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• Michael Scott Campbell, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Chantal Ruckert, Volendam
• Ryan Michael Fischer, Idianapolis, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Roy Vlietstra, Raalte
• Herman Schmitz († 1984)
• Thijs Johan Wessels, Winterswijk

• Aartje Adriana van Galen (86), Hoogvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Franciscus Raeyen (68), Calpé Spanje
• Arnoldus Marinus Scheer (80), Laren
• Christina Gijsbertha Fellinga (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Antje Dirks Zijlstra (94)
• Albert Hovenkamp (88), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina Maria van Croonenburg (87), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• CARL GRUELL WILSON (75), Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Aukje SNIP (89)
• Clarence George Van Etten (78), White Cloud, Newaygo, Michigan, United States of America

• 1982 » Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player
• 1982 » Serena Ryder, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Neel Jani, Swiss race car driver
• 1983 » Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer († 2014)
• 1984 » Emma Green Tregaro, Swedish high jumper
• 1984 » Greg Halford, English footballer
• 1984 » Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Dwight Howard, American basketball player
• 1985 » Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater
• 1985 » Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player

• 1982 » André Kamperveen, Surinamese footballer and manager (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and politician (b. 1951)
• 1982 » Haim Laskov, Israel Defense Forces fifth Chief of Staff (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and race car driver (b. 1925)
• 1983 » Keith Holyoake, New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1984 » Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
• 1984 » Robert Jay Mathews, American militant leader, founded The Order (b. 1953)
• 1984 » Semih Sancar, Turkish general (b. 1911)

• 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 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 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).
• March 29 » The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
• July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
• October 12 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
• 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 8, 1984 was between -0.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.