Tennis Open
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Chris Evert beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 6-3, 4-6, 8-6 for second of 3 Wimbledon singles titles
Chris Evert
Tennis Open
Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 for the first of 5 straight Wimbledon titles
Björn Borg
Ilie Năstase
- Jul 10 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
- Jul 11 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Green GC: JoAnne Carner wins in a playoff with Sandra Palmer
- Jul 13 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
- Jul 13 All star MVP: George Foster (Cincinnati Reds)
- Jul 13 Last day of Test Cricket for English all-rounder Brian Close, aged 45
- Jul 17 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa
- Jul 18 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
- Jul 18 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at 1976 Summer Olympics
- Jul 18 63rd Tour de France won by Lucien Van Impe of Belgium
Baseball Record
Jul 20 Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago
Hank Aaron
- Jul 23 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
Baseball Record
Jul 23 Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
Reggie Jackson
- Jul 25 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
- Jul 28 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
- Jul 30 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
- Jul 31 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski beats American Frank Shorter by 50 seconds to win the Olympic Games marathon in 2:09:55 in Montreal