Deaths in September 1984
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.
September 1984
[edit]1
[edit]- Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, 86, Duchess of Parma
- Howland Chamberlain, 73, American actor[1]
2
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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] protein depletion, osteomyelitis, and soft-tissue infections caused by long-term rheumatoid arthritis[6]
6
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- E. J. André, 76, American writer, director, and actor, cancer[7][8][9]
- Donny MacLeod, 52, Scottish television presenter, heart attack after a short struggle with bowel cancer.[10]
- Ernest Tubb, 70, American singer and songwriter, pioneer of country music and influential in popularizing the honky-tonk style of music, emphysema[11]
7
[edit]- Frédéric Adam, 80, French conductor, composer and administrator[12]
- Joe Cronin, 77, American professional baseball player, manager and executive, prostate cancer and bone cancer[13]
- Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 71, English broadcaster, author and Scottish peer[14]
- Liam O'Flaherty, 88, Irish novelist and short-story writer, founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland[15]
8
[edit]- W. B. Makuloluwa, 62, Sri Lankan composer and theatre director[16]
9
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- Yılmaz Güney, 47, Turkish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and communist political activist, gastric cancer[17]
- Ted Mapes, 82, American character actor, stuntman, body double, and animal safety observer for the American Humane Association[18]
- Margaret Phillips, 61, Welsh actress, founding member of the Actors Studio, cancer[19]
10
[edit]- Ismael Merlo, 66, Spanish actor
- Bhola Paswan Shastri, 69, Indian independence activist and politician
- Ramanujan Srinivasan, 46, Indian physicist
11
[edit]- Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo, 88, Indonesian politician and advocate
12
[edit]- Lola Anglada, c. 90, Spanish writer, comics artist, and illustrator[20]
- 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
[edit]- 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
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- Richard Brautigan, American author (b. 1935)
- Janet Gaynor, 77, American actress[21][22]
15
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[23]
- 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[24]
17
[edit]- John Anderson, 70, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- Richard Basehart, 70, American actor, series of strokes[25]
- 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
[edit]- Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, 83, English aristocrat and politician
- Paavo Hietala, 64, Finnish wrestler
- Riccardo Lombardi, 83, Italian politician
19
[edit]- June Preisser, 66, American actress, teacher of both dancing and acrobatics, fatally injured in a car accident caused by rainy weather [26]
- Stan Vanderbeek, 57, American independent animator, experimental filmmaker, and art theoretician[27]
20
[edit]- Steve Goodman, 36, American folk and country singer-songwriter, leukemia[28]
21
[edit]- Roberto de Leonardis, 71, Italian film script translator, film dialogue writer and film lyricist
22
[edit]- George Oliver, 95, British engineer, barrister and politician
- Aurelio Terrazas, 80, Mexican long-distance runner[29] who was the first Rarámuri athlete to compete at the Olympics[30]
23
[edit]- Zorro Aguilar, 42, Filipino human rights lawyer, activist, and newspaper editor, murdered[31]
24
[edit]- Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
25
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- 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,[32][33] designed the version of Woody Woodpecker that was in use from 1950 to 1998.[34]
- Walter Pidgeon, 87, Canadian-American actor, series of strokes[35]
26
[edit]- John Facenda, 71, American sports commentator, narrator for NFL Films, cancer[36][37]
- Shelly Manne, 64, American jazz drummer, heart attack[38]
27
[edit]- Ernesto Alciati, 81, Italian long-distance runner[39]
- Ubaldo Lay, 67, Italian actor, cerebral hemorrhage.[40]
- Toke Townley, 71, English actor.[41]
28
[edit]- Akhter Mia, 64, Bangladeshi politician
- Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, 86, British landowner, writer on agricultural topics, and politician[42]
29
[edit]- Marnix Gijsen, 84, Belgian writer
- Mary Newland, 81, English actress
- Hal Porter, 73, Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer
30
[edit]- Clete Roberts, 72, American broadcast journalist, heart and respiratory failure following a surgery for brain aneurysm[43]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Howland Chamberlain". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
- ↑ Robert Cummings. "Arthur Schwartz Artist Biography". AllMusic.com.
- ↑ "Leonid Kostandov, 68; Soviet Deputy Premier". The New York Times. Reuters. September 6, 1984. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
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- ↑ Klimo, Jon (1998). Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources. North Atlantic Books. pp. 22, 30. ISBN 1-55643-248-8.
- ↑ Seth, Dreams, and Projections of Consciousness, by Jane Roberts (1986), pg. 15. ISBN 0-9652855-4-5
- ↑ Willis, John A. (1985). Screen World: Volume 36. Crown Publishers. p. 237. ISBN 9780517558218. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
- ↑ Lentz, Harris (1996). Western and Frontier Film and Television Credits 1903-1995: Section I. Actors and actresses. Section II. Directors, producers, and writers. McFarland. p. 25. ISBN 9780786402175 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "E. J. Andre". The New York Times. September 19, 1984. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
- ↑ Heartbreak of Donny's death: as Pebble Mill closes we find out what's become of its famous faces, Sunday Mercury, 17 December 2000
- ↑ Vinopal, David. "Ernest Tubb Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
- ↑ Pitt C. Frédéric Adam. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
- ↑ "Joe Cronin, baseball legend, American League president". The Morning Call. September 8, 1984. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
- ↑ "Marquess of Aberdeen Dies". Aberdeen Press and Journal. September 8, 1984. p. 2. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
- ↑ De Breffny, Brian (1983). Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 172.
- ↑ "W.B. Makuloluwa 34th death anniversary". Daily Mirror. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ↑ New York Times, 10 September 1984, Yilmaz Guney Is Dead;Turkish Film Director
- ↑ "The Stunt Men and Women: Ted Mapes". B-Westerns.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ↑ "Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984).
- ↑ "Lola Anglada". lambiek.net. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ↑ "Janet Gaynor dies 'never recovered' from car accident". The Miami News. Miami, Florida. September 15, 1984. p. 4A. Retrieved March 29, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Coroner Rules Gaynor Death Was Result of '82 Accident". The New York Times. September 22, 1984. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
- ↑ Hjortsberg, William (2012). Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-790-3.
- ↑ "Frank H. Cucksey Obituary". Sarasota Herald. September 18, 1984. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ↑ Krebs, Albin (September 19, 1984). "Richard Basehart, Stage And Screen Star, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ↑ Uhler, David; Litinsky Madden, Ruby (September 20, 1984). "Weather blamed in three deaths on county roads". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Deerfield Beach, Florida: Tribune Publishing. p. 4B.
- ↑ "Stan Vanderbeek Dies at 57; Made Experimental Movies". The New York Times. September 22, 1984. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
- ↑ Van Matre, Lynn (September 21, 1984). "Songwriter Steve Goodman; a Chicago gift to folk music". Chicago Tribune. p. 37. Retrieved June 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Aurelio Terrazas". Olympedia.
- ↑ "Te kort, veel te kort". Zatopek Magazine (in Dutch): 1. 2008.
- ↑ "HEROES AND MARTYRS: AGUILAR, Zorro C." Bantayog ng mga Bayani. October 9, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- ↑ "Winsor McCay Awards Website". Winsor McCay Awards Website. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ↑ "LaVerne Harding, the first and for many years the..." UPI.
- ↑ Klein, Tom. "LaVerne Harding: Drawing with Resolve".
- ↑ Berger, Joseph (September 26, 1984). "Walter Pidgeon, Actor, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
Walter Pidgeon, the courtly actor who distinguished his 47-year career with portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise, died yesterday at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 years old and had suffered a series of strokes. ...
- ↑ Teague, Matthew (May 22, 2007). "Icons: The Voice of God". Philadelphia Magazine. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
- ↑ "John Facenda Is Dead at 72; Narrator of N.F.L. Highlights". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 27, 1984. p. B 12. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
- ↑ See Brand, pp. 183-84.
- ↑ "Ernesto Alciati". Olympedia. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
- ↑ "E' morto a 67 anni Ubaldo Lay Con Sheridan sfidò l'America". La Stampa. September 18, 1984. p. 23.
- ↑ Toke Townley
- ↑ Conford, Philip (2005). "Organic Society: Agriculture and Radical Politics in the Career of Gerard Wallop, Ninth Earl of Portsmouth (1898-1984)" (PDF). Agricultural History Review. 53 (1): 85.
- ↑ "Journalist Roberts succumbs at 73," The Associated Press (AP), Monday, October 1, 1984. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
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