Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)
American actor (The Mark of Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies from a heart attack at 56
- 1946 Ben Carter, American actor (Crash Dive; Dark Alibi; Maryland), casting agent, and civil rights activist, dies from diphtheria at 36
- 1959 Russell Simpson, American actor (San Francisco, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
- 1963 Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
- 1965 Johnny Lee, American actor (Song of the South, The Amos 'n' Andy Show), dies from a heart attack at 67
- 1968 Tallulah Bankhead, American stage and film actress (Lifeboat, They Knew What They Wanted; Batman - "Black Widow"), dies of pneumonia at 65
- 1971 David Sarnoff, American radio and television pioneer (RCA, NBC), dies at 80
- 1971 Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), commits suicide at 43
- 1976 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
- 1978 Fay Compton [Virginia Compton-Mackenzie], British stage and screen actress (Hamlet; The WInter's Tale; Othello; The Haunting), dies at 84
- 1985 Anne Baxter, American actress (The Razor's Edge; All About Eve), and singer, dies of a stroke at 62
- 1987 Truman "Pinky" Tomlin, American singer and actor (Sing While You're Able, With Love and Kisses), dies from a heart attack at 80
- 1991 Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
- 1993 Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58
- 1995 Andrew Olle, broadcaster, dies at 48
- 1996 Larry Gates, American actor (Guiding Light, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Body Snatchers), dies of leukemia at 81
- 2000 George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2001 Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
- 2002 Brad Dexter [Boris Milanovich], American actor (Macao, The Magnificent Seven), dies of emphysema at 85
- 2004 Frits Helmuth, Danish actor My Son Peter; Per). dies at 78
- 2005 Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
- 2006 Annette Strøyberg [sometimes Annette Vadim], Danish actress (Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)), dies of cancer at 69
Peter Boyle (1935-2006)
American actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond), dies of multiple myeloma at 71
- 2008 (Charles) Van Johnson, American actor (in A Guy Named Joe; Brigadoon) always wore red socks, dies at 92
- 2013 Audrey Totter, American actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up, The Unsuspected), dies from a stroke at 95
- 2013 Tom Laughlin, American actor and director (Billy Jack), dies of complications from pneumonia at 82
- 2014 Norman Bridwell, American author and cartoonist (Clifford the Big Red Dog), dies at 86
- 2019 Danny Aiello, American stage and screen actor (Moonstruck; Do The Right Thing; Broadway Danny Rose), and singer dies at 86
- 2020 Ann Reinking, American dancer and actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude), dies at 71 [1]
- 2021 Vicente Fernández, Mexican Grammy Award-winning singer, known as "El Rey de la Música Ranchera" (The King of Ranchera Music), actor, and film producer, dies at 81
- 2022 Stuart Margolin, American Emmy Award-winning actor (The Rockford Files - "Angel"; Love American Style), and director, dies at 82 [1]
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