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(''' MCMLXXXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Sunday of the Gregorian Calendar .
- June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star , the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar .
- June 6 - India n troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar , the Sikh's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 1000 people.
- June 8 - A deadly F5 Tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin , killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
- June 8 - The film Ghostbusters is released into theaters -- becoming a summer Blockbuster hit with the song "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. becoming a Top 40 hit.
- June 20 - The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE .
- June 22 - The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Sanliurfa .
- June 22 - Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic .
- June 27 - France beat Spain 2-0 to win Euro 84 .
- June 30 - John Turner becomes Canada 's seventeenth Prime Minister .
- December 2 - Bob Hawke 's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
- leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India , kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 150,000 to 600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
- December 3 - British Telecom privatised.
- December 19 - The People's Republic Of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration which concerns the future of Hong Kong .
- December 22 - Four African-American youths, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey, board an express train in The Bronx Borough of New York City . They attempt to rob Bernhard Hugo Goetz , who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime, which was a plague in 1980s America .
- December 22 - In Malta , prime minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
- December 28 - A Soviet Cruise Missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland . Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3 , 1985
- December 31 - Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India .
- Ethiopian Famine begins.
- A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia was signed in the Egypt ian capital Cairo in December 1984. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounced its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
- January 1 - Keyra Augustina , model
- January 1 - Michael Witt , Australian rugby league player
- January 2 - Lauren Bush , model
- January 3 - Maya Ababadjani , actress
- January 3 - Charlotte Marshall , model
- January 12 - Scott Olsen , American baseball player
- January 13 - Eleni Ioannou , Greek martial artist (d. 2004 )
- January 15 - Megan Quann , swimmer
- January 19 - Zakia Mrisho Mohamed
- January 25 - Ines Cudna , model
- January 26 - Rebecca Ritters , actress
- January 26 - Kelly Stables , actress
- January 26 - Luo Xuejuan , swimmer
- January 29 - Natalie Du Toit , South African swimmer
- April 3 - Allana Slater , Australian gymnast
- April 4 - Sean May , Basketball player
- April 8 - Kirsten Storms , American actress
- April 10 - Mandy Moore , American singer and actress
- April 11 - Kelli Garner , American actress
- April 13 - Kris Britt , Australian cricketer
- April 17 - Rosanna Davison , Irish model
- April 18 - America Ferrera , American actress
- April 22 - Michelle Ryan , British actress
- April 23 - Alexandra Kosteniuk , Russian chess player
- April 27 - Patrick Stump , American singer ( Fall Out Boy )
- April 29 - Taylor Cole , American actress and model
- April 29 - Lina Krasnoroutskaya , Russian tennis player and commentator
- January 7 - Alfred Kastler , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902 )
- January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller , Austrian-born swimmer and actor (b. 1904 )
- January 21 - Jackie Wilson , American singer (b. 1934 )
- January 30 - Luke Kelly , Irish folk singer (b. 1940 )
- February 8 - Karel Miljon , Dutch boxer (b. 1903 )
- February 9 - Yuri Andropov , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914 )
- February 12 - Julio Cortázar , Argentine writer (b. 1914 )
- February 15 - Ethel Merman , American singer and actress (b. 1908 )
- February 21 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov , Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905 )
- February 22 - Jessamyn West , American writer (b. 1902 )
- March 1 - Jackie Coogan , American actor (b. 1914 )
- March 5 - Tito Gobbi , Italian baritone (b. 1915 )
- March 5 - William Powell , American actor (b. 1892 )
- March 12 - Arnold Ridley , English playwright and actor (b. 1896 )
- March 16 - John Hoagland , American photographer (b. 1947 )
- March 21 - Sir Michael Redgrave , English actor (b. 1908 )
- March 24 - Sam Jaffe , American actor (b. 1891 )
- April 1 - Marvin Gaye , American singer (b. 1939 )
- April 8 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894 )
- April 15 - Tommy Cooper , Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921 )
- April 20 - Hristo Prodanov , Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943 )
- April 22 - Ansel Adams , American photographer (b. 1902 )
- April 26 - Count Basie , American musician and composer (b. 1904 )
- May 2 - Jack Barry , American television host and producer (b. 1918 )
- May 16 - Andy Kaufman , American comedian (b. 1949 )
- May 16 - Irwin Shaw , American author (b. 1913 )
- May 19 - John Betjeman , English poet (b. 1906 )
- May 28 - Eric Morecambe , British comedian (b. 1926 )
- June 16 - Lew Andreas , American basketball coach (b. 1895 )
- June 26 - Michel Foucault , French philosopher (d. 1926 )
- July 1 - Moshé Feldenkrais , Ukrainain founder of the Feldenkrais Method (b. 1904 )
- July 8 - Brassaï , Hungarian-born photographer (b. 1899 )
- July 14 - Philippe Wynne , American musician (b. 1941 )
- July 26 - Ed Gein , American serial killer (b. 1906 )
- August 2 - Quirino Cristiani , Argentine animated film director (b. 1896 )
- August 5 - Richard Burton , Welsh actor (b. 1925 )
- August 11 - Alfred A. Knopf , American publisher (b. 1892 )
- August 13 - Tigran Petrosian , Georgian chess player (b. 1929 )
- August 14 - J. B. Priestley , English novelist and playwright (b. 1894 )
- August 25 - Waite Hoyt , baseball player (b. 1899 )
- September 25 - Walter Pidgeon , Canadian actor (b. 1897 )
- October 5 - Leonard Rossiter , British actor (b. 1926 )
- October 12 - Sir Anthony Berry , British politician (bombing) (b. 1925 )
- October 14 - Martin Ryle , English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physics (b. 1918 )
- October 20 - Carl Ferdinand Cori , Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1896 )
- October 20 - Paul Dirac , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902 )
- October 21 - François Truffaut , French film director (b. 1932 )
- October 31 - Indira Gandhi , Prime Minister Of India (assassinated) (b. 1917 )
- November 6 - Gastón Suárez , Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929 )
- November 16 - Leonard Rose , American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918 )
- December 8 - Luther Adler , American actor (b. 1903 )
- December 11 - Oskar Seidlin , Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (b. 1911 )
- December 14 - Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898 )
- December 15 - Jan Peerce , American tenor (b. 1904 )
- December 20 - Gonzalo Márquez , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946 )
- December 28 - Sam Peckinpah , American film director (b. 1926 )
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