- 1938 Pearl White, American actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)
American actress (Some Like It Hot; The Seven Year Itch), found dead of an apparent self-inflicted drug overdose at 36
- 1975 John Baragrey, American actor (Creeper, The Loves of Carmen), dies of a stroke at 57
- 1978 Frank Fontaine, American comedian (Crazy Guggenheim), dies at 58
- 1980 Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright and leader (Vatican movie bureau), dies at 69
- 1981 Melvyn Douglas [Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg], American actor (Hud, Being There, Ghost Story), dies at 80
- 1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
- 1984 Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
- 1984 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
- 1984 Walter Burke, American actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
- 1987 Kenny Price, American country singer ("Walking on New Grass"; "Happy Tracks"), dies of a heart attack at 56
- 1992 Ralph Cooper, American master-of-ceremonies (creator of Amateur Night at the Apollo), actor, dancer, and choreographer, dies of cancer at 84
- 1993 Bernard Barrow, American actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving), dies at 65
- 1996 Geoff Hamilton, English gardener and journalist (BBC Gardener's World), dies of a heart attack at 59
- 1999 Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), dies from leukemia at 86
- 2001 Lorenzo Music, American writer, actor and voice actor (Rhoda - "Carlton, the doorman"; Garfield), dies at 64
- 2003 Anthony Bloom, Russian clergyman, broadcaster and writer (Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church for Great Britain and Ireland), dies at 89
- 2009 Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
- 2014 Walter Massey, Canadian stage and screen actor (Shoestring Theatre; Arthur), dies at 85
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Plane Crash
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