October 1984
1
- Walter Alston, 72, American baseball manager, managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 through 1976, signing 23 one-year contracts with the team, [1] complications from a heart attack [2] [3] [4]
- Blagoje Marjanović, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1907)
2
- Royal Alexander Brink, 87, Canadian-born plant geneticist
- Lina Montes, 61, Cuban actress
3
- Conolly Gage, 78, British politician and judge
- Frøydis Haavardsholm, 88, Norwegian visual artist and book illustrator
- Nesta Obermer, 91, British philanthropist, playwright and artist
- Elkan Tedeev, 45, Soviet wrestler
4
- Muazzez Tahsin Berkand, 84 or 85, Turkish writer
- Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, 83, head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen
- George H. Marshall, 68, British educator, author, academic and campaigner
- Clara Stauffer, 79 or 80, Spanish Falangist and Nazi ratline operator
- R. V. Swaminathan, 76, Indian politician and freedom fighter
- Osvaldo Terranova, 61, Argentine actor
5
- Leonard Rossiter, 57, English actor, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [5] [6]
6
- Carlos Albizu Miranda, 64, Puerto Rican educator [7]
- Charlotte Long, 17, English noblewoman and child actress, fatally injured in a car accident when a lorry crashed into her parked car [8] [9]
- George Gaylord Simpson, 82, American paleontologist, university professor, and museum curator, a major participant in the modern synthesis [10]
7
- Arnold Akberg, 90, Estonian painter [11]
8
- Françoise Aubut, 62, Canadian concert organist, and music teacher
- N. S. Satya Murthy, 48, Indian physicist and the head of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Theodor Schieder, 76, German historian
9
- Heinz von Cleve, German actor (b. 1897)
- Joan Young, 84, British character actress [12] [13]
10
- Ursula Curtiss, 61, American mystery fiction writer, cancer [14] [15]
- Alan Lake, 43, English actor, suicide by self-inflicted gunshot in the mouth [16]
11
- H. Bruce Humberstone, 82, American film director and former child actor, co-founder of the guild Directors Guild of America, pneumonia [17]
12
- Anthony Berry, 59, British politician
- Sid Carroll, 61, Australian cricketer
- Konstantin Khrenov, 90, Soviet engineer and inventor
- Zunun Taipov, 67, Chinese Tatar military officer
13
- Henry Wahl, 69, Norwegian speed skater and Olympian
14
- Sir Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
15
- Gary Vinson, 47, American actor, suicide by self-inflicted gunshot [18]
16
- Peggy Ann Garner, 52, American child actress, pancreatic cancer [19]
17
- Alberta Hunter, 89, American jazz and blues singer and veteran nurse [20]
18
- Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, American actor and model, self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head in a game of Russian roulette [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
19
- Paul Aigner, 79, Austrian marketing designer, portraitist and painter [26]
- Henri Michaux, Belgian writer and painter (b. 1899)
- Jerzy Popiełuszko, 37, Polish Roman Catholic priest, anti-communist activist, and associate of the anti-authoritarian trade union Solidarity, beaten to death by three Security Police officers who were trying to kidnap him [27] [28]
- Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (b. 1895)
20
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- Paul Dirac, 82, English theoretical physicist and mathematician, co-founder of quantum mechanics [29] [30]
- Julian Mayfield, 56, American novelist, playwright, autobiographer, and university professor, editor-in-chief of the magazine African Review , cardiac arrest [31] [32]
21
- François Truffaut, 52, French filmmaker, actor, and critic, co-founder of the art movement French New Wave, brain tumour [33]
22
- Napoleon Whiting, 74, American character actor [34]
23
- David Gorcey, 63, American actor, member of the Bowery Boys and the East Side Kids, founder of a halfway house dedicated to helping people with substance abuse problems, complications of diabetes [35]
- Oskar Werner, 61, Austrian actor, heart attack [36]
24
- Edith Massey, 66, American actress and punk rock singer, member of the Dreamlanders and Edie and the Eggs, complications of lymphoma and diabetes [37] [38]
25
- Pascale Ogier, French actress (b. 1958)
26
- Sue Randall, 49, American television actress, lung cancer and larynx cancer [39] [40]
27
- Helen Rosenau, 84, German-born British academic, feminist, and historian of art and architecture
28
- John Crawford, 74, Australian agricultural economist
- Tomiteau Finau, 59, Tongan civil servant, lawyer and politician
- Albino Lucatello, 57, Italian painter
29
- Jacques Adnet, 84, French art deco modernist designer, architect and interior designer [41]
- Soo Yong, 80, Chinese-American actress [42]
30
- June Duprez, 66, English actress [43]
- Mario Gallo, 61, American actor, liver cancer [44] [45] [46]
31
- Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, kidney failure [47]
- Indira Gandhi, 66, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India, her cumulative tenure of 15 years and 350 days makes her the second-longest-serving Indian prime minister, assassinated by two of her own bodyguards [48] [49] [50] [51]
