1st » The first volume ('A' to 'Ant') of the 'Oxford English Dictionary' is published.
19th » More than Enigma tornado outbreak named sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1884
1st » Bradbury Robinson, American football player and physician (d. 1949)
1st » Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian author (d. 1937)
6th » Marcel Cohen, French linguist and scholar (d. 1974)
8th » Reginald Baker (sportsman) called Reginald Baker, Australian boxer, rugby player, and actor (d. 1953)
10th » Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
12th » Max Beckmann, German painter and sculptor (d. 1950)
12th » Johan Laidoner, Estonian-Russian general (d. 1953)
12th » Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1980)
12th » Marie Vassilieff, Russian painter (d. 1957)
13th » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (d. 1961)
14th » Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)
14th » Joe Jagersberger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1952)
14th » Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
16th » Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (d. 1951)
18th » Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
28th » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
29th » Richard S. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1941)
Famous Deaths for February 1884
14th » Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1861)