1956 Harry Parry, Welsh jazz clarinetist and bandleader (BBC's Radio Rhythm Club), dies at 44
1961 Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American silent film actress (The Dragon Painter), dies at 69
1965 Henry Travers [Travers John Heagerty], British stage and screen character actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Mrs. Miniver; Bells of St Mary), dies of arteriosclerosis at 91
1966 Bill Nestell, American actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier), dies of a heart attack at 73
1968 Lee Tracy, American actor (Dinner at Eight, Martin Kane Private Eye), dies of cancer at 70
1972 Esma Cannon, Australian-born actress (Sailor Beware!), dies at 66
1973 Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79
1973 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo), dies at 60
1975 Al Lettieri, American actor (The Godfather; Pulp; Mr Majestyk; Getaway), dies of a heart attack at 47
1982 Dwain Esper, American film director (The Seventh Commandment), dies at 89
1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (Voyagers!, Cover-up), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
1991 Gunnar Sønstevold, Norwegian jazz pianist, and orchestral and film score composer (Litany In Atlanta; The Dorian Cage), dies at 78
1993 Lois Kibbee, American actress (Edge of Night), dies of a brain tumor at 71
1994 WiIlliam Faure, South African film producer (Shaka Zulu), dies of kidney failure at 45
1997 Nancy Dickerson, American pioneering journalist, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
2000 Gwyneth “Gwen” Verdon, American actress, singer and dancer (Cotton Club; Sweet Charity), dies at 75
2000 Julie London, American singer ("Cry Me A River") and actress (Emergency - "Nurse McCall"), dies at 74
2002 Kam Fong Chun, American actor (Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, P.I.), dies of lung cancer at 84
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