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1982 in American television

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The year 1982 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of television-related events in the United States.

Events

Date		Event	January 1	January 2	January 4	January 10	January 23
Cable News Network (CNN) initiates an associated channel, dubbed CNN2, that features a round-the-clock "news wheel" format. The channel would be renamed CNN Headline News a year later and is now known as HLN.
The National Association of Broadcasters ends its long-standing Television Code in response to a Washington, D.C. circuit court ruling which declared parts of it unconstitutional.
American Playhouse on PBS member station WNET/Newark, New Jersey presents John Cheever's teleplay The Shady Hill Kidnapping, featuring George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Judith Ivey, E. Katherine Kerr and Celeste Holm as The Celebrity.
Bryant Gumbel begins his 15-year stint as co-anchor of NBC's Today Show.
ABC broadcasts a TV adaptation of The Elephant Man, with Philip Anglim and Kevin Conway reprising the roles they originated for the Broadway version of the story.
In Panama City, Florida, NBC affiliate WMBB swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WJHG-TV.
CBS televises the NFC Championship Game between the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys. In what would become one of the most iconic images in NFL history, San Francisco tight end Dwight Clark makes "The Catch" to enable the 49ers to defeat the Cowboys, 28–27, and go to their first ever Super Bowl. Vin Scully called the game alongside Hank Stram on television while Pat Summerall (who would do the play-by-play for Super Bowl XVI with John Madden two weeks later) called the game with Jack Buck for CBS Radio.
CBS Reports broadcasts The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, a documentary alleging a manipulation of intelligence estimates before the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, the commander of U.S. military operations at the time of the alleged estimates, would file a libel suit against CBS believing the report described him unfairly.
The Golden Globe Awards air for the second consecutive year on CBS. The ceremony would soon become embroiled into controversy when actress Pia Zadora won that year's Golden Globe Award as Best New Star of the Year amid charges that her husband Meshulam Riklis had purchased the award with a promotional campaign that included Zadora's image presented prominently on Sunset Boulevard billboards, an appearance in Playboy magazine, and entertaining Golden Globe voters. After CBS decided to negate their broadcasting contract in light of the controversy, the Golden Globes would not be seen on broadcast network television again until 1996, when NBC picked them up.
Late Night with David Letterman debuts on NBC; Letterman's first guests are Bill Murray (who dances around to the song "Physical") and "Mr. Wizard" Don Herbert.
Two months after new owners Pacific Media Corporation changed its call letters from KECC-TV, CBS affiliate KECY-TV in Yuma, Arizona leaves the network to join ABC. This will leave Yuma without a CBS affiliate for 3 years, until KECY-TV rejoins the network in 1985 (it is now a Fox affiliate).
Singer Jermaine Jackson guest-features, as Tootie (Kim Fields) gets to meet the person she admires on a very special episode of the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life.
As part of a two-night event, ABC airs the network television broadcast premiere of Superman: The Movie.
The crime drama spoof Police Squad! premieres on ABC; though it only lasts 6 episodes (the last being broadcast July 8); the comedy would serve as the origin of the Frank Drebin character and the inspiration for the Naked Gun movie series.
Night of 100 Stars, a benefit for the Actors' Fund taped at Radio City Music Hall, is broadcast by ABC.
The soap opera series Search for Tomorrow is broadcast for the final time by CBS. NBC immediately purchases it and begins broadcasting it the following Monday.
John Chancellor anchors the NBC Nightly News for the final time, replaced on April 5 by the team of Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw, a partnership that lasts 17 months.
Norman Lear purchases Avco Embassy Pictures and rechristens his TAT Communications Company as Embassy Television.
WGXA in Macon, Georgia signs-on the air, giving the Macon market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
WTTO in Birmingham, Alabama signs-on the air, giving the Birmingham market its first independent station.
The Weather Channel is begun in the U.S.
The CBS television network announces its plans for the 1982-83 TV season, which includes the cancellations of five series: House Calls, Lou Grant, Mr. Merlin, Nurse and WKRP in Cincinnati. A CBS spokesman said Lou Grant is being canceled "reluctantly" due to low ratings.
Danny DeVito hosts an episode of Saturday Night Live soon after Taxi is canceled after its fourth season. During the opening monologue, DeVito reads a letter supposedly from his mother asking God to forgive ABC for cancelling the show, adding that "but I'll understand if you don't." A filmed bit has him driving around New York looking morose until inspiration strikes, and he blows up the ABC building. In addition, the Taxi cast members are given an opportunity for closure, which up to that point had been denied for them due to the abrupt cancellation. The actors took their "final" bows during DeVito's opening monologue, only to have NBC (which aired SNL) pick up the show.
Actor Ed Asner, the president of the Screen Actors Guild and star of the Lou Grant television series, accuses the CBS network of cancelling his show for political reasons related to his stances on such issues as the Salvadoran Civil War.
In Boston, Massachusetts, CBS affiliate WNAC-TV ceases operations due to improprieties by its parent company RKO General, having lost the license (as well as those of KHJ-TV and WOR-TV, both of which RKO temporarily retain on appeal) after General Tire admitted to a litany of corporate misconduct (including, among other things, committing financial fraud over illegal political contributions and bribes) as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and RKO General withheld evidence from the FCC of General Tire's misconduct, and also failed to disclose evidence of accounting errors on its own part. Several hours later, New England Television begins operations of WNEV-TV (now independent station WHDH) on channel 7, retaining WNAC-TV's former CBS affiliation.
The Peanuts special A Charlie Brown Celebration premiered on CBS. Which it includes several stories with one or two-word titles, was later adapted for the Saturday morning series, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, which premiered in 1983.
The series finale of Mork & Mindy entitled "The Mork Report" is broadcast on ABC. While it actually was not the final episode to be filmed, ABC still aired it last in hopes of giving the canceled series some proper closure.
At about 5:00 p.m., Joseph Billie Gwin, wanting to "prevent World War III", forces his way into the studios of Phoenix CBS affiliate KOOL-TV, fires a gunshot, takes 4 people hostage (holding one of them, cameraman Louis Villa, at close gunpoint), and demands national broadcasting time. Three hours later, Gwin releases 2 hostages, Jack Webb and Bob Cimino. At 9:30 p.m., with Gwin sitting next to him with a gun, KOOL anchor Bill Close reads a 20-minute statement; when finished, Close takes Gwin's gun and sets it on the table.
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The CBS affiliate in Orlando, WDBO-TV, changes its name to WCPX-TV.
ABC broadcasts the FIFA World Cup Final between Italy and West Germany from Madrid. It's the first time that the World Cup's final match is aired live on American television.
ABC broadcasts the Major League Baseball All-Star Game from Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It's the first time that the Mid-Summer's Classic is played outside of the United States.
The only episode of the sitcom Cass Malloy airs on CBS. Although not picked up as a regular series, it serves as the pilot for the 1987–1989 syndicated sitcom She's the Sheriff.
Professional wrestler Jerry Lawler slaps actor Andy Kaufman in the face on the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman; Kaufman responds by throwing coffee and shouting profanities at Lawler. The incident was later revealed to have been staged.
In Columbia, Missouri, NBC affiliate and University of Missouri-owned KOMU-TV swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate KCBJ-TV. The swap would eventually be reversed in 1985.
Field Communications begins its liquidation by selling off WFLD to Metromedia.
After Tom Wopat and John Schneider quit the CBS action series The Dukes of Hazzard as a result of a contract dispute, their characters, Bo and Luke Duke, are written out of the series as joining a NASCAR team and are replaced by cousins Coy and Vance (played respectively by Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer). Bo and Luke—and Wopat and Schneider—would return to the series by season's end.
NBC resurrects Texaco Star Theater as a one-time special; however, instead of inviting Milton Berle, the man who hosted the original series during the 1950s, the special presents a salute to musicals.
In Savannah, Georgia, NBC affiliate WSAV-TV swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WJCL, citing ABC's stronger ratings. The swap would eventually be reversed in 1986.
KNLC, a religious independent station in St. Louis goes on the air.
Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight as reporter and later co-host; she would fill the latter role until 2011.
USA Network begins 24-hour operations, featuring the debut of the USA Cartoon Express, cable television's first structured animation block.
Saturday Night Live begins its 8th season on NBC, with host Chevy Chase and musical guest Queen. Among the new additions for this season include future Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who will stay for 3 years (1982–1985) as a featured player/regular cast member.
The pilot episode for Cheers airs on NBC.
Independent station KDOC-TV commences broadcasting in Los Angeles.
Mary Jo Catlett replaces Nedra Volz on the NBC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, as the new housekeeper, Mrs. Pearl Gallagher. She will stay with the series until its conclusion in 1986.
The CBS affiliate in Phoenix, KOOL-TV, changes its name to KTSP-TV.
During the National Football League players strike (on what would have been Week 5 of the season), CBS broadcasts four Division III football games using their regular NFL broadcast crews.
KMTR signs-on in Eugene, Oregon as an NBC affiliate. Due to NBC's persistent low ratings, the network's former affiliate KVAL-TV had been preempting NBC programming (with increasing regularity) in favor of programs from CBS (shared with ABC affiliate KEZI), forcing a frustrated NBC to seek a new station. With the move, KVAL-TV becomes a full-time CBS affiliate.
WFBT, a religious television station in Minneapolis/St. Paul goes on the air.
Cindy Williams makes her final appearance as Shirley Finney on the ABC sitcom Laverne & Shirley. In March 1982, Williams became pregnant with her first child. In August 1982, two episodes into production of the series' eighth season, Williams would leave the show and file a $20 million lawsuit against Paramount after they demand that Williams work on her scheduled due date. The case is later settled out of court and Williams is released from her contract.
Susan Stafford departs as co-host of the NBC game show Wheel of Fortune to do humanitarian work. Auditions occur for her replacement, with Vanna White formally replacing Stafford on December 13. As of 2022, White remains the co-host of Wheel.
The second season of Cagney & Lacey premieres on CBS with Sharon Gless now assuming the role of Det. Christine Cagney. Meg Foster portrayed Cagney in the first season. Foster was dismissed after the first six episodes because CBS deemed her too aggressive and too likely to be perceived as a lesbian by the viewers.
CBS broadcasts a world championship boxing match between Ray Mancini and Kim Duk-koo that results in Kim's death five days after the bout.
After originating as a four-hour long programming block on a channel known as Escapade in January 1982, the channel as a whole is officially relaunched as The Playboy Channel.
At the age of 7, Drew Barrymore becomes the youngest person to ever guest-host Saturday Night Live on NBC. As fate would have it, she ends up hosting the same episode that saw Andy Kaufman banned from ever performing on the show again.
Howard Cosell denounces professional boxing during the ABC broadcast of a WBC heavyweight championship bout between titleholder Larry Holmes and a clearly outmatched Randall "Tex" Cobb at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. Cosell, horrified over the brutality of the one-sided fight, said that if the referee did not stop the fight he would never broadcast a professional fight again.
Southwest Championship Wrestling becomes the first weekly wrestling program on the USA Network, airing Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. However, because of a particularly bloody match between Tully Blanchard and "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan (which USA refused to air), the inability of the promotion to keep paying USA the $7,000 per week to keep the time slot, and a monetary offer made to the cable channel by WWF owner Vince McMahon to replace Southwest Championship Wrestling with his own programming, USA will end up canceling the program in September (in spite of the high ratings the show was garnering for the network), replacing it with WWF All American Wrestling.
ESPN broadcasts its first live college football game, simulcasting the Independence Bowl match-up between Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin.
TBS in association with Sports Productions, Inc. broadcasts a heavily anticipated college basketball match-up between the Virginia Cavaliers (led by Ralph Sampson) and Georgetown Hoyas (led by Patrick Ewing). TBS paid approximately US$600,000 for the broadcasting rights to the game that was called by Skip Caray and Abe Lemons.
Eddie Murphy becomes the first and to date, only person to guest-host NBC's Saturday Night Live while still a cast member. Murphy's 48 Hours co-star Nick Nolte was originally supposed to host until he fell ill.
SuperStation WTBS debuts one of the first video game-themed TV series, Starcade.
Nastassja Kinski makes a puzzling appearance on the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman, seeming somewhat oblivious to the jokes and everything else that was going on around her and appearing with an unusual hair style Letterman describes as "looking like there was an owl perched on top of her head." (Letterman's second guest, John Candy, comes out with his own hair moussed up in a pile as a spoof of Kinski's hair.)
Surround Sound is introduced for home use by Dolby.
Texas and The Doctors have their final episodes aired on NBC.

Programs

Debuting this year

Date	Show	Network
January 7	Fame	NBC
January 12	American Playhouse	PBS
January 16	King's Crossing	ABC
January 23	One of the Boys	NBC
February 1	Late Night with David Letterman
March 6	Chicago Story
March 3	The Kids of Degrassi Street	Showtime
March 12	T.J. Hooker	ABC
March 17	Herbie the Matchmaker	CBS
March 19	The Phoenix	ABC
March 23	Joanie Loves Chachi
Q.E.D.	CBS
March 25	Cagney & Lacey
March 29	Capitol
April 5	Report to Murphy
April 14	Teachers Only	NBC
May 4	The Book of Lists	CBS
July 5	America This Morning	ABC
July 21	Cass Malloy	CBS
August 9	Filthy Rich
September 1	Sewing with Nancy	Syndication
September 12	Blackstar	CBS
September 17	The Powers of Matthew Star	NBC
September 18	The Gary Coleman Show
The Incredible Hulk
Gilligan's Planet	CBS
Meatballs & Spaghetti
Pandamonium
September 19	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
September 20	Child's Play
September 22	Family Ties	NBC
Tales of the Gold Monkey	ABC
September 24	Bring 'Em Back Alive	CBS
September 25	The Little Rascals	ABC
Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour
Pac-Man
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
Silver Spoons	NBC
September 26	Knight Rider
At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert	Syndication
Matt Houston	ABC
Gloria	CBS
September 27	Square Pegs
September 30	Cheers	NBC
October 1	Remington Steele
October 2	The Devlin Connection
October 3	Voyagers!
October 4	CBS Morning News	CBS
October 6	Tucker's Witch
October 10	Nature	PBS
October 14	It Takes Two	ABC
October 22	The Quest	ABC
October 25	Newhart	CBS
October 26	St. Elsewhere	NBC
October 26	Gavilan	NBC
October 29	The New Odd Couple	ABC
December 12	Powerhouse	PBS
December 27	Starcade	TBS

Resuming this year

Show		Last aired		Previous network		Return date
Tattletales

Ending this year

Date	Show	Debut
January 8	Behind the Screen	1981
January 15	Darkroom
March 1	In Search of... (returned in 2002)	1977
March 6	Spider-Man	1981
March 22	Mr. Merlin
March 26	Password Plus (returned in 1984)	1979
April 7	Shannon	1981
April 17	The Lawrence Welk Show	1955
April 21	WKRP in Cincinnati	1978
April 23	Blockbusters	1980
Fridays
May 12	The Incredible Hulk	1977
May 20	Barney Miller	1975
May 21	Strike Force	1981
May 27	Mork & Mindy	1978
Bosom Buddies	1980
June 11	It's a Living (returned in 1985)
July 21	Cass Malloy	1982
July 30	Lewis & Clark	1981
August 24	McClain's Law
September 4	The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show	1980
September 5	Goldie Gold and Action Jack	1981
September 10	Match Game (returned in 1990)	1962
September 11	The Flintstone Comedy Show	1980
The Kwicky Koala Show	1981
September 12	Code Red
September 13	Lou Grant	1977
September 18	Laverne & Shirley	1981
October 1	Sunrise Semester	1957
December 18	Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo	1980
December 25	The Devlin Connection	1982
December 31	Texas	1980
The Doctors	1963

Changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Search for Tomorrow	CBS	NBC
Taxi	ABC

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

Title		Network		Premiere date
Cry for the Strangers
The Elephant Man
A Woman Called Golda
Inside the Third Reich
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Million Dollar Infield
The Blue and the Gray (miniseries)
The Executioner's Song

Networks and services

Launches

Network	Type	Launch date
Daytime and Lifetime Medical Television	Cable television	March
CNN2	Cable television	January 1
California Music Channel	Cable television	March 1
The Weather Channel	Cable and satellite	May 2
Cable Health Network	Cable television	June
Satellite News Channel	Cable television	June 21
Home Shopping Club	Cable television	September 20
Playboy TV	Cable television	November 18

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network	New network	Type	Conversion date	Notes	Source
CNN2	Headline News	Cable television	August 9

Closures

Network	Type	Closure date	Notes	Source
CBS Cable	Cable television	December 17

Television stations

Sign-ons

Date	City of License/Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Notes/Ref.
February 14	Albany, Georgia	WTSG-TV	31	Independent
February 20	Richmond, Virginia	WRLH-TV	35
March 6	Orlando, Florida	WIYE	55	Religious ind.
March 12	Mobile, Alabama
(Pensacola, Florida)	WPMI	15	Independent
March 18	Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek, Michigan	WWMA-TV	17
March 22	Savannah, Georgia	WTGS	28
April 4	Chicago, Illinois	WBBS-TV	60	Spanish independent
April 20	WPWR-TV	60	Independent
April 21	Homewood, Alabama
(Birmingham/Tuscaloosa, Alabama)	WTTO	21	Independent
Macon, Georgia	WGXA	24	ABC
April 23	Canton, Ohio	WOAC	67	Independent
May 5	Harlingen, Texas
(Brownsville/McAllen, Texas)	KZLN	60	PBS
May 11	Richmond, Indiana/Dayton, Ohio	WKOI-TV	43	TBN
May 16	Opelika/Auburn, Alabama
(Columbus, Georgia)	WSWS-TV	66	Independent
May 22	Boston, Massachusetts	WNEV-TV	7	CBS
June 1	Cape Girardeau, Missouri
(Paducah, Kentucky/Harrisburg, Illinois)	KBSI	23	Independent
June 13	Lima, Ohio	WTLW	44	Religious independent
June 16	Inglis/Yankeetown/Lecanto/Gainesville, Florida	W49AI	49	Independent
Topeka, Kansas	K06KZ	6	Now Fox affiliate KTMJ-CD on channel 43
July 1	Baltimore, Maryland	WNUV	54	Independent
July 5	Daytona Beach/Orlando, Florida	WMOD	26
July 8	West Palm Beach, Florida	WHRS-TV	42	PBS
July 21	Victoria, Texas	KAVU-TV	25	NBC
July 30	Albany, New York	WXXA-TV	23	Independent
August 4	Dickinson, North Dakota	KDSE	9	PBS	Part of Prairie Public Television
August 6	Cocoa/Orlando, Florida	WTGL-TV	52	Independent
September 5	Prescott/Phoenix, Arizona	KUSK	7
September 10	Lander, Wyoming	KOWY	7	CBS
September 12	St. Louis, Missouri	KNLC	24	Religious independent	now a MeTV owned-and-operated station
September 19	Huntington/Charleston, West Virginia	WVAH-TV	11	Independent
October 1	Anaheim/Los Angeles, California	KDOC-TV	56
October 2	Centralia, Washington	KCKA	15	PBS	Satellite of KBTC-TV, Tacoma, Washington
October 4	Eugene, Oregon	KMTR	16	NBC
October 6	Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota	WFBT	29	Independent
October 16	Miami, Florida	WDZL	39
October 17	West Palm Beach, Florida	WFLX	29
October 18	Beattyville/Lexington, Kentucky	WLJC-TV	65
Peoria, Illinois	WBLN	43
October 24	Amarillo, Texas	KJTV	14
October 31	Spokane, Washington	KAYU-TV	28
November	Bruce, Mississippi	W07BN	7
November 7	Houston, Texas	KTXH	20
November 16	Jacksonville/New Bern, North Carolina	WUNM-TV	19	PBS	Part of University of North Carolina Television
November 24	Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota	KXLI	41	Independent
December 1	Lansing, Michigan	WFSL-TV	47
December 5	Sandusky, Ohio	WGGN	52	Religious independent
December 12	Lake Charles, Louisiana	KVHP	29	Independent
December 23	Honolulu, Hawaii	KSHO-TV	36

Network affiliation changes

Date	City of License/Market	Station	Channel	Old affiliation	New affiliation
January 4	Panama City, Florida	WJHG-TV	7	ABC	NBC
WMBB	13	NBC	ABC
February 1	Yuma, Arizona/El Centro, California	KECY-TV	9	CBS	ABC
March 22	Waterbury/Hartford, Connecticut	WTXX	20	NBC	Independent
August 8	Columbia, Missouri	KOMU	8	NBC	ABC
KCBJ-TV	17	ABC	NBC
September 11	Savannah, Georgia	WSAV-TV	3	NBC	ABC
WJCL	22	ABC	NBC
October 4	Eugene, Oregon	KVAL-TV	13	NBC	CBS

Sign-Offs

Date	City of license/Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Sign-on date	Notes
May 22	Boston, Massachusetts	WNAC-TV	7	CBS	June 21, 1948	Replaced with WNEV-TV.
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Births

Date		Name		Notability
January 1
Dana DeLorenzo
January 3
January 5
Jessica Chaffin
January 7
Eddie Redmayne
January 8
January 10
January 13
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
Simone Missick
January 28
January 29
Heidi Mueller
January 31
February 3
February 6
February 7
February 8
February 10
February 12
February 17
February 22
February 25
Bert McCracken
February 28
March 1
March 2
March 3
Mercedes Mason
March 10
March 11
Robbie Daymond
Thora Birch
Mircea Monroe
March 12
Luis Gerardo Méndez
March 14
March 16
March 18
Cornelius Smith Jr.
March 19
March 20
Erica Luttrell
March 21
March 22
March 24
March 25
Jenny Slate
Alex Moffat
Danica Patrick
March 26
March 28
March 30
Kenric Green
March 31
Brian Tyree Henry
April 1
Sam Huntington
April 3
April 5
April 6
April 10
Joanna Christie
April 15
April 16
April 18
April 19
April 22
April 24
April 26
April 27
April 28
April 30
Joseph Perrino
Kirsten Dunst
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 6
Tiffany Coyne
May 9
May 11
May 13
May 14
May 15
May 16
May 24
May 25
May 27
May 28
May 29
May 31
June 2
Whitney Able
June 8
June 14
June 16
June 17
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 25
June 29
Colin Jost
June 30
July 1
July 4
July 8
Ariel Helwani
July 10
July 13
July 18
July 19
July 20
July 22
July 23
Tom Mison
July 24
Elisabeth Moss
Lauren Miller Rogen
July 25
July 26
July 28
July 29
July 30
Yvonne Strahovski
Brandon Scott
August 1
August 3
August 6
August 7
Brit Marling
August 9
August 10
Vincent Rodriguez III
August 11
August 12
August 13
August 16
Cam Gigandet
August 17
Jon Lovett
August 19
Melissa Fumero
August 20
Jamil Walker Smith
August 25
August 26
August 27
August 29
September 1
September 4
September 5
September 8
September 10
Misty Copeland
September 13
September 17
September 19
September 20
September 22
Billie Piper
September 23
Pendleton Ward
September 24
September 27
September 28
September 29
September 30
Lacey Chabert
October 3
October 6
October 9
Colin Donnell
October 11
October 12
October 15
Brandon Jay McLaren
October 16
October 19
October 20
October 28
October 30
November 1
November 10
November 12
November 14
November 18
November 21
Ryan Starr
November 25
Marci Gonzalez
November 26
November 28
Alan Ritchson
November 29
Lucas Black
Eddie Spears
November 30
December 2
December 5
Alberto Guerra
December 6
December 7
Jack Huston
December 8
December 14
December 15
December 16
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31

Deaths

Date		Name		Age		class="unsortable"	Notability
January 1
January 5
January 10
January 18
March 5
May 14
July 21
July 23
August 12
August 13
October 18
November 1
November 4
December 7
December 22

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