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 – 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 )

The Berlin Conference ( 1884 ) headed by Otto von Bismarck that regulated European colonization in Africa during the New Imperialism period

* October 6 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1884 )

The fifty poems that were published by Albert Giraud ( born Emile Albert Kayenbergh ) as Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques in 1884 quickly attracted composers to set them to music, especially after they were translated, somewhat freely, into German ( 1892 ) by the poet and dramatist Otto Erich Hartleben.

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

Ottomar Anschütz's famous 1884 album of photographs of storks inspired the design of Otto Lilienthal's experimental gliders of the late 19th century.

The modern edition is that by Curt Wachsmuth and Otto Hense ( Berlin, 1884 – 1912, 5 volumes ).

* Curtius Wachsmuth, Otto Hense, ( 1884 ), Ioannis Stobaei Anthologium, Volume 1-2

The euglenids were first defined by Otto Bütschli in 1884 as the flagellate order Euglenida.

After 1884, Otto also developed the magneto to create an electrical spark for ignition, which had been unreliable on the Lenoir engine.

Map of the Belgian Congo ( 1884 ) In November 1884, Otto von Bismarck convened a 14-nation conference ( the Berlin Conference ) to submit the Congo question to international control.

Together with Ernst Abbe ( joined 1866 ) and Otto Schott ( joined 1884 ) they built a base for modern optics and manufacturing.

** Otto Pfleiderer, Religionsphilosophie auf geschichtlicher Grundlage ( 2nd ed., Berlin, 1884, vol.

The German worker's compensation law of 6 July 1884, initiated by Prince Otto von Bismarck, was passed only after three attempts and was the first of its kind in the world.

When the Ringling Brothers ( Alfred T., John, Charles, and Otto ) were planning their own circus, they invited the Parson Brothers to join them in 1884.

* Otto von Bismarck, Prussian and German chancellor during the unification period ; decorated in 1884 with the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

These were Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, who received the military class in 1839 and the civil class in 1874, Otto von Bismarck, who received the military class in 1884 and the civil class in 1896, and Hermann von Kuhl, who received the military class in 1916 and the civil class in 1924.

* Otto Rank ( 1884 – 1939 ) Psychiatrist

Otto Fritz Meyerhof ForMemRS ( April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951 ) was a German-born physician and biochemist.

This theory argues that the word shot was originally spelled Schott, and named after Friedrich Otto Schott who co-founded the glassworks factory Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen in Jena, Germany, in 1884.

For a long time Otto could not find an eligible editor-in-chief until he began to cooperate with Jan Malý, a former co-editor of the Reiger's encyclopedia, who laid down a concept of the new work with a proposed name-Czech national encyclopedia ( Národní encyklopedie česká ) in 1884.

* Otto Finsch, Anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in der Sudsee und dem Malayischen Archipel in den Jahren, 1879-1882 ( Berlin: A. Asher & Co., 1884 ). Otto Finsch, Masks of Faces of Races of Men from the South Sea Islands and the Malay Archipelago, taken from Living Originals in the Years 1879-82 ( Rochester, NY: Ward's Natural Sciences Establishment, 1888 ).