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 complications from a heart attack 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
6 Carlos Albizu Miranda, 64, Puerto Rican educator Charlotte Long, 17, English noblewoman and child actress, fatally injured in a car accident when a lorry crashed into her parked car George Gaylord Simpson, 82, American paleontologist, university professor, and museum curator, a major participant in the modern synthesis
7 Arnold Akberg, 90, Estonian painter
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 actressSmith, 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.'" 10 Ursula Curtiss, 61, American mystery fiction writer, cancer"Ursula Reilly Curtiss is Dead; New Mexican Mystery Writer" New York Times (October 12, 1984): D18. Alan Lake, 43, English actor, suicide by self-inflicted gunshot in the mouthDonnelley, Paul (2003) Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries, Omnibus Press, , p. 221-2
11 H. Bruce Humberstone, 82, American film director and former child actor, co-founder of the guild Directors Guild of America, pneumonia
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
16 Peggy Ann Garner, 52, American child actress, pancreatic cancerPeggy Ann Garner obituary, latimes.com; accessed December 14, 2017.
17 Alberta Hunter, 89, American jazz and blues singer and veteran nurse
18 Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, American actor and model, self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head in a game of Russian roulette
19 Paul Aigner, 79, Austrian marketing designer, portraitist and painter 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 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 Julian Mayfield, 56, American novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and university professor, editor-in-chief of the magazine African Review, cardiac arrest"Julian Mayfield, Novelist and Actor, Dies at 56", Washington Post, October 23, 1984.
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François Truffaut, 52, French filmmaker, actor, and critic, co-founder of the art movement French New Wave, brain tumour
22 Napoleon Whiting, 74, American character actor
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 Oskar Werner, 61, Austrian actor, heart attackRobert Dachs, Oskar Werner Gebundene Ausgabe: 224 Seiten Verlag: Kremayr & Scheriau; Auflage: N.-A. (1 January 1992); /.
24 Edith Massey, 66, American actress and punk rock singer, member of the Dreamlanders and Edie and the Eggs, complications of lymphoma and diabetes
25 Pascale Ogier, French actress (b. 1958)
26 Sue Randall, 49, American television actress, lung cancer and larynx cancer
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 Soo Yong, 80, Chinese-American actress
30 June Duprez, 66, English actress Mario Gallo, 61, American actor, liver cancer
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Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, kidney failure 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
References
External links List of October 1984 deaths at IMDb