The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1984
1 Howard Nostrand, 55, American cartoonist and illustrator,"Howard Nostrand Death Records," Mooseroots.com. Accessed Jan. 18, 2016.Howard Nostrand at the Lambiek Comiclopedia worked on Harvey Comics' horror comics such as Black Cat Mystery, Chamber of Chills, Tomb of Terror and Witches TalesHoward Nostrand at the Grand Comics Database
2 Quirino Cristiani, 88, Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, created the world's first two animated feature films, and the first animated feature film with sound, pioneer of cutout animation, (El Apóstol, Sin dejar rastros, Firpo-Dempsey, Peludópolis, El mono relojero)Giannalberto Bendazzi (Anna Taraboletti-Segre, translator); Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation; Indiana University Press; (paperback reprint, 2001)
3 Ellis Wackett, 83, senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force
4 Walter Burke, 75, American character actor, emphysema Howard Culver, 66, American actor, meningitis. Mary Miles Minter, 82, American actress, one of the leading ladies who established the early Hollywood star system,O'Dell, 1970 p. 150 "The final major leading lady who helped to create the star system." strokeCalifornia Death Index, Name: Mary O. Hildebrandt, Birth Date: 04-01 [sic – 1902, Mother's Maiden Name: Miles, Father's Last: Reilly, Sex: Female, Birth Place: Louisiana, Death Place: Los Angeles (19), Death Date: 08-05-1984, Age: 82 yrs.SSDI: Name: Mary O. Hildebrandt, Birth: April 25, 1902, Issued: California, Death: August 1984 Edmon Ryan, 79, American actor
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Richard Burton, 58, Welsh actor, intracerebral haemorrhage Roland Kibbee, 70, American screenwriter and producer
6 George Abdullah, 64, Aboriginal community leader, heart disease
7 Esther Phillips, 48, American singer, liver and kidney failure due to long-term drug abuse."Blues Singer Esther Phillips Dead at 48", Baltimore Afro-American, August 4, 1984.
8 Richard Deacon, 62, American actor, cardiovascular disease Denis Johnston, 83, Irish playwrightDenis Johnston (1901-84) Ellen Raskin, 56, American children's writer and illustrator, connective-tissue disease"Ellen Raskin". The New York Times. August 10, 1984.
9 Christine Hargreaves, 45, English soap opera actress, complications from a brain operation Her death was announced to the public three days later, on 12 August 1984. Walter Tevis, 56, American novelist and screenwriter, lung cancerWalter Tevis carnegiecenterlex.org, accessed December 5, 2020
10 Anatoly Akimov, Soviet football goalkeeper Virgil Partch, 67, American illustrator and gag cartoonist, screenwriter for the animated film series Donald Duck, car accident death Virgil Franklin Partch at the California Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on August 27, 2015.
11 David Affleck, 72, Scottish professional footballer Hashem Al-e-Agha, 38, Iranian fighter pilot Yosef Greenwald, 80, Hungarian rabbi, second Rebbe of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty, strokeJewish Telegraphic Agency, "Rabbi Joseph Grunwald Dead at 81", August 14, 1984 Alfred A. Knopf Sr., 91, American publisher, eponymous co-founder of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, congestive heart failure Percy Mayfield, 63, American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, known for the songs Please Send Me Someone to Love and Hit the Road Jack, heart attack Paul Felix Schmidt, 67, Estonian–German chess player
12 Michel N'Gom, 25, French professional footballer, traffic accident
13 Clyde Cook, 92, Australian actor and vaudevillian Accessed 27 August 2023 Tigran Petrosian, 55, Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster the ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969, credited with popularizing chess in Armenia, stomach cancer
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J. B. Priestley, 89, English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator, radio propagandist for the BBC during the Battle of Britain,Cited in pneumonia
15 Bobbi Campbell, 32, American public health nurse and early AIDS activist, in 1981 he became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis, cryptosporidiosis and cryptococcal meningitis Via the Online Searchable Obituary Database of the GLBT Historical Society Norman Petty, 57, American musician, record producer, publisher, and radio station owner, co-founder of early rock and roll, leukemia
16 Tommie Aaron, 45, American professional baseball player and coach, leukemia
17 Bruno Premiani, 77, Italian illustrator and comic book artist, co-creator of the superhero teams Doom Patrol and Teen TitansBruno Premiani at the Lambiek Comiclopedia, which notes, "Most American sources list his birth year as 1924, but Italian police records mention 4 January 1907." WebCitation archive.Guay, "The Doom Patrol Index", Amazing Heroes #6, November 1981, pp. 50-54
18 İbrahim Kafesoğlu, 70, Turkish historian and academic
19 Don Newton, 49, American comics artist, best known for his work on The Phantom, Aquaman, Batman, Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, heart attack while suffering from a debilitating throat disease
20 Avinash Vyas, 72, Indian composer, lyricist and singer known for his work in Gujarati films
21 Phil Seuling, 50, American comic book fan convention organizer and comics distributor, organizer of the annual New York Comic Art Convention, developed the concept of the direct market distribution system for getting comics directly into comic book specialty shops,Social Security Death Index, Social Security #130-26-6243. (Abstract; full article requires fee or subscription) (Abstract; full article requires fee or subscription) sclerosing cholangitis"Newspeak: Don Newton and Phil Seuling Die," Speakeasy #44 (Sept. 1984), p. 4."Phil Seuling, father of the direct-sales Market, dies at age of 50," The Comics Journal #93 (September 1984), pp. 13-14.
22 Charley Foy, 86, American actor and vaudevillian, sepsis Freddie Steele, 71, middleweight boxer and actor, world middleweight boxing champion from 1936 until 1938"Hostak Stops Steele in First", Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, pg. 25, 27 July 1938
23 Razik Fareed, 90, Sri Lankan landed proprietor, politician and philanthropist
24 Billy Sands, 73, American character actor, lung cancer
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Truman Capote, 59, American screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and journalist, co-founder of New Journalism, liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxicationGay & lesbian biography By Michael J. Tyrkus St. James Press, 1997 , p. 109 Viktor Chukarin, 62, Russian Olympic gymnast Henry Lynn, 89, Polish-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer
26 Ella van Heemstra, 84, Dutch aristocrat
27 Bernard Youens, 69, English character actor and television announcer
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Zeyd Ahsen-Böre, 63, Finnish ice hockey player Harry Lucey, 70, American comics artist for MLJ Comics and Archie Comics, primary artist on the flagship title Archie from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, prostate cancer and complications from ALS Mohamed Naguib, 83, Egyptian military officer and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Egyptian revolution of 1952, head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council, Prime Minister of Egypt, and later its first president, cirrhosis
29 Pierre Gemayel, 78, Lebanese political leader and parliamentary power broker, founder of the right-wing Christian Kataeb Party (Phalangist Party) and former president of the Lebanese Football Association, heart attack Pina Menichelli, 94, Italian actress
30 John O. Aalberg, 87, American sound technician, cancer Wesley Lau, 63, American actor and screenwriter, heart failureObituary, sheboyganpress.com. May 13, 2016. Accessed October 19, 2022.
31 Edward J. York, 72, Colonel of the United States Air Force, one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid (1942) on Tokyo,
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External links List of August 1984 deaths at IMDb