- 1946 Donald Meek, Scottish-American stage and screen actor (You Can't Take It With You; Stagecoach), dies of leukemia at 68
- 1951 Will Vodery, African-American theater and film arranger, orchestrator (Showboat; Ziegfeld's Follies; Blackbirds), and composer (From Dixie to Broadway), dies at 66
- 1959 Arthur Q Bryan, American voice actor, comedian and radio personality (Beulah, The Devil Bat), dies from a heart attack at 60
- 1968 Walter Wanger [Feuchtwanger], American film producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74
- 1977 Victor Francen, Belgian actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89
- 1982 Donald Dillaway, American stage and screen actor (Min and Bill; Platinum Blonde), dies at 79
- 1986 Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
- 1993 Fritz Feld, German actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus, Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
Cab Calloway (1907-1994)
American singer, bandleader ("Minnie the Moocher"; "The Jumpin' Jive"), writer, radio host, and actor (The Blues Brothers), dies at 86
- 1998 Norma Connolly, American actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital, The Young Marrieds), dies at 71
- 2002 James Coburn, American actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven), dies at 74
- 2003 Michael Kamen, American composer and arranger (film scores to Brazil and Mr. Holland's Opus; Pink Floyd), dies from a heart attack at 55
- 2005 Harold J Stone, American actor (Spartacus, The Wrong Man), dies at 92
- 2011 David Langdon, English newspaper and magazine cartoonist (Sunday Mirror), dies at 97 [1]
- 2018 Larry Pickering, Australian political cartoonist and illustrator, dies of lung cancer at 76
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