- 1933 Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
- 1937 Frederick Burr Opper, American pioneering cartoonist (Happy Hooligan), dies at 80
- 1951 Robert Walker, American actor and writer (Strangers on a Train, Bataan, Madame Curie), dies from an adverse reaction to prescription drugs at 32
- 1964 Lumsden Hare, Irish actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess), dies at 89
- 1969 Clarence Hennecke, American actor (The Strong Man, Murder by Television, Keystone Kops), dies at 74
- 1976 Anissa Jones, American child actress (Family Affair - "Buffy"), dies of multiple drug intoxication at 18
- 1978 Robert Shaw, British actor (The Sting; Jaws; The Deep), novelist (The Sun Doctor), and playwright (The Man in the Glass Booth), dies of a heart attack at 51
- 1983 Jan Clayton, American actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
- 1985 Ruth Gordon, American actress (Rosemary's Baby, The Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
- 1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
- 1988 Hazel Dawn [Henrietta Tout], American stage actress, singer, and violinist (The Pink Lady; The Debutante), and silent film actress (My Lady Incog), dies at 98
- 1991 Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies
- 1993 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80
- 2005 Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
- 2007 Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American Academy Award-winning stage and screen singer and actress (Sayonara; Flower Drum Song; Courtship of Eddie's Father - "Mrs. Livingston"), dies of cancer at 78
- 2010 William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University
- 2014 Bill Kerr, South African-born Australian actor (Hancock's Half Hour), dies at 92
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