Date
|
Name
|
Age
|
Notability
|
Source
|
January 1
|
Jon Paul Steuer
|
33
|
Actor best known as the first Quentin Kelly on
Grace Under Fire
. Also guest spots on
Star Trek: The Next Generation
,
Day by Day
,
Homefront
, and
The Wonder Years
.
|
[1]
|
January 2
|
Frank Buxton
|
87
|
Actor famous for voicing Batfink and Hugo-A-Go-Go on
Batfink
, writer, director (
The Odd Couple
,
Happy Days
,
The Oprah Winfrey Show
, and
Mork & Mindy
.)
|
[2]
|
January 5
|
Carole Hart
|
77
|
American producer (
Free to Be... You and Me
)
|
[3]
|
Jerry Van Dyke
|
86
|
Actor best known as Luther Van Dam on
Coach
. Also recurring roles on
The Middle
,
Yes, Dear
,
You Wish
,
Teen Angel
,
13 Queens Boulevard
,
Headmaster
,
Accidental Family
,
My Mother the Car
, and
The Dick Van Dyke Show
. Brother of
Dick Van Dyke
.
|
[4]
|
January 7
|
Doug Young
|
98
|
American voice actor, best known for voicing
Doggie Daddy
in
Hanna Barbera
cartoons
|
[5]
|
January 8
|
Donnelly Rhodes
|
80
|
Canadian actor (
Bonanza
,
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
,
Laredo
,
Run for Your Life
,
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
,
The Wild Wild West
,
Mission: Impossible
,
Insight
,
The Young and the Restless
,
Soap
,
Report to Murphy
,
Hill Street Blues
,
Double Trouble
,
The Heights
,
Murder, She Wrote
,
The X-Files
,
The Outer Limits
,
Life as We Know It
,
Battlestar Galactica
,
Supernatural
,
The Flash
,
Legends of Tomorrow
)
|
[6]
|
January 10
|
Doreen Tracey
|
74
|
Actress and one of the original Mouseketeers on
The Mickey Mouse Club
|
[7]
|
January 13
|
Keith Jackson
|
89
|
Sportscaster for
ABC
and
ESPN
for over 50 years, most notably for college football.
|
[8]
|
Naomi Stevens
|
92
|
American actress (recurring roles on
Love, American Style
,
My Three Sons
, and
The Doris Day Show
)
|
[9]
|
January 14
|
Hugh Wilson
|
74
|
Writer/director/producer, most notably on
WKRP in Cincinnati
,
Frank's Place
, and
The Famous Teddy Z
|
[10]
|
January 16
|
Bradford Dillman
|
87
|
American actor (
Kraft Theatre
,
Alcoa Premiere
,
Kraft Suspense Theatre
,
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
,
Dr. Kildare
,
Court Martial
,
Shane
,
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
,
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
,
The Big Valley
,
Judd for the Defense
,
Ironside
,
The Virginian
,
The F.B.I.
,
Mission: Impossible
,
Medical Center
,
Cannon
,
The Wide World of Mystery
,
Barnaby Jones
,
King's Crossing
,
Falcon Crest
,
Dynasty
,
Hotel
and
Murder, She Wrote
)
|
[11]
|
January 19
|
Lin Bolen
|
76
|
American producer (
Stumpers!
and
W.E.B.
) and vice president of daytime television programming for
NBC
|
[12]
|
Olivia Cole
|
75
|
American actress (
Guiding Light
,
Police Woman
,
Roots
,
Szysznyk
,
Backstairs at the White House
,
Report to Murphy
,
North and South
,
The Women of Brewster Place
,
Brewster Place
,
L.A. Law
and
Murder, She Wrote
)
|
[13]
|
John Conboy
|
83
|
American producer (
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
,
The Young and the Restless
,
Capitol
,
Santa Barbara
and
Guiding Light
)
|
[14]
|
Dorothy Malone
|
93
|
Actress (best known for her role as Constance Mackenzie in
Peyton Place
and the TV movies
Murder in Peyton Place
and
Peyton Place: The Next Generation
).
|
[15]
|
January 20
|
John Coleman
|
83
|
Meteorologist (co-founder of
The Weather Channel
; worked at several local stations including
WLS-TV
/
Chicago
and
KUSI-TV
/
San Diego
)
|
[16]
|
January 21
|
Connie Sawyer
|
105
|
Actress (
The Jackie Gleason Show
,
The Andy Griffith Show
,
Bonanza
,
My World and Welcome to It
,
Room 222
,
The F.B.I.
,
McMillan & Wife
,
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
,
The Streets of San Francisco
,
Kojak
,
Starsky and Hutch
,
Hawaii Five-O
,
Archie Bunker's Place
,
Hill Street Blues
,
In the Heat of the Night
,
Murder, She Wrote
,
Boy Meets World
,
Becker
,
ER
and
Ray Donovan
)
|
[17]
|
January 22
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
88
|
Science fiction author of
The Lathe of Heaven
which was adapted into a pair of TV movies, and the
Legend of Earthsea
series which became the miniseries
Earthsea
|
[18]
|
January 23
|
Robert Dowdell
|
85
|
Actor (
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
,
Stoney Burke
)
|
[19]
|
January 25
|
John Morris
|
91
|
American composer. Won a Daytime Emmy for his score for the TV miniseries
The Tap Dance Kid
. Other work includes the themes to
The French Chef
and
Coach
.
|
[20]
|
January 26
|
Cyrus Yavneh
|
75
|
American producer (
CBS Summer Playhouse
,
Son of the Morning Star
,
Nothing Sacred
,
24
,
Supernatural
and
Hit the Floor
)
|
[21]
|
January 27
|
Mort Walker
|
94
|
American cartoonist, whose
King Features Syndicate
characters
Beetle Bailey
and
Hi and Lois
were later made into animated television series and specials.
|
[22]
|
January 30
|
Mark Salling
|
35
|
Actor and musician, best known as
Noah 'Puck' Puckerman
on
Glee
|
[23]
|
Louis Zorich
|
93
|
Actor, best known as Burt Buchman on
Mad About You
and Jules Berger on
Brooklyn Bridge
|
[24]
|
January 31
|
Leah LaBelle
|
31
|
Singer who competed on the
third season
of
American Idol
.
|
[25]
|