page_title: 1984
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1984 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Machito and Graciella Grillo, Glen Island Casino, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947
context_page_description: 1984 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
context_section_description: April 1
  Douglas Cooper, British art historian, critic and collector (b. 1911)
  Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
  George Glass, American film producer and publicist (b. 1910)
  Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (b. 1900)
  April 5
  Arthur "Bomber" Harris, British air marshall (b. 1892)
  Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894)
  April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
  April 9 – Willem Sandberg, Dutch typographer (b. 1897)
  April 11 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian (b. 1910)
  April 12
  Edward Sokoine, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1938)
  Edwin T. Layton, US Navy rear admiral, noted for intelligence work during the Second World War (b. 1903)
  April 15
  Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
  William Empson, English poet and critic (b. 1906)
  Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
  April 16
  Byron Haskin, American film and television director (b. 1899)
  Cesare Bonventre, Italian mobster (b. 1951)
  April 17 – Mark W. Clark, American general (b. 1896)
  April 19 – Machito, Cuban jazz musician (b. 1908)
  April 20
  Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador (b. 1925)
  Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
  Mabel Mercer, English cabaret singer (b. 1900)
  April 21 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895)
  April 22 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
  April 23
  Roland Penrose, English artist, historian and poet (b. 1900)
  Vicente Solano Lima, Argentinian journalist and politician (b. 1901)
  April 24 – Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish writer (b. 1891)
  April 25 – David Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy's son (b. 1955)
  April 26
  Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
  May McAvoy, American actress (b. 1899)
  April 29 – Frances Day, American actress and singer (b. 1908)
  April 30
  Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
  Radomir Radović, Yugoslav trade unionist (b. 1951)
caption: Machito
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