The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1984 1

Marvin Gaye, 44, American singer, murdered by his father Elizabeth Goudge, 83, English writer

2 Ernst van Aaken, 73, German sports physician and athletics trainer

3 Gerhard Brosi, 40, German politician of the Social Democratic Party 4 Oleg Antonov, 78, Soviet aeroplane designer

5 Robert Adams, 67, English sculptor and designerRobert Adams: entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription based) accessed 22 May 2011 Sir Arthur Harris, 91, British air marshal Giuseppe Tucci, 89, Italian scholar

6 Jimmy Kennedy, 81, British songwriter

7 Frank Church, 59, American politician

8

Pyotr Kapitsa, 89, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

9 Willem Sandberg, 86, Dutch typographer

10 Jakub Berman, 82, Polish communist politician

11 Adhémar Raynault, 92, Canadian politician and a Mayor of Montreal

12 Edward Sokoine, 45, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania Ruth Taylor, 79, American actress in silent films and early talkies

13 Richard Hurndall, 73, English actor

14 Anatoly Agranovsky, 62, Soviet journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and animator

15 Tommy Cooper, 63, Welsh comedian and magician Sir William Empson, 77, English poet and critic

16 Byron Haskin, 84, American film and television director

17 Mark W. Clark, 87, American general

18 Pierre Frank, 78, French Trotskyist leader Francis de Wolff, 71, English character actor

19

Machito, 74, Cuban jazz musician

20 Otto Arosemena, 58, 32nd President of Ecuador

21 Marcel Janco, 88, Romanian-Israeli artist

22 Ansel Adams, 82 American photographer, cardiovascular disease

23 Roland Penrose, 83, English artist, historian and poet

24 Shafee Okarvi, 54, Pakistani religious scholar and orator

25 Anthony John Aglen, 72, Scottish civil servant Céleste Albaret, 92, French woman known for her association with Marcel Proust

26

Count Basie, 79, American musician and composer, pancreatic cancer May McAvoy, 84, American actress, heart attack

27 Richard Durham, 66, American radio scriptwriter and civil rights activistWilliams, Sonja D. (2015). Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom University of Illinois Press, New Black Studies Series, , ,

28 Piet Kraak, 63, Dutch football goalkeeper and manager

29 Karol Estreicher, 78, Polish historian of art, writer and bibliographer Baltzar von Platen, 86, Swedish engineer and inventor

30 Johannes Aarøy, 73, a Norwegian civil servant Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane, 73, Private Secretary to Elizabeth II Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 37, Colombian lawyer and politician

References

External links List of April 1984 deaths at IMDb