- 1674 Jan Zoet, Dutch actor, author, playwright and poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y), dies at 58
- 1885 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist and lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain), dies at 60
- 1947 Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born vaudeville and film singer and entertainer dies at 68
- 1954 Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56
- 1973 Isabel Randolph, American actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83
- 1978 Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
- 1978 Michael Bates, English actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper), dies at 57
- 1979 Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], Japanese-American actor (Flower Drum Song, Barney Miller), dies of esophageal cancer at 61
- 1981 Beulah Bondi, American actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88
- 1984 Jack La Rue, American actor and TV narrator (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette), dies at 81
- 1990 Kittens Reichert [Catherine Alma Reichert], American silent screen child actor [House of Cards, Les Misérables], dies at 79
- 1990 Mary Jane Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies at 74
- 1997 Duncan Wood, English TV director and producer (Hancock's Half Hour, Steptoe & Son), dies at 71
- 1997 Sheldon Leonard, American actor, producer and director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie), dies at 89
- 1998 John Wells, English actor (Casino Royale; The Bobo), screenwriter, and satirist (That Was the Week That Was), dies of cancer at 61
- 2000 Helena Carter [Helen Rickerts], American model and actress (Invaders from Mars), dies at 76
- 2001 Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
- 2002 Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian playwright and film director (Mélodie en sous-sol), dies at 81
- 2003 Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (The Naked Childhood), dies at 77
- 2003 Richard Simmons, American actor (Sergeant Preston of the Yukon), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- 2007 Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
- 2009 David Vine, British sports broadcaster (BBC Match of the Day, World Snooker C'ships, Olympics coverage), dies of a heart attack at 74
- 2011 David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 74
- 2013 Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (Swept Away; Flash Gordon: Summer Night), dies from pancreatic cancer at 71
Anita Ekberg (1931-2015)
Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita) and Miss Sweden 1950, dies at 83
- 2022 Tim Rosaforte, American golf writer (Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest) and broadcaster (USA Network, Golf Channel), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 66
- 2023 (Mildred) "Carole" Cook, American stage and screen actress (The Lucy Show; The Incredible Mr. Limpet; Sixteen Candles), dies at of heart failure at 98
- 2023 Charles Kimbrough, American stage and screen actor (Murphy Brown - "Jim"; Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 86
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