What is 1884?
{{Year nav|1884}} {{Year in various calendars|1884}} {{Year article header|1884}} == Births == * [[May 8]] – [[Harry S. Truman]] * [[October 11]] – [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[First Lady of the United States]], wife of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (d. [[1962]]) * [[December 30]] – [[Hideki Tōjō]], 40th Prime Minister of Japan, Led the [[Attack on Pearl Harbour]] (d. [[1948]]) == Deaths == * [[January 25]] – [[Johann Gottfried Piefke]], German conductor and composer (b. [[1815]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Ezra Abbot]], American Bible scholar (b. [[1819]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Marie Bashkirtseff]], Russian artist (b. [[1858]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Bedrich Smetana]], Czech composer (b. [[1824]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Cyrus McCormick]], American inventor (b. [[1809]]) * [[June 25]] – [[Hans Rott]], Austrian composer (b. [[1858]]) * [[July 1]] – [[Allan Pinkerton]], American detective (b. [[1819]]) * [[July 10]] – [[Paul Morphy]], American chess player (b. [[1837]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe]], German chemist (b. [[1818]]) [[Category:1884| ]]