- 1959 William Axt, American film scores composer (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 70
- 1967 Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian pre-eminent poet and film director, dies in a car crash at 32
- 1968 Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
- 1976 Alice "Lily" Pons, French-American coloratura soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera, 1931-60) and actress (That Girl From Paris), dies of pancreatic cancer at 77
- 1977 Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77
- 1980 David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
- 1982 Gluyas Williams, American cartoonist (Fellows Citizen), dies at 93
- 1983 Marian Nixon [Marja Nissinen], American silent and sound film actress (Hands Up!; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms; Winner Takes All), dies after open-heart surgery at 78
- 1990 Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
- 1991 Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of a heart attack at 67
- 1991 Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
- 1991 Ronald "Ron" Pickering, British athletics coach and BBC sports commentator, dies after a heart bypass operation at 60
- 1992 Dorothy Tree [Triebitz], American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Confessions Of A Nazi Spy; The Asphalt Jungle), dies of heart failure at 85
- 1996 Martin Balsam, American charaacter actor (Psycho, 12 Angry Men, Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22), dies of a stroke at 76
- 1997 Antonius "Ton" Lensink, Dutch actor (Rituelen), dies at 74
- 2003 Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (Pretty Woman; The Parallax View), dies at 88
- 2006 Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
- 2007 Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
- 2009 Gianna Maria Canale, Italian actress (Go For Broke), dies at 81
- 2010 John Reed, British comic actor and singer (Gilbert & Sullivan; D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1951-79), dies after a stroke on his 94th birthday
- 2011 (Thomas Patrick) "T. P." McKenna, Irish actor (Rivals; Holocaust), dies at 81
- 2014 Ralph Waite, American actor, director and political candidate (Cool Hand Luke; The Waltons), dies at 85
- 2017 Seijun Suzuki, Japanese cult film director, dies at 93
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