Deaths in December 1984

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1984

1 John Alexander Austin, 72, Canadian aviator. Wayland Becker, 74, American football player. Basanta Kumar Das, 86, Indian politician, MP (1952–1957, 1962–1967). Roelof Frankot, 73, Dutch painter. Sir William Haworth, 79, Australian politician, MP (1949–1969). Sandy Herd, 81, Scottish footballer. Živan Knežević, 78, Yugoslav soldier, conspirator in the 1941 Yugoslav coup d'état. Sir William McKie, 83, Australian organist and composer. Marion Orth, 83, American screenwriter. Josef Rodzinski, 77, German footballer. Joe Rue, 86, American baseball umpire. Alphonse Schepers, 77, Belgian racing cyclist. Stephen M. Young, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1959–1971) and House of Representatives (1933–1937, 1941–1943, 1949–1951), hemolytic anemia.Stephen Young, Former Senator From Ohio, Dies

2 Ernest Breeze, 74, English footballer. Edward James, 77, British poet. Shigeru Makino, 56, Japanese baseball player, bladder cancer. Tomás Leandro Marini, 82, Argentine icthyologist. Charley Mehelich, 62, American football player. Karl Merrill, 84, American farmer and cattle breeder. Shirō Moritani, 53, Japanese filmmaker. Harry Sukman, 72, American composer, heart attack.Oscar-winning composer Harry Sukman collapsed and died Sunday night,... Leonardo Vitale, 43, Italian mobster, shot.Leonardo Vitale, who in 1973 was the first member... Fatalities of the Kesh ambush: Kieran Fleming, 25, Northern Irish militant (Provisional Irish Republican Army), drowned. Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde, 27, Northern Irish militant (Provisional Irish Republican Army), shot. Alistair Slater, 28, British soldier, shot.

3 Rolando Aguilar, 81, Mexican film director and screenwriter Ustad Daman, 73, Pakistani poet and politician. Muharrem Ertaş, 70-71, Turkish folk singer. Virginia Lacy Jones, 72, American librarian.JONES Pavel Kutakhov, 70, Soviet flying ace and Air Force commander.PAVEL KUTAKHOV, SOVIET MARSHAL John LaRocca, 83, Italian-born American mob boss (Pittsburgh crime family).Figure in Pennsylvania Crime Dies at 82 in His Bed at Home Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, 65, Soviet mathematician. Alan Williams, 91, American rugby player.

4 Leila Cook Barber, 81, American art historian. Wyndham Davies, 58, British politician, MP (1964–1966). James Henry Dolan, 80, American criminal. Seymour Fogel, 73, American artist, heart attack.Seymour Fogel Is Dead at 73; Artist Created Public Works Narasinh Narayan Godbole, 96, Indian food chemist. Charles Oluf Herlofson, 68, Norwegian naval officer. Eduard Prchal, 73, Czechoslovak pilot. John Rock, 94, American obstetrician and gynecologist, heart attack.JOHN ROCK, DEVELOPER OF THE PILL AND AUTHORITY ON FERTILITY, DIES Malcolm Shaw, 37, British comic writer, cancer. Ștefan Voitec, 84, Romanian politician and journalist.Stefan Voitec Is Dead at 84; A Vice President of Rumania Pearl Anderson Wanamaker, 85, American politician, member of the Washington Senate (1929–1931, 1937–1940).

5 William Brown, 61, British soldier, heart attack. Cecil M. Harden, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1959), cancer.EX-REP. CECIL HARDEN DIES; WORKED FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS Bob Hogsett, 43, American basketball player and coach, shot. Albert Johnson, 49, American politician, leukemia. Ethel Mannin, 84, British novelist and political activist. Joe Rock, 90, American filmmaker and actor. Al Rogers, 75, American racing driver. Jaromír Zápal, 61, Czechoslovak illustrator and painter.

6 Gray Barker, 59, American ufologist. Manny Curtis, 73, American songwriter. William Fleming, 18-19, Northern Irish militant (Provisional Irish Republican Army), shot. Frank Gerbode, 77, American surgeon.Dr. Frank Gerbode, a pioneer in the development of... P. K. Manthri, 51, Indian cartoonist. Lucie Odier, 98, Swiss nurse. Tip O'Neill, 86, American football player. Viktor Shklovsky, 91, Soviet literary theorist.VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY DIES AT 91; AVANT-GARDE RUSSIAN WRITER

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San Baw, 62, Burmese surgeon, lung cancer. Jackson Beardy, 40, Canadian artist, heart attack. Jeanne Cagney, 65, American actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy), lung cancer.JEANNE CAGNEY Nikolay Emanuel, 69, Soviet chemist. Charles Ray Hatcher, 55, American convicted serial killer, suicide by hanging.Convicted sex-slayer Charles Hatcher, a drifter who told federal... Jon B. Higgins, 45, American Carnatic musician, traffic collision.JON B. HIGGINS, EXPERT IN SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC Jack Mercer, 74, American voice actor (Popeye, Felix the Cat), stomach cancer.Jack Mercer, Provided Voice Of Popeye in Film Cartoons Hashizo Okawa, 55, Japanese actor, cancer. Bernard Ormanowski, 77, Polish Olympic rower (1928). Howie Reed, 47, American baseball player, heart failure. Jan Stegmann, 97, South African rugby player. LeeRoy Yarbrough, 46, American racing driver, seizure.LeeRoy Yarbrough, 46, Dies; Leading Racing Driver in '69

8 Luther Adler, 81, American actor.LUTHER ADLER, ACTOR, IS DEAD; STAR OF 'FIDDLER' ON BROADWAY Walter L. J. Bayler, 79, American general. Vladimir Chelomey, 70, Soviet missile designer.Vladimir N. Chelomei, Soviet Rocket Scientist Jeanne Chevalier, 92, Canadian figure skater. Walter Ciszek, 80, Polish-American priest and missionary.Walter M. Ciszek, 80; Jesuit Held by Soviet Earl Lemley Core, 82, American botanist. Rollie Culver, 76, American jazz drummer. Hobart Freeman, 64, American evangelist, pneumonia.Hobart Freeman Dies; Indicted Head of a Sect Lisa Hession, 14, British schoolgirl, strangled. Solange Lamblin, 84, French politician, MP (1945–1946, 1946–1951). Robert Jay Mathews, 31, American neo-Nazi militant, house fire.Fugitive Killed in Fire After Fight With F.B.I. Gene Ramey, 71, American jazz bassist, heart attack. Razzle, 24, English musician, traffic collision. Semih Sancar, 72-73, Turkish general. Paul M. Sand, 70, American jurist. Peter Starling, 59, British Olympic gymnast (1952, 1960). Mary Terán de Weiss, 66, Argentine tennis player, suicide by jumping.

9 Ernesto Botto, 77, Italian flying ace. Thomas R. Cullen, 80, Canadian politician. David Dietz, 87, American science journalist, Parkinson's disease.David Dietz, Pulitzer Winner; Longtime Writer on Science Pedro Gamero del Castillo, 74, Spanish politician. Petro Kozak, 73, Soviet Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate. William S. Lasdon, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.W.S. LASDON, PHILANTHROPIST AND A DRUG EXECUTIVE, DIES Ivor Moreton, 76, English pianist. Amelio Robles Ávila, 95, Mexican soldier. Joseph May Swing, 90, American general, pneumonia.J. M. SWING, WARTIME AIRBORNE COMMANDER Andy Uram, 69, American football player.ANDY URAM Guthrie Wilson, 70, New Zealand-Australian novelist, heart attack.

10 Dag Bergman, 70, Swedish diplomat. Jean Campbell, 83, Australian novelist. Barry Farrell, 49, American journalist, heart attack.BARRY FARRELL Þorsteinn Hjálmarsson, 73, Icelandic Olympic water polo player (1936). Luke Johnsos, 79, American football player and coach.Luke A. Johnsos, a legendary player and coach with... Anton Loeb, 76, Hungarian-born American illustrator and animator, cancer. Asoka Mehta, 73, Indian politician, MP (1954–1962, 1967–1971). Bice Sechi-Zorn, 55-56, Italian-American physicist. Adalbert Steiner, 77, Romanian footballer. Georges Stockly, 68, Swiss basketball player. Donovan Swailes, 92, Canadian politician. Brian Taylor, 45, British jockey, fall from horse. Charlie Teagarden, 71, American jazz trumpeter. Julio Vanzo, 83, Argentine artist. Vaughan Watson, 53, English footballer.

11 Anton Betz, 91, German journalist. Nate Bowman, 41, American basketball player, cardiac arrest.Nate Bowman Is Dead;Former Knicks Center Krafft Arnold Ehricke, 67, German-American rocket scientist.KRAFFT A. EHRICKE DIES AT 67; ROCKET PIONEER AND PHYSICIST Pentti Hämäläinen, 54, Finnish Olympic boxer (1952, 1956). Robert E. Kent, 73, American filmmaker. Satya Churn Law, 95-96, Indian naturalist. Sam LoPresti, 67, American ice hockey player, heart attack.SAM LOPRESTI Fred Lowery, 75, American whistler.Fred Lowery, a blind whistler who once performed for... Will Paynter, 81, Welsh mining unionist. Lake Roberson, 66, American football player. Oskar Seidlin, 73, German-American linguist. George Waggner, 90, American filmmaker (The Wolf Man). Wang Xinting, 75, Chinese general.

12 Natalie Robinson Cole, 82-83, American educator. Abdul Momen Khan, 65, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1979–1982). Gene Layden, 90, American baseball player. Red Mitchell, 72, Canadian ice hockey player. Walter Paulo, 82, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1972). Otto Schmidt, 82, German politician. Helmut Schreyer, 72, German electrical engineer. Ludwig Semrad, 76-77, Austrian humanitarian. Chase G. Woodhouse, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947, 1949–1951).CHASE WOODHOUSE, EX-REPRESENTATIVE FROM CONNECTICUT

13 Alfred Andrew-Street, 70, Australian cricketer and footballer. Francis Cosne, 68, French filmmaker. Chester R. Crain, 70, American politician. Clemente de la Cerda, 49, Venezuelan film director. Rosa Kellner, 74, German Olympic runner (1928). Margaret Livingston, 89, American actress.MARGARET LIVINGSTON Jules Müller, 76, Luxembourgish football manager. Ngô Đình Thục, 87, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate. Bill Pemberton, 66, American jazz bassist. Max Schönherr, 81, Austrian composer. Nikolai Shchelokov, 74, Soviet politician and general, suicide by gunshot.EX-GENERAL BURIED IN MOSCOW Amerigo Tot, 75, Hungarian sculptor and actor. José Zampicchiatti, 84, Argentine Olympic cyclist (1924). André Zimmer, 72, Luxembourgish Olympic canoeist (1936).

14 Vicente Aleixandre, 86, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize recipient (1977), kidney failure.VINCENTE ALEIXANDRE DIES 86; SPANISH POET WON '77 NOBEL László Baranyai, 64, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1948). Leslie B. Butler, 79, American politician. Cheung Ying, 65, Chinese-Canadian actor. Richard C. Currier, 92, American film editor. Alberto Fernández, 29, Spanish racing cyclist, traffic collision. Vivian Granger, 65, South African football administrator. P. Balachandra Menon, 73, Indian politician. Sir Walter Stansfield, 67, British police officer. Robert Waring Stoddard, 78, American businessman and political organizer (John Birch Society).ROBERT STODDARD DIES AT 78; A FOUNDER OF BIRCH SOCIETY Hugo Weczerek, 74, Austrian Olympic fencer (1936).

15 Kurt Axelsson, 43, Swedish footballer, traffic collision. Eddie Beal, 74, American jazz pianist. Hilde Bruch, 80, German-born American psychiatrist. Alonzo Patrick Fox, 89, American general.Retired General, Alonzo P. Fox Dies at Age 89 Traci Hammerberg, 18, American murder victim, blunt force trauma. J. Roderick MacArthur, 63, American businessman and philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.J. RODERICK MACARTHUR IS DEAD; ENCOURAGED AWARDS FOR 'GENIUS' James Nimmo, 72, Australian public servant. Lennard Pearce, 69, English actor, heart attack. Jan Peerce, 80, American singer, complications from a stroke.JAN PEERCE DIES AT AGE OF 80; TENOR SANG AT MET 27 YEARS Frank Spedding, 82, Canadian-born American chemist.FRANK SPEDDING, KEY FIGURE IN ATOM BOMB DEVELOPMENT George Tomer, 89, American baseball player.

16 Matti Aarnio, 83, Finnish soldier. Karl Deichgräber, 81, German philologist. Debs Garms, 77, American baseball player. Gerd Heinrich, 88, German-American zoologist. William A. McGillivray, 66, Canadian jurist. Wilson Rawls, 71, American writer.Woodrow Wilson Rawls

17 Josef Beneš, 82, Czechoslovak linguist. Fred Cook, 62, Australian footballer. Wendell H. Furry, 77, American physicist.