Deaths
- February 2 – Boris Karloff, actor
- February 9 – Gabby Hayes, actor
- February 19 – Madge Blake, actress
- March 25 – Billy Cotton, British Entertainer & Bandleader
- May 3 – Karl Freund, cinematographer, who, as director of photography on I Love Lucy, developed the practical use of the three-camera TV sitcom production
- June 22 – Judy Garland, singer/actor
- July 18 – Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel #1 on Green Acres)
- August 9 – Sharon Tate, actress murdered by disciples of Charles Manson
- September 8 – Bud Collyer, game show host (Beat the Clock)
- September 19 – Rex Ingram, actor
- December 22 – Wilbur Hatch, musical director for many TV shows including I Love Lucy
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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)
“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)