Deaths Date 1984 October | History by KabAstro

Oct 1 Billy Goodman, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1949, 53; AL batting champion 1950; Boston Red Sox), dies of cancer at 58

Walter Alston (1911-1984)

Oct 1 American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1955, 59, 63, 65; Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers), dies from heart attack complications at 72

Oct 5 Leonard Rossiter, British actor (Rising Damp, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin), dies of a heart attack at 57
Oct 6 Eliseo Pajaro, Filipino composer (The Life of Lam-Ling; Marilag Fantasy), pedagogue, and school administrator, dies at 69
Oct 6 George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist, dies at 82
Oct 7 Hermann Schroeder, German composer, dies at 80
Oct 8 Frederick Brisson, Danish-born film and theater producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
Oct 11 K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies at 67
Oct 11 Sid Carroll, Australian cricketer (prolific NSW opener 1945-59 avg 39 59), dies at 61
Oct 12 Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
Oct 13 Alice Neel, American painter dies ages 84
Oct 13 George 'High Pockets' Kelly, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (World Series 1921, 22; NL HR leader 1921; NY Giants), dies from a stroke at 89
Oct 14 Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (Astronomer Royal 1972-82, Nobel Prize for Physics 1974), dies at 66 [1]
Oct 16 Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
Oct 16 Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon), dies of cancer at 53
Oct 17 Alberta Hunter, American blues singer and composer, dies at 89
Oct 18 Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82
Oct 18 Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (Voyagers!, Cover-up), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26
Oct 19 Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and writer (Miserable Miracle), dies at 85
Oct 19 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped & murdered
Oct 20 Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American bio-chemist (Nobel 1947-discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy), dies at 87

Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

Oct 20 English physicist (quantum electrodynamics, Nobel 1933), dies at 82

Oct 21 Dalibor Cyril Vačkář, Czech composer, dies at 78
Oct 21 Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
Oct 22 Harold Laurence Walters, American composer, dies at 66
Oct 22 Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75
Oct 23 David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
Oct 23 James Petrillo, American labor leader (American Federation of Musicians president, 1940-58), and radio orchestra music director (WBBM Chicago), dies at 92
Oct 23 Oskar Werner [Bschließmayer], Austrian stage and screen actor an(The Spy Who Came In from the Cold; Ship of Fools; Fahrenheit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
Oct 24 Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66
Oct 24 Walter Woolf King, American stage and screen baritone, character actor (Golden Dawn; A Night at the Opera; Swiss Miss), and actor's agent, dies of a heart attack at 84
Oct 25 Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of a heart attack at 24
Oct 26 Gus Mancuso, American baseball catcher (World Series 1931, 33; MLB All Star 1935, 37; NY Giants, St. Louis Cardinals) and broadcaster (Cardinals' radio network), dies from emphysema at 78
Oct 26 John Woods Duke, American composer, dies at 85
Oct 26 Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37
Oct 26 Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
Oct 28 Giuseppe Savagnone, Italian composer, dies at 81
Oct 28 Knut Nordahl, Swedish soccer midfielder (26 caps; AS Roma; Olympic gold 1948), dies at 64
Oct 30 June Duprez, actress (Calcutta, Tiger Fang), dies at 66
Oct 30 Mario Gallo, actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61
Oct 31 Eduardo De Filippo, Italian playwright, director, actor and poet (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84