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January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash west of Las Vegas while returning home to Los Angeles from a War Bond tour.; June 4 – British-set wartime romantic drama Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, opens at Radio City Music Hall in New York, in what will become a record-breaking 10-week run.
August 2 – Mae Costello, American actress (born 1882) September 2 – Paul Leni, German film and art director (born 1885) October 3 – Jeanne Eagels, American actress (born 1890) October 31 – Norman Pritchard, actor, Olympic athlete (born 1877) November 2 – Leo D. Maloney, actor and director (born 1888) November 24 – Raymond Hitchcock ...
1874 – Passage de Vénus, first precedent of a film; On December 9, 1874, French astronomer Pierre Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. They were purportedly taken in Japan. It is the oldest film on IMDb. 1878 –
August 6 - Ray Buktenica, American character actor; August 15 – Barbara Bouchet, German-American actress; August 17 – Robert De Niro, American actor; August 18 – Martin Mull, American actor and comedian (died 2024) August 20 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor; August 21 Lino Capolicchio, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (died 2022)
August 21 - Jack Weston, American actor (died 1996) August 24 – Jimmy Gardner, English actor (died 2010) August 28 – Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004) August 29 – Tanis Chandler, French-born American actress (died 2006) August 31 - Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian and singer (died 2003)
August 2 – Filming a nighttime spin before a large crowd at DeMille Field in Los Angeles for the movie The Skywayman, stunt pilot and film actor Ormer Locklear and his flying partner Milton "Skeets" Elliot are killed when their Curtiss JN-4 fails to come out of the spin and crashes into the sludge pool of an oil well, igniting a massive ...
August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, actor (born 1895) August 30 – Eddie Lyons, American actor (born 1886) September 8 – Kisaburo Kurihara, Japanese actor (born 1885) September 11 – Matsunosuke Onoe, actor (born 1875) October 31 – Harry Houdini, magician & actor (born 1874) November 7 – Tom Forman, silent film actor & director (born 1893)
August 8 – Paul Porcasi, Italian actor; August 10 – Léon Gaumont, French film pioneer; August 12 – Egon Brecher, Austrian actor, director; August 13 – H. G. Wells, British science fiction writer; August 26 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter; August 28 – Florence Turner, American actress