- 1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright and actor (L'adamo), dies at 76
Edwin Booth (1833-1893)
American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), dies at 59
Jean Harlow (1911-1937)
American actress and 1930s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8; Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
Judy Holliday (1921-1965)
American comedienne and actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies of cancer at 43
- 1967 Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
- 1968 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at 61
- 1973 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50
- 1980 Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies
- 1983 Daniele Amfitheatrof [Amfiteatrov], Russian-Italian pianist, conductor, and composer of concert and Hollywood film score music (American Panorama; The Naked Jungle), dies at 81
- 1984 George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81
- 1988 Vernon Washington, American actor (Roots, The Last Starfighter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), dies at 60
- 1990 Barbara Baxley, American stage and screen actress and singer (Norma Rae; Nashville; Countdown), dies of a heart attack at 67
- 1991 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies
- 1992 Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73
- 1995 Joseph Tomelty, Irish actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby-Dick, Melba), dies at 85
- 2003 Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
- 2006 John Tenta, ring name Earthquake, Canadian professional wrestler, dies at 42
- 2008 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports; American Sportscasters Association HOF), dies at 86
- 2008 Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
- 2010 Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
- 2010 Stuart Cable, Welsh rock drummer (Stereolab), and broadcaster, choles to death on his own vomit at 40
- 2011 Leonard B. Stern, American television screenwriter (The Honeymooners; The Phil Silvers Show: Get Smart), and producer, dies of heart failure at 88
Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
English actor (Dracula, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), dies at 93
- 2023 The Iron Sheik (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri), Iranian pro wrestler (WWF Heavyweight C'hip 1983-84; WWF Tag Team C'ship 1985 [Nikolai Volkoff], dies at 81
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