Deaths
- January 15 – Fran Ryan, character actress (Doris Ziffle #2 on Green Acres), sister of Irene Ryan
- February 10 – Jim Varney, 50, actor and comedian who created the character Ernest P. Worrell
- February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, 77, cartoonist, creator of Peanuts
- March 25 – Helen Martin, 90, veteran African American character actress (Pearl on 227)
- April 10 – Larry Linville, 60, actor (Frank Burns on the TV version of M*A*S*H)
- June 18 - Nancy Marchand, 71, actress on "The Sopranos"
- July 14 – Meredith MacRae, 56, actress on Petticoat Junction
- August 6 - Sir Robin Day, 76, political broadcaster and commentator
- August 12 – Loretta Young, 87, actress
- September 14 – Beah Richards, 80, actress
- September 17 – Paula Yates, 41, presenter
- September 26 – Richard Mulligan, 67, actor (Burt on Soap and Harry on Empty Nest)
- October 18 – Julie London, 74, singer, actress (Emergency!)
- October 30 – Steve Allen, 78, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
- December 6 – Werner Klemperer, 80, actor (Col. Wilhelm Klink on Hogan's Heroes)
- December 23 - Victor Borge, 90, Danish comedian and pianist
- December 26 – Jason Robards, 78, actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)