Famous People Who Died in 1984 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 400 of 417

• Jun 20 Hans Studer, Swiss composer, dies at 73
• Jun 22 (Dillwyn) "Dill" Jones, Welsh jazz stride pianist, dies of throat cancer at 60
• Jun 22 Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (The Damned: The Servant; Accident; The Go-Between), dies at 75

• Jun 24 William Keighley, American director (The Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94
• Jun 25 Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDS at 57
• Jun 26 Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69
• Jun 26 Russ Savakus, American jazz, folk, and rock session bassist and violinist, dies in a car crash at 59

• Jul 1 Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist (founder of the Feldenkrais method), dies at 80
• Jul 2 Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
• Jul 2 Ramiro Cortes, Mexican-American composer, dies of heart failure at 50
• Jul 3 Raoul Salan, French Army general and leader of OAS; Secret Army Organization (Algeria), dies at 85
• Jul 4 Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter ("You Must Be Laughing Somewhere"; "Let It Flow"), dies when his motorcycle is struck by drunken driver at 34
• Jul 5 Don Elliott [Helfman], American jazz trumpeter, vibraphonist, mellophone player, and vocalist, dies of cancer at 57
• Jul 5 Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor (Heilig Experiment, The Arrival of Joachim Stiller), dies at 79
• Jul 7 Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping, dies at 43
• Jul 7 Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
• Jul 8 Brassaï [Gyula Halász], Hungarian-French artist, dies at 84
• Jul 8 Christine McIntyre, American actress and singer (The Three Stooges, The Rangers' Round-Up), dies from cancer at 73
• Jul 9 Peter Hurd, American painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera), dies at 80
• Jul 9 Randall Thompson, American composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
• Jul 11 Karel Mengelberg, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 81
• Jul 13 John Davis, American weightlifter (Olympic gold bantamweight 1948, heavyweight 1952), dies from cancer at 63
• Jul 14 Al Schacht [Clown prince of baseball], American baseball player, dies at 91
• Jul 14 Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (Shaft; The French Connection), dies at 56
• Jul 14 Kenny Delmar, American comedian (School House), dies at 74
• Jul 14 Philippe Wynne, American soul singer ("I'll Be Around"), dies of a heart attack at 43
• Jul 14 Siegfried Köhler, German composer (Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom), dies at 57
• Jul 16 Billy Williams, American singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
• Jul 17 J Delos Jewkes, American light opera, vaudeville, choral (Mormon Tabernacle), film and television bass singer, and actor (Stars And Stripes Forever; The Music Man; The Andy Griffith Show), dies of a heart attack at 89
• Jul 19 Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
• Jul 19 Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• Jul 19 Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
• Jul 20 Gail Kubik, American composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69
• Jul 20 Jim Fixx, American jogger and writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52
• Jul 21 Michael Osborne, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
• Jul 23 Lloyd Gough, American actor (Sunset Boulevard, The Front, The Green Hornet), dies of aortic aneurysm at 76
• Jul 25 Bryan Hextall, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (NY Rangers; 3-time 1st team NHL All Star), dies from a heart attack at 70
• Jul 25 Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter ("Hound Dog"; "Ball & Chain"; "Stronger Than Dirt"), dies of heart and liver disorders at 57

• Jul 27 Guillermo Díaz-Plaja, Spanish literary and poet (Lorca), dies at 75
• Jul 27 James Mason, British actor (Lolita, North by Northwest, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil), dies of a heart attack at 75
• Jul 27 Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
• Jul 28 Ahti Sonninen, Finnish composer (Pessi and Illusia, Rauhaa, vain rauhaa), dies at 70
• Jul 28 Bess Flowers 'The Queen of Hollywood Extras', American actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85
• Jul 29 Fred Waring, American bandleader, conductor, and Waring Blender namesake, dies at 84
• Jul 29 Woodrow Parfey, American actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack
• Jul 30 Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
• Jul 31 Bill Raisch, American one armed actor (The Fugitive, Spartacus, Sweet Smell of Success), dies from lung cancer at 79
• Jul 31 Paul Le Flem, French composer and music critic, dies at 103
• Aug 3 Vladimir Tendryakov, Russian writer (Three, Seven, Ace), dies at 60
• Aug 4 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
• Aug 4 Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
• Aug 4 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
• Aug 4 Walter Burke, American actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema

• Aug 5 Rudolf Hagelstange, German writer, dies at 72
• Aug 7 Esther Phillips, American singer (What a Difference a Day Makes), dies at 48
• Aug 8 Ellen Raskin, American author (b.1928)
• Aug 8 Richard Deacon, American actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Mel Cooley"), dies of cardiovascular disease at 62
• Aug 11 Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal), dies at 91
• Aug 11 Pat McCauley, Northern Irish rock keyboardist and drummer (Them. 1964-65 - "Here Comes The Night"; The Other Them, 1965-67), dies at 40
• Aug 11 Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player, dies at 67
• Aug 11 Percy Mayfield, American singer (Hit the Road Jack), dies at 63
• Aug 13 Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 92
• Aug 13 Tigran Petrosian, Soviet Armenian World Chess Champion (1963-69), dies of stomach cancer at 55
• Aug 14 (John) "Bobo" Jenkins, American blues singer-songwriter (Democrat Blues), dies at 68
• Aug 14 J. B. Priestly, English novelist and scriptwriter (The Good Companions, An Inspector Calls), dies at 89
• Aug 14 John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89
• Aug 14 Peter Wishart, English composer, dies at 63
• Aug 15 Norman Petty, American musician, songwriter, recording studio owner, and record producer (Buddy Holly), dies of leukemia at 57
• Aug 16 György Kósa, Hungarian composer, dies at 87
• Aug 17 Hammie Nixon [Nickerson], American blues harmonica player (Sleepy John Estes), dies at 76
• Aug 17 Hollie Roffey, British youngest ever heart transplant, dies at 28 days
• Aug 22 Charles Whittenberg, American composer, dies at 57
• Aug 25 Andy Varipapa, American ten-pin bowler (BPAA All-Star champion 1947-48), dies at 93

• Aug 25 Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (Olympic gold 1952, 56), dies at 62
• Aug 25 Waite Hoyt, American MLB baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1923, 27, 28; AL wins leader 1927; NY Yankees), dies from heart failure at 84
• Aug 26 Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67
• Aug 27 Bernard Youens [Popley], British actor (Coronation Street, Somewhere in Politics), dies from a heart attack at 69
• Aug 27 Billy Sands, American actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
• Aug 28 Mohamed Naguib, Egyptian general and revolutionary (one of the leaders of Egyptian Revolution, 1st President of Egypt 1952-54), dies at 83
• Aug 29 Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
• Aug 30 Wesley Lau, American actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 63
• Sep 1 Howland Chamberlin, American actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
• Sep 2 Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (Antigone; Marinos Kontaras), dies at 79
• Sep 3 Arthur Schwartz, American composer (Girl from Paris; Excuse My Dust), dies at 83
• Sep 4 Ernst Stueckelberg, Swiss mathematician and physicist, dies at 79
• Sep 6 E. J. Andre, American actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74
• Sep 6 Ernest Tubb, American country musician ("Walking the Floor Over You"), dies of emphysema at 70
• Sep 7 Don Tallon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (21 Tests, 58 dismissals, 2 x 50s; Queensland CA), dies of heart disease at 68

• Sep 8 Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 59
• Sep 8 Johnnie Parsons, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1950; AAA/USAC Championship 1949), dies at 66
• Sep 8 Rene Bernier, Belgian composer, dies at 79
• Sep 9 Walter Kaufmann, German-American conductor (Winnipeg Symphony, 1948-57), composer (Navaratnam), and musicologist (The Ragas of South India), dies at 77
• Sep 9 Yilmaz Güney, Kurdish film director (Yol; Arkadaş; Baba; Ağit), dies of gastric cancer at 47
• Sep 11 Hilding Hallnäs, Swedish composer (Kärlekens ringdans), dies at 81
• Sep 11 Jerry Voorhis, American politician (Rep-D-California 1937-47), dies at 83
• Sep 12 Geoffrey Lloyd, British politician and Governor of the BBC, dies at 82

• Sep 15 Jack Ikin, English cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies at 66
• Sep 16 Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright and poet (Le Canari et le Cerise), dies at 87
• Sep 16 Richard Brautigan, American novelist and poet (Trout Fishing in America), takes his own life at 49 [exact date estimated based on forensic investigation]
• Sep 17 Richard Basehart, American actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70
• Sep 19 June Preisser, American acrobatic dancer and actress (Babes in Arms; Strike Up the Band), dies in a car crash at 64
• Sep 20 Steve Goodman, American folk singer and songwriter ("City O f New Orleans"; "Chicken Cordon Blues"), dies of leukemia at 36
• Sep 23 Anatoly Novikov, Russian-Soviet composer (Red Spider; The Hymn of Democratic Youth of the World), dies at 87
• Sep 24 Neil Hamilton, American stage and screen actor (The White Rose; When Strangers Marry; Batman (TV series) - "Commissioner Gordon"), dies of asthma at 85
• Sep 25 Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies from a stroke at 87
• Sep 26 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter, dies after being gored by a bull in the ring at 36
• Sep 26 Shelly Manne, American 'West Coast' jazz and session drummer, percussionist, composer, and bandleader, dies of a heart attack at 64
• Sep 27 John Facenda, American sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72
• Sep 29 Marnix Gijsen [Jan-Albert Goris], Belgian writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85
• Sep 30 Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
• Oct 1 Billy Goodman, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1949, 53; AL batting champion 1950; Boston Red Sox), dies of cancer at 58

• 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

• 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

• Nov 1 Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
• Nov 2 Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electrocuted in 22 years
• Nov 4 Merie Earle [Ireland], American film and television character actress (The Waltons - "Maude Gormley"), dies of uremic poisoning at 95
• Nov 6 Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
• Nov 7 George Mathews, American stage and screen character actor (The Eve of St. Mark; Glynis - "Chick"), dies of heart disease at 73
• Nov 8 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 81
• Nov 10 Sudie Bond, American stage and screen actress (Love Story; Johnny Dangerously), dies of a respiratory ailment at 61
• Nov 10 Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
• Nov 11 Jan Novák, Czech classical composer and contemporary Latin poet, dies at 63
• Nov 11 Martin Luther King Sr, US vicar and father of MLK Jr., dies at 84
• Nov 12 Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
• Nov 13 (Mauritus) "Mauk" de Braauw, Dutch politician (Chairman of DS'70, 1973-75; Minister of Higher Education and Science Policy, 1971-72), dies at 59
• Nov 13 Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
• Nov 14 Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (b. 1916)
• Nov 15 Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks
• Nov 16 Leonard Rose, American concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51), dies at 66
• Nov 16 Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
• Nov 18 Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
• Nov 19 George D. Aiken, American politician (Senator-R-Vermont, 1941-75), dies at 92
• Nov 20 Alexander Moyzes, Slovak composer, dies at 78
• Nov 20 Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian Prime Minister (Labour: 1971-72, 1973-76), dies at 74
• Nov 24 Godfrey Ridout, Canadian composer, dies at 66
• Nov 27 Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
• Nov 28 Hans Speidel, German army officer (WWI, WWII), involved in the 20 July Plot to kill Adolf Hitler (19440, and NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87
• Nov 28 Ricky Bell, American College Football HOF running back (USC; #1 Overall Selection 1977 NFL Draft TB Buccaneers; San Diego Chargers), dies of heart failure caused by dermatomyositis at 29
• Nov 29 Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
• Dec 1 Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
• Dec 3 Virginia Lacy Jones, American librarian and presidential advisor, dies at 72
• Dec 3 Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
• Dec 4 John Rock, American obstetrician and gynecologist who co-developed the 1st birth control pill, dies at 94
• Dec 5 Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
• Dec 6 Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
• Dec 7 Jeanne Cagney, American stage, screen, and radio actress (Lion is in the Streets; Quicksand; Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies of lung cancer at 65
• Dec 7 Lonnie "LeeRoy" Yarbrough, American race car (Nascar) driver, dies of head injury from a fall at 46
• Dec 8 Luther Adler, American actor (D.O.A., The Desert Fox), dies at 81
• Dec 8 Razzle [Nicholas Dingley], British drummer (Hanoi Rocks), dies at 24
• Dec 8 Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
• Dec 11 George Waggner, American director and writer (The Wolf Man), dies at 90
• Dec 11 Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
• Dec 14 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977), dies at 86

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