September 27: The Peanuts television special It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown airs on CBS, which gained negative attention for the inter-species storyline being subjected in a Peanuts special[11] before putting it in obscurity in the 2000s.
Don Bluth releases The Land Before Time. This film is generally acclaimed[15] and became Bluth's most popular and longest running franchise to date.[16]
March 10: Ego Nwodim, American actress and comedian (voice of Zara in the Agent Elvis episode "Mahgrebi Mint", Dung Beetle Shaman in the Futurama episode "Parasites Regained").[26]
July 24: Joe Pera, American comedian, writer and actor (voice of Alaquippa Ed in F is for Family, Fern in Elemental, Christopher in the Bob's Burgers episode "Ferry on My Wayward Bob and Linda").
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^"Jim Jordan, Radio's Fibber McGee, Is Dead at 91". Associated Press in the New York Times. 2 April 1988. Retrieved 2009-08-08. Jim Jordan, who delighted audiences for two decades as the well-meaning but bumbling Fibber McGee in the classic radio show Fibber McGee and Molly, died today at the Beverly Hills Medical Center. He was 91 years old. Mr. Jordan had been hospitalized for more than a week, in a coma with a blood clot in his brain caused by a fall at his home, according to a family friend, the radio and television performer Fran Allison. Mr. Jordan never regained consciousness after the accident.
^Smith, Jim; Matthews, Clive (2008). Tim Burton. Foreward by Martin Landau and Afterword by Rick Heinrichs. Virgin Books. p. 133. ISBN978-0-7535-0682-0.