About the day » Thursday July 26, 1984Calender converter
July 25, 1984Died on Thursday July 26, 1984
- Andries van der Weide (78)
- Derk Tel (92), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
- Arie Berkhout (82)
- Adrianus Gerardus Beijk (96), Hillegom
- Benoît Antonin Aimé LEPERLIER (65), L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE
- Cornelis de Ruiter (80), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
- Antoon Henri Ernest Kuyper (41)
- Cornelis de Ruiter (80)
- Bertha Leenaerts (84), Diest, 3290, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Andries Gerardus Hermanus van der Schuyt (66), Rijswijk (Z-H)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from July 26, 1984 at Delpher
Born on July 26
- 1983 » Delonte West, American basketball player
- 1983 » Kelly Clark, American snowboarder
- 1983 » Ken Wallace, Australian kayaker
- 1983 » Naomi van As, Dutch field hockey player
- 1983 » Roderick Strong, American wrestler
- 1983 » Stephen Makinwa, Nigerian footballer
- 1984 » Benjamin Kayser, French rugby player
- 1984 » Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
- 1984 » Sabri Sarıoğlu, Turkish footballer
- 1985 » Marcus Benard, American football player
Died on July 26
- 1984 » Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
- 1984 » George Gallup, American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)
- 1986 » W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1891)
- 1988 » Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
- 1992 » Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1993 » Matthew Ridgway, American general (b. 1895)
- 1994 » James Luther Adams, American theologian and academic (b. 1901)
- 1995 » George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (b. 1907)
- 1995 » Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (b. 1917)
- 1995 » Raymond Mailloux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
Names that were popular for boys in 1984
- Mark
- Jeroen
- Jan
- Peter
- Michael
- Martijn
- Wouter
- Johannes
- Robert
- Pieter
- David
- Hendrik
- Bart
- Thomas
- Vincent
- Erik
Names that were popular for girls in 1984
- Linda
- Maria
- Jessica
- Anna
- Kim
- Wendy
- Esther
- Laura
- Johanna
- Nicole
- Sarah
- Sandra
- Maaike
- Suzanne
- Jennifer
- Bianca
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1984
- 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 22 » The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
- February 10 » Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
- February 24 » Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
- 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 21 » Brunei joins the United Nations.
- 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.
Weather July 26, 1984
The temperature on July 26, 1984 was between 12.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.