Year
1904 (
MCMIV) was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
leap year starting on Thursday
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
- Contents (full)
- 1 Events of 1904
- : - Jan. . Feb. . March . April
- : - May . June . July . Aug.
- : - Sept. . Oct. . Nov. . Dec.
- : - Undated . Ongoing .
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
- 4 Nobel Prizes
- 5 See also - Notes - External links
Events of 1904
January - February
March - April
May - June
July - August
September - October
November - December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
- January 3 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
- January 10 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
- January 13 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
- January 14 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
- January 18 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
- January 22
- George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
- Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
- January 26
- Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
- Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1988)
- January 27 - J. J. Gibson, American psychologist (d. 1979)
- January 29
- Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976)
- February 1 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979)
- February 3
- Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
- Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
- February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (d. 1977)
- February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
- February 16
- George F. Kennan, American diplomat (d. 2005)
- Philip Rabinowitz, South African record breaking sprinter
- February 20 - Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
- February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)
March-April
- March 1 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
- March 2 - Dr. Seuss, American author (d. 1991)
- March 4
- George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
- Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
- Chief Tahachee (actor), American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
- March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
- March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
- March 14 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress
- March 20 - B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)
- March 22 - Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (d. 2006)
- March 26
- Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (d. 1987)
- Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
- April 1 - Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General (d.1945)
- April 3 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (d. 1979)
- April 8 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- April 9 - Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
- April 14 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
- April 15 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (d. 1948)
- April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
- April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
- April 24 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
- April 26 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
- April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
- April 29 - Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)
May-June
- May 6
- Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984)
- Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
- May 8 - John Snagge, British radio personality (d. 1996)
- May 11 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
- May 17 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
- May 21
- Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
- Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)
- May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
- June 2
- Frantisek Planicka, Czech footballer (d. 1996)
- Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
- June 3 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
- June 6 - Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (d. 1928)
- June 26 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born film actor (d. 1964)
July-August
- July 5 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and author (d. 2005)
- July 6 - Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)
- July 8 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
- July 12 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- July 15 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
- July 28 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- July 31 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
- August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
- August 7 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
- August 12 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
- August 16 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- August 17
- Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
- Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
- August 21 - Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
- August 22 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997)
- August 23
- Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970)
- Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
- August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
- August 29 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
September-October
- September 9 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- September 22 - Joseph Valachi, gangster (d. 1971)
- September 29 - Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
- October 1 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
- October 1 - Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias(d. 1682)
- October 3 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- October 9 - Wally Brown, American actor and comedian (d. 1961)
- October 20 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
- October 23 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
- October 25 - Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (d. 1968)
November-December
- November 2 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
- November 4 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
- November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
- November 12 - Jacques Tourneur, French director (d. 1977)
- November 14
- Dick Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
- Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1988)
- November 25
- Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
- Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
- November 30 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
- December 6 - Eve Curie, French author and daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie
- December 12 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
- December 18 - George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
- December 24 - Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and philanthropist
- December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- December 26 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
- December 30 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
- date unknown
- Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944)
- Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991)
- Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh language (d. 1992)
Deaths
- :(See 1904 list of deaths by name: .)
January - June
- January 2 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
- January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
- February 8 - Alfred Ainger, biographer (b. 1837)
- February 22 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
- March 5 - John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (b. 1829)
- March 17 - Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (b. 1819)
- April 10 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
- May 1 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
- May 8 - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and motion picture pioneer (b. 1830)
- May 10 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (b. 1841)
- May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
- June 4 - George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (b. 1862)
- June 12 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
July - December
- July 3 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism (b. 1860)
- July 5 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
- July 14
- Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- Paul Kruger, South African resistance leader (b. 1825)
- July 22 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
- August 6 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
- August 22 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
- August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
- August 29 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
- September 24 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
- September 26
- Lafcadio Hearn, American-Japanese author (b. 1850)
- John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
- October 4
- Frédéric Bartholdi, Alsatian sculptor (b. 1834)
- Laurence Hope, English poetess (b. 1865)
- October 21 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer (b. 1877)
Nobel prizes
Fictional
- Sometime in this year, the events of Raimuiro Senkitan took place.
- Three of the short novels about Samantha Edwards took place in this year.
Notes
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- 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
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- 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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