1984

Events

 * After 30 years, the last Disney movie to use the Buena Vista logo is Tim Burton's Frankenweenie.

Theatrical Releases

 * March 9 - Splash, Pete's Dragon (re-issue)
 * July 27 - The Jungle Book (re-issue)
 * December 21 - Pinocchio (re-issue)

Theme Park Happenings

 * January 3 - 48-year-old Dolly Regina Young killed on the Matterhorn Bobsleds.
 * September 7 - The Morocco Pavilion opens at the EPCOT Center.
 * December 19 - The Country Bear Christmas Special debuts at Disneyland.

Business

 * Micheal Eisner is hired as the CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Eisner had previously worked as the head of ABC and then of Paramount Pictures. Eisner would eventually bring ABC under Disney's ownership. Eisner is most often credited with the company's turnaround in the late 1980s and early 1990s and, ironically, its subsequent downfall in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Eisner would leave his position in 2005.

VHS Releases

 * December 6 - Robin Hood

Births

 * March 10 - Olivia Wilde (actress)
 * March 20 - Christy Carlson Romano (actress and singer)
 * April 10 - Mandy Moore (actress and singer)
 * April 18 - America Ferrera (voice actress)
 * September 3 - Garrett Hedlund (actor)
 * September 23 - Anneliese van der Pol (actress and singer)
 * October 2 - John Morris (voice actor)
 * November 22 - Scarlett Johansson (actress)
 * November 23 - Lucas Grabeel (actor)

Deaths

 * February 15 - Ethel Merman (actress and singer)
 * June 7 - George Givot (actor)
 * July 19 - Harry Stockwell (actor and singer)
 * July 27 - James Mason (actor)