- 1630 John Heminges, English actor and member of The Kings Men, editor of Shakespeare's First Folio, dies at 63
- 1940 Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor (I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now), dies at 63
- 1947 [Joseph Jacinto] Jo Mora, Uruguayan-born American cartoonist, cowboy and illustrator who lived with the Hopi tribe and wrote extensively of his experiences, dies at 70
- 1964 Eddie Cantor, American comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
- 1964 Guru Dutt [Vasanth Padukone], Indian Bollywood actor, regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time (Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool), dies from an accidental overdose at 39
- 1968 Wilhelmina Johanna "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress and acting teacher (GoetheJane Eyre), dies at 71
- 1971 Christopher Dark [Alfred Francis DeLeo], American character actor, (World Without End; The Time Tunnel), dies of a heart attack at 51
- 1975 Lillian Walker [Wolke] American silent era actress and film producer (An Embarrassment of Riches), dies at 88
- 1977 Angelo Muscat, Maltese-born British actor (The Prisoner, Doctor Who), dies at 47
- 1980 William "Billie" Thomas, American child actor (Buckwheat- Our Gang), dies of a heart attack at 49
Ralph Richardson (1902-1983)
English actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), dies of a stroke at 80
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
American actor and director (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), dies of a heart attack at 70
Yul Brynner (1920-1985)
Russian-Swiss Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor (The King and I; The Ten Commandments), dies of lung cancer at 65
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), dies of an adverse reaction to an antibiotic at 52
- 2013 Kumar Pallana, Indian character actor and vaudevillian (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore), dies at 94
- 2023 (Charles) Mark Goddard, American actor (Lost in Space - "Don West"; The Detectives; Roller Boogie), and teacher, dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 87
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