About the day » Sunday January 8, 1984Calender converter

• Yoram de Roos, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Brenda * Tjarks († 1991)
• Kristen Anna Rada, Omaha (Nebraska) (VS)

• Anna van der Walle (66), Oldemarkt
• Berendina-Engelina van 't Ende (89), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aukje Wiggele de Visser (89), Grou
• Agnes Clara Kmetz (70), Lane, Oregon, United States
• Aukje Wiggeles Visser (89), Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Annie Lorie Hotchkiss (60), Bulloch County, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Aldon Martin (75), Bartons, St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica
• Anna van Baast (85), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Edward Carl Noe (81), Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
• Berendina Engelina van 't Ende (89), Leeuwarden

• 1980 » Adam Goodes, Australian footballer
• 1980 » Rachel Nichols, American actress and producer
• 1981 » Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
• 1981 » Trent Waterhouse, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
• 1983 » Jon Daly, Irish footballer
• 1984 » Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
• 1984 » Jeon Ji-ae, South Korean actress
• 1984 » Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea (probable)
• 1986 » David Silva, Spanish footballer

• 1979 » Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (b. 1898)
• 1980 » John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Gale Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1983 » Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1986 » Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906)
• 1990 » Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)

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. Johanna
9. Laura
10. Sarah
11. Maaike
12. Sandra
13. Nicole
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.
• July 18 » McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
• July 25 » Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• August 15 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
• November 27 » Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
• December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
• December 23 » After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.

The temperature on January 8, 1984 was between 1.7 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.