- 1710 Thomas Betterton, British actor and dramatist (Coriolanus), dies at 74
- 1925 Louis Bouwmeester, Dutch actor (Shakespeare), dies at 82
- 1933 Robin Irvine, British actor (Easy Virtue, When Boys Leave Home), dies of pleurisy at 31
- 1966 Ralph Bunker, American actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
- 1970 Ed Begley, American actor (12 Angry Men, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 69
- 1973 Pat Henning, American actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 64
- 1974 Paul Page, American actor (Girl From Havana, Moth), dies at 70
- 1977 Ricardo Cortez [Jacob Krantz], American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), dies at 76
- 1980 Dee Carroll [Betty Jean Marsh], American actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies at 54
- 1982 Bert van Dongen [Albert Cohen], Dutch singer, impressionist and actor (Het meisje met den blauwen hoed), dies at 66
- 1991 Ken Curtis, American actor (Festus - Gunsmoke), dies at 74
- 1995 Andrew Salkey, Panamanian-born novelist, dies at 67
- 1996 Gilles Grangier, French film director (Archimède le clochard), dies at 84
- 1999 Rory Calhoun [Francis Timothy McCown], American actor (Blue & Gray, How to Marry a Millionaire), dies of emphysema at 76
Lou Thesz (1916-2002)
American professional wrestler, dies at 86
- 2005 Chris Candido, American wrestler, dies at 33
- 2007 Robert "Dabbs" Greer, American actor (Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little House on Prairie), dies of a kidney and heart ailment at 90
- 2011 William Campbell, American character actor (Cannonball - "Jerry"; Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte: Dementia 13), dies at 87
- 2012 Patricia Medina, British actress (The Three Musketeers, High-Low), dies from natural causes at 92
- 2014 Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer, noted for his film scores, dies at 75
- 2014 Richard Kenshaw, British broadcaster, dies at 80
- 2016 Barry Howard, British comic actor (Hi-de-Hi!), dies of blood cancer at 78
- 2020 Jill Gascoine, British stage and pioneering TV actress (The Gentle Touch - "Maggie Forbes"), and novelist, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 83
- 2020 Michael Robinson, Irish soccer striker (24 caps, Republic of Ireland; Brighton & Hove Albion) and Spanish TV host (Canal+, El día después), dies from melanoma at 61
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