Deaths
- February 3 – Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners)
- February 13 – Martin Balsam, actor (Murray on Archie Bunker's Place)
- February 15 – McLean Stevenson, actor (Lt. Col. Henry Blake on M*A*S*H)
- February 15 – Tommy Rettig, former child actor (Jeff on Lassie)
- March 4 – Minnie Pearl, comedian
- March 5 – Whit Bissell, character actor
- March 9 – George Burns, 100, comedian
- March 11 – Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey)
- April 21 – Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, sports commentator
- May 20 – Jon Pertwee, 76, former star of Doctor Who.
- June 2 – Ray Combs, 40, former host of Family Feud, (suicide)
- June 5 - Vito Scotti, 78, American character actor, Gilligan's Island
- June 16 – Mel Allen, sports commentator
- July 21 – Herb Edelman, actor (Stanley Zbornak on The Golden Girls)
- August 27 – Greg Morris, actor (Mission: Impossible)
- September 13 – Tupac Shakur, 25, actor/songwriter.
- September 29 – Leslie Crowther, 63, British TV comedian & game show host
- October 6 – Ted Bessell, actor (That Girl)
- October 13 - Beryl Reid, actress
- October 27 – Morey Amsterdam. actor and comedian (Buddy on The Dick Van Dyke Show)
- December 8 – Howard E. Rollins, Jr., actor (Tibbs on the TV version of In the Heat of the Night)
- December 11 – Willie Rushton, 59, comedian, actor, and performer.
- December 12 – Larry Gates, soap opera actor (Guiding Light)
- December 14 - Edward K. Milkis, 65, producer
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