Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
Jan 23 American stage and screen bass-baritone singer ("Old Man River"), actor, and civil rights activist, dies of stroke complications in Philadelphia at 77
- Jan 29 Michael Gwynn, English actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Feb 2 Johan Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
- Feb 5 Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (Drum, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp), dies from bowel cancer at 69
- Feb 6 Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker (Titash Ekti Nadir Naam), dies at 50
- Feb 11 Charles "Charlie" Naughton, Scottish actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89
- Feb 11 Lee J. Cobb [Leo Jacoby], American actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies from a heart attack at 64
- Feb 12 Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
- Feb 13 Alice "Lily" Pons, French-American coloratura soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera, 1931-60) and actress (That Girl From Paris), dies of pancreatic cancer at 77
- Feb 17 Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Le Plaisir, Every Man is My Enemy), dies from heart failure at 65
- Feb 18 Eddie Dowling, American actor (Rainbow Man, Anywhere USA), dies at 80
- Feb 18 Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88
- Feb 22 Angela Baddeley, English actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71
- Feb 23 John Forest "Fuzzy" Knight, American stage and screen actor, noted as sidekick in Westerns (Oklahoma Annie; Cowboy & the Lady), dies at 74
- Feb 24 Julian Rivero, American actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express), dies at 85
- Feb 26 Frieda Inescort, Scottish-American stage and screen actress (Hay Fever; Pride and Prejudice (1940)), dies from complications of multiple sclerosis at 74
- Mar 6 Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), dies of Paget's disease of bone at 68
- Mar 13 Willy Alfredo [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/ and poet, dies at 77
- Mar 14 Alberta Franklin, American silent screen actress, dies at 79
- Mar 14 Busby Berkeley [Enos], American film choreographer (42nd Street) and director (Strike Up The Band: They Made Me A Criminal), dies at 80
- Mar 19 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (Backbiters, Napoleon), dies at 86
- Mar 20 Michael Goodliffe, British actor (A Night to Remember, Cromwell, 5th Day of Peace), commits suicide at 61
- Mar 21 Spider Sabich, American alpine skier (Olympics 1968), dies when shot by actress Claudine Longet at 31
- Mar 24 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
- Mar 28 Richard Arlen, American actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
- Mar 30 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, Dutch actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
- Apr 2 Ray Teal, American actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, Bonanza), dies at 74
Howard Hughes (1905-1976)
Apr 5 American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator, dies at 72
- Apr 11 Liam Dunn, American actor, dies at 59
- Apr 12 Paul Ford, American actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74
- Apr 14 Maudie Prickett [Doyle], American character actress (Harvey; Hazel - "Rosie"), dies of renal failure at 61
- Apr 23 James Flavin, American actor (King Kong, In Cold Blood, Man With a Camera), dies from a ruptured aorta at 69
- Apr 23 Ronald Radd, British actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
- Apr 23 Shimen Ruskin, Polish actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time), dies at 69
- Apr 25 Carol Reed, English film director (Agony & Ecstasy, Oliver!), dies at 69
- Apr 25 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
- Apr 26 Allan Jackson, American newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
- Apr 26 Neil McCallum, British-Canadian actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
- Apr 26 Sid James [Solomon Joel Cohen], South African-born British character & comedy actor (Hancock's Half Hour, Carry On), dies from a heart attack at 62
- May 1 Rex O'Malley, British actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75
- May 3 David Bruce [Marden Andrew McBroom], American actor (The Mad Ghoul, Flying Tigers), dies from a heart attack at 60
- May 7 Alan Baxter, American actor (Big Town Girl,;Rags to Riches), dies at 67
- May 27 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
- Jun 2 Alan Dewitt, American actor (It's About Time), dies at 55
- Jun 5 Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
- Jun 6 Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (Divine Lady; King of Kings; Big City), dies at 85
- Jun 9 Sybil Thorndike, English actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93
- Jun 10 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American fur trader and movie producer, dies at 103
- Jun 16 Victor Lord, American fictional character on TV soap opera "One Life to Live", dies at 59
- Jun 28 Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu), dies of pneumonia at 49
- Jun 29 Leonora Summers [Lillian Hill], American vaudeville and silent film actress [Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ; Hoboken To Hollywood), dies at 78
- Jul 2 Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73
- Jul 3 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
- Jul 7 Norman Foster, American actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies at 75
- Jul 12 Ted Mack, American TV host (The Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
- Jul 19 Gene Roth [Eugene Stutenroth], American actor (She Demons, Tormented, The Spider), dies at 73
- Jul 24 Leo Shuken, American film music composer and arranger (Stagecoach; The Fabulous Dorseys; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 69
- Jul 28 Lucie Mannheim, German singer and actress (39 Steps), dies at 77
- Aug 7 Cecil Weston, South African-born actress (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 86
- Aug 10 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, American actor (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74
- Aug 17 Murvyn Vye [Marvin], American actor (Road to Bali, Bob Cummings Show), dies of natural causes at 63
- Aug 17 William Redfield, American actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage), dies of leukemia at 49
- Aug 19 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger), dies at 75
- Aug 20 Phyllis Konstam, British actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69
- Aug 26 Warner Anderson, American actor (The Bubble, Destination Moon, Peyton Place), dies at 65
- Aug 27 Mukesh [Mathur], Indian "playback singer" for Bollywood films, dies of a heart attack at 53
- Aug 28 Anissa Jones, American child actress (Family Affair - "Buffy"), dies of multiple drug intoxication at 18
- Sep 10 Dalton Trumbo, American writer and film director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
- Sep 10 Dorothy Devore, American silent film actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77
- Sep 10 George Baxter, French actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged), dies at 71
- Sep 13 Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and filmmaker (b. 1895)
- Sep 20 Johan Boskamp, Dutch opera singer and actor, dies at 85
- Sep 24 Bruno VeSota, American character actor and director (They Stand Accused, Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers), dies of a heart attack at 54
- Sep 24 Romney Brent, Mexican-American actor and writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
- Oct 4 Alexander Gray, American actor (Sally, This is Music), dies at 85
- Oct 5 Barbara Nichols, American actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly), dies of complications from organ damage at 47
- Oct 14 Edith Evans, English actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88
- Oct 31 Linda Watkins, American actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68
- Nov 1 Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungarian actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Nov 9 Billy Halop [William Halop Cohen], American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, All in the Family), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Nov 15 Jean Gabin, French actor (Moulin Rouge, La Grande Illusion), dies at 72
- Nov 21 Niles Welch, American actor (Cornered), dies at 88
- Nov 22 Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box), dies at 59
- Nov 28 (Catherine) Rosalind Russell, American stage and screen actress (His Girl Friday; Auntie Mame; Gypsy), dies of breast cancer at 69
- Nov 29 Godfrey Cambridge, American actor (Cotton comes to Harlem), dies of a heart attack at 43
- Nov 29 Judith Lowry, American actress (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), dies at 86
- Nov 30 Fritz Rasp, German actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
- Dec 2 William Tannen, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
- Dec 3 Mary Nash, actress (Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91
- Dec 5 Benjamin Thackston "Tack" Knight, American cartoonist ("Little Folks"), dies at 81
- Dec 9 Nino Martini, Italian actor (The Gay Desperado, Here's to Romance), dies from a heart attack at 71
- Dec 12 John "Jack" Cassidy, American stage and screen actor and Grammy Award-winning singer (Shangri-La; The Eiger Sanction: She Loves Me; Columbo), dies in an apartment fire at 49
- Dec 20 Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80
- Dec 23 Frank Forest [Hayek], American actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies at 80
- Dec 24 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79
- Dec 25 Frankie Darro [Frank Johnson], American actor (Radio Ranch, Wild Boys of the Road, Valley of Wanted Men), dies of a heart attack at 58
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