The following is a list of deceased people who had an affiliation with the making of Cars and Planes. The article does not include voice talent in non-English dubs.
2000s
- Joe Ranft - Died on August 16th, 2005. He was the co-director and writer of Cars, and performed the voices of Jerry Recycled Batteries and the first voice of Red.
- Justin Wright - Died on March 18th, 2008. He was an animator and writer.
- George Carlin - Died on June 22nd, 2008. He was the first voice of Fillmore.
- Paul Newman - Died on September 28th, 2008. He was the first voice of Doc Hudson.
2010s
- Randy Savage - Died on May 20th, 2011. He was the voice of El Machismo.
- Lynda Petty - Died on March 25th, 2014. She was the voice of Lynda Weathers.
- Tom Magliozzi - Died on November 3rd, 2014. He was the voice of Rusty Rust-eze.
- Anne Meara - Died on May 23rd, 2015. She was the voice of Winnie.
- Daniel Gerson - Died on February 6th, 2016. He created additional screenplay material for the first Cars movie.
- Chuck Berry - Died on March 18th, 2017. He performed one of the versions of Route 66.
- John Cygan - Died on May 13th, 2017. He was the voice of Richard Clayton Kensington, Brush Curber, Idle Threat and additional voices in Cars and Cars Toons.
- Milt Jamin - Died on January 1st, 2018. He was the voice of Ramone and Smokey in Cars 3: Driven to Win.
- Bud Luckey - Died on February 24th, 2018. He was a character designer, conceptual artist, and creator of the additional storyboards for Cars.
- Katherine Helmond - Died on February 23rd, 2019. She was the voice of Lizzie.
- René Auberjonois - Died on December 8th, 2019. He was the voice of André.
- Junior Johnson - Died on December 20th, 2019. He was the voice of Junior Moon.
2020s
- Rob Gibbs - Died on April 24th, 2020. He directed the Cars Toons episodes Moon Mater and Air Mater. He was also one of the writers of Air Mater.
- Jerry Stiller - Died on May 11th, 2020. He was the voice of Harvey.
- Fred Willard - Died on May 15th, 2020. He was the voice of Secretary of the Interior.
- Hal Holbrook - Died on January 23rd, 2021. He was the voice of Mayday.
- Jack Angel - Died on October 19th, 2021. He was the voice of Chuck Armstrong and additional voices in Cars Toons.
- Mickie McGowan - Died on March 12th, 2022. She did additional voices in Cars.
- Jossara Jinaro - Died on April 27th, 2022. She was the voice of Carla Veloso in Cars 2: The Video Game.
- Jan Rabson - Died on October 14th, 2022. He was the voice of T.J. and a few monster trucks in Monster Truck Mater.