Deaths
- March 1 – Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester in The Addams Family)
- March 24 – Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr. Zorba in Ben Casey)
- March 31 – Jack Howarth, actor (Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street, 1960–1984)
- May 4 – Jack Barry, game show host/producer
- May 4 – Diana Dors, British actress
- May 16 – Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka Gravas on Taxi)
- June 15 – Ned Glass, actor
- August 27 – Bernard Youens, actor (Stan Ogden in Coronation Street, 1964–1984)
- October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (of a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a freak accident on the set of the TV series Cover Up)
Read more about this topic: 1984 In American Television
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)