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 )

* January 8 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( b. 1884 )

Rembrandt Bugatti ( 16 October 1884 – 8 January 1916 ) was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects.

Rembrandt Bugatti ( 1884 – 1916 ).

Corrado Gini ( May 23, 1884 – March 13, 1965 ) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society.

In 1884 Gaetano Chierici, perhaps following Evans ' lead, renamed it in Italian as the Eneo-litica ( hyphen his ) or " Bronze-stone " transition.

* 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician ( b. 1884 )

* 1884 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor ( d. 1920 )

* 1884 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal ( d. 1979 )

* 1884 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist ( d. 1965 )

The Mercalli ( Intensity ) scale originated with the widely-used simple ten-degree Rossi-Forel scale, which was revised by Italian vulcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli in 1884 and 1906.

* 1971 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher ( b. 1884 )

** Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor ( tuberculosis ) ( b. 1884 )

* September 5 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal ( b. 1884 )

The La Scala, Milan première of the 1883 revised version took place on 10 January 1884 in Italian.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (; July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920 ) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France.

Thus he borrowed Théodora ( 1884 ) from Byzantine annals ( which was adapted into a opera by Xavier Leroux ), La Haine ( 1874 ) from Italian chronicles, La Duchesse d ' Athénes from the forgotten records of medieval Greece.

In March 1884, with the help of President Chester A. Arthur and Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the Cardinal helped save the Pontifical North American College from spoilation by the Italian government.

Other known foreign military consultants were the Italian Major Pompeo Grillo, who worked at the Osaka foundry from 1884 to 1888, followed by Major Quaratezi from 1889 to 1890, and the Dutch Captain Schermbeck, who worked on improving coastal defenses from 1883 to 1886.

Bevilacqua was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Luigi ( 1884 – 1961 ) and Maria ( née Codella, 1893 – 1968 ) Bevilacqua, who were Italian immigrants.

Marie Taglioni ( April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884 ) was an Italian / Swedish ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.

Bernacchi was born in Belgium to Italian parents, who migrated to Tasmania in 1884.

Quintino Sella ( 7 July 1827 – 14 March 1884 ) was an Italian statesman and financier.

Italian immigrants began to move into the area around 1884, when Antonio Palumbo began receiving Italian immigrants into his boardinghouse.

* Gustavo Bianchi ( 1845 – 1884 ), Italian explorer of Ethiopia

At the same time, he was deeply involved, from his first stay with Franciscan missionaries at Luxor in 1884, with relieving the poverty he saw among the missionaries of Upper Egypt, for whom he founded the Association to Succour Italian Missionaries ( ANSMI ), which expanded its work to care for Italian emigrants throughout the Near East.