- Jan 2 "Mean" Gene Okerlund, American pro wrestling interviewer, announcer and television host (WWF, WCW), dies of kidney failure at 76
- Jan 2 Bob Einstein, American comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne), dies of leukemia at 76
- Jan 15 Carol Channing, American comic actress, and singer (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Hello Dolly), dies at 97
- Jan 17 Windsor Davies, British actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum), dies at 88
- Jan 20 Muriel Pavlow, British actress (Murder, She Said, Reach for the Sky), dies at 97
- Jan 21 Kaye Ballard, American stage and screen actress, comedienne, and singer (Mothers-in-Law - "Kaye"), dies at 93
- Jan 21 Russell Baker, American columnist, author and humorist (NY Times), dies at 93
- Jan 23 Jonas Mekas, American avant garde filmmaker and film critic, dies at 96
- Jan 26 Michel Legrand, French composer, film score arranger and jazz musician (Summer of '42; "Windmills of Your Mind"), dies at 86
- Feb 1 Clive Swift, British stage, wireless, and screen actor (Frenzy; A Passage to India; Keeping Up Appearances), dies at 82
- Feb 3 Carmen Duncan, Australian actress (Another World), dies at 76
Albert Finney (1936-2019)
Feb 7 English actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano), dies at 82
- Feb 10 Jan-Michael Vincent, actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster & Billie), dies of cardiac arrest at 74
- Feb 18 Bob Van Der Veken, Belgian actor (Alle maten), dies at 90
- Feb 21 Antonia Rey [Francesch], Cuban-born American actress (True Colors, Wise Guys), dies at 92
- Feb 21 Peter Tork [Thorkelson], American rock and folk musician and actor (The Monkees), dies from complications of adenoid cystic carcinoma at 77
- Feb 21 Stanley Donen, American film director and producer (Singin' in the Rain, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees), dies at 94
- Feb 23 Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss), dies at 89
- Feb 27 Nathaniel Taylor, American actor (Rollo-Sanford & Sons), dies at 80
- Feb 28 André Previn [Andreas Priwin], German-American conductor (London Symphony, 1968-79; Pittsburgh Symphony, 1975-85), film score composer (My Fair Lady), and jazz pianist, dies at 89-ish
- Mar 1 Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter (This Day Tonight), dies at 76
- Mar 4 King Kong Bundy [Christopher Pallies], American pro wrestler (WWF), dies at 61
Luke Perry (1966-2019)
Mar 4 American actor (Beverly Hills 90210, Riverdale), dies after a stroke at 52
- Mar 9 Vladimir Etush, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the USSR, dies at 96
- Mar 16 Richard Erdman, American actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes), dies at 93
- Mar 25 Cal Ramsey, American basketball broadcaster, small forward (NY Knicks), dies of cardiac arrest at 81
- Apr 7 Seymour Cassel, American actor (Faces, Plain Clothes, Valentino), dies at 84
- Apr 11 Monkey Punch [Kazuhiko Kato], Japanese manga cartoonist (Lupin III), dies of pneumonia at 81
- Apr 12 Georgia Engel, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1972-77 - "Georgette"; Hot In Cleveland, 2011-15 -"Mamie-Sue"), dies at 70
- Apr 14 Birgitta "Bibi" Andersson, Swedish actress (Persona, Wild Strawberries), dies at 83
- Apr 16 Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (The Party, Sierra Sue), dies at 101
- Apr 18 Mark Medoff, American playwright, director, actor and professor (Children of a Lesser God), dies at 79
- Apr 24 Dick Rivers [Hervé Forneri], French rock and roll singer and actor, dies from cancer on his 74th birthday
- Apr 29 John Singleton, American director and screenwriter (Boyz in the Hood), dies of a stroke at 51
- Apr 30 Peter Mayhew, British American actor (Chewbacca in Star Wars), dies at 74
- May 8 Jim Fowler, American naturalist, zoologist and Emmy Award-winning TV presenter (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies of heart disease at 89
- May 9 Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer (The Freddie Starr Showcase), dies at 76
- May 11 Harold Lederman, American boxing judge & analyst (HBO), dies of cancer at 79
- May 12 Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu), dies at 95
Doris Day (1922-2019)
May 13 American singer ("Sentimental Journey; "Que Sera, Sera"), actress known as the "girl next door" (Pillow Talk; The Man Who Knew Too Much), and animal rights activist, dies of pneumonia at 97
- May 14 (Thomas) "Tim" Conway, American Emmy Award-winning comic actor and screenwriter (McHale's Navy; The Carol Burnett Show, 1975-78; The Apple Dumpling Gang), dies from complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus at 85
- May 20 Andrew Hall, English actor (Butterflies - "Russell"), and theater director, dies of cancer at 65
- May 28 Andre Asriel, Austrian-German classical and film score composer, dies at 97
Frank Lucas (1930-2019)
May 30 American drug kingpin (fictionalised in 2007 film "American Gangster"), dies at 88
- Jun 3 Ruma Guha Thakurta, Indian singer, actress, and founder of Calcutta Youth Choir, dies at 84
- Jun 5 Robert Earle, American TV host (GE College Bowl), dies at 93
- Jun 10 Girish Karnad, Indian playwright and filmmaker (Tuglaq), dies at 81
- Jun 10 Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer (Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy), dies of cancer at 76
- Jun 12 Sylvia Miles, American actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely), dies at 94
- Jun 21 William Simons, Welsh actor (Heartbeat - "PC Alf Ventress"), dies at 78
- Jun 24 Billy Drago, American character actor, specializing in roles as a villain (Pale Rider; The Untouchables), dies from stroke complications at 73
- Jun 26 Max Wright, American character actor (Buffalo Bill; Alf; Misfits of Science), dies of lymphoma at 75
- Jul 2 Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (Desperate Housewives - "Ida"; General Hospital), dies at 90
- Jul 3 Arte Johnson, American comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 90
- Jul 5 John McCririck, English horse racing broadcaster, dies at 79
- Jul 5 Ugo Gregoretti, Italian director and actor (Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty), dies at 88
- Jul 6 Cameron Boyce, American actor (Mirrors, Jessie), dies from an epileptic seizure at 20
- Jul 9 Rip Torn [Elmore Rual Torn Jr], American actor, voice artist and comedian (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show), dies at 88
Jim Bouton (1939-2019)
Jul 10 American baseball pitcher, 1962-70 and 1978 (New York Yankees and 3 other teams; All-Star, 1969), author ("Ball Four"), and broadcaster, dies of cerebral amyloid angiopathy at 80
- Jul 10 Valentina Cortesa, Italian actress (Day for Night, Kidnap Syndicate), dies at 96
- Jul 18 David Hedison, American actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea), dies at 92
- Jul 19 Jeremy Kemp, British actor (The Winds of War; The Blue Max), dies at 84 [1]
- Jul 19 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend), dies at 75
- Jul 26 Bryan Magee, British philosopher, politician (Member of Parliament, 1974-83), writer (Modern British Philosophy), and broadcaster (Thinking Aloud), dies at 89
- Jul 26 Russi Taylor, American voice actress (6th Minnie Mouse, 1986-2019), dies at 75
- Jul 30 Nick Buoniconti, American NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins) and sportscaster (NBC), dies at 78
- Aug 1 [Donn Alan] DA Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (Don't Look Back), dies at 94
- Aug 3 Joe Longthorne, English singer, impressionist, and television presenter, dies of cancer at 64
- Aug 16 Anna Quayle, British actress (A Hard Day's Night; Stop the World - I Want to Get Off), dies at 86
- Aug 16 Peter Fonda, American actor (Easy Rider, Ulee's Gold), dies at 79
- Aug 18 Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (ABC, CBS), dies of natural causes at 95
- Aug 23 Sheila Steafel, South African British actress (The Frost Report), dies at 84
- Aug 27 Jessi Combs, American auto racer, television personality (women’s land speed class record [4 wheels] 2013, 16), dies in jet-powered high-speed race car crash at 39
- Aug 30 Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder, powerlifter, actor and author (Mr. Olympia 1976, 81), dies at 78
- Aug 30 Valerie Harper, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Rhoda), dies of cancer at 80
- Sep 9 Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer (The Americans), and filmmaker (Pull My Daisy; Candy Mountain), dies at 94
- Sep 15 Phyllis Newman, American Tony Award-winning actress (Subways Are for Sleeping: Coming of Age), and singer, dies of lung disease at 86
- Sep 16 Sander Vanocur, American journalist (NBC Weekend News), dies at 91 [1]
- Sep 17 Corrine "Cokie" Roberts, American journalist, pioneering newscaster (ABC; NPR; PBS), and author, dies of with metastatic breast cancer at 75
- Sep 24 Jimmy Nelson, American ventriloquist (Nestles - Farfel the Dog), dies at 90
- Sep 28 José José 'The Prince of Song' [José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz], Mexican singer and actor, dies at 71
- Oct 1 Peter Sissons, British newsreader (BBC, ITV, Question Time), dies at 77
- Oct 4 Diahann Carroll [Carol Diann Johnson] American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (No Strings; Julia; Claudine; Dynasty - "Dominique"), dies of cancer at 84
Rip Taylor (1931-2019)
Oct 6 American actor and comedian (Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show), dies at 88
Robert Evans (1930-2019)
Oct 26 American producer and actor (Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), dies at 89
- Oct 29 Barry Frank, American television sports impresario (CBS, ABC and IMG), dies of pulmonary problems at 87
- Oct 29 John Witherspoon, American actor (Friday), dies at 77
- Oct 30 Bernard Slade [Newbound], Canadian screenwriter (The Flying Nun; The Partridge Family), and playwright (Same Time, Next Year; Romantic Comedy), dies of Lewy body dementia at 89
- Oct 30 Ron Fairly, American baseball utility (MLB All Star 1973 Montreal Expos, 1977 Toronto Blue Jays; World Series 1959, 63, 65 LA Dodgers) and broadcaster (California Angels radio/television; KNBR SF Giants), dies from cancer at 81
- Oct 31 (Elizabeth) Ann Crumb, American stage and screen actress and singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 69
- Nov 2 Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor, dies at about 87
- Nov 6 Robert Freeman, English photo-journalist and graphic designer (early Beatles album art and film posters), dies of pneumonia at 82 [1]
- Nov 11 Dotty Mack, American TV personality known as the "Queen of Pantomime" (The Paul Dixon Show; The Dotty Mack Show), dies at 90
- Nov 20 Michael J Pollard [Pollack], American character actor (Bonnie & Clyde; Roxanne), dies from cardiac arrest at 80
- Nov 21 Andrée Lachapelle, French-Canadian stage and screen actress (The Last Escape), dies via assisted suicide while suffering from cancer at 88
- Nov 21 Gahan Wilson, American author and cartoonist known as the "Michelangelo of the Macabre", dies at 89 [1]
- Nov 24 Clive James, Australian television presenter, poet and critic, dies at 80
- Dec 1 Shelley Morrison, American actress (General Hospital, Will & Grace), dies at 83
- Dec 8 Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street (1969-2018), dies at 85
- Dec 8 Rene Auberjonois, American actor and voice artist (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, God of War), dies of lung cancer at 79
- Dec 11 David Bellamy, English botanist and TV presenter, dies at 86
- Dec 12 Danny Aiello, American stage and screen actor (Moonstruck; Do The Right Thing; Broadway Danny Rose), and singer dies at 86
- Dec 13 Yasuhiro Takai, Japanese baseball first baseman, designated hitter and broadcaster (NPB record 27 career pinch-hit home runs; Hankyu Braves), dies of kidney failure at 74
- Dec 14 Anna Karina, Danish French 'New Wave' actress (Alphaville), dies at 79
- Dec 14 Randy Colley (Moondog Rex), American pro wrestler (WWF Tag Team champion 1981), dies after undergoing amputation of his right leg at 69
- Dec 15 Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer ("Mon Pays"), and actress (Act of the Heart), dies at 91
- Dec 22 Tony Britton, English actor (The Day of the Jackal), dies at 95
- Dec 27 (Beryl) "Jack" Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter (Merv Griffin), singer (Schoolhouse Rock), and actor (Run Buddy Run), dies at 88
- Dec 27 Don Imus, American radio talk show host (WNBC), dies from complications of lung disease at 79
- Dec 28 Fred Graham, American newscaster and journalist (CBS News, Court TV), dies of Parkinson's disease at 88
- Dec 30 Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress ("Chalk Garden"; "A Voyage Round My Father"), dies at 98 [1]
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