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.
45 people in the catalogue.
| 1882–1912 | Mabel Barrison | 10 productions |
| 1887–1918 | Vernon Castle | 11 productions |
| 1878–1921 | Ralph Herz | 2 productions |
| 1894–1927 | Delyle Alda | 5 productions |
| 1888–1931 | Bessie McCoy Davis | 4 productions |
| 1889–1932 | Florence Tempest | 7 productions |
| 1910–1935 | Evelyn Hoey | 4 productions |
| 1898–1936 | Marilyn Miller | 10 productions |
| 1896–1937 | Ted Healy | 3 productions |
| 1906–1938 | Lyda Roberti | 3 productions |
| 1898–1939 | Herbert Mundin | 2 productions |
| 1899–1940 | Dorothy Mackaye | 10 productions |
| 1900–1941 | Helen Morgan | 5 productions |
| 1908–1943 | Ruby Elzy | 4 productions |
| 1906–1944 | Betty Compton | 7 productions |
| 1903–1945 | Gus Shy | 8 productions |
| 1905–1946 | Rags Ragland | 1 productions |
| 1911–1950 | Ronald Graham | 7 productions |
| 1919–1953 | Donald Richards | 2 productions |
| 1910–1953 | Lee Dixon | 2 productions |
| 1926–1955 | Jerry Ross | 2 productions |
| 1918–1957 | William Eythe | 4 productions |
| 1914–1958 | Jack Cole | 6 productions |
| 1924–1964 | Carol Haney | 2 productions |
| 1921–1965 | Judy Holliday | 5 productions |
| 1927–1968 | Doretta Morrow | 3 productions |
| 1943–1968 | Lamont Washington | 3 productions |
| 1931–1968 | Nick Adams | 7 productions |
| 1927–1971 | Virginia Martin | 11 productions |
| 1938–1972 | Lee Morgan | 2 productions |
| 1935–1973 | Bruce Yarnell | 3 productions |
| 1935–1978 | Bill Hinnant | 5 productions |
| 1945–1982 | Lenny Baker | 4 productions |
| 1952–1983 | Mark Syers | 2 productions |
| 1952–1986 | Charles Ward | 1 productions |
| 1949–1986 | Jeffrey Mylett | 1 productions |
| 1953–1989 | Reed Jones | 3 productions |
| 1945–1989 | Timothy Meyers | 2 productions |
| 1949–1990 | Isao Sato | 1 productions |
| 1950–1990 | Ronald Dyson | 1 productions |
| 1948–1992 | Irving Allen Lee | 2 productions |
| 1948–1992 | Paul Jabara | 1 productions |
| 1952–1995 | Ron Richardson | 3 productions |
| 1957–1998 | Gregg Burge | 6 productions |
| 1960–2001 | Francis Ruivivar | 3 productions |