1984 suicides

The list 1984 suicides includes Shauna Grant, Alan Lake, Charles Ray Hatcher, Gary Vinson and Chet Allen. The list consists of 35 members and 1 sublist.

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1984

Calendar year

Suicide bombings in 1984
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- 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut

1.

Alan Lake

British actor

Overview: Alan Lake (24 November 1940 – 10 October 1984) was an English actor, best known as the third husband of screen star Diana Dors.

Date of birth: 24 November 1940

Date of death: 10 October 1984

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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British male actors who committed suicide 1T

English male actors who committed suicide 32T

Actors from Staffordshire 25T
2.

Gary Vinson

American actor

Overview: Gary Vinson (October 22, 1936 – October 15, 1984) was an American actor who appeared in significant roles in three television series of the 1960s: The Roaring 20s, McHale's Navy, and Pistols 'n' Petticoats ...

Date of birth: 22 October 1936

Date of death: 15 October 1984

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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American male actors who committed suicide 118T

Male actors who committed suicide 279T

Male actors from Los Angeles, California 1,360T
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Charles Ray Hatcher

American serial killer

Overview: Charles Ray Hatcher (July 16, 1929 – December 7, 1984) was an American serial killer who confessed to having murdered 16 people between 1969 and 1982.

Date of birth: 16 July 1929

Date of death: 7 December 1984

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Formerly wanted fugitives 150T

People from Mound City, Missouri 5T

American male criminals 517T
4.

Christopher Wilder

Australian serial killer (1945–1984)

Overview: Christopher Bernard Wilder (March 13, 1945 – April 13, 1984), also known as the Beauty Queen Killer, was an Australian serial killer who abducted and raped at least 12 women, killing at least eight of ...

Date of birth: 13 March 1945

Date of death: 13 April 1984

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Male serial killers 1,214T

Australian emigrants to the United States 267T

Australian rapists 27T
5.

Tyrone Mitchell

20th-century American mass shooter (1955–1984)

Overview: Tyrone Mitchell (October 17, 1955 – February 24, 1984) was an American criminal who fatally shot two students and wounded twelve others who were leaving 49th Street Elementary School in South Central ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1955

Date of death: 24 February 1984

Age: 28 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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School shootings in California 5T

Murder–suicides in California 29T

Murder in Los Angeles, California 19T
6.

Prema

Indian actress in Malayalam movies

Overview: Prema was an Indian actress in Malayalam movies. She was an actress acted mainly in supporting roles and mother roles, during the 1960s and 1970s. She had acted more than 50 movies. She was the mother ...

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Actress

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Indian actresses who committed suicide 18T

Actresses from Chennai 147T

Actresses from Kerala 206T
7.

Pedro Nava (writer)

Brazilian writer

Overview: Pedro da Silva Nava (June 5, 1903 – May 13, 1984) was a Brazilian writer and physician.

Date of birth: 5 June 1903

Date of death: 13 May 1984

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Brazilian male writers 324T

Suicides by firearm in Brazil 12T

Brazilian writers 444T
8.

Chet Allen

American actor (1939–1984)

Overview: Chet R. Allen (May 6, 1939 – June 17, 1984) was an American child actor of the 1950s known for his role as Amahl in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television ...

Date of birth: 6 May 1939

Date of death: 17 June 1984

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male opera singers 302T

20th-century American opera singers 625T

Classical musicians from Ohio 137T
9.

Richard Brautigan

American writer (1935–1984)

Overview: Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often clinically and surrealistically employs black comedy, parody ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1935

Date of death: 14 September 1984

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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American male writers who committed suicide 108T

20th-century American male writers 8,917T

Novelists from Washington (state) 152T
10.

Michel Magne

French composer

Overview: Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise) was a French film and experimental music composer. He was nominated in 1962 for an Academy ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1930

Date of death: 19 December 1984

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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French male film score composers 107T

20th-century French male musicians 808T

20th-century male musicians 13,344T
11.

Marlia Hardi

Indonesian actress (1926–1984)

Overview: Marlia Hardi (also Marlia Hardy; 10 March 1927 – 18 June 1984) was an Indonesian film actress active from 1951 to 1983. Born in the Central Javan city of Magelang, she took to the stage in the 1940s ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1927

Date of death: 18 June 1984

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: Indonesian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Suicides by hanging in Indonesia 1T

Indonesian film actresses 113T

Actresses who committed suicide 180T
12.

Mary Terán de Weiss

Argentine tennis player

Overview: María Luisa Terán de Weiss (29 January 1918 – 8 December 1984), known in Argentina as Mary Terán de Weiss, and out of Argentina as María Teran Weiss, was an Argentine tennis player, the first Argentine ...

Date of birth: 29 January 1918

Date of death: 8 December 1984

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Argentinean

Occupation: Tennis

Gender: Female

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Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games 241T

Pan American Games medalists in tennis 243T

Sportspeople from Rosario, Santa Fe 314T
13.

Billy Collins (boxer)

American boxer (1961–1984)

Overview: William Ray Collins Jr. (September 21, 1961 – March 6, 1984) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983. His career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1961

Date of death: 6 March 1984

Age: 22 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Boxing

Gender: Male

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People from Antioch, Tennessee 14T

Male suicides 1,509T

American male boxers 1,970T
14.

Elizabeth Peer

American journalist

Overview: Elizabeth Peer Jansson (February 3, 1936 – May 26, 1984), born Elizabeth Clow Peer, often just Liz Peer, was a pioneering American journalist who worked for Newsweek from 1958 until her death in 1984 ...

Date of birth: 3 February 1936

Date of death: 26 May 1984

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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American women war correspondents 38T

20th-century American women 4,846T

Writers from East Orange, New Jersey 24T
15.

Piet Hein Hoebens

Dutch journalist, skeptic and critic of parapsychology

Overview: Piet Hein Hoebens (29 September 1948, Utrecht – 22 October 1984) was a Dutch journalist, parapsychologist and skeptic.

Date of birth: 29 September 1948

Date of death: 22 October 1984

Age: 36 (age at death)

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Journalist

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20th-century journalists 2,834T

Dutch skeptics 12T

Parapsychologists 426T
16.

Hiromi Yamafuji

Cyclist

Overview: Hiromi Yamafuji (山藤浩三, Yamafuji Hiromi, born 23 October 1944 – 9 May 1984) was a Japanese cyclist. He competed in the individual pursuit and team pursuit events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Date of birth: 23 October 1944

Date of death: 9 May 1984

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: Japanese

Occupation: Cycling

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Japanese male cyclists 152T

Joint suicides 53T

Olympic cyclists of Japan 106T
17.

Evžen Hadamczik

footballer

Overview: Evžen Hadamczik (28 October 1939 – 19 September 1984) was a Czech football manager and former player. He was responsible for the Golden Era of Baník Ostrava football club, winning the Czechoslovak First ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1939

Date of death: 19 September 1984

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: Czech

Occupation: Football

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People from Kravaře 4T

SFC Opava managers 15T

Suicides by hanging in the Czech Republic 8T
18.

Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy

Irish peer

Overview: Edmund James Burke Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy (20 March 1939 – 19 August 1984) was a British peer.

Date of birth: 20 March 1939

Date of death: 19 August 1984

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Politician

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People educated at Eton College 4,961T

Barons in the Peerage of Ireland 421T

Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1,059T
19.

Vasilije Mokranjac

Serbian, Composer

Overview: Vasilije Mokranjac (Belgrade, 11 September 1923 – Belgrade, 27 May 1984) was a Serbian composer, professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences ...

Date of birth: 11 September 1923

Date of death: 27 May 1984

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: Serbian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Yugoslav composers 22T

Suicides by jumping in Serbia 4T

Musicians from Belgrade 114T
20.

Ricky Kasso

American killer

Overview: Richard Allan "Ricky" Kasso Jr. (March 29, 1967 – July 7, 1984) murdered his 17-year-old friend Gary Lauwers in Northport, New York, on June 16, 1984. Two other teens, Jimmy Troiano and Albert Quinones ...

Date of birth: 1 March 1967

Date of death: 7 July 1984

Age: 17 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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People from Northport, New York 43T

Male suicides 1,509T

Prisoners who died in New York detention 25T