1923 Wallace Reid, American actor, director and screenwriter referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover" (Every Inch a Man), dies from morphine addiction at 31
1951 Jack Holt, American golddigger and actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone), dies from a heart attack at 62
1952 Curly Howard [Jerome Lester Horwitz], American vaudevillian actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), dies from a stroke at 48
1954 Sydney Greenstreet, British actor (Casablanca, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1967 Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), dies at 79
1967 Harry Antrim, American actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway), dies of a heart attack at 82
1968 Bert Wheeler, American vaudevillian (Wheeler & Woolsey), and comic actor (Brave Eagle; The Nitwits; Hold 'em Jail; High Flyers; Rainmakers), dies of emphysema at 72
1968 John Ridgely, American actor (Northern Pursuit; They Died with Their Boots On; Air Force), dies from a heart ailment at 58
1971 Catherine Calvert, American actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
1975 Gertrude Olmstead, American silent film actress, dies at 77
1976 Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67
1977 Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
1978 Carl Betz, American actor (The Donna Reed Show, Love of Life), dies of lung cancer at 56
1979 Cyril Mockridge, British composer for film and television (Miracle On 34th Street; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), dies at 82
1982 Trent Lehman, American child actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), commits suicide at 20
1983 Cedric Thorpe Davie, British composer of film scores (The Green Man; St. Andrews University), and pedagogue, dies at 69
1985 Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (Hard Day's Night, Steptoe and Son), dies from cancer at 72
1986 Claire James, American actress (Jack Armstrong), dies at 65
1990 Russell "Rusty "Hamer, American actor (Make Room for Daddy - "Rusty"), takes his own life at 52
1992 John Remme, American stage and screen actor and singer, dies of AIDS at 56
1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright and director (Machine Child), dies
1996 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, also known as NTR, Indian film star (Patala Bhairavi; Mayabazar), and politician (Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (1983-89 & 1994-95), dies at of a heart attack at 72
2000 Frances Drake [Dean], American actress (Mad Love, The Invisible Ray), dies from natural causes at 87
2000 Jester Hairston, American actor (That's My Mama, Amen), dies at 98
2000 Nancy Coleman, American actress (Edge of Darkness), dies at 87
2001 Al Waxman, Canadian radio, stage, and screen actor (Cagney & Lacey - "Lt. Smauels"; Meatballs 3; Spasms), and director, dies during heart surgery at 65
2003 Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
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