This edition of Feature Year looks at the hits and music of 1984.
January 1 – US Bell System is broken up.
January 1 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster (b. 1928) Died
January 13 – Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright (3OH!3)
January 21 – Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934) Died
January 24 – The Apple Macintosh is introduced.
January 30 – Kid Cudi, American hip hop artist
January 30 – Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer (b. 1940) Died
February 11 – Aubrey O’Day, American singer and actress
March 7 – Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, actor and rapper
March 25 – March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American Idol finalist
March 30 – Anna Nalick, American singer
April 1 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939) Murdered
April 10 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
April 15 – British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack and dies while live on TV.
April 22 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
April 24 – Tyson Ritter, American singer/songwriter (The All-American Rejects)
April 26 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904) Died
April 27 – Patrick Stump, American singer (Fall Out Boy)
May 4 – Little Boots, English pop singer
May 16 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949) Died
May 20 – Naturi Naughton, American singer and actress
June 15 – Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902) Died
June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer
June 23 – Duffy, Welsh singer
June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
July 4 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949) Died
July 6 – Lauren Harris, English singer
July 6 – D. Woods, American R&B singer, dancer, and actress
July 14 – Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941) Died
July 19 – Harry Stockwell, American actor and singer (b. 1902) Died
July 24 – Armando Morales Barillas, Nicaraguan guitarist (b. 1936) Died
July 25 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926) Died
July 29 – Fred Waring, American bandleader (b. 1900) Died
August 3 – Carah Faye Charnow, American singer for the band Shiny Toy Guns
August 13 – James Morrison, English singer/songwriter and guitarist
August 21 – Melissa Schuman, American singer and actress
September 3 – Arthur Schwartz, American composer (b. 1900) Died
September 6 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914) Died
September 12 – September, Swedish singer and songwriter
September 16 – Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
September 20 – Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948) Died
September 26 – Keisha Buchanan, British singer (Sugababes)
September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
September 28 – Melody Thornton, American singer (Pussycat Dolls)
October 3 – Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
October 6 – Joanna Pacitti, American singer
October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor (b. 1899) Died
October 25 – Katy Perry, American singer and actress
October 27 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer
November 16 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906) Died
November 16 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918) Died
November 24 – Trey Songz, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor
December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904) Died
December 16 – Laura More (Muncey), British singer
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 Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.
December 23 – Alison Sudol, American singer/songwriter and pianist known professionally as A Fine Frenzy
December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer (b. 1900) Died
Summer 1984 – Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, is first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the Crack Epidemic.
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