1943 Dora Gerson, German-Jewish actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (Caravan of Death), dies in Auschwitz concentration camp at 43
1961 Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), dies at 78
1967 James Schneider, American silent film director (A Foolish Romance) and actor (Keystone Kops shorts), dies at 85
1967 Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
1969 (Charles) Kenneth Horne, British radio comedian (Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh; Beyond Our Ken), dies of a heart attack at the podium whilst hosting an awards program at 61
1969 Wolfe Barzell, Polish-born actor (Blue Angel), dies of a heart attack at 72
1980 Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
1982 Henk Schaer [Hendricus Schaareman], Dutch actor and conductor (Majoor Barbara, Lijmen), dies at 79
1990 Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn [Dorothy Lee Perrins], American actress (Clambake; Repo Man), and burlesque queen, dies of from cervical cancer at 48
1995 Michael V. Gazzo, American playwright (A Hatful Of Rain), and actor (The Godfather Part II; Cookie; Fear City), dies of complications from a stroke at 71
1995 Nigel Finch, English TV director and film-maker (Chelsea Hotel; Vampyr; Stonewall), dies from AIDS-related illness at 45
2006 Darry Cowl, French musician and actor, dies at 80
2006 Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2007 Lee Patterson, Canadian actor (Dave-Surfside Six, Another World), dies of congestive heart failure at 77
2007 Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated filmmaker. (b. 1943)
2008 Perry Lopez, American actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4), dies at 78
2013 Reeva Steenkamp, South African model and paralegal, shot and killed by boyfriend Oscar Pistorius, at 29
2015 Alan Howard, British actor (Royal Shakespeare Company), dies at 77
2015 Pamela Cundell, British stage and screen character actress (Dad's Army - "Mrs. Fox"), dies at 95
2023 Jerry Jarrett, American pro wrestling promoter (founder Continental Wrestling Association, US Wrestling Association, NWA:TNA), dies of cancer at 80
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