1984
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s |
| Years: | 1981 1982 1983 – 1984 – 1985 1986 1987 |
Events
January - June
- April 27 - Patrick Stump, American singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist
- Date unknown – Cigerxwîn, Kurdish polymath
- January 17 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer and songwriter
- January 23 – Lina Hahne, Miss Sweden 2007
- January 25 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
- February 9 – Anna Jurkiewicz, Polish figure skater
- February 12 – Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
- February 21 – David Odonkor, German footballer
- March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American singer
- April 10 – Mandy Moore, American actress and singer
- April 30 – Shawn Daivari, Iranian-American professional wrestler
- May 29 – Carmelo Anthony, NBA star
- June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
July - December
- July 2 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
- July 11 – Tanith Belbin, American figure skater
- August 1 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- August 21 – Alizée, French singer
- September 2 – Jack Peñate, English singer-songwriter and musician
- September 27 – Angela Haynes, American tennis player
- September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
- September 29 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
- October 2 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
- October 3 – Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
- October 25 - Katy Perry, American singer
- October 26 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
- October 27 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer
- November 14 – Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
- November 23 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer and songwriter
- November 25 – Hồ Ngọc Hà, Vietnamese singer, model and actress
- December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula 1 driver
- December 22 – Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
Births
Deaths
January
- January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist (b. 1902)
- January 14 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
- January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
February
- February 9 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
- February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
March
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- April 1 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
- April 15 – Tommy Cooper, British prop comedian and magician (b. 1921)
May
- May 4 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
- May 16 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
June
- June 11 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
July
August
- August 5 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
- August 19 – Louis Lansana Beavogui, President of Guinea (b. 1923)
- August 28 - Mohamed Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
September
- September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
October
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- October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor and model (b. 1957)
- October 20 – Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist (b. 1902)
- October 21 – François Truffaut, French movie director (b. 1932)
- October 22 – Cigerxwîn, Kurdish polymath and nationalist (b. 1903)
- October 31 – Indira Gandhi, 3rd Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
November
- November 11 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist preacher (b. 1899)
December
- December 7 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (b. 1919)
- December 24 – Peter Lawford, British-American actor (b. 1923)
Movies released
Hit songs
- Van Halen – Jump
- Ray Parker, Jr. – Ghostbusters (Los Cazafantasmas)
- Phil Collins – Against All Odds
New books
- The Aquitaine Progression – Robert Ludlum
- The Big U – Neal Stephenson (debut novel)
- Brother in the Land – Robert Swindells
- The Butter Battle Book – Dr. Seuss
- Empire of the Sun – James Ballard
- First Among Equals – Jeffrey Archer
- The Fourth Protocol – Frederick Forsyth
- Full Circle – Danielle Steel
- Lincoln: A Novel – Gore Vidal
- Love and War – John Jakes
- Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
- The Lover (French: L'Amant) – Marguerite Duras
- Money – Martin Amis
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- The Outsider – Howard Fast
- The Practice Effect – David Brin
- Random Hearts – Warren Adler
- Role of Honour – John Gardner
- A Shock to the System – Simon Brett
- The Sicilian – Mario Puzo
- Slow Learner: Early Stories – Thomas Pynchon
- Stanley and the Women – Kingsley Amis
- The Talisman – Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Thinner – Richard Bachman (nom de plume for Stephen King)
- The Tie That Binds – Kent Haruf
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- White Noise – Don DeLillo
- The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike