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 – 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 )

Hugo Gernsback ( August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967 ), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine.

* 1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer ( d. 1953 )

** Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher ( b. 1884 )

** Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho ( 1884 – 1916 )

Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell VC ( 27 October 1884 – 13 November 1933 ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Hugo Throssell was born in Northam, Western Australia on 27 October 1884, the son of former Premier of Western Australia George Throssell.

Hugo Schmeisser ( 24 September 1884 – 12 September 1953 ) was a German developer of infantry weapons in the 20th century.

He was the father of Hugo Schmeisser ( 1884 – 1953 ), who was also a famous designer of infantry weapons, including several key components of the German Wehrmacht MP40.

* Hugo Schmeisser ( 1884 – 1953 ), German infantry weapons designer

Other items of interest range from a gilded bronze medallion of the Montgolfier brothers, created in 1783 by Jean-Antoine Houdon ( 1741 – 1828 ), the Glider Massia-Biot ( 1879 ), an 1884 electric motor by Arthur Constantin Krebs ( 1850 – 1935 ), the rear gondola of the 1915 Zeppelin LZ 113, equipped with 3 Maybach engines, type HS, a 1916 SPAD VII aircraft by Blériot-SPAD, a 1917 Airco DH. 9 aircraft by Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), and a 1918 Junkers D. I aircraft by Hugo Junkers ( 1859 – 1935 ), to the 1961 Dassault Mirage IIIC by Marcel Dassault ( 1892 – 1986 ), an SSBS S3 surface-to-surface ballistic missile commissioned in 1981, and a 2002 Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard model.

* 1884 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer ( d. 1935 )

* 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet ( d. 1949 )

* 1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer ( b. 1884 )

* 1958 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer ( b. 1884 )

* 1884 – Anna Vyrubova, Russian writer ( d. 1964 )

* April 7 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan president and writer ( b. 1884 )

* June 1 – Hugh Walpole, British writer ( b. 1884 )

* August 29 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter ( d. 1884 )

* April 18 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer ( b. 1884 )

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

The Portuguese writer and historian Jaime Cortesão ( 1884 — 1960 ) reported a story that Arabs were known to have visited an island which they referred to as " Aulil " or " Ulil " where they took salt from naturally occurring salinas.

Otto Rank ( April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939 ) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher.

Ruth Stout ( 1884 – 1980 ), writer about organic gardening and author of " How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back ", lived on Poverty Hollow.

* Aaron Bernstein ( 1812 – 1884 ), German short story writer and historian

* James Malcolm Rymer ( 1814 – 1884 ), writer

The Reverend Edwin H. Dodgson, the youngest brother of mathematician and writer Charles L. Dodgson ( author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll ) served as pastor to the population of Tristan da Cunha from 1881 to 1884, and again from 1886 to 1889.

Max Beckmann ( February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950 ) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer.

* Abraham Hayward ( 1801 – 1884 ), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of ' Westhill ', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.

* November 6-William Wells Brown African-American writer ( died 1884 )

* August 31-František Doucha, Czech writer and translator ( died 1884 )

Alfred Edmund Brehm () ( born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf, now called Renthendorf ; died November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf ) was a German zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son of

* Marjorie Quennell née Courtnay ( 1884 – 1972 ), artist, writer and museum curator.