The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1984 1 Sir Arthur Armitage, 67, British academic, president of Queens' College, Cambridge and vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge Hans Vinjarengen, 78, Norwegian skierHans Vinjarengen. sports-reference.com
2 Harry Lindblad, 71, Finnish ice hockey administrator, coach and player
3 Paul Féret, 82, French tennis player Hubert Ney, 91, German politician
4 Alan Buchanan, 78, Anglican bishop
5 Allan Rogers Lindquest, 92, American voice teacher, tenor, recording artist, performer in musicals and operas, conductor, radio producer, and academic; also known as Albert Lindquest and Allan Rogers El Santo, 66, Mexican professional wrestler and actor
6 Frank Byers, 68, British Liberal Party politician, heart attack Jorge Guillén, 91, Spanish poet
7 Nolini Kanta Gupta, 71, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi
8 Karel Miljon, 80, Dutch boxer Philippe Ariès, 69, French medievalist and historian
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Yuri Andropov, 69, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, kidney failure William Earl Rowe, 89, Canadian politician who was the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
10 Tommy Briggs, 60, English professional footballer Ioan Evans, 56, Welsh politician
11 Arlette Marchal, 82, French actress
John Comer, 59, British actor (Last of the summer wine)
12 Anna Anderson, 82, Pretender to the Russian throne Julio Cortázar, 69, Argentine writer, AIDSUna nueva biografía sostiene que Cortázar habría muerto de sida clarin.com, 7 June 2001 Elmer Keith, 84, American rancher, author, and firearms enthusiast
13 Pierre Brambilla, 64, French road cyclist Naomi Uemura, 43, Japanese adventurer
14 Haidakhan Babaji, Indian religious teacher Kevin Barrett, 68, Australian rules footballerKevin Barrett
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Ethel Merman, 76, American singer and actress
16 Kenny Williams, 69, American television announcer and host best known for his work on Hollywood Squares
17 Pavel Batitsky, 73, Soviet military leader Yuri Andreyevich Smirnov, 60, Soviet linguistИнститут востоковедения защитники Отечества : 1941-1945 гг, pg. 204
18 Betty Bryson, 72, American actress and dancer, she was frequently noted in the press for her physical resemblance to her fellow actress Janet Gaynor, a comparison which she described as both flattering and professionally limiting, she was named one of the year's WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1934, she wrote a syndicated beauty column in 1934 titled My Beauty Hint, which offered personal grooming tips and appeared in newspapers such as the Green Bay Press-Gazette Paul Gardiner, 25, English bass guitar player David Watson, 50, English Anglican priest, evangelist and author
19 David Hacohen, 85, Israeli politician Jesse Pye, 64, English footballer 20 Giuseppe Colombo, 63, Italian scientist, cancer
21 Mikhail Sholokhov, 78, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
22 Uwe Johnson, 49, German novelist (died on either February 22 or February 23), suicide
23 Maurice Tabard, 86, French photographer
24 Ernst Hofbauer, 58, Austrian film director
25 Bahram Afzali, 46, Iranian admiral who served as the Commander of the Iranian Navy
26 Simone Berriau, 87, French actress Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar, 73, British naval officer who served as Commandant of the Women's Royal Naval ServiceMosley, Charles, ed. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2042
27 Ana Rosa Tornero, Bolivian writer (b.1907, exact age unknown)
28 Olu Aboderin, 49, Nigerian publisher
29 Alexander Murray Drennan, 100, Scottish pathologist
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External links List of February 1984 deaths at IMDb