- 1930 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
- 1947 Dudley Digges, Irish actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, The Invisible Man), dies at 68
- 1958 Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81
- 1963 Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29
- 1967 Lyle Latell, American actor (Not of This Earth; Dick Tracy's Dilemma; Sky Dragon),, dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1981 Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
- 1982 James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
- 1983 Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
- 1984 Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66
- 1984 Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85
- 1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70
- 1993 Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54
- 1994 Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
- 1997 Don Messick, American cartoon voice (Scooby-Doo, Bamm Bamm Rubble), dies at 62
- 2002 Mary Jeanette "Peggy" Moran, American actress (Double Date, Horror Island), dies from injuries at 84
- 2005 Robert Sloman, English screenwriter, dies at 79
- 2012 Anita Björk, Swedish actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People), dies at 89
- 2015 Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons], Irish-American actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet Man), dies at 95
- 2017 Robert Guillaume [Williams], American actor (Rafiki- The Lion King, Sports Night, Benson, Soap), dies at 89