Deaths in July 2023

The following is a list of **deaths that should be noted in July 2023**. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Every entry must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

### 1

- Meg Johnson, 86, English actress (_Coronation Street_, _Brookside_, _Emmerdale_).

### 2

- Milan Milutinović, 80, Serbian politician, president (1997–2002) and minister of foreign affairs of Yugoslavia (1995–1998).
- Theo Pahlplatz, 76, Dutch footballer (Twente, national team).
- Rudolf Zehetgruber, 96, Austrian film director (_The Congress Dances_, _The Maddest Car in the World_), screenwriter (_The Black Cobra_) and actor.

### 3

- Léon Gautier, 100, French soldier, France's last surviving D-Day veteran.
- Greig Oliver, 58, Scottish rugby union player (national team) and coach (Munster), paragliding accident.

### 4

- Amer Alwan, 66, Iraqi-French film director and actor (_The Girl on the Train_), cancer.

### 5

- Aleksey Kuznetsov, 82, Russian actor (_The Green Flame_, _D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers_, _Dark Eyes_).
- Jacob Larsen, 44, Danish cricketer (national team).
- Coco Lee, 48, Hong Kong-American singer-songwriter (_Singer_), suicide.

### 6

- Jimmy Weldon, 99, American voice actor (_The Yogi Bear Show_, _Challenge of the Superfriends_, _Shirt Tales_), ventriloquist and television host.

### 8

- Srđan Koljević, 56, Serbian screenwriter and film director (_The Red Colored Grey Truck_, _The Woman with a Broken Nose_, _The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip_).
- Gloria Mange, 92, Mexican actress (_¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?_, _If I Were a Congressman_, _The Unknown Mariachi_).
- K. Ravindranathan Nair, 90, Indian film producer (_Kanchana Sita_, _Kummatty_, _Elippathayam_).
- Adrian Tan, 57, Singaporean novelist (_The Teenage Textbook_, _The Teenage Workbook_) and lawyer, president of the law society (since 2022), cancer.
- Özkan Uğur, 69, Turkish musician (MFÖ) and actor (_A.R.O.G_, _Arif V 216_), lymphoma.

### 9

- Roger Gnoan M'Bala, 80, Ivorian film director (_Ablakon_, _Bouka_, _Adanggaman_).

### 10

- Randy Fullmer, 73, American animator (_Who Framed Roger Rabbit_, _Beauty and the Beast_) and film producer (_The Emperor's New Groove_).
- Gavin Royfee, 94, New Zealand cricketer.

### 11

- George Armstrong, 60, British actor (_Grange Hill_, _Tucker's Luck_), leukaemia.
- Milan Kundera, 94, Czech-born French writer (_The Unbearable Lightness of Being_).
- Mirsad Tuka, 58, Bosnian actor (_Cirkus Columbia_, _Ja sam iz Krajine, zemlje kestena_, _Holiday in Sarajevo_).

### 12

- Larisa Marshalova, 44, Belarusian actress.
- John Nettleton, 94, English actor (_Yes Minister_, _Black Beauty_, _Oliver Twist_).

### 13

- Josephine Chaplin, 74, American actress (_The Canterbury Tales_, _Escape to the Sun_, _Nuits Rouges_).

### 14

- Kazimierz Klimczak, 109, Polish soldier (Warsaw Uprising).

### 15

- Leonard Retel Helmrich, 63, Dutch cinematographer, film director and screenwriter (_Eye of the Day_, _Shape of the Moon_, _Position Among the Stars_).

### 16

- Jane Birkin, 76, English-French singer and actress (_La Piscine_, _Evil Under the Sun_, _Death on the Nile_).
- Ricky Rivero, 51, Filipino actor (_Do Re Mi_, _Petrang Kabayo_, _Yorme: The Isko Domagoso Story_) and director.

### 18

- Mark Thomas, 67, British film composer (_Twin Town_, _The Final Curtain_, _Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London_).

### 19

- Lajos Balázsovits, 76, Hungarian actor (_Bizalom_, _Milarepa_, _Mary, Mother of Jesus_), theatre director and manager.

### 20

- Rachid Sfar, 89, Tunisian politician, prime minister (1986–1987), minister of finance (1986) and defence (1979–1980).

### 21

- Tony Bennett, 96, American singer ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco", "Rags to Riches", "Because of You"), 20-time Grammy winner.
- Juliette Mayniel, 87, French actress (_Les Cousins_, _The Fair_, _Eyes Without a Face_).
- Brian Taber, 83, Australian cricketer.
- Jane Tehira, 95, New Zealand sportsperson.

### 22

- Lelia Goldoni, 86, American actress (_Shadows_, _Hysteria_, _Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore_).
- Vince Hill, 89, English singer ("Edelweiss", "Take Me to Your Heart Again").

### 23

- Pamela Blair, 73, American actress (_A Chorus Line_, _Annie_, _Beavis and Butt-Head Do America_). (death announced on this date)
- Raymond Froggatt, 81, English songwriter ("Callow-la-vita", "Big Ship", "Rachel") and singer.
- Roy Swetman, 89, English cricketer (Surrey, Nottinghamshire, national team). (death announced on this date)

### 24

- Jayant Savarkar, 87, Indian actor (_Vaastav: The Reality_, _Singham_, _Rocky Handsome_).

### 25

- Julian Barry, 92, American screenwriter (_Lenny_, _The River_, _Rhinoceros_).
- Bo Goldman, 90, American screenwriter (_One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_, _Melvin and Howard_, _Scent of a Woman_), Oscar winner (1975, 1980).
- Raphick Jumadeen, 75, Trinidadian cricketer (West Indies).

### 26

- Jean-Jacques Honorat, 92, Haitian politician, minister of foreign affairs (1991) and prime minister (1991–1992).
- Randy Meisner, 77, American Hall of Fame musician (Eagles, Poco) and songwriter ("Take It to the Limit"), COPD.
- Sinéad O'Connor, 56, Irish singer ("Nothing Compares 2 U") and songwriter ("Mandinka", "The Emperor's New Clothes"), Grammy winner (1991).

### 27

- Pierre Collin, 85, Canadian actor (_Seducing Doctor Lewis_, _Aurore_, _Ésimésac_) and stage director.

### 28

- Jim Parker, 88, British television composer (_Midsomer Murders_, _House of Cards_, _Foyle's War_).
- Jana Šulcová, 76, Czech actress (_I Enjoy the World with You_, _Horákovi_, _Fešák Hubert_).
- José Paulino Gomes, 127, Brazilian supercentenarian

### 29

- Marc Gilpin, 56, American actor (_Jaws 2_, _The Legend of the Lone Ranger_, _Earthbound_), brain cancer.
- Clive Rowlands, 85, Welsh rugby union player (Pontypool, national team) and coach.

### 30

- Betty Ann Bruno, 91, American journalist (KTVU) and actress (_The Wizard of Oz_, _The Hurricane_).
- Paul Reubens, 70, American actor (_Pee-wee's Playhouse_, _The Nightmare Before Christmas_, _Blow_), cancer.

### 31

- Rusi Cooper, 100, Indian cricketer (Parsis, Bombay, Middlesex).
- Sophie Fillières, 58, French film director (_Good Girl_, _If You Don't, I Will_) and screenwriter (_Sombre_).
- Inga Landgré, 95, Swedish actress (_The Seventh Seal_, _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_, _Crisis_).

## Other websites

- _The Guardian_, UK obituaries
- _The Telegraph_ obituaries
- Obituaries, _Chicago Tribune_
- Obituaries, _Los Angeles Times_
- _The New York Times_, US obituaries
- _The Washington Post_ obituaries
- _The Sydney Morning Herald_, Australian obituaries