Year (''' MDCCCLXXXIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 2 - Oscar Micheaux , American filmmaker and author (d. 1951 )
- January 12 - Texas Guinan , American vaudeville performer (d. 1933 )
- January 13 - Sophie Tucker , Russian-born singer and comedian (d. 1966 )
- January 21 - Roger Baldwin , American social activist (d. 1981 )
- January 23 - Ralph DePalma , Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956 )
- January 28 - Auguste Piccard , Swiss physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962 )
- January 31 - Theodor Heuss , German politician and publicist (d. 1963 )
- February 12
- --- Max Beckmann , German painter and graphic artist (d. 1950 )
- --- Marie Vassilieff , Russian artist (d. 1957 )
- February 13 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert , American athlete and inventor (d. 1961 )
- February 14 - Hezekiah M. Washburn , missionary (d. 1972 )
- February 16 - Robert J. Flaherty , American filmmaker (d. 1951 )
- February 18 - Andrew Watson Myles , Canadian politician (d. 1970 )
- February 22 - Abe Attell , American boxer (d. 1970 )
- March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole , English novelist (d. 1941 )
- March 17 - Alcide Nunez , American jazz musician (d. 1934 )
- March 24 - Peter Debye , Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966 )
- March 25 - Georges Imbert , Alsatian chemist (d. 1950 )
- March 26 - Wilhelm Backhaus , German pianist (d. 1969 )
- April 4 - Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese naval commander (d. 1943 )
- April 6 - Walter Huston , actor (d. 1950 )
- April 12 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof , German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1951 )
- May 1 - Henry Norwest , Canadian World War I sniper (d. 1918 )
- May 8 - Harry S. Truman , 33rd President Of The United States (d. 1972 )
- May 10 - Olga Petrova , English-born actress (d. 1977 )
- May 14 - Claudius Dornier , German aircraft designer (d. 1969 )
- May 27 - Max Brod , Austrian author (d. 1968 )
- May 28 - Edvard Beneš , Austrian politician (d. 1948 )
- July 12 - Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920 )
- July 15 - Phraya Manopakorn Nititada , Thailand's First Prime Minister (d. 1948 )
- July 18 - Alberto Di Jorio , former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 Conclave (d. 1979 )
- July 23 - Emil Jannings , Swiss actor (d. 1950 )
- August 8 - Sara Teasdale , American poet (d. 1933 )
- August 10 - Panait Istrati , Romanian writer (d. 1935 )
- August 23 - Will Cuppy , American humorist (d. 1949 )
- August 30 - Theodor Svedberg , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes , American composer (d. 1920 )
- September 24 - İsmet İnönü , Turkish soldier, statesman and the second President of Turkey.(d. 1973 )
- September 24 - Hugo Schmeisser , German weapons designer (d. 1953 )
- October 11 - Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949 )
- October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1962 )
- November 20 - Norman Thomas , American social reformer (d. 1968 )
- December 3 - Walther Stampfli , Member Of The Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965 )
- December 30 - Tojo Hideki , Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 1948 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- M. Louise Gross , American politician and lobbyist (d. 1951 )
- --- Richard Spikes , African American inventor (d.1962)
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- January 6 - Gregor Mendel , Czech geneticist (b. 1822 )
- January 25 - Johann Gottfried Piefke , German conductor and composer (b. 1815 )
- March 1 - Isaac Todhunter , English mathematician (b. 1820 )
- March 21 - Ezra Abbot , American Bible scholar (b. 1819 )
- April 4 - Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian artist (b. 1858 )
- April 6 - Emanuel Geibel , poet and dramatist (b. 1815 )
- April 24 - Marie Taglioni , ballerina (b. 1804 )
- May 12 - Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer (b. 1824 )
- May 13 - Cyrus McCormick , American inventor (b. 1809 )
- June 25 - Hans Rott , Austrian composer (b. 1858 )
: ''See also .''
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