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• Diogo Simões Botelho, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil († 2011)
• Elisabeth Margaretha Amalie van Dissel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Jonathan Matk Schuiteman, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2025)
• Natasja Almadi
• Jacob Cristiaan Antonides, Heerenveen († 2021)
• Jonatan Corbet, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2015)
• Sara Elizabeth Achterhof, Anaheim, CA

• Anna Cornelia Maria van den Molengraft (36), Valkenswaard
• Bernardus Henderikus Lubbers (93), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Loon (91), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berta HERTZ (80), Sittard, 3105, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van LOON (91), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland NL
• Carolus (Charles) Peeters (61), Baarle-Nassau
• Catharina Hendrika Meijer (93), Slagharen
• Arthur W. White (92), Cottondale, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America
• AUGUSTINUS LIVINUS FRANCISCUS LUYCKX (89), NIEUWKERKEN-W,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Franciscus Ludovicus Baert (77), Kent County (Canada)

• 1983 » Alex Acker, American basketball player
• 1983 » Monique Adamczak, Australian tennis player
• 1983 » Victor Leandro Bagy, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 » Alex Koslov, Moldovan-American wrestler
• 1984 » Amy Hastings, American track and fielder
• 1984 » Dejan Milovanović, Serbian footballer
• 1984 » Haloti Ngata, American footballer
• 1984 » Leonardo Burián, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 » Luke Grimes, American actor
• 1984 » Wes Morgan, Jamaican footballer

• 1978 » Freda Utley, English scholar and author (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Lamar Williams, American bass player (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Giannis Skarimpas, Greek playwright and poet (b. 1893)
• 1984 » Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
• 1985 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
• 1985 » James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Charles Goodell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1926)
• 1988 » Vincent Lingiari, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)

• 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 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
• February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
• November 19 » San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
• November 25 » Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• December 19 » The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.

The average temperature on January 21, 1984 was -2.0 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.