Deaths
- January 16 - Peter Butterworth, actor
- February 12 - Jean Renoir, director
- March 1 - Dolores Costello, actress
- March 22 - Ben Lyon, actor, also credited as the man who supposedly "discovered" and renamed Marilyn Monroe
- May 26 - George Brent, actor
- May 29 - Mary Pickford, American actress
- June 11 - John Wayne, American actor
- July 8 - Michael Wilding, English actor
- August 17 - Vivian Vance, American actress
- September 8 - Jean Seberg, actress
- September 12 - Jocelyne LaGarde, Tahitian-born actress
- November 23 - Merle Oberon, actress
- November 30 - Zeppo Marx, American comic actor
- December 11 - Adile Nasit, actress & director
- December 13 - Jon Hall, actor
- December 25 - Joan Blondell, actress
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