1884

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1881 1882 1883 – 1884 – 1885 1886 1887

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)