- 1698 Marie Champmeslé, French actress (Fête de Vénus), dies at 56
- 1833 Edmund Kean, British Shakespearean actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career), dies at 46
- 1933 Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies from complications following surgery for gall stones at 54
- 1952 Albert Bassermann, German actor (Foreign Correspondent, Madame Curie), dies at 84
- 1971 Sir Tyrone Guthrie, British actor, producer, writer and director, dies at 70
- 1972 Nigel Green, South African-born British character actor (Zulu, Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies of an accidental barbiturate overdose at 47
- 1985 Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
- 1987 Wynne Gibson, American actress (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies at 88
- 1988 Andrew Duggan, American character actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War), dies of cancer at 64
- 1988 Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies
- 1989 Johnny Green, American singer (Body and Soul) and film score composer who won 5 Academy Awards, dies at 80
- 1991 Reno Browne, American Western actress, dies at 70
- 1991 Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
- 1992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
- 1994 Gilbert Roland [Luis Alonso], Mexican actor (Juarez, Barbarosa), dies from cancer at 88
- 1994 Royal Dano, American actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II), dies of a heart attack at 71
- 1995 Edouard Dermithe, Italian actor (Orpheus; Thomas the Impostor), dies at 70
- 1995 Eric Porter, British stage and BAFTA Award-winning screen actor (The Royal Shakespeare Company; The Forsyte Saga; Antony & Cleopatra, The Thirty Nine Steps), dies of colon cancer at 67
- 2000 Ziki Robertson, 11th Baroness Wharton (née Myrtle Arbuthnot), British model and photographer (as Ziki Arnot), and politician (House of Lords, 1990-200), dies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - a rare brain disorder at 66
June Carter Cash (1929-2003)
American Grammy Award-winning country singer (The Carter Family; Johnny Cash Show), songwriter ("Ring of Fire"), and actress, dies from complications after heart valve replacement surgery at 73
- 2007 Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1955)
- 2008 Alexander Courage, American composer of original Star Trek theme, dies at 88
- 2009 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor, pilot and radio announcer, dies at 86
- 2020 Fred Willard, American comedian and character actor (Fernwood 2-Night; Best In Show: Everyone Loves Raymond; Modern Family), dies at 86
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