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• Manon de ROO, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1984)

• Adrianus Plaisier (76), Ridderkerk
• Antonie Gerardus Ploeger (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Zijlstra (70), Heerenveen
• Conceição Palmeiro de Avila (77), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Bessie Lodema PALMER (79), Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States of America
• Antoon Peter Linskens, - 09.1.1.3.3.2.1.3.6.9.5.2.5.2. (54), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Charles Monroe Thomas Sr (79), Taylor County, Texas, United States of America
• André Meekers (25), Hasselt, België
• Barbara Margrieta Dorp, van (68), Noordoostpolder Fle. Nederland
• Aaltje van Wikselaar (82), Harskamp, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1982 » Jacqueline Govaert, Dutch singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1983 » Danny Granger, American basketball player
• 1983 » Joanne King, Irish actress
• 1983 » Miranda Kerr, Australian model
• 1984 » Bárbara Lennie, Spanish actress
• 1984 » Edixon Perea, Colombian footballer
• 1984 » Jenna Shoemaker, American triathlete
• 1984 » Nelson Évora, Ivorian-Portuguese triple jumper
• 1985 » Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Curt Hawkins, American wrestler

• 1980 » M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1992 » Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)

• 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.
• February 29 » Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
• March 16 » William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
• June 5 » Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
• 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
• December 19 » The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.

The temperature on April 20, 1984 was between 3.5 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.