- 1928 Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
Basil Rathbone (1892-1967)
South African born British actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of a heart attack at 75
- 1973 Russell Hardie, American actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky), dies after long illness at 69
- 1975 Billy West [Roy B Weissburg], Russian actor, Charlie Chaplin impersonator and silent film director (Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy), dies at 82
- 1975 Fie Carelsen [Sophia de Jong], Dutch stage and screen actress (Malle gevallen), dies at 85
- 1982 Dave Garroway, American TV host (Today Show, 1951-61), dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound at 69
- 1982 Jean J A Girault, French director and screenwriter (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies of tuberculosis at 58
- 1985 Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor and comedian (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
- 1985 Vicki Vola, American actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney), dies at 68
- 1986 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
- 1986 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
- 1990 Sacha Piteoff, Swiss-French actor and stage director, dies of heart failure at 70
- 1990 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
- 1991 Theodore Wilson, American actor dies after a stroke at 47
- 1993 Robert Glass, American film sound engineer (ET), is murdered at 53
- 1994 Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
- 1996 Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), dies of emphysema 62
- 1996 Wolf Morris, English actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
- 1998 Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), dies at 91
- 2001 Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
- 2001 Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
- 2005 Lord Alfred Hayes, English pro wrestler, manager and commentator (WWF), dies from a stroke at 76
- 2006 Mako, Japanese-American actor (The Sand Pebbles), dies at 72
- 2015 Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American stage and screen singer and actor (The Sound of Music; Fiddler On The Roof; The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; 200 Motels), folk singer (co-founder Newport Folk Festival), and political activist, dies at 91
- 2017 John Heard, American actor (Home Alone, Cat People, Big), dies at 71
- 2020 Annie Ross, British-American jazz singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - "Twisted") and actress, dies from emphysema and heart disease, at 89 [1]
- 2022 Taurean Blacque [Herbert Middleton Jr], American stage and screen actor (Hill Street Blues - "Det. Neal Washington"), and adoption advocate, dies at 82
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