About the day » Monday January 23, 1984Calender converter

• Melvin van HEEL, Maasdriel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Tiago Mesquita Bezerra e Silva, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil († 2010)

• Aagje Vredentuin (79), Zaandam
• Arie Heens (66), Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arend Oelen (76)
• Agnes Wolters (54)
• Arie Frederik Lorier (75), Sliedrecht, Nederland
• * Gijsbert Pieter Satter (51)
• Adrianus Dirk de Vroet (78), Oud-Beijerland
• Anton Stimac (82), Bosljiva Loka, Osilnica, Slovenia
• Anna Minke Teffer (94), Olympia, WA (U.S.A.)
• André Nicolaas de Boer (60), Middelburg Zeeland Nederland

• 1982 » Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 » Irving Saladino, Panamanian long jumper
• 1984 » Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
• 1984 » Robbie Farah, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Aselefech Mergia, Ethiopian runner
• 1985 » Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
• 1985 » Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model and actress
• 1985 » Jeff Samardzija, American baseball player
• 1985 » San E, South Korean rapper
• 1985 » Yevgeny Lukyanenko, Russian pole vaulter

• 1978 » Terry Kath, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1980 » Giovanni Michelotti, Italian engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Fred Bakewell, English cricketer and coach (b. 1908)
• 1984 » Muin Bseiso, Palestinian-Egyptian poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 1985 » James Beard, American chef and cookbook author for whom the James Beard Foundation Awards are named (b.1905)
• 1986 » Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and painter (b. 1921)
• 1988 » Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1989 » Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1989 » Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1904)

• 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 7 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
• February 13 » Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• May 27 » The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
• July 28 » Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles.
• September 18 » Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• 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.

The temperature on January 23, 1984 was between -8.8 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 11.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.