1959 Eric Blore, British stage and screen actor (The Lone Wolf; Bowery to Baghdad; Abie's Irish Rose; Love Happy), dies of s heart attack at 71
1967 Gordon Harker, British actor (Facts of Love, Champagne, Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
1972 Bill Lawrence, American news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
1979 Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
1981 Janear Hines, American actress (Julia - "Roberta"), dies of Bright's disease at 30
1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
1987 Randolph Scott, American actor (Ride the High Country, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union), dies at 89
1992 Sandy Dennis, American Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress (Any Wednesday; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?; The Out-of-Towners), dies of ovarian cancer at 54
1993 Paul D Zimmerman, American screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
1996 Lyle Talbot [Lysle Henderson], American stage and screen actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - "Joe"), dies of congestive heart failure at 94
1996 Yrrah [Harry Lammertink], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland), dies at 63
2004 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (All the King's Men, The Exorcist, Giant), dies at 87
2012 Nydia Ecury, celebrated Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), dies at 86
2015 Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89
2020 James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio, dies at 93
2022 Johnny Brown, American stage and screen comic actor (Good Times - "Bookman"; Laugh-In), and singer, dies of heart failure at 84
2024 John Okafor, Nigerian Nollywood actor and comedian, dies at 62 [1]
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