- 1943 Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
- 1974 Charles Braswell, American actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
- 1979 Donyale Luna [Peggy Ann Freeman], American model and actress "the first Black supermodel", dies of a heroin overdose at 33 [1]
- 1981 Hugo Friedhofer, American cellist and film and television composer, dies at 80
- 1985 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) killed off on television soap opera "Dallas"
- 1985 Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72
- 1992 George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
- 1994 Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
- 1995 Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, South African singer (Manhattan Brothers) and actor, dies at 72
- 1996 Willis Conover, American broadcaster (Voice of America), dies at 75
- 1999 Henry Jones, American actor (Vertigo, Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy), dies from complications from a fall at 86
Tony Randall (1920-2004)
American stage and screen actor (The Odd Couple - "Felix"), dies of pneumonia at 84
- 2005 Frank Gorshin, American comedian and impersonator (Riddler-Batman), dies at 72
- 2009 Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965)
- 2013 Ken Venturi, American golfer, broadcaster (US Open 1964), dies from multiple infections at 82
- 2020 Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler (WWE), bodyguard, and actor, drowns at 39
- 2023 "Superstar" Billy Graham [Eldridge Coleman], American pro wrestler (WWWF Heavyweight Champion 1977-78), dies of kidney, heart, and lung problems at 79
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