* 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 )

* 1915 – Lennard Pearce, English actor ( d. 1984 )

The original Only Fools and Horses line-up of ( l-r ) Grandad ( Lennard Pearce ), Del Boy ( David Jason ) and Rodney ( Nicholas Lyndhurst ) lasted from 1981 – 1984.

The character took over the role of senior citizen member of the irrepressible Trotter family from Lennard Pearce who played Grandad, after Pearce died suddenly and unexpectedly in December 1984.

Coincidentally, nine months earlier, in March 1984, Merryfield appeared in two episodes of a Shroud for a Nightingale alongside Lennard Pearce.

In 1984 John Lennard was replaced by Mickey Donnelly on Saxophone.

Lennard Pearce ( 9 February 1915 – 15 December 1984 ) was an English actor who worked mostly in the theatre, but also appeared in a number of British television programmes.

* 1984 – Christopher Pearce, English cricketer

Pearce died in 1984 whilst filming the series four episode " Hole in One " ( several scenes were subsequently re-shot with Buster Merryfield ) and Sullivan thus wrote a new episode, " Strained Relations ", which featured Grandad's funeral.

After nine years and 86 caps ( plus one goal-scored in a World Cup qualifier against Finland in 1984 ) Sansom's international career was at an end, months before his 30th birthday, despite being briefly recalled as a back-up in 1989 when Pearce was injured, though he did not play.

* Pearce, C. ( 1984 ) The Anatomy of Letters-Taplinger Publishing

Pearce played Ronald Wardle in Crown Court in February 1984.

Pearce also appeared in an episode of Minder named " The Balance of Power ", which was shown on Halloween in 1984, along with playing Mr Coles in three episodes of Shroud for a Nightingale in March 1984.

On 12 December 1984, Pearce suffered a heart attack.

However, Pearce suffered a second heart attack, and died instantly, on the night of 15 December 1984.

It was first discovered independently by Bernheim ( 1984 ) and Pearce ( 1984 ).

* 1984 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )

* 1902 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Dane Brookes, English actor and writer

* 1984 – Claire Foy, English actress

* 1984 – Nick Grimshaw, English television and radio host

* 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and comedian

* 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer

* 1984 – Kristy Bruce, English actress

* 1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer

* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

* 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician ( Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society ) ( d. 1984 )

* 1900 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Yonah Higgins, English singer and actress ( Cleopatra )

In 1984, Charles married English actress Cathy Tyson.

* 1984 – Greg Halford, English footballer

* 1984 – Darren Ambrose, English footballer

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution ( 1984 ) excerpt and text search

* 1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).