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
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- Marvin Gaye, 44, American singer, murdered by his father[1]
- Elizabeth Goudge, 83, English writer[2]
2
- Ernst van Aaken, 73, German sports physician and athletics trainer
3
- Gerhard Brosi, 40, German politician of the Social Democratic Party[3]
4
- Oleg Antonov, 78, Soviet aeroplane designer[4]
5
- Robert Adams, 67, English sculptor and designer[5]
- Sir Arthur Harris, 91, British air marshal[6]
- Giuseppe Tucci, 89, Italian scholar[7]
6
- Jimmy Kennedy, 81, British songwriter[8]
7
- Frank Church, 59, American politician[9]
8
- Pyotr Kapitsa, 89, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate[10]
9
- Willem Sandberg, 86, Dutch typographer[11]
10
- Jakub Berman, 82, Polish communist politician[12]
11
- Adhémar Raynault, 92, Canadian politician and a Mayor of Montreal[13]
12
- Edward Sokoine, 45, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania[14]
- Ruth Taylor, 79, American actress in silent films and early talkies[15]
13
- Richard Hurndall, 73, English actor[16]
14
- Anatoly Agranovsky, 62, Soviet journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and animator[17]
15
- Tommy Cooper, 62, Welsh comedian and magician[18]
- Sir William Empson, 77, English poet and critic[19]
16
- Byron Haskin, 84, American film and television director[20]
17
- Mark W. Clark, 87, American general[21]
18
- Pierre Frank, 78, French Trotskyist leader
- Francis de Wolff, 71, English character actor[22]
19
- Machito, 74, Cuban jazz musician[23]
20
- Otto Arosemena, 58, 32nd President of Ecuador[24]
21
- Marcel Janco, 88, Romanian-Israeli artist[25]
22
- Ansel Adams, 82 American photographer, cardiovascular disease[26]
23
- Roland Penrose, 83, English artist, historian and poet[27]
24
- Shafee Okarvi, 54, Pakistani religious scholar and orator[28]
25
- Anthony John Aglen, 72, Scottish civil servant[29]
- Céleste Albaret, 92, French woman known for her association with Marcel Proust[30]
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- Count Basie, 79, American musician and composer[31]
- May McAvoy, 84, American actress, heart attack[32]
27
- Richard Durham, 66, American radio scriptwriter and civil rights activist[33]
28
- Piet Kraak, 63, Dutch football goalkeeper and manager[34]
29
- Karol Estreicher, 78, Polish historian of art, writer and bibliographer[35]
- Baltzar von Platen, 86, Swedish engineer and inventor[36]
30
- Johannes Aarøy, 73, a Norwegian civil servant[37][38]
- Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane, 73, Private Secretary to Elizabeth II[39]
- Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 37, Colombian lawyer and politician[40]
References
- ^ "Marvin Gaye is Shot and Killed; Pop Singer's Father Faces Charge". The New York Times. April 2, 1984. p. A1.
- ^ "Elizabeth Goudge". The New York Times. April 27, 1984. p. B6.
- ^ Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN 978-3-11-184511-1.
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (April 6, 1984). "Oleg K. Antonov is Dead at 78; Top Designer of Soviet Airplanes". The New York Times. p. B5.
- ^ Robert Adams: entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription based) accessed 22 May 2011
- ^ Middleton, Drew (April 7, 1984). "SIR ARTHUR T. HARRIS IS DEAD AT 91; LED BRITAIN'S BOMBER COMMAND (Published 1984)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ^ UPI (April 6, 1984). "Giuseppe Tucci Dead at 89; An Asia Scholar and Explorer". The New York Times. p. B5.
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. pp. 231/2. ISBN 1-85227-937-0.
- ^ Pearson, Richard (April 8, 1984). "Frank Church Dies". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (April 11, 1984). "Pyotr L. Kapitsa Is Dead At 89; Nobel-Winning Soviet Physicist". The New York Times. p. B11.
- ^ Krul, W.E. (November 12, 2013). "Sandberg, jhr. Willem Jacob Henri Berend (1897-1984)". Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (April 16, 1984). "Jakub Berman, A Polish Ex-Aide". The New York Times. p. B10.
- ^ "Nécrologie pour Adhemar Raynault". The Montreal Gazette. April 12, 1984. p. 70.
- ^ "Tanzania: Prime Minister Buried". Chronicle Tribune. April 16, 1984. p. 2.
- ^ Willis, John A. (1985). Screen World. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-517-55821-8.
- ^ "Dr. Who Actor Dies at 73". Daily Post: The Paper for Wales. April 14, 1984. p. 5.
- ^ Branover, Herman (1998). "Agranovsky, Anatoly". The Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry: Biographies A-I. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 18. ISBN 9780765799814.
- ^ "British Comedian Collapses On Stage". The Kingston Whig-Standard. April 16, 1984. p. 20.
- ^ Associated Press (April 16, 1984). "William Empson, British Poet, Dies". The Morning News[disambiguation needed]. p. 12.
- ^ "Byron Haskin is dead at 84; directed "War of the Worlds"". The New York Times. April 19, 1984. p. 15. Retrieved October 19, 2024.
Byron Haskin, a cameraman in the early days of silent films who later became a director, died of lung cancer Monday at his home in Montecito, Calif. He was 84 years old
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (April 18, 1984). "GEN. MARK W. CLARK, LAST OF WORLD WAR II COMMANDERS, DIES AT 87". The New York Times.
- ^ Arnold, Mark (2023). Stars of Walt Disney Productions. Orlando, Fla.: BearManor Media. p. 2017. ISBN 9798887710723.
- ^ "Machito, Bandleader, Dead; Brought a Latin Beat to Jazz". The New York Times. April 17, 1984. p. A20.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (April 22, 1984). "OTTO AROSEMENA, 58, IS DEAD IN ECUADOR; PRESIDENT IN 1960'S". The New York Times. p. 22.
- ^ "MARCEL JANCO, A DADA FOUNDER". The New York Times. April 23, 1984. p. C11.
- ^ Alinder, Mary Street (1996). Ansel Adams: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 396. ISBN 978-0-8050-4116-3.
- ^ Cork, Richard (May 2006). "Penrose, Sir Roland Algernon (1900–1984)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004, online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31538. Retrieved January 19, 2009. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Shafee Okarvi". Daily Jang Urdu. April 25, 1984.
- ^ "Deaths–Aglen". The Daily Telegraph. April 27, 1984. p. 36.
- ^ "Celeste Albaret, 92, Is Dead; Helped Proust in Last Years". New York Times. 1984. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ Wilson, John S. (April 27, 1984). "Count Basie, 79, Band Leader And Master of Swing, Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
- ^ "May Mcavoy Dies; Jolson's Leading Lady". Schenectady Gazette. May 4, 1984. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ^ Williams, Sonja D. (2015). Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom Archived 2022-11-16 at the Wayback Machine University of Illinois Press, New Black Studies Series, ISBN 978-0252081392, OCLC 915152208, JSTOR 10.5406/j.ctt16d68sz
- ^ Onkenhout, Paul (2009). Terug naar Sportweg 8 : de Twaalfde Man noemt namen en rugnummers (in Dutch). [Amsterdam]: Nieuw Amsterdam. p. 53. ISBN 9789046806098.
- ^ "Estreicher, Karol" (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
- ^ "von Platen, Baltzar (1898 - 1984)". KulturNav. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ^ "Dødsfall". Arbeiderbladet. May 5, 1984. p. 45. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
- ^ "Johannes Aarøy". Aftenposten. May 3, 1984. p. 15.
- ^ "Adeane, Michael Edward, Baron Adeane (1910–1984), courtier | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30752. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Muerte Anunciada". June 4, 1984.
External links
- List of April 1984 deaths at IMDb
