April 1984
1
- Marvin Gaye, 44, American singer, murdered by his father [1]
- Elizabeth Goudge, 83, English writer [2]
2
- Ernst van Aaken, 73, German sports physician and athletics trainer
3
- Gerhard Brosi, 40, German politician of the Social Democratic Party [3]
4
- Oleg Antonov, 78, Soviet aeroplane designer [4]
5
- Robert Adams, 67, English sculptor and designer [5]
- Sir Arthur Harris, 91, British air marshal [6]
- Giuseppe Tucci, 89, Italian scholar [7]
6
- Jimmy Kennedy, 81, British songwriter [8]
7
- Frank Church, 59, American politician [9]
8
- Pyotr Kapitsa, 89, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [10]
9
- Willem Sandberg, 86, Dutch typographer [11]
10
- Jakub Berman, 82, Polish communist politician [12]
11
- Adhémar Raynault, 92, Canadian politician and a Mayor of Montreal [13]
12
- Edward Sokoine, 45, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania [14]
13
- Richard Hurndall, 73, English actor [15]
14
- Anatoly Agranovsky, 62, Soviet journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and animator [16]
15
- Tommy Cooper, 62, Welsh comedian and magician [17]
- William Empson, 77, English poet and critic [18]
16
- Byron Haskin, 84, American film and television director [19]
17
- Mark W. Clark, 87, American general [20]
18
- Pierre Frank, 78, French Trotskyist leader
- Francis de Wolff, 71, English character actor [21]
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- Otto Arosemena, 58, 32nd President of Ecuador [23]
21
- Marcel Janco, 88, Romanian-Israeli artist [24]
22
- Ansel Adams, 82 American photographer, cardiovascular disease [25]
23
- Roland Penrose, 83, English artist, historian and poet [26]
24
- Shafee Okarvi, 54, Pakistani religious scholar and orator [27]
25
- Anthony John Aglen, 72, Scottish civil servant [28]
- Céleste Albaret, 92, French woman known for her association with Marcel Proust [29]
26
- Count Basie, 79, American musician and composer [30]
- May McAvoy, 84, American actress, heart attack [31]
27
- Richard Durham, 66, American radio scriptwriter and civil rights activist [32]
28
- Piet Kraak, 63, Dutch football goalkeeper and manager [33]
29
- Karol Estreicher, 78, Polish historian of art, writer and bibliographer [34]
- Baltzar von Platen, 86, Swedish engineer and inventor [35]
30
- Johannes Aarøy, 73, a Norwegian civil servant [36] [37]
- Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane, 73, Private Secretary to Elizabeth II [38]
- Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, 37, Colombian lawyer and politician [39]