page_title: 1884
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1884 / Deaths / January–June
caption_attribution_description: English: Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt from the US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Reproduction #:LC-USZ62-25802
context_page_description: 1884 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1884, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 6 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist (b. 1822)
  January 25 – Johann Gottfried Piefke, German conductor, composer (b. 1815)
  February 8 – Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zulu king (b. 1826)
  February 13 – Wilhelm von Tümpling, Prussian general (b. 1809)
  February 14
  Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1861)
  Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1835)
  February 26 – Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen, French general (b. 1811)
  March 1 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
  March 8 – Sydney Dacres, British admiral (b. 1804)
  March 13 – Leland Stanford, Jr., son of Governor Leland Stanford of California, in whose memory Stanford University was founded (b. 1868)
  March 19 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish philologist, collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (b. 1802)
  March 21
  Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (b. 1819)
  Constantin A. Crețulescu, 7th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1809)
  March 23 – Henry C. Lord, American railroad executive (b. 1824)
  March 28 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1853)
  April 1 – Marie Litton, English stage actress (b. 1847)
  April 4 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist (b. 1858)
  April 6 – Emanuel Geibel, German poet, dramatist (b. 1815)
  April 24 – Marie Taglioni, Swedish-Italian ballerina (b. 1804)
  May 6 – Judah P. Benjamin, Cabinet officer of the Confederate States (b. 1811)
  May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
  May 13 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
  May 29 –  Sir Henry Bartle Frere, British colonial administrator (b. 1815)
  June 19
  Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician, writer and main Constitution promoter (b. 1810)
  Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (b. 1808)
  June 21 – Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the Dutch throne (b. 1851)
  June 25 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
caption: Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
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