Actors Who Died on July 12
- 1973 Lon Chaney Jr, American actor (Larry Talbot-The Wolf Man, Lennie Small-Of Mice and Men), dies of heart failure at 67
- 1974 Georg Annenkov, Russian-French artist and stage and film set designer ('The Mutiny of the Machines'), dies at 84
- 1976 Ted Mack, American TV host (The Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
- 1977 Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66
- 1982 Kenneth More, British actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House), dies of Parkinson's disease at 67
- 1992 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies
- 1993 Gusti Huber, Austrian American actress, (The Diary of Anne Frank), dies of heart failure at 78
- 1993 Lily van Lugt Melsert, Dutch actress (Tomorrow Will Be Better), dies at 91
- 1994 Henk Terlingen, Dutch radio and TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
- 1995 Michael Clegg, English naturalist and TV presenter (Clegg's People), dies at 62
- 1996 John Chancellor, American journalist and news anchor (Voice Of America, 1965-67; NBC Nightly News, 1970-82), dies at 68
- 1999 Bill Owen [William Owen Rowbotham], British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Not So Dusty), dies from pancreatic cancer at 85
- 2009 Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster, dies at 70
- 2010 Buff Cobb [Patrizia Cobb Chapman], American actress and TV personality (Masquerade Party), dies at 82
- 2011 Sherwood Schwartz, American television screenwriter and producer (The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island), dies at 94
- 2013 Alan Whicker, British journalist and TV broadcaster (Whicker's World), dies at 91
- 2013 Pran Krishan Sikand, Indian actor often cast as the villain in Hindi cinema (Khandaan, Be-Imaan), dies of pneumonia at 93
- 2018 Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo), dies at 81
- 2018 Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host, director, and screenwriter (Avro), dies at 79
- 2020 Kelly Preston, American actress (Mischief, Twins, A Tigers Tale), dies of breast cancer at 57
- 2021 Paul Orndorff, American pro wrestler (WWE Hall of Fame 2005; WCW World Tag Team C'ship [Paul Roma] 1995; "Mr Wonderful"), dies at 71
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