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.
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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 )
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 )[3]
March 30 – Karl Rahner , German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904 )[4]
April
Marvin Gaye
Pyotr Kapitsa
Machito
April 1
April 5
April 7 – Frank Church , American politician (b. 1924 )[5]
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 )
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
July 1 – Moshé Feldenkrais , Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method (b. 1904 )
July 3 – Raoul Salan , French general (b. 1899 )
July 7 – Dame Flora Robson , English actress (b. 1902 )
July 8
July 14 - Philippe Wynne , American singer (b. 1941 )
July 17 – Karl Wolff , German Nazi SS Officer (b. 1900 )
July 19 – Faina Ranevskaya , Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1896 )
July 25 – Big Mama Thornton , American singer (b. 1926 )
July 26 – George Gallup , American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901 )
July 27 – James Mason , English actor (b. 1909 )
July 28 – Bess Flowers , American actress (b. 1898 )
September
Walter Pidgeon
September 1 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset , Duchess of Parma (b. 1898 )
September 5
September 6 – Ernest Tubb , American singer (b. 1914 )
September 7 – Joe Cronin , American baseball player (b. 1906 )
September 9 – Yılmaz Güney , Palme d'Or award-winning Kurdish film director, scenarist, actor, novelist and activist (b. 1937 )
September 12 – Yvon Petra , French tennis player (b. 1916 )
September 14
September 17 – Richard Basehart , American actor (b. 1914 )
September 20 – Steve Goodman , American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948 )
September 24 – Neil Hamilton , American actor (b. 1899 )
September 25 – Walter Pidgeon , Canadian actor (b. 1897 )
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 9 – Heinz von Cleve , German actor (b. 1897 )
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
Byers, Paula K.; Bourgoin, Suzanne M., eds. (2004). "Karl Rahner" . Encyclopedia of World Biography . Vol. 13 (2nd ed.). Detroit, Michigan: Gale. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0-7876-2553-5 .