1984 in American television explained

This article is a list of television-related events during 1984.

Events

Date Event
January 2Oprah Winfrey takes over as host of WLS-TV's A.M. Chicago, which would serve as a forerunner to her nationwide, syndicated talk show.
January 9Wendy's "Fluffy Bun" advertisement is first broadcast, which gains Clara Peller and her "Where's the beef?" catchphrase national fame.
Something About Amelia, a story concerning incest, is broadcast by ABC. Glenn Close, Ted Danson, and Roxana Zal are the main actors.
January 22During CBS's broadcast of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer Company heralds the introduction of its Apple Macintosh personal computer with the famous advertisement "1984", the only time it is broadcast on national television.
January 23Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win his first World Wrestling Federation championship at Madison Square Garden; the match is televised by the MSG Network.
January 26Andy Kaufman makes what turns out to be his final television appearance as host of The Top.
January 27Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
January 30One of Field Communications' last stations, WKBD-TV, is sold to Cox Enterprises.
February 1Arts & Entertainment Network launches from the merger of ARTS and RCA's The Entertainment Channel. It originally broadcasts after kids' channel Nickelodeon signs off.
Lifetime is launched from the merger of Hearst/ABC's Daytime and Viacom's Cable Health Network.
In Bakersfield, California, CBS affiliate KPWR-TV changes its call letters to the current KGET-TV, in preparation for an affiliation swap with NBC affiliate KERO-TV the following month.
February 10NBC airs the made-for-television movie Little House: The Last Farewell. Serving to tie up loose ends to storylines on the main Little House on the Prairie series, The Last Farewell concerns Charles and Caroline deciding to visit Walnut Grove. They learn that a railroad tycoon actually holds the deed to the township, and he wants to take it over for his own financial gain. Despite their best efforts, the townspeople are unable to drive the businessman away. At a town meeting, John Carter offers a supply of explosives that he has. Each man takes a turn blowing up his own building in an emotional farewell to the town.[1]
February 2017 of the 24 added minutes are utilized by ABC for the network television premiere of Superman II. Subsequent ABC airings of the longer version would be cut further for more advertising time. The full 146-minute extended cut was shown internationally, including parts of Canada. As with the first film, Alexander and Ilya Salkind prepared a version for worldwide television release that re-inserted unused footage (in this case 24 minutes) into the film. It was through this extended version that viewers first caught a glimpse into the Superman II that might have happened had Richard Donner remained as director. In fact, a majority of the added footage was shot by Donner before Richard Lester became director.
February 25Eddie Murphy participates in his final live episode as a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live. The remainder of his appearances for the season would only be in the form of previously recorded sketches. Murphy's final overall episode as a cast member would air on April 14.
February 26KDRV in Medford, Oregon signs on as an ABC affiliate, giving the Medford market full-time access to all three networks for the first time.
CBS airs the network broadcast television premiere of Star Wars.
February 28At the 26th Grammy Awards telecast by CBS, Michael Jackson wins a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards.
March 16Gary Plauché shoots and kills Jeff Doucet, who had kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and molested Plauché's son, Jody. The killing was captured on camera by a local news crew. Doucet was flown back from California to Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, also known as Ryan Field, to face trial. Doucet arrived and was led in handcuffs by police officers through the airport at around 9:30 p.m., where Plauché was waiting for Doucet with a gun. Plauché was friends with several high-ranking police officers in the Baton Rouge Police Department; while many people believed that these contacts told Plauché where and when Doucet would be arriving, it was actually an employee of the local ABC affiliate WBRZ-TV who gave Plauché the information. A news crew from WBRZ-TV was also waiting for Doucet and had set up their cameras to record his arrival.
March 19Denver's ABC affiliate KBTV changes its name to KUSA-TV to reflect its status with USA Today.
March 21New England Sports Network, initially known as NESN is initiated.
March 25WNOL-TV, an independent station goes on the air in New Orleans.
March 28Actress Jeanne Cooper has her own real life facelift procedure performed onscreen during an episode of The Young and the Restless. Cooper's character, Katherine Chancellor is written as having the exact same procedure performed.
April 1Nickelodeon celebrates its 5th anniversary.
April 7After being cancelled by ABC following its third season, Too Close for Comfort with the aid of Metromedia, is revived for the first-run syndicated market.
AprilJohn Houlihan wins the Natural Triple Jackpot worth $26,550 on The Joker's Wild, the largest such win on the show.
May 6Minneapolis/St. Paul religious station WFBT converts to a general entertainment station after the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation bought out the station, changing the calls to KITN-TV.
May 8Happy Days airs its series finale, "Passages". However, five additional episodes would air from the end of June on through the end of September. The last episode to be aired on ABC, "Fonzie's Spots", is actually #251 in chronological order.
May 18Character Bobby Ewing finds himself in the crossfire as a rival tries to gun down his brother J.R. on the season finale of the CBS series Dallas.
May 19CBS tapes the Michael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck in which Larson wins $110,237 cash and prizes. (The episodes, which are split into two parts, would air on June 8 and 11.)
May 20The wedding between Steve Andropoulos and Betsy Stewart on As the World Turns attracts 20 million viewers. This makes it the second highest-rated hour in American daytime soap opera history behind Luke and Laura's 1981 wedding on General Hospital.
June 8Piedmont Triad station WJTM-TV changes its name to WNRW-TV to honor the death of William N. Rismiller in a shooting incident at its studios June 5.
June 23On a broadcast of NBC's Game of the Week between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg hits two crucial, game tying home runs off of Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter in both the bottom of the ninth and tenth innings. The Cubs would go on to win the game in eleven innings, by the score of 12–11. Bob Costas and Tony Kubek were on the call for what would soon become known as "The Sandberg Game".
June 27The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's television plan violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. As a result, individual schools and athletic conferences are free to negotiate contracts on their own behalf. Together with the growth of cable television, this ruling results in the explosion of broadcast options currently available. Beginning in 1984, the College Football Association sells a television package to ABC and CBS. The Big Ten and Pacific-10 conferences sell their own separate package to ABC.
July 14In what became known as "Black Saturday", Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation takes over Superstation WTBS' Saturday evening time period once occupied by Georgia Championship Wrestling.
July 17CBS broadcasts W*A*L*T*E*R, a television pilot for the third spin-off of M*A*S*H. The pilot stars Gary Burghoff, who reprises his M*A*S*H character Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly. Since the pilot is never picked up by CBS as a series, it is shown as a "CBS Special Presentation". It is shown once in the Eastern and Central time zones of the United States, but pre-empted on the West Coast by CBS News coverage of the Democratic National Convention. This is the only known broadcast of the pilot.[2]
July 23MTV broadcasts the live World Wrestling Federation event "The Brawl to End It All" from Madison Square Garden in New York City, where Wendi Richter won the WWF Women's Championship from The Fabulous Moolah.
July 28ABC begins their coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Los Angeles. Jim McKay and Peter Jennings served as hosts for the opening ceremonies. This is to date, the final time that ABC would broadcast the Summer Olympics. All subsequent, American network television coverage of the Summer games would be handled by NBC.
July 30The soap opera Santa Barbara debuts on NBC.
Dallas/Ft. Worth independent station KNBN-TV changes its call letters to KRLD-TV after being bought out by Metromedia.
September 9The Tyler-Longview market's lone television station KLTV finally receives competition when KLMG-TV (now Fox affiliate KFXK-TV) signs-on and takes KLTV's secondary CBS affiliation.
September 10The game show Jeopardy! returns to television as a syndicated show with new host Alex Trebek.
September 14Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler host the first MTV Video Music Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, an event which included Madonna's performance of the song "Like a Virgin".
September 16The two hour pilot episode of Miami Vice airs on NBC. This episode started developing the trademark Vice style.[3] Aspects of Miami Vice considered revolutionary lay in its music, cinematography, and imagery, which made large segments of each episode resemble a protracted music video.
September 17The Transformers debuts in syndication.
September 18The series finale of Three's Company airs on ABC following a three-episode story arc that also sets up the spin-off Three's a Crowd.
September 20The Cosby Show debuts on NBC. Meanwhile on ABC, the pilot episode for Who's the Boss? is also broadcast.
September 24The game show Super Password premieres on NBC at 12:00 noon EST. The new version of the classic game show is one of the few shows to survive at a time period that normally broadcasts news on any of the three major networks, running for years.
CBS affiliate WJKA (now Fox affiliate WSFX-TV) in Wilmington, North Carolina signs-on the air, giving Wilmington in-market affiliates of all three commercial networks.
September 27Kelsey Grammer makes his first appearance as Frasier Crane in the third-season premiere of Cheers.
October 1Montana, the last state in the Union without its own PBS station, gains one when Montana PBS launches.
Nickelodeon retires their silver pinball logo (although it would continue to be used in sign-offs until early 1985) and begins using the orange splat as their logo.
American Movie Classics is initiated.
October 8NBC broadcasts The Burning Bed, which features Farrah Fawcett as a woman who kills her abusive husband. The fact-based film is the highest-rated entertainment event of the 1984–1985 season.
October 11Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman (and the only one until Sarah Palin in 2008) to participate in a presidential or vice presidential debate.
October 12Tragedy strikes the CBS drama Cover Up. During filming for the seventh episode of the series, "Golden Opportunity," on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot, a scene is shot that calls for Mac Harper (Jon-Erik Hexum) to load bullets into a .44 Magnum handgun. Hexum is duly provided with a functional gun and blanks. The scene does not play as the director wanted it to in the master shot, causing a delay in filming. During the delay, Hexum, restless and impatient, begins playing around to lighten the mood. Unloading all but one (blank) round, Hexum spins the gun, and—simulating Russian roulette—puts the revolver to his right temple and pulls the trigger,[4] apparently unaware of the danger. At a close enough range, the effect of the powder gasses is a small explosion, so although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, there was enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging.[5] [6] Hexum is then rushed to Beverly Hills Medical Center, undergoing five hours of surgery to repair his wounds. Six days later, on October 18, Hexum is declared brain dead at age 26.
October 27Turner Broadcasting System initiates the Cable Music Channel in the U.S., only to end it one month later.
November 10On PBS Sesame Street celebrates its 15th anniversary.
November 12Theresa Saldana appears as herself in the NBC movie , a retelling of her 1982 stabbing incident and its aftermath.
December 8The final episode of Captain Kangaroo airs. This ends a 29-year run on CBS that made it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.
December 15One year after officially departing the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy returns to guest host. This would be Murphy's last appearance on the show (not counting a brief appearance during SNLs 40th Anniversary Special in 2015) until hosting again during the forty-fifth season in 2019.
December 17George C. Scott plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a new version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, broadcast by CBS.
The ABC soap opera One Life to Live changes its opening sequence and theme song, which lasted until 1991.
ABC purchases a majority stake of ESPN from Getty Oil Corp.
KLDO-TV in Laredo, Texas signs-on as an ABC affiliate, giving Laredo in-market affiliates of all three commercial networks (it is now an Univision affiliate).
December 28 On ABC, The Edge of Night ends its 28-year run. The soap opera started on CBS in 1956, moving to ABC in 1975.
During an interview backstage at Madison Square Garden for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, reporter John Stossel tells professional wrestler David Schultz that he thought pro wrestling was fake. Schultz responds by hitting Stossel in the head twice, knocking him to the floor each time.[7] The attack attracts a large amount of media coverage and is later aired not only on 20/20, but also on other national television outlets. ABC itself later reports receiving more than 1,000 calls from viewers inquiring about Stossel's health.

Programs

Debuting this year

DateTitle Network
January 3Riptide NBC
January 4Night Court
January 6Blue Thunder ABC
January 20The MasterNBC
January 22Airwolf CBS
January 28Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
March 6a.k.a. Pablo ABC
March 19Kate and Allie CBS
March 20Shaping Up ABC
March 31Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Syndication
April Video Music Box WNYC-TV
April 4Double Trouble NBC
April 12The Duck Factory
April 14My Little Pony Syndication
June 4Danger MouseNickelodeon
July 2Scrabble NBC
July 13Brothers Showtime
July 30Santa Barbara NBC
September 5Heathcliff Syndication
September 7Kids Incorporated
September 8Dragon's Lair ABC
Mighty Orbots
Turbo Teen
Challenge of the GoBots Syndication
September 10Voltron: Defender of the Universe
September 13GlitterABC
September 14Hawaiian Heat
September 15Snorks NBC
Pink Panther and Sons
The Get Along Gang CBS
Muppet Babies
Pole Position
Pryor's Place
September 16E/R
Miami ViceNBC
Punky Brewster
September 17The Transformers Syndication
September 18Hunter NBC
September 19Highway to Heaven
September 20The Cosby Show
Who's the Boss? ABC
September 22Cover Up CBS
Hot PursuitNBC
Finder of Lost LovesABC
September 23Paper Dolls
September 25Three's a Crowd
September 26It's Your Move NBC
September 27Partners in Crime
September 30Tales from the DarksideSyndication
Murder, She Wrote CBS
October 3Charles in Charge
October 7Out of ControlNickelodeon
October 8Trivia TrapABC
October 10Dreams CBS
October 26V NBC
December 30Crazy Like a Fox CBS

Resuming this year

Title Final aired Previous network New title Returning network Date of return
People are Funny1960NBCSameSameMarch 24
Showoffs1975ABCBody LanguageCBSJune 4
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids1981CBSSameSyndicationSeptember 1
Jeopardy!1979NBCSeptember 10
Let's Make a Deal1981SyndicationThe All-New Let's Make a DealSameSeptember 17
Password Plus1982NBCSuper PasswordSeptember 24

Changing networks

Show Moved fromMoved to
ShowoffsABCCBS
Fat Albert and the Cosby KidsCBSSyndication
Jeopardy!NBC

Ending this year

Date TitleDebut
March 10We Got It Made (returned in 1987)1983
April 2Automan
April 7Mama's Family (returned in 1986)
April 10a.k.a. Pablo1984
April 16Blue Thunder
April 27Masquerade1983
April 30That's Incredible!1980
May 15Oh Madeline1983
May 19Fantasy Island1978
May 22Hart to Hart1979
May 28One Day at a Time1975
June 1Tattletales1974
June 2Whiz Kids1983
June 14Lottery!
July 4Real People1979
July 11The Duck Factory1984
July 27Hollywood Squares (returned in 1986)1966
August 11Boone1983
September 1Monchhichis
The Little Rascals1982
Pac-Man
Richie Rich1980
Rubik, the Amazing Cube1983
The Littles
September 5Jennifer Slept Here
September 8The Flintstone Funnies1982
September 18Three's Company1977
September 24Happy Days1974
November 10The Puppy's Further Adventures1982
December 1The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast1974
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show1983
December 8Captain Kangaroo1955
Pole Position1984
Pryor's Place
December 11AfterMASH1983
December 25Welcome to Pooh Corner
December 25Paper Dolls1984
December 28The Edge of Night1956
December 28Hot Pursuit1984
December 29Partners in Crime 1984

Entering syndication

Show Seasons In Production Source
Benson5Yes[8]
Bizarre4Yes
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids7Yes
The Greatest American Hero3No
Hart to Hart5No
Trapper John, M.D.5Yes
Voyagers!1No

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

Networks and services

Launches

NetworkType Closure dateNotes Source
SportsvueCable televisionApril 3
Home Team Sports NetworkCable televisionApril 4
Cable televisionMay 15
NetSpanCable televisionJune 19
American Movie ClassicsCable televisionOctober 1
Cable Music ChannelCable televisionOctober 26
MGM/UA Premiere NetworkCable televisionNovember 10

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network nameNew network nameTypeConversion DateNotesSource
The Entertainment ChannelArts & Entertainment ChannelCable televisionFebruary 1
Alpha Repertory Television ServiceArts & Entertainment ChannelCable and satelliteFebruary 1
Cable Health NetworkLifetimeCable televisionFebruary 1
Daytime and Lifetime Medical TelevisionLifetimeCable televisionFebruary 1

Closures

NetworkType Closure dateNotes Source
Mobil Showcase NetworkCable televisionUnknown
SpotlightCable televisionFebruary 1
Cable Music ChannelCable televisionNovember 30

Television stations

Station launches

Date City of License/Designated market areaMarket]] Affiliation Channel ! Notes/Ref.
January 21Santa Fe/Albuquerque, New MexicoKCHF11 Religious independent
February 1Indianapolis, IndianaWPDS-TV59Independent
February 14Fort Walton Beach, FloridaWPAN53 February 18Nashville, Tennessee30
February 22 Green Bay, WisconsinWSCO14Religious independent
February 23K45AJ45Independent
February 2612ABC
March 5WLXI61Independent
March 7Appleton/Green Bay, WisconsinWBOU32
March 25 New Orleans, Louisiana38
March 30 Seattle, WashingtonKQFB20
April 1 Greenville, South Carolina
21
April 16WNHT21
April 17 Dallas-Fort Worth, TexasKLTJ49TBN
May 5El Paso, TexasKINT26Spanish independent
May 12KIDY6Independent
May 13Decatur, Illinois
WFHL23Religious independent
June 1WTTE28rownspan=3Independent
June 25Harligen/Brownsville/McAllen, Texas44
July 1Hopkinsville, Kentucky43
July 5 Florence, South Carolina43
July 8New Orleans, Louisiana32Educational independent
July 10Lake Havasu City, ArizonaK25AL 25
July 31Las Vegas, NevadaKRLR21 Independent
August WJPT14 PBS
August 1WJAL68 Independent
August 7 Burlington, North Carolina
WRDG16
August 22Chicago, IllinoisW13BE13
August 28Lebanon-Nashville, Tennessee66
September 9Toccoa, GeorgiaWNEG32
Tyler, Texas51CBS
September 10Greenwood/Anderson, South Carolina38PBS
Jacksonville, FloridaW10AX10- September 14WTIC-TV61Independent
September 23WRGT-TV45
September 24Wilmington, North CarolinaWJKA26CBS
October 1Bozeman/Butte, MontanaKUSM-TV9
(Battle Creek/Grand Rapids, Michigan)}} | WGVK | 52|-| Macomb, Illinois| WMEC| 22||-| San Diego, California| KTTY| 69| Independent| |- | October 24| Miami, Florida | W30AB| 30| PBS | Translator of WPBT|-| October 31 | Asheville, North Carolina
| WASV | 62 | rowspan=2| Independent|- | November| Columbus, Georgia
| WXTX| 54||- | November 24 | Richmond, Virginia| WVRN-TV| 63 | Religious independent| |- | November 30| Jackson, Mississippi | WDBD| 40| Independent| |- | December 2 | Cotati, California| KRCB | 22| PBS| |- | December 3| Albany, New York | WUSV| 45 | |- | December 15| Flint, Michigan | WSMH | 66| |- | December 17| Laredo, Texas | KLDO-TV | 27| ABC| |-| December 18| K61CV | 61| unknown| |- | December 24| Pensacola, Florida
| WJTC| 44| rowspan=2| Independent | |- | December 31| Tucson, Arizona | KDTU | 18| |- | rowspan=5| Unknown date| Billings, Montana | K05HS | 5 | Daystar | |- | Casper, Wyoming | KFNB| 20 | ABC | |- | Glenwood Springs, Colorado | KCWS| 3| Independent| |- | Minneapolis, Minnesota | K58BS | 58 | TBN | |- | Wenatchee, Washington | KCWT-TV| 27| Independent| |}

Network affiliation changes

DateCity of License/MarketStationChannel Old affiliationNew affiliationNotes/Ref.
February 1Bakersfield, California17CBS NBC
Unknown date5CBSABC (primary)
NBC (secondary)

Births

Date Name Notability
January 2Kristen HagerCanadian actress (Valemont, Being Human)
January 4Robin SydneyActress (Drake & Josh)
January 6Kate McKinnonActress (The Big Gay Sketch Show, Saturday Night Live) and comedian
Hilaria BaldwinPodcaster
January 11Eddie AlvarezMartial artist
January 19Nathan RueggerVoice actor (Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Histeria!)
Mickey SumnerActress
January 24Ashley C. WilliamsActress
January 25Jay BriscoeAmerican professional wrestler (d. 2023)
January 26 Layla KayleighEnglish-American television host
February 1Lee Thompson YoungActor (The Famous Jett Jackson, Rizzoli & Isles) (d. 2013)
Abbi JacobsonActress
February 3Matthew MoyActor (2 Broke Girls, Steven Universe)
February 7Anna KooimanAnchor
February 8Cecily StrongActress (Saturday Night Live)
February 11Aubrey O'DayAmerican singer and reality television personality
February 14Matt BarrActor
February 15Josh ByrneActor (Step by Step)
February 19Jennifer LahmersAnchor
February 20Trevor NoahSouth African comedian and actor (The Daily Show)
Audra MaeSinger
February 24Wilson BethelActor (The Young and the Restless, Hart of Dixie)
February 28Noureen DeWulfActress
Melanie ChandraActress
February 29Mark FosterSinger
March 2Trent GarrettActor (All My Children, Andi Mack) and model
March 4Sam MarinVoice actor (Regular Show)
March 7Brandon T. JacksonActor
Nicole LapinAmerican television news anchor
Alex SomersAmerican visual artist
March 10Olivia WildeActress (House)
March 12Jaimie AlexanderActress (Watch Over Me, Kyle XY, Blindspot)
March 13Noel FisherCanadian actor (, Shameless)
March 14Liesel MatthewsActress
March 16Carrie KemperWriter
March 20 Justine EzarikYouTube personality and actress (Annoying Orange, iJustine)
Christy Carlson RomanoActress (Even Stevens, Kim Possible) and singer
March 25Katharine McPheeActress and singer (American Idol, Smash, Scorpion)
March 26Sara Jean UnderwoodModel and TV host (Attack of the Show!)
March 28Bill SwitzerCanadian-American actor (Mummies Alive!, , , )
March 30Helena MattssonSwedish-American actress (666 Park Avenue)
March 31Molly QerimAmerican television personality
April 2Ashley PeldonActress (The Mommies) and sister of Courtney Peldon
April 3Chrissie FitActress (General Hospital, Milo Murphy's Law)
April 5Marshall AllmanActor (Prison Break, True Blood)
April 6Al MukadamCanadian actor
April 8 Taran Noah SmithActor (Home Improvement)
Kirsten StormsActress (Days of Our Lives, Kim Possible, General Hospital)
April 10Cara DeLiziaActress (So Weird)
Mandy MooreActress (, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, High School USA!, This Is Us, ) and singer
April 11Kelli GarnerActress (Pan Am)
April 16Claire FoyEnglish actress (Upstairs Downstairs)
April 18America FerreraActress (Independent Lens, Ugly Betty, The Good Wife, DreamWorks Dragons, Superstore)
April 19Kelen ColemanActress
April 20Tim JoActor (Glory Daze, The Neighbors, This Is Us, For All Mankind, Reasonable Doubt)
Harris WittelsComedian (d. 2015)
April 21Shayna FoxVoice actress (The Oz Kids, Rocket Power, All Grown Up!)
Desmin BorgesActor
April 22Michelle RyanBritish actress (Bionic Woman)
April 23Jesse Lee SofferActor (As the World Turns, The Mob Doctor, Chicago P.D.)
April 24Lindsey GortActress
April 25Jillian BellActress
Melonie DiazActress
April 26Emily WickershamActress (NCIS)
Ryan O'DonohueVoice actor (Recess, Batman Beyond)
April 27Patrick StumpMusician (Fall Out Boy) and actor (Robot Chicken)
April 29Firass DiraniAustralian actor (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
Hallie JacksonAnchor
Taylor ColeActress (Summerland)
May 1Kerry BishéActress
May 3Morgan KibbyActress (100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd) and singer
May 4Cheryl BurkeHost
May 8Julia WhelanActress (Once and Again)
Van RobichauxWriter
May 9Ezra KleinTV host
May 12Clare BowenAustralian actress and singer (Nashville)
May 13Ginger OrsiActress and singer
May 14Mark ZuckerbergAmerican media magnate
May 17Alejandro EddaMexican-American actor (, Fear the Walking Dead)
May 23Adam WylieActor (Picket Fences, Hey Arnold!, Pepper Ann, As Told by Ginger, , Legion of Super Heroes, The Secret Saturdays, Jake and the Never Land Pirates)
May 24Sarah HaganActress (Freaks and Geeks)
May 27Darin BrooksActor (Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Blue Mountain State)
May 29 Carmelo AnthonyNBA basketball player
Kaycee StrohActress (High School Musical)
May 30DeWanda WiseActress
June 1Megan GanzWriter
June 4Jillian MurrayActress
June 5Simon RichScreenwriter
June 6Antonia PrebbleNew Zealand actress (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
Brandon Scott JonesActor
June 8Torrey DeVittoActress (Beautiful People, One Tree Hill, Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries, Chicago Med)
June 10Betsy SodaroActress
June 13 Phillip Van DykeActor (Noah Knows Best, voice of Arnold on Hey Arnold! (1997–99))
June 15 Wayne SermonMusician
June 17John Gallagher Jr.Actor
June 18Ian Jones-QuarteyVoice actor and producer (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
Christopher RaglandEnglish actor (Thomas & Friends, The Amazing World of Gumball)
June 19Paul DanoActor
June 20Kevin RyanActor
June 22Yassir LesterActor
June 26Aubrey PlazaActress (Parks and Recreation)
June 27Emma LahanaNew Zealand actress (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
Khloé KardashianActress (Keeping Up with the Kardashians)
June 30FantasiaSinger (American Idol, Fantasia for Real)[9] [10]
July 5Danay GarcíaCuban actress (Prison Break, Fear the Walking Dead)
July 7Ross MalingerVoice actor (T.J. Detweiler on Recess (1997–98))
July 8Alexis DzienaActress (Invasion, Entourage)
July 10Kelly DowdleActress (American Crime Story)
Aviva BaumannActress
July 11Rachael TaylorAustralian actress (666 Park Avenue, Crisis, Jessica Jones)
Serinda SwanCanadian actress (Breakout Kings, Graceland)
Melanie PapaliaActress
Rob HeapsActor
July 12Natalie MartinezActress
July 19Andrea LibmanCanadian voice actress (Madeline, Dragon Tales, )
Kaitlin DoubledayActress (Empire)
July 20James MackayAustralian actor (Dynasty)
July 21Paloma GuzmánActress (Pretty Little Liars, , Roswell, New Mexico)
July 23Krysta RodriguezActress
July 24LaTangelaActress (Taina)
July 26Grace ByersActress (Empire)
July 27Taylor SchillingActress (Mercy, Orange is the New Black)
July 29J. Madison Wright MorrisActress (Earth 2) (d. 2006)
Todd BosleyActor
July 30Gabrielle ChristianActress (South of Nowhere)
Gina RodriguezActress (Jane the Virgin, Carmen Sandiego)
August 1Valery OrtizActress (South of Nowhere, What About Brian)
August 2JD VancePolitician
August 3Emily BaldoniSwedish-American actress
August 6James HolzhauerAmerican game show contestant
August 7Joseph TrapaneseAmerican composer
August 10Ryan EggoldActor (90210, The Blacklist)
August 13Eme IkwuakorActor
August 26Johnny Ray GillActor
August 27Amanda FullerActress (Last Man Standing)
August 28Sarah RoemerActress (The Event, Chosen)
Michael GaleotaActor (The Jersey) (d. 2016)
September 1Joe TrohmanAmerican musician (Fall Out Boy)
Ludwig GöranssonMusician
September 4Kyle MooneyActor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
September 5Annabelle WallisActress ()
September 7Ben HollingsworthActor
September 13Baron CorbinPro wrestler[11]
September 14Adam LambergActor (Lizzie McGuire)
September 16Sabrina BryanActress, singer (The Cheetah Girls; Dancing with the Stars contestant [2 seasons])
September 18Nina AriandaActress
Brandon MaxwellDirector
September 19Kevin ZegersCanadian actor (Gossip Girl)
Lydia HearstActress and great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst
September 22Laura VandervoortCanadian actress (Instant Star, V, Smallville, Bitten)
September 23CariDee EnglishModel and actress (America's Next Top Model)
Anneliese van der PolActress (That's So Raven, Raven's Home) and singer
September 24Matt KempAmerican professional baseball outfielder
September 25Zach WoodsActor (The Office, Silicon Valley)
September 27Avril LavigneSinger and actress
September 30T-PainSinger and rapper
October 1Beck BennettActor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Josh BrenerActor (Glory Daze, The Big Bang Theory, Maron, Silicon Valley, Future-Worm!, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Sam SalettaActor (7th Heaven, Rocket Power)
October 3Ashlee SimpsonActress, singer (7th Heaven, The Ashlee Simpson Show) and sister of Jessica Simpson
Jessica Parker KennedyActress (Kaya, The Secret Circle, Black Sails)
Chris MarquetteActor (Strong Medicine, The Mummy: The Animated Series, Fillmore!, Joan of Arcadia)
Nick WrightAmerican sports television personality
October 4Glenn McMillanBrazilian actor (Power Rangers Wild Force)
James Landry HébertAmerican actor (1883)
Nathalie KelleyActress
October 11Martha MacIsaacCanadian actress (1600 Penn)
October 14Jason DavisVoice actor (Mikey Blumberg on Recess) (d. 2020)
October 17Chris LowellActor (Veronica Mars, Private Practice)
October 23Meghan McCainTelevision personality
October 24Ben GirouxActor (Henry Danger, Bunsen Is a Beast, Danger Force, Big Nate)
October 25Katy PerrySinger, songwriter, and actress
October 27Kelly OsbourneBritish singer, actress (The Osbournes, Chelsea Lately, The 7D) and daughter of Ozzy Osbourne
Emilie UllerupDanish-Canadian actress (Sanctuary, Arctic Air)
October 28Finn WittrockActor (All My Children, American Horror Story)
November 12OmarionActor
Jorge MasvidalMixed martial artist[12]
November 16Kimberly J. BrownActress (Halloweentown, Vampire Princess Miyu, Guiding Light)
November 21Lindsey HaunActress and singer
Jena MaloneActress
November 22 Scarlett JohanssonActress (4-time host of Saturday Night Live)
November 23 Lucas GrabeelActor (Halloweentown, High School Musical, Switched at Birth) and voice actor (Family Guy, DreamWorks Dragons, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, Elena of Avalor, Spirit Riding Free, Pinky Malinky)
Jarah MarianoModel
November 24Ulambayaryn ByambajavEntertainer (d. 2020)
November 25Gaspard UllielActor (Moon Knight) (d. 2022)[13]
November 28Mary Elizabeth WinsteadActress (Wolf Lake, The Returned, BrainDead, Mercy Street, Fargo)
Trey SongzActor
November 29Beatrice RosenActress (Cuts, Backstrom)
December 4Lindsay FeltonActress (Thunder Alley, Caitlin's Way)
December 10Tom HernNew Zealand actor (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
December 11Xosha RoquemoreAmerican actress
December 12Gabrielle RuizAmerican actress
December 14Jackson RathboneAmerican actor
December 15Kirsty Lee AllanAustralian actress
December 16Theo JamesActor
December 17Shannon WoodwardActress (The Riches, Raising Hope, Westworld)
December 19Erica O'KeithActress (Romeo!)
December 20Bob MorleyActor (The 100)
December 22Greg FinleyActor (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
December 25MiroBulgarian-American professional wrestler
December 30LeBron JamesNBA basketball player

Deaths

Date Name Age Notability
February 16Kenny Williams69Game show announcer (The Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, Gambit)
March 1 Jackie Coogan69actor (Uncle Fester on The Addams Family)
March 24 Sam Jaffe93actor (Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey)
March 31Caryl Ledner63Emmy-winning writer (Mary White)
May 2Jack Barry66game show host/producer (The Joker's Wild)
May 16 Andy Kaufman35comedian (Latka Gravas on Taxi)
June 15 Ned Glass78actor
August 8Richard Deacon63actor (Fred Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver, Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show)
September 17Richard Basehart70actor (Admiral Harriman Nelson on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
September 24Neil Hamilton85actor (Commissioner Gordon on Batman)
October 18 Jon-Erik Hexum26actor (gunshot wound from accident on set of TV series Cover Up)
December 7Jeanne Cagney65actress

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Last Farewell Summary. CBS Interactive Inc. . July 17, 2010.
  2. Web site: W*A*L*T*E*R. 2013-08-20. 2005-02-15. Television Obscurities .
  3. News: TV's 'Miami Vice' is still in fashion . 2005-02-08 . 2008-01-13 . Salas . Randy A. . Minneapolis Star Tribune . www.azcentral.com.
  4. Book: Donnelley, Paul . Fade To Black: A Book Of Movie Obituaries . Omnibus Press . June 1, 2003 . 2 . 483 . 978-0711995123.
  5. Jon-Erik Hexum's Fatal Joke. October 14, 1994. Entertainment Weekly. 2008-08-16.
  6. News: Actor Wounds Himself On Set of TV Series . October 14, 1984 . The New York Times.
  7. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: David Schultz, John Stossel . 2006 . WRESTLING IS FAKE (watch before commenting) . April 5, 2013 . Youtube.
  8. http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1984/BC-1984-02-13.pdf Broadcasting - Feb. 13, 1984
  9. Web site: Fantasia Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More . 2023-11-27 . AllMusic . en.
  10. Web site: Fantasia – The Vogue . 2023-11-27 . en.
  11. Web site: 2022-07-28 . WWE Profile Page - Baron Corbin . 2024-11-26 . ESPN.com . en.
  12. Web site: Jorge Masvidal (Welterweight) MMA Profile . 2024-10-03 . ESPN . en.
  13. News: Marshall . Alex . January 19, 2022 . Gaspard Ulliel, French Actor and 'Moon Knight' Star, Dies at 37 . . live . May 8, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220125212713/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/movies/gaspard-ulliel-dead.html . January 25, 2022.