List of Famous people who are 84

Carl Kress is an American film editor. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Film Editing for the film The Towering Inferno.

Christoph Bertram is a German journalist who is director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. He was director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies from 1974 to 1982. He worked for TIME magazine for sixteen years as head of department and as diplomatic correspondent. He was a member of the editorial board of Foreign Policy Magazine, Washington, DC. From 1980 to 1981 and from 1990 to 1993 he was a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg meetings.

Dato' Ng Boon Bee is a former badminton player from Malaysia who excelled from the 1960s through the early 1970s. His success in doubles earned him recognition as one of greatest doubles players in badminton history.

Paul Zanker is the Professor of Storia dell’Arte Antica at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Previously he was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Munich (1976–2002) and the University of Göttingen (1972–1976). He is a noted expert on Roman art and archaeology and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology and of the German Archaeological Institute. 1990/91 he was the Sather Professor of the University of California at Berkeley. Zanker is head of the German Commission for the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.

Gerhard Casper is a former president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and a former provost of the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1992. Casper was president of the American Academy in Berlin from July 2015 through July 2016; from August 2019 to January 24, 2020, he served as the institution's trustee-in-residence.

Francis Edward Paxton Whitehead is an English actor, theatre director and playwright. He was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot.