Deaths in September 1984
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
1
- Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, 86, Duchess of Parma
- Howland Chamberlain, 73, American actor[1]
2
- Vannie Albanese, 71, American football player with the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Malcolm Craven, 68, English motorcycle speedway rider
- Amir Gilboa, 66, Israeli poet
- Sergey Martinson, 85, Soviet and Russian actor
- Eino Purje, 84, Finnish runner
3
- Rolf Gammleng, 86, Norwegian violinist and organizational leader
- Manos Katrakis, 76, Greek actor
- Cecil Middleton, 73, English first-class cricketer
- Francis Moncreiff, 77, Scottish Episcopalian and Anglican bishop
- Gaston Palewski, 83, French politician
- August Rieger, 70, Austrian screenwriter and film director
- Arthur Schwartz, 83, American composer and film producer[2]
- Francesco Tabai, 76, Italian male long, triple jumper, decathlete, and Olympian
- Herman Vanderpoorten, 62, Belgian liberal politician
- Wilhelm Winkler, 100, Czech-Austrian statistician and politician
4
- Fedir Bohatyrchuk, 91, Ukrainian–Canadian chess player, doctor of medicine (radiologist), political activist, and writer
- Elsie Louisa Deacon, 87, British draughtswoman
- Bjarne Johnsen, 92, Norwegian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
- Ernst Stueckelberg, 79, Swiss mathematician and physicist
5
- Jack Davies, 74, Australian rugby league footballer
- Leonid Kostandov, 68, Soviet engineer and politician[3]
- Boris Kuznetsov, 80, Soviet philosopher and historian
- Adam Malik, 67, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia, cancer[4]
- Jane Roberts, 55, American author and poet, self-proclaimed psychic and a spirit medium,[5][6] protein depletion, osteomyelitis, and soft-tissue infections caused by long-term rheumatoid arthritis[7]
6
- E. J. André, 76, American writer, director, and actor, cancer[8][9][10][11]
- Donny MacLeod, 52, Scottish television presenter, heart attack after a short struggle with bowel cancer.[12]
- Ernest Tubb, 70, American singer and songwriter, pioneer of country music and influential in popularizing the honky-tonk style of music, emphysema[13]
7
- Frédéric Adam, 80, French conductor, composer and administrator[14]
- Joe Cronin, 77, American professional baseball player, manager and executive, prostate cancer and bone cancer[15][16]
- Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 71, English broadcaster, author and Scottish peer[17]
- Liam O'Flaherty, 88, Irish novelist and short-story writer, founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland[18][19]
8
- W. B. Makuloluwa, 62, Sri Lankan composer and theatre director[20]
9
- Yılmaz Güney, 47, Turkish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and communist political activist, gastric cancer[21]
- Ted Mapes, 82, American character actor, stuntman, body double, and animal safety observer for the American Humane Association[22]
- Margaret Phillips, 61, Welsh actress, founding member of the Actors Studio, cancer[23]
10
- Ismael Merlo, 66, Spanish actor
- Bhola Paswan Shastri, 69, Indian independence activist and politician
- Ramanujan Srinivasan, 46, Indian physicist
11
- Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo, 88, Indonesian politician and advocate
12
- Lola Anglada, c. 90, Spanish writer, comics artist, and illustrator[24]
- László Bánhidi, 78, Hungarian actor
- Lloyd Hales, 63, English cricketer
- Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd, 82, British politician
- Yvon Petra, 68, French tennis player
13
- Magdalena Avietėnaitė, 91, Lithuanian journalist, diplomat and a public figure
- Akio Chiba, 41, Japanese manga artist
- Daniel Aloysius Riley, 68, Canadian politician
- Henk Lotgering, 81, Dutch diver and Olympian
- Fano Shimasaki, 70, American Samoan chief, civil servant, clergyman and politician
- Laura Solari, 71, Italian film actress
- Lois White, 80, New Zealand painter of the modernist school
14
- Richard Brautigan, American author (b. 1935)
- Janet Gaynor, 77, American actress[25][26]
15
- Richard Clayton, 59, Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command
- Clive Evatt, 84, Australian politician, barrister and raconteur
- Jack Ikin, 66, English cricketer
- Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 72 or 73, Saudi Arabian businessman and politician
16
- Richard Brautigan, 49, American novelist and short-story writer, suicide by a self-inflicted .44 Magnum gunshot wound to the head. His decomposed body was located by a private investigator on October 25, 1984.[27][28]
- Frank Cucksey, 65, American actor, singer, and circus performer, former host and ringmaster for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and the Circus Hall of Fame[29]
17
- John Anderson, 70, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- Richard Basehart, 70, American actor, series of strokes[30]
- Gian Carlo Fusco, Italian writer, journalist, screenwriter, and actor
- Louis Roels, 72, a Belgian racing cyclist
- Yuri Vizbor, 50, Soviet actor, bard and poet
18
- Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, 83, English aristocrat and politician
- Paavo Hietala, 64, Finnish wrestler
- Riccardo Lombardi, 83, Italian politician
19
- June Preisser, 66, American actress, teacher of both dancing and acrobatics, fatally injured in a car accident caused by rainy weather [31]
- Stan Vanderbeek, 57, American independent animator, experimental filmmaker, and art theoretician[32]
20
- Steve Goodman, 36, American folk and country singer-songwriter, leukemia[33]
21
- Roberto de Leonardis, 71, Italian film script translator, film dialogue writer and film lyricist
22
- George Oliver, 95, British engineer, barrister and politician
- Aurelio Terrazas, 80, Mexican long-distance runner[34] who was the first Rarámuri athlete to compete at the Olympics[35]
23
- Zorro Aguilar, 42, Filipino human rights lawyer, activist, and newspaper editor, murdered[36]
24
- Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
25
- Laverne Harding, 78, American animator and cartoonist, among the earliest women animators and one of only 9 women to have received a Winsor McCay Award,[37][38] designed the version of Woody Woodpecker that was in use from 1950 to 1998.[39][40]
- Walter Pidgeon, 87, Canadian-American actor, series of strokes[41]
26
- John Facenda, 71, American sports commentator, narrator for NFL Films, cancer[42][43]
- Shelly Manne, 64, American jazz drummer, heart attack[44]
27
- Ernesto Alciati, 81, Italian long-distance runner[45][46]
- Ubaldo Lay, 67, Italian actor and voice actor, cerebral hemorrhage.[47]
28
- Akhter Mia, 64, Bangladeshi politician
- Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, 86, British landowner, writer on agricultural topics, and politician[48]
29
- Marnix Gijsen, 84, Belgian writer
- Mary Newland, 81, English actress
- Hal Porter, 73, Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer
30
- Clete Roberts, 72, American broadcast journalist, heart and respiratory failure following a surgery for brain aneurysm[49]