Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Cinematic Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 29 | Jimmy Durante | 86 | US actor and singer |
| February 13 | David Janssen | 48 | US actor |
| February 27 | George Tobias | 78 | US actor (Bewitched and The Waltons) |
| March 5 | Jay Silverheels | 67 | US actor (born in Canada) |
| April 29 | Alfred Hitchcock | 80 | UK-born film director and TV host |
| July 24 | Peter Sellers | 54 | UK comedian and actor |
| August 14 | Dorothy Stratten | 20 | Canadian actress and Playboy model |
| September 12 | Lillian Randolph | 81 | US actress (Amos 'n' Andy) |
| November 7 | Steve McQueen | 50 | US film and television actor (Wanted: Dead or Alive) |
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)