Events from the year 1984 in the United States.

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• January 14 – Ray Kroc, businessman and founder of McDonald's (b. 1902)
• January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (b. 1904 in Austria-Hungary)
• January 21 – Jackie Wilson, singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• February 10 – David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
• February 15
  • Avon Long, actor and singer (b. 1910)
  • Ethel Merman, actress and singer (b. 1908)
• February 22 – David Vetter, plastic bubble patient (b. 1971)
• February 24 – Tyrone Mitchell, murderer (suicide) (b. 1955)
• March 1 – Jackie Coogan, actor and comedian (b. 1914)
• March 5 – William Powell, actor (b. 1892)
• March 18
  • Charley Lau, baseball player (b. 1933)
  • Paul Francis Webster, lyricist (b. 1907)
• March 20 – Stan Coveleski, baseball player, member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1889)
• March 21 – Sam Jaffe, actor, teacher, musician and engineer (b. 1891)
• March 23 – Shauna Grant, porn actress (b. 1963)
• March 28
  • Ben Washam, animator (b. 1915)^[9]
  • Benjamin Mays, Baptist minister and civil rights leader (b. 1894)
• April 1 – Marvin Gaye, singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
• April 14 – Anders Haugen, ski jumper (b. 1888)^[10]
• April 22 – Ansel Adams, landscape photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902)
• April 26 – Count Basie, pianist, organist, bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• May 2
  • Jack Barry, game show host a television personality (b. 1918)
  • Bob Clamplett, animator director, producer and puppeteer (b. 1913)
• May 16 – Andy Kaufman, entertainer and actor (b. 1949)
• May 19 – Michael Silka, spree killer (b. 1958)
• May 21 – Andrea Leeds, film actress (b. 1913)
• May 22 – John Marley, actor and theatre director (b. 1907)
• May 24 – Vincent J. McMahon, wrestling promoter (b. 1914)
• May 28 – D’Urville Martin, actor and director (b. 1939)
• June 15 – Meredith Willson, flutist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader and playwright (b. 1902)
• June 16 – Lew Andreas, basketball coach (b. 1895)^[11]
• June 27 – Oswald Jacoby, bridge player (b. 1902)
• June 30 – Lillian Hellman, playwright (b. 1905)^[12]
• July 8 – Christine McIntyre, actress and singer (b. 1911)
• July 19 – Harry Stockwell, actor and singer (b. 1902)
• July 26
  • George Gallup, statistician, creator of the Gallup poll (b. 1901)
  • Ed Gein, murderer (b. 1906)
• July 27 – C. L. Franklin, Baptist minister and civil rights activist (b. 1915)
• July 29 – Fred Waring, musician, bandleader and personality (b. 1900)
• July 31 – Bill Raisch, dancer, stuntman and actor (b. 1905)
• August 4 – Mary Miles Minter, actress (b. 1902)
• August 8 – Richard Deacon, actor (b. 1922)
• August 12 – Lenny Breau, guitarist (b. 1941)
• August 25 – Truman Capote, writer (b. 1924)
• August 26 – Julie Stevens, actress (b. 1916)
• September 6 – Ernest Tubb, singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• September 14 – Janet Gaynor, actress (b. 1906)
• September 17 – Richard Basehart, actor (b. 1914)
• September 20 – Steve Goodman, country singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• September 24 – Neil Hamilton, actor (b. 1899)
• September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (b. 1897 in Canada)
• September 28 – Roy Sullivan, park ranger, world record holder for lightning strikes survived (b. 1912)
• October 1 – Billy Goodman, baseball player (b. 1926)
• October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, actor and model (b. 1957)
• October 24 – Edith Massey, actress and singer (b. 1918)
• October 26 – Sue Randall, actress (b. 1935)
• December 7
  • Jack Mercer, voice actor, animator and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • LeeRoy Yarbrough, stock race-car driver (b. 1938)
• December 21 – J. Roderick MacArthur, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
• December 24 – Peter Lawford, actor (b. 1923)
• December 28 – Sam Peckinpah, director and filmmaker (b. 1925)

• 1984 in American television
• List of American films of 1984
• Timeline of United States history (1970–1989)