- Jan 18 Jack Holt, American golddigger and actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone), dies from a heart attack at 62
- Feb 21 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje), dies at 63
- Mar 6 Ivor Novello [David Ivor Davies], Welsh composer, writer and actor (Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Truth Game), dies at 58
- Mar 31 Ralph Forbes [Taylor], British screen and stage actor (Romeo and Juliet; Piccadilly Jim; Daniel Boone), dies at 46
- Apr 4 Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer, dies at 69
- Apr 5 Edward Rigby, British actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent), dies at 72
- Apr 22 Stanley Ridges, British-born actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies at 59
- Apr 29 Jules Verstraete [Julien Gustave de Graef], Flemish actor (rubber, The Three Wishes), dies at 67
- May 5 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
Warner Baxter (1889-1951)
May 7 American actor (In Old Arizona; Cisco Kid), dies at 62
- May 9 Marie Ault [Mary Cragg], English actress (The Lodger), dies at 80
Fanny Brice (1891-1951)
May 29 American singing comedian (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 59
- Jun 6 Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
- Jul 9 Harry Heilmann, American Baseball HOF outfielder (4 × AL batting champion, Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster (WXYZ), dies from lung cancer at 56
- Jul 23 Robert Flaherty, American filmmaker and the father of documentary film (Nanook of North), dies at 67
- Aug 16 Louis Jouvet, French actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies from a heart attack at 63
- Aug 28 Robert Walker, American actor and writer (Strangers on a Train, Bataan, Madame Curie), dies from an adverse reaction to prescription drugs at 32
- Sep 1 Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, dies at 38
- Sep 7 María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
- Sep 9 Gibson Gowland, British actor (Greed, Blind Husbands, The Phantom of the Opera), dies at 74
- Sep 17 Gelett Burgess, American humorist and author (The Purple Cow), dies at 85
- Sep 29 Bradley Barker, American silent actor and film director, dies at 68
- Oct 12 Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!), dies at 70
- Nov 18 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld's Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), dies at 66
- Dec 6 J Edward Bromberg, Hungarian actor (The Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags), dies from a heart attack at 47
- Dec 14 Coretté Alefred [Hardy], American-Russian-Soviet jazz, spiritual and pop lyrical and dramatic soprano, dancer, and actress, dies at 70
- Dec 19 Barton Yarborough, American radio and screen actor (One Man's Family; Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 51
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