Deaths Date 1984 February | History by KabAstro

Yuri Andropov (1914-1984)

Feb 9 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982-84) and KGB Chief (1967-82), dies of total renal failure at 69

Feb 10 David Von Erich, American professional wrestler, dies at 25
Feb 12 Anna Anderson [possibly born Franziska Schanzkowska], best-known of several imposters claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, dies still maintaining her fraudulent claim at 87
Feb 12 Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Blow-Up, Underground Game), dies at 69
Feb 13 Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
Feb 14 Elmer Keith, American firearms enthusiast and author (Guns & Ammo), dies at 84
Feb 15 Avon Long, American actor (Roots: Next Generation;The Sting; Harry and Tonto), dies of cancer at 73

Ethel Merman (1908-1984)

Feb 15 American Tony and Grammy Award-winning stage and screen singer ("There's No Business Like Show Business"), and actress (It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), dies of brain cancer at 76

Feb 15 Leamon Hunt, American Director General of Multinational Force and Observers (international peacekeepers) in Sinai, assassinated Red Brigade communists in Rome, at 56
Feb 16 Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69
Feb 17 Lucille Benson, American actress (Halloween II, 1941, Bosom Buddies), dies of liver cancer at 69
Feb 19 Claude Hopkins, American jazz stride pianist, arranger, bandleader, and musical director (Josephine Baker), dies at 80
Feb 19 Ina Ray Hutton [Odessa Cowan], American singer and big band bandleader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies of complications from diabetes at 67
Feb 20 Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer (Azerbaijan Capriccio, Shur), dies at 61
Feb 21 Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965), dies at 78
Feb 22 David, boy who spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12
Feb 22 Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)