Actors Who Died on April 2
- 1956 Chester Clute, American actor ("Arsenic and Old Lace"; "Too Many Girls"; "Niagara Falls"), dies of a heart attack at 65
- 1959 Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery) and film director (Häxan), dies at 79
- 1961 August Defresne, Dutch playwright and director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
- 1969 Fortunio Bonanova, Spanish actor and opera singer (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74
- 1974 Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84
- 1976 Ray Teal, American actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, Bonanza), dies at 74
- 1990 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
- 1992 Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
- 1993 Eugenie Leontovitch, Russian actress (Homicidal, The Rains of Ranchipur), dies at 93
- 1994 Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of a heart attack at 79
- 1997 Anthony Bushell, British actor (Journey's End, A Night to Remember), dies at 92
- 1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86
- 1999 Andrew Gardner, British newscaster (News at Ten), dies in flight en route to Madeira at 66
- 2001 Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
- 2002 Jack Kruschen, Canadian character actor (The Apartment, Busting Loose), dies at 80
- 2003 Michael Wayne, American film producer (Green Berets, McLintock), son of John Wayne, dies at 68
- 2010 Chris Kanyon, American pro wrestler (WCW/WWF World Tag Team C'ship), dies from suicide at 40
- 2011 George E Mahlberg, American astronomer (Mt Palomar/Mt Wilson, California, 1974-78), movie actor, sound engineer, and DJ (Dr. Cosmo), dies at 56
- 2013 Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and writer, dies from complications from a stroke at 82
- 2013 Milo O'Shea, Irish character actor (Barbarella, Staircase and Mass Appeal, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 86
- 2018 Susan Anspach, American actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Hair, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam), dies at 75
- 2020 Eddie Large [McGinnis], British comedian (Little and Large), dies of heart issues and COVID-19 complications at 78
- 2020 Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer, and biographer, dies of COVID-19 complications at 86
- 2022 Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (Estelle Costanza - Seinfeld; Toy Story), dies at 93
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide