- 1941 Julian Eltinge [Dalton], American vaudeville, Broadway, and silent film female impersonator star (The Crinoline Girl), dies of a suspected cerebral hemorrhage at 59
- 1953 Edward Sedgwick, American film director (The Flaming Frontier, Let 'er Buck), dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1955 Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
- 1971 Stevie Smith [Florence Margaret Smith], English poet and novelist ("A Good Time Was Had By All"; "Not Waving but Drowning") whose life was turned into the play and film "Stevie", dies of a brain tumour at 68
- 1974 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1975 Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
- 1975 Francine Larrimore, French actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76
- 1983 Robert Bray, American actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
- 1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42
- 1988 Robert Livingston, American actor (Three Mesquiteers, The Lone Ranger and Zorro), dies at 83 of emphysema
- 1993 Earl Wrightson, American actor and singer (Pinafore, Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue), dies of heart failure at 77
Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
American film director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), dies at 70
- 2000 Charles Gray, British actor (Clay-Rawhide, Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), dies at 71
- 2004 Paul Winfield, American actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack), dies at 64
- 2005 Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (Escape from New York), dies at 54
- 2005 John Box, British Academy Award and BAFTA winning film production designer and art director (A Man for all Seasons; Oliver!), dies at 85
- 2005 Willis Hall, British screenwriter and dramatist (Torn Curtain; Billy; Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure), dies of esophageal cancer at 75
- 2006 Gordon Parks, American pioneering black film director (The Learning Tree), photographer and author, dies at 93
- 2006 John Junkin, British actor and scriptwriter (A Hard Day's Night), dies at 76
- 2009 Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress, commits suicide at 29
- 2024 Steve Lawrence [Sidney Leibowitz], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop singer ("Go Away Little Girl"; Steve and Eydie), and actor (The Lonely Guy; The Blues Brothers), dies of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 88
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