Al Jolson (1886-1950)
American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee), dies at 64
- 1952 Susan Peters [Suzanne Carnahan], American actress (Random Harvest; Young Ideas), dies of complications resulting from pyelonephritis, pneumonia, and starvation at 31
- 1957 Frederick Burton, American actor (The Big Trail, One Way Passage), dies at 86
- 1959 Gerda Lundequist 'The Swedish Sarah Bernhardt', Swedish stage actress, dies at 88
- 1966 Claire McDowell, American silent film actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
- 1975 Barboura Morris, American actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
- 1975 Charles Brokaw, American actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
- 1983 Jessica Savitch, American broadcast journalist and pioneering female news anchor (NBC Weekend), drowns in a car accident at 36 [1]
- 1983 Tamara Shayne, Russian-American actress (Moma Yoelson-The Jolson Story), dies of a heart attack at 80
- 1984 David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
- 1984 Oskar Werner [Bschließmayer], Austrian stage and screen actor an(The Spy Who Came In from the Cold; Ship of Fools; Fahrenheit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 1989 Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
- 1994 Robert Lansing [Brown], American stage and screen actor (12 O'Clock High; The Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
- 1994 William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
- 1997 Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker and director (Fanfare; Glass), dies at 81
- 2000 Rodney Anoa'i (aka Yokozuna), American pro wrestler, dies from pulmonary edema at 34
- 2002 Marianne Hoppe, German theater and film actress (Der Schimmelreiter), dies at 93
- 2003 Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician. dies of an aneurysm at 59
- 2004 Robert Merrill [Moishe Miller], American operatic baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera, 1945-76), and actor, dies at 87
- 2005 William Hootkins, American actor, dies at 57
- 2009 Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor and comedian (Irma la Douce, The Dean Martin Show), dies at 95 [1]
- 2011 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry (Nobel 1985), dies at 94
- 2016 Jack Chick, American religious cartoonist (Chick tracts), dies at 92
- 2021 Bob Neumeier, American sportscaster (WBZ-radio, TV Boston; NBC Sports), dies from heart disease at 70
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