Events in Film & TV
- Jul 1 1st British colour TV broadcast, on BBC 2
- Jul 1 BBC starts its World Radio Club
Musical Finale
Jul 15 Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields' musical comedy "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater, NYC, after 608 performances; wins a Tony Award for choreography
Birthdays in Film & TV
Pamela Anderson (55 years old)
Jul 1 Canadian-American actress (Baywatch) and Playboy playmate (Feb 1990), born in Ladysmith, British Columbia
- Jul 2 Debee Ashby, Coventry England, topless model (There's Girl in My Soup)
- Jul 3 Amy Van Horne, American actress (Carla Solieto-The City)
- Jul 4 Andy Walker, Canadian television personality, born in Norwich, United Kingdom
- Jul 8 Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
- Jul 11 Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality
- Jul 12 Richard Herring, English comedian
- Jul 15 Adam Savage, American film special effects designer and television personality (MythBusters0, born in New York City
- Jul 16 Will Ferrell, American Emmy and Raspberry Award-winning comic actor and writer (SNL, 1995-2002; Anchorman; Elf; Step Brothers), born in Irvine, California
Vin Diesel (55 years old)
Jul 18 American actor (The Fast and the Furious), born in Alameda County, California
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)
Jul 23 American actor (Capote, Moneyball), born in Fairport, New York
Matt LeBlanc (55 years old)
Jul 25 American actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends), born in Newton, Massachusetts
- Jul 25 Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress (The Steve Harvey Show), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 26 Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler, born in Hammonton, New Jersey (d. 2003)
Jason Statham (55 years old)
Jul 26 British actor (The Transporter, Crank), born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire
- Jul 26 Tim Schafer, American computer game designer, born in Sonoma, California
- Jul 27 Kellie Waymire, American actress (Six Feet Under), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 2003)
- Jul 27 Sasha Mitchell, American actor (Spike of Bensonhurst), born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 31 Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress, born in Itabashi, Tokyo (d. 2005)
- Jul 31 Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese voice actor and singer, born in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan
- Jul 31 Rodney Harvey, actor (Salsa)
Weddings in Film & TV
Richie Benaud
Jul 26 Australian cricket captain and broadcaster Richie Benaud (35) weds second wife Daphne Surfleet in London
Deaths in Film & TV
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)
Jul 8 English actress (Gone With The Wind; A Streetcar Named Desire), dies of tuberculosis at 53
Basil Rathbone (1892-1967)
Jul 21 South African born British actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of a heart attack at 75
- Jul 30 John Macchia, American actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party), dies of stroke at 35
