Deaths
- January 5 - Sonny Bono, 62, singer and entertainer
- January 21 – Jack Lord, 77, star of Hawaii Five-O
- February 19 – Grandpa Jones, 84, star of Hee Haw, comedian and musician
- February 28 – Dermot Morgan, 45, star of Father Ted
- May 28 – Phil Hartman, 49, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio), shot by his wife in a murder/suicide
- July 6 - Roy Rogers, 86, actor
- July 21 - Robert Young, 91, star of Father Knows Best
- August 6 - Shari Lewis, 65, puppeteer
- September 23 – Mary Frann, 55, actress (Joanna on Newhart)
- September 28 – Eric Malling, 52, Canadian television journalist
- October 3 - Roddy McDowall, 70, actor
- October 17 – Joan Hickson, 92, actress, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
- November 17 – Esther Rolle, 78, actress (Florida on Maude and Good Times)
- November 17 - Dick O'Neill, 70, recurring actor (Family Matters, Home Improvement)
- December 6 – Michael Zaslow, 56, actor (Roger Thorpe on Guiding Light)
- December 13 - Lew Grade, 91, producer and TV station owner
- December 22 – Michelle Thomas, 30, actress (Myra on Family Matters, Justine on The Cosby Show)
- December 28 – Richard Paul, 58, American actor (Carter Country, Match Game)
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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)
“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)