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:
“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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)