* 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 – 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 )

* 1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1984 )

Maxwell Herman Alexander " Max " Newman, FRS ( 7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984 ) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.

Partly this was land that had always belonged to the Crown, while other parts were sold or donated like the more than 10 % of the island ( located in the northern bush area, with some of the largest remaining kauri forests ) that was gifted to the Crown by farmer Max Burrill in 1984.

* Martin Gray ( with Max Gallo ), < cite > For Those I Loved </ cite >, Little Brown Company, 1984, hardcover, ISBN 0-316-32576-7, 351 pages

; Ernst, Max ( worked mainly in France ): Mon ami Pierrot ( 1974 ); Lüpertz, Markus: Pierrot lunaire: Chair ( 1984 ).

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

* Max Charlesworth, Howard Murphy, Diane Bell and Kenneth Maddock, ' Introduction ' in Religion In Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, University of Queensland Press, Queensland, Australia, 1984.

* Robert Max Ross ( 1933 – 2009 ) ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Louisiana governor in 1971 and 1983, the United States Senate in 1984 and 1986, the Louisiana State Senate in 1972, and mayor of Mangham in 2002.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

Duvall continued to appear in important films during the 1980s, including the roles of cynical sportswriter Max Mercy in The Natural ( 1984 ) and Los Angeles police officer Bob Hodges in Colors ( 1988 ).

One of his favorite roles is Max, the domineering gangster, in Sergio Leone's epic film Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ).

* Dispatches ( 1984 – 87 ) by Max Holland and Kai Bird

He also sang bass with the 1984 International Champion quartet The Rapscallions and currently sings with Max Q, the 2007 International Champion quartet.

Aztlán has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwest US or Mexico after the central US government suffers collapse or major setback ; examples appear in such works as the novels Warday ( 1984 ), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka ; The Peace War ( 1984 ), by Vernor Vinge ; The House of the Scorpion ( 2002 ), by Nancy Farmer ; and World War Z ( 2006 ), by Max Brooks ; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).

* Harrison, Max, Fox, Charles & Thacker, Eric ( 1984 ).

Goddard's Solar Max satellite, launched in 1980, was repaired by astronauts on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984.

Best known for her use of interactive and algorithmic logic as part of the compositional process, Spiegel worked with Buchla and Electronic Music Laboratories synthesizers and subsequently many early, often experimental and prototype-level music and image generation systems, including GROOVE system ( 1973-78 ), Alles Machine ( 1977 ) and Max Mathews's RTSked and John R. Pierce tunings ( 1984, later known as the Bohlen-Pierce scale ) at Bell Labs, the alphaSyntauri for Apple II ( 1978-81 ), the McLeyvier ( 1981-85 ).

Although the band gained new attention by heavy play on MTV and FM rock-radio with the striking music video for " Surrender Your Heart " that was designed by Peter Max, the experimental album Rhyme & Reason ( 1984 ) was not a great success, and Capitol was not happy about the direction the band was taking.

In the interim, he was invited to work as a researcher on ABC-TV's The Gillies Republic which was the follow-up to the highly successful political satire The Gillies Report ( 1984 – 85 ) starring Max Gillies.

In 1984, Gerhard Winkler took over the presidency from Max Huldi after he resigned.

After Penrose's death, Margaret married the mathematician Max Newman ( 1897 – 1984 ).