- 1880 Karl von Holtei, Silesian actor, playwright and author (Die Vagabunden), dies at 82
- 1929 Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton), British-American artists' model, stage actress (His Neighbor's Wife), theatrical producer, thoroughbred owner, and socialite, dies at 75
- 1947 [Hooper] Sidney Toler, American theater director, playwright, stage and screen actor (Madame X; Meeting at Midnight; Charlie Chan films, 1938-46), dies of cancer at 72
- 1954 Dziga Vertov [Denis Kaufman], Russian influential film director (Man with a Movie Camera, 3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
- 1955 S Z Sakall [Gerö Jenö], Hungarian stage and film character actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 72
- 1960 Bobby Clark, American vaudevillian, clown and actor (in comedy act with Paul McCullough), dies at 71
- 1965 Henry Kulky [Kulakowich], American actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Love Nest), dies from a heart attack at 53
- 1969 Johanna Tourniaire, Dutch actress (Potasch & Perlemoer), dies at 80
- 1971 George Shelton, American actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
- 1976 Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
- 1979 Jean Renoir, French film director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion) and actor (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
- 1980 Wally Wales [Floyd Taliaferro Alderson], American actor (Crossing Trails), dies at 84
- 1981 Jean Dixon, American actress (Joy of Living; You Only Live Once), dies at 87
- 1985 Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (Cheers - "Coach"; Family Plot; The Counterfeit Killer), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 1986 Sid Stone, American comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
- 1987 Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55
- 1997 James Cossins, English stage and screen character actor (The Anniversary; Fawlty Towers), dies of hear disease at 63
- 2000 (Jalacy) "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American blues-rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter ("I Put a Spell On You"), and actor, dies of an aneurysm at 70
- 2001 Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer, dies at 88
- 2005 Brian Kelly, American actor (Flipper, Straightaway), dies at 71
- 2007 Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (b. 1958)
- 2008 David Groh, American actor (Rhoda - "Joe"; Another Day - "Don"), dies of kidney cancer at 68
- 2008 Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (The Glenn Miller Story), dies at 100
- 2011 Elizabeth "Betty" Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 91
- 2011 Kenneth Mars, American actor (The Producers; What's Up, Doc?; Malcolm in the Middle), dies at 75
- 2011 Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), dies at 84
- 2012 David Kelly, Irish actor (Grandpa Joe-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Fawlty Towers), dies of pneumonia and lung cancer at 82
- 2012 Marty Allen, American comedian (Allen & Rossi "Hello Dere"), dies at 95
- 2012 Zina Bethune, American actress, dies from hit and run at 66
- 2014 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar, American comic actor and writer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 91
- 2015 Gary Owens [Altman], American disc jockey, TV announcer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; The Gong Show), and voice actor, dies of diabetes complications at 80
Ivan Reitman (1946-2022)
Slovak-Canadian director and producer (Stripes; Ghostbusters; Dave; Private Parts), dies at 75
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