (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aifrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AIFRB-Biographies-web.pdf|title=Oscar Elton Sette|access-date=November 4, 2024|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174404/http://www.aifrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AIFRB-Biographies-web.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – Count [[Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi]], Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Helen Traubel]], American soprano (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan Onofrio|title=Missouri Biographical Dictionary|publisher=Somerset|year=2001|isbn=9780403095988|page=275}}</ref>
* [[July 31]]
** [[Alfons Gorbach]], Austrian politician, 15th [[Chancellor of Austria]] (b. [[1898]])
** [[Paul-Henri Spaak]], Belgian politician and statesman, 31st [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] and 2nd [[Secretary General of NATO]] (b. [[1899]])