- 1906 Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly"), dies at 58
- 1912 Samuel "Sam" van Beem, Flemish actor (Fanfan la Tulipe), dies at 62
- 1945 Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57
- 1951 Wols [Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze], German cartoonist and painter, dies at 38
- 1955 Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
- 1957 Helen Haye [Hay], British stage and silent and sound screen actress (Honour in Pawn; Girl in the Taxi; Spy in Black), dies at 83
- 1967 James Dunn, American vaudeville performer, stage and screen actor (Bad Girl; Bright Eyes; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies from surgery complications at 65
- 1969 Drew Pearson, American newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
- 1977 Ethel Waters, American actress (Beulah), singer ("Stormy Weather"), dies at 80
- 1979 Doris Kenyon, American silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81
- 1981 Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies
- 1984 Howland Chamberlin, American actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
- 1986 Murray Hamilton, American character actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Anatomy of a Murder), dies of lung cancer at 63
- 1987 Philip Friend, British actor (Dick Turpin, Buccaneer's Girl, Vulture, Fur Collar), dies at 72
- 1991 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director and actress (Jane Eyre, Barocco), dies at 76
- 1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
- 1992 Morris Carnovsky, American actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
- 1994 Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
- 1995 Benay Venuta [Benvenuta Rose Crooke], American actress, singer and dancer (Annie Get Your Gun; Call Me Mister), dies of lung cancer at 84
- 2003 (Arlington) Rand Brooks, American actor (Gone With The Wind; Rin Tin Tin), dies of cancer at 84
- 2005 Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
- 2008 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
- 2009 Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
Tommy Morrison (1969-2013)
American boxer (WBO heavyweight title, 1993) and actor (Rocky V), dies from AIDS at 44
- 2015 Dean Jones, American actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Love Bug), dies at 84
- 2016 Jon Polito, actor (Fire With Fire, Homicide), dies at 65
- 2017 Novella Nelson, American actress (Antwone Fisher, Purlie, Chiefs), dies at 78
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