List of Famous people who died in 1984

Aurelius Battaglia was an American illustrator, muralist, writer, and director. He was born in Washington, D.C., in 1910 and he died in Provincetown, MA in May 1984. He was the son of Giuseppe and Concetta Battaglia, who had emigrated from Cefalù, Italy. Aurelius attended the Corcoran School of Art. He graduated as one of the Corcoran's most promising students, winning $50 in a Corcoran-sponsored art contest.

Hollis William Frampton, Jr. was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer, theoretician, and pioneer of digital art. He was best known for his innovative and non-linear structural films that defined the movement, including Lemon (1969), Zorns Lemma (1970) and (nostalgia) (1971), as well as his anthology book, Circles of Confusion: Film, Photography, Video: Texts, 1968-1980 (1983).

Gjon Mili was an American photographer of Albanian origin best known for his work published in Life, in which he photographed artists such as Pablo Picasso.

Alessandro Bonsanti was a writer and Italian politician.

Pina Renzi was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 56 films between 1933 and 1959. She also directed one film, Cercasi bionda bella presenza, in 1942. She was born in Morciano di Romagna, Italy and died in Riccione, Italy.

Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin was the 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt from 2 January 1982 to 5 June 1984. He was a member of the National Democratic Party.

Nathan Swartz was a Russian Empire-born American shoemaker and businessman, known for founding the Timberland Company.

Stanislav Ivanovich Rogolev was a Soviet serial killer. For one and a half years he attacked 21 women, killing ten of them. In 1980, Rogolev was convicted four times, and charged once with rape. According to writer Alexander Chekhlov, Rogolev was the informer of Aloizs Vaznis, a police officer, who, in turn, tried to shield Rogolev. In particular, he gave Rogolev full information about the crimes, fabricating a confession in which he could be declared insane. It was also believed that Rogolev had information about the progress of the investigation. According to a writer and lawyer Andris Grūtups, Rogolev was a secret agent of the deputy minister, General Anrijs Kavalieris.

The shock is still too soft a word to describe the state in which Latvia was in the early 80's. Schoolgirls went to classes in close-knit groups, husbands greeted wives from late trains, and all over the place were reinforced police detachments. In every doorway, law-abiding citizens, frightened by a man, seemed to see the worst and most bloody maniac of Latvia of the Soviet period - Stanislav Rogolev.

Vladimir Viktorovich Storozhenko, known as The Smolensk Strangler, was a Soviet serial killer.