Bill Robinson (1878-1949)
American actor and tap dancer (Stormy Weather; The Little Colonel), dies at 71
- 1959 Jean Grémillon, French film director, dies at 58
- 1964 Clarence Kolb, American actor (My Little Margie - "Mr. Honeywell"), dies at 90
- 1968 Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89
- 1971 Hank Mann, American actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road), dies at 84
- 1973 Laurence Harvey [Larushka Skine], Lithuanian-born South African actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet), dies of cancer at 45
- 1974 Rosemary Lane, American actress (An Angel from Texas, 4 Mothers, Harvest Melody), dies from diabetes and pulmonary obstruction at 61
- 1975 Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies
- 1977 Richard Carlson, American stage and screen actor (All I Desire,; I Led 3 Lives), screenwriter and director (Riders to the Stars), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 65
- 1981 Jack Albertson, American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), dies from colon cancerr at 74
- 1982 Robert Coote, British actor (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Scaramouche), dies of a heart attack at 73
- 1989 Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies
- 1991 Eleanor Audley, American voice actress (Cinderella - "Wicked Stepmother"), dies at 86
- 1993 Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77
- 1997 Charles Hallahan, American actor (Hunter), dies of a heart attack at 54
- 1998 (Clerow) "Flip" Wilson, American Grammy Award-winning comedian, and Emmy Award-winning writer and TV personality (The Flip Wilson Show), dies of liver cancer at 64
- 2002 Karel Reisz, Czech-British filmmaker and director (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Who'll Stop the Rain), dies at 76
- 2006 Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (Fred Buscaglione), and screenwriter, dies at 86
- 2006 Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
- 2012 Dinah Sheridan, British actress (Genevieve, The Railway Children, Don't Wait Up), dies at 92
- 2013 Toshiaki Tsushima, Japanese film score composer, dies of pneumonia at 77
- 2014 Joanna Dunham, English actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood), dies at 78
- 2016 Ron Glass, American actor (Barney Miller, Frank's Place), dies at 71
- 2017 Rance Howard, American actor (Splash, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind), dies at 89
- 2022 Irene Cara [Escalera], American Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("Fame"; "Flashdance...What A Feeling"), and actress (Fame; D.C. Cab), dies at 63
- 2023 Marty Krofft, Canadian puppeteer and television producer - with his brother Sid (H.R. Pufnstuf; Land of the Lost; Sigmund and the Sea Monsters; Donny & Marie), dies at 86 [1]
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