What Happened in September 1884

Historical Events

  • Sep 4 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia
  • Sep 10 Congressman John R. Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
  • Sep 20 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
  • Sep 20 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President
  • Sep 23 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing
  • Sep 24 Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC
  • Sep 26 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1884 History

Famous Birthdays

  • Sep 1 Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and film director (Ebberöds bank, Med folket för fosterlandet), born in Tierp, Uppsala län, Sweden (d. 1947)
  • Sep 2 Frank Laubach, American missionary and educator (taught reading through phonetics), born in Benton Pennsylvania (d. 1970)
  • Sep 6 Emerson Whithorne, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1958)
  • Sep 12 Bob Groom, American baseball pitcher (Washington Senators; no-hitter 1917 St. Louis Browns), born in Belleville, Illinois (d. 1948)
  • Sep 14 Dave Smith, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 24no; Victoria), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1963)
  • Sep 15 Floro Ugarte, Argentine composer (From My Land; Saika), and educator, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1975)
  • Sep 17 Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian and Justice of Curacao, born in Amsterdam (d. 1961)
  • Sep 17 Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (White Peacock), born in Elmira, New York (d. 1920)
  • Sep 18 Ludomir Różycki, Polish composer and conductor (Eros i Psyche; Pan Twardowski), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1953)

Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947)

Sep 20 American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, born in New York City

  • Sep 20 Piotr Rytel, Polish composer, born in Vilnius (d. 1970)
  • Sep 21 Shorty Ray, American football player and supervisor of NFL officials, born in Highland Park, Illinois (d. 1956)
  • Sep 22 Minerva Urecal [Dunnock], American stage, radio, and screen character actress (Accent on Love; The Adventures of Tugboat Annie; Peter Gunn; The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao), born in Eureka, California (d. 1966)
  • Sep 24 Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (Tour de France 1911), born in Vabre-Tizac, France (d. 1963)
  • Sep 24 Hugo Schmeisser, German inventor and weapons designer, born in Jena, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empire (d. 1953)
  • Sep 24 İsmet İnönü, Turkish politician (2nd President of Turkey 1938-50), born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (d. 1973)
  • Sep 25 John Howard Lawson, American scriptwriter and playwright (Blockade, Algiers, Sahara), born in New York City (d. 1977)
  • Sep 25 Kees Boeke, Dutch reformist educator (Cosmic View), born in Alkmaar, Netherlands (d. 1966)
  • Sep 26 J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs), born in Molesworth, Ontario, Canada (d. 1951)
  • Sep 29 Boris Asafiev, Russian composer and music critic, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1949)
Born in 1884

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 17 Louis Schubert, German, violinist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 56
  • Sep 20 Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist, dies at 82
  • Sep 28 Fred Morley, English cricket fast bowler, (4 Tests, 16 wickets, BB 5/56; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 33
  • Sep 30 Louis Lacombe, French pianist and composer, dies at 65