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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1984 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1984
January
Alfred Kastler
Ray Kroc
January 1 –
Alexis Korner , British blues musician and broadcaster (b.
1928 )
January 5 –
Giuseppe Fava , Italian writer (b.
1925 )
January 6 –
Ernest Laszlo , Hungarian-American cinematographer (b.
1898 )
January 7 –
Alfred Kastler , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902 )
January 9 – Sir
Deighton Lisle Ward , 4th Governor-General of Barbados (b.
1909 )
January 11 –
Jack La Rue , American actor (b.
1902 )
January 14
January 17 –
George Rigaud , Argentinian actor (b.
1905 )
January 20 –
Johnny Weissmuller , American swimmer and actor (b.
1904 )
January 21
January 29 –
Frances Goodrich , American screenwriter (b.
1890 )
January 30 –
Luke Kelly , lead singer of Irish band
The Dubliners (b.
1940 )
January 31 –
George Harmon Coxe , American writer (b.
1901 )
February
Yuri Andropov
March
William Powell
Ahmed Sékou Touré
March 1 –
Jackie Coogan , American actor (b.
1914 )
March 5
March 6
March 10 –
June Marlowe , American actress (b.
1903 )
March 12 –
Arnold Ridley , English playwright and actor (b.
1896 )
March 14 –
Aurelio Peccei , Italian industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of the
Club of Rome (b.
1908 )
March 15
March 18 –
Paul Francis Webster , American lyricist (b.
1907 )
March 23 –
Peter Kolosimo , Italian journalist and writer (b.
1922 )
March 24 –
Sam Jaffe , American actor (b.
1891 )
March 26 –
Ahmed Sékou Touré , Guinean politician, 1st
President of Guinea (b.
1922 )
March 27 –
Jack Donohue , American film screenwriter and director (b.
1908 )
March 28 –
Benjamin Mays , American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (b.
1894 )
[2]
March 30 –
Karl Rahner , German Jesuit priest and theologian (b.
1904 )
[3]
April
Marvin Gaye
Pyotr Kapitsa
Machito
April 1
April 5
April 7 –
Frank Church , American politician (b.
1924 )
[4]
April 8 –
Pyotr Kapitsa , Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1894 )
April 9 –
Willem Sandberg , Dutch typographer (b.
1897 )
April 12 –
Edward Sokoine , 2nd
Prime Minister of Tanzania (b.
1938 )
April 15
April 16 –
Byron Haskin , American film and television director (b.
1899 )
April 17 –
Mark W. Clark , American general (b.
1896 )
April 19 –
Machito , Cuban jazz musician (b.
1908 )
April 20 –
Otto Arosemena , 32nd
President of Ecuador (b.
1925 )
April 21 –
Marcel Janco , Romanian-Israeli artist (b.
1895 )
April 22 –
Ansel Adams , American photographer (b.
1902 )
April 23 –
Roland Penrose , English artist, historian and poet (b.
1900 )
April 26
April 27
April 30 –
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla , Colombian lawyer and politician (b.
1946 )
May
Diana Dors
Karl-August Fagerholm
June
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin
Enrico Berlinguer
June 5 –
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin , 42nd
Prime Minister of Egypt (b.
1926 )
June 6 –
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale , Sikh theologian, Most powerful Sikh leader of the 20th century (b.
1947 )
June 11 –
Enrico Berlinguer , General Secretary of the
Italian Communist Party (b.
1922 )
June 15
June 19 –
Lee Krasner , American painter (b.
1908 )
June 20 –
Estelle Winwood , English actress (b.
1883 )
June 22 –
Joseph Losey , American film director (b.
1909 )
June 24 –
William Keighley , American film director (b.
1889 )
June 25 –
Michel Foucault , French philosopher (b.
1926 )
June 26 –
Carl Foreman , American screenwriter (b.
1914 )
June 28
June 30
July
Flora Robson
August
Richard Burton
Mohammed Naguib
September
Walter Pidgeon
October
François Truffaut
Indira Gandhi
October 1
October 4 –
Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (b.
1901 )
October 5 –
Leonard Rossiter , British actor (b.
1926 )
October 6 –
George Gaylord Simpson , American paleontologist (b.
1902 )
October 14 –
Sir Martin Ryle , English radio astronomer, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics (b.
1918 )
October 16 –
Peggy Ann Garner , American actress (b.
1932 )
October 17 –
Alberta Hunter , American singer (b.
1895 )
October 18 –
Jon-Erik Hexum , American actor (b.
1957 )
October 19
October 20
October 21 –
François Truffaut , French film director (b.
1932 )
October 23 –
Oskar Werner , Austrian actor (b.
1922 )
October 25 –
Pascale Ogier , French actress (b.
1958 )
October 30 –
June Duprez , English actress (b.
1918 )
October 31
November
Martin Luther King Sr.
December
Jeanne Cagney
Peter Lawford
References