Deaths
- January 14 - Douglas Sirk, director
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
- February 27 - Joan Greenwood, actress
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
- March 21 - Robert Preston, actor, singer
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
- June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
- June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer
- July 3 - Viola Dana, actress
- July 7 - Hannelore Schroth, actress
- July 31 - Joseph E. Levine, producer
- August 1 - Pola Negri, actress
- August 17 - Clarence Brown, director
- August 28 - John Huston, actor, director
- August 29 - Lee Marvin, actor
- September 4 - Richard Marquand, director
- September 13 - Mervyn LeRoy, director
- September 23 - Bob Fosse, director and choreographer
- September 25 - Mary Astor, actress
- September 25 - Emlyn Williams, actor
- October 2 - Madeleine Carroll, actress
- October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer
- December 4 - Rouben Mamoulian, director
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