- 1962 Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83
- 1969 Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster)
- 1969 Frank King, American cartoonist (Gasoline Alley), dies at 86
- 1971 Jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies
- 1973 Mary Carr, American actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99
- 1973 George "Bud" Hamilton Westmore, American film make-up artist (Westmore family), dies after a heart attack at 55
- 1987 Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71
- 1991 Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories), dies at 74
- 1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns
- 1992 Tom Alexander, model/actor (Kurt-Forbidden Dance), dies of AIDs
- 1997 Brian Keith, American actor (Family Affair, Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap), commits suicide at 75
- 2000 David Tomlinson, British actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Helter Skelter), dies from a stroke at 83
- 2003 Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
- 2005 Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
- 2007 Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)