About the day » Monday August 6, 1984Calender converter

• Kristian Regeling, Zevenaar († 1984)
• Jeroen Schokker († 2013)
• Thatiana Menes, Alkmaar,Alkmaar,Noord Holland,Nederland († 1985)
• Sara J. Dulmes, Sheboyan, Wisconsin († 2013)

• Anna Catharina Couwbergs‏ (88), Eindhout, België
• Andrew de Jong (66), ,,, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Anna Elisabeth Huisman (73), Epe
• Antonia Adriana Laros (76), Fijnaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Peters (61), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Margje Dekker (93)
• Antonius Kolmans (87), 's Hertogenbosch
• Antonius Marinus van Eunen (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Maria Windels (83), Oostrozebeke
• Anna Cornelia Suykerbuyk (80), Fijnaart

• 1983 » C. J. Mosley, American football player
• 1983 » Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer
• 1983 » Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
• 1984 » Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
• 1984 » Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1985 » Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 » Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1985 » Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 » Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1986 » Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer

• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 » Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 » Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1987 » Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
• 1991 » Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)

• 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 24 » Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
• March 6 » In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
• September 2 » Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
• November 25 » Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 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.
• December 22 » "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.

The temperature on August 6, 1984 was between 10.7 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.