- 1909 Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
- 1956 Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
- 1969 Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64
- 1969 Royal Beal, American actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer at 69
- 1978 Ivan Harold Browning, American stage and screen actor and singer (Shuffle Along - "I'm Just Wild About Harry"), dies at 87
- 1984 Peter Bull, British actor and author (The African Queen, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove), dies of a heart attack at 72
- 1985 George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
- 1989 Anton Diffring [Alfred Pollack], German character actor (Assignment Vienna), dies at 70
- 1989 Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies of ovarian cancer at 42
- 1996 Jon Pertwee, English actor and entertainer (third Doctor in Doctor Who, Worzel Gummidge), dies from a heart attack at 76
- 1996 Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
- 2005 John Donovan "J D" Cannon, American actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory), dies at 83
- 2007 Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer, coach, broadcaster (British Open 1948 3rd), dies at 93
- 2009 Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980)
- 2011 "Macho Man" Randy Savage, American pro wrestler (WWF/SMW/ICW), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 2017 Jimmy Dale, British-Canadian pianist and orchestra leader (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour), dies at 81