- Jan 1 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82
Alan Hale Jr. (1921-1990)
Jan 2 American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island), dies of cancer at 68
- Jan 3 Ken Hill, American actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies at 49
- Jan 5 Arthur Kennedy, American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor (Death of a Salesman; Fantastic Voyage; Peyton Place; Some Came Running),dies of complications from thyroid cancer at 75
- Jan 5 Bart LaRue, American character actor, dies of a heart attack at 57
- Jan 6 Hans Jaray, Austrian actor (Lydia, Fedora) and playwright, dies at 83
- Jan 6 Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
- Jan 8 Terry-Thomas [Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens], English comedian and actor (I'm All Right Jack, Private's Progress), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
- Jan 10 Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
- Jan 10 Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
- Jan 11 Kittens Reichert [Catherine Alma Reichert], American silent screen child actor [House of Cards, Les Misérables], dies at 79
- Jan 11 Mary Jane Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies at 74
- Jan 14 David Arkin, American actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), takes his own life at 49
- Jan 15 Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Professionals, The Great Escape), dies after a short illness at 66
- Jan 18 Russell "Rusty "Hamer, American actor (Make Room for Daddy - "Rusty"), takes his own life at 52
- Jan 19 (Alberto) Semprini, British pianist and radio broadcaster (BBC's Semprini Serenade), dies at 81
- Jan 20 Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82
- Jan 24 Madge Bellamy, American actress, dies of heart failure at 90
- Jan 25 Alexander Lockwood, American actor (Duel), dies at 87
Ava Gardner (1922-1990)
Jan 25 American actress (Barefoot Contessa, On the Beach), dies of pneumonia at 67
Whipper Billy Watson (1917-1990)
Feb 4 Canadian professional wrestler, dies at 74
- Feb 6 Jane Novak, American silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94
- Feb 6 John Merivale, Canadian-British actor (Caltiki), dies at 72
- Feb 13 Ken Lynch, American actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
- Feb 14 Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66
- Feb 15 Henry Brandon [Heinrich von Kleinbach], German-American character actor (The Searchers; Assault on Precinct 13; Drums of Fu Manchu), dies of a heart attack at 77
- Feb 15 Jack Fletcher, American actor (Calucci's Department, Once Upon a Mattress), dies of a heart attack at 68
- Feb 17 Erik Rhodes [Ernest Sharpe], American actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz), dies of pneumonia at 84
- Feb 17 Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies at 39
- Feb 18 Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
- Feb 22 Stephen Burns, American actor (Casey's Shadow), dies from AIDS complications at 35
- Feb 26 Scott Jarvis, American theatrical actor and singer (1776; Here's Where I Belong), dies of AIDS at 48
- Feb 28 Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
- Mar 5 Gary Merrill, American actor (Young Dr. Kildare (TV series); All About Eve), dies of a lung cancer at 74
Tom Harmon (1919-1990)
Mar 15 American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1940, Michigan; LA Rams) and broadcaster (CBS 1950-62), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Mar 17 Capucine [Germaine Lefebvre], French actress and fashion model (Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), commits suicide at 62
- Mar 18 Robin Harris, American comedian and actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies of a heart attack at 36
- Mar 20 Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter, dies at 82
- Mar 23 René Enriquez, Nicaraguan-American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Ray Calletano"), dies of complications from AIDS at 56
- Mar 24 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
- Mar 24 Ray Goulding, American comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
- Mar 26 International Chrysis, American Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
- Mar 28 Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
- Apr 2 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
- Apr 3 Katharine Balfour, American actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69
- Apr 8 Doreen Sloane, English actress (Coronation Street), dies of cancer at 56
- Apr 8 Jose De Vega, American actor dies of AIDS at 56
- Apr 11 Barbara Miller, British stage and screen actress (Blackadder), dies of a brain tumor at 71
- Apr 13 Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), dies at 97
- Apr 13 Ronald Ibbs, Irish actor (No Hiding Place, The Saint), dies at 74
- Apr 15 Henry Kendrick, American actor (Raising Arizona), dies at 56
- Apr 18 Gory Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler, dies at 69
- Apr 18 Robert D. Webb, American director and actor (Love Me Tender; The Jackals), dies at 87
- Apr 20 Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (Star Wars, Eye of the Needle), dies at 78
- Apr 22 Albert Salmi, American stage and screen character actor (Caddyshack; The Brothers Karamazov; Bus Stop), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
- Apr 22 Bertil Unger, Swedish actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies at 69
- Apr 23 Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
- Apr 23 Paulette Goddard, American actress (Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Hazard), dies at 79
- Apr 24 Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
- Apr 25 Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist Go!; The Other Side of 'Round Midnight), and actor ('Round Midnight), dies of kidney failure at 67
- May 1 Sunset Carson [Michael Harrison] American western actor (Cat of Rockies, El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 69
- May 2 David Rappaport, American 3'11' actor (Wizard; LA Law), shoots himself at 38
- May 6 Charles Farrell, American actor (7th Heaven, My Little Margie), dies at 89
- May 7 Berta Waterstradt, German writer and actress, dies at 82
- May 7 Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
- May 9 Pauline Frederick, American journalist and author (NBC), dies at 84
- May 10 Susan Oliver [Charlotte Gercke], American stage and screen actress (Peyton Place - "Ann"; Star Trek - The Cage), television director, and airplane pilot, dies of lung cancer at 58
- May 14 Franklyn Seales, West Indian-American stage and screen actor (The Onion Field; Silver Spoons - "Dexter"), dies of AIDS at 37
Jim Henson (1936-1990)
May 16 American puppeteer, artist, screenwriter and filmmaker, and creator of 'the Muppets" (Sesame Street; The Muppet Show), dies of toxic shock syndrome caused by pneumonia at 53
Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)
May 16 American vaudeville, stage, and screen dancer, singer ("The Candy Man"), actor (Ocean's 11), and Rat Pack member, dies of throat cancer at 64
- May 18 Jill Ireland, English actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at 54
- May 21 Max Wall [Lorimer], British music hall, screen, and stage comic and actor (Professor Wallofski), dies of head injuries from a fall at 82
- May 22 Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies
- May 25 Victor "Vic" Tayback, American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore "), dies of a heart attack at 60
- May 28 Joseph Hardy, American character actor (Husbands; The Clock), dies at 71
- Jun 1 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
- Jun 2 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76
- Jun 2 Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol), dies
- Jun 3 Tom Brown, American actor (Buck Privates Come Home, In Old Chicago), dies from cancer at 77
- Jun 4 Jack Gilford, American comedic actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), dies at 81 of stomach cancer
- Jun 7 Barbara Baxley, American stage and screen actress and singer (Norma Rae; Nashville; Countdown), dies of a heart attack at 67
- Jun 15 Leonard Sachs, British actor (The Good Old Days; John Wesley), dies of kidney failure at 80
- Jun 20 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
- Jul 1 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
- Jul 4 Ludi Claire, American actress, dies at 70
- Jul 6 Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
- Jul 8 Howard Duff, American actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing), dies of a heart attack at 76
- Jul 11 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift), dies at 67
- Jul 13 Lois Moran Young, American actress (Stella Dallas) dies of cancer at 81
- Jul 14 Dallas Alinder, American actor, dies at 58
- Jul 14 Philip Leacock, English director and producer, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
- Jul 15 Alison Leggatt, British character actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86
- Jul 15 Margaret Lockwood, British actress (Cast a Dark Shadow, The Lady Vanishes), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 73
- Jul 17 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
- Jul 19 Eddie Quillan, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Julia, Hell Town), dies of cancer at 83
- Jul 19 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
- Jul 19 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
- Jul 20 Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
- Jul 21 Sacha Piteoff, Swiss-French actor and stage director, dies of heart failure at 70
- Jul 21 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
- Jul 22 Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
- Jul 23 Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
- Jul 27 Elizabeth Allan, English actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies at 80
- Jul 27 Nick Pippins, American actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
- Jul 28 Jill Esmond, English actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82
- Jul 28 Maurice Braddell, English actor (Things to Come), dies at 89
- Aug 2 Edwin Richfield, British actor (Interpol Calling, The Avengers), dies at 68
- Aug 6 Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
- Aug 6 Gordon Metcalfe, American actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
- Aug 7 Eva Sully Block, American vaudeville actress (Kid Millions), dies of heart failure at 88
- Aug 9 Dorothy Appleby, American actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies at 84
- Aug 12 Dorothy Mackaill, British-American actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
- Aug 12 Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
- Aug 13 Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
- Aug 15 Nina Bara [Frances Bauer], Argentinian actress (Missile to the Moon, Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 70
- Aug 16 Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- Aug 17 Pearl Bailey, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress, singer and dancer (Hello, Dolly!), dies of a heart attack at 72
- Aug 17 Roderick Cook, English actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58
- Aug 18 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor (Huisvuil, Het glas water), dies at 64
- Aug 22 Merlin Marston, American actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 46
- Aug 27 Raymond St Jacques, American actor, director and producer, who was the 1st African-American to hold a regular role in a western series (Simon Blake in "Rawhide"), dies of cancer at 60
Irene Dunne (1898-1990)
Sep 4 American actress (Cimarron, Theodora Goes Wild), dies of heart failure at 91
- Sep 5 Beppo Brem, German actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
- Sep 11 Ben Frank, American actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Sep 12 Athene Seyler, English actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
- Sep 20 Jackie Moran, American actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
- Sep 24 Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
- Sep 27 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, Russian-Soviet composer of popular songs and film music ("Katyusha"), dies at 87
- Oct 4 Avis Bunnage, British actress (Rising Damp, Coronation Street), dies at 67
- Oct 4 Jill Bennett, British actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle), overdoses at 58
- Oct 9 Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of a heart attack at 83
- Oct 10 Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
- Oct 11 Douglas Edwards, American newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI), dies of cancer at 73
- Oct 11 Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56
- Oct 12 Max Tailleur, Dutch adjudant to Prince Bernhard and Jewish humorist, dies at 81
- Oct 13 Hans Freudenthal, German-Dutch mathematician and director (OW&OC), dies at 85
- Oct 15 Delphine Seyrig, French actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages), dies of lung disease at 58
- Oct 20 Joel McCrea, American actor (Foreign Correspondent, Sullivan's Travels), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
- Oct 26 William Samuel Paley, American president and CEO of CBS (1928-90), dies of a heart attack at 89
- Oct 27 Jacques Demy, French film director and screenwriter (Lola; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Donkey Skin), dies of AIDS at 59
- Oct 27 Ugo Tognazzi, Italian comedy actor, director and screenwriter (La Cage Aux Folles, The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 68
- Oct 30 Harry Lauter, American actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Waterfront), dies of heart failure at 76
Mary Martin (1913-1990)
Nov 3 American actress (Peter Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom, dies of cancer at 76
- Nov 3 Sashadhar Mukherjee, Indian film producer (Jagrit), dies at 81
- Nov 3 Valerie French, British actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia at 62
- Nov 5 Herbert Berghof, Austrian actor (Belarus File, Harry and Tonto, Target), dies of heart failure at 81
- Nov 6 Will Kuluva, American actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
- Nov 7 Josephine Wilson, British actress (The Lady Vanishes, We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
- Nov 8 Grampy Davis, American actor, dies of a heart attack at 87
- Nov 10 Ronnie Dyson, American stage actor (Hair - "Aquarius"; Salvation), and soul singer ("(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?"; "I Don't Wanna Cry"), dies of heart failure at 40
- Nov 11 Alexis Minotis [Alexandros Minotakis], Greek actor (The Merchant of Venice; King Lear), dies at 90
- Nov 11 Lisa Kirk, American Broadway singer and actress (Kiss Me Kate), dies of lung cancer at 65
- Nov 12 Dave Willock, American actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81
- Nov 12 Eve Arden [Eunice Quedens], American stage and screen actress (Stage Door; Our Miss Brooks; The Mothers-In-Law; Grease), dies at 82
- Nov 15 Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
- Nov 21 Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
- Nov 27 David White, American actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Nov 28 Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31
- Dec 1 Robert Gordon, American child actor (billed as "Bobby" - The Jazz Singer; Mountains of Manhattan), and director (The Joe Louis Story), dies at 77
- Dec 2 Robert Cummings, American actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder), dies of kidney failure at 80
- Dec 3 Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59
- Dec 4 Edward Binns, American actor (12 Angry Men; Fail-Safe), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Dec 7 Horst Bienek, German writer and director (The First Polka), dies at 60
- Dec 7 Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (Mon oncle Antoine), dies at 67
- Dec 7 Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
- Dec 8 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
- Dec 9 Mike Mazurki, Austrian-American actor and professional wrestler (Some Like It Hot, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World), dies at 82
- Dec 14 Hope Sansberry, American actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
- Dec 15 Betty Warren, British actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies at 83
- Dec 15 Jean Paige, American silent film actress (Capt Blood; Black Beauty), dies at 95
- Dec 17 Don Draper, American actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
- Dec 17 Mieke Verstraete [Maria Augustina De Graef], Belgian-Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled), dies at 79
- Dec 18 Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87
- Dec 19 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
- Dec 27 Helene Stanley, American actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd),and live-action model for Disney animators (Cinderealla; Sleeping Beauty), dies at 61
- Dec 28 Kiel Martin, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Det. LaRue"), dies of cancer at 46
- Dec 31 Dalton Cathey, American actor dies of AIDS at 44
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