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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

• Velma Barfield, 52, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection. ^[3]
• 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). ^[4]
• 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). ^[5]
• 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

• Merie Earle, 95, American actress, uremia poisoning ^{[6] [7] [8]}

7

• George Mathews, 73, American actor, heart disease ^{[9] [10]}

10

• Sudie Bond, 61, American actress, respiratory disease ^[11]

11

• Dorothy M. Johnson, 78, American Western fiction writer ^{[12] [13]}
• Martin Luther King Sr., 84, American Baptist pastor and missionary, activist for the civil rights movement, heart attack ^[14]

12

• Jack Wrather, 66, American petroleum businessman and television producer, cancer ^[15]

13

• Dorothy Arnold, 66, American actress, pancreatic cancer ^{[16] [17]}

16

• Murray Alper, 80, American actor ^[18]
• Vic Dickenson, 78, American jazz trombonist, cancer ^[19]

21

• Aslam Pervaiz, 52, Pakistani film actor, fatally injured in a car accident ^{[20] [21]}

23

• Jean-Raymond Tournoux, 70, French journalist ^[22]

26

• Jóhann K. Pétursson, 71, Icelandic circus performer and actor, accidental fall ^{[23] [24]}

27

• Asit Baran, 71, Indian actor and singer ^{[25] [26]}

References

1. NORMAN KRASNA, 74, IS DEAD; PLAYWRIGHT AND SCREEN WRITER
2. Marcel Moyse, Flutist, A Founder of Marlboro
3. Velma Barfield Put to Death –1984 Year in Review – Audio
4. Louis Sherman, 77, former legislator
5. Clayton W. Mapoles obituary
6. "Merie Earle, Actress, Dies; Maude Gormley on 'Waltons'" . The New York Times . November 9, 1984. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
7. 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.
8. "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.
9. "George Mathews". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
10. "George Mathews, 73, Actor On Broadway And In Movies", The New York Times , November 13, 1984.
11. "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.
12. "Dorothy M. Johnson, Author Of 'Liberty Valance,' Is Dead". The New York Times. December 13, 1984. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
13. Guide to the Dorothy M. Johnson Papers at the University of Montana
14. Bo Emerson (January 31, 2018). "Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta: Other historic sites". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
15. Ennis, Thomas W. (November 13, 1984). "Jack Wrather, 66, Dies in California". The New York Times . Retrieved August 28, 2015.
16. "Arnold, Dorothy (1917–1984)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007
17. "Joe DiMaggio's First Wife is Dead". The Desert Sun. The Desert Sun Publishing Company. November 17, 1984. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
18. "Murray Alper". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
19. John S. Wilson, "Vic Dickenson, a trombonist with Basie band in 40's, dies", The New York Times , November 18, 1984.
20. "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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Berthelsen, Herman (2002). Skjeggete damer og siamesiske tvillinger: fra tivoli til "Big Brother" (in Norwegian). J.W. Cappelens Forlag. p. 93.
24. 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
25. "Asit Baren movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
26. "Asit Baran". Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.

External links

• List of November 1984 deaths at IMDb