Deaths
- January 15 – Fran Ryan, character actress (Doris Ziffle #2 on Green Acres), sister of Irene Ryan
- February 10 – Jim Varney, 50, actor and comedian who created the character Ernest P. Worrell
- February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, 77, cartoonist, creator of Peanuts
- March 25 – Helen Martin, 90, veteran African American character actress (Pearl on 227)
- April 10 – Larry Linville, 60, actor (Frank Burns on the TV version of M*A*S*H)
- June 18 - Nancy Marchand, 71, actress on "The Sopranos"
- July 14 – Meredith MacRae, 56, actress on Petticoat Junction
- August 6 - Sir Robin Day, 76, political broadcaster and commentator
- August 12 – Loretta Young, 87, actress
- September 14 – Beah Richards, 80, actress
- September 17 – Paula Yates, 41, presenter
- September 26 – Richard Mulligan, 67, actor (Burt on Soap and Harry on Empty Nest)
- October 18 – Julie London, 74, singer, actress (Emergency!)
- October 30 – Steve Allen, 78, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
- December 6 – Werner Klemperer, 80, actor (Col. Wilhelm Klink on Hogan's Heroes)
- December 23 - Victor Borge, 90, Danish comedian and pianist
- December 26 – Jason Robards, 78, actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“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)