Wallace Beery (1886-1949)
American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) and actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), dies from a heart attack at 64
- 1957 Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and ranchero singer, dies as co-pilot in a plane crash at 39
- 1958 Estelle Taylor, American actress, dies at 64
- 1962 Clara Blandick [Clara Blanchard Dickey], American stage and screen character actress (Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn; Wizard of Oz), commits suicide at 85
- 1962 Esther Minciotti, Italian actress, dies at 73
- 1965 Sydney Chaplin, English actor, half brother of Charlie Chaplin and his business manager, dies at 80
- 1966 Joseph Crehan, American actor (The Roaring Twenties, Meeting at Midnight), dies of stroke at 82
- 1967 Totò [Antonio De Curtis], Italian actor (Motorizzate; Noi Duri) commonly referred to as the most popular Italian comedian of all time, dies from a heart attack at 69
- 1975 Richard Conte, American actor (The Godfather, Tony Rome, Hotel), dies from a heart attack at 65
- 1980 Marshall Reed, American actor (The Madmen of Mandoras, Mysterious Island), dies from a massive hemorrhage at 62
- 1980 Paul Langton, American actor (Till the Clouds Roll By, Peyton Place), dies from a heart attack at 66
- 1980 Raymond Bailey, American actor (Vertigo, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Incredible Shrinking Man), dies at 75
- 1982 Arthur Lowe, British actor (Dad's Army, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ruling Class), dies following a stroke at 66
- 1983 Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Mexican-American actor (The Brave One; Viva Valdez -"Luis"), dies from a stroke at 67
- 1984 Tommy Cooper, British comedian and magician, collapses and dies on stage at 61
- 1986 Tim McIntire, American actor (Brubaker; Stand By Your Man), singer-songwriter, and musician (Funzone), dies of congestive heart failure at 41
- 1988 Kenneth Williams, British actor (Hancock's Half Hour, Carry On films), dies of an overdose at 61
- 1989 Charles Vanel, French actor and director (Wages of Fear), dies at 96
Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
Swedish actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
- 1990 Henry Kendrick, American actor (Raising Arizona), dies at 56
- 1991 Marjorie Warfield, American stage, radio, and silent film actress, dies of pneumonia at 88
- 1991 Martin Ashe, American actor, dies at 81
- 1993 William Bakewell, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front; Gone with the Wind), dies of leukemia at 84
- 2002 Dave King, British comedian (Kraft Music Hall), actor (The Long Good Friday), and pop singer ("Memories Are Made of This"), dies at 72
- 2003 Erin Fleming, Canadian actress, dies at 61
- 2005 Margaretta Scott, British actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast), dies from pneumonia and breast cancer at 93
- 2008 Benoît Lamy, Belgian film director, dies at 62
- 2009 Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster and former liberal MP, dies at 84
- 2013 Jo Roland [Rolando Bonardelli], Swiss pop singer and TV personality (Rendez-vous), known as the 'Swiss Perry Como', dies at 80
- 2013 Richard LeParmentier, American actor (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), dies at 66
- 2015 Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor (Anne of Green Gables), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 48
- 2017 Clifton James, American actor (Live and Let Die, Silver Streak), dies at 96
- 2018 R. Lee Ermey, American actor (Full Metal Jacket- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman), dies at 74
- 2020 Brian Dennehy, American actor (Cocoon, Death of a Salesman), dies at 81
- 2022 Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress (A Morgadinha dos Canaviais; Hard Times), dies at 93
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