List of Famous people who died at 84

Johann Baptist Gradl, was a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union.

Enrique Aurelio Planchart Rotundo was a Venezuelan mathematician and academic. He was rector of Simón Bolívar University in Caracas from 2009 until his death.

Günther Bornkamm was a German New Testament scholar belonging to the school of Rudolf Bultmann and a Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg. Under Adolf Hitler, he opposed the nazification of the Protestant churches and their unification into the movement of the 'German Christians'. His post-war fame as a scholar rested on his effort to separate fiction from facts in his reconstruction of Jesus' life and in his subsequent treatment of the gospel of Matthew. His brother was the ecclesiastical historian and Luther scholar Heinrich Bornkamm.

Howard Winchel Koch was an American producer and director of film and television.

George Wildman Ball was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the US State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War. He refused to publicize his doubts, which were based on calculations that South Vietnam was doomed. He also helped determine American policy regarding trade expansion, Congo, the Multilateral Force, de Gaulle's France, Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and the Iranian Revolution.

Diana Balmori Ling was a landscape and urban designer. She was the founder of the landscape design firm Balmori Associates.