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 )

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

Since the first discovery in 1884, fossils of more than thirty individuals have been recovered, providing scientists with a more detailed knowledge of Albertosaurus anatomy than is available for most other tyrannosaurids.

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

* William Hallett Greene ( 1884 )), First black graduate of City College and first black member of the U. S. Army Signal Corps

* 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

Cantor suffered his first known bout of depression in 1884.

His first major work, a textbook on calculus, was published in 1884 and was credited to Genocchi.

The Maxim gun, invented in 1884, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon.

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 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.

In 1884 Fleming joined University College London taking up the Chair of Electrical Technology, the first of its kind in England.

In France the first labour laws were Waldeck Rousseau's laws passed in 1884.

On 12 April 1884, the first international match was played at the ground between Wales and Ireland, when 5, 000 people watched Wales beat Ireland by 2 tries and a drop goal to nil.

The first missionary sent out was R. S. Mclay, who sailed from Japan 1884, and was given the authority of medical and schooling permission from Gojong, Korean Emperor.

Credited as the first to use a diminutive of organ ( i. e., little organ ) for cellular structures was German zoologist Karl August Möbius ( 1884 ), who used the term organula ( plural of organulum, the diminutive of Latin organum ).

The first Dictionary fascicle was published on 1 February 1884 — twenty-three years after Coleridge's sample pages.

(; February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951 ) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North ( 1922 ).

1 and pp. 179ff .</ ref > Initially, telephone exchanges were granted to private developers as concessions in the major cities, but in 1884 the government began to construct the first of its own exchanges and subsequently suspended the award of new concessions.

Front page of the first issue of Svenska Dagbladet ( 18 December 1884 )

The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884.

In 1884, Brander Matthews, the first American professor of dramatic literature, published The Philosophy of the Short-Story.

In fact, the first proven occurrence of the term derives from a review of Reclus ' Nouvelle géographie universelle from 1884, written by Paul de Rousiers, a member of the Le Play School.