- 1970 Lev Kuleshov, Russian filmmaker and film theorist (Po Zakonu, founder of Moscow film school), dies at 71
- 1973 Melville Cooper, English stage and screen character actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood; Father of the Bride), dies of cancer at 76 [1]
- 1974 Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous Letters), dies of periarthritis at 57
- 1974 Seton I. Miller, Hollywood screenwriter (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul), dies at 71
- 1982 Rudy Bond, American stage and screen actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), dies of a heart attack at 69
- 1986 Harry Ritz [Joachim], American vaudevillian, actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers - The Gorilla;, Hi'ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show, solo cameo - Silent Movie), dies at 78
- 1986 Paul Grimault, French animator (Le Roi et l'oiseau - The King and the Bird), dies at 89
- 1989 Bernard Blier, French character actor (Les Miserables; Women & War), dies at 73
- 1991 Matt Bennett, American actor (Hickey & Boggs; The Unholy Rollers), dies of a brain tumor at 57
Paul Henreid (1908-1992)
Austrian-American actor (Casablanca, Now, Voyager), dies at 84
- 1994 Bill Travers [William Inge Lindon-Travers], British actor, director, officer and animal rights activist (Born Free, Gorgo), dies at 72
- 1994 Paul Grimault, French animator (Le Roi et l'oiseau), dies at 89
- 1997 Eddie Ryder, American actor (General Hospital, Up Yours), dies at 74
- 1997 Ellen Pollock, British actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94
- 2002 Rico Yan, Philippine film & TV actor (Gimik), dies of acute pancreatitis at 27
- 2005 Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
- 2007 Calvin Lockhart [Bert Cooper], Bahamian-American stage and actor (Cotton Goes to Harlem), dies from stroke complications at 72
- 2009 Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b.1975)
- 2009 Maurice Jarre, French Academy and Grammy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence Of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; Witness; Fatal Attraction), dies at 84
- 2016 Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and television host, dies at 59
Patty Duke (1946-2016)
American Academy and Emmy awarding actress (The Miracle Worker; The Patty Duke Show), and mental health advocate, dies of sepsis from a ruptured intestine at 69 [1]
- 2018 Rusty Staub, American baseball utility (6 x MLB All Star; Houston Colt .45s / Astros; Montreal Expos; NY Mets; Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster (Mets games 1986-95), dies from multiple organ failure at 73
- 2020 Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian and actor (Shimura Ken no Bakatono-sama), dies of COVID-19 at 70
- 2020 Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer and screenwriter (Liberation), dies at 96
- 2024 Louis Gossett Jr, American Emmy and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Roots; An Officer and a Gentleman; Diggstown), dies at 87 [1]
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