In deaths:
| July 3rd 1978 | | James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
| | July 3rd 1981 | | Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
| | July 3rd 1982 | | Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies
| | July 3rd 1984 | | Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
| | July 3rd 1986 | | Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
| | July 3rd 1987 | | Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
| | July 3rd 1988 | | Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
| | July 3rd 1989 | | Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
| | July 3rd 1989 | | Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
| | July 3rd 1990 | | Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
| | July 3rd 1990 | | Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
| | July 3rd 1991 | | Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
| | July 3rd 1992 | | Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
| | July 3rd 1992 | | Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
| | July 3rd 1993 | | "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
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