Deaths in September 1984

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

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

• 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]