- 1921 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, Dutch actor (Inkwartiering, Kloris & Roses), dies at 70
- 1939 Theo Mann, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
- 1949 Will Hay [William Thomson Hay], British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer, dies from a stroke at 60
- 1959 Irving Cummings, American silent screen actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70
- 1960 Emory Johnson, American actor and director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
- 1964 Ben Hecht, American novelist, screenwriter and playwright (The Front Page), dies at 71
- 1969 Peter Scharow, Russian-Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82
- 1974 Betty Compson, American actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
- 1974 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright, filmmaker (Topaze; The Baker's Wife), and novelist, dies at 79
- 1984 Francis De Wolff, British character actor (A Christmas Carol, From Russia With Love), dies at 71
- 1984 John Lee Mahin, American screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
- 1988 Pierre Desproges, French humorist, dies at 48
- 1990 Gory Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler, dies at 69
- 1990 Robert D. Webb, American director and actor (Love Me Tender; The Jackals), dies at 87
- 2004 Frances Rafferty, American WWII pin-up girl, dancer and actress (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood), dies at 81
- 2009 Enrique Franco, Spanish pianist, composer (Cuerda de presos), music promoter, and broadcaster (National Spanish Radio; Radio Clásica), dies at 89
- 2009 Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress, dies at 22
Dick Clark (1929-2012)
American radio and television personality (American Bandstand), dies from a heart attack at 82
- 2012 Robert O. Ragland, American film score composer (The Thing With Two Heads), dies at 80
Bruno Sammartino (1935-2018)
Italian-American strongman and professional wrestler, dies at 82
- 2019 Mark Medoff, American playwright, director, actor and professor (Children of a Lesser God), dies at 79
- 2024 Spencer Milligan, American actor (Land of the Lost), dies at 86
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