1951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
1968 Albert Dekker, American stage and screen character actor (Dr. Cyclops; Beau Geste; The Wild Bunch), and politician, dies of accidental suffocation at 62
1971 Alice Tissot, French actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81
1979 Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68
1983 John Williams, British actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
1988 George Rose, British actor and singer (Beacon Hill; Holocaust), dies at 68
1991 William De Acutis, American actor (9½ Weeks, Other People's Money), dies from a brain lymphoma at 33
1992 Ben Frommer, Polish actor (Scarface, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 78
1992 Dick Yarmy, American character actor (Get Smart; Kentucky Fried Movie; Mork & Mindy), dies of lung cancer at 58
1992 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64
1997 Tolia Nikiprowetzky, French composer, ethnomusicologist and broadcaster of Russian heritage, dies at 80
1997 Walter Gotell, German actor (James Bond, From Russia With Love), dies at 73
2002 George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 Naushad Ali, Indian composer, and Hindi film music director, dies at 86
2011 Arthur Laurents, American playwright (West Side Story: Gypsy), and screenwriter (Rope; Anastasia), dies at 93
2011 Dana Wynter, German-English actress (Airport; Invasion of the Body Snatchers), dies at 79
2018 Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), dies at 86
2021 (Ivor) "Nick" Kamen, British pop singer-songwriter (Each Time You Break My Heart; I Promised Myself), and model (Levi's), dies of bone marrow cancer at 59
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