Aged 84
Famous people who died at 84
250 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 84, including Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison and Salvador Dalí. Here are the 100 best known.
- Isaac NewtonEnglish mathematician and physicist · 1643–1727
- Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman · 1847–1931
- Salvador DalíSpanish artist · 1904–1989
- Benjamin FranklinAmerican polymath and statesman · 1706–1790
- John Paul IIPope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author · 1920–2005
- Henri MatisseFrench artist · 1869–1954
- Umberto EcoItalian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist · 1932–2016
- Kurt VonnegutAmerican author · 1922–2007
- Octavio PazMexican writer, poet an diplomat · 1914–1998
- François MauriacFrench writer · 1885–1970
- Greta GarboSwedish-American actress · 1905–1990
- Douglas MacArthurUnited States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea · 1880–1964
- Carl BenzGerman automotive and engine designer and manufacturer · 1844–1929
- Madeleine AlbrightUnited States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 · 1937–2022
- Clement AttleePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 · 1883–1967
- Dorothy HodgkinBritish chemist · 1910–1994
- Jeremy BenthamBritish philosopher, jurist, and social reformer · 1748–1832
- Abd al-Aziz BoutafliqaPresident of Algeria from 1999 to 2019 · 1937–2021
- Jean PiagetSwiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic · 1896–1980
- Paul HeyseGerman writer · 1830–1914
- Eugène IonescoRomanian-French playwright · 1909–1994
- Stanisław LemPolish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor · 1921–2006
- Philipp LenardGerman physicist · 1862–1947
- Pranab MukherjeePresident of India from 2012 to 2017 · 1935–2020
- TheophrastusGreek philosopher · c. 371–287 BC
- Jaroslav SeifertCzechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate · 1901–1986
- Eugenio MontaleItalian poet · 1896–1981
- Charlton HestonAmerican actor · 1923–2008
- Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharIndian-American astrophysicist · 1910–1995
- Marguerite YourcenarFrench novelist and essayist · 1903–1987
- Gloria SwansonAmerican actress · 1899–1983
- Jomo KenyattaFirst Prime Minister (1963 to 1964) and President (1964 to 1978) of self-governing Kenya · 1893–1978
- José EchegaraySpanish playwright · 1832–1916
- Sirimavo BandaranaikePrime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000 · 1916–2000
- Emmanuel SwedenborgSwedish 18th century scientist and theologian · 1688–1772
- Colin PowellAmerican general and diplomat · 1937–2021
- Norman MailerAmerican writer · 1923–2007
- Debbie ReynoldsAmerican actress, singer, and dancer · 1932–2016
- Odysseas ElytisGreek poet and art critic · 1911–1996
- Emil CioranRomanian-French philosopher and essayist · 1911–1995
- Diophantus of Alexandria3rd century Alexandrian Greek mathematician · c. AD 200–284
- Porfirio DíazPresident of Mexico · 1830–1915
- Emilio G. SegrèItalian physicist and Nobel laureate · 1905–1989
- Joseph ListerBritish surgeon and antiseptic pioneer · 1827–1912
- Jean MaraisFrench actor and theatre director · 1913–1998
- Leslie NielsenCanadian-American actor and comedian · 1926–2010
- Andrey KolmogorovRussian mathematician · 1903–1987
- Juan Manuel FangioArgentine racing driver · 1911–1995
- Edward Mills PurcellAmerican physicist · 1912–1997
- Richard DedekindGerman mathematician · 1831–1916
- Alva MyrdalSwedish sociologist and politician · 1902–1986
- Charles K. KaoHong Kong-British-American physicist · 1933–2018
- Ramon LlullMajorcan writer and philosopher · c. 1232–1316
- Jean RenoirFrench film director and screenwriter · 1894–1979
- Malik ibn AnasArab Islamic jurist, theologian and hadith traditionist · c. AD 711–795
- Max ErnstGerman artist · 1891–1976
- David J. ThoulessBritish physicist · 1934–2019
- Hermann StaudingerGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry · 1881–1965
- Claude ShannonAmerican mathematician and information theorist · 1916–2001
- Herbert SimonAmerican political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist · 1916–2001
- Patricia NealAmerican stage and film actress · 1926–2010
- Franz BoasGerman-American anthropologist · 1858–1942
- Karl KautskyCzech-Austrian Marxist theorist · 1854–1938
- Mohammad MosaddeghFormer Prime Minister of Iran · 1882–1967
- Sathya Sai BabaIndian spiritual guru · 1926–2011
- John McCarthyAmerican computer scientist and cognitive scientist · 1927–2011
- Robert Brown ↗British botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion · 1773–1858
- Simon Kuznets ↗Russian-born American economist and statistician · 1901–1985
- Fahri Korutürk ↗6th President of the Republic of Turkey · 1903–1987
- James Cronin ↗American physicist · 1931–2016
- Bernardo Houssay ↗Argentine physician · 1887–1971
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta ↗Italian journalist, revolutionary soldier and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate · 1833–1918
- Fredrik Bajer ↗Danish politician · 1837–1922
- Giya Kancheli ↗Soviet and Georgian composer · 1935–2019
- al-Ma'arri ↗Medieval Arab poet and thinker · c. 973–1057
- Alexandre Millerand ↗French lawyer and statesman · 1859–1943
- Chien-Shiung Wu ↗Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years) · 1912–1997
- Necmettin Erbakan ↗23rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey · 1926–2011
- Maurice Jarre ↗French composer and conductor · 1924–2009
- Pietro Metastasio ↗Italian poet and librettist · 1698–1782
- Pierre Mauroy ↗86th Prime Minister of France · 1928–2013
- Richard F. Heck ↗American chemist · 1931–2015
- Charan Singh ↗Prime Minister of India · 1902–1987
- Edward Hopper ↗American realist painter and printmaker · 1882–1967
- F. Sherwood Rowland ↗American chemist · 1927–2012
- James Tobin ↗American economist · 1918–2002
- Jules Grévy ↗French statesman and lawyer · 1807–1891
- Marcel Marceau ↗French actor and mime artist · 1923–2007
- Yves Chauvin ↗French chemist · 1930–2015
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin ↗Physiologist and biophysicist · 1914–1998
- Brian Mulroney ↗Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993 · 1939–2024
- Erich Raeder ↗German admiral · 1876–1960
- G. E. Moore ↗English philosopher · 1873–1958
- Posidonius ↗Greek Stoic philosopher · c. 135–51 BC
- Max Brod ↗Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist · 1884–1968
- A. J. Cronin ↗Scottish novelist · 1896–1981
- Albert Claude ↗Belgian-American cell biologist · 1898–1983
- Ninon de Lenclos ↗French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts · 1620–1705
- Wilhelm Pieck ↗German communist politician, president of GDR · 1876–1960
- Andrei Tupolev ↗Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer · 1888–1972
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