Deaths
- January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
- February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
- February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, actress
- February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
- February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
- March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actor
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
- April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
- April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
- April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
- April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
- May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
- June 28 - Frank Sutton, actor
- August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
- September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
- September 18 - Edna Best, actress
- September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
- September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley of the Dolls
- October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
- November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
- November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
- December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
- December 21 - Richard Long, actor
- December 26 - Jack Benny, actor
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