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• Regnerus Josephus Ignatius Visser, Snnek

• Dora Bell Clark (99), Blue Mountain Cemetery, Blue Mountain, Logan County, Arkansas
• Dirk Coenraad Oudenes (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Doris May Williams (69), Sacramento, Sacramento, California, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Jouke de Vries (26), Leeuwarden
• Audie Lee MURPHY (21)
• Bertha Barsema (87), Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Hendrik Honingh (73), Amsterdam
• Cora May Hadley Kittrell [KsDCBu] (81), Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri
• Daniel Spier (79), Emmer-Compascuum (Emmen)
• Augustinus CROLS (90), Arendonk,2370,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 1982 » Braith Anasta, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1982 » Chris Heighington, Australian-English rugby league player
• 1982 » Marc Broussard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 » Cesare Bovo, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Jason Krejza, Australian cricketer
• 1984 » Erick Aybar, American baseball player
• 1984 » Erika Matsuo, Japanese violinist
• 1984 » Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
• 1985 » Joel Rosario, Dominican-American jockey
• 1985 » Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater

• 1978 » Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1980 » Robert Ardrey, American-South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1981 » G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1893)
• 1981 » John O'Grady, Australian author and poet (b. 1907)
• 1984 » Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1987 » Douglas Sirk, German-Swiss director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1987 » Turgut Demirağ, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1988 » Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician, 5th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1902)

• 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.
• February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• March 16 » William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
• October 16 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• November 14 » Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
• 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 January 14, 1984 was between 3.5 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.