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• Adriana Francina Marie (Marina) de Goede, Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Benjamin James Lutze († 2001)
• Dana Mitchell
• Carolina Corral Vera, Ancud (Chiloé), Los Lagos, Chili

• Anna Berendina Maria Balduk (69), Loerbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Potharst (75)
• August Otto Reinhold Kloss (100), Maple Lake
• Anna Elisabeth Gerretsen (82), Borculo
• Cornelia Schaap (80), Katwijk Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Cezar Willem Rudi van Casand (65), Amsterdam
• Alphonsius Vermaeren (62), Gent (B), België
• Anna Elisabeth Gerretsen (81), Borculo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Bruin (79), Ontario, Canada
• Antje Potharst (75), Amsterdam

• 1983 » Bobby Carpenter, American football player
• 1983 » Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 » David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
• 1983 » Julien Faubert, French footballer
• 1984 » Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
• 1984 » Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
• 1984 » Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
• 1984 » Steve Feak, American game designer
• 1985 » Adam Jones, American baseball player
• 1985 » Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player

• 1973 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 » Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1982 » T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
• 1989 » John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)

• 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 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 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.
• June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
• August 1 » Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
• 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
• October 19 » A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.

The temperature on August 1, 1984 was between 11.4 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.