Month
Date
Name
Age
Country
Profession
Notable films
January
8 Gale Page 69
US
Actress
15 Shepperd Strudwick 75
US
Actor
19 Robert Carson 73
US
Screenwriter
24 George Cukor 83
US
Director
27 Louis de Funès 68
France
Actor, Director
28 Billy Fury 42
UK
Singer, Actor
30 Joan Valerie 71
US
Actress
February
10 Eduard Franz 80
US
Actor
13 Marian Nixon 78
US
Actress
19 Charles Bluhdorn 56
Austria
Studio Executive
19 Alice White 75
US
Actress
21 Marie Mosquini 83
US
Actress
25 Tennessee Williams 71
US
Screenwriter
27 Ruth Dunning 71
UK
Actress
March
7 Robert Bray 65
US
Actor
8 William Walton 80
UK
Composer
9 Faye Emerson 65
US
Actress
14 Maurice Ronet 55
France
Actor
16 Arthur Godfrey 79
US
Actor
27 James Hayter 75
India
Actor
28 Walter Reisch 79
Austria
Screenwriter
April
4 Buster Crabbe 75
US
Actor
4 Gloria Swanson 84
US
Actress
5 Bronisław Kaper 81
Poland
Composer
11 Dolores del Río 77
Mexico
Actress
15 Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. 67
Mexico
Actor
21 Walter Slezak 80
Austria
Actor
23 Selena Royle 78
US
Actress
26 Shirley Deane 70
US
Actress
26 Vaughn Taylor 73
US
Actor
May
1 Joseph Ruttenberg 93
Ukraine
Cinematographer
5 John Williams 80
UK
Actor
8 Fay Spain 50
US
Actress
22 Art Cruickshank 68
US
Special Effects Artist
23 George Bruns 68
US
Composer
23 Eve Gray 87
UK
Actress
25 Sydney Box 78
UK
Producer, Screenwriter
28 John C. Howard 52
US
Film Editor
30 Burnett Guffey 78
US
Cinematographer
June
12 Norma Shearer 80
Canada
Actress
22 David MacDonald 79
UK
Director
23 Jonathan Latimer 76
US
Screenwriter
30 Herbert Baker 62
US
Screenwriter
July
1 Charles G. Clarke 84
US
Cinematographer
5 Harry James 67
US
Musician, Actor
9 Robert Dawn 61
US
Makeup Artist
15 Eddie Foy Jr. 78
US
Actor
16 Samson Raphaelson 89
US
Screenwriter
17 Byron Kennedy 33
Australia
Producer
20 E. Preston Ames 77
US
Art Director
23 Georges Auric 84
France
Composer
25 Jerome Moross 69
US
Composer
29 Luis Buñuel 83
Spain
Screenwriter, Director, Actor
29 Raymond Massey 86
Canada
Actor
29 David Niven 73
UK
Actor
30 Lynn Fontanne 95
UK
Actress
August
1 Peter Arne 64
UK
Actor
3 Carolyn Jones 53
US
Actress
5 Judy Canova 69
US
Actress
26 Mike Kellin 61
US
Actor
28 Jan Clayton 66
US
Actress
29 Simon Oakland 68
US
Actor
September
15 LeRoy Prinz 88
US
Choreographer, Director
16 Henry Grace 76
US
Set Decorator
27 Ben Carruthers 47
US
Actor
30 William Elliott 49
US
Actor
October
5 Rafael Bertrand 66
Cuba
Actor
8 Joan Hackett 49
US
Actress
10 Ralph Richardson 80
UK
Actor, Director
11 William Hornbeck 82
US
Film Editor
14 Paul Fix 82
US
Actor
15 Pat O'Brien 83
US
Actor
17 Vittorio Nino Novarese 76
Italy
Costume Designer
18 Barbara Karinska 97
Ukraine
Costume Designer
22 Paul Hardwick 64
UK
Actor
November
? Eleanore Whitney 66
US
Actress
8 Robert Agnew 84
US
Actor
15 John Le Mesurier 71
UK
Actor
18 Marcel Dalio 83
France
Actor
22 Michael Conrad 58
US
Actor
28 Johnnie Davis 73
US
Actor
28 Christopher George 52
US
Actor
December
2 Fifi D'Orsay 79
Canada
Actress
5 Robert Aldrich 65
US
Director
8 Slim Pickens 64
US
Actor
13 Leora Dana 60
US
Actress
17 Hal Pereira 78
US
Art Director
21 Rod Cameron 73
Canada
Actor
22 Charles Lloyd-Pack 81
UK
Actor
28 William Demarest 91
US
Actor
29 Janet Webb 52
UK
Actress
