- 1885 Maria Gartmann, Dutch actress, dies at 60
James Dean
1955 James Dean, American actor and cultural icon (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause), and 1st actor to be posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award, dies in a car crash at age 24
James Dean
- 1955 Michael Chekhov, Russian-American actor (Rhapsody, Abie's Irish Rose), dies at 64
- 1959 Taylor Holmes, American actor (Sleeping Beauty, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
- 1970 Patrick Aherne, British actor (Green Dolphin Street, Rocketship X-M, The Court Jester), dies at 69
- 1977 Mary Ford [Iris Colleen Summers], American vocalist, guitarist and actress (Les Paul, Queen of Outer Space), dies from complications of alcohol abuse at 53
- 1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
- 1983 William Elliott, American actor (Bernie Loves Bridget", "Adam 12"), dies at 49
Simone Signoret
1985 Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64
Simone Signoret
- 1988 Chick Chandler [Fehmer Chandler], American actor (Seven Doors to Death, One Happy Family), dies at 83
- 1993 Gordon Douglas, actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85
- 1993 Tony Brafa, actor (Enrico Pallazzo-Naked Gun), dies at 72
- 1994 Lina Basquette, actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87
- 1995 George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
- 1998 Marius Goring, British actor (Stairway to Heaven, The Red Shoes), dies from cancer at 86
- 2004 Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
- 2004 Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
- 2012 Turhan Bey [Sahultavy], Austrian-born actor dubbed "The Turkish Delight" (Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), dies from Parkinson's disease at 90