- 1943 Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50
- 1955 Walter Hampden, American actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 75
- 1956 Ralph Morgan [Wupperman], American actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
- 1966 Ethel Clayton, American actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
- 1966 Wallace Ford [Samuel Jones Grundy], British actor (Freaks, Harvey, Spellbound, Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68
- 1970 Frank Silvera, Jamaican-American actor (High Chaparral, Killer's Kiss, Fear and Desire), accidentally electrocutes himself at 55
- 1979 August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85
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1979 John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], American actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies of stomach cancer at 72
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- 1985 Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
- 1988 Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38
- 1991 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
- 1992 Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39
- 1993 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40
- 1993 Bernard Bresslaw, English comedian (Carry On team), dies of a heart attack at 59
- 1994 Herbert Anderson, American character actor (Dennis The Menace, Battleground), dies of a stroke at 77
- 1994 Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90
- 1996 Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], German actress (Gloria, Gold, Metropolis), dies at 90
- 1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
- 1999 DeForest Kelley, American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer (Star Trek), dies of stomach cancer at 79
- 2000 Lew Gallo, American character actor and screen writer (Get Smart, Gunsmoke, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 71
- 2003 David Brinkley, American NBC news anchor (The Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 82
- 2003 William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer (Blacula, Scream Blacula Scream), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 78
- 2005 Ron Randell, Australian actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera), dies at 86
- 2007 Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers, American actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Wild Wild West), dies of leukaemia at 75
- 2012 Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (Gone with the Wind, Whistling in the Dark), dies from heart disease at 94
- 2015 Ron Moody [Ronald Moodnick], British composer, singer and actor (12 Chairs, Oliver!), dies at 91
- 2015 Dusty Rhodes [Virgil Riley Runnels Jr.], American professional wrestler (WWE), dies at 69