The year 1984 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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- May 5 – Itaipu Dam in South America begins to generate hydroelectricity.
- July 21 – In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
- January 8 – Eerik Kumari (b. 1912), Estonian ornithologist and academic
- February 21 – Anna Baetjer (b. 1899), American toxicologist.
- April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa (b. 1894), Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- April 15 – Grete Hermann (b. 1901), German mathematician and philosopher
- May 13 – Stanislaw Ulam (b. 1909), Polish American mathematician.
- May 24 – Sir Stanley Hooker (b. 1907), English aeronautical engineer.
- August 6 – Abraham Lilienfeld (b. 1920), American epidemiologist.
- August 11 – George Streisinger (b. 1927), Hungarian American molecular biologist, the first person to clone a vertebrate.
- October 20 – Paul Dirac (b. 1902), English-born physicist.
- November 20 – Charles C. Conley (b. 1933), American mathematician working on dynamical systems.
- December 20 – Stanley Milgram (b. 1933), American social psychologist.