- 1954 Eugene Pallette, American actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro), dies at 65
- 1963 Cruys Voorbergh [Ernest Pieter Coningh], Dutch actor and director (De vliegende Hollander, Flying Dutchman), dies from cardiac arrest at 64
- 1965 Otto Lederer, Austrian actor (The Jazz Singer), dies at 79
- 1968 Isabel Withers, American actress, dies at 72
- 1971 David Street [Patrick Devlin], American actor and singer (Moonrise; I Surrender Dear; Broadway Open House), dies of cancer at 53
- 1971 Veronica Turleigh, Irish actress (Promoter), dies at 68
- 1980 Barbara O'Neil, American actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas), dies at 70
- 1980 Dirch Passer, prolific Danish actor (Going for Broke, Mig og mafiaen), dies of a myocardial infarction at 54
- 1980 Duncan Renaldo, Spanish actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies from lung cancer at 76
- 1982 Michael Thoma, American actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
- 1983 Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
Frank Capra (1897-1991)
Italian-AmericanAcademy Award-winning film director (It's a Wonderful Life; It Happened One Nigh; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 94
- 1993 Leon Liebgold, Polish American actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
- 1994 James T. Aubrey, American television executive (President of the CBS television network 1959-65), dies of a heart attack at 75
- 2000 Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Escape to Athena), dies at 86
- 2001 Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
- 2001 Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), dies at 27
- 2006 Annemarie Wendl, German actress (Lindenstraße, Der Seitensprung), dies at 91
- 2010 Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian, dies after a car accident at 60
- 2012 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (The Green Mile), dies from respiratory failure at 54
- 2015 Judy Carne, English comedienne and actress (Laugh-In), dies at 76
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