Events from the year 1984 in Taiwan. This year is numbered Minguo 73 according to the official Republic of China calendar.

Incumbents President – Chiang Ching-kuo Vice President – Hsieh Tung-min, Lee Teng-hui Premier – Sun Yun-suan, Yu Kuo-hwa Vice Premier – Chiu Chuang-huan, Lin Yang-kang

Events

January 1 January – The establishment of Kenting National Park in Pingtung County.

April 23 April – The first Han Kuang Exercise.

June 1 June – The founding of Compal Electronics.

July 27 July – The commissioning of first unit of Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County.

Births 16 January – Bea Hayden, actress and model 11 February – Huang Cheng-wei, baseball player 1 April – Wang Seng-wei, baseball player 4 June – Rainie Yang, singer, actress and TV host 7 August – Hsu Wei-ning, actress and model 8 August – Amanda Chou, actress 24 August – Kimi Hsia, actress and TV host 5 September – Mandy Wei, actress, model and host 6 September – Tseng Shu-o, football player 2 September – Danson Tang, actor and singer 22 September – Godfrey Gao, model and actor (died 2019) 28 September – Tsai Ming-chin, baseball player 21 October – Pets Tseng, actress, singer and television host 21 November – Sphinx Ting, actor and model 9 December – Hu Yingzhen, actress, model and host 20 December – Lala Hsu, singer and songwriter

Deaths 13 January – Wen Yuan-ning, 84–85, diplomat and writer. 6 June – K. C. Wu, 80, politician, Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government (in the United States). 15 October – Henry Liu, 51, dissident, journalist and writer (assassinated in the United States by order of the Intelligence Bureau).

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