1931 Arthemus "Art" Acord, American silent film actor and rodeo champion (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists), commits suicide by poison at 40
1953 Arthur Hoyt, American actor and director (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along), dies at 79
1961 Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Academy Award, Going My Way), dies at 72
1964 Ralph Dumke, American actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64
1976 Jan Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84
1985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Army Lt-General, author (A Full Life; Corps Commander), and film consultant (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 89
1991 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
1991 Harry Krimer, French actor (Napoleon, Les vagabonds magnifiques, La course du flambeau), committed suicide at 94
1991 Richard Maibaum, American screenwriter (Goldfinger), dies at 81
1992 Earl Colbert, American character actor, dies at 74
1992 William Walker, American film stuntman and actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1993 Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at 69
1994 R. D. Burman, Indian film score composer (1942: A Love Story), dies at 54
1995 Dorothy Granger, American actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80
1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conductor (BBC Empire Orchestra), dies at 92
1998 Mae Questel, American vaudeville, screen and voice actress (Olive Oyl; Betty Boop), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 89
1999 Iron Eyes Cody [Espera Oscar de Corti], Italian-American actor (Keep America Beautiful, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp), dies at 91
1999 Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricket all-rounder who played 16 tests (2 x 50, 3 wickets; Karachi Blues, Rawalpindi) and broadcaster (PTV, BBC, Radio Pakistan), dies at 73
2003 Conrad Hall, Tahitian-American cinematographer, dies at 76
2004 Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2007 Helen Hill, American independent filmmaker (b. 1970)
2007 Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
2010 Donal Donnelly, Irish actor (The Godfather: Part III, Dead), dies of cancer at 78
2012 Harry Fowler, British actor (Great: Isambard Kingdom Brunel), dies at 85
2013 Tony Lip [Frank Anthony Vallelonga], American author and actor (Sopranos, Donnie Brasco, Good Fellas), dies at 82
2015 Stuart Scott, American sports journalist (ESPN), dies of cancer at 49
2016 Michel Galabru, French actor (Judge & the Assassin), dies at 93
2021 Gregory Sierra, American stage and screen actor (Barney Miller - "Chano"), dies of cancer at 83
2021 Tanya Roberts [Victoria Blum], American actress (Charlie's Angels, 1980-81; A View To A Kill; That 70's Show), dies of sepsis at 71 [1]
2022 Joan Copeland, American film and TV soap actress ("Roseland"; "Search for Tomorrow"), dies at 99
2023 Fay Weldon [Franklin Birkinshaw], British feminist, novelist (Praxis; The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil), playwright, and screenwriter, dies at 91 [1]
2024 David Soul [Solberg], American-British actor (Starsky & Hutch; Here Come s the Brides), and singer ("Don't Give Up On Us"), dies at 80 [1]
2024 Glynis Johns, British stage and screen Tony Award-winning actress and singer (Mary Poppins; A Little Night Music - "Send In The Clowns"; The Sundowners), dies at 100 [1]
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