List of Famous people who are 84

Jill Paton Walsh, Baroness Hemingford, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that have completed and continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Yehoshua Kenaz was an Israeli novelist who studied at the Hebrew University and at the Sorbonne. Kenaz is best known for his novel Infiltration, published in 1986. He died in October 2020.

Dora Cadavid is a colombian actress and singer. Cadavid participated in over 45 television and theatre productions, making her debut at the age of ten in the play Doña Inés vuelve al convento. With 60 years of career, her most famous performance was probably in Fernando Gaitán's successful soap opera, Yo soy Betty, la fea.

Max-Emanuel Ludwig Maria Herzog in Bayern as the younger son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, is the heir presumptive to both the headship of the former Bavarian royal house and the Jacobite succession. He was born a Prince of Bavaria, as a member of the royal line of the House of Wittelsbach, but has been using the title "Herzog in Bayern" or Duke in Bavaria, since he was adopted as an adult by his great-uncle, Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria, the last bearer of that title of a junior branch of the House of Wittelsbach, from whom he inherited considerable estates at Tegernsee Abbey, Banz Abbey and Kreuth.

Claude (Jean) Allègre is a French politician and scientist.

Kemal Burkay is a writer and politician.

Sal Borgese is an Italian film actor. He is sometimes credited as Salvatore Borghese or Mark Trevor. He is noted for extensive work in the Italian film industry from the 1960s to present day, and for his work as a stuntman and acrobat.

Sachiko Chijimatsu is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Viktor Golyshev is a well-known English-to-Russian translator. His translations include Light in August, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, All the King's Men, Theophilus North, 1984, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Set This House on Fire, Pulp, and others. He has won the Foreign Literature and Illuminator awards. He has said about modern American literature, "It isn't quite worthy of consideration. It has almost nothing to say about life."