141,986 People

People who died on June 25, 1984 (the exact day you were born)

• Michel Foucault, French philosopher

Unusual Deaths in 1984

• Tommy cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act, on the popular itv variety show, live from her majesty's. at first the audience assumed he was joking.
• Jon-erik hexum, an american television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.

Natural disasters in 1984

• Carolinas Tornado Outbreak
• Late November 1984 Nor'easter

People who died on June 25 (various years)

• 2007 - J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher
• 2007 - Mahasti, Persian singer
• 2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect
• 2005 - John Fiedler, American Actor
• 2003 - Lester Maddox, American politician
• 2002 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician
• 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer
• 1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player
• 1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
• 1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1985 - Morris Mason, American murderer
• 1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer
• 1979 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer
• 1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter
• 1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician
• 1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate
• 1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player
• 1959 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer
• 1949 - Buck Freeman, baseball player
• 1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general
• 1944 - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer
• 1937 - Colin Clive, British actor
• 1918 - Jake Beckley, baseball player
• 1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist
• 1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer
• 1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor
• 1876 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune
• 1876 - James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier
• 1876 - Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer
• 1876 - Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor winner
• 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer
• 1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor of gooches
• 1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist
• 1866 - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist
• 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan
• 1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general
• 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer
• 1798 - Thomas Sandby, English architect
• 1792 - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder
• 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
• 1715 - Jean du Casse, French admiral
• 1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter
• 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer
• 1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France
• 1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier
• 1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria
• 1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer
• 1634 - John Marston, English playwright
• 1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener
• 1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai
• 1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France
• 1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer
• 1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
• 1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader
• 1134 - King Niels of Denmark
• 635 - Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)