- 1721 Thomas Doggett, British comedy actor (Drury Lane Theatre), dies at approximately 51
- 1927 George Nichols, American director and actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62 or 63
- 1946 Raimu [Jules Auguste Cesar Muraire], French actor (The Baker's Wife, Marius, Fanny), dies from a heart attack at 62
- 1949 Richard Dix, American actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron, The Ghost Ship), dies from a heart attack at 56
- 1956 Theo Frenkel, Dutch actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies at 85
- 1959 Olin Howlin, American actor (Gone with the Wind, Them!, Circus Boy), dies at 73
- 1971 James Westerfield, American actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny), dies from a heart attack at 59
- 1973 Glenn Strange, American actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
- 1974 Carlyle Blackwell Jr, American actor (The Pilgrim Lady, The Triumph of the Rat), dies at 71
- 1976 Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
- 1980 Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
- 1988 Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
- 1990 Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
- 1993 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
- 1999 Willy Millowitsch, German actor (National Lampoon's European Vacation), dies from heart failure at 90
- 2003 Gordon Mitchell [Charles Allen Pendleton], American actor and bodybuilder (Sinbad), dies a 80
- 2009 John Hart, American actor (The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Captain Africa), dies from complications of dementia at 91
- 2014 Polly Bergen [Nellie Burgin], American actress, singer, television host, and writer (Rhoda-Winds of War, The Helen Morgan Story), dies of natural causes at 84
- 2015 Jack Larson, American playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman), dies at 87
- 2016 Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (LA Confidential, 8 Mile), dies at 71