Gone before forty-five
Marilyn Miller, who was Ziegfeld's biggest star, died at thirty-eight. Helen Morgan sang Bill sitting on a piano and did not reach forty-two. Ten of the people on this list died between 1986 and 1998. The catalogue records dates and does not record causes.
40 in the catalogue.
| Jessie Bartlett Davis | 1861–1905 | 1 productions |
| Mabel Barrison | 1882–1912 | 3 productions |
| Vernon Castle | 1887–1918 | 1 productions |
| Ralph Herz | 1878–1921 | 1 productions |
| Delyle Alda | 1894–1927 | 2 productions |
| Bessie McCoy Davis | 1888–1931 | 1 productions |
| Florence Tempest | 1889–1932 | 1 productions |
| Evelyn Hoey | 1910–1935 | 1 productions |
| Marilyn Miller | 1898–1936 | 6 productions |
| Lyda Roberti | 1906–1938 | 1 productions |
| Dorothy Mackaye | 1899–1940 | 3 productions |
| Helen Morgan | 1900–1941 | 3 productions |
| Ruby Elzy | 1908–1943 | 2 productions |
| Betty Compton | 1906–1944 | 4 productions |
| Gus Shy | 1903–1945 | 3 productions |
| Rags Ragland | 1905–1946 | 1 productions |
| Ronald Graham | 1911–1950 | 3 productions |
| Lee Dixon | 1914–1953 | 2 productions |
| William Eythe | 1918–1957 | 3 productions |
| Carol Haney | 1924–1964 | 1 productions |
| Judy Holliday | 1921–1965 | 1 productions |
| Doretta Morrow | 1928–1968 | 2 productions |
| Lamont Washington | 1943–1968 | 2 productions |
| Nick Adams | 1931–1968 | 4 productions |
| Lee Morgan | 1938–1972 | 2 productions |
| Bruce Yarnell | 1935–1973 | 2 productions |
| Bill Hinnant | 1935–1978 | 1 productions |
| Lenny Baker | 1945–1982 | 1 productions |
| Mark Syers | 1950–1983 | 2 productions |
| Charles Ward | 1952–1986 | 1 productions |
| Jeffrey Mylett | 1949–1986 | 1 productions |
| Reed Jones | 1953–1989 | 2 productions |
| Timothy Meyers | 1945–1989 | 2 productions |
| Isao Sato | 1949–1990 | 1 productions |
| Ronald Dyson | 1950–1990 | 1 productions |
| Irving Allen Lee | 1948–1992 | 2 productions |
| Paul Jabara | 1948–1992 | 1 productions |
| Ron Richardson | 1952–1995 | 2 productions |
| Gregg Burge | 1957–1998 | 5 productions |
| Francis Ruivivar | 1960–2001 | 2 productions |