Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Cinematic Credibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2 | Cyril Fletcher | 91 | British comedian (That's Life!) |
| January 18 | Lamont Bentley | 31 | American actor (Moesha and The Parkers) |
| January 23 | Johnny Carson | 79 | American comedian, host of The Tonight Show for 30 years. |
| March 10 | Dave Allen | 68 | Irish comedian, host of solo shows on BBC1 and ITV. |
| March 25 | Paul Henning | 93 | producer (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres) |
| April 5 | Debralee Scott | 52 | actress, game show panelist (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Match Game) |
| April 26 | Mason Adams | 86 | actor (Lou Grant) |
| May 22 | Thurl Ravenscroft | 91 | actor, TV's Tony the Tiger of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercials. |
| May 26 | Eddie Albert | 99 | actor (Green Acres) |
| June 24 | Paul Winchell | 82 | actor (The Smurfs, Wacky Races, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) |
| June 25 | John Fiedler | 80 | actor (The Bob Newhart Show, Buffalo Bill, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) |
| June 26 | Richard Whiteley | 61 | presenter, host of Countdown. |
| July 11 | Gretchen Franklin | 94 | actress. |
| July 20 | James Doohan | 85 | actor (Scotty on the original Star Trek) |
| August 7 | Peter Jennings | 67 | ABC news anchor |
| August 8 | Barbara Bel Geddes | 82 | actress (Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Southworth Ewing Farlow on Dallas), of lung cancer |
| August 9 | Kay Tremblay | 91 | actress (Road to Avonlea) |
| August 23 | Brock Peters | 78 | actor. |
| September 2 | Bob Denver | 70 | actor (Gilligan's Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) |
| September 25 | Don Adams | 82 | actor (Get Smart, Tennessee Tuxedo, and Inspector Gadget) |
| October 2 | Nipsey Russell | 87 | actor/comedian. |
| October 3 | Ronnie Barker | 76 | comedian, half of The Two Ronnies |
| October 5 | Ray Bumatai | 53 | actor |
| October 7 | Charles Rocket | 56 | actor (Saturday Night Live) |
| October 31 | Mary Wimbush | 81 | actress (Poldark, Jeeves and Wooster, Century Falls) |
| November 13 | Eddie Guerrero | 38 | professional wrestler and star of WWE SmackDown |
| November 24 | Pat Morita | 72 | Japanese-American actor (Sanford and Son, Happy Days, Ohara) |
| November 29 | Wendie Jo Sperber | 47 | actress (Babes, Bosom Buddies) |
| December 16 | John Spencer | 58 | actor (The West Wing, L.A. Law) |
| Years in television: 2005 |
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)