List of Famous people who died at 84

Allan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.

Henri Colpi was a French film editor and film director.

Orestis Laskos was a Greek film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 55 films between 1931 and 1971. He also wrote scripts for 24 films between 1929 and 1971.

Robert Eugène Amilcar Bothereau was a French trade union leader. He was the secretary general of Workers' Force from 1948 to 1963.

Rhodes Reason was an American actor who appeared in more than two hundred roles in television, film, and stage.

René Cloërec was a French composer and conductor.

Rosina May Lawrence was a British-Canadian actress and singer. She had a short but memorable career in the 1920s and 1930s in Hollywood before she married in 1939 and retired from entertainment.

Pierre Nougaro was a French operatic baritone, the father of the singer Claude Nougaro.

Edgar Charles "Sam" Rice was an American pitcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball. Although Rice made his debut as a relief pitcher, he is best known as an outfielder. Playing for the Washington Senators from 1915 until 1933, he was regularly among the American League leaders in runs scored, hits, stolen bases and batting average. He led the Senators to three postseasons and a World Series championship in 1924. He batted left-handed but threw right-handed. Rice played his final year, 1934, for the Cleveland Indians. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1963.