Deaths in September 1984

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1984

1

• Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, 86, Duchess of Parma
• Howland Chamberlain, 73, American actor^[1]

2

• Vannie Albanese, 71, American football player with the Brooklyn Dodgers
• Malcolm Craven, 68, English motorcycle speedway rider
• Amir Gilboa, 66, Israeli poet
• Sergey Martinson, 85, Soviet and Russian actor
• Eino Purje, 84, Finnish runner

3

• Rolf Gammleng, 86, Norwegian violinist and organizational leader
• Manos Katrakis, 76, Greek actor
• Cecil Middleton, 73, English first-class cricketer
• Francis Moncreiff, 77, Scottish Episcopalian and Anglican bishop
• Gaston Palewski, 83, French politician
• August Rieger, 70, Austrian screenwriter and film director
• Arthur Schwartz, 83, American composer and film producer^[2]
• Francesco Tabai, 76, Italian male long, triple jumper, decathlete, and Olympian
• Herman Vanderpoorten, 62, Belgian liberal politician
• Wilhelm Winkler, 100, Czech-Austrian statistician and politician

4

• Fedir Bohatyrchuk, 91, Ukrainian–Canadian chess player, doctor of medicine (radiologist), political activist, and writer
• Elsie Louisa Deacon, 87, British draughtswoman
• Bjarne Johnsen, 92, Norwegian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
• Ernst Stueckelberg, 79, Swiss mathematician and physicist

5

• Jack Davies, 74, Australian rugby league footballer
• Leonid Kostandov, 68, Soviet engineer and politician^[3]
• Boris Kuznetsov, 80, Soviet philosopher and historian
• Adam Malik, 67, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia, cancer^[4]
• Jane Roberts, 55, American author and poet, self-proclaimed psychic and a spirit medium,^[5][6] protein depletion, osteomyelitis, and soft-tissue infections caused by long-term rheumatoid arthritis^[7]

6

Ernest Tubb

• E. J. André, 76, American writer, director, and actor, cancer^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Donny MacLeod, 52, Scottish television presenter, heart attack after a short struggle with bowel cancer.^[12]
• Ernest Tubb, 70, American singer and songwriter, pioneer of country music and influential in popularizing the honky-tonk style of music, emphysema^[13]

7

• Frédéric Adam, 80, French conductor, composer and administrator^[14]
• Joe Cronin, 77, American professional baseball player, manager and executive, prostate cancer and bone cancer^[15][16]
• Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 71, English broadcaster, author and Scottish peer^[17]
• Liam O'Flaherty, 88, Irish novelist and short-story writer, founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland^[18][19]

8

• W. B. Makuloluwa, 62, Sri Lankan composer and theatre director^[20]

9

Yılmaz Güney

• Yılmaz Güney, 47, Turkish film director, screenwriter, novelist, and communist political activist, gastric cancer^[21]
• Ted Mapes, 82, American character actor, stuntman, body double, and animal safety observer for the American Humane Association^[22]
• Margaret Phillips, 61, Welsh actress, founding member of the Actors Studio, cancer^[23]

10

• Ismael Merlo, 66, Spanish actor
• Bhola Paswan Shastri, 69, Indian independence activist and politician
• Ramanujan Srinivasan, 46, Indian physicist

11

• Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo, 88, Indonesian politician and advocate

12

• Lola Anglada, c. 90, Spanish writer, comics artist, and illustrator^[24]
• László Bánhidi, 78, Hungarian actor
• Lloyd Hales, 63, English cricketer
• Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd, 82, British politician
• Yvon Petra, 68, French tennis player

13

• Magdalena Avietėnaitė, 91, Lithuanian journalist, diplomat and a public figure
• Akio Chiba, 41, Japanese manga artist
• Daniel Aloysius Riley, 68, Canadian politician
• Henk Lotgering, 81, Dutch diver and Olympian
• Fano Shimasaki, 70, American Samoan chief, civil servant, clergyman and politician
• Laura Solari, 71, Italian film actress
• Lois White, 80, New Zealand painter of the modernist school

14

Janet Gaynor

• Richard Brautigan, American author (b. 1935)
• Janet Gaynor, 77, American actress^[25][26]

15

• Richard Clayton, 59, Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command
• Clive Evatt, 84, Australian politician, barrister and raconteur
• Jack Ikin, 66, English cricketer
• Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 72 or 73, Saudi Arabian businessman and politician

16

• Richard Brautigan, 49, American novelist and short-story writer, suicide by a self-inflicted .44 Magnum gunshot wound to the head. His decomposed body was located by a private investigator on October 25, 1984.^[27][28]
• Frank Cucksey, 65, American actor, singer, and circus performer, former host and ringmaster for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and the Circus Hall of Fame^[29]

17

• John Anderson, 70, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• Richard Basehart, 70, American actor, series of strokes^[30]
• Gian Carlo Fusco, Italian writer, journalist, screenwriter, and actor
• Louis Roels, 72, a Belgian racing cyclist
• Yuri Vizbor, 50, Soviet actor, bard and poet

18

• Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, 83, English aristocrat and politician
• Paavo Hietala, 64, Finnish wrestler
• Riccardo Lombardi, 83, Italian politician

19

• June Preisser, 66, American actress, teacher of both dancing and acrobatics, fatally injured in a car accident caused by rainy weather ^[31]
• Stan Vanderbeek, 57, American independent animator, experimental filmmaker, and art theoretician^[32]

20

• Steve Goodman, 36, American folk and country singer-songwriter, leukemia^[33]

21

• Roberto de Leonardis, 71, Italian film script translator, film dialogue writer and film lyricist

22

• George Oliver, 95, British engineer, barrister and politician
• Aurelio Terrazas, 80, Mexican long-distance runner^[34] who was the first Rarámuri athlete to compete at the Olympics^[35]

23

• Zorro Aguilar, 42, Filipino human rights lawyer, activist, and newspaper editor, murdered^[36]

24

• Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)

25

Walter Pidgeon

• Laverne Harding, 78, American animator and cartoonist, among the earliest women animators and one of only 9 women to have received a Winsor McCay Award,^[37][38] designed the version of Woody Woodpecker that was in use from 1950 to 1998.^[39][40]
• Walter Pidgeon, 87, Canadian-American actor, series of strokes^[41]

26

• John Facenda, 71, American sports commentator, narrator for NFL Films, cancer^[42][43]
• Shelly Manne, 64, American jazz drummer, heart attack^[44]

27

• Ernesto Alciati, 81, Italian long-distance runner^[45][46]
• Ubaldo Lay, 67, Italian actor and voice actor, cerebral hemorrhage.^[47]

28

• Akhter Mia, 64, Bangladeshi politician
• Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, 86, British landowner, writer on agricultural topics, and politician^[48]

29

• Marnix Gijsen, 84, Belgian writer
• Mary Newland, 81, English actress
• Hal Porter, 73, Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer

30

• Clete Roberts, 72, American broadcast journalist, heart and respiratory failure following a surgery for brain aneurysm^[49]

References

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2. Robert Cummings. "Arthur Schwartz Artist Biography". AllMusic.com.
3. "Leonid Kostandov, 68; Soviet Deputy Premier". The New York Times. Reuters. September 6, 1984. Archived from the original on November 26, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
4. Tirto (2016). "Profil Adam Malik". tirto.id (in Indonesian).
5. Klimo, Jon (1998). Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources. North Atlantic Books. pp. 22, 30. ISBN 1-55643-248-8.
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10. Lentz, Harris (1996). Western and Frontier Film and Television Credits 1903-1995: Section I. Actors and actresses. Section II. Directors, producers, and writers. McFarland. p. 25. ISBN 9780786402175 – via Google Books.
11. "E. J. Andre". The New York Times. September 19, 1984. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
12. Heartbreak of Donny's death: as Pebble Mill closes we find out what's become of its famous faces, Sunday Mercury, 17 December 2000
13. Vinopal, David. "Ernest Tubb Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
14. Pitt C. Frédéric Adam. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
15. "Joe Cronin, baseball legend, American League president". The Morning Call. September 8, 1984. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
16. Armour, p. 330.
17. "Marquess of Aberdeen Dies". Aberdeen Press and Journal. September 8, 1984. p. 2. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
18. De Breffny, Brian (1983). Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 172.
19. James M. Cahalan (1991). Liam O'Flaherty: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne. p. 160.
20. "W.B. Makuloluwa 34th death anniversary". Daily Mirror. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
21. New York Times, 10 September 1984, Yilmaz Guney Is Dead;Turkish Film Director
22. "The Stunt Men and Women: Ted Mapes". B-Westerns.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
23. "Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984).
24. "Lola Anglada". lambiek.net. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
25. "Janet Gaynor dies 'never recovered' from car accident". The Miami News. Miami, Florida. September 15, 1984. p. 4A. Retrieved March 29, 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
26. "Coroner Rules Gaynor Death Was Result of '82 Accident". The New York Times. September 22, 1984. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
27. "Richard Brautigan > Obituaries, Memoirs, Tributes". brautigan.net. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
28. Hjortsberg, William (2012). Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-790-3.
29. "Frank H. Cucksey Obituary". Sarasota Herald. September 18, 1984. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
30. Krebs, Albin (September 19, 1984). "Richard Basehart, Stage And Screen Star, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
31. Uhler, David; Litinsky Madden, Ruby (September 20, 1984). "Weather blamed in three deaths on county roads". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Deerfield Beach, Florida: Tribune Publishing. p. 4B.
32. "Stan Vanderbeek Dies at 57; Made Experimental Movies". The New York Times. September 22, 1984. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
33. Van Matre, Lynn (September 21, 1984). "Songwriter Steve Goodman; a Chicago gift to folk music". Chicago Tribune. p. 37. Retrieved June 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
34. "Aurelio Terrazas". Olympedia.
35. "Te kort, veel te kort". Zatopek Magazine (in Dutch): 1. 2008.
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37. "Winsor McCay Awards Website". Winsor McCay Awards Website. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
38. "LaVerne Harding, the first and for many years the..." UPI.
39. Klein, Tom. "LaVerne Harding: Drawing with Resolve".
40. Klein, Tom. "La Verne Harding: Hollywood in a '54 Red Mercury".
41. Berger, Joseph (September 26, 1984). "Walter Pidgeon, Actor, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2009. Walter Pidgeon, the courtly actor who distinguished his 47-year career with portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise, died yesterday at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 years old and had suffered a series of strokes. ...
42. Teague, Matthew (May 22, 2007). "Icons: The Voice of God". Philadelphia Magazine. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
43. "John Facenda Is Dead at 72; Narrator of N.F.L. Highlights". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 27, 1984. p. B 12. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
44. See Brand, pp. 183-84.
45. "Ernesto Alciati". Olympedia. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
46. "ATLETICA - Partecipazione e Podio [1900-2012]" (PDF) (in Italian). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
47. "E' morto a 67 anni Ubaldo Lay Con Sheridan sfidò l'America". La Stampa. September 18, 1984. p. 23.
48. Conford, Philip (2005). "Organic Society: Agriculture and Radical Politics in the Career of Gerard Wallop, Ninth Earl of Portsmouth (1898-1984)" (PDF). Agricultural History Review. 53 (1): 85.
49. "Journalist Roberts succumbs at 73," The Associated Press (AP), Monday, October 1, 1984. Retrieved January 28, 2022.

Sources

• Armour, Mark (2010). Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803229968.
• Brand, Jack. Shelly Manne: Sounds of the Different Drummer (Discography and filmography by Bill Korst) (Percussion Express, 1997)

External links

• List of September 1984 deaths at IMDb