1803 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (Iphigénie en Aulide), dies at 90
1936 Max Schreck, German stage, silent and sound screen (Nosferatu - "Count Orlok"), dies of a heart attack at 56
1958 Thurston Hall, American actor (Roaming Lady; In Society), dies at 75
1962 Halliwell Hobbes, British actor (Gaslight, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 84
1965 Fred Immler, German actor (Zapata's Gang, Madame DuBarry), dies at 85
1968 Anthony Asquith, British film director (Court Martial), dies at 65
1969 Jack Ingram, American actor (Law of the West), and stuntman, dies of a heart attack at 66
1973 Maurice Dallimore, British actor (The Collector, Me and My Girl), dies from Laennec's cirrhosis at 60
1975 Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88
1975 Robert Strauss, American actor (Stalag 17, The Seven Year Itch), dies from a stroke at 61
1983 Ray Vitte, American actor (Car Wash; Doc - "Woody"; Quest - "Cody"), dies in scuffle with police at 33
1992 Dick York, American actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind), dies of emphysema at 63
1992 Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66
1996 Michael Wooller, British TV and film producer (Omnibus), dies at 69
1996 Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese classical music and film score composer (November Steps; Ran), dies of pneumonia while being treated for bladder cancer at 65
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