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 )

* Joe Birmingham ( 1884 — 1946 ), American baseball player

* August 1 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer ( d. 1884 )

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

It became a fashionable destination for the Austrian imperial family and Austrian nobility and soon more luxury hotels and villas were built, such as the Hotel Kvarner ( 1884 ), the Restaurant Kamelija and the Police station by the Keglević family.

In 1883 and from 1889 – 1891 the harbour was enlarged, and Austrian ship service was set up in 1884.

Hans Rott ( 1 August 1858 – 25 June 1884 ) was an Austrian composer.

Hans Makart ( May 28, 1840 – October 3, 1884 ) was a 19th century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator ; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and was a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation.

* May 26-Wilhelm Engerth, Austrian architect and engineer ( died 1884 )

Alfred Grünwald ( 16 February 1884, Vienna – 24 February 1951, New York City ) was an Austrian author, librettist, and lyricist.

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* Alfred Grünwald ( librettist ) ( 1884 – 1951 ), Austrian librettist

Gregor Mendel ( 1822 – 1884 ) was an Austrian monk who theorized basic rules of inheritance.

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger ( April 13, 1802-September 20, 1884 ) was an Austrian zoologist.

The Glengarry was replaced for officers of most non-Scottish units by a cap called the " Torin " ( similar in shape to the USSR's pilotka ), which was worn from circa 1884 until 1896, when it too was replaced by a style for all ranks known as the " Austrian Cap ", which had a fold down arrangement, giving the appearance when unfolded of a balaclava, thus warming the ears and back of the neck.

Kálnoky's special influence was seen in the improvement of Austrian relations with Russia, following on the meeting of the three emperors in September 1884 at Skierniewice, at which he was present.

* Arthur Erich Haas ( 1884 – 1941 ), Austrian physicist

Arthur Erich Haas ( April 30, 1884, Brno-February 20, 1941, Chicago ) was an Austrian physicist, noted for a 1910 paper he submitted in support of this habilitation as Privatdocent at the University of Vienna that outlined a treatment of the hydrogen atom involving quantization of electronic orbitals, thus anticipating the Bohr model ( 1913 ) by three years.

In 1884 Emperor Franz Joseph honoured Hansen with a barony in the Austrian nobility and he was since styled " Freiherr von Hansen ".

Ralph Benatzky ( 5 June 1884, ( Mährisch ) Budwitz ()), Moravia, Austrian Empire – 16 October 1957 ), born in Moravské Budějovice as Rudolf Josef František Benatzki, was an Austrian composer of Czech origin ( when Benatzky was born Bohemia was part of the Austrian empire, Benatzky mostly worked in Vienna ).

The Hong Kong Jockey Club ( HKJC, Chinese name: 香港賽馬會 ) is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong, founded in 1884 to promote horse racing.

Founded in 1884 as an amateur body to promote horse racing, it was an exclusive club whose membership was drawn from the upper class.

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt ( 1884 – 1970 ) gained fame as a sportsman, winning the most coveted prize in yacht racing, the America's Cup, on three occasions.

* John Godfrey Parry-Thomas – ( 1884 – 1927 ), engineer and racing driver.

In 1884, amateur status for overseas oarsmen was put on the same basis as for home oarsmen, thus ending the concession on racing for money prizes.

Georges Louis Frederic Boillot ( August 3, 1884 – May 19, 1916 ) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.

The growth of organised cycle racing led to the development of national administrative bodies, in Britain in 1878, France 1881, the Netherlands 1883, Germany 1884 and Sweden 1900.