1924 Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1951 J Edward Bromberg, Hungarian actor (The Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags), dies from a heart attack at 47
1959 Len Doyle, American actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
1972 Janet Munro [Horsburgh], British actress (The Crawling Eye; Swiss Family Robinson), dies of congenital heart failure at 38
1984 Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
1987 James Dobson, American actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies at 67
1989 Frances Bavier, American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress (The Andy Griffith Show & Mayberry, RFD - "Aunt Bee"), dies of congestive heart failure at 86
1989 John Payne, American actor (The Restless Gun, Miracle on 34th Street), dies aged 77
1991 Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62
1992 Hank Worden, American actor (The Searcher, Red River), dies of natural causes at 91
1992 Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache), dies of a heart attack at 72
1993 Dominic "Don" Ameche, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), dies of prostate cancer at 85
1993 Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of a heart attack at 65
1994 Alun Owen, Welsh screenwriter and playwright (Hard Day's Night, The Rose Affair), dies at 69
1994 Gian Maria Volontè, Italian actor (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
1995 Kathleen Harrison, English actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
1997 Alan Mouncer, film director and producer, dies at 68
2000 Werner Klemperer, German-American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Judgment at Nuremberg; Hogan's Heroes - "Col. Klink"), dies of cancer at 80
2003 Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2007 Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite, dies at 24
2014 Ralph Baer, German-American engineer, creator of the first video game console (Magnavox Odyssey Home Video Game System), dies at 88 [1]
2015 Holly Woodlawn, transgender Puerto Rican actress (Warhol films), dies at 69
2015 Nicholas Smith, English actor (Are You Being Served?), dies at 81
2016 Peter Vaughan, British actor (Porridge, Game of Thrones), dies at 93
2022 Mills Lane, American boxing referee (Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II 1997; International Boxing HOF) and television personality ('Judge Mills Lane'), dies at 85
2023 Jack Hogan [Richard Roland Benson Jr], American actor ("Combat", Adam 12", "Sierra"), dies at 94
2023 Marisa Pavan, Italian actress (Solomon & Sheba; The Rose Tattoo), dies at 91
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