The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.
November 1984
1 Paul Baldacci, 77, American football player and coach. Ramón Castro Jijón, 68, Ecuadorian politician, acting president (1963–1966). Ian Fleming, 74, Australian footballer. Norman Krasna, 74, American filmmaker (Princess O'Rourke) and playwright, heart attack.NORMAN KRASNA, 74, IS DEAD; PLAYWRIGHT AND SCREEN WRITER Marcel Moyse, 95, French flautist.Marcel Moyse, Flutist, A Founder of Marlboro Boris Souvarine, 89, French writer and communist activist. Anton Toscani, 83, Dutch Olympic racewalker (1936).
2 Soli Adashev, 61, Uzbek squad commander and World War II veteran who was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union Velma Barfield, 52, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.Velma Barfield Put to Death –1984 Year in Review – Audio Julius Battista, 68, American football player. Eugene N. Costales, 90, American philatelist. István Fáry, 62, Hungarian-American mathematician. Ernst Føyn, 80, Norwegian oceanographer and chemist. Bert Lacey, 84, Australian politician. Max Leon, 80, American impresario. Louis Sherman, 77, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1955–1972).Louis Sherman, 77, former legislator Jerzy Siankiewicz, 54, Polish Olympic field hockey player (1952). I. S. K. Soboleff, 91, Russian-British travel writer.
3 Claude Aubry, 70, Canadian librarian and author. David Chávez, 86, American politician and judge. Aldo Donati, 74, Italian footballer. George Forbes, 77, Scottish cricketer. Leonard La Cour, 77, British cytologist. Clayton W. Mapoles, 70, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1961–1965).Clayton W. Mapoles obituary Harry McEvoy, 82, British industrialist and food manufacturer. Stan Obodiac, 62, Canadian ice hockey player. Jack Price, 84, English footballer. Bhagwat Singh of Mewar, 63, Indian titular royal and cricketer.
4 Lars Amandus Aasgard, 77, Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party Merie Earle, 95, American actress, uremia poisoning
5 Thelma Gutsche, 69, South African filmmaker, film historian, writer, and arts patron Gerhard Hönicke, 54, German long-distance runner and Olympian Ivor Montagu, 80, English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist and spy Rehman, 63, Indian actor
6 Domenico Purificato, 69, Italian painter Gastón Suárez, 55, Bolivian novelist and dramatist
7 Howard C. Davidson, 94, American major general in the United States Army Air Forces Ghulam Mohammad Farhad, 82 or 83, Afghan engineer Anita Gregory, 59, German-born British psychologist and parapsychologist George Mathews, 73, American actor, heart disease"George Mathews, 73, Actor On Broadway And In Movies", The New York Times, November 13, 1984. Friedrich Maurer, 86, German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies Ron Norris, 52, Indian boxer 8 Torsten Jöhncke, 72, Swedish ice hockey player
9 Umar Seno Aji, 68, fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia Helen Clay Frick, 96, American philanthropist and art collector.
10 Sudie Bond, 61, American actress, respiratory disease
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Dorothy M. Johnson, 78, American Western fiction writer Guide to the Dorothy M. Johnson Papers at the University of Montana Martin Luther King Sr., 84, American Baptist pastor and missionary, activist for the civil rights movement, heart attack
12 Jack Wrather, 66, American petroleum businessman and television producer, cancer
13 Dorothy Arnold, 66, American actress, pancreatic cancer"Arnold, Dorothy (1917–1984)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007
14 Wilhelm Antrup, 74, German air general Cesar Climaco, 68, Filipino politician, Mayor of ZamboangaCLIMACO, CESAR CORTES János Faragó, 38, Hungarian Olympic athlete Iqbal Hassan, 41 or 42, Pakistani actor Alexander Hegarth, 61, German actor Keith Hudson, 37 or 38, Jamaican reggae artist and record producer
15 Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset, 74, British peer Stephanie Fae Beauclair, 1 Month, American infant who was given a heart transplant from a baboon.
16 Murray Alper, 80, American actor Vic Dickenson, 78, American jazz trombonist, cancerJohn S. Wilson, "Vic Dickenson, a trombonist with Basie band in 40's, dies", The New York Times, November 18, 1984. Leonard Rose, American cellist, leukaemia (b. 1918)
17 James Baiss, 75, English cricketer Otto Küsel, 75, concentration camp survivor and escapee from Auschwitz Gerry McNamee, 50, Canadian swimmer Werner Milch, 81, German lawyer Harold Newgass, 85, British recipient of the George Cross and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer Don Olive, 53, New Zealand racing cyclist Arthur Mackenzie Power, 63, British Royal Navy officer
18 Mary Hamman, 77, American writer and editor Boutros el-Khoury, 76 or 77, Lebanese businessman, banker and industrialist Karel Klapálek, 91, Czech military leader Whiz Morris, 86, English cricketer Margaret Shelton, 69, Canadian artist Mehdi Zeinoddin, 25, Iranian major general in the IRGC during the Iran–Iraq War
19 George Aiken, 92, American politician and horticulturist Ariyasinghe Ariyapperuma, 50, Sri Lankan Army officer Kerstin Isberg, 71, Swedish swimmer Martín Marculeta, 77, Spanish association footballer John McQuade, 73, Northern Irish unionist politician Graham Russell Mitchell, British MI5 officer Arthur Toby, 81, Australian rugby player
20 Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1910) Carlo Campanini, Italian actor (b. 1906)
21 John Clark, 77, Australian politician Peter de Polnay, 78, Hungarian-born English novelist Magogo kaDinuzulu, 83 or 84, Zulu princess and musical artist Raymond Lebègue, 89, French literary historian Vincenzo Lucchini, 59, Swiss sports shooter Aslam Pervaiz, 52, Pakistani film actor, fatally injured in a car accident
22 Olof Bergström, 65, Swedish actor John Gilling, 72, English film director and screenwriter Mohamed Salah Mzali, 88, Tunisian educator, historian and politician Gerd Nyquist, 71, Norwegian novelist and children's writer Denis Rose, 62, English jazz pianist and trumpeter Nikolai Tomsky, 83, Soviet sculptor Oleksiy Vatchenko, 70, Ukrainian and Soviet politician Robert Wordsworth, 90, Australian military officer and politician
23 Tadashi Abe, 57 or 58, Japanese aikido teacher J. Waldo Ackerman, 58, American lawyer and judge Jean-Raymond Tournoux, 70, French journalist
24 Paul Landa, 43, Australian politician Eira Lehtonen, 45, Finnish gymnast 25 Minnie Abercrombie, 75, British zoologist, educationalist and psychologist. Jean Aubert, 90, German engineer Percy Chatterton, 86, English-born Papua New Guinean educator, clergyman and politician Yashwantrao Chavan, 71, Indian independence activist and politician Eluned Woodford-Williams, 71, British geriatrician
26 Jóhann K. Pétursson, 71, Icelandic circus performer and actor, accidental fall De Herder, W. W. (2009). Acromegaly and gigantism in the medical literature. Case descriptions in the era before and the early years after the initial publication of Pierre Marie (1886). Pituitary, 12(3), 236–244. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11102-008-0138-y
27 Asit Baran, 71, Indian actor and singer Alby Black, 76, Australian rugby league footballer Luc Étienne, 76, French writer and a proponent of 'pataphysics Josef Grunner, 80, German politician George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, 64, British landowner, soldier, and peer M. N. Govindan Nair, 73, Indian communist politician Bernard Quaife, 85, English first-class cricketer Charles Willumsen, 66, Danish rower 28 Adam Antes, 93, German sculptor and graphic artist Duncan Carmichael, 69, English cricketer Johnny Hunt, 81, Australian rugby league player František Jandl, 79, Czech equestrian and Olympian Jan B. Jansen, 86, Norwegian physician, anatomist and scientist Vilho Siivola, 74, Finnish actor, film director, and television director Hans Speidel, 87, German military officer Paul F. Yount, 76, United States Army general 29 Bill Cunningham, 84, New Zealand cricketer Nora Thompson Dean, 77, Indigenous American (Lenape) linguist Franz Jáchym, 74, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church Wincenty Kowalski, 92, Polish military commander Dorothea Macnee, 88, British socialite T. Subrahmanian Thirumump, 78, Indian poet, freedom fighter, and communist leader
30 Christopher Adler, 30, American lyricist and theatre directorFein, Esther B. (2 December 1984). "Christopher Adler, 30, Dies; Lyricist for MacLaine Show". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
References
External links List of November 1984 deaths at IMDb