Victor Fleming (1889-1949)
Jan 6 American film director (The Wizard of Oz; Gone With The Wind), dies at 65
- Jan 31 Henri de Vries [Hendricus Van Walterop], Dutch actor (Cleopatra, White Cargo), dies at 84
- Feb 1 Herbert Stothart, American theater (Rose-Marie) and film score composer (The Wizard of Oz; Mutiny on the Bounty; A Night at the Opera), dies at 63
- Mar 12 Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress abd wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
- Mar 17 Felix Bressart, German actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads), dies from Leukemia at 57
- Apr 6 Seymour Hicks, British actor and theatrical impresario (Scrooge), dies at 78
- Apr 13 C. V. France, British actor (The Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail), dies at 80
Wallace Beery (1886-1949)
Apr 15 American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) and actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), dies from a heart attack at 64
- Apr 18 Will Hay [William Thomson Hay], British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer, dies from a stroke at 60
- Jun 10 John T. McCutcheon, American cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931), dies at 79
- Aug 9 Harry Davenport, American actor and director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin), dies at 83
- Aug 27 Arthur Chesney [Kellaway], British stage and screen character actor (The Lodger; Chelsea Life), dies of a stroke at 68
- Sep 18 Frank Morgan [Francis Wuppermann], American silent and sound film character actor (The Wizard of Oz; The Affairs of Cellini), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Sep 19 Will Cuppy, American humorist (The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody), dies at 65
- Sep 20 Richard Dix, American actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron, The Ghost Ship), dies from a heart attack at 56
- Sep 22 Sam Wood, American communist fighter and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), dies at 66
Bill Robinson (1878-1949)
Nov 25 American actor and tap dancer (Stormy Weather; The Little Colonel), dies at 71
- Nov 27 Tom Walls, British actor and producer (A Cuckoo in the Nest, Undercover), dies at 66
- Dec 3 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian stage and film actress (The Wolf Man; King's Row), and teacher (School of Dramatic Art - New York), dies following a house fire at 73
- Dec 16 Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (Ben Hur), dies at 76
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