List of Famous people who died at 84
André Falcon
André Falcon was a French film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2008.
Friedrich Griese
Friedrich Griese was a German novelist. He was associated with the nationalist literary movement during the Third Reich.
Armando Baptista-Bastos
Armando Baptista-Bastos was a Portuguese journalist and writer.
Zoya Voskresenskaya
Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya was a Soviet diplomat, NKVD foreign office secret agent and, in the 1960s and 70s, a popular author of books for children. A USSR State Prize laureate (1968), Voskresenskaya was best known for her novels Skvoz Ledyanuyu Mglu and Serdtse Materi. In 1962–1980 more than 21 million of her books were sold in the USSR.
Antti Hyry
Antti Kalevi Hyry was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2005. In 2009 his book Uuni (Oven) won the Finlandia Prize, Finland's premier prize for literature. It details a man's reflections as he collects cement and bricks to build an oven for his home. Antti Hyry was married to Maija Hyry.
Hasan di Tiro
Hasan Muhammad di Tiro, M.S, M.A, LL.D, Ph.D., born Hasan Bin Leube Muhammad, was the founder of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), an organisation which attempted to separate Aceh from Indonesia from the 1970s. It surrendered its separatist goals and agreed to disarm as agreed to in the Helsinki peace deal of 2005. He was the maternal great-grandson of Tengku Cik di Tiro, an Indonesian national hero who was killed fighting the Dutch in 1891. In 2010 he obtained his Indonesian citizenship back shortly before his death.
Benjamin Murmelstein
Benjamin Israel Murmelstein was an Austrian rabbi. He was one of 17 community rabbis in Vienna in 1938 and the only one remaining in Vienna by late 1939. An important figure and board member of the Jewish group in Vienna during the early stages of the war, he was also an "Ältester" of the Judenrat in the Theresienstadt concentration camp after 1943. He was the only "Judenältester" to survive the Holocaust and has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews by assisting in their emigration, while also being accused of being a Nazi collaborator.
Badruddin al-Hautsi
Badreddin al-Houthi also spelled Badr al-Din Al-Houthi was a Yemeni politician and scholar of Zaidi Islam.
Yves Barsacq
Yves Barsacq was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 150 films. He is the son of the French-Russian production designer Léon Barsacq and the nephew of the French theatre director André Barsacq.
Ib Glindemann
Ib Niels Carl Glindemann Nielsen was a Danish jazz musician, the leader of the Ib Glindemann Orchestra. When in Europe, saxophonist Stan Getz was a frequent guest star of the orchestra.