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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. ^[1]
• Marcel Moyse, 95, French flautist. ^[2]
• 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 ^[3]
• Velma Barfield, 52, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection. ^[4]
• 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). ^[5]
• 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). ^[6]
• 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 ^[7]
• Merie Earle, 95, American actress, uremia poisoning ^{[8] [9] [10]}

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 ^{[11] [12]}
• 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 ^[13]

10

• Sudie Bond, 61, American actress, respiratory disease ^[14]

11

Martin Luther King Sr.

• Dorothy M. Johnson, 78, American Western fiction writer ^{[15] [16]}
• Martin Luther King Sr., 84, American Baptist pastor and missionary, activist for the civil rights movement, heart attack ^[17]

12

• Jack Wrather, 66, American petroleum businessman and television producer, cancer ^[18]

13

• Dorothy Arnold, 66, American actress, pancreatic cancer ^{[19] [20]}

14

• Wilhelm Antrup, 74, German air general
• János Faragó, 38, Hungarian athlete and Olympian
• 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

16

• Murray Alper, 80, American actor ^[21]
• Vic Dickenson, 78, American jazz trombonist, cancer ^[22]
• Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (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

• Boutros el-Khoury, 76 or 77, Lebanese businessman, banker and industrialist
• Karel Klapálek, 91, Czech military leader
• Whiz Morris, 86, English amateur 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 ^[23]
• 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 ^{[24] [25]}

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 ^[26]
• J. Waldo Ackerman, 58, American lawyer and judge ^[27]
• Jean-Raymond Tournoux, 70, French journalist ^[28]

24

• Paul Landa, 43, Australian politician
• Eira Lehtonen, 45, Finnish gymnast

25

• Minnie Abercrombie, 75, British zoologist, educationalist and psychologist. ^[29]
• 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 ^{[30] [31]}

27

• Asit Baran, 71, Indian actor and singer ^{[32] [33]}
• 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
• 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 director ^[34]

References

1. NORMAN KRASNA, 74, IS DEAD; PLAYWRIGHT AND SCREEN WRITER
2. Marcel Moyse, Flutist, A Founder of Marlboro
3. Shkadov, Ivan, ed. (1987). Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь I, Абаев - Любичев [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary I, Abaev - Lyubichev]. Moscow: Voenizdat. p. 30.
4. Velma Barfield Put to Death –1984 Year in Review – Audio
5. Louis Sherman, 77, former legislator
6. Clayton W. Mapoles obituary
7. "Lars Amandus Aasgar" (in Norwegian). Storting.
8. "Merie Earle, Actress, Dies; Maude Gormley on 'Waltons'" . The New York Times . November 9, 1984. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
9. Folkart, Burt A. (November 6, 1984). "'Call Your Mother' Star Merie Earle Dies". Los Angeles Times . p. 34. Retrieved May 25, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
10. "Merie Earle, who started in show business at the age of 77". United Press International . November 6, 1984. Retrieved March 10, 2025. She moved to Hollywood from Ohio in 1952 with her husband, a retired train engineer, to be near their daughter. Both have since died.
11. "George Mathews". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
12. "George Mathews, 73, Actor On Broadway And In Movies", The New York Times , November 13, 1984.
13. Gayo, Iwan (ed.). "Aji, Umar Seno". Almanak Negara Indonesia. Pustaka Warga Negara. p. 144. ISBN   9789792521825.
14. "Sudie Bond, an Actress In Films, TV and Stage". The New York Times. November 12, 1984. p. B 15. ProQuest   122420514 . Retrieved July 16, 2020.
15. "Dorothy M. Johnson, Author Of 'Liberty Valance,' Is Dead". The New York Times. December 13, 1984. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
16. Guide to the Dorothy M. Johnson Papers at the University of Montana
17. Bo Emerson (January 31, 2018). "Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta: Other historic sites". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
18. Ennis, Thomas W. (November 13, 1984). "Jack Wrather, 66, Dies in California". The New York Times . Retrieved August 28, 2015.
19. "Arnold, Dorothy (1917–1984)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007
20. "Joe DiMaggio's First Wife is Dead". The Desert Sun. The Desert Sun Publishing Company. November 17, 1984. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
21. "Murray Alper". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
22. John S. Wilson, "Vic Dickenson, a trombonist with Basie band in 40's, dies", The New York Times , November 18, 1984.
23. Krebs, Albin (November 20, 1984). "George Aiken, Longtime Senator and G.O.P. Maverick, Dies at 92". New York Times. new York, NY.
24. "Actor Aslam Pervaiz remembered on his 36th death anniversary". Daily Times newspaper. November 22, 2020. Archived from the original on July 14, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2024.
25. Suhayb Alavi (December 1, 2018). "Understanding Aslam Pervaiz, the hero and subsequent villain of Pakistani cinema". The News International newspaper. Archived from the original on February 21, 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2024.
26. Pranin, Stanley A. (1991). The Aiki News Encyclopedia of Aikido. Tokyo, Japan: Aiki News. p. 140. ISBN   4-900586-12-9.
27. "J. Waldo Ackerman, A Chief Judge, Is Dead". The New York Times. November 24, 1984.
28. Passeron, André (November 26, 1984). "L'historien du secret" [The Historian of Secrets]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on April 10, 2021. Retrieved August 19, 2025.
29. Foulkes, Elizabeth (April 1, 1985). "Mrs. M. L. J. Abercrombie". Group Analysis. 18 (1): 3–7. doi: 10.1177/053331648501800102 . ISSN   0533-3164.
30. Berthelsen, Herman (2002). Skjeggete damer og siamesiske tvillinger: fra tivoli til "Big Brother" (in Norwegian). J.W. Cappelens Forlag. p. 93.
31. 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
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33. "Asit Baran". Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
34. Fein, Esther B. (2 December 1984). "Christopher Adler, 30, Dies; Lyricist for MacLaine Show". The New York Times . Retrieved 10 June 2016.

External links

• List of November 1984 deaths at IMDb