1984 deaths

Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984)

French philosopher (1926–1984)

British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

Soviet writer (1905-1984)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)

American author (1924-1984)

French film director (1932–1984)

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

Soviet physicist

Richard Walter Burton was a Welsh actor.

Spanish poet (1898–1984)

American R&B and soul singer (1939–1984)

Soviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion

English radio astronomer (1918–1984)

French physicist (1902–1984)

German theologian (1892–1984)

American swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)

American actress (1906–1984)

President of Guinea (1922-1984)

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

Polish-American mathematician

1st President of the Republic of Egypt (1901–1984)

Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)

British actor (1909–1984)

American film director (1925–1984)

American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984)

American actress and singer (1908-1984)

American businessman

Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)

American social psychologist (1933–1984)

Japanese association football player

Soviet Jewish writer

American actor (1892–1984)

Polish Catholic priest, martyr, blessed (1947–1984)

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

American entertainer (1949–1984)

Italian politician (1922–1984)

French painter, poet and writer (1899–1984)

Soviet aeroplane designer (1906-1984)

American writer (1913–1984)

American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1935–1984)

American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)

Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)

English writer (1894–1984)

American actor (1914–1984)

German Catholic theologian (1904–1984)

Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)

actor (1922-1984)

United States Army general (1896–1984)

American paleontologist (1902–1984)

Spanish poet (1893–1984)

American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter

British actor (1923–1984)

British economist (1898–1984)

Romanov imposter who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (1896–1984)

American filmmaker and theatre director (1909–1984)

Italian opera singer (1913–1984)

American statistician (1901–1984)

Prime Minister of Laos (1901–1984)

Pakistani Urdu poet and author (1911–1984)