The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1984
1
- Arthur Armitage, 67, British academic who was the president of Queens' College, Cambridge[1]
- Hans Vinjarengen, 78, Norwegian skier[2]
2
- Harry Lindblad, 71, Finnish ice hockey administrator, coach and player[3]
3
- Paul Féret, 82, French tennis player[4]
- Hubert Ney, 91, German politician[5]
4
- Alan Buchanan, 78, Anglican bishop[6]
5
- El Santo, 66, Mexican professional wrestler and actor[7]
6
- Frank Byers, 68, British Liberal Party politician, heart attack[8]
- Jorge Guillén, 91, Spanish poet[9]
7
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, 71, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi[10]
8
- Karel Miljon, 80, Dutch boxer[11]
- Philippe Ariès, 69, French medievalist and historian[12]
9
- Yuri Andropov, 69, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, kidney failure[13]
- William Earl Rowe, 89, Canadian politician who was the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario[14]
10
- Tommy Briggs, 60, English professional footballer[15]
- Ioan Evans, 56, Welsh politician[16]
11
- Arlette Marchal, 82, French actress[17]
12
- Anna Anderson, 82, Pretender to the Russian throne[18]
- Julio Cortázar, 69, Argentine writer, AIDS[19][20]
- Elmer Keith, 84, American rancher, author, and firearms enthusiast[21]
13
- Pierre Brambilla, 64, French road cyclist[22]
- Naomi Uemura, 43, Japanese adventurer
14
- Haidakhan Babaji, Indian religious teacher[23]
15
- Ethel Merman, 76, American singer and actress[24]
16
- Kenny Williams, 69, American television announcer and host best known for his work on Hollywood Squares[25]
17
- Pavel Batitsky, 73, Soviet military leader
- Yuri Andreyevich Smirnov, 60, Soviet linguist[26]
18
- Betty Bryson, 72, American actress and dancer[27], she was frequently noted in the press for her physical resemblance to her fellow actress Janet Gaynor, a comparison which she described as both flattering and professionally limiting,[28]she was named one of the year’s WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1934, [29]she wrote a syndicated beauty column in 1934 titled My Beauty Hint, which offered personal grooming tips and appeared in newspapers such as the Green Bay Press-Gazette[30]
- Paul Gardiner, 25, English bass guitar player[31]
- David Watson, 50, English Anglican priest, evangelist and author[32]
19
- David Hacohen, 85, Israeli politician[33]
- Jesse Pye, 64, English footballer[34][35]
20
- Giuseppe Colombo, 63, Italian scientist, cancer[36]
21
- Mikhail Sholokhov, 78, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate[37]
22
- Uwe Johnson, 49, German novelist (died on either February 22 or February 23),[38] suicide[39]
23
- Maurice Tabard, 86, French photographer[40]
24
- Ernst Hofbauer, 58, Austrian film director[41]
25
- Bahram Afzali, 46, Iranian admiral who served as the Commander of the Iranian Navy[42]
26
- Simone Berriau, 87, French actress[43]
- Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar, 73, British naval officer who served as Commandant of the Women's Royal Naval Service[44]
27
- Ana Rosa Tornero, Bolivian writer (b.1907, exact age unknown)[45]
28
- Olu Aboderin, 49, Nigerian publisher[46]
29
- Alexander Murray Drennan, 100, Scottish pathologist[47]
References
- ^ "Obituaries: Sir Arthur Armitage". The Times. February 6, 1984. p. 16.
- ^ Hans Vinjarengen. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Harry Lindblad". Tampere Hockey Museum (in Finnish). 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
- ^ Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis (2nd ed.). [New York]: New Chapter Press. p. 702. ISBN 978-0942257700.
- ^ Schreiner, Reinhard. "Hubert Ney". Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
- ^ "Death of Former Dublin Archbishop". Sunday Independent. February 5, 1984. p. 23.
- ^ F. Molinaro, John (February 11, 2000). "The legend of El Santo". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
- ^ UPI (February 8, 1984). "Liberal Party Leader Dies". The Star Press. p. 6.
- ^ "Jorge Guillen Is Dead at 91; A Spanish Poet and Teacher". The New York Times. February 11, 1984. p. 32.
- ^ Gupta, Nolini Kanta (2001). On "Savitri". Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. p. 32.
- ^ "Karel Miljon". Olympedia. Retrieved October 10, 2021.
- ^ Shweder, Richard A.; Bidell, Thomas R., eds. (2009). "Ariès, Philippe". The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. University of Chicago Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780226756110.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. Routledge. October 28, 2013. ISBN 9781136787850 – via Google Books.
- ^ Kazmer, Marianne (February 15, 1984). "Earl Rowe Dies at 89". The Bradford Witness. p. 1.
- ^ Hayes, Dean (1993). Blackburn Rovers, An A–Z. Preston: Palatine Books. ISBN 1-874181-10-1.
- ^ Jones, John Graham. "Ioan Lyonel Evans". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
- ^ "Arlette Marchal". Allocine. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ "Obituaries: Anna Anderson Manahan". Chicago Tribune. February 19, 1984. p. 18, section IV.
- ^ Una nueva biografía sostiene que Cortázar habría muerto de sida Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine clarin.com, 7 June 2001
- ^ «Peri Rossi: “Cortázar murió de sida por una transfusión”», article in the newspaper ABC from 25 January 2009.
- ^ "Elmer Keith". The Idaho Statesman. February 15, 1984. p. 14.
- ^ Galametz, Frédérique; Bouvet, Philippe. The Official Encyclopedia of the Yellow Jersey: 100 Years of the Yellow Jersey (Maillot Jaune). Octopus Publishing. ISBN 9780600636489.
- ^ Antonov, Vladimir (2008). The Teachings of Babaji (Kindle ed.).
- ^ "Fans Mourn death of Ethel Merman". Reading Eagle. February 16, 1984. p. 53. Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
- ^ Cox, Jim (2024). "Williams, Kenny". Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s--A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. p. 315. ISBN 9781476607399.
- ^ Институт востоковедения защитники Отечества : 1941-1945 гг, pg. 204
- ^ Liebman 2000, pp. 41–42.
- ^ "Janet Gaynor's Double Stands On Own". The Birmingham Post. March 28, 1934. p. 12.
- ^ "Betty Bryson in Good Start". Waukegan News-Sun. March 23, 1934. p. 9.
- ^ Betty Bryson (May 30, 1934). "My Beauty Hint". Green Bay Press-Gazette. p. 12.
- ^ Talevski, Nick (2006). Rock Obituaries – Knocking on Heaven's Door. Omnibus Press. p. 197. ISBN 1846090911.
- ^ Maiden, John. "Watson, David Christopher Knight (1933–1984)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95618. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "David Hacohen, a Labor party leader and a former ambassador to Burma, died Sunday at age 85". UPI. February 20, 1984.
- ^ "Jesse Pye". England Football Online. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
- ^ "Fondly Remembered: Jesse Pye". Wolves Heroes. Retrieved July 1, 2024.
- ^ "Professor Giuseppe Colombo, Italy's leading space scientist and consultant". UPI. February 21, 1984.
- ^ Burns, John F. (February 22, 1984). "Mikhail A. Sholokhov, Soviet Author, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. D21.
- ^ "On the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Uwe Johnson". Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH. July 10, 2024.
- ^ McDowell, Edwin (March 14, 1984). "UWE JOHNSON, NOVELIST, DIES; WROTE ABOUT EAST GERMANY". p. B10.
- ^ "Maurice Tabard Dies in Paris; French Fashion Photographer". The New York Times. February 27, 1984.
- ^ Phelix, Leo; Thissen, Rolf (1983). Pioniere und Prominente des modernen Sexfilms. Goldmann. p. 221. ISBN 978-3442102198.
- ^ Hunter, Shireen T. (Spring 1987). "After the Ayatollah". Foreign Policy. 66 (66): 77–97. doi:10.2307/1148665. JSTOR 1148665.
- ^ "Simone Berriau". Encyclopædia Universalis. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2042
- ^ Lora, Guillermo (2002). Obras completas: Diccionario (N-Z) (PDF) (in Spanish). Bolivia: Ediciones Masas. Retrieved July 3, 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Remembering Olu Aboderin". Punch. March 5, 2020.
- ^ Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1985. p. 190.
Sources
- Liebman, Roy (2000). The Wampas Baby Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1922–1934. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0756-5.
External links
- List of February 1984 deaths at IMDb
