The following is a list of notabledeaths in March 1984.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Jackie Coogan, 69, American actor, heart failure^[1]

• Mebrure Aksoley, 81, Turkish politician, educator, philanthropist, and women's rights activist^[2]

• John Adams, 63, English accelerator physicist and administrator^[3]

• Julio Ahumada, 67, Argentine bandoneonist, composer, and orchestra conductor^[4]

• Faraj Abbo, 62, Assyrian Iraqi artist, theatre director, designer, author and educator^[5]
• Tito Gobbi, 70, Italian operatic baritone^[6]
• William Powell, 91, American actor, pneumonia^[7]

• Martin Niemöller, 92, German theologian and Lutheran pastor^[8]
• Henry Wilcoxon, 78, British actor, heart failure^[9]

• Robert Bloch, 95, French racing driver
• Paul Rotha, 76, English documentary film-maker, film historian and critic

• John Adamson, 73, Australian politician^[10]
• John F. Shelton, 81, Australian rules footballer

• Skënder Jareci, 52, Albanian former football manager and player
• Kim Il, 73, North Korean politician who served asPremier of North Korea^[11]

• June Marlowe, 80, American actress,Parkinson's Disease^[12]

• Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson, 88, British judge^[13]

• Antònia Abelló, 80, Spanish political activist, republican journalist, pianist, writer, and feminist^[14]
• Hakon Ahlberg, 92, Swedish architect, author, and editor^[15]
• Arnold Ridley, 88, English playwright and actor^[16]

• Marija Ilić Agapova, 88, Serbian jurist, translator, librarian, civil rights activist and the first director of theBelgrade City Library

• Aurelio Peccei, 75, Italian industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of theClub of Rome, heart attack^[17]

• Ken Carpenter, 70, American Olympic athlete^[18]
• Konstantin Badygin, 73, Soviet Naval officer and explorer

• Ervin Abel, 54, Estonian actor^[19]
• Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht, 89, Polish Lutheran missionary and pastor^[20]

• Paul Woolley, 82, American pastor and professor^[21]

• Paul Francis Webster, 76, American lyricist^[22]

• Komatsu Imai, 84, Japanese aviator and essayist
• Bo Ljungberg, 72, Swedish athlete^[23]
• Charlie Ware Snr, 80, Irish hurler^[24]

• John Fairbairn, 72, South African Naval officer^[25]
• Robin Tait, 43, New Zealander discus thrower and Olympian^[26]

• August Frank, 85, German SS functionary who was a Nazi concentration camp administrator
• Carlo Lombardi, 84, Italian actor

• Kenneth Wilson, 69, Scotland international rugby union player

• Peter Kolosimo, 61, Italian journalist and writer

• Sam Jaffe, 93, American actor^[27]

• Martin Stokken, 61, Norwegian cross-country skier^[28]

• Ahmed Sékou Touré, 62, Guinean politician, 1stPresident of Guinea, heart attack^[29]

• Jack Donohue, 75, American film screenwriter and director^[30]

• Benjamin Mays, 89, American Baptist minister and civil rights leader^[31]

• Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, 80, British Conservative Party politician^[32]

• Karl Rahner, 80, German Jesuit priest and theologian^[33]

• Jean Drysdale, 44, South African tennis player^[34]

• List of March 1984 deaths atIMDb

• March 1984
• 1984 deaths
• Lists of deaths in 1984

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