Deaths in January 1984

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 1984.

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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.

January 1984

1

Hume Peabody

• Stephen Appleby, 71, English pilot
• A. E. Clouston, 75, New Zealand-born British test pilot and senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• David C. Eldredge, 62, American politician
• Max Ellmer, 73, Swiss tennis player
• Paula Grogger, 91, Austrian writer
• Walter Hennecke, 85, German admiral during World War II
• Billy Hill, 72, English gangster
• Kenzo Izutsu, 42, Japanese swimmer
• Alexis Korner, 55, British blues musician and broadcaster^[1]
• Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega, 80, Spanish bullfighter, lung cancer^[2]
• Hazel Measner, 58, Canadian pitcher
• Richard Parkhouse, 73, English cricketer
• Hume Peabody, 90, American career aviator and military officer
• Bent Blach Petersen, 59, Danish rower and Olympian
• Carleton Simmons, 78, American athlete, coach and financier
• Augustin Souchy, 91, Silesian anarchist, antimilitarist, labour union official and journalist
• Kaarlo Vähämäki, 91, Finnish gymnast
• Taufiq Wahby, 93, Kurdish writer, linguist and politician
• Allen Wheeler, 80, Royal Air Force officer and pilot

2

Haji Bashir

• Haji Bashir, 72, Somali politician^[3]
• Ivan Grove, 89, American football, basketball and track coach and college athlete
• Achmadi Hadisoemarto, 56, Indonesian soldier and politician
• Henry McKechnie, 68, Australian politician and wheat grower^[4]
• Leon Pape, 58, medical physicist
• Kenneth Sitzberger, 38, American diver
• Manuel Solis, 94, Mexican sports shooter and Olympian

3

• Karl Brugger, 42 or 43, German foreign correspondent and author
• Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier, 87, American writer
• Louis A. Craig, 92, American military officer
• David Dunkle, 72, American paleontologist
• Sebastià Juan i Arbó, 81, Spanish novelist and playwright
• Alfred A. Lama, 84, American architect and politician^[5]
• Fritz Mattick, 82, German botanist
• Fergus McDonell, 73, English film editor and director
• Morris Sugden, 64, British chemist who specialised in combustion research^[6][7]
• Ivete Vargas, 56, Brazilian journalist and politician

4

• Hisarlı Ahmet, Turkish ashik (b. 1908, exact age unknown)^[8]
• Wilfred Burns, 60, British town planner
• Owen Burrows, 80, Australian cricketer
• Jameson Clark, 76, Scottish actor
• Robert Firth, 65, American judge
• Richard Hughes, 77, Australian journalist
• Enoch Jenkins, 91, Welsh sports shooter and Olympian
• Constantin Krage, 83, Danish architect
• Julien Lefèvre, 76, Luxembourgish sculptor
• Gösta Lindh, 59, Swedish association football and Olympic medalist
• Abe Olman, 96, American songwriter and music publisher
• Frank Peratrovich, 88, American businessman and politician^[9]
• Orval Prophet, 61, Canadian country music performer
• Sir Kenneth Thompson, 1st Baronet, British businessman and politician
• Reza Zanjani, Iranian cleric

5

• Augusts Annuss, 90, Latvian painter
• Giuseppe Fava, 58, Italian writer and journalist, assassinated^[10]
• Reg Horne, 75, English professional golfer
• Alice Mendham Powell, 80, American progressive educator, college professor, and school founder
• Sushil Ramgoolam, 61, former First Lady of Mauritius
• Alfred Scott, 82, New Zealand cricketer
• Dmitri Vasilyev, 83, Soviet and Russian film director
• Vaclav Vytlacil, 91, American artist and art instructor

6

• Hermann Engelhard, 80, German middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist
• Icie Hoobler, 91, American biochemist
• Ernest Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-American cinematographer^[11]
• Surjit Singh Randhawa, 32, Indian field hockey player

7

Alfred Kastler

• Costică Acsinte, 86, Romanian photographer^[12]
• Karl August Bühler, 79, German politician
• Siddheshwar Shastri Chitrav, 83, Indian Vedic scholar, lexicographer, translator and writer of Marathi literature
• Walter Forde, 85, British actor, screenwriter and director
• Alfred Kastler, 81 French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate^[13]
• Reginald Taylor, 74, English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex
• Ambroz Testen, 86, Franciscan and Croatian expressionistic painter

8

• Baba Sali, 94, Moroccan Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist
• Alexander Williams, 80, British colonial administrator^[14]

9

• Bob Dyer, 74, American vaudeville entertainer, singer, radio and television personality who was primarily active in Australia
• Frederick Gibberd, 76, English architect, town planner and landscape designer
• Seán MacEntee, 94, Irish Fianna Fáil politician
• Sir Deighton Lisle Ward, 74, 4th Governor-General of Barbados^[15]

10

• Alexander Brewer, 77, English first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Toivo Loukola, 81, Finnish runner and Olympic gold medalist
• Souvanna Phouma, 82, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos^[16]
• Ernest Albert Vasey, 82, a British politician and actor
• Laurie Wallis, 61, Australian politician
• Christopher Woolner, 90, British Army officer

11

• Fritz Geißler, 62, German composer^[17]
• Allie Lampard, 98, Australian cricketer
• Jack La Rue, 81, American actor, heart attack^[18]
• Ahmad Yunus Mokoginta, 62, Indonesian military officer and a signatory to the Petition of Fifty^[19]
• Karl Smidt, 80, German naval commander
• Erik Stensiö, 92, Swedish paleozoologist
• Gwyn Thomas, 91, Welsh rugby league footballer

12

• Marina Chechneva, 61, Russian "Night Witch" aviator during World War II^[20][21][22]
• Mohammad Tabrani, 79, Indonesian journalist and politician

13

• Fulvio Bernardini, 78, Italian football player and coach^[23]
• John Bolster, 73, British racing driver and journalist
• Ian Campbell, 81, Scottish painter
• Gustav Harteneck, 91, German general during WWII
• Themis Rigas, 39, Greek footballer

14

Ray Kroc

• Brooks Atkinson, 89, American theater critic^[24]
• Paul Ben-Haim, 86, Israeli composer
• Cipriano Elis, 76, Spanish racing cyclist
• Saad Haddad, 47 or 48, Lebanese military officer and militia leader
• Ray Kroc, 81, American entrepreneur, heart failure^[25]
• Dipya Mongkollugsana, 65, Thai oral surgeon, naval commander, and sports shooter
• Sidney Stretton, 81, English cricketer

15

• Vera Bell, 79, Jamaican poet, short-story writer and playwright
• Titus Burckhardt, 75, Swiss writer
• Fazıl Küçük, 77, Turkish Cypriot politician and a medical doctor who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus^[26][27]

16

• León Dujovne, Argentine, 85, writer, philosopher, essayist and journalist
• Ivan Barchenko-Yemelyanov, 69, a Soviet Navy officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Józef Nowak, 58, Polish actor
• Frederick Scherger, 79, senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force
• C. M. Stephen, 65, Indian politician^[28]
• Nikolai Yanenko, 62, Soviet mathematician and academician

17

• Ángel Arteaga, 55, Spanish musician and composer
• Birger Åsander, 74, Swedish actor
• Geoffrey Bell, 87, English cricketer and educator
• Kostas Giannidis, 80, Greek composer and pianist
• Marie Hall Ets, 88, American children's book writer & illustrator (In the Forest, Play With Me, Nine Days to Christmas).
• Helmut Mertens, 66, German fighter ace of World War II
• Rajarambapu Patil, 63, Indian politician
• George Rigaud, 78, Argentinian actor^[29]
• Trần Văn Hữu, 87, Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam
• Anna Martinowa Zarina, 76, Latvian artist

18

• José Carlos Ary dos Santos, 46, Portuguese poet, lyricist, and poetry reader
• Max Bentley, 63, Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Robert Hennion, 85, French film director^[30]
• Malcolm H. Kerr, 52, American academic who was president of the American University of Beirut at the time of his murder
• Lord Athol Layton, 62, English-Australian professional wrestler, amateur boxer, and professional wrestling commentator
• Panteleimon Ponomarenko, 81, Soviet statesman and politician
• Vassilis Tsitsanis, 69, Greek songwriter and bouzouki player^[31]

19

• Frances Dorothy Acomb, 76, American academic and historian^[32]
• Gösta Bengtsson, 86, Swedish sailor and Olympic gold medalist
• Robert Lucas, 79, Austrian Jewish writer
• Habibur Rehman, 58, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic medalist
• Wolfgang Staudte, 77, German film director, script writer and actor

20

Johnny Weissmuller

• Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, 72, British peer and the last Earl of Warwick
• Hagbart Haakonsen, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier
• Richard Shorter, 77, English cricketer
• Artur Svensson, 83, Swedish sprinter and Olympic medalist
• Georg Thurmair, 74, German poet and hymnwriter
• Johnny Weissmuller, 79, Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor, pulmonary edema^[33]

21

• Roger Blin, 76, French actor and director
• Fang Ganmin, 77, Chinese French-trained painter, sculptor and educator,
• Archduke Gottfried of Austria, 81, claimant to the defunct throne of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany^[34]
• May Mills, 93, Australian sports administrator and educator^[35]
• Hywel Murrell, 75, British psychologist
• Edgar Percival, 86, Australian aircraft designer and pilot
• Giannis Skarimpas, 90, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet
• Grace Vaughan, 61, Australian politician
• Jackie Wilson, 49, American singer^[36]

22

• Fyodor Bakunin, 81, Soviet Army major general
• Noël Bowater, 91, English politician
• Campanal I, 71, Spanish footballer and sports manager^[37]
• Mikiel Gonzi, 98, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta
• Hisato Ichimada, 90, Japanese banker and politician
• Chaïm Perelman, 71, Belgian philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin
• Konstantin Pysin, 73, Soviet political figure
• Alexey Rantala, 42, bishop of the Orthodox Church of Finland
• Pavel Ștefan, 69, Romanian communist politician
• Josef Walcher, 29, Austrian Alpine skier

23

• Muin Bseiso, 57, Palestinian poet and playwright
• William Eyton-Jones, 89, British Merchant Navy Captain and master mariner
• Samuel Gardner, 92, American composer and violinist
• Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem, 91, Swiss archaeologist and art historian^[38]
• Dean Goffin, 67, New Zealand composer
• Sanapia, 88 or 89, Comanche medicine woman and spiritual healer
• Hans Christian Sørensen, 83, Danish gymnast
• François Lepenant, 90, French racing cyclist

24

• Bruce Cochran, 64, Canadian businessman, publisher, and politician
• Bernard Cowen, 51, Irish Fianna Fáil politician^[39]
• Kalervo Kinos, 78, Finnish gymnast

25

• Denton Massey, 83, Canadian engineer, Anglican priest and politician^[40]
• B. Puttaswamayya, 86, Indian novelist, playwright and journalist^[41]

26

• Edwin Boxshall, 86, British intelligence officer
• Baijnath Kureel, 63, Indian politician
• Olga Manuilova, 90, Soviet sculptor
• Leny Marenbach, 76, German actress^[42]
• Nathan Rocyn-Jones, 81, Welsh international rugby union player

27

• Mohamed Ahmed, 66, Comorian politician
• Douglas Camfield, 52, heart attack^[43]
• Margaret Gibb, 91, British political activist for the Labour Party in the North East of England
• Lucy Duff Grant, 89, British nurse, matron, President of the Royal College of Nursing
• Hans Krag, Norwegian writer, publisher, and translator^[44]
• Arthur Steiner, 87, Austrian writer and sports journalist

28

• Al Dexter, 78, American country musician and songwriter
• Abdur Rezzak Khan, 83, Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician
• John MacVane, 71, American broadcast journalist and war correspondent
• Sohrab Modi, 86, Indian stage and film actor, director and producer^[45]
• Bill Radcliffe, 66, Manx language activist, author, and teacher

29

• Frances Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter^[46]
• Humphrey Lestocq, 65, British actor
• Edzard Schaper, 75, German author
• John Macnaghten Whittaker, 78, British mathematician

30

• Susan Grey Akers, 94, American librarian and the first woman to hold an academic deanship at the University of North Carolina^[47]
• Crox Alvarado, 73, Costa Rican actor
• Andi Aziz, 59, Indonesian military officer
• Kenneth Burns Conn, 87, Canadian First World War flying ace
• Hilding Ekelund, 90, Finnish architect
• Alejandro Goicoechea, 88, Spanish engineer
• Luke Kelly, 43, lead singer of Irish band The Dubliners^[48]
• Anatoly Olizarenko, 47, Soviet cyclist
• Yangmaso Shaiza, 62 or 63, Indian politician

31

• Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah of Perak, 59, 33rd Sultan of Perak
• Josef Charvát, 86, Czech doctor and endocrinologist
• George Harmon Coxe, 82, American writer, suicide^[49]
• Jack Egan, 79, Irish hurler