About the day » Friday November 2, 1984Calender converter

• Lesley Jeugmans, Leuven, België († 1984)
• Clara Lieverse, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Sloane Stuart Cameron Conolly, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands († 2005)

• Dirk Arnold Willem van Tets (3), Hengelo,Gemeente Hengelo,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Arnoldus Hendrikus van der Borgh (95), Boven-Leeuwen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carl Born
• Cornelis van Schuppen (63)
• Alexander Jan van Nijkerk (56), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dirk Kolkman (82), Amsterdam
• Antonius Franciscus Cornelis de Jongh (83), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alagonda Eppinga (75)
• Dorothy Bird (82), Sacramento, California, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Geertruida Drost (77), Stichtse Vecht(Ut)-Breukelen

• 1981 » Miryo, South Korean rapper
• 1981 » Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer
• 1981 » Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress
• 1981 » Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer
• 1981 » Roddy White, American football player
• 1982 » Charles Itandje, French footballer
• 1982 » Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player
• 1983 » Darren Young, American wrestler
• 1983 » Ebonette Deigaeruk, Nauruan weightlifter
• 1986 » Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player

• 1975 » Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
• 1990 » Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)
• 1992 » Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1992 » Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (b. 1930)
• 1994 » Martin Taras, American animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (b. 1917)

• 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.
• June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• September 18 » Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• 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.
• December 10 » United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.
• 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.

The temperature on November 2, 1984 was between 7.1 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.