* 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 )

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

In the work of diverse theorists such as William James ( 1842 – 1910 ), Michel Foucault ( 1926 – 1984 ) and Hayden White, important critiques of hierarchical epistemology are advanced.

( 1984 ) With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, New York: William Morrow.

William P. Tavoulareas was President of Mobil Corporation until succeeded by Allen E. Murray in 1984.

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

* 1906 – William Empson, English poet ( d. 1984 )

* William Bedell Stanford ( 1911 – 1984 ), Irish classical scholar, senator, Chancellor of the University of Dublin

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd and William Wisher Jr. and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.

* Schramm, Jack E., William H. Henning and Andrews, Richard R. 1984.

* William P. Cheshire ( 1984 – 1987 )

The automaker's President, William Luneburg, did not expect dramatic development through 1980, but Gerald C. Meyers, AMC's Vice-President of the Product ( Engineering ) Group, suggested that AMC would be buying the engines from Curtis-Wright before developing its own Wankel engines and predicted a total transition to rotary power by 1984.

* Brown, Miracles and the Critical Mind, Paternoster, Exeter UK / William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1984.

* July 29 – William Powell, American actor ( d. 1984 )

The 1980 edition article, by William Ashbrook and Julian Budden, was also reprinted in The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera, London: Papermac, 1984, pp. 93 – 154.

* Lieutenant General William G. Webster ( Class of 1984 )

* 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy

The stories surrounding the events and personalities of these Games were chronicled in the 1984 NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens 1896 starring David Ogden Stiers as William Milligan Sloane and Louis Jourdan as Pierre de Coubertin.

* Alonzo Church interviewed by William Aspray on 17 May 1984.

* Hunter by William Pierce ( under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald ), novel ( National Vanguard Books, 1984, ISBN 0-937944-09-2 )

Grace's Last Case William Rushton ( Methuen, 1984 )

* Simmons, William S. Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620 – 1984 ( Dartmouth, NH: University Press of New England, 1986 ).

In 1984, again under the Andrew Macdonald pen name, William Pierce published another novel, Hunter, which tells the story of a man named Oscar Yeager, a veteran of the Vietnam War and F-4 Phantom pilot who assassinates mixed-raced couples.