Deaths
- February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor (Coach Ernie Pantusso on Cheers)
- February 28 – Charita Bauer, soap opera actress (Bert Bauer on Guiding Light)
- May 8 – Dolph Sweet, actor (Chief Carl Kanisky on Gimme a Break!)
- May 13 – Selma Diamond, actress (Selma Hacker on Night Court), supposedly the inspiration for a character on The Dick Van Dyke Show
- October 2 – Rock Hudson, actor (McMillan & Wife), from AIDS
- October 12 – Johnny Olson, announcer of The Price Is Right and other game shows
- November 1 – Phil Silvers, actor, comedian (You'll Never Get Rich)
- November 29 – Bill Scott, voice actor of Bullwinkle J. Moose
- December 31 – Ricky Nelson, actor (on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), musician, killed in a plane crash
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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)