About the day » Friday August 24, 1984Calender converter

• Myranda van Boesschoten († 1985)
• Peter Joseph (Petey) TALEN, Minneapolis Hennepin County Minnesota U.S.A († 2007)
• Sander van Elst († 1984)

• Antonius Carel van Eeden (66), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Muilwijk (86), Kedichem
• Arie Moerman (92), Bergschenhoek
• Aaltje Weiland (82), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Lucia Zwaan (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arend Pierweijer (63), Enschede Overijssel Nederland
• Casimir-Gerardus De Smet (85), Aalst
• Anna Margareta Ströbel (85), Nürnberg (D)
• Baukje Bruinsma (79)
• Augustinus Steffens Elgersma (88), Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1982 » Glen Atle Larsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 » José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 » Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
• 1983 » Brett Gardner, American baseball player
• 1983 » George Perris, Greek-French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1983 » Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
• 1984 » Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
• 1984 » Erin Molan, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1986 » Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
• 1986 » Nick Adenhart, American baseball player († 2009)

• 1978 » Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 1990 » Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1941)

1. Mark
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Peter
5. Michael
6. Martijn
7. Wouter
8. Johannes
9. Robert
10. Pieter
11. David
12. Hendrik
13. Bart
14. Thomas
15. Erik
16. Vincent

1. Linda
2. Maria
3. Jessica
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Esther
8. Laura
9. Johanna
10. Sarah
11. Nicole
12. Sandra
13. Maaike
14. Suzanne
15. Jennifer
16. Bianca

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
• January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
• March 29 » The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
• June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
• August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

The temperature on August 24, 1984 was between 16.0 °C and 28.8 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.