- 1930 William Courtleigh, Canadian actor (The Birth of Character, Ashes, The Nightingale), dies at 63
- 1957 Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66
- 1974 Bob Custer [Raymond Glenn], American silent and sound screen actor (The Fighting Hombre; The Law of the Wild), dies of a heart attack at 76
- 1978 Bob de Lange [Jacob Bernard de Lange], Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62
Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)
American composer, singer ("In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"; "Stardust"; "Two Sleepy People"), dies at 82
- 1987 Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
- 1988 Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid & Nancy), dies
- 1988 Hal Ashby, American film director (The Last Detail; Shampoo; Being There), dies of pancreatic cancer at 59
- 1990 Helene Stanley, American actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd),and live-action model for Disney animators (Cinderealla; Sleeping Beauty), dies at 61
- 1991 John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49
- 1992 Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies at 75
- 1995 Jeremy John Beadle, British critic, writer and broadcaster, dies of AIDS at 39
- 1995 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54
- 2002 George Roy Hill, American Academy Award-winning film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; The Sting; Slap Shot; A Little Romance; The World According to Garp), dies from complications of Parkinson's disease at 81
- 2003 Alan Bates, British actor (Zorba the Greek; An Unmarried Woman; The Rose), dies of pancreatic cancer at 69
- 2006 Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley and Chairman of the Board of Governors of BBC (1986-96), dies at 83
- 2007 Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
- 2012 Harry Carey Jr, American actor (Back to the Future Part III, Gremlins), dies from natural causes at 91
- 2015 Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer and director, dies at 93
Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)
American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), dies at 60 four days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles
- 2019 (Beryl) "Jack" Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter (Merv Griffin), singer (Schoolhouse Rock), and actor (Run Buddy Run), dies at 88
- 2019 Don Imus, American radio talk show host (WNBC), dies from complications of lung disease at 79
- 2021 April Ashley, English model and one of the earliest British people known to have had sex reassignment surgery, dies at 86
- 2023 Lee Sun-kyun. South Korean actor (Parasite, Pasta; Paju), dies of apparent suicide at 48
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