Deaths in July 2012

1st
Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident.

2nd
Julian Goodman, 90, American broadcasting executive, President of NBC (1966–1974).

3rd
Andy Griffith, 86, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), heart attack.
Hollie Stevens, 30, American pornographic actress and model, cancer.

4th
Jimmy Bivins, 92, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
Karen R. Keesling, 65, American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1988–1989).
Eric Sykes, 89, British comedy writer (The Goon Show) and actor.

6th
Charles Drake, 30, American football player (New York Giants).

7th
Dennis Flemion, 57, American rock musician (The Frogs), drowned.

8th
Lionel Batiste, 81, American jazz musician (Treme Brass Band).
Zach Booher, 22, American musician (While We're Up), traffic collision.
Ernest Borgnine, 95, American actor (Marty, McHale's Navy, From Here to Eternity), renal failure.

9th
Miinnehoma, 29, Irish-bred racehorse, winner of the 1994 Grand National. (death announced on this date)

10th
Maria Cole, 89, American jazz singer, widow of Nat King Cole, cancer.

11th
Marion Cunningham, 90, American cookbook author, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Richard Scudder, 99, American newspaper pioneer, founder of MediaNews Group
Donald J. Sobol, 87, American writer (Encyclopedia Brown), natural causes.
Marvin Traub, 87, American business executive, CEO of Bloomingdale's, bladder cancer.

12th
George C. Stoney, 96, American documentary filmmaker and pioneer of public-access television.

13th
Wayne Massarelli, 62, American makeup artist (The Muppets Take Manhattan, My Fellow Americans).
Sage Stallone, 36, American actor (Rocky V), son of Sylvester Stallone, heart failure.
Ginny Tyler, 86, American voice actress (Davey and Goliath, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost).
Richard D. Zanuck, 77, American film producer (Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy, Road to Perdition), heart attack.

14th
Don Brinkley, 91, American television writer (The Fugitive, Medical Center, Trapper John, M.D.), natural causes.
Avis Hope Eckelberry, 56, American film editor (The Flintstones, Cobb), niece of Bob Hope, ovarian cancer.

15th
Celeste Holm, 95, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve, Tom Sawyer).
Jacqueline Piatigorsky, 100, French-born American chess and tennis player, author and sculptor.

16th
William Asher, 90, American television writer and director (Alice, Bewitched, I Love Lucy), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Bob Babbitt, 74, American bass guitarist (The Funk Brothers), brain cancer.
Stephen Covey, 79, American writer (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), complications after a bicycle accident.
James F. Goodrich, 99, American businessman, Under Secretary of the Navy (1981–1987).
Antonín Holý, 75, Czech scientist, created most effective drugs for AIDS treatment, after long illness.
Jon Lord, 71, English composer and musician (Deep Purple), pulmonary embolism.
Masaharu Matsushita, 99, Japanese businessman, President of Panasonic (1961–1977), natural causes.
Kitty Wells, 92, American country music singer ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", "Making Believe"), complications after a stroke.

17th
Forrest S. McCartney, 81, American USAF lieutenant general, director of the Kennedy Space Center (1986–1991)
Ms. Melodie, 43, American rapper.
Morgan Paull, 67, American actor (Blade Runner, Norma Rae, Patton), stomach cancer.
William Raspberry, 76, American journalist and newspaper columnist (The Washington Post), prostate cancer.

19th
Tom Davis, 59, American comedian and television writer (Saturday Night Live), throat and neck cancer.
William Staub, 96, American engineer, developer of the commercial treadmill.
Sylvia Woods, 86, American restaurateur, founder of Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, Alzheimer's disease.

20th
Tony Epper, 73, American actor and stuntman (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Con Air, Thelma & Louise), cancer.

22nd
Fern Persons, 101, American actress (Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, Risky Business).
Frank Pierson, 87, American film director and screenwriter (Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke, A Star is Born), natural causes.

23rd
Sally Ride, 61, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space, pancreatic cancer.

24th
Chad Everett, 75, American actor (Medical Center), lung cancer.
Thelma Glass, 96, American civil rights leader, academic and geographer, last surviving member of the Women's Political Council.
Sherman Hemsley, 74, American actor (The Jeffersons, Amen, Dinosaurs), lung cancer.
Larry Hoppen, 61, American singer and musician (Orleans).
Robert Ledley, 86, American scientist, inventor of the full-body CT scanner, Alzheimer's disease.
Nancy Mudge, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
James West, 98, American psychiatrist and surgeon, co-founder of the Betty Ford Center.

25th
Suzy Gershman, 64, American author, widow of Michael Gershman, brain cancer.
Shelby Harris, 111, American supercentenarian, oldest man in USA, natural causes.

26th
Lupe Ontiveros, 69, American actress (Desperate Housewives, Selena, The Goonies), liver cancer.
Pat Porter, 53, American Olympic (1984, 1988) distance runner, plane crash.
Neil Reed, 36, American basketball player (Indiana) involved in Bob Knight controversy, heart attack.
Mary Tamm, 62, English actress (Doctor Who), cancer.
James D. Watkins, 85, American Naval officer and cabinet member, Chief of Naval Operations (1982–1986), Secretary of Energy (1989–1993), heart failure.

27th
Norman Alden, 87, American actor (Back to the Future, Ed Wood, Tora! Tora! Tora!), natural causes.
R. G. Armstrong, 95, American actor (Predator, Dick Tracy, El Dorado) and playwright, natural causes.
Geoffrey Hughes, 68, English actor (Coronation Street, Yellow Submarine, Keeping Up Appearances), prostate cancer.
Art Malone, 64, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles).
Tony Martin, 98, American actor and singer, widower of Cyd Charisse, natural causes.
Russ Mayberry, 86, Scottish-born American television director (In the Heat of the Night, Magnum P.I., The Brady Bunch), after brief illness.

28th
Carol Kendall, 94, American author (The Gammage Cup, The Whisper of Glocken).[347] (death announced on this date)
William F. Milliken, Jr., 101, American aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver.

29th
John P. Finnegan, 85, American actor (JFK, Columbo, The Natural), complications from pneumonia and old age.

30th
Bill Doss, 43, American rock singer and guitarist (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo).
Jonathan Hardy, 71, New Zealand actor (Farscape, Mad Max, Moulin Rouge!) and screenwriter (Breaker Morant).

31st
Tony Sly, 41, American punk rock singer and guitarist (No Use for a Name).
Gore Vidal, 86, American playwright, novelist, political commentator and actor (Bob Roberts), pneumonia.