A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

* 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian actor ( d. 1950 )

* 1884 – Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1884 – Tenby Davies, Welsh runner ( d. 1932 )

* 1829 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist ( d. 1884 )

* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )

* 1884 – Harry Dean, English cricketer ( d. 1957 )

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

* 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 46th President of Venezuela ( d. 1969 )

* 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer ( d. 1884 )

* 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress ( d. 1970 )

* 1884 – Sara Teasdale, American poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1824 – John Chisum, American cattle baron ( d. 1884 )

* 1884 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-American writer and publisher ( d. 1967 )

* 1884 – Chandler Egan, American golfer ( d. 1936 )

* 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic ( d. 1949 )

* 1884 – Ogden L. Mills, American businessman and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1937 )

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

* 1884 – Peter Fraser, New Zealand politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1950 )

* Étienne Richaud, October 1884 – 86

Étienne Gilson ( 13 June 1884, Paris ( 7th arrondissement ) – 19 September 1978, Auxerre ) was a French Thomistic philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( 1772 – 1884 ) theorized this in 1795 as the " unity of organic composition ," the influence of which is perceptible in all his subsequent writings ; nature, he observed, presents us with only one plan of construction, the same in principle, but varied in its accessory parts.

Etienne Gilson ( 1884 – 1978 ), the key proponent of this approach to Thomism, tended to emphasize the importance of historical exegesis but also to deemphasize Aquinas ’ s continuity with the Aristotelian tradition, highlighting instead the originality of Aquinas ’ s doctrine of being or existence.

* 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist ( d. 1941 )

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

* 1884 – Marcel Cohen, French linguist ( d. 1974 )

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

French military missions were sent to Japan in 1872 – 1880, in 1884 – 1889 and the last one much later in 1918 – 1919 to help modernize the Japanese army.

Conflicts between the Chinese Emperor and the French Republic over Indochina climaxed during the Sino-French War ( 1884 – 1885 ).

* 1884 – Édouard Daladier, French politician ( d. 1970 )

* 1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals ( d. 1972 )

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

* 1884 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist ( d. 1963 )

* April 21 – Georges Boillot, French Grand Prix driver ( killed in action ) ( b. 1884 )

** Georges Duhamel, French author ( b. 1884 )

* 1884 – 1885: On August 9, 1884, " La France ", a French Army airship, makes its maiden flight.

* Manon ( 1884 ), an opera by French composer Jules Massenet

Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur ( 1868 – 1938 ), a laundry laborer of English, French Huguenot and Jersey ancestry, and Anna Bell Johnson ( 1884 – 1958 ), who was of Swedish and Irish descent.

French marine infantrymen in Tonkin, 1884

* Küpeyakwüskonam ( Kupeyakwuskonam, Kah-pah-yak-as-to-cum-One Arrow, French: ‘ Une Flèche ’, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree, born 1815 in the Saskatchewan River Valley, son of George Sutherland (‘ Okayasiw ’) and his second wife Paskus (‘ Rising ’), tried to prevent in 1876 negotiations on the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton along with Kamdyistowesit (' Beardy ') and Saswaypew (' Cut Nose '), but finally signed on August 28 the treaty, in August 1884 he attended a meeting with chief Mistahimaskwa (' Big Bear ') and Papewes (‘ Papaway ’-' Lucky Man '), his tribal group joined first the Métis in 1885, died on 25 April 1886 in the prison )

French control over the area was made official by the Berlin Conference of 1884.

In 1840 Keelung was invaded by the British in the Opium War, and in 1884 the French invaded as part of the Sino-French War.

In 1884, the French chemist Paul Vieille produced a smokeless propellant that had some success.