* Taylor, Richard ( 1984 ).

* Richard Bellman ( 1920 – 1984 ), developed dynamic programming since the 1940s.

* 1935 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet ( d. 1984 )

One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

* 1910 – Richard Hurndall, British actor ( d. 1984 )

In 1984, Physicist Richard A. Muller postulated that the Sun has a heretofore undetected companion, either a brown dwarf or a red dwarf, in an elliptical orbit within the Oort cloud.

* The Trial of Richard III by Richard Drewett & Mark Redhead ( Sutton, 1984 ) ( ISBN 978-0862991982 )

* The Coronation of Richard III: The Extant Documents by Anne Sutton & Peter W. Hammond ( St Martin's Press, 1984 ) ( ISBN 0312169795 )

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

* Woolley ’ s Ur Revisited, Richard L. Zettler, BAR 10: 05, September / October 1984.

Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 % of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 % victory in 1972.

** Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician, President of Germany from 1984 until 1994

* May 14 – Richard Deacon, American actor, born in Philadelphia, PA ( died 1984 )

* November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor ( Cleopatra ) ( d. 1984 )

* January 30 – Richard Brautigan, American writer ( d. 1984 )

( Richard Lester, 1965 ) and played leads in All The Way Up ( James MacTaggart, 1970 ), The Chain ( Jack Gold, 1984 ), The Dunera Boys ( Ben Lewin, 1985 ) and Foreign Body ( Ronald Neame, 1986 ).

Richard Burton, CBE ( 10 November 19255 August 1984 ) was a Welsh actor.

A critically panned film he made about the life of Richard Wagner ( noted for having the only onscreen teaming of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the same scenes ) was shown as a television miniseries in 1983 after failing to achieve a theatrical release in most countries, but Burton enjoyed a personal triumph in the American television miniseries Ellis Island in 1984, receiving a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his final television performance.

Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a married couple who worked as computer operations staff members at Stanford University, later joined by Richard Troiano, founded Cisco Systems in 1984.

Richard Rand ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1984 ).

1984 laureate Richard Meier

* Bessel, Richard ( 1984 ).

In 1984 Bloom published " The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring " in the journal Educational Researcher.

* Problem solving for innovations and inventions: TRIZ ( Altshuller, 1973, 1984, 1994 )

* Objektivitetsproblemet i vitskapane ( Problem of Objectivity in Science ), Bergen, 1984, ed.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.

* Eldred, Michael ( 1984 ) Critique of Competitive Freedom and the Bourgeois-Democratic State: Outline of a Form-analytic Extension of Marx's Uncompleted System.

On 14 March 1984 in central Belfast, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt when several Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) gunmen fired about 20 shots into the car in which he was travelling.

* Luns was awarded many high-ranking awards during his lifetime, among them the Grand Cross of the Légion d ’ Honneur in 1954, Member of Order of Companions of Honour of the British Queen in 1971 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

President Ronald Reagan announced plans to build Space Station Freedom in 1984.

In 1984, Anderson appeared on the song " Cage of Freedom " from the 1984 soundtrack for a re-release of the Fritz Lang silent film Metropolis.

* Cage Of Freedom ( 1984 )

* Henry Hazlitt, " The Early History of FEE ," The Freeman, March 1984 ( article is excerpted from his remarks at the Leonard E. Read Memorial Conference on Freedom, November 18, 1983.

He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990.

* On April 5, 1984, President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Cooke the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

* Jackson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984 ; Ronald Reagan called him " one of the greatest lawmakers of our century ," and stated:

The Freedom Bowl was an annual post-season college football bowl game played at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California, from 1984 to 1994.

Iowa carried a 7 – 4 – 1 record into the 1984 Freedom Bowl against Texas.

Contemporary compatibilists range from the philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, particularly in his works, Elbow Room ( 1984 ), and Freedom Evolves ( 2003 ); to the existentialist philosopher Frithjof Bergmann.

He did not seek re-election in 1984, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom the same year.

* Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1984.

Among Kennan's numerous other awards and distinctions were the Testimonial of Loyal and Meritorious Service from the Department of State ( 1953 ), Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Nation's Service ( 1976 ), the Order of the Pour le Mérite ( 1976 ), the Albert Einstein Peace Prize ( 1981 ), the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ( 1982 ), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal ( 1984 ), the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service ( 1985 ), the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation Freedom from Fear Medal ( 1987 ), the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1989 ), the Distinguished Service Award from the Department of State ( 1994 ), and the Library of Congress Living Legend ( 2000 ).

Established in 1984, the archives contains thousands of copies of government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act public disclosure process as well as manuscripts, photographs, audiotape interviews, video tapes, news clippings and research notes compiled by journalists and other private citizens who have investigated discrepancies in the case.

The Freedom Party of Canada is the federal counterpart of the Freedom Party of Ontario, which was founded in 1984.

In 1984, under the leadership of Marc Emery and Robert Metz, the Unparty's name and nature changed: it became the Freedom Party of Ontario.