- Jan 3 Joyce Collins, American jazz and film and television session pianist, singer, and educator, dies at 79
- Jan 4 Donal Donnelly, Irish actor (The Godfather: Part III, Dead), dies of cancer at 78
- Jan 8 Monica Maughan, Australian actor (b. 1933)
- Jan 14 Petra Schürmann, German model and TV announcer, Miss World 1956 (b. 1935)
- Jan 21 Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)
- Jan 22 James Mitchell, American dancer and actor (All My Children, Bloomer Girl), dies of pneumonia at 89
- Jan 22 Jean Simmons, British actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls), dies at 80
- Jan 22 Johnny Seven [Fetto], American actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss), dies at 83
- Jan 24 Pernell Roberts, American actor (Bonanza- "Adam"; Trapper John, M.D.), dies at 81
- Jan 27 Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)

- Feb 1 David Brown, American film producer ("The Sting", "Jaws", "Cocoon"), dies at 93
Feb 1 American pro wrestler (NWA World Heavyweight Champion 1973–75), dies from complications of open heart surgery at 68

- Feb 3 Frances Reid, American actress (Days of Our Lives, The Andromeda Strain), dies at 95
- Feb 5 Ian Carmichael, British actor (Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack), dies at 89
- Feb 13 John Reed, British comic actor and singer (Gilbert & Sullivan; D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1951-79), dies after a stroke on his 94th birthday
- Feb 16 Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong soccer striker (32 caps; South China AA, Seiko SA) and actor, dies from nasopharyngeal carcinoma at 53
- Feb 17 Kathryn Grayson [Zelma Hedrick], American vocalist and actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate), dies of natural causes at 88
- Feb 26 Richard Devon, American character actor (Magnum Force, Battle of Blood Island), dies at 83
- Mar 1 Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director, dies at 32
- Mar 4 Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- Mar 4 Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
- Mar 4 Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
- Mar 4 Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
- Mar 10 Corey Haim, Canadian actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive), dies of pneumonia at 38
- Mar 11 Merlin Olsen, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Father Murphy), dies of cancer at 69
- Mar 14 Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), dies from a heart attack at 83
- Mar 18 Fess Parker, American actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller), dies at 85
- Mar 24 Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), dies at 79
- Mar 25 Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
- Mar 28 June Havoc [Ellen Evangeline Hovick], Canadian-born American stage and screen actress, dies at 97
- Mar 31 Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)
Apr 1 American actor (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), dies at 92

- Apr 2 Chris Kanyon, American pro wrestler (WCW/WWF World Tag Team C'ship), dies from suicide at 40
- Apr 6 Corin Redgrave, British actor (Excalibur, A Man For All Seasons), dies at 70
- Apr 10 Dixie Carter, American actress (Designing Women; The Edge of Night), dies at 70
- Apr 12 Palito [Reynaldo Hipolito], Filipino slap-stick comedian and actor, dies at 76
- Apr 12 Peter Haskell, American actor (Bracken's World, Rituals), dies at 75
- Apr 25 Dorothy Provine, American actress (The Roaring 20's; That Darn Cat: Who's Minding The Mint?), and singer, dies of emphysema at 75
- May 1 Danny Aiello III, American film and television stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and actor, dies of pancreatic cancer at 53
- May 1 Helen Wagner, American actress (Mister Peepers; As The World Turns), dies of natural causes at 91
May 2 British-American actress (Gods and Monsters, Georgy Girl), dies of cancer at 67

- May 4 Ernie Harwell, American baseball broadcaster (Detroit Tigers, 1960-2002), dies at 92
- May 4 Zvonimir Levačić - Ševa, Croatian humorist and entertainer (b. 1943)
- May 7 Adele Mara [Adelaida Delgado], American actress, singer and dancer (Cool Million; Wheels), dies at 87
- May 9 Lena Horne, American actress and Grammy Award-winning singer (Cabin in the Sky; Stormy Weather; The Wiz), dies at 92
- May 23 Simon Monjack, English actor, producer, and writer (b. 1970)
- May 24 Ray Alan, English ventriloquist and television entertainer (Lord Charles), dies at 79
- May 24 Tapen Chatterjee, Bengali actor from India (b. 1937)
- May 25 Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (b. 1936)
- May 26 Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (People are Funny), dies at 97
- May 26 Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
- May 27 Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (The Adventure of Sudsakorn), dies at 81
- May 28 Eddie Barth [Edward Bartholetti], American actor and voiceover artist nicknamed "Mr. Gravel" for his raspy vocals (Shaft, Simon & Simon), dies at 78
- May 28 Gary Coleman, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), dies at 42

- May 31 Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (b. 1933)
- May 31 Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (Mauri, Patu!), dies at 67
- May 31 William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
- Jun 3 Rue McClanahan, American actress (The Golden Girls), dies at 76
- Jun 6 Ladislav Smoljak, Czech director, actor and screenwriter (An Uncertain Season), dies of cancer at 78
- Jun 7 Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
- Jun 7 Stuart Cable, Welsh rock drummer (Stereolab), and broadcaster, choles to death on his own vomit at 40
- Jun 13 Jimmy Dean, American country and rockabilly singer ("Big Bad John"), television host (Jimmy Dean Show), actor (Diamonds Are Forever), and sausage maker, dies at 81
- Jun 15 Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro), dies of suspected suicide at 74
- Jun 18 Trent Acid [Michael Verdi], American professional wrestler, dies of a drug overdose at 29
- Jun 19 Ursula Thiess [Schmidt], German actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano), dies at 86
- Jun 23 Pete Quaife, British rock bassist (The Kinks, 1963-69 - "Sunny Afternoon"), and cartoonist, dies of kidney failure at 66
- Jun 25 Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter, dies of cancer at 75
- Jun 30 Elliott Kastner, American film producer (Bobo, Big Sleep), dies at 80
- Jun 30 Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor, and K-pop and J-pop singer, takes his own life at 32
- Jul 1 (Jacqueline) "Ilene" Woods, American radio singer and actress (Disney's Cinderella), dies from complications of Alzheimer's disease at 81
- Jul 2 Laurent Terzieff, French actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way), dies at 75
- Jul 6 Jan Blokker, Dutch journalist, editor (VPRO; de Volkskrant), novelist, and screenwriter, dies at 83
- Jul 12 Buff Cobb [Patrizia Cobb Chapman], American actress and TV personality (Masquerade Party), dies at 82
- Jul 15 Kip King [Jerome Kattan], American character actor (Charlie & Company; The Groundlings; The Smurfs), dies at 72
- Jul 16 James Gammon, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges), dies at 70
- Jul 18 Bernard Giraudeau, French actor (L'Annee des Meduses), screenwriter, and director, dies of cancer at 63
- Jul 19 Cécile Aubry, French actress (The Black Rose), author (Belle et Sébastien), television screenwriter and director, dies at 81
- Jul 23 Daniel Schorr, American broadcast journalist (CBS), dies at 93
- Jul 25 Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
- Jul 27 Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (b. 1949)
- Aug 1 Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director, dies at 100
- Aug 7 Manon Alving, Dutch actress (The Assault, Short American), dies at 87
Aug 8 American actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses) and wife of Roald Dahl, dies at 84

- Aug 10 David L Wolper, American television and film producer (Roots; The Thorn Birds; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 82
- Aug 12 Paul Ryan Rudd, American stage and screen actor, dies at 70
- Aug 13 Lance Cade, American pro wrestler who was WWE Tag Team Champion (with Trevor Murdoch) 2005, dies from accidental drug overdose at 29
- Aug 14 Abbey Lincoln [Anna Wooldridge], African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, actress (Nothing But a Man), and civil rights activist, dies at 80
- Aug 15 James J. Kilpatrick, American newspaper journalist and columnist (60 Minutes), dies at 89
- Aug 21 Conny Stuart [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer, and actress, dies at 96
- Aug 21 Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)
- Aug 24 Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director, dies at 46
- Aug 27 Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)
- Aug 28 William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University
- Aug 30 Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (La Menace), dies of cancer at 67
- Sep 3 Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian, dies after a car accident at 60
- Sep 4 Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84), dies at 86
- Sep 7 Glenn Shadix, American actor (Beetlejuice), dies in a fall at 58
- Sep 11 Harold Gould, American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big Bus), dies at 86
- Sep 11 Kevin McCarthy, American actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Death of a Salesman), dies of pneumonia at 96
- Sep 12 Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- Sep 21 Geoffrey Burgon, British jazz trumpeter, and film, television and concert composer (City Adventures), dies at 69
- Sep 25 Art Gilmore, American radio and television announcer (Highway Patrol), and actor, dies at 98
Sep 26 American actress (Titanic) and founder of the Screen Actors Guild, dies from respiratory failure at 100

- Sep 29 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast), dies of an overdose at 44
Sep 29 American actor (The Defiant Ones; Some Like It Hot; Spartacus), dies at 85

- Oct 4 Norman Wisdom, English comedian (Kraft Music Hall, Trouble In Store), dies at 95
- Oct 5 Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
- Oct 6 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1966)
- Oct 6 Colette Renard, French actress and singer (b. 1924)
- Oct 6 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange), dies at 63
- Oct 7 Antonie Kamerling, Dutch actor (b. 1966)
- Oct 14 Carla Del Poggio [Maria Luisa Attanasio], Italian stage and screen actress (Variety Lights; Immortal Melodies), dies at 84
- Oct 14 Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal), dies of bowel cancer at 58
- Oct 15 Johnny Sheffield, American actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son), dies at 79
- Oct 16 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave it to Beaver), dies at 94
- Oct 19 Graham Crowden, Scottish stage, screen, and radio actor (O Lucky Man!; A Very Peculiar Practice), dies at 87
- Oct 19 Tom Bosley, American actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote, Fiorello!), dies at 83
- Oct 25 Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (b. 1957)
- Oct 27 Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
- Oct 27 James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
- Oct 28 Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
- Oct 28 James MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), dies at 72
- Oct 28 Michael Sharvell-Martin, British stage and screen character actor (Dave Allen At Large), dies of esophageal cancer at 66
- Oct 29 George Hickenlooper, American documentary filmmaker, dies at 47
- Oct 30 Édouard Carpentier, French-Canadian pro wrestler (NWA 1956-57, WWA heavyweight champion), dies of a heart attack at 84
- Nov 1 Charlie O'Donnell, American radio and TV game show announcer (American Bandstand; Wheel of Fortune, 1975-80, & 1989-2010), dies of congestive heart failure at 78 [1]
- Nov 4 Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer, dies of cancer at 50
- Nov 5 Jill Clayburgh, American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), dies of Leukemia at 66
- Nov 10 Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (King Kong), dies at 91
- Nov 11 Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
- Nov 11 William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
- Nov 13 Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1921)
- Nov 16 Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (b. 1946)
- Nov 21 Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (b. 1949)
- Nov 23 Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
- Nov 23 Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)
- Nov 26 Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
- Nov 28 Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Spy Hard, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun), dies of pneumonia at 84
- Nov 29 Alfred Masini, American television producer (b. 1930)
- Nov 29 Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)
- Dec 2 Ron Santo, American Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (9 x MLB All Star; 5 x Gold Glove; Chicago Cubs), dies from bladder cancer at 70
- Dec 5 Alan Armer, American television producer and director (b. 1922)
- Dec 5 Don Meredith, American NFL quarterback. 1960-68 (Dallas Cowboys, 3 x Pro Bowl), broadcaster (Monday Night Football), and actor, dies of a brain hemorrhage at 72
- Dec 7 Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (The Blue Lagoon, Crocodile Dundee II), dies at 82
- Dec 14 Neva Patterson, American actress (The Seven Year Itch, Taxi, Nichols), dies rom complications from a broken hip at 90

- Dec 20 Steve Landesberg, American comedian and actor (Barney Miller - "Dietrich"), from colon cancer on at 74
- Dec 21 David Hennessy [Lord Windlesham], British politician (C) (Leader of the House of Lords 1973-4) and TV executive, dies at 78
- Dec 22 Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (b. 1921)
- Dec 28 Billy Taylor, American jazz pianist (Birdland), orchestra leader (David Frost Show) and broadcaster (NPR), dies after a heart attack at 89 [1]
- Dec 29 Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)
- Dec 30 Michael Allinson, British-American stage and film actor (Man of the Century; Syriana), dies at 90
- Dec 30 Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
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