Clark Gable (1901-1960)
American actor (Gone With The Wind; It Happened One Night) known as 'The King of Hollywood', dies of a coronary thrombosis at 59
- 1964 John Emery, American actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59
- 1971 Charlie Dell, American actor and comedian (Pickle in the Middle), dies at 90
- 1971 Edie Sedgwick, American actress (Andy Warhol) and socialite, dies of alcohol and barbiturate intoxication at 28
- 1978 Claude Dauphin, French actor (Barbarella, April in Paris, Deported), dies at 75
- 1980 Imogen Hassall, English actress (Countess of Cleavage-Carry on Loving), suicide at 37
- 1981 Morgan Conway, American actor (Dick Tracy, Brother Orchid), dies at 78
- 1982 Arthur Askey, British actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train), dies at 82
- 1986 Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63
- 1991 Ralph Marrero, American actor (Dawn of the Dead; The Babe; Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33
- 1994 Doris Speed, British actress (Coronation Street, 1960-83 - "Annie"), dies at 95
- 1994 John Boylan, American actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
- 1997 George Petrie, American actor (Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Honeymooners), dies from a lymphoma on his 85th birthday
- 2005 Bob van Toll, Dutch actor and director (Pastorale 1943), dies at 62
- 2005 Ralph Edwards, American TV host (This is Your Life), dies at 92
- 2007 Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1947)
- 2007 Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author, dies at 61
- 2008 Reg Varney, English actor (On the Buses), dies at 92
- 2009 Edward Woodward, British actor (Breaker Morant; Wickerman; The Equalizer), and pop singer ("The Way You Look Tonight"), dies at 79
- 2010 Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
- 2014 Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer (Los Angeles Times, 1965-80), television host, and educator, dies at 88
- 2015 David Canary, American actor (Bonanza, All My Children), dies at 77
- 2017 Ann Wedgeworth, American Tony Award-winning stage and screen character actress (Chapter Two; Scarecrow; Evening Shade), dies at 83
- 2017 Ferdie Pacheco, American physician (cornerman for Mohammad Ali) and boxing analyst (NBC, Showtime), dies at 89
- 2018 William Goldman, American screenwriter and author (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), dies at 87
- 2022 Robert Clary [Widerman], French-American actor (Hogan's Heroes - "Cpl LeBeau"; Days of Our Lives), singer, author, artist, lecturer, and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96 [1]
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