Deaths
- March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, television host
- July 20 – Frank Reynolds, ABC journalist
- July 29 – Raymond Massey, star of Dr. Kildare
- August 3 – Carolyn Jones, actress, Morticia in The Addams Family
- August 28 – Jan Clayton, actress
- August 29 – Simon Oakland, actor
- October 23 – Jessica Savitch, NBC news anchor, age 36
- November 22 – Michael Conrad, actor, Sgt. Phil Esterhasz on Hill Street Blues
- November 28 – Christopher George, actor
- December 28 – William Demarest, actor, Uncle Charlie in My Three Sons
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)