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• Johanna Wilhelmina Alberdina van Asselt, IJsselmuiden († 2001)
• Sidney Fokker, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jan Kristian Michael Suyderhoud, Redding (Cal)
• Sarah Jane Mosley NMOS01.SAR01, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England († 2005)
• David Glen Schipper († 1986)
• Desirée Lurvink

• David George Turtle (90), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Clifton Llewelyn STANCLIFF (91), Kern County California U.S.A
• Doc Claude Harrill (84), Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Deliën- (67), Tilburg, Nederland
• Antje Zuur (75), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Cyriel-René GILLIS (71), Zomergem (Rustoord Ons Zomerheem
• Berbera de Jong (74), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Aize de Jong (86), Suameer
• Adriana Catharina van Eyck (93)
• Albertus Johannes Dresmé (63), Den Haag

• 1981 » Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 » Tom Hiddleston, English actor, producer, and musical performer
• 1982 » Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 » Chris Weale, English footballer and manager
• 1982 » Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
• 1983 » Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
• 1984 » Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer
• 1984 » Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » David Gallagher, American actor

• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)

• 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 » Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• July 25 » Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• October 16 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• November 1 » After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
• November 14 » Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
• 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.

The temperature on February 9, 1984 was between 1.0 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.