- 1938 Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1949 Will Cuppy, American humorist (The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody), dies at 65
- 1967 Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64
- 1969 Rex Ingram, American actor (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tarzan of the Apes, The ten Commandments), dies of a heart attack at 73
- 1973 Bobby Gilbert, American actor (Some Like It Hot, The Rebel Set), dies of hepatitis at 75
- 1974 Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63
- 1984 June Preisser, American acrobatic dancer and actress (Babes in Arms; Strike Up the Band), dies in a car crash at 64
- 1986 Vivian Duncan, American vaudevillian (Duncan Sisters), actress (Topsy and Eva), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- 1989 Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats), dies
- 1992 Frederick Combs, American stage and screen actor (The Boys In The Band), playwright, and director, dies of AIDS at 56
- 1993 Richard Landau, American screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
- 2000 Ann Doran, American actress (Longstreet, Shirley, Rebel Without a Cause), dies at 89
- 2000 Gloria Talbott, American film and television actress, sometimes known as "the Scream Queen" for her work in B-movies, dies of kidney failure at 69
- 2006 Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
- 2009 Eduard Zimmermann, German broadcaster (b. 1929)
- 2013 Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (President of Nintendo, 1949-2003, owner of Seattle Mariners), dies at 85
- 2017 Bernie Casey, American actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop), dies at 78
- 2021 Jimmy Greaves, English soccer striker (57 caps; FIFA World Cup 1966; Chelsea, Tottenham) and journalist/broadcaster (The Sun, World of Sport, On the Ball), dies at 81
- 2021 John Challis, British stage and screen actor (Only Fools and Horses - "Boycie"; Green Green Grass), dies of cancer at 79