* 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 )

Situations can be swapping gender roles, as in Tootsie ( 1982 ); an age changing role, as in Big ( 1988 ); a freedom-loving individual fitting into a structured environment, as in Police Academy ( 1984 ); a rural backwoodsman in the big city, as in " Crocodile " Dundee, and so forth.

See section 77 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

The Police Academy movies that began in 1984 are frequently considered a modern day version of the Keystone Kops.

British police officers are governed by similar rules, such as those introduced to England and Wales under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( PACE ), but generally have greater powers.

About June 1984, the Key West Police Department located in the County of Monroe, Florida, was declared a criminal enterprise under the federal RICO statutes after a lengthy United States Department of Justice investigation.

In December 1990 Amnesty International issued a report " Allegations of Police Torture in Chicago, Illinois " calling for a full inquiry into allegations that Area 2 Chicago Police tortured criminal suspects between 1972 and 1984.

After starring in the sequel film La boum 2 ( 1982 ), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including Fort Saganne in 1984 with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques ( Happy Easter ) in 1984, L ' amour braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux enfers ( Descent Into Hell ) in 1986.

There is however legislation requiring the provision of interpreters such as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

The Synchronicity Tour began in Chicago, Illinois in July 1983 at the original Comiskey Park, and ended in Melbourne, Australia in March 1984 at the Melbourne Showgrounds ( the final concert featured Simple Minds, Flock of Seagulls, The Fixx, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and The Police topping the bill ).

( now Blessed ) Jerzy Popiełuszko, who was associated with workers and trade unionists from the Solidarity movement and opposed the Communist regime in Poland, was beaten and murdered by three Security Police officers, and his body was dumped into the Vistula Water Reservoir near Włocławek, from where it was recovered on October 30, 1984.

The Talkback Thames television studio on Deer Park Road was used as Sun Hill Police Station in the ITV police drama The Bill from its inception in 1984 until it was axed in 2010.

* Joseph D. Helton Jr Monroe, Georgia, 1st Lieutenant, Officer, Killed in action, Iraq, ( b. September 30, 1984, d. September 8, 2009 ), 732d Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Detachment 2 flight commander ( police officer ) Police Transition Mission, 6th Security Forces Squadron, MacDill Air Force Base Florida ( Tampa ) action: ( IED detonation ; near FOB FALCON, Mahmudiyah District of Baghdad, on September 8th )

In the 1984 expose entitled, " Behind the Death Squads: An exclusive report on the U. S. role in El Salvador's official terror ", award winning investigative journalist, Allan Nairn reported that the CIA routinely supplied ANSESAL, the security forces ( National Guard, National Police, Treasury Police ), and the general staff with electronic, photographic, and personal surveillance of suspected dissidents and Salvadorans abroad who were later assassinated by death squads ; and trained Salvadoran intelligence operatives in the use of investigative techniques which included, according to a former Treasury Police agent, " instruction in methods of physical and psychological torture.

UCC Chairman, CEO Warren Anderson was arrested and released on bail by the Madhya Pradesh Police in Bhopal on 7 December 1984.

The authority to act as a law enforcement officer by nature of their office was removed in 1984, at which time they became subject to the Police Officer Standards and Training Council requirements.

In 1984, Culture Club won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Philadelphia Inquirer said about the successful band, " Among the other major winners were the English rock band Culture Club ( Best New Artist ), hard-rock vocalist Pat Benatar ( Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female ) and the English rock trio The Police ( Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group )".

In 1984, Culture Club was also nominated for a Canadian Juno Award for International Album of the Year, but The Police won that award.

When Culture Club won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Philadelphia Inquirer said about the band, " Among the other major winners were the English rock band Culture Club ( Best New Artist ), hard-rock vocalist Pat Benatar ( Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female ) and the English rock trio The Police ( Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group )".

* under the provisions of section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( PACE ), which only applies to constables,

* Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984