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Table of contents
1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Fictional references to the year
7 Heads of state in 1984

Events

Year in topic

Births

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

Fictional references to the year

  • George Orwell's dystopian satire Nineteen Eighty-Four about a future totalitarian society was set in this year. The date was chosen by transposing 1948, the year in which Orwell wrote the book. Nineteen Eighty-Four was used as an imaginary year in the future by others as well, much like 1999 and 2001 were.