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• Albertus Anthonie LOK (72), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Nicolaa ten Berge (83), Groningen
• Allegonda Johanna Langenhuizen (77), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arno Lissner (81), Karkur, Israel
• Anna Johanna van der Velden (64), Zandvoort
• Agnes Baas (72), blodgett hospital, kent county. michig
• Bernhardus Johannes Davina (78), Nürnberg (D)
• Andries Kooistra (89), Appelscha, gem. Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Niekamp (73), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Gertruda Ebben (102), Linden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1980 » Maarja Liis-Ilus, Estonian pop musician
• 1980 » Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 » Tomas Kalnoky, Czech-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » Dima Bilan, Russian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1984 » Isaac De Gois, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player
• 1985 » David Ragan, American race car driver
• 1986 » Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player
• 1986 » Tim Elliott, American mixed martial artist
• 1987 » Jane Summersett, American ice dancer

• 1980 » Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (b. 1891)
• 1982 » Louis Aragon, French author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Peter Lawford, English-American actor (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Camille Tourville, Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Gardner Fox, American author (b. 1911)
• 1987 » Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, 45th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
• 1987 » M. G. Ramachandran, Sri Lankan-Indian actor, producer, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Jainendra Kumar, Indian author (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian playwright and songwriter (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 13 » Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
• 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 1 » NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
• 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 December 24, 1984 was between 3.9 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.