January 1984
1
- Stephen Appleby, 71, English pilot
- A. E. Clouston, 75, New Zealand-born British test pilot and senior officer in the Royal Air Force
- David C. Eldredge, 62, American politician
- Max Ellmer, 73, Swiss tennis player
- Paula Grogger, 91, Austrian writer
- Walter Hennecke, 85, German admiral during World War II
- Billy Hill, 72, English gangster
- Kenzo Izutsu, 42, Japanese swimmer
- Alexis Korner, 55, British blues musician and broadcaster [1]
- Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega, 80, Spanish bullfighter, lung cancer [2]
- Hazel Measner, 58, Canadian pitcher
- Richard Parkhouse, 73, English cricketer
- Hume Peabody, 90, American career aviator and military officer
- Bent Blach Petersen, 59, Danish rower and Olympian
- Carleton Simmons, 78, American athlete, coach and financier
- Augustin Souchy, 91, Silesian anarchist, antimilitarist, labour union official and journalist
- Kaarlo Vähämäki, 91, Finnish gymnast
- Taufiq Wahby, 93, Kurdish writer, linguist and politician
- Allen Wheeler, 80, Royal Air Force officer and pilot
2
- Haji Bashir, 72, Somali politician [3]
- Ivan Grove, 89, American football, basketball and track coach and college athlete
- Achmadi Hadisoemarto, 56, Indonesian soldier and politician
- Henry McKechnie, 68, Australian politician and wheat grower [4]
- Leon Pape, 58, medical physicist
- Kenneth Sitzberger, 38, American diver
- Manuel Solis, 94, Mexican sports shooter and Olympian
3
- Karl Brugger, 42 or 43, German foreign correspondent and author
- Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier, 87, American writer
- Louis A. Craig, 92, American military officer
- David Dunkle, 72, American paleontologist
- Sebastià Juan i Arbó, 81, Spanish novelist and playwright
- Alfred A. Lama, 84, American architect and politician [5]
- Fritz Mattick, 82, German botanist
- Fergus McDonell, 73, English film editor and director
- Morris Sugden, 64, British chemist who specialised in combustion research [6] [7]
- Ivete Vargas, 56, Brazilian journalist and politician
4
- Hisarlı Ahmet, Turkish ashik (b. 1908, exact age unknown) [8]
- Wilfred Burns, 60, British town planner
- Owen Burrows, 80, Australian cricketer
- Jameson Clark, 76, Scottish actor
- Robert Firth, 65, American judge
- Richard Hughes, 77, Australian journalist
- Enoch Jenkins, 91, Welsh sports shooter and Olympian
- Constantin Krage, 83, Danish architect
- Julien Lefèvre, 76, Luxembourgish sculptor
- Gösta Lindh, 59, Swedish association football and Olympic medalist
- Abe Olman, 96, American songwriter and music publisher
- Frank Peratrovich, 88, American businessman and politician [9]
- Orval Prophet, 61, Canadian country music performer
- Sir Kenneth Thompson, 1st Baronet, British businessman and politician
- Reza Zanjani, Iranian cleric
5
- Augusts Annuss, 90, Latvian painter
- Giuseppe Fava, 58, Italian writer and journalist, assassinated [10]
- Reg Horne, 75, English professional golfer
- Alice Mendham Powell, 80, American progressive educator, college professor, and school founder
- Sushil Ramgoolam, 61, former First Lady of Mauritius
- Alfred Scott, 82, New Zealand cricketer
- Dmitri Vasilyev, 83, Soviet and Russian film director
- Vaclav Vytlacil, 91, American artist and art instructor
6
- Hermann Engelhard, 80, German middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist
- Icie Hoobler, 91, American biochemist
- Ernest Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-American cinematographer [11]
- Surjit Singh Randhawa, 32, Indian field hockey player
7
- Costică Acsinte, 86, Romanian photographer [12]
- Karl August Bühler, 79, German politician
- Siddheshwar Shastri Chitrav, 83, Indian Vedic scholar, lexicographer, translator and writer of Marathi literature
- Walter Forde, 85, British actor, screenwriter and director
- Alfred Kastler, 81 French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [13]
- Reginald Taylor, 74, English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex
- Ambroz Testen, 86, Franciscan and Croatian expressionistic painter
8
- Baba Sali, 94, Moroccan Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist
- Alexander Williams, 80, British colonial administrator [14]
9
- Bob Dyer, 74, American vaudeville entertainer, singer, radio and television personality who was primarily active in Australia
- Frederick Gibberd, 76, English architect, town planner and landscape designer
- Seán MacEntee, 94, Irish Fianna Fáil politician
- Sir Deighton Lisle Ward, 74, 4th Governor-General of Barbados [15]
10
- Alexander Brewer, 77, English first-class cricketer and British Army officer
- Toivo Loukola, 81, Finnish runner and Olympic gold medalist
- Souvanna Phouma, 82, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Laos [16]
- Ernest Albert Vasey, 82, a British politician and actor
- Laurie Wallis, 61, Australian politician
- Christopher Woolner, 90, British Army officer
11
- Fritz Geißler, 62, German composer [17]
- Allie Lampard, 98, Australian cricketer
- Jack La Rue, 81, American actor, heart attack [18]
- Ahmad Yunus Mokoginta, 62, Indonesian military officer and a signatory to the Petition of Fifty [19]
- Karl Smidt, 80, German naval commander
- Erik Stensiö, 92, Swedish paleozoologist
- Gwyn Thomas, 91, Welsh rugby league footballer
12
- Marina Chechneva, 61, Russian "Night Witch" aviator during World War II [20] [21] [22]
- Mohammad Tabrani, 79, Indonesian journalist and politician
13
- Fulvio Bernardini, 78, Italian football player and coach [23]
- John Bolster, 73, British racing driver and journalist
- Ian Campbell, 81, Scottish painter
- Gustav Harteneck, 91, German general during WWII
- Themis Rigas, 39, Greek footballer
14
- Brooks Atkinson, 89, American theater critic [24]
- Paul Ben-Haim, 86, Israeli composer
- Cipriano Elis, 76, Spanish racing cyclist
- Saad Haddad, 47 or 48, Lebanese military officer and militia leader
- Ray Kroc, 81, American entrepreneur, heart failure [25]
- Dipya Mongkollugsana, 65, Thai oral surgeon, naval commander, and sports shooter
- Sidney Stretton, 81, English cricketer
15
- Vera Bell, 79, Jamaican poet, short-story writer and playwright
- Titus Burckhardt, 75, Swiss writer
- Fazıl Küçük, 77, Turkish Cypriot politician and a medical doctor who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus [26] [27]
16
- León Dujovne, Argentine, 85, writer, philosopher, essayist and journalist
- Ivan Barchenko-Yemelyanov, 69, a Soviet Navy officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Józef Nowak, 58, Polish actor
- Frederick Scherger, 79, senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force
- C. M. Stephen, 65, Indian politician [28]
- Nikolai Yanenko, 62, Soviet mathematician and academician
17
- Ángel Arteaga, 55, Spanish musician and composer
- Birger Åsander, 74, Swedish actor
- Geoffrey Bell, 87, English cricketer and educator
- Kostas Giannidis, 80, Greek composer and pianist
- Marie Hall Ets, 88, American children's book writer & illustrator (In the Forest, Play With Me, Nine Days to Christmas).
- Helmut Mertens, 66, German fighter ace of World War II
- Rajarambapu Patil, 63, Indian politician
- George Rigaud, 78, Argentinian actor [29]
- Trần Văn Hữu, 87, Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam
- Anna Martinowa Zarina, 76, Latvian artist
18
- José Carlos Ary dos Santos, 46, Portuguese poet, lyricist, and poetry reader
- Max Bentley, 63, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Robert Hennion, 85, French film director [30]
- Malcolm H. Kerr, 52, American academic who was president of the American University of Beirut at the time of his murder
- Lord Athol Layton, 62, English-Australian professional wrestler, amateur boxer, and professional wrestling commentator
- Panteleimon Ponomarenko, 81, Soviet statesman and politician
- Vassilis Tsitsanis, 69, Greek songwriter and bouzouki player [31]
19
- Frances Dorothy Acomb, 76, American academic and historian [32]
- Gösta Bengtsson, 86, Swedish sailor and Olympic gold medalist
- Robert Lucas, 79, Austrian Jewish writer
- Habibur Rehman, 58, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic medalist
- Wolfgang Staudte, 77, German film director, script writer and actor
20
- Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, 72, British peer and the last Earl of Warwick
- Hagbart Haakonsen, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier
- Richard Shorter, 77, English cricketer
- Artur Svensson, 83, Swedish sprinter and Olympic medalist
- Georg Thurmair, 74, German poet and hymnwriter
- Johnny Weissmuller, 79, Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor, pulmonary edema [33]
21
- Roger Blin, 76, French actor and director
- Fang Ganmin, 77, Chinese French-trained painter, sculptor and educator,
- Archduke Gottfried of Austria, 81, claimant to the defunct throne of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany [34]
- May Mills, 93, Australian sports administrator and educator [35]
- Hywel Murrell, 75, British psychologist
- Edgar Percival, 86, Australian aircraft designer and pilot
- Giannis Skarimpas, 90, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet
- Grace Vaughan, 61, Australian politician
- Jackie Wilson, 49, American singer [36]
22
- Fyodor Bakunin, 81, Soviet Army major general
- Noël Bowater, 91, English politician
- Campanal I, 71, Spanish footballer and sports manager [37]
- Mikiel Gonzi, 98, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta
- Hisato Ichimada, 90, Japanese banker and politician
- Chaïm Perelman, 71, Belgian philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin
- Konstantin Pysin, 73, Soviet political figure
- Alexey Rantala, 42, bishop of the Orthodox Church of Finland
- Pavel Ștefan, 69, Romanian communist politician
- Josef Walcher, 29, Austrian Alpine skier
23
- Muin Bseiso, 57, Palestinian poet and playwright
- William Eyton-Jones, 89, British Merchant Navy Captain and master mariner
- Samuel Gardner, 92, American composer and violinist
- Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem, 91, Swiss archaeologist and art historian [38]
- Dean Goffin, 67, New Zealand composer
- Sanapia, 88 or 89, Comanche medicine woman and spiritual healer
- Hans Christian Sørensen, 83, Danish gymnast
- François Lepenant, 90, French racing cyclist
24
- Bruce Cochran, 64, Canadian businessman, publisher, and politician
- Bernard Cowen, 51, Irish Fianna Fáil politician [39]
- Kalervo Kinos, 78, Finnish gymnast
25
- Denton Massey, 83, Canadian engineer, Anglican priest and politician [40]
- B. Puttaswamayya, 86, Indian novelist, playwright and journalist [41]
26
- Edwin Boxshall, 86, British intelligence officer
- Baijnath Kureel, 63, Indian politician
- Olga Manuilova, 90, Soviet sculptor
- Leny Marenbach, 76, German actress [42]
- Nathan Rocyn-Jones, 81, Welsh international rugby union player
27
- Mohamed Ahmed, 66, Comorian politician
- Douglas Camfield, 52, heart attack [43]
- Margaret Gibb, 91, British political activist for the Labour Party in the North East of England
- Lucy Duff Grant, 89, British nurse, matron, President of the Royal College of Nursing
- Hans Krag, Norwegian writer, publisher, and translator [44]
- Arthur Steiner, 87, Austrian writer and sports journalist
28
- Al Dexter, 78, American country musician and songwriter
- Abdur Rezzak Khan, 83, Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician
- John MacVane, 71, American broadcast journalist and war correspondent
- Sohrab Modi, 86, Indian stage and film actor, director and producer [45]
- Bill Radcliffe, 66, Manx language activist, author, and teacher
29
- Frances Goodrich, 93, American screenwriter [46]
- Humphrey Lestocq, 65, British actor
- Edzard Schaper, 75, German author
- John Macnaghten Whittaker, 78, British mathematician
30
- Susan Grey Akers, 94, American librarian and the first woman to hold an academic deanship at the University of North Carolina [47]
- Crox Alvarado, 73, Costa Rican actor
- Andi Aziz, 59, Indonesian military officer
- Kenneth Burns Conn, 87, Canadian First World War flying ace
- Hilding Ekelund, 90, Finnish architect
- Alejandro Goicoechea, 88, Spanish engineer
- Luke Kelly, 43, lead singer of Irish band The Dubliners [48]
- Anatoly Olizarenko, 47, Soviet cyclist
- Yangmaso Shaiza, 62 or 63, Indian politician
31
- Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah of Perak, 59, 33rd Sultan of Perak
- Josef Charvát, 86, Czech doctor and endocrinologist
- George Harmon Coxe, 82, American writer, suicide [49]
- Jack Egan, 79, Irish hurler