Deaths
- February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, 12, actress from Poltergeist and Happy Days
- March 10 – Andy Gibb, 30, actor/songwriter of the Bee-Gees
- April 5 – Alf Kjellin, 68, actor, director.
- May 15 – Andrew Duggan, 64, character actor.
- May 18 – Daws Butler, prolific voice actor whose work included The Jetsons and several animated TV commercials.
- May 27 – Florida Friebus, 78, actress (The Bob Newhart Show).
- July 9 – Barbara Woodhouse, 78, dog trainer (Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way)
- July 21 – Jack Clark, 67, game show announcer.
- July 25 – Judith Barsi, 10, American child actress
- July 31 – Trinidad Silva, 38, actor (Jesus Martinez on Hill Street Blues), in a car accident
- September 11 – John Sylvester White, 68, actor (Welcome Back, Kotter).
- September 20 – Roy Kinnear, 54, actor/comedian.
- September 29 – Charles Addams, 76, cartoonist whose macabre drawings inspired The Addams Family.
- October 11 – Wayland Flowers, 58, puppeteer (Madame's Place), from AIDS.
- October 31 – John Houseman, 86, actor (The Paper Chase, Silver Spoons)
- December 6 – Timothy Patrick Murphy, 29, actor (Dallas), from AIDS
- December 12 – Dick Clair, television comedy writer, who asked to be cryogenically frozen
- December 20 – Max Robinson, ABC News correspondent, from AIDS
- December 27 – Jess Oppenheimer, comedy writer who created I Love Lucy
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“I sang of death but had I known
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