1951 Marie Ault [Mary Cragg], English actress (The Lodger), dies at 80
1952 Canada Lee [Leonard Canegata], African-American actor (Lost Boundaries), dies of a heart attack at 45
1958 Bill Goodwin, American television announcer (Jolson Story, Burns & Allen), dies at 47
1968 Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (Quo Vadis, Avengers), dies at 90
1968 Marion Lorne [MacDougall] American stage and Emmy Award-winning screen actress (Bewitched - "Aunt Clara"; Mister Peepers - "Mrs. Gurney"; The Graduate), dies of a heart attack at 84
1968 Phil Arnold, American actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees), dies from a heart attack at 58
1975 Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (Enemy Agent; I Remember Mama), dies of a heart attack at 73
1985 Redmond "Edmond" O'Brien, American actor (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight), dies of Alzheimer's at 69
1986 Herschel Bernardi, American actor (Arnie, Voice of Charlie the Tuna, Front), dies of a heart attack at 62
1990 Pauline Frederick, American journalist and author (NBC), dies at 84
1993 Mary Duncan Sanford, American actress, dies at 98
1997 Marco Ferreri, Italian film director, dies at 68
1998 Alice Faye [Leppert], American actress and singer (Hello Frisco, Hello; Fallen Angel; Stowaway), dies of stomach cancer at 83
1999 Shirley Dinsdale, American ventriloquist (Judy Splinters), radio and television personality, dies of cancer at 72
2004 Alan King [Irwin Kniberg], American comedian and actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me), dies at 76
2010 Lena Horne, American actress and Grammy Award-winning singer (Cabin in the Sky; Stormy Weather; The Wiz), dies at 92
2013 Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (The Crach, Sinatra), dies at 80
2015 Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novelist (Confessions), dies at 79
2015 Elizabeth Wilson, American screen and stage actress (Doc, East Side/West Side), dies at 94
2017 Michael Parks, American actor (Tusk, Then Came Bronson), dies at 77
2019 Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer (The Freddie Starr Showcase), dies at 76
2023 Jackie Zeman, American actress (General Hospital - "Bobbie Spencer"), dies of cancer at 70
2024 Roger Corman, American film, producer, director (Little Shop of Horrors; The Raven), and Hollywood mentor, dies at 98 [1]
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