About the day » Wednesday March 21, 1984Calender converter

• Sherivienne G. Ph. Franciska
• Janske Steffen, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2024)

• Clinton Daniel Chezem (94), Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, United States of America
• Albertus Cornelis (55), Bladel
• "Eleonore" Maria Anna Josepha Ida zu Schwarzenberg (84), Kahlsperg, Oberalm, Autriche
• Cornelis van Loon (74), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Verhoeven (71), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Johannes Buijs (37), Russelsheim (Duitsland)
• Arie Prins (88), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus de Waardt (26)
• Albert Kuiper (81)
• Alfons Pierquet (89), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1982 » Aaron Hill, American baseball player
• 1982 » Colin Turkington, Northern Irish race car driver
• 1982 » Ejegayehu Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
• 1982 » Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
• 1983 » Jean Ondoa, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 » Lucila Pascua, Spanish basketball player
• 1984 » Guillermo Daniel Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 » Tiago dos Santos Roberto, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Adrian Peterson, American football player
• 1985 » Ryan Callahan, American ice hockey player

• 1975 » Joe Medwick, American baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, President of Ireland (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1888)
• 1985 » Michael Redgrave, English actor, director, and manager (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (b. 1918)
• 1987 » Walter L. Gordon, Canadian accountant, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (b. 1909)
• 1991 » Vedat Dalokay, Turkish architect and politician, Mayor of Ankara (b. 1927)
• 1992 » John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1992 » Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)

• 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.
• July 28 » Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles.
• 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.
• August 15 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
• September 26 » The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997.
• October 16 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The temperature on March 21, 1984 was between -3.3 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.