* Saltini A. Storia delle scienze agrarie, 4 vols, Bologna 1984 – 89, ISBN 978-88-206-2412-5, ISBN 978-88-206-2413-2, ISBN 978-88-206-2414-9, ISBN 978-88-206-2414-9

* 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.

* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Max Bemis, American singer, musician, and songwriter ( Say Anything, Two Tongues, and Max Bemis and the Painful Splits )

* 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer

* 1984 – Michaël Ciani, French footballer

* 1984 – Shawn Daivari, American wrestler and manager

* 1984 – Lee Roache, English footballer

* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – David Bentley, English footballer

* 1984 – Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer

* 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Sofia Essaïdi, French-Moroccan singer, dancer, and actress

* 1984 – Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer

* 1984 – Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer

* 1984 – L ' Aura, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer

* 1984 – Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer

* 1984 – Lidi Lisboa, Brazilian actress

* 1984 – Boone Logan, American baseball player

* 1984 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer

* 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( b. 1939 )

* 1984 – Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard employ Wiesner's conjugate coding for distribution of cryptographic keys.

Gilles Kepel is the author of several books, since the publication of The Prophet and the Pharaoh: Islamist movements in Sadat's Egypt, in 1984, his books are translated all over the world.

The 1984 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on June 17, 1984.

Deadly Weapons, produced by Gilles Martin and Tuxedomoon's Peter Principle dates from 1984 and is considered by some their most experimental album.

* 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and comedian

The alibi of the murderer in Simon Brett ’ s comic thriller Shock to the System ( 1984 ) depends on having been in a cinema watching Life of Brian.

* 1984 – Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

The company had its head office redomiciled to Bermuda in 1984 under the tenure of Simon Keswick to maintain control after nearly being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong after a hostile raid in 1980.

* Simon Wolstencroft – drums ( 1983 to early 1984 )

* Simon Hackney ( born 1984 ), English professional football player

Carlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross ( born on 31 March 1934 ) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.

In 1984 Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer were awarded the Nobel Prize " for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction "

In a 1984 interview for Polyhedron Newszine, Gary Gygax revealed several " alternate Oerths " while explaining the setting for his HEROES CHALLENGE game books, co-written with author Flint Dille and published under the aegis of the Dungeons & Dragons Entertainment Corporation by the Wanderer Book division of Simon & Schuster.

While driving his car in late 1984 in this state of frustration, Simon listened to a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys ' instrumental " Gumboots: Accordion Jive Volume II ".

The rights to the Tom Swift character, along with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, were sold in 1984 to publishers Simon and Schuster.

* Simon van der Meer, ( 1925 -), physicist Prize 1984

* Simon ( 1984 ) and Richard Mantell ( 1981 ), brothers and field hockey players for England, were both born in Bridgwater.

* Simon Spies ( 1921 – 1984 ), Danish tycoon best known for starting the charter airline Spies Rejser

Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness ( 1960 ), Simon Brett's A Shock to the System ( 1984 ), and Stephen Dobyns's The Church of Dead Girls ( 1997 ).

* Simon Reynolds ( 2005 ), Rip It Up and Start Again Postpunk 1978 – 1984, London: Faber and Faber

It is based on the 1984 novel A Shock to the System by British author Simon Brett.

He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke.

Since re-launching his career as " Simon Hawke " in 1984, he has produced a large volume of lighter, more commercially viable fiction.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer considered the peak of the movement was the Live Aid concert of July 1985, after which " everyone seemed to take hubristic tumbles ", and Simon Reynolds also notes the " Do They Know Its Christmas " single in late 1984 and Live Aid in 1985 as a turning points, with the movement seen as having become decadent, with " overripe arrangements and bloated videos " for songs like Duran Duran's " The Wild Boys " and Culture Club's " War Song ".

* Jervis, Simon and Tomlin, Maurice ( revised by Voak, Jonathon ) ( 1984, revisions 1989 & 1995 ) Apsley House Wellington Museum published by the Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London ISBN 1-85177-161-1

In 1984, Roger Simon, who had been a Sun-Times columnist for a decade, quit to join the Baltimore Sun, where he would work until 1995.

* Simon Greenleaf, The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by The Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice, reprint of the 1874 edition, ( Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1984 ).