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:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)