List of Famous people who died in 1984

Manès Sperber was an Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Heger and N.A. Menlos.

Lieutenant General Sir (Edwin) Otway Herbert KBE CB DSO was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War and achieved high command in the 1950s.

John Marley was an American actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the defiant film mogul who awakens to find the severed head of his prized horse in his bed—in The Godfather (1972). He starred in John Cassavetes' feature Faces (1968) and appeared in The Glitter Dome (1984).

Edward William Frank James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.

Yvon Petra was a French male tennis player. He was born in Cholon, French Indochina.

Maria José Dupré, also known as Sra. Leandro Dupré, was one of the most popular and prolific Brazilian writers of the 1940s and 1950s.