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

1 Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, 86, Duchess of Parma Howland Chamberlain, 73, American actor

2 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 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 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 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 Jack Davies, 74, Australian rugby league footballer Leonid Kostandov, 68, Soviet engineer and politician Boris Kuznetsov, 80, Soviet philosopher and historian Adam Malik, 67, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia, cancer Jane Roberts, 55, American author and poet, self-proclaimed psychic and a spirit medium, protein depletion, osteomyelitis, and soft-tissue infections caused by long-term rheumatoid arthritisSeth, Dreams, and Projections of Consciousness, by Jane Roberts (1986), pg. 15.

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E. J. André, 76, American writer, director, and actor, cancer Donny MacLeod, 52, Scottish television presenter, heart attack after a short struggle with bowel cancer.Heartbreak of Donny's death: as Pebble Mill closes we find out what's become of its famous faces, Sunday Mercury, 17 December 2000 Ernest Tubb, 70, American singer and songwriter, pioneer of country music and influential in popularizing the honky-tonk style of music, emphysema

7 Frédéric Adam, 80, French conductor, composer and administratorPitt C. Frédéric Adam. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. Joe Cronin, 77, American professional baseball player, manager and executive, prostate cancer and bone cancer Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 71, English broadcaster, author and Scottish peer Liam O'Flaherty, 88, Irish novelist and short-story writer, founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland

8 W. B. Makuloluwa, 62, Sri Lankan composer and theatre director

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Yılmaz Güney, 47, Turkish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and communist political activist, gastric cancerNew York Times, 10 September 1984, Yilmaz Guney Is Dead;Turkish Film Director Ted Mapes, 82, American character actor, stuntman, body double, and animal safety observer for the American Humane Association Margaret Phillips, 61, Welsh actress, founding member of the Actors Studio, cancer"Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984).

10 Ismael Merlo, 66, Spanish actor Bhola Paswan Shastri, 69, Indian independence activist and politician Ramanujan Srinivasan, 46, Indian physicist 11 Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo, 88, Indonesian politician and advocate 12 Lola Anglada, c. 90, Spanish writer, comics artist, and illustrator 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 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

Richard Brautigan, American author (b. 1935) Janet Gaynor, 77, American actress

15 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 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. 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

17 John Anderson, 70, New Zealand rugby league footballer Richard Basehart, 70, American actor, series of strokes 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 Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, 83, English aristocrat and politician Paavo Hietala, 64, Finnish wrestler Riccardo Lombardi, 83, Italian politician

19 June Preisser, 66, American actress, teacher of both dancing and acrobatics, fatally injured in a car accident caused by rainy weather Stan Vanderbeek, 57, American independent animator, experimental filmmaker, and art theoretician

20 Steve Goodman, 36, American folk and country singer-songwriter, leukemia

21 Roberto de Leonardis, 71, Italian film script translator, film dialogue writer and film lyricist 22 George Oliver, 95, British engineer, barrister and politician Aurelio Terrazas, 80, Mexican long-distance runner who was the first Rarámuri athlete to compete at the Olympics

23 Zorro Aguilar, 42, Filipino human rights lawyer, activist, and newspaper editor, murdered

24 Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)

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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, designed the version of Woody Woodpecker that was in use from 1950 to 1998. Walter Pidgeon, 87, Canadian-American actor, series of strokes

26 John Facenda, 71, American sports commentator, narrator for NFL Films, cancer Shelly Manne, 64, American jazz drummer, heart attackSee Brand, pp. 183-84.

27 Ernesto Alciati, 81, Italian long-distance runner Ubaldo Lay, 67, Italian actor, cerebral hemorrhage. Toke Townley, 71, English actor.Toke Townley

28 Akhter Mia, 64, Bangladeshi politician Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, 86, British landowner, writer on agricultural topics, and politician

29 Marnix Gijsen, 84, Belgian writer Mary Newland, 81, English actress Hal Porter, 73, Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer 30 Clete Roberts, 72, American broadcast journalist, heart and respiratory failure following a surgery for brain aneurysm"Journalist Roberts succumbs at 73," The Associated Press (AP), Monday, October 1, 1984. Retrieved January 28, 2022.

References

Sources Armour, Mark (2010). Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball. University of Nebraska Press. . Brand, Jack. Shelly Manne: Sounds of the Different Drummer (Discography and filmography by Bill Korst) (Percussion Express, 1997)

External links List of September 1984 deaths at IMDb