Deaths
- January 23 – Bob Keeshan, actor, starred as Captain Kangaroo (b. 1927)
- January 27 – Jack Paar, The Tonight Show host (b. 1918)
- April 22 – Pat Tillman, NFL player, Army Ranger (b. 1976)
- April 24 – Estée Lauder, cosmetics products pioneer (b. 1906)
- May 9 – Alan King, comedian, actor (b. 1927)
- May 17 – Tony Randall, television actor (The Odd Couple) (b. 1920)
- May 29 – Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
- June 5 – Ronald Reagan, actor, Governor of California, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
- June 6 - Riley Fox, murder victim (b. 2001)
- June 10 – Ray Charles, musician (b. 1930)
- July 1 – Marlon Brando, actor (b. 1924)
- July 8 - Albert Francis Capone, son of Al Capone (b. 1918)
- August 1 - Alex Scott, lemonade stand (b. 1996)
- August 6 – Rick James, funk singer (b. 1948)
- August 8 – Fay Wray, King Kong actress (b. 1907)
- August 26 – Laura Branigan, pop singer (b. 1957)
- August 30 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer (b. 1906)
- October 4 – Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts (b. 1927)
- October 5 – Rodney Dangerfield, comic and actor (b. 1921)
- October 10 – Christopher Reeve, actor and activist (b. 1952)
- October 16 – Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary, newsman (b. 1925)
- November 7 – Howard Keel, actor, singer (b. 1919)
- November 13 – Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), rapper (b. 1968)
- November 19 – Jesse Koochin (b. 1998)
- November 29 – John Drew Barrymore, actor (b. 1932)
- December 8 - Darrell Lance Abbott, heavy metal musician with Pantera (b. 1966)
- December 26 – Reggie White, NFL player (b. 1961)
- December 28 – Jerry Orbach, actor (b. 1935)
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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)