July 30

Pre-1600

 * 762 – Baghdad is founded.
 * 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
 * 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

1601–1900

 * 1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
 * 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
 * 1627 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
 * 1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
 * 1645 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.
 * 1656 – The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
 * 1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
 * 1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
 * 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
 * 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
 * 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
 * 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
 * 1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
 * 1863 – Valuev Circular banned the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
 * 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
 * 1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
 * 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

1901–present

 * 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
 * 1916 – The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
 * 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
 * 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
 * 1945 – World War II: sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
 * 1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
 * 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the then longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
 * 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
 * 1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
 * 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
 * 1971 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
 * 1971  – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
 * 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
 * 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
 * 1978 – The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
 * 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
 * 1980  – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
 * 1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
 * 1990 – Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
 * 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
 * 2003  – Three years after the death the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so-far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.
 * 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
 * 2006  – An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.
 * 2011 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
 * 2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
 * 2012  – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
 * 2014 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
 * 2020 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Pre-1600

 * 1470 – Hongzhi, emperor of the Ming dynasty (d. 1505)
 * 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574)
 * 1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)

1601–1900

 * 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
 * 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (d. 1829)
 * 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet and art collector (d. 1855)
 * 1781 – Maria Aletta Hulshoff, Dutch feminist and pamphleteer (d. 1846)
 * 1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Canadian-American priest and theologian (d. 1899)
 * 1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (d. 1848)
 * 1818  – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, 16th and 19th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
 * 1825 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian engineer and author (d. 1893)
 * 1832 – George Lemuel Woods, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Governor of Oregon (d. 1890)
 * 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German-Swiss businessman (d. 1919)
 * 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (d. 1929)
 * 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (d. 1939)
 * 1862 – Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (d. 1933)
 * 1863 – Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)
 * 1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
 * 1881 – Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1940)
 * 1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (d. 1975)
 * 1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1986)
 * 1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
 * 1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974)
 * 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (d. 1993)
 * 1910 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (d. 2003)
 * 1913 – Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 1987)
 * 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)
 * 1920 – Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 2015)
 * 1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator (d. 2005)
 * 1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block (d. 2019)
 * 1924 – C. T. Vivian, American minister, author, and activist (d. 2020)
 * 1925 – Stan Stennett, Welsh actor and trumpet player (d. 2013)
 * 1925  – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author and poet (d. 1984)
 * 1926 – Betye Saar, American artist
 * 1927 – Richard Johnson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1927  – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
 * 1927  – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
 * 1928 – Sulochana Latkar, Indian actress (d. 2023)
 * 1928  – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
 * 1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer
 * 1931 – Dominique Lapierre, French historian and author (d. 2022)
 * 1931  – Marina Popovich, Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (d. 2017)
 * 1934 – Bud Selig, 9th Major League Baseball Commissioner
 * 1936 – Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1936  – Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz (d. 2020)
 * 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * 1938  – Terry O'Neill, English photographer (d. 2019)
 * 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
 * 1939  – Eleanor Smeal, American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation
 * 1940 – Patricia Schroeder, American lawyer and politician (d. 2023)
 * 1940  – Clive Sinclair, English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research (d. 2021)
 * 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1942 – Pollyanna Pickering, English environmentalist and painter (d. 2018)
 * 1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Canadian physicist and politician
 * 1944 – Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (d. 1973)
 * 1944  – Peter Bottomley, English politician
 * 1944  – Frances de la Tour, English actress
 * 1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1945  – David Sanborn, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2024)
 * 1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1994)
 * 1946  – Jeffrey Hammond, English bass player
 * 1947 – William Atherton, American actor and producer
 * 1947  – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1947  – Jonathan Mann, American physician and author (d. 1998)
 * 1947  – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California
 * 1948 – Billy Paultz, American basketball player
 * 1948  – Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor
 * 1948  – Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1948  – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 2010)
 * 1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
 * 1949  – Sonia Proudman, English lawyer and judge (d. 2023)
 * 1950 – Harriet Harman, English lawyer and politician
 * 1950  – Frank Stallone, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1951 – Alan Kourie, South African cricketer
 * 1951  – Gerry Judah, Indian-English painter and sculptor
 * 1952 – Stephen Blackmore, English botanist and author
 * 1954 – Ken Olin, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1955 – Rat Scabies, English drummer and producer
 * 1955  – Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist and conductor
 * 1956 – Delta Burke, American actress
 * 1956  – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1956  – Georg Gänswein, German prelate, Prefect of the Pontifical Household, and former personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI
 * 1956  – Anita Hill, American lawyer and academic
 * 1956  – Soraida Martinez, American painter and educator
 * 1957 – Antonio Adamo, Italian director and cinematographer
 * 1957  – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player and coach
 * 1957  – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
 * 1957  – Nery Pumpido, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
 * 1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1958 – Liz Kershaw, English radio broadcaster
 * 1958  – Daley Thompson, English decathlete and trainer
 * 1960 – Jennifer Barnes, American-English musicologist and academic
 * 1960  – Richard Linklater, American director and screenwriter
 * 1960  – Brillante Mendoza, Filipino independent film director
 * 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor and producer
 * 1962 – Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer
 * 1962  – Jay Feaster, American ice hockey player and manager
 * 1962  – Yakub Memon, Indian accountant and terrorist (d. 2015)
 * 1963 – Peter Bowler, English-Australian cricketer
 * 1963  – Lisa Kudrow, American actress and producer
 * 1963  – Antoni Martí, Andorran architect and politician
 * 1963  – Chris Mullin, American basketball player, coach, and executive
 * 1964 – Ron Block, American singer-songwriter and banjo player
 * 1964  – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
 * 1964  – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1964  – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
 * 1964  – Laine Randjärv, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Culture
 * 1965 – Tim Munton, English cricketer
 * 1966 – Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress and screenwriter
 * 1966  – Craig Gannon,  English guitarist and songwriter
 * 1966  – Allan Langer, Australian rugby league player and coach
 * 1966  – Louise Wener, English author and singer-songwriter
 * 1968 – Terry Crews, American actor and football player
 * 1968  – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker and coach
 * 1968  – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer and songwriter
 * 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor, director, and producer
 * 1969  – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
 * 1970 – Alun Cairns, Welsh businessman and politician
 * 1970  – Dean Edwards, American comedian, actor, and singer
 * 1970  – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1971 – Elvis Crespo, American-Puerto Rican singer
 * 1971  – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
 * 1971  – Christine Taylor, American actress
 * 1972 – Jim McIlvaine, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1973 – Kenton Cool, English mountaineer
 * 1973  – Ümit Davala, Turkish footballer and manager
 * 1973  – Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer
 * 1973  – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
 * 1973  – Sonu Nigam, Indian playback singer and actor
 * 1973  – Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (d. 2015)
 * 1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer and manager
 * 1974  – Jason Robinson, English rugby league footballer, and rugby union footballer and coach
 * 1974  – Hilary Swank, American actress and producer
 * 1975 – Graham Nicholls, English author and activist
 * 1975  – Kate Starbird, American basketball player and computer scientist
 * 1977 – Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist;
 * 1977  – Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player and coach
 * 1977  – Jaime Pressly, American actress
 * 1977  – Bootsy Thornton, American basketball player
 * 1977  – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer-songwriter and child abuse convict
 * 1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player and singer
 * 1979  – Chad Keegan, South African cricketer and coach
 * 1979  – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
 * 1979  – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (d. 2012)
 * 1980 – Seth Avett, American folk-rock singer-songwriter and musician
 * 1980  – Justin Rose, South African-English golfer
 * 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (d. 2017)
 * 1981  – Juan Smith, South African rugby union footballer
 * 1981  – Hope Solo, American soccer player
 * 1981  – Indrek Turi, Estonian decathlete
 * 1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
 * 1982  – James Anderson, English cricketer
 * 1982  – Martin Starr, American actor and comedian
 * 1982  – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
 * 1983 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer
 * 1984 – Marko Asmer, Estonian race car driver
 * 1984  – Gabrielle Christian, American actress and singer
 * 1984  – Trudy McIntosh, Australian artistic gymnast
 * 1984  – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
 * 1984  – Gina Rodriguez, American actress
 * 1985 – Chris Guccione, Australian tennis player
 * 1985  – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
 * 1985  – Luca Lanotte, Italian ice dancer
 * 1985  – Matthew Scott, Australian rugby league player
 * 1986 – Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer
 * 1986  – William Zillman, Australian rugby league player
 * 1987 – Anton Fink, German footballer
 * 1987  – Sam Saunders, American golfer
 * 1988 – Wen Chean Lim, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast
 * 1989 – Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer
 * 1989  – Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer
 * 1990 – Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer
 * 1990 – Tom Morris, Australian journalist
 * 1991 – Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter
 * 1992 – Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer
 * 1993 – Jacob Faria, American baseball player
 * 1993  – André Gomes, Portuguese footballer
 * 1993  – Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player
 * 1994 – Nelydia Senrose, Malaysian actress
 * 1995 – Hirving Lozano, Mexican footballer
 * 1996 – Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player
 * 1999 – Joey King, American actress

Pre-1600

 * 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Greek bishop
 * 579 – Pope Benedict I
 * 734 – Tatwine, English archbishop (b. 670)
 * 829 – Shi Xiancheng, general of the Tang Dynasty
 * 1286 – Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (b. 1226)
 * 1393 – Alberto d'Este, Lord of Ferrara and Modena (b. 1347)
 * 1516 – John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1455)
 * 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497)
 * 1540  – Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
 * 1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1505)
 * 1566 – Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor (b. 1507)

1601–1900

 * 1608 – Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, last King of Tyrconnell (b. 1575)
 * 1624 – Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, British nobleman (b. 1579)
 * 1652 – Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (b. 1624)
 * 1680 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, Irish admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1634)
 * 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain (b. 1638)
 * 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German scholar and academic (b. 1639)
 * 1700 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, English royal (b. 1689)
 * 1718 – William Penn, English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
 * 1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet (b. 1716)
 * 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and soldier (b. 1753)
 * 1832 – Lê Văn Duyệt, Vietnamese general, mandarin (b. 1763–4)
 * 1870 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (b. 1818)
 * 1875 – George Pickett, American general (b. 1825)
 * 1889 – Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846)
 * 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1815)
 * 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)

1901–present

 * 1912 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1852)
 * 1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, journalist, and poet (b. 1886)
 * 1920 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
 * 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
 * 1938 – John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
 * 1941 – Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877)
 * 1947 – Joseph Cook, English-Australian miner and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
 * 1965 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author and playwright (b. 1886)
 * 1970 – Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (b. 1874)
 * 1970  – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897)
 * 1971 – Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (b. 1906)
 * 1975 – James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921)
 * 1977 – Emory Holloway, American scholar, author, and educator (b. 1885)
 * 1983 – Howard Dietz, American songwriter and publicist (b. 1896)
 * 1983  – Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
 * 1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919)
 * 1989 – Lane Frost, American professional bull rider (b. 1963)
 * 1990 – Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (b. 1937)
 * 1992 – Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915)
 * 1992  – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
 * 1994 – Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (b. 1920)
 * 1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
 * 1997 – Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1913)
 * 1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (b. 1917)
 * 2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924)
 * 2003 – Steve Hislop, Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1962)
 * 2003  – Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (b. 1923)
 * 2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
 * 2005  – John Garang, Sudanese colonel and politician, 6th President of South Sudan (b. 1945)
 * 2006 – Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist and author(b. 1946)
 * 2006  – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
 * 2006  – Murray Bookchin, American philosopher and author (b. 1921)
 * 2006  – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordion player and composer (b. 1904)
 * 2006  – Akbar Mohammadi, Iranian activist (b. 1972)
 * 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
 * 2007  – Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch (b. 1915)
 * 2007  – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
 * 2007  – Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
 * 2008 – Anne Armstrong, American businesswoman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1927)
 * 2009 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (b. 1970)
 * 2009  – Peter Zadek, German director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * 2011 – Bob Peterson, American basketball player (b. 1932)
 * 2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1939)
 * 2012  – Bill Doss, American singer and guitarist (b. 1968)
 * 2012  – Stig Ossian Ericson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
 * 2012  – Les Green, English footballer and manager (b. 1941)
 * 2012  – Jonathan Hardy, New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
 * 2012  – Bill Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
 * 2012  – Mary Louise Rasmuson, American colonel (b. 1911)
 * 2013 – Cecil Alexander, American architect, designed the State of Georgia Building (b. 1918)
 * 2013  – Berthold Beitz, German businessman (b. 1913)
 * 2013  – Robert Neelly Bellah, American sociologist and author (b. 1927)
 * 2013  – Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (b. 1914)
 * 2013  – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1924)
 * 2013  – Ossie Schectman, American basketball player (b. 1919)
 * 2013  – Benjamin Walker, Indian-English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
 * 2014 – Robert Drew, American director and producer (b. 1924)
 * 2014  – Harun Farocki, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
 * 2014  – Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (b. 1931)
 * 2014  – Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (b. 1932)
 * 2014  – Dick Smith, American make-up artist (b. 1922)
 * 2014  – Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
 * 2015 – Lynn Anderson, American singer (b. 1947)
 * 2015  – Stuart Baggs, English businessman (b. 1988)
 * 2015  – Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist (b. 1930)
 * 2015  – Francis Paul Prucha, American historian and academic (b. 1921)
 * 2015  – Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
 * 2016 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
 * 2018 – Michael A. Sheehan, American author, former government official and military officer (b. 1955)
 * 2020 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician, President (1988–2000), Vice President (1984–1988) and mayor of Taipei (1978–1981) (b. 1923)
 * 2020  – Herman Cain, American businessman and political activist (b. 1945)
 * 2021 – Shona Ferguson, Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer (b. 1974)
 * 2022 – Pat Carroll, American actress and comedian (b. 1927)
 * 2022  – Nichelle Nichols, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1932)
 * 2023 – Paul Reubens, American actor and comedian (b. 1952)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Abdon and Sennen
 * Hatebrand
 * Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda
 * Peter Chrysologus
 * Robert Barnes (Lutheran)
 * Rufinus of Assisi
 * Tatwine
 * Ursus of Auxerre
 * Solanus Casey
 * July 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Feast of the Throne (Morocco)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France in 1980.
 * International Day of Friendship (international), and its related observances:
 * Día del Amigo (Paraguay)
 * Martyrs Day (South Sudan)