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1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1984
[edit] January
[edit] February
- April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
- April 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- April 6 – The 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Jack Lemmon, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with Terms of Endearment winning Best Picture.
- April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (1 hostage, 2 hijackers killed).
- April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
- April 15 – British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack and dies while live on TV.
- April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
- April 19 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- April 25 – The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
- April 26 – Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor, becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- June 1 – William M. Gibbons is released as receiver and trustee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, after all of its debts and creditors are paid off by order of a federal bankruptcy court.
- June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
- June 6 – Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, killing an estimated 2,000 people.
- June 8 – A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
- June 20 – The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
- June 22 – The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
- June 22 – Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
- June 27 – France beats Spain 2–0 to win the Euro 84.
- June 28 – Richard Ramírez, aka the "Night Stalker," murders his first confirmed victim.
- June 30 – John Napier Turner becomes Canada's 17th Prime Minister.
[edit] August
The launch of Shuttle
Discovery on
STS-41-D, its first mission.
[edit] September
[edit] October
[edit] November
- November 2 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
- November 9 – Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
- November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
- November 19 – A series of explosions at the PEMEX Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
- November 25 – Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid, and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas", in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- November 25 – An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
- November 25 – Band Aid records the charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia. The all-British act, led by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, includes George Michael, Bono, Phil Young and David Bowie as well as the members of bands including Status Quo, Spandau Ballet and Bananarama. [4]
- November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
- November 29 – The Band Aid single is released. [5]
- November 30 – The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.
[edit] December
- December – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
- December 1 – Controlled Impact Demonstration: NASA crashes a remote controlled Boeing 720.
- December 2 – Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
- December 3 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.
- December 3 – British Telecom is privatised.
- December 4 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.
- December 19 – The People's Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
- December 22 – Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime, which is a plague in 1980s America.
- December 22 – In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
- December 28 – A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.
- December 31 – Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen gets in a serious car accident, severing his left arm.
[edit] Undated
[edit] Births
[edit] January
- January 1 – Michael Witt, Australian rugby league player
- January 8 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
- January 10 – Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan football player
- January 12 – Scott Olsen, American baseball player
- January 13 – Eleni Ioannou, Greek martial artist (d. 2004)
- January 15 – Megan Quann, American swimmer
- January 16 – Craig Beattie, Scottish footballer
- January 17 – Calvin Harris, Scottish electronic musician
- January 17 – Cassie Hager, American basketball player
- January 18 – Seung-hui Cho, Korean-born American Virginia Tech massacre gunman (d. 2007)
- January 18 – Kristy Lee Cook, American Idol finalist
- January 18 – Benji Schwimmer, Winner of So You Think You Can Dance 2006
- January 19 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian Hockey player
- January 19 – Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
- January 19 – Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzanian long distance runner
- January 20 – Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer
- January 22 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
- January 23 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
- January 24 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish musician (d. 2007)
- January 25 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
- January 26 – Rebecca Ritters, Australian actress
- January 26 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
- January 28 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
- January 29 – Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer
- January 29 – Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
- January 30 – Chad Power, American actor
- January 30 – Kid Cudi, American Rapper
[edit] February
- February 1 – Lee Thompson Young, American actor
- February 1 – Darren Fletcher, Scottish football player
- February 5 – Nate Salley, American football player
- February 6 – Darren Bent, English footballer
- February 9 – Han Geng, Chinese singer in Korea (Super Junior)
- February 10 – Brent Everett, Canadian gay pornographic actor
- February 10 – Kim Hyo Jin, Korean actress
- February 12 – Lolly Badcock, English pornographic actress
- February 15 – Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer and model
- February 16 – Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer
- February 20 – Ben Lovejoy, American hockey player
- February 21 – Karina, Japanese model and actress
- February 25 – Filip Šebo, Slovak footballer
- February 25 – Xing Huina, Chinese athlete
- February 26 – Emmanuel Adebayor, Togoleise footballer
- February 28 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model
- February 29 – Alicia Hollowell, American softball pitcher
- February 29 – Cullen Jones, American swimmer
- March 1 – Naima Mora, winner of America's Next Top Model cycle 4
- March 4 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
- March 4 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
- March 4 – Zak Whitbread, American soccer player
- March 7 – Dani Woodward, American porn star
- March 9 – Julia Mancuso, US Olympic medalist
- March 10 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
- March 16 – Michael Ennis, Australian rugby league player
- March 16 – Hosea Gear, New Zealand Rugby Union player
- March 20 – Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
- March 20 – Fernando Torres, Spanish football player
- March 20 – Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
- March 20 – Marcus Vick, American American football player
- March 20 – Nomura Yuka, Japanese actress
- March 24 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
- March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American Idol finalist
- March 26 – Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian singer
- March 26 – Sara Jean Underwood, American model
- March 28 – Nikki Sanderson, English actress
- March 30 – Anna Nalick, American singer
- April 3 – Allana Slater, Australian gymnast
- April 4 – Sean May, American basketball player
- April 6 – Max Bemis, American musician (Say Anything)
- April 7 – Alex Smith, American football player
- April 8 – Júlia Liptáková, Slovak model
- April 8 – Kirsten Storms, American actress
- April 9 – Adam Loewen, Canadian pitcher
- April 10 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
- April 10 – Cara DeLizia, American actress
- April 11 – Kelli Garner, American actress
- April 11 – Monica May, American actress
- April 13 – Kris Britt, Australian cricketer
- April 14 – Kyle Coetzer, Scottish cricketer
- April 17 – Rosanna Davison, Irish model
- April 18 – America Ferrera, American actress
- April 19 – Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
- April 20 – John Jairo Castillo, Colombian football player
- April 20 – Tyson Griffin, American MMA fighter
- April 22 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
- April 22 – Michelle Ryan, British actress
- April 23 – Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess player
- April 24 – Tyson Ritter, American singer/bassist
- April 27 – Patrick Stump, American singer (Fall Out Boy)
- April 29 – Taylor Cole, American actress and model
- April 29 – Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator
- April 29 – Pham Van Quyen, Vietnamese footballer/ inmate
- May 1 – Farah Fath, American actress
- May 1 – Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
- May 3 – Cheryl Burke (Dancer)
- May 4 – Joe Simpson (Artist), British artist
- May 5 – Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist
- May 7 – Kanbe Miyuki, Japanese stage actress and model
- May 11 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
- May 12 – Junie Browning, American MMA fighter
- May 14 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
- May 14 – Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook
- May 14 – Gary Ablett Jr., Australian rules footballer
- May 16 – Katie Downes, British glamour model
- May 17 – Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
- May 24 – Sarah Hagan, American actress
- May 25 – Marion Raven, Norwegian Singer-Songwritter (M2M)
- May 25 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, "Miss Iceland", crowned Miss World in 2005
- May 25 – Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 25 – Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer
- May 29 – Kaycee Stroh, American actress
- May 29 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
- May 31 – Jason Smith, Australian actor
- May 31 – Milorad Cavic, Serbian swimmer
- June 1 – Oliver Tielemans, Dutch race-car driver
- June 1 – Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolian judoka
- June 4 – Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer
- June 7 – Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
- June 8 – Todd Boeckman, College quarterback
- June 8 – Torrey DeVitto, American actress
- June 8 – Andrea Casiraghi, Prince of Monaco
- June 8 – Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
- June 9 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
- June 11 – Vágner Love, Brazilian footballer
- June 13 – Berangere Schuh, French archer
- June 14 – Siobhán Donaghy, British singer
- June 16 – Luke Hodge, Australian rules footballer
- June 16 – Rick Nash, Canadian hockey player
- June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer
- June 23 – Duffy, English singer
- June 24 – J. J. Redick, American basketball player
- June 25 – Lauren Bush, American model
- June 26 – Raymond Felton, American basketball player
- June 27 – Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
- June 27 – Gia Paloma, American pornographic actress
- June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
- July 3 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
- July 3 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
- July 3 – Manny Lawson, American Football player
- July 4 – Gina Glocksen, American Idol finalist
- July 4 – Stix Izza, American musician
- July 4 – Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer (KAT-TUN) and actor
- July 6 – Lauren Harris, English singer
- July 7 – Marie-Mai, Canadian signer
- July 8 – Alexis Dziena, American actress
- July 9 – Jacob Hoggard,Canadian singer/lead singer of Hedley
- July 11 – Tanith Belbin, Canadian figure skater
- July 11 – Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
- July 12 – Gareth Gates, English singer
- July 12 – Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
- July 16 – Katrina Kaif, Indian actress and model
- July 17 – Asami Kimura, Japanese singer
- July 18 – Lee Barnard, English footballer
- July 18 – Josh Harding, Canadian hockey player
- July 19 – Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian videographer
- July 19 – Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
- July 21 – Paul Davis, American basketball player
- July 21 – Blake Lewis, American Idol runner- up
- July 22 – Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
- July 23 – Brandon Roy, National Basketball Association player
- July 24 – Tyler Kyte, Canadian actor/singer
- July 26 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
- July 28 – Zach Parise, American hockey player
- July 30 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress
[edit] August
- August 2 – Brandon Browner, National Football League player
- August 3 – Carah Faye Charnow, American singer for the band Shiny Toy Guns
- August 6 – Marco Airosa, Angolan footballer
- August 9 – Saori Horii, Japanese gravure idol
- August 12 – Yua Aida, Japanese model and pornographic actress
- August 12 – Marian Rivera, Filipino Actress
- August 12 – Sherone Simpson, Jamaican athlete
- August 13 – Luke Thompson, American entrepreneurial failure
- August 14 – Clay Buchholz, Major League Baseball Pitcher
- August 14 – Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
- August 17 – Garrett Wolfe, American pro football player
- August 20 – Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
- August 21 – Alizée Jacotey, French singer
- August 21 – Melissa Schuman, American singer and actress
- August 22 – Lee Camp, English footballer
- August 24 – Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
- August 24 – Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
- August 24 – Yesung, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- August 25 – Alvin Banks, American football player
- August 27 – Josh Duhon, American actor
[edit] September
- September 1 – Joe Trohman, American musician
- September 2 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
- September 3 – Garrett Hedlund, American actor
- September 5 – Trey Hill, Grammy-nominated musician
- September 7 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
- September 7 – Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
- September 14 – Adam Lamberg, American actor
- September 15 – Prince Harry of Wales
- September 16 – Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
- September 16 – Katie Melua, Georgian singer
- September 19 – Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
- September 20 – Brian Joubert, French figure skater
- September 22 – Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
- September 22 – Laura Vandervoort, actress
- September 23 – Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-born actress
- September 24 – Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
- September 25 – Rashad McCants, National Basketball Association player
- September 26 – Keisha Buchanan, British Singer (Sugababes)
- September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
- September 28 – Melody Thornton, American singer (Pussycat Dolls)
- September 28 – Helen Oyeyemi, British novelist
- September 30 – Megan Ewing, American model
[edit] October
- October 1 – Matt Cain, American baseball player
- October 3 – Chris Marquette, American actor
- October 3 – Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
- October 3 – Yoon Eun Hye, Korean singer, model, actress and entertainer
- October 4 – Lena Katina, Russian singer
- October 4 – Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
- October 5 – Glenn McMillan, Brazilian-Australian actor
- October 7 – Ikuta Toma, Japanese drama actor
- October 10 – Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
- October 10 – Steve Turner, Australian rugby league player
- October 14 – Santino Quaranta, American soccer player
- October 16 – Melissa Lauren, pornographic actress
- October 16 – Ben Smith, Australian rugby league player
- October 16 – Shayne Ward, British singer and winner of reality TV show The X Factor
- October 17 – Chris Lowell, American actor
- October 17 – Randall Munroe, American programmer and webcomic artist
- October 18 – Holly Dunaway, boxer
- October 18 – Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
- October 21 – Marvin Mitchell, American football player
- October 22 – Jonathan Helwig, American MMA fighter
- October 23 – Meghan McCain, Author and Daughter of Senator John McCain
- October 25 – Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer
- October 25 – Katy Perry, American singer and actress
- October 26 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
- October 27 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer
- October 27 – Brady Quinn, American football player
- October 27 – Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- October 28 – Obafemi Martins, Newcastle United Football Player
- October 29 – Savannah Gold, English pornographic actress
- October 29 – Eric Staal, Canadian hockey player
- October 30 – Eva Marcille, American model
[edit] November
- November 7 – Amelia Vega, Miss Universe 2003, from the Dominican Republic
- November 9 – Beatrice Bofia, Cameroonian-American basketball player
- November 9 – Delta Goodrem, Australian actress and singer
- November 9 – Se7en, South Korean singer
- November 12 – Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player
- November 12 – Sandara Park, Member of South Korean girl group 2NE1 and former Filipino Actress
- November 17 – Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
- November 18 – Johnny Christ, American bassist (Avenged Sevenfold)
- November 21 – Jena Malone, American actress
- November 22 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
- November 23 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor
- November 24 – Koo Hye Sun, South Korean actress
- November 24 – Wolf Hudson, American gay pornographic actor, director and street dancer
- November 25 – Ian Lacey, Australian rugby league player
- November 25 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
- November 28 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
- November 28 – Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
- November 28 – Trey Songz, American singer
- November 28 – Marc-André Fleury, Canadian hockey player
- November 29 – Sitti Navarro, Philippine bossa nova artist
- November 30 – Alan Hutton, Scottish professional footballer
[edit] December
- December 4 – Lindsay Felton, American actress
- December 4 – Lauren London, American actress and model
- December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One racing driver
- December 12 – Daniel Agger, Danish football (soccer) player
- December 14 – Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
- December 15 – Joshua Third, Guitarist in The Horrors
- December 15 – Yu Fengtong, Chinese speed skater
- December 17 – Asuka Fukuda, Japanese singer
- December 20 – David Tavaré, Spanish singer
- December 21 – Nash Lawler, American gay pornographic actor
- December 21 – Jackson Rathbone, American Actor
- December 22 – Jonas Erik Altberg, Swedish singer
- December 25 – The Veronicas, Lisa and Jess Origliasso, Australian Singers
- December 27 – Tye'sha Fluker, American basketball player
- December 27 – Rocío Guirao Díaz, Argentinian model
- December 28 – Martin Kaymer, German golfer
- December 28 – Festus, American professional wrestler
- December 30 – LeBron James, American basketball player
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–March
- January 1 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster (b. 1928)
- January 6 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
- January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- January 11 – Jack La Rue, American actor (b. 1902)
- January 14 – Brooks Atkinson, American theater critic (b. 1894)
- January 14 – Ray Kroc, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
- January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, Austrian-born swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
- January 21 – Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
- January 22 – Sir Count Michael Gonzi, Archbishop of Malta and past politician (b. 1885)
- January 29 – Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter (b. 1890)
- January 30 – Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer (b. 1940)
- February 8 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
- February 9 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
- February 10 – David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- February 12 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
- February 13 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (b. 1941)
- February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
- February 21 – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- February 22 – Jessamyn West, American writer. (b. 1902)
- February 22 – Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah a Pakistani religious leader,of Allo Mahar Shrif.
- March 1 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
- March 5 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
- March 5 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
- March 6 – Henry Wilcoxon, British actor (b. 1905)
- March 10 – June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
- March 12 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
- March 16 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
- March 18 – Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
- March 18 – Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist (b. 1907)
- March 24 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
- March 26 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, president of Guinea (b. 1922)
[edit] April–June
- April 1 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
- April 5 – Arthur "Bomber" Harris, British air marshall. (b. 1892)
- April 8 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
- April 11 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian (b. 1910)
- April 15 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
- April 15 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
- April 17 – Mark Wayne Clark, American World War II General (b. 1896)
- April 20 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
- April 22 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
- April 26 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
- April 26 – May McAvoy, American actress (b. 1899)
- May 2 – Jack Barry, American television host and producer (b. 1918)
- May 4 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
- May 6 – Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
- May 8 – Lila Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
- May 16 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
- May 16 – Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
- May 19 – John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)
- May 21 – Andrea Leeds, American actress (b. 1914)
- May 21 – Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
- May 22 – John Marley, American actor (b. 1907)
- May 24 – Vincent J. McMahon, professional wrestling promoter WWF (b. 1914)
- May 28 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (b. 1926)
- June 6 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Sikh theologian, Most powerful Sikh leader of the 20th century (b. 1947)
- June 11 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian Communist politician (b. 1922)
- June 15 – Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
- June 16 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
- June 17 – Chet Allen, American actor (b. 1939)
- June 18 – Alan Berg, American talk radio host (murdered) (b. 1934)
- June 19 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
- June 20 – Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
- June 22 – Joseph Losey, American film director (b. 1909)
- June 24 – William Keighley, American film director (b. 1889)
- June 25 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- June 26 – Carl Foreman, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
- June 28 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff (b. 1917)
- June 30 – Henri Fabre, pioneer French aviator & inventor (b. 1882)
- June 30 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
[edit] July–September
- July 1 – Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method (b. 1904)
- July 4 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
- July 7 – Flora Robson, English actress (b. 1902)
- July 8 – Brassaï, Hungarian-born photographer (b. 1899)
- July 14 – Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941)
- July 17 – Karl Wolff, German Nazi SS Officer (b. 1900)
- July 24 – Armando Morales Barillas, Nicaraguan guitarist (b. 1936)
- July 25 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
- July 26 – George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
- July 26 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
- July 27 – James Mason, British actor (b. 1909)
- July 28 – Bess Flowers, American actress (b. 1898)
- July 29 – Fred Waring, American bandleader (b. 1900)
- August 2 – Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (b. 1896)
- August 4 – Mary Miles Minter, American actress (b. 1902)
- August 5 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
- August 8 – Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
- August 11 – Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
- August 11 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
- August 13 – Clyde Cook, Australian actor (b. 1891)
- August 13 – Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929)
- August 14 – J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
- August 25 – Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
- August 25 – Viktor Chukarin, Russian Olympic gymnast (b. 1921)
- August 25 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- August 29 – Mohammed Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
- September 3 – Arthur Schwartz, American composer (b. 1900)
- September 6 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
- September 8 – Frank Lowson English Test Cricketer 1951–1955 (b.1925)
- September 14 – Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (suicide) (b. 1935)
- September 14 – Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (b. 1906)
- September 17 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
- September 20 – Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948)
- September 24 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
- September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
[edit] October–December
- October 5 – Leonard Rossiter, British actor (b. 1926)
- October 12 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing) (b. 1925)
- October 14 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
- October 16 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (b. 1932)
- October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
- October 20 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- October 20 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- October 21 – François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
- October 23 – David Gorcey, American actor (b. 1921)
- October 23 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
- October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor (b. 1899)
- October 30 – June Duprez, English actress (b. 1918)
- October 31 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (assassinated) (b. 1917)
- November 6 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
- November 14 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)
- November 16 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
- November 16 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918)
- November 18 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (b. 1907)
- December 1 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
- December 8 – Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
- December 11 – Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (b. 1911)
- December 11 – George Waggner, American film director (b. 1894)
- December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
- December 16 – J. Roderick MacArthur, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
- December 20 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946)
- December 24 – Peter Lawford, English actor (b. 1923)
- December 28 – Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
- December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer (b. 1900)
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[edit] Nobel Prizes
[edit] In fiction
George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place in this year.
