About the day » Monday April 16, 1984Calender converter

• Robin Boneschansker, Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2006)

• Anna Wilhelmina Dicou (88), Apeldoorn
• Aaltje Veldkamp (67), Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoon Biemans (40), S'Hertogenbosch {NB,NL}
• Alphonsus Adrianus Johannes Raaijmakers (78), Woensdrecht
• Bernhard Kathmann (60), Germany
• Adriana Theresia Leyten (80), Hoogstraten (Antwerpen, BEL)
• Charlotte Everdina Verschoor (57), Lelystad
• Albert René Vermeulen (33), Gent
• Anna Antonia Francisca de Waart (74), Maarssen
• Arnoldus de Man (76), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1983 » Cat Osterman, American softball player
• 1983 » Marié Digby, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1984 » Claire Foy, English actress
• 1984 » Kerron Stewart, Jamaican sprinter
• 1984 » Paweł Kieszek, Polish footballer
• 1984 » Teddy Blass, American composer and producer
• 1984 » Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
• 1985 » Benjamín Rojas, Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1985 » Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 » Luol Deng, Sudanese-English basketball player

• 1978 » Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1988 » Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (b. 1935)
• 1988 » Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954)
• 1989 » Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
• 1991 » David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)

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 22 » President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.
• June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
• September 20 » A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
• October 11 » Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
• December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
• 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 April 16, 1984 was between 1.7 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.