Deaths
- January 16 - Prem Nazir, Indian actor
- January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress
- February 3 - Lionel Newman, American composer
- February 3 - John Cassavetes, American actor, director
- February 11 - T. E. B. Clarke, English screenwriter
- February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director
- February 17 - Marguerite Roberts, American writer
- March 6 - Harry Andrews, American actor
- March 12 - Maurice Evans, English actor
- March 27 - May Allison, American actress
- April 15 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director
- April 26 - Lucille Ball, American film and television actress
- April 30 - Sergio Leone, Italian Western director
- June 27 - Jack Buetel, American actor
- June 28 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
- July 3 - Jim Backus, American actor
- July 10 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor
- July 11 - Laurence Olivier, English actor
- July 18 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress
- August 16 - Amanda Blake, American actress
- September 22 - Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter
- October 4 - Graham Chapman, English comedian
- October 6 - Bette Davis, American actress
- October 8 - Onest Conley, American actor
- October 16 - Cornel Wilde, American actor
- October 20 - Anthony Quayle, English actor
- November 6 - Margit Makay, Hungarian actress
- November 20 - Lynn Bari, American actress
- December 16 - Aileen Pringle, American actress
- December 16 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
- December 16 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
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—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)