Deaths
- January 1 – Victor Buono, 43, actor.
- January 5 – Hans Conried, 64, actor.
- January 10 – Paul Lynde, 55, actor and comedian known for his work on Bewitched and Hollywood Squares.
- January 18 – Trent Lehman, a former child actor on Nanny and the Professor, (suicide).
- March 5 – John Belushi, 33, actor, best known for Saturday Night Live
- May 15 – Hugh Beaumont, 73, actor (Ward Cleaver) on Leave It to Beaver.
- July 21 – Dave Garroway, 69, journalist, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- November 4 – Dominique Dunne, 22, actress, homicide.
- December 6 – Will Lee, 74, actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street.
- December 23 – Jack Webb, 62, actor, producer, best known for playing Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet.
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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)
“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)
“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)