John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865)
American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, shot and killed at 26 by Union soldier Boston Corbett
- 1936 Tammany Young, American actor, dies at 49
- 1956 Edward Arnold, American actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
- 1970 "Gypsy" Rose Lee [Hovick], American burlesque actress (Gypsy), dies of lung cancer at 59
- 1973 Irene Ryan [Noblitt], American actress (Beverly Hillbillies - "Granny"; Pippin), dies of an inoperable brain tumor at 70
- 1976 Allan Jackson, American newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
- 1976 Neil McCallum, British-Canadian actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
- 1976 Sid James [Solomon Joel Cohen], South African-born British character & comedy actor (Hancock's Half Hour, Carry On), dies from a heart attack at 62
- 1980 Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87
- 1981 Jim Davis, American actor (Dallas - "Jack Ewing"), dies at 65
- 1982 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
- 1983 Bronislaw Kaper, Polish-American Academy Award-winning film composer (Green Dolphin Street; Lili; The Brothers Karamazov), dies at 81
- 1983 Vaughn Taylor, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
- 1983 Vaughn Taylor, American character actor (Jailhouse Rock; Johnny Jupiter; Psycho), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 73
- 1984 Barry Gray [John Livesey Eccles], British pianist, ondist, Hammond organ player, film and television composer (Thunderbirds; Space:1999), dies at 75
- 1984 Henry Rowland, American actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70
- 1984 May McAvoy, American actress (Ben Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack
- 1986 Bessie Love, American actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87
Broderick Crawford (1911-1986)
American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol), dies after a series of strokes at 74
Lucille Ball (1911-1989)
American comedienne and actress (I Love Lucy; Mame), dies of a heart attack at 77
- 1991 Emily McLaughlin, American actress (Jessie Brewer- General Hospital), dies at 61
- 1992 Alberta Vaughn, American actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87
- 1995 Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and author (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind), dies of bone cancer at 88
- 1996 Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter (In the Heat of the Night, Perry Mason), dies at 78
- 1997 Joey Faye, American comedian (Joey Faye's Follies), dies at 86
- 1997 John Beal [James Andrew Bliedung], American actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Les Misérables), dies at 87
- 1999 Jill Dando, British television presenter (Crimewatch), shot and killed outside her house at 37
- 2002 Del Sharbutt, American radio and TV announcer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 90
- 2005 Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss star of German cinema (The Last Bridge, Gervaise), dies at 79
- 2005 Mason Adams, American actor (Lou Grant, Deadliest Season), dies at 86
- 2007 Jack Valenti, American political advisor & film executive, dies at 85
- 2013 Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (Jack & Mike, Another World), dies at 82
- 2015 Jayne Meadows, American actress (Dark Delusion; David and Bathsheba) & wife of Steve Allen, dies of natural causes at 95
- 2017 Jonathan Demme, American film director (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), dies at 73
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Plane Crash
Suicide