- Jan 3 Pauline Beersmans [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress, dies at 70
- Jan 16 Carole Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], American actress (My Man Godfrey; To Be or Not to Be), dies in a plane crash at 33
- Jan 31 Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (Spoiling the Game, S.A.-Mann Brand), dies when his plane is shot down during WWII at 24
John Barrymore (1882-1942)
May 29 American actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies from cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure at 60
- Sep 10 Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
- Sep 28 Eva Thatcher, American actress, dies at 80
- Oct 20 May Robson, Australian born actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84
- Oct 23 Ralph Rainger [Reichenthal], American song and film composer (Thanks for the Memory; Love In Bloom), dies in a plane crash at 41
George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
Nov 5 American father of musical comedy (Phantom President; Give My Regards to Broadway), dies of cancer at 64
- Nov 9 Edna May Oliver [Nutter], American stage, silent and sound screen character actress (Little Women; Drums Along the Mohawk), dies on her 59th birthday
- Nov 11 Hector Abbas, Flemish actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
- Nov 16 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (Der Liebesexpreß, A Star Fell from Heaven), dies from a heart attack at 38
- Nov 30 Buck Jones [Charles F Gebhart], American Western actor (Just Pals, Forbidden Trails, War Horse), dies in a fire at 50
- Dec 2 Karen Jønsson née (Pedersen), Danish jazz singer, pianist, songwriter, composer, and actress, dies of pneumonia at 33
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