List of Famous people who died in 1984
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Georgia Lind
Georgia Lind (1905–1984) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in a mixture of leading and supporting roles in films. From the mid-1930s she devoted herself increasingly to the theatre, and post-Second World War she also did a large amount of radio work. One of her final film performances was a small role in Robert A. Stemmle's Berliner Ballade (1948). She was married to the actor Rudolf Platte.
János Ferencsik
János Ferencsik was a Hungarian conductor.
Sam Leavitt
Samuel "Sam" Leavitt, A.S.C, was an American cinematographer who was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for The Defiant Ones (1958).
Henry Kaplan
Henry Seymour Kaplan was an American radiologist who pioneered in radiation therapy and radiobiology.
Ernst Stueckelberg
Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, regarded as one of the most eminent physicists of the 20th century. Despite making key advances in theoretical physics, including the exchange particle model of fundamental forces, causal S-matrix theory, and the renormalization group, his idiosyncratic style and publication in minor journals led to his work being unrecognized until the mid-1990s.
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation.
Antonio Bisaglia
Antonio Bisaglia was an Italian politician, a member of Christian Democracy.
Kristian Djurhuus
Kristian Djurhuus was a Faroese politician. He was a member of the Union Party.
Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in his life, expressed an interest in animation and puppetry. After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.