- 1822 Eva Marie Veigel [La Violette], Austrian ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick, dies at 98
- 1966 George O'Hara, American silent era screenwriter and actor (The Sea Beast, The Grapes of Wrath), dies at 67
- 1972 Leo G. Carroll, British actor (Topper; Strangers On A Train; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), dies at 85
- 1977 Michael Balcon, English film producer (head of Ealing Studios), dies at 81
- 1978 Daniel "Dan" Dailey, American dancer and actor (You're My Everything, Governor & J.J.), dies of anemia at 62
- 1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
- 1984 Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
- 1984 Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon), dies of cancer at 53
- 1985 Claude Stroud, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's; Ted Knight Show; Duke), dies at 78
- 1989 Cornel Wilde [Kornel Lajos Weisz], Hungarian-American actor (Sword of Lancelot, High Sierra, 5th Musketeer), dies at 74
- 1991 Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies
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American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress (Come Back, Little Sheba; Hazel), dies of natural causes at 94
- 1995 Richard Caldicot, British actor (Horse's Mouth, Strife, Mrs Thursday), dies at 87
- 1996 Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1997 Adam Kennedy, American actor (The Californians) screenwriter (The Domino Principle), novelist (Just Like Humphrey Bogart), and painter, dies of a heart attack at 75
- 1997 Audra Lindley, American actress (Three's Company; The Ropers;, The Relic), dies of complications from leukemia at 79
- 1999 Jean Shepherd, American storyteller, radio personality (WOR-NYC, 1955-77), and writer (A Christmas Story; In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash), dies at 78
- 2000 Rick Jason [Richard Jacobson], American stage and screen actor (Combat! - "Lt. Hanley"; The Fountain of Youth; Day of the Wolves), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot at 77
- 2003 Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer, dies at 88
- 2004 Pierre Salinger, American newsman (ABC) and press secretary (John F. Kennedy), dies at 79
- 2005 "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (Little Rascals), dies at 71
- 2005 Ursula Howells, British actress (Hard Times, Girly, Murder is Announced), dies at 83
- 2006 Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
- 2006 Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
- 2007 Deborah Kerr, British actress (From Here to Eternity; The King and I; An Affair To Remember), dies from the effects of Parkinson's disease at 86
- 2010 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave it to Beaver), dies at 94
- 2013 Ed Lauter, American actor (The Artist, The Number 23), dies from mesothelioma at 74
- 2017 Roy Dotrice, British actor (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Amadeus) and narrator (A Song of Ice and Fire), dies at 94
- 2017 Sean Hughes, Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor, dies at 51
- 2019 John Clarke, American actor (Days of Our Lives -"Mickey"), dies at 88
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