Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1984

Wolfgang Staudte fue un director, actor y guionista de nacionalidad alemana. Considerado como uno de los directores de cine alemanes más importantes de la posguerra, también fue actor de voz.

Lee Krasner fue una influyente artista del expresionismo abstracto en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Nacida como Lenora Krassner, conocida más tarde como Lee Krassner, era la sexta hija de un matrimonio de inmigrantes judíos procedentes de Shpykiv, Raión de Tulchyn, Óblast de Vínnytsia, Ucrania. Estudió con Hans Hofmann a partir de 1937. Hofmann le mostró la obra de Picasso, Matisse y otros pintores abstractos europeos, lo que ejerció una gran influencia sobre la joven pintora. En 1940, comenzó a exponer con un grupo de pintores norteamericanos, estableciendo el expresionismo abstracto. En 1945, Krasner contrajo matrimonio con el artista Jackson Pollock, líder del mismo movimiento artístico.

Muharrem Ertaş was a Turkish folk music singer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. He was one of the most important members of the Bozlak genre.

Kazuo Hasegawa was a Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in over 300 films between 1927 and 1963.

Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan was a Turkish poet.

Josef Michael Hartinger was a German lawyer who worked for the Bavarian State authorities in the latter years of the Weimar Republic when the Nazis came to power. Tasked with investigating some unnatural deaths at the Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Hartinger together with his medical examiner colleague, Moritz Flamm, discovered the SS policy of summary executions and faked suicides at the camp. At great risk to his own safety, Hartinger issued an indictment of the camp authorities, which was ultimately betrayed and suppressed.

Víktor Chukarin fue uno de los mejores gimnastas artísticos soviéticos ganador de siete medallas de oro olímpicas en la década de 1950.

Joseph Losey fue un director de cine estadounidense.

Munif al-Razzaz was a Jordanian-Syrian physician and politician who was the second, and last, Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, having been elected to the post at the 8th National Congress held in April 1965.

Semih Sancar was Chief of the General Staff of Turkey from 1973 to 1978, a period including the 1974 Turkish occupation of Cyprus. He was previously Commander of the Turkish Land Forces (1972–1973) and General Commander of the Gendarmerie of Turkey (1969–1970).