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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