- 1956 Holmes Herbert, British actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Kiss), dies at 74
- 1963 "Gorgeous George" Wagner, American wrestler, dies of a heart attack at 48
- 1971 Robert Lowery [Hank], American stage and screen actor (Batman and Robin (1949); Circus Boy - "Big Tim"; The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond), dies of heart failure at 58
Jack Benny (1894-1974)
American comedian (The Jack Benny Program), dies of pancreatic cancer at 80
- 1977 Howard Hawks, American director and producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface, The Big Sleep), dies at 81
- 1981 Savithri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
- 1983 Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
- 1985 Harold P. Warren, American film director (Manos: The Hands of Fate), dies at 62
- 1985 Jackie Ormes, African-American cartoonist (Torchy Brown), dies at 74
- 1986 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84
- 1986 Leslie Dwyer, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!), dies at 80
- 1988 Cynthia Stone, American actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers), dies at 62
- 1988 John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90
- 1989 Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies
- 1992 Constance Carpenter, English-American actress (2 Worlds), dies of stroke at 87
- 1993 Jeff Morrow [Leslie Irving Morrow], American actor (Robe, Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising), dies at 86
- 1994 Robert Emhardt, American actor (Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers), dies at 80
- 1994 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61
- 2000 Jason Robards, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday), dies at 78
- 2000 Leo Gordon, American actor (Maverick, Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War), dies of cardiac failure at 78
- 2001 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II), dies at 72
- 2005 Vincent Schiavelli, American actor, dies of cancer at 57
- 2008 Gösta Krantz, Swedish actor (b. 1925)
- 2012 Gerry Anderson, English television producer (Thunderbirds; Space:1999), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 83
- 2016 George S. Irving [Shelasky], American broadway singer and actor (Dumplings), dies at 94
- 2018 Sono Osato, American Japanese ballet dancer and actress, dies at 99
- 2023 Tommy Smothers, American comedian and folk singer (The Smothers Brothers Show; Serial), dies of lung cancer at 86 [1]
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