Deaths
- February 22 – David Susskind, 66, commentator and producer
- February 25 – James Coco, 56, actor
- March 3 – Danny Kaye, 74, actor and comedian
- March 21 – Dean Paul Martin, 35, actor on Misfits of Science and son of Dean Martin
- March 28 – Patrick Troughton, 67, actor who is best known for playing the Second Doctor on the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969.
- April 17 – Dick Shawn, 63, comedian
- May 4 – Cathryn Damon, 56, actress (Mary on Soap and Cassie on Webster)
- May 31 – Roy Winsor, 75, soap opera writer (Search for Tomorrow)
- June 6 - Fulton Mackay, actor (Porridge)
- June 24 – Jackie Gleason, 71, comedian
- August 6 – Quinn Martin, 65, producer
- August 11 – Clara Peller, 85, Wendy's spokesperson (Where's the Beef? ad campaign)
- August 19 – Hayden Rorke, 76, actor (Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie)
- September 11 – Lorne Greene, 72, actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza)
- September 22 – Dan Rowan, 65, comedian, co-host of Laugh-In
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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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)