Deaths in October 1984
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1984
1
- Walter Alston, 72, American baseball manager, managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 through 1976[1] complications from a heart attack[2][3][4]
- Blagoje Marjanović, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1907)
2
- Royal Alexander Brink, 87, Canadian-born plant geneticist
- Lina Montes, 61, Cuban actress
3
- Conolly Gage, 78, British politician and judge
- Frøydis Haavardsholm, 88, Norwegian visual artist and book illustrator
- Nesta Obermer, 91, British philanthropist, playwright and artist
- Elkan Tedeev, 45, Soviet wrestler
4
- Muazzez Tahsin Berkand, 84 or 85, Turkish writer
- Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, 83, head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen
- George H. Marshall, 68, British educator, author, academic and campaigner
- Clara Stauffer, 79 or 80, Spanish Falangist and Nazi ratline operator
- R. V. Swaminathan, 76, Indian politician and freedom fighter
- Osvaldo Terranova, 61, Argentine actor
5
- Leonard Rossiter, 57, English actor, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy[5]
6
- Carlos Albizu Miranda, 64, Puerto Rican educator[6]
- Charlotte Long, 17, English noblewoman and child actress, fatally injured in a car accident when a lorry crashed into her parked car[7]
- George Gaylord Simpson, 82, American paleontologist, university professor, and museum curator, a major participant in the modern synthesis[8]
7
- Arnold Akberg, 90, Estonian painter[9]
8
- Françoise Aubut, 62, Canadian concert organist, and music teacher
- N. S. Satya Murthy, 48, Indian physicist and the head of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Theodor Schieder, 76, German historian
9
- Heinz von Cleve, German actor (b. 1897)
- Joan Young, 84, British character actress[10]
10
- Ursula Curtiss, 61, American mystery fiction writer, cancer[11]
- Alan Lake, 43, English actor, suicide by self-inflicted gunshot in the mouth[12]
11
- H. Bruce Humberstone, 82, American film director and former child actor, co-founder of the guild Directors Guild of America, pneumonia[13]
12
- Anthony Berry, 59, British politician
- Sid Carroll, 61, Australian cricketer
- Konstantin Khrenov, 90, Soviet engineer and inventor
- Zunun Taipov, 67, Chinese Tatar military officer
13
- Henry Wahl, 69, Norwegian speed skater and Olympian
14
- Sir Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
15
- Gary Vinson, 47, American actor, suicide by self-inflicted gunshot[14]
16
- Peggy Ann Garner, 52, American child actress, pancreatic cancer[15]
17
- Alberta Hunter, 89, American jazz and blues singer and veteran nurse[16]
18
- Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, American actor and model, self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head in a game of Russian roulette[17][18][19]
19
- Paul Aigner, 79, Austrian marketing designer, portraitist and painter[20]
- Henri Michaux, Belgian writer and painter (b. 1899)
- Jerzy Popiełuszko, 37, Polish Roman Catholic priest, anti-communist activist, and associate of the anti-authoritarian trade union Solidarity, beaten to death by three Security Police officers who were trying to kidnap him [21]
- Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (b. 1895)
20
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- Paul Dirac, 82, English theoretical physicist and mathematician, co-founder of quantum mechanics[22]
- Julian Mayfield, 56, American novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and university professor, editor-in-chief of the magazine African Review, cardiac arrest[23]
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- François Truffaut, 52, French filmmaker, actor, and critic, co-founder of the art movement French New Wave, brain tumour[24]
22
- Napoleon Whiting, 74, American character actor[25]
23
- David Gorcey, 63, American actor, member of the Bowery Boys and the East Side Kids, founder of a halfway house dedicated to helping people with substance abuse problems, complications of diabetes[26]
- Oskar Werner, 61, Austrian actor, heart attack[27]
24
- Edith Massey, 66, American actress and punk rock singer, member of the Dreamlanders and Edie and the Eggs, complications of lymphoma and diabetes[28]
25
- Pascale Ogier, French actress (b. 1958)
26
- Sue Randall, 49, American television actress, lung cancer and larynx cancer[29]
27
- Helen Rosenau, 84, German-born British academic, feminist, and historian of art and architecture
28
- John Crawford, 74, Australian agricultural economist
- Tomiteau Finau, 59, Tongan civil servant, lawyer and politician
- Albino Lucatello, 57, Italian painter
29
- Jacques Adnet, 84, French art deco modernist designer, architect and interior designer[30]
- Soo Yong, 80, Chinese-American actress[31]
30
- June Duprez, 66, English actress[32]
- Mario Gallo, 61, American actor, liver cancer[33][34]
31
- Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, kidney failure[35]
- Indira Gandhi, 66, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India, her cumulative tenure of 15 years and 350 days makes her the second-longest-serving Indian prime minister, assassinated by two of her own bodyguards[36]
References
- ↑ Elderkin, Phil (October 5, 1984). "Walter Alston's 'one-year contract' added up to seven pennants". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
- ↑ "Alston dies at age 72". Milwaukee Sentinel. October 2, 1984. p. 2, part 2.
- ↑ "Sports World "Blue" Over Alston Death". The Vindicator. October 2, 1984. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Walter Alston Dies, Ex-Dodgers Manager". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. October 2, 1984. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- ↑ Shawn G. Kennedy (October 7, 1984). "Leonard Rossiter, Actor Dies". New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
Leonard Rossiter, one of Britain's most popular comic actors, collapsed during a performance in London and died Friday night, apparently of a heart attack. Mr. Rossiter, who was 57 years old, was declared dead at Middlesex Hospital. ...
- ↑ Wennerholm, Marion A. (1985). "In Memoriam: Carlos Albizu Miranda 1920-1984". Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 7 (3). doi:10.1177/0739986385007300.
- ↑ Clark, Alan (February 2004). Diaries: In Power 1983-1992. London: Phoenix. Entries for Saturday, 10 September 1983 & Friday, 12 October 1984. ISBN 978-1-85799-142-0. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved March 25, 2008.
- ↑ McFadden, Robert D. (October 8, 1984). "GEORGE G. SIMPSON, 82, DIES; A VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGIST". The New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2025.
- ↑ "Arnold Akberg". Art Museum of Estonia. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
- ↑ Smith, Paul (20 May 1994). "Actor Leaves £500 in his will for friends to 'have a drink'". The Richmond and Twickenham Informer. p. 4. "COMEDY actor John Blythe, who lived in Teddington, has bequeathed his bumper joke book to his agent. [...] Mr Blythe's daughter, Jaquie Whewell, said: 'His agent, April Young, and I feel the book should be sold and the proceeds given to charity.'"
- ↑ "Ursula Reilly Curtiss is Dead; New Mexican Mystery Writer" New York Times (October 12, 1984): D18.
- ↑ Donnelley, Paul (2003) Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries, Omnibus Press, ISBN 978-0-7119-9512-3, p. 221-2
- ↑ Aaker, Everett (2013). George Raft: The Films. McFarland. p. 33. ISBN 9780786493135. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ↑ "The Tragedy of Actor Gary Vinson". The Life and Times of Hollywood.
- ↑ Peggy Ann Garner obituary, latimes.com; accessed December 14, 2017.
- ↑ Wilson, John S. (October 19, 1984). "Alberta Hunter, 89, Cabaret Star, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Actor remains in critical condition". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. October 14, 1984. p. 9A.
- ↑ "Actor Wounds Himself On Set of TV Series". The New York Times. October 14, 1984.
- ↑ "Jon-Erik Hexum's Fatal Joke". Entertainment Weekly. October 14, 1994. Retrieved August 16, 2008.
- ↑ Denscher, Bernhard (October 1, 2017). "biography, for Deutsches Plakatmuseum (German Posters Museum)" (PDF). austrianposters.at (in German). Retrieved March 23, 2023.
- ↑ "Biography: Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko, priest, martyr". Archived from the original on January 22, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Dirac takes his place next to Isaac Newton". Florida State University. Archived from the original on April 27, 1997. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Julian Mayfield, Novelist and Actor, Dies at 56", Washington Post, October 23, 1984.
- ↑ "Francois Truffaut, New Wave Director, Dies". The New York Times. October 22, 1984. Archived from the original on April 10, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ↑ Doyle, Billy; Slide, Anthony (1999). The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses. Scarecrow Press. p. 583. ISBN 9780810835474 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "David Gorcey, 'Bowery Boy,' Is Dead at 63". Washington Post. Washington D.C. October 28, 1984. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
- ↑ Robert Dachs, Oskar Werner Gebundene Ausgabe: 224 Seiten Verlag: Kremayr & Scheriau; Auflage: N.-A. (1 January 1992); ISBN 3218004780/ISBN 978-3218004787.(in German)
- ↑ "Veteran actress dies at 66". Lodi News-Sentinel. October 25, 1984. p. 20. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
- ↑ "Miss Landers, 49, Of 'Leave It To Beaver' Dies Of Cancer". Tyrone Daily Herald. United Press International. October 29, 1984. p. 7. Retrieved June 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
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- ↑ "29 Nov 1984, 34 - The Honolulu Advertiser at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
- ↑ "June Duprez, 66, an ActressIn Movies and on Broadway (Published 1984)". The New York Times. November 14, 1984.
- ↑ "Actor Mario Gallo, 61; 'Delvecchio' Character". Los Angeles Times. California. November 3, 1984. p. 67. Retrieved September 4, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Mario Gallo". The San Francisco Examiner. California. November 3, 1984. p. 14. Retrieved September 4, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Gilbert, Mark; Lamberti Moneta, Sara (2020). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-0254-1.
- ↑ Crossette, Barbara (1989). "India Hangs Two Sikhs Convicted In Assassination of Indira Gandhi". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
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