Deaths in July 1984

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1984

1

Moshé Feldenkrais, 80, Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method^[1]
Ravishankar Vyas, 100, Indian social reformer, activist, and social worker^[2]

2

Ramiro Cortés, 50, American composer^[3]
Timmy O'Sullivan, 55, Irish Gaelic footballer

3

Sydney E. Ahlstrom, 64, American historian^[4]
Raoul Salan, 85, French general^[5]

4

Starke R. Hathaway, 80, American psychologist^[6]
Golam Mowla, 64, Bangladeshi businessman^[7]

5

Lord Adam Gordon, 75, British royal courtier^[8]
Dick Wood, 77, Australian politician^[9]

6

Kevin Cairns, 55, Australian politician and dentist^[10]
Mina Wylie, 93, one of Australia's first female Olympic swimming representatives^[11]^[12]

7

Dame Flora Robson, 82, English actress^[13]

8

Brassaï, 84, Hungarian-French photographer^[14]
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, 91, Spanish historian and politician^[15]

9

Paulo Valentim, 50, Brazilian professional footballer

10

Anton Hackl, German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II^[16]

11

Yasuo Akizuki, 81, Japanese mathematician^[17]

12

D. V. Rao, 67, Indian politician^[18]

13

Marinus De Jong, 93, Dutch-born Belgian composer and pianist^[19]
Pina Renzi, 82, Italian film actress^[20]

14

Frater Albertus, 73, German-American esotericist^[21]
Philippe Wynne, 43, American singer^[22]

15

Enrique Godoy Sayán, 81, Cuban business magnate and banker^[23]

16

Karl Wolff, 84, German Nazi SS Officer^[24]

17

Malati Ghoshal, 81, Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer^[25]
Klaus Wachsmann, 77, British ethnomusicologist^[26]

18

Lally Bowers, 70, English actress^[27]
Flora Solomon, 88, British Zionist^[28]

19

Faina Ranevskaya, 87, Soviet and Russian actress
John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey, British author and economist^[29]

20

Gabriel Andrew Dirac, 59, Hungarian-British mathematician^[30]
Marko Ristić, 82, Serbian surrealist poet, writer, publicist and ambassador^[31]

21

Adam Adamson, 100, New Zealand businessman, accountant and local politician^[32]

22

Ernesto Albán, 72, Ecuadorian actor^[33]

23

Achiel Buysse, 65, Belgian cyclist^[34]

24

Richard Angst, 79, Swiss cinematographer^[35]

25

George Renwick, 82, British sprinter^[36]
Big Mama Thornton, 57, American singer^[37]

26

Thelma Bate, 79, Australian community leader and women's activist^[38]
George Gallup, 82, American statistician and opinion pollster^[39]
Ed Gein, 77, American serial killer, respiratory failure, secondary to lung cancer^[40]^[41]

27

Laurence Jackson, 83, Scottish curler^[42]
James Mason, 75, English actor^[43]

28

Paul L. Adams, 69, American academic and president of Roberts Wesleyan College^[44]
Bess Flowers, 85, American actress^[45]

29

Lorenz Fehenberger, 71, German operatic tenor^[46]
Fred Waring, 84, American bandleader, choral director, radio and television personality^[47]

30

Maurice Tremlett, 61, English cricketer^[48]
Surya Prasad Upadhyaya, 76, Nepalese politician^[49]

31

Gopi Krishna, 81, Indian yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer^[50]
Paul Le Flem, 103, French composer and music critic^[51]

References

^ Elgelid, Staffan; Kresge, Chrish (2021). The Feldenkrais Method: Learning Through Movement. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 9781912085705.
^ Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 4607–4608. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3.
^ Slonimsky, Nicolas; Kuhn, Laura (2001). "Cortés, Ramiro Jr.". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (8 ed.). New York, New York: Schirmer Books.
^ "Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom, Scholar of Religious History". New York Times. July 4, 1984. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
^ Cros, Philippe (June 11, 2014). "Les " fidèles " du chef de l'OAS commémorent". La Montagne. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
^ "Dr. Starke R. Hathaway, 80; Invented psychological test". The New York Times. July 5, 1984. Retrieved February 22, 2014.
^ Mohammed, Faiz (July 7, 2004). "Lest we forget Golam Mowla A pioneer of insurance". The Daily Star. p. 1. Archived from the original on December 1, 2024.
^ "Obituary: Lord Adam Gordon". The Times. July 7, 1984. p. 12.
^ "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
^ Cairns, Kevin Michael Kiernan (1929–1984) — Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
^ Hirst, Warwick "Wylie, Wilhelmina (Mina) (1891–1984)" Australian Dictionary of Biography
^ "Mina Wylie". Olympedia. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
^ "British Actress Dies at 82". Spokane Chronicle. July 7, 1984. p. 13.
^ Grundberg, Andy (July 12, 1984). "Brassai, Photographer of Paris Nigtlife, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
^ Saxon, Wolfgang (July 10, 1984). "Claudio Sánchez Albornoz, A Foe of Franco". The New York Times. p. B6.
^ Stockert, Peter (2012) [1997]. Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2 [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2] (in German) (4th ed.). Bad Friedrichshall, Germany: Friedrichshaller Rundblick. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-9802222-9-7.
^ Atiyah, M.; Bauer, F.L.; Cartan, H.; Chern, S.-S.; Hirzebruch, F.; Conway, J.H.; Eckmann, B.; Faddeev, L.D.; Remmert, Reinhold; Grauert, H.; Hironaka, H.; Hormander, L.; John, F.; Koecher, M.; Narasimhan, R.; Reid, C.; Serre, J-P.; Sloane, N.J.A.; Tits, J.; Weil, A.; Zagier, D. (December 6, 2012). Miscellanea Mathematica. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 164. ISBN 9783642767098 – via Google Books.
^ countercurrents.org. Veteran Communist Revolutionary DV Rao Remembered
^ Corneel Mertens and Diana von Volborth-Danys, De Jong, Marinus on Grove Music Online (subscription required)
^ Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto, eds. (2003). "Renzi, Pina". Le Attrici: Dal 1930 Ai Giorni Nostri. Gremese. p. 305. ISBN 9788884402141.
^ Hanegraaff, Wouter J.; Faivre, Antoine; Broek, R. van den; Brach, Jean-Pierre, eds. (2005). "Alchemy V: 19th-20th Century". Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Leiden; Boston: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-14371-5.
^ Ap (July 16, 1984). "Philippe Wynne, Soul Singer, Is Stricken at Club and Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
^ Institute for Research in Biography (New York, N.Y.); Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1965). Who's who in Finance and Industry. [etc.] Marquis Who's Who. p. 487.
^ Rees, Philip (1990). "Wolff, Karl". Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890. Harvester Wheatsheaf. ISBN 9780710810199.
^ Sengupta, Subodh Chandra, ed. (2002). Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (in Bengali). Vol. I. Bose, Anjali (4th ed.). Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad Pvt Ltd. pp. 416–17. ISBN 81-86806-98-9.
^ Obituary, The Times, 21 July 1984, p.10
^ "Deaths-Bowers". The Daily Telegraph. July 23, 1984. p. 24.
^ "Mrs Flora Solomon: Russian émigré of wide interests". The Times. London, England. August 25, 1984. p. 10.
^ Blake, Robert (September 23, 2004). "John Ernest Vaizey, Baron Vaizey". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31783. Retrieved March 23, 2023. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
^ Thomassen, Carsten (1985). "Gabriel Andrew Dirac Obituary". Journal of Graph Theory. 9: 303–318. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190090302. S2CID 28656582. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ Krleža, Miroslav, ed. (1968). Enciklopedija Jugoslavije. 7, R-Srbija (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. pp. 82–83.
^ Thomson, Jane, ed. (1998). Southern People: a dictionary of Otago Southland biography. Dunedin: Longacre Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 1-877135-11-9.
^ "Enciclopedia del Ecuador: ALBAN, Ernesto". Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
^ "Achiel Buysse 1918 - 1984". servicekoers.be (in Dutch). December 9, 2018.
^ "Richard Angst". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS). August 2, 2000. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
^ "George Renwick". Olympedia. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
^ Malone, Bill C.; Wilson, Charles Reagan (2009). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 12 (illustrated ed.). University of North Carolina Press. p. 370. ISBN 9780807832394. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
^ Oppenheimer, Melanie. "Bate, Thelma Florence (1904–1984)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
^ Pace, Eric (July 28, 1984). "George H. Gallup Is Dead at 82; Pioneer In Public Opinion Polling". The New York Times. p. 1.
^ Ed Gein Discover the true story of the serial killer and grave robber who inspired Netflix’s Monster.
^ Schechter 1989, p. 30-31.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laurence Jackson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
^ James Mason Obituary, Variety, 1 August 1984.
^ Kirkwood, Cynthia (July 30, 1984). "Paul L. Adams, College President and Gubernatorial Hopeful, Dies". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 2.
^ Slide, Anthony (September 5, 2012). Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 153. ISBN 9781617034749. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
^ Kutsch, Karl-Josef; Riemens, Leo, eds. (2003). "Fehenberger, Lorenz". Großes Sängerlexikon (in German). Vol. 1 (4th ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 1417. ISBN 3-598-11598-9.
^ "Fred Waring, Conductor, Dies At 84". The New York Times. July 30, 1984. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
^ Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 173. ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
^ सूर्यप्रसाद उपाध्याय र लोकतन्त्र: लोकराज बराल Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine इ-कान्तिपुर
^ Jones, Constance; Ryan, James D. (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Facts On File, Incorporated. p. 241. ISBN 9780816075645.
^ Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 493. ISBN 9780674372993.

Sources

Schechter, Harold (1989). Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original 'Psycho'. New York: Pocket Books. p. 274. ISBN 978-0671644826. OCLC 40002199.

External links

List of July 1984 deaths at IMDb

[1] Elgelid, Staffan; Kresge, Chrish (2021). The Feldenkrais Method: Learning Through Movement. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 9781912085705.

[2] Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 4607–4608. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3.

[3] Slonimsky, Nicolas; Kuhn, Laura (2001). "Cortés, Ramiro Jr.". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (8 ed.). New York, New York: Schirmer Books.

[4] "Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom, Scholar of Religious History". New York Times. July 4, 1984. Retrieved December 7, 2015.

[5] Cros, Philippe (June 11, 2014). "Les " fidèles " du chef de l'OAS commémorent". La Montagne. Retrieved June 5, 2016.

[6] "Dr. Starke R. Hathaway, 80; Invented psychological test". The New York Times. July 5, 1984. Retrieved February 22, 2014.

[7] Mohammed, Faiz (July 7, 2004). "Lest we forget Golam Mowla A pioneer of insurance". The Daily Star. p. 1. Archived from the original on December 1, 2024.

[times-8] "Obituary: Lord Adam Gordon". The Times. July 7, 1984. p. 12.

[9] "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2016.

[10] Cairns, Kevin Michael Kiernan (1929–1984) — Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

[11] Hirst, Warwick "Wylie, Wilhelmina (Mina) (1891–1984)" Australian Dictionary of Biography

[12] "Mina Wylie". Olympedia. Retrieved June 8, 2021.

[13] "British Actress Dies at 82". Spokane Chronicle. July 7, 1984. p. 13.

[14] Grundberg, Andy (July 12, 1984). "Brassai, Photographer of Paris Nigtlife, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved June 7, 2018.

[15] Saxon, Wolfgang (July 10, 1984). "Claudio Sánchez Albornoz, A Foe of Franco". The New York Times. p. B6.

[16] Stockert, Peter (2012) [1997]. Die Eichenlaubträger 1939–1945 Band 2 [The Oak Leaves Bearers 1939–1945 Volume 2] (in German) (4th ed.). Bad Friedrichshall, Germany: Friedrichshaller Rundblick. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-9802222-9-7.

[17] Atiyah, M.; Bauer, F.L.; Cartan, H.; Chern, S.-S.; Hirzebruch, F.; Conway, J.H.; Eckmann, B.; Faddeev, L.D.; Remmert, Reinhold; Grauert, H.; Hironaka, H.; Hormander, L.; John, F.; Koecher, M.; Narasimhan, R.; Reid, C.; Serre, J-P.; Sloane, N.J.A.; Tits, J.; Weil, A.; Zagier, D. (December 6, 2012). Miscellanea Mathematica. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 164. ISBN 9783642767098 – via Google Books.

[18] untercurrents.org. Veteran Communist Revolutionary DV Rao Remembered

[19] Corneel Mertens and Diana von Volborth-Danys, De Jong, Marinus on Grove Music Online (subscription required)

[20] Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto, eds. (2003). "Renzi, Pina". Le Attrici: Dal 1930 Ai Giorni Nostri. Gremese. p. 305. ISBN 9788884402141.

[21] Hanegraaff, Wouter J.; Faivre, Antoine; Broek, R. van den; Brach, Jean-Pierre, eds. (2005). "Alchemy V: 19th-20th Century". Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Leiden; Boston: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-14371-5.

[22] Ap (July 16, 1984). "Philippe Wynne, Soul Singer, Is Stricken at Club and Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 10, 2022.

[N.Y.)Inc1965-23] Institute for Research in Biography (New York, N.Y.); Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1965). Who's who in Finance and Industry. [etc.] Marquis Who's Who. p. 487.

[24] Rees, Philip (1990). "Wolff, Karl". Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890. Harvester Wheatsheaf. ISBN 9780710810199.

[25] Sengupta, Subodh Chandra, ed. (2002). Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan (in Bengali). Vol. I. Bose, Anjali (4th ed.). Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad Pvt Ltd. pp. 416–17. ISBN 81-86806-98-9.

[26] Obituary, The Times, 21 July 1984, p.10

[27] "Deaths-Bowers". The Daily Telegraph. July 23, 1984. p. 24.

[28] "Mrs Flora Solomon: Russian émigré of wide interests". The Times. London, England. August 25, 1984. p. 10.

[29] Blake, Robert (September 23, 2004). "John Ernest Vaizey, Baron Vaizey". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31783. Retrieved March 23, 2023. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

[30] Thomassen, Carsten (1985). "Gabriel Andrew Dirac Obituary". Journal of Graph Theory. 9: 303–318. doi:10.1002/jgt.3190090302. S2CID 28656582. Retrieved May 1, 2021.

[31] Krleža, Miroslav, ed. (1968). Enciklopedija Jugoslavije. 7, R-Srbija (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. pp. 82–83.

[32] Thomson, Jane, ed. (1998). Southern People: a dictionary of Otago Southland biography. Dunedin: Longacre Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 1-877135-11-9.

[33] "Enciclopedia del Ecuador: ALBAN, Ernesto". Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2013.

[34] "Achiel Buysse 1918 - 1984". servicekoers.be (in Dutch). December 9, 2018.

[35] "Richard Angst". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS). August 2, 2000. Retrieved August 20, 2025.

[36] "George Renwick". Olympedia. Retrieved September 16, 2021.

[37] Malone, Bill C.; Wilson, Charles Reagan (2009). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 12 (illustrated ed.). University of North Carolina Press. p. 370. ISBN 9780807832394. Retrieved December 10, 2018.

[38] Oppenheimer, Melanie. "Bate, Thelma Florence (1904–1984)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved July 31, 2012.

[39] Pace, Eric (July 28, 1984). "George H. Gallup Is Dead at 82; Pioneer In Public Opinion Polling". The New York Times. p. 1.

[40] Ed Gein Discover the true story of the serial killer and grave robber who inspired Netflix’s Monster.

[FOOTNOTESchechter198930-31-41] Schechter 1989, p. 30-31.

[42] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laurence Jackson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.

[43] James Mason Obituary, Variety, 1 August 1984.

[44] Kirkwood, Cynthia (July 30, 1984). "Paul L. Adams, College President and Gubernatorial Hopeful, Dies". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 2.

[45] Slide, Anthony (September 5, 2012). Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 153. ISBN 9781617034749. Retrieved November 30, 2016.

[46] Kutsch, Karl-Josef; Riemens, Leo, eds. (2003). "Fehenberger, Lorenz". Großes Sängerlexikon (in German). Vol. 1 (4th ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 1417. ISBN 3-598-11598-9.

[47] "Fred Waring, Conductor, Dies At 84". The New York Times. July 30, 1984. Retrieved December 30, 2014.

[48] Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 173. ISBN 1-869833-21-X.

[ekantipur1-49] सूर्यप्रसाद उपाध्याय र लोकतन्त्र: लोकराज बराल Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine इ-कान्तिपुर

[50] Jones, Constance; Ryan, James D. (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Facts On File, Incorporated. p. 241. ISBN 9780816075645.

[51] Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 493. ISBN 9780674372993.