Deaths
- January 12 – Maurice Gibb, 53, actor/songwriter of the Bee Gees.
- January 23 – Nell Carter, 54, actress, singer, of Gimme a Break.
- February 27 – Fred Rogers, 74, TV's "Mister Rogers" of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
- March 22 – Terry Lloyd, 50, news reporter, killed during Iraq War skirmish.
- March 30 – Gaby Rado, 48, news reporter, accidental death while covering Iraq War.
- April 2 – Pat Leavy, Hannah Finnegan in Fair City after being taken ill on set.
- May 14 - Robert Stack, 84, Eliot Ness in The Untouchables
- June 19 – Laura Sadler, 22 Sandy Harper in Holby City after falling from a balcony.
- July 27 - Bob Hope, 100, comedian, host and actor
- September 11 – John Ritter, 54, known mostly as Jack Tripper from Three's Company, but at the time was involved in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and the cartoon Clifford the Big Red Dog.
- October 4 – James Forlong, 44, dismissed Sky News journalist accused of faking Iraq War report, commits suicide.
- October 17 - Janice Rule, 72, The Fugitive (TV series)
- October 21 – Fred Berry, 52, actor (Freddie "Rerun" Stubbs on What's Happening!!).
- October 27 – Rod Roddy, 66, announcer on Press Your Luck, Soap, and, most famously, The Price Is Right.
- November 9 – Art Carney, 85, actor.
- December 29 – Earl Hindman, 61, actor Wilson J. Wilson Jr. on Home Improvement
- Dinsdale Landen, 71, actor
- Don Taylor, 67, director.
- Bob Monkhouse, 75, Comedian & Entertainer.
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“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)
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