Events in Film & TV
- Jul 1 KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 2 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
- Jul 15 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 16 "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
- Jul 17 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
- Jul 31 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa (CBS) 1st broadcast
- Jul 31 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, West Virginia (NBC) 1st broadcast
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Jul 2 Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
- Jul 3 Sanma Akashiya, Japanese comedian and TV personality, born in Kushimoto, Wakayama, Japan
- Jul 8 Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
- Jul 9 Fred Norris [Nukis], American comedy writer (Howard Stern Show), singer, guitarist, and actor, born in Willimantic, Connecticut
- Jul 9 Jimmy Smits, American actor (LA Law - "Victor"; Running Scared; NYPD Blue), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jul 9 Lisa Banes, American actress (Cocktail; Look Back in Anger), born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio
- Jul 18 Teresa Ann Savoy, British actress in Italian Films (Caligula; Salon Kitty), born in London, England (d. 2017)
- Jul 22 Willem Dafoe, Wisc, actor (Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning)
- Jul 25 Iman [Abdulmajid], Somali-American model and actress (Star Trek 6), born in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Jul 26 Nicholas Walker, actor (Capitol, Jimmy-General Hospital), born in Bogotá, Colombia
- Jul 29 Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
Weddings in Film & TV
Clark Gable
Jul 11 "Gone With The Wind" actor Clark Gable (54) weds former fashion model and actress Kay Williams Spreckles (38)
