About the day » Friday February 17, 1984Calender converter

• Bart Christiaan Naus, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Frans den Heijer, Monster († 1984)
• Idger Heinse Zwiers, Hoorn
• Alexandra Bos, Tilburg

• Aaltje Schaapman (76)
• Brian Hamilton MOSS (97), Dunedin, New Zealand
• Cirila Castro (74), Lubbock, Texas
• Cornelis Duijnker (86), Den Oever
• Alex Bright Cox (57)
• Adriana Gelten (82), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Boertien (143), Enschede {OV}
• Afton BOOTHE (85), Ventura, Ventura, California, United States of America
• Bouwe van Beelen (82), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van Eck

• 1982 » Adriano, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 » Brian Bruney, American baseball player
• 1982 » Daniel Merriweather, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1984 » AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
• 1984 » Drew Miller, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Jimmy Jacobs, American wrestler
• 1984 » Katie Hill, Australian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player
• 1984 » Marcin Gortat, Polish basketball player
• 1985 » Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper

• 1977 » Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Lee Strasberg, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
• 1988 » John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Karpoori Thakur, Indian educator and politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (b. 1951)

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. Laura
9. Johanna
10. Nicole
11. Sarah
12. Maaike
13. Sandra
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.
• February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• February 22 » President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.
• June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• August 5 » A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
• August 11 » "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
• October 31 » Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.

The temperature on February 17, 1984 was between -5.1 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -3.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.