- 1944 Harry Langdon, American comedian (The Strong Man; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), dies at 60
- 1959 Gilda Gray [Marianna Michalska], Polish-American stage and screen actress (Piccadilly), and dancer (The Shimmy), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1965 Al Ritz [Albert Joachim], American vaudevillian (The Ritz Brothers), dancer and actor (The Gorilla;, Hi'ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show), dies of a heart attack at 64
- 1965 Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster, dies at 52
- 1966 Robert Keith [Rolland Keith Richey], American character actor (Guys and Dolls; The Wild One; Battle Circus; Branded), dies at 68
- 1967 Lee Krieger, American actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48
- 1969 Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52
- 1971 Godfried Bomans, Dutch humorist, TV personality and writer (Eric), dies at 58
- 1974 Fosco Giachetti, Italian actor (Wastrel, We the Living), dies at 74
- 1979 Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and President (20th Century Fox), dies at 77
- 1987 Alice Terry [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
- 1988 (Thomas) "Tucker" Smith, American stage and screen dancer, singer and actor (West Side Story - "Ice"), dies of cancer at 52
- 1992 Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young), dies at 74
- 1993 Don DeFore, American actor (George-Hazel, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
- 1995 (Thelma) "Butterfly" McQueen, American actress (Gone With the Wind; Flame of Barbary Coast), dies in a fire at 84
- 1998 Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
- 1998 Virginia Graham, American TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I), dies at 86
- 2002 Kenneth Tobey, American actor (The Thing from Another World, Innerspace, Whirlybirds), dies of natural causes at 85
- 2003 Rose Hill, British actress and operatic soprano ('Allo 'Allo!, Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark), dies at 89
- 2006 Phillip Pine, American actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground), dies at 86
- 2007 Joe Ames, American singer and actor (The Ames Brothers Show), dies at 86
- 2010 Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (b. 1921)
- 2015 Carson Van Osten, American musician and comic strip writer (Disney), dies at 70
- 2019 Tony Britton, English actor (The Day of the Jackal), dies at 95
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