Deaths in November 1984
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
2
- Velma Barfield, 52, American serial killer, the first woman in the United States to be executed after the resumption of capital punishment in 1976,[1] and the first since 1962.[2][3]
4
- Merie Earle, 95, American actress, uremia poisoning [4][5][6]
7
- George Mathews, 73, American actor, heart disease[7][8]
10
- Sudie Bond, 61, American actress, respiratory disease[9]
11
- Dorothy M. Johnson, 78, American Western fiction writer [10][11]
- Martin Luther King Sr., 84, American Baptist pastor and missionary, activist for the civil rights movement, heart attack[12]
12
- Jack Wrather, 66, American petroleum businessman and television producer, cancer[13]
13
- Dorothy Arnold, 66, American actress, pancreatic cancer[14][15]
16
- Murray Alper, 80, American actor [16]
- Vic Dickenson, 78, American jazz trombonist, cancer[17]
21
- Aslam Pervaiz, 52, Pakistani film actor, fatally injured in a car accident[18][19]
23
- Jean-Raymond Tournoux, 70, French journalist[20]
26
- Jóhann K. Pétursson, 71, Icelandic circus performer and actor, accidental fall [21][22]
27
- Asit Baran, 71, Indian actor and singer[23][24]
References
- ^ "Velma Margie Barfield #29". Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Retrieved January 16, 2008.
- ^ Schmidt, William E. (November 3, 1984). "First Woman is Executed in U.S. Since 1962". New York Times. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
- ^ "Velma Barfield Put to Death –1984 Year in Review – Audio". UPI.com. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Merie Earle, Actress, Dies; Maude Gormley on 'Waltons'". The New York Times. November 9, 1984. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "George Mathews". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on April 21, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "George Mathews, 73, Actor On Broadway And In Movies", The New York Times, November 13, 1984.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Dorothy M. Johnson, Author Of 'Liberty Valance,' Is Dead". The New York Times. December 13, 1984. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- ^ Guide to the Dorothy M. Johnson Papers at the University of Montana
- ^ Bo Emerson (January 31, 2018). "Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta: Other historic sites". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
- ^ Ennis, Thomas W. (November 13, 1984). "Jack Wrather, 66, Dies in California". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- ^ "Arnold, Dorothy (1917–1984)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007
- ^ "Joe DiMaggio's First Wife is Dead". The Desert Sun. The Desert Sun Publishing Company. November 17, 1984. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
- ^ "Murray Alper". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
- ^ John S. Wilson, "Vic Dickenson, a trombonist with Basie band in 40's, dies", The New York Times, November 18, 1984.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Berthelsen, Herman (2002). Skjeggete damer og siamesiske tvillinger: fra tivoli til "Big Brother" (in Norwegian). J.W. Cappelens Forlag. p. 93.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Asit Baren movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
- ^ "Asit Baran". Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.