List of Famous people who died at 84

Tadeusz Gocłowski, C.M. was a Roman Catholic archbishop.

Paul Marcinkus, GCOIH was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Vatican Bank from 1971 to 1989.

Mari Mori was a Japanese author. New York University Professor Keith Vincent has called her a "Japanese Electra", referring to the Electra complex counterpart put forth by Carl Jung to Sigmund Freud's Oedipal complex.

Lucian Pintilie was a Romanian film director and screenwriter.

Alfredo Bosi was a Brazilian historian, literary critic, and professor. He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, occupying Chair number 12. One of his most famous books is História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira, widely used in Brazilian universities in literature courses. Bosi also wrote several studies about Italian literature and about major Brazilian writers as well as essays on the field of hermeneutics.

Herberto Helder de Oliveira was a Portuguese poet often considered the most important Portuguese poet of the second half of the 20th century.

Reggie Nalder was a prolific Austrian film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features—partially the result of disfiguring burns—together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips".

Mansour Rahbani was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet, philosopher, thinker and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers, and the brother-in-law of the singer Fairuz.

Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova was a Russian historian of mathematics.

Günther Nenning was an Austrian journalist, author, and political activist.