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 ) March 30 – Karl Rahner , German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904 ) April Marvin Gaye Pyotr Kapitsa Machito April 1 April 5 April 7 – Frank Church , American politician (b. 1924 ) 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
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