Curated category
1884 births
- Louis B. MayerLouis B. Mayer was born Lazar Meir on the 12th of July 1884 in the village of Dymer, Ukraine. His family moved to Saint John, New Brunswick when he was a…
- Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on the 8th of May 1884. He grew up as the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
- Édouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was born in Carpentras, a town in the Vaucluse region of France, on the 18th of June 1884. He grew up as the son of a village baker and…
- Sulaiman NadviSulaiman Nadvi entered the world on the 22nd of November 1884 in Desna, a quiet village within Nalanda District of Bihar.
- Bronisław MalinowskiBronisław Kasper Malinowski was born on the 7th of April 1884 in Kraków, then part of the Austrian Partition of Poland. His father Lucjan Malinowski served…
- Rudolf BultmannRudolf Karl Bultmann was born on the 20th of August 1884 in Wiefelstede, Oldenburg. His father Arthur Kennedy Bultmann served as a Lutheran minister.
- Stanley Unwin (publisher)Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen and Sons on the 1st of January 1914. This transaction transformed his career from an employee…
- George SartonGeorge Sarton buried his life's work in a garden in Belgium. It was August 1914, and German soldiers were advancing on Ghent.
- Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on the 30th of December 1884. He entered a world where society remained rigidly divided into four…
- Otto RankOn his deathbed in New York City on the 31st of October 1939, Otto Rank reportedly said a single word: "Komisch." It means "funny" or "strange." A kidney…
- İsmet İnönüMustafa İsmet was born on the 24th of September 1884 in Smyrna, now known as İzmir. His father Hacı Reşit served as a director within the War Ministry before…
- Jakob LaubJakob Johann Laub was born as Jakub Laub on the 7th of February 1884 in Rzeszów. He changed his name from Jakub to Jakob Johann after converting from the…
- Yevgeny ZamyatinYevgeny Zamyatin was born in Lebedyan, south of Moscow, to a Russian Orthodox priest and a musician mother. He recalled his childhood as that of a very…
- A. MerrittAbraham Grace Merritt was born on the 20th of January 1884 in Beverly, New Jersey. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894.
- Peter DebyePeter Joseph William Debye was born on the 24th of March 1884 in Maastricht, Netherlands. He enrolled at Aachen University of Technology in 1901 to study…