- 1798 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62
- 1939 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57
- 1951 Barton Yarborough, American radio and screen actor (One Man's Family; Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 51
- 1984 Michel Magne, French experimental music and film score composer (Gigot; Barbarella), and recording studio owner (Château d'Hérouville). takes his own life at 54
- 1990 Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
- 1991 Paul Maxwell, Canadian actor (Aliens, City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
- 1996 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (8½; La Dolce Vita; Dark Eyes; The Pizza Triangle), dies of pancreatic cancer at 72
- 1996 Ronald Howard, British actor (Naked Edge; Come September; Murder She Said), dies at 78
- 1999 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (James Bond films, 1963-99), WWII army veteran and POW, dies in a car crash at 85
- 2003 Hope Lange, American actress (Peyton Place, The Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies at 70
- 2003 Lester "Les" Tremayne, British radio, film and television actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds), dies of heart failure at 90
- 2009 Kim Peek, American prodigious savant and inspiration for the 1988 film Rain Man, dies of a heart attack at 58
- 2015 Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (Rope, Waterfront), dies at 95
- 2020 Rosalind Knight, British stage and screen actress (Friday Night Dinner - "Horrible Grandma"), dies at 87
Sally Ann Howes (1930-2021)
British-American stage and screen actress and singer (Brigadoon; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - "Truly Scrumptious"), dies at 91
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