Unusual Deaths in 1984
- Tommy cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act, on the popular itv variety show, live from her majesty’s. at first the audience assumed he was joking.
- Jon-erik hexum, an american television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.
Natural disasters in 1984
- Carolinas Tornado Outbreak
- Late November 1984 Nor’easter
People who died on April 24 (various years)
- 2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer
- 2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi
- 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner
- 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
- 2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel
- 2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur
- 2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor
- 2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer
- 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer
- 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician
- 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician
- 1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor
- 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete
- 1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
- 1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger
- 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian
- 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
- 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress
- 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined)
- 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Hans Biebow, German war criminal
- 1947 – Willa Cather, American writer
- 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician
- 1944 – William Stephens, U.S. political figure
- 1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author
- 1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author
- 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist
- 1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor
- 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist
- 1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal
- 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet
- 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College
- 1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general
- 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer
- 1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist
- 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint
- 1342 – Pope Benedict XII
- 1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat
- 709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
- 624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
Approximately 141,850 people died worldwide on April 24, 1984
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