About the day » Monday August 6, 1984Calender converter

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

• Adriana Peters (61), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Couwbergs‏ (88), Eindhout, België
• Anton Korteweg (77), Zutphen
• Andries Helfferich (72), Groningen
• barend marinus BRUSSAARD (84), herwijnen
• Anna Cornelia Suykerbuyk (80), Fijnaart
• Antonius Marinus van Eunen (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Suijkerbuijk (80), Fijnaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Suikerbuik (80), Fijnaart en Heiningen
• Andries Bezemer @ (77), Dordrecht, ZH, Nederland

• 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)

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. Vincent
16. Erik

1. Linda
2. Maria
3. Jessica
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Esther
8. Laura
9. Johanna
10. Nicole
11. Sarah
12. Sandra
13. Maaike
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.
• 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.
• January 24 » Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
• February 7 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
• 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.
• 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 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.