* 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 – 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.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).

* 1984 – Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.

In 1984, after 36 years in India, Dupuis was called to teach Theology and Non-Christian Religions at the Gregorian University of Rome.

* 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India ( d. 1984 )

The international border-line has been a matter of pivotal dispute between Pakistan and India ever since 1947, and the Siachen Glacier in northern Kashmir has been an important arena for fighting between the two sides since 1984, although far more soldiers have died of exposure to the cold than from any skirmishes in the conflict between their National Armies facing each other.

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991 ) was the sixth Prime Minister of India ( 1984 – 1989 ).

* November 19 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India ( d. 1984 )

Occasionally, however, India has encountered religiously motivated violence, such as the Moplah Riots, the Bombay riots, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the 2002 Gujarat riots, and most recently the 2012 Assam violence.

* A Passage to India ( 1984 ), dir.

Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and A Passage to India ( 1984 ); for bringing Charles Dickens ' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ); and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter ( 1945 ).

For Lean's final film, A Passage to India ( 1984 ), he chose to both direct and edit, and the two roles were given precisely equal status in the film's credits.

After failing to get Mutiny on the Bounty into production, David Lean embarked on his last production, A Passage to India ( 1984 ), which was released to positive reviews and received two Academy Awards.

Ellsworth F. Bunker ( May 11, 1894 – September 27, 1984 ) was an American businessman and diplomat ( including being the ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal and South Vietnam ).

* 1984 – 1990: Monkombu Swaminathan, India

* Siachen conflict: In 1984, India launched Operation Meghdoot capturing most of the Siachen Glacier.

It occurred on the night of 2 – 3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited ( UCIL ) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Category: 1984 in India

* Four Miss World winners were awarded Miss Photogenic: Astrid Carolina Herrera ( Venezuela, 1984 ), Aishwarya Rai ( India, 1994 ), Jacqueline Aguilera ( Venezuela, 1995 ) and Diana Hayden ( India, 1997 ).

Born in New South Wales, with whom he began his first class cricket career in 1984, he captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin Tendulkar of India broke this record in 2010.

* 1983 to 1984 Solo pilgrimage 3, 000 km along banks of River Ganges, India.

With India having failed to win for 29 successive Tests, Kapil was sacked as captain and Gavaskar resumed leadership at the start of the 1984 – 85 season.