1982 in American television

List of years in American television:
1981–82 United States network television schedule
1982–83 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

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 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.
January 2 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.
January 4 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.
January 10 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.
January 23 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.
January 30 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,[1] an appearance in Playboy magazine, and entertaining Golden Globe voters.[2][3] 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.
February 1 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).[4][5][6]
February 3 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.
February 7 As part of a two-night event, ABC airs the network television broadcast premiere of Superman: The Movie.
March 4 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.
March 8 Night of 100 Stars, a benefit for the Actors' Fund taped at Radio City Music Hall, is broadcast by ABC.
March 26 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.
April 2 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.
April 21 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.
May 2 The Weather Channel is begun in the U.S.[7]
May 15 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.
May 22 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.[8][9]
May 24 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.
May 27 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.
May 28 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.[10][11][12]
American film critic Leonard Maltin makes his first appearance on the television news magazine Entertainment Tonight.[13][14]
June 6 The CBS affiliate in Orlando, WDBO-TV, changes its name to WCPX-TV.
July 11 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.
July 13 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.
July 21 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.
July 29 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.
August 8 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 1986.[15]
August 30 Field Communications begins its liquidation by selling off WFLD to Metromedia.
September 6 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.
September 11 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.[16]
September 12 KNLC, a religious independent station in St. Louis goes on the air.
September 13 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight as reporter and later co-host; she would fill the latter role until 2011.
September 20 USA Network begins 24-hour operations, featuring the debut of the USA Cartoon Express, cable television's first structured animation block.
September 25 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.
September 30 The pilot episode for Cheers airs on NBC.
October 1 Independent station KDOC-TV commences broadcasting in Los Angeles.
October 2 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.
October 3 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.
October 4 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.
October 4 The CBS affiliate in Phoenix, KOOL-TV, changes its name to KTSP-TV.
October 11 WFBT, a religious television station in Minneapolis/St. Paul goes on the air.
October 12 Cindy Williams makes her final appearance as Shirley Finney on Laverne & Shirley.
October 22 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.
October 25 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.[17]
November 13 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.
November 18 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.
November 20 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.
November 26 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.
December 5 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,[18] 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.
December 11 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.
December 27 SuperStation WTBS debuts one of the first video game-themed TV series, Starcade.
December 29 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.
December 31 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 1978 CBS January 18

Ending this year

Date Show Debut
January 8 Behind the Screen 1981
January 15 Darkroom
January 29 Late Night with Tom Snyder 1973
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 CBS February 11
The Elephant Man ABC January 4
A Woman Called Golda CBS April 26
Inside the Third Reich ABC May 9
Little Gloria... Happy at Last NBC October 24
Million Dollar Infield CBS February 2
The Blue and the Gray (miniseries) CBS November 14
The Executioner's Song NBC November 28, 29

Networks and services

Launches

Network Type Launch date Notes Source
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 11 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 Notes/Ref.
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.[19]
June 4 Hanover, New Hampshire WHED-TV 15 PBS April 11, 1968[20]

Births

Date Name Notability
January 1 Ben Domenech Editor
Dana DeLorenzo Actress (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Ash vs Evil Dead)
January 3 Tricia Dickson Voice actress (Nickelodeon)
January 5 Allen Evangelista Actor (Zoey 101, The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
Jessica Chaffin Actress
January 7 Lauren Cohan Actress (Supernatural, The Walking Dead)
Eddie Redmayne Actor
January 8 Gaby Hoffmann Actress
January 10 Josh Ryan Evans Actor (Timmy on Passions) (d. 2002)
January 13 Ruth Wilson Actress
January 16 Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Actress
January 17 David Blue Actor (Stargate Universe)
January 18 Joanna Newsom Actress
January 19 Jodie Sweetin Actress (Full House, Fuller House)
Simone Missick Actress
January 28 Keltie Knight Actress
January 29 Adam Lambert Singer, songwriter and actor (American Idol, Glee)
Heidi Mueller Actress (Passions)
January 31 Jon Gabrus Actor (CollegeHumor Originals)
February 3 Bridget Regan Actress (Legend of the Seeker, Jane the Virgin, Agent Carter)
February 6 Alice Eve Actress
February 7 Cory Doran Canadian actor (George of the Jungle, Jimmy Two-Shoes, Stoked, Pearlie, Wild Kratts, Total Drama, Rocket Monkeys)
February 8 Danny Tamberelli Actor (The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Magic School Bus, All That, Fillmore!)
February 10 Lauren Scala Television reporter
February 12 Carter Hayden Canadian actor (Total Drama, Camp Lakebottom)
February 17 Brooke D'Orsay Canadian actress (6teen, Happy Hour)
February 22 Dichen Lachman Actress
February 25 Maria Kanellis Actress
Bert McCracken Singer
February 28 Diane Macedo American news personality
March 1 Alexis Fields Actress (Roc, Sister, Sister, Kenan & Kel, Moesha)
March 2 Ben Roethlisberger American football quarterback
March 3 Jessica Biel Actress (7th Heaven)
Mercedes Mason Actress
March 10 Thomas Middleditch Canadian actor (Silicon Valley, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero)
March 11 Lindsey McKeon Actress (Saved by the Bell: The New Class, One Tree Hill)
Robbie Daymond Voice actor (Breadwinners, Sailor Moon, Get Blake!, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Spider-Man, Pinky Malinky)
Thora Birch Actress (The Outer Limits)
Mircea Monroe Actress
March 12 Samm Levine American actor
Luis Gerardo Méndez Actor
March 14 Kate Maberly Actress
March 16 Julie Pace American journalist
March 18 Adam Pally American actor
Cornelius Smith Jr. American actor
March 19 Amanda Kloots American dancer
March 20 Nick Blood English actor (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Erica Luttrell Voice actress (The Magic School Bus, Dave the Barbarian, Steven Universe)
March 21 Santino Fontana American actor
March 22 Constance Wu Actress (Fresh Off the Boat)
March 24 James Napier Robertson New Zealand actor (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
March 25 Sean Faris Actor (Life as We Know It, Pretty Little Liars)
Jenny Slate Actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Bob's Burgers, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Muppet Babies)
Alex Moffat Actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Danica Patrick American former professional racing driver
March 26 Joe Anderson Actor
March 28 Flula Borg Actor
March 30 Jason Dohring Actor (Veronica Mars)
Kenric Green Actor
March 31 Anna Mae Routledge Actress
Brian Tyree Henry Actor
April 1 Taran Killam Actor, comedian (The Amanda Show, Wild 'n Out, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live)
Sam Huntington Actor
April 3 Cobie Smulders Canadian actress (How I Met Your Mother) and model
April 5 Hayley Atwell English actress (Agent Carter, Conviction) and singer
April 6 Bret Harrison Actor (Grounded for Life, The Loop, Reaper, Breaking In)
April 10 Chyler Leigh Actress (Grey's Anatomy, Supergirl)
Joanna Christie Actress
April 15 Seth Rogen Canadian-American actor, comedian (Freaks and Geeks, Saturday Night Live)
April 16 Gina Carano American actress
April 18 Abigail Hawk Actress
April 19 Ali Wong American actress
April 22 Cassidy Freeman Actress (Smallville, Longmire)
April 24 Kelly Clarkson Singer and actress (American Idol, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Voice)
April 26 Cedric Sanders Actor
April 27 Katrina Johnson Actress (All That)
April 28 Harry Shum, Jr. Actor (Glee, Shadowhunters)
April 30 Drew Seeley Canadian-American actor (Glory Daze)
Joseph Perrino American actor
Kirsten Dunst Actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fargo)
May 1 Jamie Dornan Northern Irish actor (Once Upon a Time)
May 2 Poppy Harlow American journalist
May 3 Rebecca Hall Actress
May 4 Charissa Thompson TV host
May 6 Lindsay Pulsipher Actress (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, True Blood, The Beast)
Tiffany Coyne Model
May 9 Rachel Boston Actress (American Dreams, Witches of East End)
May 11 Cory Monteith Actor (Glee) (d. 2013)
May 13 Ana Cabrera Journalist
May 14 Anjelah Johnson Actress (Mad TV)
May 15 Alexandra Breckenridge Actress (Family Guy)
May 16 Tiya Sircar Actress
May 24 Chaunté Wayans Actress
May 25 Fryda Wolff Actress (The Owl House, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!)
May 27 Natalya Neidhart Pro Wrestler (Total Divas)[21]
May 28 Alexa Davalos Actress (Reunion, The Man in the High Castle)
May 29 Joanne Borgella Reality TV personality (American Idol (season 7), Made, Mo'Nique's Fat Chance)[22] (d. 2014)
May 31 Jonathan Tucker Actor
June 2 Jewel Staite Canadian actress (Firefly, Stargate Atlantis)
Whitney Able Actress
June 8 Thomas Hobson Actor (The Fresh Beat Band, That Girl Lay Lay)
June 14 Lawrence Saint-Victor Actor (Guiding Light)
June 16 Missy Peregrym Canadian actress (Life as We Know It, Reaper, Rookie Blue)
June 17 Arthur Darvill English actor (Legends of Tomorrow)
June 19 Michael Yarmush Actor
June 20 Necar Zadegan Actress
June 21 Jussie Smollett Actor (On Our Own, Empire, Underground)
June 25 Whit Johnson American journalist
June 29 Lily Rabe Actress (American Horror Story)
Colin Jost Actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
June 30 Lizzy Caplan Actress (Related, The Class, Party Down, Masters of Sex)
July 1 Hilarie Burton Actress (One Tree Hill)
July 4 Michael Sorrentino TV personality (Jersey Shore)
July 8 Sophia Bush Actress (One Tree Hill, Chicago P.D.)
Ariel Helwani Canadian-American combat sports analyst
July 10 Morgan Ortagus American television commentator
July 13 Aya Cash American actress
July 18 Ryan Cabrera American musician
July 19 Jared Padalecki Actor (Gilmore Girls, Supernatural)
July 20 Percy Daggs III Actor (Veronica Mars)
July 22 David Fynn Actor
July 23 Paul Wesley Actor (American Dreams, The Vampire Diaries)
Tom Mison English actor (Sleepy Hollow)
July 24 Anna Paquin Canadian actress (True Blood)
Elisabeth Moss Actress (The West Wing, Mad Men)
Lauren Miller Rogen Actress
July 25 Brad Renfro Actor (d. 2008)
July 26 Megan Ketch Actress
July 28 Tom Pelphrey Actor (Guiding Light, Iron Fist)
July 29 Allison Mack Actress (Smallville, Wilfred)
July 30 Martin Starr Actor (Freaks and Geeks, Party Down, Silicon Valley)
Yvonne Strahovski Actress (HeadLand, Chuck)
Brandon Scott Actor (This Is Us, Dead to Me, 13 Reasons Why)
August 1 Julia Ioffe American journalist
August 3 Aron Stevens Pro wrestler
August 6 Romola Garai Actress
August 7 Abbie Cornish Actress (Outriders)
Brit Marling Actress (Babylon, The OA)
August 9 Jes Macallan Actress (Mistresses)
August 10 Katrina Begin Actress
Vincent Rodriguez III Actor
August 11 Amanda Sudano Singer
August 12 River Butcher Actor
August 13 Sebastian Stan Actor
August 16 Todd Haberkorn Voice actor (Ever After High, Ben 10)
Cam Gigandet Actor
August 17 Mark Salling Actor (Glee) (d. 2018)
Jon Lovett Comedian
August 19 Erika Christensen Actress (Six Degrees, Parenthood) and singer
Melissa Fumero Actress (One Life to Live, Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
August 20 Meghan Ory Canadian actress (Once Upon a Time)
Jamil Walker Smith Actor (Hey Arnold!, Waynehead, Stargate Universe)
August 25 Benjamin Diskin Voice actor (Hey Arnold!, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Stitch!, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Ultimate Spider-Man, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Muppet Babies, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle)
August 26 John Mulaney Actor
August 27 Leah McSweeney American television personality
August 29 Echo Kellum Actor (Ben and Kate, Arrow, Sean Saves the World)
September 1 Zoe Lister-Jones Actress (Delocated, Whitney, Friends with Better Lives, Life in Pieces)
September 4 Whitney Cummings Comedian and actress (Whitney)
September 5 Hallie Haglund Comedian
September 8 Chumlee American businessman
September 10 Bret Iwan Voice actor (current voice of Mickey Mouse)
Misty Copeland Actress
September 13 J. G. Quintel Voice actor (Regular Show)
September 17 Jillian Mele News anchor
September 19 Columbus Short Actor
September 20 Jessica Pimentel Actress
September 22 Katie Lowes Actress
Billie Piper Actress
September 23 Alyssa Sutherland Australian actress (Vikings)
Pendleton Ward Voice actor (Adventure Time)
September 24 Tom Degnan Actor
September 27 Anna Camp Actress (The Mindy Project)
September 28 Matt Cohen Actor (South of Nowhere)
September 29 Stephen "tWitch" Boss Actor (died 2022)
September 30 Kieran Culkin Actor (Long Live the Royals)
Lacey Chabert Actress (Party of Five, The Wild Thornberrys, Family Guy, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Young Justice, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Shimmer and Shine, The Lion Guard, Justice League Action)
October 3 Erik von Detten Actor (Recess, Odd Man Out, So Weird, The Legend of Tarzan, Complete Savages)
October 6 Mike Mitchell Actor
October 9 Michael Arden Actor
Colin Donnell Actor (Arrow, The Affair, Chicago Med)
October 11 Humphrey Ker Actor
October 12 Sarah Smyth Actress
October 15 Lane Toran Voice actor (Arnold on Hey Arnold! (1996–97))
Brandon Jay McLaren Actor
October 16 Pippa Black Actress
October 19 Gillian Jacobs Actress (Community, Love) and singer
October 20 Katie Featherston Actress (Paranormal Activity)
October 28 Michael Stahl-David Actor
October 30 Clémence Poésy French actress (The Tunnel)
November 1 Michaela Dietz Actress (Steven Universe, Barney & Friends, The Ghost and Molly McGee)
November 10 Heather Matarazzo Actress
November 12 Anne Hathaway Actress (Get Real)
November 14 Laura Ramsey Actress (Hindsight)
November 18 Damon Wayans Jr. Actor (New Girl, Happy Endings, Happy Together)
November 21 Paul W. Downs Actor
Ryan Starr Reality TV personality (American Idol, The Surreal Life)[23]
November 25 Natalia Cordova-Buckley Mexican actress (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Marci Gonzalez Reporter for CBS News
November 26 Jessica Camacho Actress
November 28 Adam McArthur Voice actor (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)
Alan Ritchson Actor
November 29 Gemma Chan English actress (Dates, Humans)
Lucas Black Actor (American Gothic, NCIS: New Orleans)
Eddie Spears Actor
November 30 Elisha Cuthbert Actress (Are You Afraid of the Dark?, 24, Happy Endings)
December 2 Streeter Seidell Actor
December 5 Gabriel Luna Actor (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Alberto Guerra Actor
December 6 C. J. Thomason Actor
December 7 Jesse Johnson Actor
Jack Huston Actor
December 8 Nicki Minaj Singer
December 14 Jesse Garcia Actor
December 15 George O. Gore II Actor (New York Undercover, My Wife and Kids)
December 16 Zoe Jarman Actress
December 20 David Cook Singer (American Idol)
December 21 Tom Payne Actor
December 22 Harry Ford Actor
December 28 Beau Garrett Actress
December 29 Alison Brie Actress and singer (Mad Men, Community, BoJack Horseman, GLOW)
December 30 Kristin Kreuk Canadian actress (Edgemont, Smallville, Beauty & the Beast)
December 31 Jermaine Williams Actor (The Jersey)

Deaths

Date Name Age Notability
January 1 Victor Buono 43 Actor (King Tut on Batman)
January 5 Hans Conried 64 Actor (Make Room for Daddy, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Dr. Seuss special)
January 10 Paul Lynde 55 Actor (Bewitched), comedian (Hollywood Squares)
January 18 Trent Lehman 20 Child actor (Nanny and the Professor)
March 5 John Belushi 33 Comedian/Singer (Saturday Night Live)
May 14 Hugh Beaumont 73 Actor (Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver)
July 21 Dave Garroway 69 Journalist and host (The Today Show)
July 23 Vic Morrow 53 Actor (Sgt. "Chip" Saunders on Combat!) killed by negligence of director John Landis on set of Twilight Zone: The Movie
August 12 Henry Fonda 77 Actor
August 13 Joe E. Ross 68 Actor (Gunther Toody on Car 54, Where Are You?)
October 18 Bess Truman 97 First Lady of the United States and spouse of President Harry S. Truman
November 1 James Broderick 55 Actor (Family) and father of Matthew Broderick
November 4 Dominique Dunne 22 Actress (Poltergeist) murdered by abusive boyfriend, first victim of the "Poltergeist curse"
December 7 Will Lee 74 Actor (Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street)
December 22 Jack Webb 62 Actor, producer (Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet)

See also

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