* 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: Hart House Literary Contest, " Auspicious Occasion "

Each winner of the 1984 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

He received his doctorate in 1984 after delivering his thesis, The Directions and Premises of Albanian Literary Criticism, 1504-1983.

* Hans Hauge, ' Post-Modernism and the Australian Literary Heritage ,' Overland, 96 ( 1984 ) 50-51.

* Edie Meidav ( 1984 ), novelist and recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship.

* Below the Bottom, C. Vita-Finzi, Times Literary Supplement, 27 April 1984

Kooser has won two NEA Literary Fellowships ( in 1976 and 1984 ), the Pushcart Prize, the Nebraska Book Awards for Poetry ( 2001 ) and Nonfiction ( 2004 ), the Stanley Kunitz Prize ( 1984 ), the James Boatwright Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ( 2005 ).

* 1984 Larry Yeatman, Literary Culture and the Role of Libraries in Democratic America: Baltimore, 1815-1940

Among his most noted works are the novels Beatles ( 1984 ) ( for which he won the Cappelen Prize ) and Halvbroren ( The Half Brother, 2001 ) ( for which he won the Brage Prize, two other Norwegian literary awards, and The Nordic Council's Literature Prize, and which was shortlisted for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ).

* International Literary Prize of the Arts Council of Wales ( 1984 )

* Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 28, Gale ( Detroit, MI ), 1984.

* Nellie Y. McKay, Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936 ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984 ).

A lifetime leftist, he served from 1971 to 1984 as the Literary Editor of the socialist weekly Tribune ( a position once held by George Orwell ), where he regularly reviewed science fiction despite the continued refusal of the literary world to take it seriously.

As a founding director of Alberta Culture's Film and Literary Arts Branch, which he headed from 1971 to 1984, he was able to help many writers become established through workshops and contests ; including the author of the book which launched the hit movie and subsequent television series ' Stargate ,' Pauline Gedge.

* The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory Yale University Press, 1984,

Ross published as A Literary Friendship in 1984.

* Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography ( 1984 )