Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1884
Birthdays
- January 3 - Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
- January 12 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
- January 13 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)
- January 21 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
- January 23 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
- January 28 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
- January 31 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
- February 1 - Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (d. 1949)
- February 1 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (d. 1937)
- February 8 - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
- February 10 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
- February 12 - Max Beckmann, German artist (d. 1950)
- February 12 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
- February 12 - Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953)
- February 13 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete
- February 14 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor
- February 14 - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
- February 14 - Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
- February 14 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
- February 16 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
- February 18 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
- March 4 - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
- March 11 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
- March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
- March 15 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright
- March 17 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
- March 18 - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
- March 24 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist
- March 25 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
- March 26 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
- March 31 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
- April 2 - Sir John Squire, British poet
- April 4 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
- April 6 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
- April 12 - Otto Meyerhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1951)
- April 12 - Tenby Davies, Welsh world champion runner (d. 1932)
- April 17 - Leo Frank, American convict (d. 1915)
- April 20 - Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, (d. 1966)
- April 22 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
- May 1 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe
- May 8 - Harry S Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972)
- May 21 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
- May 23 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
- May 27 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
- May 28 - Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
- June 5 - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
- June 13 - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
- June 13 - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
- June 13 - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
- June 15 - Harry Langdon, American actor (d. 1944)
- June 18 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
- June 19 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
- June 21 - Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (d. 1981)
- June 22 - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
- June 23 - Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d. 1979)
- June 25 - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
- June 27 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
- June 28 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
- June 30 - Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
- July 2 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
- July 6 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1970)
- July 7 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
- July 12 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
- July 16 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
- July 18 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
- July 23 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
- July 29 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
- July 31 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945)
- August 2 - Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
- August 4 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
- August 8 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
- August 10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
- August 13 - Harry Dean, England cricketer (d. 1957)
- August 16 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (d. 1967)
- August 16 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
- August 23 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
- August 23 - Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- August 24 - Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
- August 27 - Vincent Auriol, French President (d. 1966)
- August 30 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- September 1 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
- September 2 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
- September 8 - Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
- September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
- September 20 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
- September 24 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
- September 24 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
- September 26 - J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
- October 4 - Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925)
- October 7 - Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
- October 8 - Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)
- October 11 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist
- October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
- October 11 - Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967)
- October 15 - Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)
- October 16 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
- November 4 - Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
- November 5 - James Flecker, English writer (d. 1915)
- November 8 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- November 20 - Norman Thomas, American political figure (d. 1968)
- November 22 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
- November 24 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
- December 1 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
- December 3 - Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963)
- December 3 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
- December 10 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
- December 14 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
- December 25 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967)
- December 30 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
- December 31 - Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (d. 1964)
Deaths
- January 6 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
- January 17 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
- March 1 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
- March 13 - Leland Stanford, Jr.
- March 14 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
- March 21 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
- April 4 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860)
- May 12 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
- May 13 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
- June 25 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
- July 10 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
- July 18 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
- August 6 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
- September 20 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
- October 31 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
- November 11 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist, (b. 1827)
- November 16 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
- November 25 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
- November 27 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
- December 1 - William Swainson (lawyer), second
Events
- January 4 - The Fabian Society is founded in London.
- January 18 - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
- February 1 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- March 8 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
- March 13 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
- April 20 - Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical, Humanum Genus.
- May 1 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
- July 3 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
- July 5 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
- August 5 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
- September 4 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
- September 23 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
- October 6 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- October 13 - Greenwich is established as universal time meridian of longitude.
- October 14 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
- November 1 - The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
- December 1 - American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
- December 6 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
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