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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ansel Adams
Photographer
20-Feb-1902 22-Apr-1984 Yosemite photographer
Luther Adler
Actor
4-May-1903 8-Dec-1984 Broadway actor
George Aiken
Politician
20-Aug-1892 19-Nov-1984 Governor and Senator from Vermont
Vicente Aleixandre
Poet
26-Apr-1898 14-Dec-1984 Spanish surrealist poet
Walter Alston
Baseball
1-Dec-1911 1-Oct-1984 Longtime Manager, Brooklyn/LA Dodgers
Yuri Andropov
Head of State
14-Jun-1914 9-Feb-1984 Soviet General Secretary, 1982-84
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Novelist
17-Dec-1908 28-Apr-1984 Incense to Idols
Brooks Atkinson
Critic
28-Nov-1894 14-Jan-1984 New York Times drama critic
Jim Bannon
Actor
9-Apr-1911 28-Jul-1984 Cowboy actor, played Red Ryder
Richard Basehart
Actor
31-Aug-1914 17-Sep-1984 La Strada
Count Basie
Pianist
21-Aug-1904 26-Apr-1984 Big band pianist
Alan Berg
Radio Personality
Jan-1934 18-Jun-1984 Murdered radio host
John Betjeman
Poet
28-Aug-1906 19-May-1984 Summoned By Bells
Sudie Bond
Actor
13-Jul-1928 10-Nov-1984 Silkwood
Richard Brautigan
Author
30-Jan-1935 14-Oct-1984 So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Henry Brooke
Politician
9-Apr-1903 29-Mar-1984 UK Home Secretary, 1962-64
Ernest Buckler
Novelist
19-Jul-1908 4-Mar-1984 The Mountain and the Valley
Ellsworth Bunker
Diplomat
11-May-1894 30-Sep-1984 US Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73
Richard Burton
Actor
10-Nov-1925 5-Aug-1984 Nineteen Eighty Four
Millard F. Caldwell
Politician
6-Feb-1897 23-Oct-1984 Governor of Florida, 1945-49
Truman Capote
Novelist
30-Sep-1924 25-Aug-1984 In Cold Blood
Frank Church
Politician
25-Jul-1924 7-Apr-1984 US Senator from Idaho, 1957-81
Mark Clark
Military
1-May-1896 17-Apr-1984 US Army Chief of Staff
Samuel C. Collins
Chemist
28-Dec-1898 19-Jun-1984 Collins-type cryocooler
Jackie Coogan
Actor
26-Oct-1914 1-Mar-1984 Uncle Fester in The Addams Family
Carl Cori
Scientist
5-Dec-1896 20-Oct-1984 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Julio Cortázar
Author
26-Aug-1914 12-Feb-1984 Argentine fantasy short story writer
Joe Cronin
Baseball
12-Oct-1906 7-Sep-1984 Shortstop on 7 All-Star teams
Roland Culver
Actor
21-Aug-1900 29-Feb-1984 Dead of Night
Justin Dart
Business
17-Aug-1907 26-Jan-1984 Drug store magnate
Richard Deacon
Actor
14-May-1921 8-Aug-1984 The Dick Van Dyke Show
Thorold Dickinson
Film Director
16-Nov-1903 14-Apr-1984 Gaslight
Paul Dirac
Physicist
8-Aug-1902 20-Oct-1984 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Diana Dors
Actor
23-Oct-1931 4-May-1984 Yield to the Night
June Duprez
Actor
14-May-1918 30-Oct-1984 The Thief of Bagdad
Merie Earle
Actor
13-May-1889 4-Nov-1984 Maude Gormley on The Waltons
Otto Eckstein
Economist
1-Aug-1927 22-Mar-1984 Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-66
William A. Egan
Politician
8-Oct-1914 6-May-1984 Twice Governor of Alaska
William Empson
Critic
27-Sep-1906 15-Apr-1984 Seven Types of Ambiguity
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
15-Oct-1926 26-Jun-1984 History of Sexuality
George Gallup
Business
18-Nov-1901 26-Jul-1984 Founder, The Gallup Organization
Indira Gandhi
Head of State
19-Nov-1917 31-Oct-1984 First Female Prime Minister of India
Peggy Ann Garner
Actor
3-Feb-1932 16-Oct-1984 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Marvin Gaye
Singer
2-Apr-1939 1-Apr-1984 Heard It Through the Grapevine
Janet Gaynor
Actor
6-Oct-1906 14-Sep-1984 A Star Is Born
Ed Gein
Criminal
27-Aug-1906 26-Jul-1984 Serial killer and cannibal
Pierre Gemayel
Politician
6-Nov-1905 29-Aug-1984 Founder of the Kataeb/Phalange
John Gilling
Film Director
29-May-1912 22-Nov-1984 The Plague of the Zombies
George Givot
Actor
18-Feb-1903 7-Jun-1984 Greek Ambassador of Good Will
Lloyd Gough
Actor
21-Sep-1907 23-Jul-1984 Blacklisted character actor
Shauna Grant
Pornstar
30-May-1963 21-Mar-1984 Killed herself with a .22 rifle
James Gray
Author
30-Jun-1899 6-Aug-1984 Shoulder the Sky
Neil Hamilton
Actor
9-Sep-1899 24-Sep-1984 Commissioner Gordon on Batman
Byron Haskin
Film Director
22-Apr-1899 16-Apr-1984 The War of the Worlds
Gayelord Hauser
Author
1895 26-Dec-1984 Look Younger, Live Longer
Lillian Hellman
Playwright
20-Jun-1905 30-Jun-1984 Little Foxes
Ian Hendry
Actor
13-Jan-1931 24-Dec-1984 Get Carter
Jon-Erik Hexum
Actor
5-Nov-1957 18-Oct-1984 Actor accidently shot himself
Lister Hill
Politician
29-Dec-1894 21-Dec-1984 US Senator from Alabama, 1938-69
Chester Himes
Author
19-Jul-1909 12-Nov-1984 Lonely Crusade
H. Bruce Humberstone
Film Director
18-Nov-1901 11-Oct-1984 Directed several Charlie Chan films
Alberta Hunter
Singer
1-Apr-1895 17-Oct-1984 Downhearted Blues
Sam Jaffe
Actor
10-Mar-1891 24-Mar-1984 Gunga Din
Pyotr Kapitsa
Physicist
8-Jul-1894 8-Apr-1984 Discovered superfluidity
Alfred Kastler
Physicist
3-May-1902 7-Jan-1984 Optical pumping
Andy Kaufman
Comic
17-Jan-1949 16-May-1984 Brilliant comic, prankster, professional wrestler
William Keighley
Film Director
4-Aug-1889 24-Jun-1984 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Roland Kibbee
Screenwriter
15-Feb-1914 5-Aug-1984 A Night in Casablanca
Alfred A. Knopf
Publisher
12-Sep-1892 11-Aug-1984 American publisher
Alexis Korner
Musician
19-Apr-1928 1-Jan-1984 Pivotal British blues performer
Norman Krasna
Playwright
7-Nov-1909 1-Nov-1984 The Devil and Miss Jones
Lee Krasner
Painter
27-Oct-1908 19-Jun-1984 Abstract expressionist
Ray Kroc
Business
5-Oct-1902 14-Jan-1984 McDonald's fast food tycoon
Richmond Lattimore
Poet
6-May-1906 26-Feb-1984 Translator of Iliad and Odyssey
Peter Lawford
Actor
7-Sep-1923 24-Dec-1984 Rat Pack member
Andrea Leeds
Actor
14-Aug-1914 21-May-1984 Stage Door
Herbert I. Leeds
Film Director
1900 1984 Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
Margaret Livingston
Actor
25-Nov-1900 13-Dec-1984 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Joseph Losey
Film Director
14-Jan-1909 22-Jun-1984 The Go-Between
Michel Magne
Musician
20-Mar-1930 19-Dec-1984 Tropical Fantasy
Shelly Manne
Drummer
11-Jun-1920 26-Sep-1984 West Coast jazz drummer
Ethel Mannin
Novelist
6-Oct-1900 1984 Confessions
John Marley
Actor
17-Oct-1907 22-May-1984 Godfather horsehead recipient
James Mason
Actor
15-May-1909 27-Jul-1984 North by Northwest
George Mathews
Actor
10-Oct-1911 7-Nov-1984 Pat and Mike
Robert Mathews
Criminal
16-Jan-1953 8-Dec-1984 White supremacist died in shootout with FBI
Ernest W. McFarland
Politician
9-Oct-1894 8-Jun-1984 Governor of Arizona, 1955-59
Vince McMahon, Sr.
Wrestling
6-Jul-1914 24-May-1984 World Wrestling Entertainment founder
George Meeker
Actor
5-Mar-1904 19-Aug-1984 History Is Made at Night
Ethel Merman
Singer
16-Jan-1908 15-Feb-1984 There's No Business Like Show Business
Stanley Milgram
Psychologist
15-Aug-1933 20-Dec-1984 Milgram Experiment
Mary Miles Minter
Actor
1-Apr-1902 4-Aug-1984 Anne of Green Gables
Eric Morecambe
Comic
14-May-1926 28-May-1984 Morecambe and Wise
Marcel Moyse
Musician
17-May-1889 1-Nov-1984 Virtuoso flautist
Patrick Nagel
Artist
25-Nov-1945 4-Feb-1984 The Nagel Woman
Liam O'Flaherty
Novelist
28-Aug-1896 7-Sep-1984 Thy Neighbour's Wife
George Oppen
Poet
24-Apr-1908 7-Jul-1984 Objectivist proponent and poet
George A. Parks
Politician
29-May-1883 11-May-1984 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1925-33
Sam Peckinpah
Film Director
21-Feb-1925 28-Dec-1984 Breakthrough director of ultraviolent film
Jan Peerce
Singer
3-Jun-1904 15-Dec-1984 Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera
Carl D. Perkins
Politician
15-Oct-1912 3-Aug-1984 Congressman from Kentucky, 1949-84
Walter Pidgeon
Actor
23-Sep-1897 25-Sep-1984 How Green Was My Valley
Samuel J. Popeil
Inventor
22-Jan-1915 17-Jul-1984 Veg-O-Matic
Jerzy Popieluszko
Activist
23-Sep-1947 19-Oct-1984 Priest murdered by Polish government
Hal Porter
Author
16-Feb-1911 29-Sep-1984 A Handful of Pennies
William Powell
Actor
29-Jul-1892 5-Mar-1984 My Man Godfrey
June Preisser
Actor
26-Jun-1920 19-Sep-1984 Strike Up the Band
J. B. Priestley
Novelist
13-Sep-1894 14-Aug-1984 An Inspector Calls
Karl Rahner
Religion
5-Mar-1904 30-Mar-1984 Leading Roman Catholic theologian
Sue Randall
Actor
8-Oct-1935 26-Oct-1984 Leave It to Beaver
Leo Robin
Songwriter
6-Apr-1900 29-Dec-1984 Thanks For The Memory
Flora Robson
Actor
28-Mar-1902 7-Jul-1984 Fire Over England
Leonard Rose
Cellist
28-Jul-1918 16-Nov-1984 Virtuoso cellist
Leonard Rossiter
Actor
21-Oct-1926 5-Oct-1984 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Martin Ryle
Astronomer
27-Sep-1918 14-Oct-1984 Radio astronomer
Santo
Wrestling
23-Sep-1917 5-Feb-1984 The Silver-Masked Man
Jay Sarno
Business
2-Jul-1922 1984 Creator of Caesars Palace
Arthur Schwartz
Composer
4-Nov-1900 3-Sep-1984 That's Entertainment
Irwin Shaw
Playwright
27-Feb-1913 16-May-1984 Rich Man, Poor Man
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan
Religion
18-Mar-1898 26-Aug-1984 Archbishop of Baltimore, 1961-74
Mikhail Sholokhov
Author
24-May-1905 21-Feb-1984 The Silent Don
Hans Speidel
Military
28-Oct-1897 28-Nov-1984 German general, NATO commander
Philip Van Doren Stern
Author
10-Sep-1900 31-Jul-1984 It's A Wonderful Life
Henrik Tikkanen
Author
1924 1984 A Winter's Day
François Truffaut
Film Director
6-Feb-1932 21-Oct-1984 Last Metro
Ernest Tubb
Musician
9-Feb-1914 6-Sep-1984 The Texas Troubador
David Vetter
Victim
21-Sep-1971 22-Feb-1984 The Boy in the Bubble
Gary Vinson
Actor
22-Oct-1936 15-Oct-1984 Christy on McHale's Navy
Collin Walcott
Jazz Musician
24-Feb-1945 8-Nov-1984 Jazz sitar player
Lila Wallace
Business
25-Dec-1889 8-May-1984 Readers Digest co-founder
Fred Waring
Conductor
9-Jun-1900 29-Jul-1984 Innovative bandleader and musician
Paul Francis Webster
Songwriter
20-Dec-1907 22-Mar-1984 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Johnny Weissmuller
Actor
2-Jun-1904 20-Jan-1984 Gold Medalist became Tarzan
Oskar Werner
Actor
13-Nov-1922 23-Oct-1984 Jules et Jim
Jessamyn West
Author
18-Jul-1902 23-Feb-1984 The Friendly Persuasion
Henry Wilcoxon
Actor
8-Sep-1905 6-Mar-1984 Lionheart in Hollywood
Meredith Willson
Composer
18-May-1902 15-Jun-1984 The Music Man
Jackie Wilson
Singer
9-Jun-1934 21-Jan-1984 Lonely Teardrops
Estelle Winwood
Actor
24-Jan-1883 20-Jun-1984 The Producers
Francis De Wolff
Actor
7-Jan-1913 18-Apr-1984 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Stephen M. Young
Politician
4-May-1889 1-Dec-1984 US Senator from Ohio, 1959-71


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