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 )

* April 18 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral ( b. 1884 )

* Isoroku Yamamoto ( 1884 – 1943 ).

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.

** Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese politician, 17th head of the former Tokugawa shogunate ( b. 1884 )

While working on a constitution for Japan, he also wrote the first Imperial Household Law and established the Japanese peerage system ( kazoku ) in 1884.

Kim had fled to Japan after his involvement in the 1884 coup and the Japanese had turned down Korean demands that he be extradited.

Based on discussions Hara had with him on his views for the future of Japanese politics during a trip both men took to Korea in 1884, Inoue appointed Hara to become consul-general in Tianjin, and the first secretary to the embassy of Japan in Paris.

Suzuki entered the 14th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1884, graduating 13th of 45 cadets in 1888.

In 1884, Takaki Kanehiro, a British-trained Japanese medical doctor of the Japanese Navy, observed that beriberi was endemic among low-ranking crew who often were provided nothing but rice, but not among crews of Western navies and officers who consumed a Western-style diet.

* Sakuhei Fujiwhara ( 1884 – 1950 ), a Japanese meteorologist

A few years later he published a book based on articles Das " Go "- Spiel from 1884, drawing on several Japanese sources.

* Tsunetsugu Muraoka ( 1884 – 1946 ), scholar of history of Japanese philosophy, professor at Tohoku University

During the Sino-French War ( August 1884 – April 1885 ) he established a close friendship with the Chinese statesman and general Tang Ching-sung, and in 1895 he helped Tang organise resistance to the Japanese invasion of Taiwan.

However, the Progressives, fed up with the Sadaes and the growing influence of the Chinese, sought the aid of the Japanese legation guards and staged a bloody palace coup on the 4th of December 1884.

In 1884 Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi, leased the Nagasaki Seitetsusho from the Japanese government, renaming it the Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works and entering the shipbuilding business on a large scale.

The early Imperial Japanese Army was essentially developed with the assistance of French advisors, through the second French military mission to Japan ( 1872 – 1880 ), and the third French military mission to Japan ( 1884 – 1889 ).

* Hatazō Adachi ( 1884 – 1947 ), Japanese General

As with his libraries, Richardson evolved and simplified as the series continued, and his famous Chestnut Hill station ( Newton, Massachusetts, 1883 – 1884, demolished circa 1960 ) featured clean lines with less Japanese influence.

* Chikuhei Nakajima ( 中島 知久平 1884 – 1949 ), Japanese aviation pioneer, founder of the Nakajima Aircraft Company

Isaac Campbell Kidd ( March 26, 1884 – December 7, 1941 ) was an American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who was killed on the bridge of the during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

is a Japanese carbonated soft drink, created in 1884 and now produced by Asahi Soft Drinks.

The Yokosuka Naval District was established at Yokosuka, Kanagawa in 1884, as the first of the naval districts responsible for the defense of the Japanese home islands, and the Yokosuka Shipyards was renamed the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in 1903.

* Tamaki Miura ( 1884 – 1946 ), Japanese opera singer

In 1884, Roesler became an adviser to the Japanese Cabinet.