About the day » Sunday December 30, 1984Calender converter

• Aart Kind (58), Rotterdam
• Anna Margaret Simon (86), Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Zwinkels (79)
• Arendje Gerrits Krab (86), Egmond, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• An Messias Cordeiro Cardoso (76), Santa Catarina, Brasil
• ? ? (88)
• Antonia Bor (78), Leerdam
• Anna Worsten (79)
• Adrianus Kouwenberg (81), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aartje Baardman (85), Sliedrecht

• 1982 » Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
• 1983 » Davide Mandorlini, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Eddie Edwards, American professional wrestler
• 1983 » Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram
• 1983 » Nick Symmonds, American runner
• 1984 » Andra Day, American singer and songwriter
• 1984 » LeBron James, American basketball player, producer and businessman
• 1984 » Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
• 1985 » Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist

• 1979 » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Violette Cordery, English race car driver (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and landscaper (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (b. 1925)
• 1990 » Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929)
• 1992 » Romeo Muller, American actor, screenwriter, for screenplays like the 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) (b. 1928)
• 1993 » İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish lawyer and politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)

• 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 13 » Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
• 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 2 » Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
• 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 December 30, 1984 was between -2.0 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.