That year, Newcomb pointed out to a Johns Hopkins trustee that Peirce, while a Hopkins employee, had lived and traveled with a woman to whom he was not married ; the ensuing scandal led to his dismissal in January 1884.

In January 1884 Beatty passed into the officers ' training ship Britannia tenth out of ninety-nine candidates.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (; January 20 ( Julian ) / February 1 ( Gregorian ), 1884 – March 10, 1937 ) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.

* January 28 – Burt Mustin, American actor ( b. 1884 )

* January 2 – Gilbert Miller ( aka Gilbert Heron ) American theatrical producer ( b. 1884 )

* January 27 – Charles Winninger, American actor ( b. 1884 )

* January 24 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor ( b. 1884 )

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

* January 1 – Vincent Auriol, President of France ( b. 1884 )

* January 19 – Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist ( b. 1884 )

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

" The partnership's next opera, Princess Ida, opened in January 1884.

* Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Nazi leader, born 21 January 1884 in Riga.

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

By early 1881 the State Department started responding to criticism of the seal, resulting first in an 1882 centennial commemorative coin, and then with Secretary of State Frederick Frelinghuysen asking for funds to create a new design and dies of both the obverse and reverse on January 11, 1884, after getting estimates of the cost.

The religious press generally ignored the tale but, in January 1884, Christian Remembrancer thought the tale's old and hackneyed subject was treated in an original way and praised the author's sense of humour and pathos.

Hence Jodie May McKneely ( died January 1, 1884 ) originated the Baby Head Cemetery.

After founding, the county government was fully organized on January 24, 1884.

In January 1884, he went to Copenhagen for further studies at the conservatory.

Auguste Antoine Piccard ( 28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962 ) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer.

The railroad placed a box car, known as “ Car B ” off to the north-west side of the mainline near what is now Clinton Keith Road on January 1, 1884.

DePauw donated a large portion of his wealth shortly before his death to the now defunct Indiana Asbury University who renamed their school in his honor in January 1884.

A post office operated from January 14, 1884, until October 14, 1895.

A post office operated from October 1875 to November 1884 and again from March 1886 until January 1909.

On 28 January 1857, his mother died.

In January 2009, Kane appeared in the TV series Two and a Half Men as the mother of Alan Harper's receptionist.

On January 2, 1988, Plato's adoptive mother, Kay Plato, died, aged 49, from scleroderma.

Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.

His father, Franjo Broz ( 26 November 1860 – 16 December 1936, Zagreb, buried at Mirogoj ), was a Croat, while his mother Marija ( born Javeršek, 25 March 1864, Loka pri Podsredi – 14 January 1918, Kupinec ), was a Slovene.

However, in January 1954, Oswald's mother Marguerite returned with him to New Orleans.

In July, however, the newly restored queen and her mother were captured and imprisoned, and the latter was murdered in January next year.

On January 25, 1919, her mother, May Belle Mitchell, succumbed to pneumonia from the " Spanish flu ".

His mother, Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at the age of 90.

1863 was to alter the course of Alma-Tadema's personal and professional life: on 3 January his invalid mother died, and on 24 September he was married, in Antwerp City Hall, to Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, the daughter of Eugene Gressin Dumoulin, a French journalist living near Brussels.

American serial killer Henry Lee Lucas murdered his mother in Tecumseh on January 11, 1960.

* January 16 – Actress Carole Lombard and her mother are among those killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas, Nevada, while returning from a tour to promote the sale of war bonds.

* January 16 – Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank ( d. 1945 )

* January 20 – Frances Shand Kydd, Princess Diana's mother ( d. 2004 )

* January 3 – Anna McNeill Whistler, James Whistlers mother and subject of his painting ( b. 1804 )

* January 6 – Henry of Anjou arrives in England hoping to dethrone the reigning monarch, Stephen of England, and replace him with Henry's mother, Empress Maud.

* January – Susanna Wesley, mother of the Wesley brothers ( d. 1742 )

* January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

* January 28 – Dervorguilla of Galloway, mother of king John I of Scotland ( b. c. 1210 )

His mother, Janet Marylyn ( née Frager ; born in Alameda County, California, on January 18, 1932 ), was a hospital worker.

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

In the early morning hours of January 16, 1942, Lombard, her mother, and Winkler boarded a Transcontinental and Western Air DC-3 airplane to return to California.

# Guta ( Jutte / Bona ) ( 13 March 1271 – 18 June 1297, Prague ), married 24 January 1285 to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and became the mother of king Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary, of queen Anne of Bohemia ( 1290 – 1313 ), duchess of Carinthia, and of queen Elisabeth of Bohemia ( 1292 – 1330 ), countess of Luxembourg.

His mother described Hicks's early interest in comedy on the Late Show with David Letterman on January 30, 2009: