* 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 – 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 )

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

* 1984 – Alizée, French singer

* 1984 – Jérémy Morel, French footballer

In September 1984, the French and the Libyan governments announced an agreement for the mutual withdrawal of their forces from Chad.

* 1984 – Gilles Simon, French tennis player

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

* 1932 – François Truffaut, French film director ( d. 1984 )

Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 2 vol 1984 ), short essays by scholars

Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789 – 1799 ( 2 vol 1984 ), short essays by scholars

* 1984 – Morgane Dubled, French model

* 1984 – Natasha Zlobina, French actress and model

* 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, French son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover

* 1984 – Benjamin Kayser, French rugby player

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

* 1902 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor

* 1926 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress

* 1984 – Kate French, American actress

** Michel Foucault, French philosopher ( d. 1984 )

* May 3 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

** François de Menthon, French politician and professor of law ( d. 1984 )

* November 29 – Henri Fabre, pioneer French aviator, inventor of Le Canard ( d. 1984 )