February 1984
1
- Arthur Armitage, 67, British academic who was the president of Queens' College, Cambridge [1]
- Hans Vinjarengen, 78, Norwegian skier [2]
2
- Harry Lindblad, 71, Finnish ice hockey administrator, coach and player [3]
3
- Paul Féret, 82, French tennis player [4]
- Hubert Ney, 91, German politician [5]
4
- Alan Buchanan, 78, Anglican bishop [6]
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- Frank Byers, 68, British Liberal Party politician, heart attack [8]
- Jorge Guillén, 91, Spanish poet [9]
7
- Nolini Kanta Gupta, 71, Indian revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi [10]
8
- Karel Miljon, 80, Dutch boxer [11]
- Philippe Ariès, 69, French medievalist and historian [12]
9
- Yuri Andropov, 69, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, kidney failure [13]
- William Earl Rowe, 89, Canadian politician who was the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario [14]
10
- Tommy Briggs, 60, English professional footballer [15]
- Ioan Evans, 56, Welsh politician [16]
11
- Arlette Marchal, 82, French actress [17]
12
- Anna Anderson, 82, Pretender to the Russian throne [18]
- Julio Cortázar, 69, Argentine writer, AIDS [19] [20]
- Elmer Keith, 84, American rancher, author, and firearms enthusiast [21]
13
- Pierre Brambilla, 64, French road cyclist [22]
- Naomi Uemura, 43, Japanese adventurer
14
- Haidakhan Babaji, Indian religious teacher [23]
15
- Ethel Merman, 76, American singer and actress [24]
16
- Kenny Williams, 69, American television announcer and host best known for his work on Hollywood Squares [25]
17
- Pavel Batitsky, 73, Soviet military leader
- Yuri Andreyevich Smirnov, 60, Soviet linguist [26]
18
- Betty Bryson, 72, American actress and dancer [27] , she was frequently noted in the press for her physical resemblance to her fellow actress Janet Gaynor, a comparison which she described as both flattering and professionally limiting, [28] she was named one of the year’s WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1934, [29] she wrote a syndicated beauty column in 1934 titled My Beauty Hint, which offered personal grooming tips and appeared in newspapers such as the Green Bay Press-Gazette [30]
- Paul Gardiner, 25, English bass guitar player [31]
- David Watson, 50, English Anglican priest, evangelist and author [32]
19
- David Hacohen, 85, Israeli politician [33]
- Jesse Pye, 64, English footballer [34] [35]
20
- Giuseppe Colombo, 63, Italian scientist, cancer [36]
21
- Mikhail Sholokhov, 78, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate [37]
22
- Uwe Johnson, 49, German novelist (died on either February 22 or February 23), [38] suicide [39]
23
- Maurice Tabard, 86, French photographer [40]
24
- Ernst Hofbauer, 58, Austrian film director [41]
25
- Bahram Afzali, 46, Iranian admiral who served as the Commander of the Iranian Navy [42]
26
- Simone Berriau, 87, French actress [43]
- Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar, 73, British naval officer who served as Commandant of the Women's Royal Naval Service [44]
27
- Ana Rosa Tornero, Bolivian writer (b.1907, exact age unknown) [45]
28
- Olu Aboderin, 49, Nigerian publisher [46]
29
- Alexander Murray Drennan, 100, Scottish pathologist [47]