- 1946 (John) "Rags" Ragland, American burlesque comedian, and stage and screen character actor (Whistling In The Dark), dies of liver and kidney failure at 40
- 1974 Ilona Massey [Hajmássy], Hungarian-American film, stage, and radio actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies of cancer at 64
- 1976 Phyllis Konstam, British actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69
- 1982 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu, One Summer of Happiness), dies of bone cancer at 53
- 1986 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
- 1986 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
- 1991 Betty Bowden, British dancer and actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
- 1993 Sydney Arnold, British comic actor (The Meaning of Life, Top Secret!, Miss Jones & Son), dies at 93
- 1994 Aleksander Petrovic, Serbian film director (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), dies at 65
- 1995 Vladimír Škutina, Czechoslovakian writer and actor (Hvezda jede na jih), dies of cancer at 64
- 2001 Kim Stanley [Patricia Reid], American actress (Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Chase, Right Stuff), dies at 76
- 2006 Claude Blanchard, French Canadian singer, comedian and actor, dies at 74
- 2008 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC), dies at 73
Phyllis Diller (1917-2012)
American comedienne and actress, dies from natural causes at 95
Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
American comedian (Martin and Lewis, MDA Telethon), dies at 91
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