Strother Martin (1919-1980)
American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 1981 (Sidney) "Paddy" Chayefsky, American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Marty; The Hospital; Network), novelist, and playwright, dies of cancer at 58
- 1983 Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62
- 1987 Benson Fong, American character actor (Charlie Chan films; Purple Heart; Flower Drum Song), and restaurateur, dies of a stroke at 70
- 1987 Pola Negri [Apolonia Chalupec], Polish-American stage and silent and sound screen actress (Forbidden Paradise; Madame Bovary), and singer, dies of pneumonia and a brain tumor at 92
- 1988 Florence Eldridge [McKechnie], American Broadway stage and screen actress (Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Swan; Inherit The Wind), dies of a heart attack at 86
- 1991 Stuart Wilson, English actor (The Girl Who Had Everything), dies at 87
- 1992 Kenny Sacha, American actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer film), dies of AIDS at 39
- 1995 Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies
- 1998 Eva Bartok [Éva Márta Szőke], Hungarian-British actress (The Crimson Pirate; Ten Thousand Bedrooms), dies at 71 [birth date sources vary between 1926 and 1929]
- 2003 Marie Trintignant, French actress (Le Cousin), dies from injuries after domestic violence assault by her boyfriend at 41
- 2010 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director, dies at 100
- 2015 Cilla Black [Priscilla White], British pop singer ("Anyone Who Had a Heart"), and TV personality (Blind Date), dies at 72
- 2019 [Donn Alan] DA Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (Don't Look Back), dies at 94
- 2020 Wilford Brimley, American character actor (Our House; Cocoon; Quaker Oats commercials), dies at 85 [1]
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