Deaths
- February 5 – Joe Raposo, 51, composer (various songs from Sesame Street and The Electric Company, as well as the Three's Company theme song)
- April 26 – Lucille Ball, 77, actress, comedian (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy)
- May 1 – Douglass Watson, 68, soap opera actor (Mac on Another World)
- May 7 - Guy Williams, 65, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
- May 20 – Gilda Radner, 42, actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- July 3 – Jim Backus, 76, actor (Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island and voice of Mr. Magoo)
- July 4 - Vic Perrin, 73, voice actor, the original Control Voice The Outer Limits, and in Hanna-Barbera cartoons
- July 10 – Mel Blanc, 81, voice actor who spoke for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and countless other cartoon characters, and especially in Warner Bros. cartoons. He also did irritating voices for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
- July 18 – Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, actress (My Sister Sam) -- murdered by a stranger!
- September 17 – Jay Stewart, 71, an announcer of Let's Make a Deal and other game shows, (suicide)
- October 4 – Graham Chapman, 48, comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus), one day before the 20th anniversary of that show's premiere.
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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)
“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)