Deaths
- January 12 – Keye Luke, 86, character actor
- January 25 – Stanley Brock, 59, character actor
- February 3 – Harry Ackerman, 78, producer (Bewitched)
- Nancy Kulp, 69, actress (Miss Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies).
- February 6 – Danny Thomas, 77, actor (Make Room for Daddy)
- February 24 – George Gobel, 71, comedian.
- March 3 – Vance Colvig, Jr., 72, actor (Bozo the Clown on KTLA in Los Angeles)
- April 10 - Natalie Schafer, 90, actress Gilligan's Island.
- June 9 – Joe Hamilton, 62, producer (The Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family), former husband of Carol Burnett and father of Carrie Hamilton.
- July 1 – Michael Landon, 54, actor, producer (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to Heaven) .
- July 15 – Bert Convy, 57, game show host (Super Password).
- Theodore Wilson, 47, character actor (That's My Mama)
- July 23 – Candice Crowthford, 66, actress
- August 6 – Harry Reasoner, 68, news anchor.
- August 22 – Colleen Dewhurst, 67, actress (Murphy Brown, Anne of Green Gables).
- September 4 – Tom Tryon, 65, actor (Texas John Slaughter)
- September 7 – Ben Piazza, 57, actor (Dallas)
- September 15 – John Hoyt, 85, actor (Gimme a Break!)
- October 9 – Thalmus Rasulala, 51, actor (Roots, What's Happening!!)
- October 11 – Redd Foxx, 68, comedian, star of Sanford and Son.
- October 24 – Gene Roddenberry, 70, creator of Star Trek.
- November 2 – Irwin Allen, 75, producer (Lost in Space)
- November 5 – Fred MacMurray, 83, actor on My Three Sons.
Read more about this topic: 1991 In American Television
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)
“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)