Born in 1984

£1 in 1984 would be worth approximately £4.00 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1984 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 1 January – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
• 3 January – The FTSE 100 Index starts.
• 12 March – Miners' strike begins and pits the National Union of Mineworkers against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government intent on free market reform of the nationalised industries, which includes plans for the closure of most of Britain's remaining coal pits.
• 27 March – Starlight Express opens at Apollo Victoria Theatre in London.
• 8 May – The Thames Barrier, designed to protect London from floods, is opened by The Queen.
• 22 June – The inaugural Virgin Atlantic flight takes place.
• 9 October – Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is first broadcast on ITV, becoming one of the most successful children's TV programmes of all time since Postman Pat on the BBC three years prior.
• 11 December – Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" goes to the top of the UK Singles Chart.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Transformers
• Cabbage Patch Kids
• Trivial Pursuit