- 1961 (Carlos) "Charlie" Gemora, Filipino-American film make-up artist and actor who specialized in playing gorillas (Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Chimp & Swiss Miss; At the Circus; Road to Zanzibar), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1968 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and cosmologist (Big Bang Theory, DNA), dies at 64
- 1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
American comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life), dies at 86
- 1981 Jessie Matthews, English actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
- 1982 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
- 1986 Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck; Maude), dies at 79
- 1986 Lorenzo Tucker 'the Black Valentino', American actor (Black King), dies at 79
- 1987 Hayden Rorke, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, When Worlds Collide), dies from multiple myeloma at 76
- 1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director and actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
- 1993 Jean King, American actress (Night Has a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
- 1993 Utpal Dutt, Indian actor and director (Manusher Adhikar), dies at 64
- 1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
- 2000 Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
- 2008 Marguerite Empey [Diane Webber], American model and Playboy playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956), dies at 76
- 2009 Don Hewitt, American CBS news executive producer (60 Minutes), dies at 86
- 2011 Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (Three Sad Tigers), dies at 70
- 2012 Tony Scott, British film director and producer (Top Gun; Revenge; Days of Thunder), commits suicide at 68
- 2016 Jack Riley, American actor (The Bob Newhart Show - "Mr. Carlin"; Rugrats -"Stu Pickles"), dies of pneumonia at 80
- 2017 Dick Gregory, American comedian, civil rights activist and dietician (Bahamian Diet), dies of heart failure at 84
- 2021 Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba [Sadaho Maeda], Japanese martial artist and actor (The Street Fighter; Kill Bill: Volume 1), dies of Covid-19 complications at 82
- 2023 Ron Cephas Jones, American Emmy Award-winning actor (This is Us), dies of pulmonary disease at 66
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