- 1932 Percy Pitt, English composer (BBC), dies at 63
- 1938 August Kiehl, Dutch actor (Op hoop van zegen, De kribbebijter), dies at 84
- 1948 Stanner E.V. Taylor, American director and screenwriter (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71
- 1962 Gloria Gordon, English actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81
- 1969 (Donnell) "Spade" Cooley, American Western swing fiddler, bandleader, and television personality ("Shame On You"), dies of a heart attack during the intermission of a performance at 58
- 1972 Marie Wilson, American actress (The Story of Mankind, My Friend Irma), dies of cancer at 56
- 1973 Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64
- 1973 Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad), dies
- 1973 Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb), dies at 40
- 1973 Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Tokyo Joe), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83
- 1979 Merle Oberon, British actress (That Uncertain Feeling, Wuthering Heights), dies from a stroke at 68
- 1982 "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47
- 1983 Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (Armaan), dies at 45
- 1987 Marcia Henderson, American actress (Aldrich Family -"Kathleen"; Peter Pan), dies of lupus at 58
- 1991 Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82
- 1991 Klaus Kinski [Naksynski], German-Polish actor (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65
- 1992 Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball), dies at 68
- 1994 Art Barr, American professional wrestler, dies at 28
- 1995 Louis Malle, French film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63
- 1996 George Nicholas, cartoon animator, dies at 85
- 2003 Patricia Burke, English actress (Forbidden), dies at 86
- 2005 Beverly Tyler, American singer and actress (Fireball, The Youngest Profession, Big Town), dies at 78
- 2005 Constance Cummings, American-British Tony Award-winning stage (Wings; Long Day's Journey Into Night), and screen (Blithe Spirit; Glamour) actress, dies at 95
- 2006 Philippe Noiret, French actor (Nuovo cinema Paradiso, Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino), dies at 76
- 2010 Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
- 2010 Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)
Larry Hagman (1931-2012)
American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas), dies of complications from throat cancer at 81
- 2016 Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (Manuel In Fawlty Towers), dies at 86
- 2018 Nicolas Roeg, English cinematographer and director (Aria, Eureka), dies of natural causes at 90
- 2020 Abby Dalton, American actress (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 88
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