- 1928 Johannes "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor and husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61
- 1953 Jorge Negrete [Moreno], Mexican singer and actor (The Rebel, La madrina del diablo), dies of hepatitis at 42
- 1955 Paul Harvey, American actor (Spellbound, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73
- 1964 Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Met den helm geboren, Patriot, Idiot), dies at 70
- 1968 Fred Clark, American actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54
- 1971 Hugh Wakefield, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blithe Spirit), dies at 83
- 1974 Henry Wadsworth, American actor (The Thin Man, Applause, Fast & Loose), dies at 77
- 1974 Pietro Germi, Italian actor, writer and director (Divorce Italian Style, The Facts of Murder), dies from hepatitis at 60
- 1975 Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies
- 1976 Benjamin Thackston "Tack" Knight, American cartoonist ("Little Folks"), dies at 81
- 1983 Robert Aldrich, American director and producer (The Dirty Dozen, Last Sunset), dies at 65
- 1991 Robert Karvelas, American actor (Get Smart -"Larabee"), dies at 70
- 1995 Robert Parrish, American film director editor and actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79
Roone Arledge (1931-2002)
American sports broadcasting executive (President ABC Sports - Monday Night Football; ABC News), dies of prostate cancer at 71 [1] [2]
- 2008 Beverly Garland [Fessenden], American actress (My Three Sons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King), dies at 82
- 2008 Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, An American in Paris), dies from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome at 84
- 2009 Garfield Morgan, British actor (Odessa File, To Catch a Spy), dies at 78
- 2010 Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922)
- 2010 Don Meredith, American NFL quarterback. 1960-68 (Dallas Cowboys, 3 x Pro Bowl), broadcaster (Monday Night Football), and actor, dies of a brain hemorrhage at 72
- 2014 Manuel De Sica, Italian composer, chiefly of film scores, dies of a heart attack at 65
- 2015 Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress (Better Days Ahead, Pixote), dies of lung cancer at 72
- 2016 Jayaram Jayalalitha, Indian actress and politician, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, dies of a heart attack at 68
- 2017 Johnny Hallyday [Jean-Philippe Smet], French singer and actor known as the "Elvis Presley of France," dies from lung cancer at 74
- 2020 Peter Alliss, English golfer (Ryder Cup 1957 GB winners) and author, course designer and television presenter, commentator (BBC, ESPN, ABC Sports), dies at 89
- 2022 Kirstie Alley, American Emmy Award-winning actress (Cheers - "Rebecca"; Look Who's Talking; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), dies of colon cancer at 71 [1]
- 2023 Norman Lear, American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer (All in The Family; One Day at a Time; The Jeffersons; Maude), and film director (Cold Turkey), dies at 101 [1] [2]
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