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1904 (MCMIV ) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar , the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium , the 4th year of the 20th century , and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1904
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October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University , is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune .
October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon , the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and 8 of his friends, at Cornell University Medical College .
October 4 – Swedish Association football club IFK Göteborg is founded, becoming the 39th IFK-association .[4]
October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi , a co-ed professional business fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University .
October 9 – German journalist Anna Rüling , in a speech to the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin, makes the first known public statement of the socio-legal problems faced by lesbians .
October 11 – Loftus Road football stadium opens in London.
October 15 – Theta Tau , a professional engineering fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis .
October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School, through the superintendence of American C.A. O'Reilley.
October 21 – Russo-Japanese War : Dogger Bank incident – The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the North Sea .
October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
October 28 – Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links .
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Births [ ]
January [ ]
January 1 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry , Pakistani politician (d. 1982 )
January 5 – Jeane Dixon , American astrologer (d. 1997 )
January 6 – Ramiro Prialé , Peruvian politician (d. 1988 )
January 10 – Ray Bolger , American actor, singer and dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (d. 1987 )
January 13 – Richard Addinsell , British composer (d. 1977 )
January 14
January 18 – Cary Grant , English actor (d. 1986 )
January 19 – Leo Soileau , American Cajun musician (d. 1980 )
January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson , American medical researcher (d. 1990 )
January 22
January 26
January 27 – J. J. Gibson , American psychologist (d. 1979 )
January 28 – Canuplin , Filipino magician, bodabil entertainer (d. 1979 )
January 29 – Arnold Gehlen , German philosopher (d. 1976 )
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March 1
March 2 – Dr. Seuss , American children's author (The Cat in the Hat ) (d. 1991 )
March 4
March 5 – Mow Pang Tzu , Republic of China air force general (d. 1987 )
March 6 – Hugh Williams , English actor, dramatist (d. 1969 )
March 7 – Reinhard Heydrich , German Nazi official (d. 1942 )
March 14 – Doris Eaton Travis , American actress (d. 2010 )
March 15 – J. Pat O'Malley , English actor (d. 1985 )
March 20
March 22 – Itche Goldberg , Yiddish author (d. 2006 )
March 23 – Joan Crawford , American actress (d. 1977 ) (other sources report her year of birth as 1903, 1905, 1906, and 1908)
March 26
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April [ ]
April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin , Russian Red Army General (d. 1945 )
April 3 – Sally Rand , American dancer, actress (d. 1979 )
April 4 – Soeman Hs , Indonesian author, educator (d. 1999 )
April 6
April 8 – John Hicks , English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
April 9 – Sharkey Bonano , American jazz musician (d. 1972 )
April 13 – Elwood Richard Quesada , American air force general (d. 1993 )
April 14 – 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 – J. Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist (d. 1967 )
April 24 – Willem de Kooning , Dutch artist (d. 1997 )
April 26
April 27
April 29 – Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer, actor (d. 1989 )
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May 4
May 6
May 8 – John Snagge , British radio personality (d. 1996 )
May 10 – James Roy Andersen , American general (d. 1945 )
May 11 – Salvador Dalí , Spanish artist (d. 1989 )
May 17
May 20 – Margery Allingham , British detective fiction writer (d. 1966 )
May 21
May 22 – Anne de Vries , Dutch writer (d. 1964 )
May 25 – Charles L. Melson , United States Navy admiral (d. 1981 )
May 26 – George Formby , English singer, comedian (d. 1961 )
May 27 – Chūhei Nambu , Japanese athlete (d. 1997 )
May 28 – George Beck , British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (d. 1978 )
May 29 – Abu Bakar of Pahang , sultan of Pagang (d. 1974 )
May 30 – Doris Packer , American actress (d. 1979 )
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July 1
July 2 – René Lacoste , French tennis player, businessman (d. 1996 )
July 5
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July 8 – Henri Cartan , French mathematician (d. 2008 )
July 9 – Hideo Oguni , Japanese writer (d. 1996 )
July 10
July 12
July 13 – James Thomas Burrows , New Zealand teacher, sportsman, administrator, and military leader (d. 1991 )
July 14
July 15 – Rudolf Arnheim , German-born author (d. 2007 )
July 16 – Geraldine Knight Scott , pioneering American woman landscape architect (d. 1989 )
July 18 – Stella Skopal , Croatian Jewish sculptor (d. 1992 )
July 19 – Mark Koenig , American baseball shortstop (d. 1993 )
July 20 – René Couzinet , French aeronautics engineer, aircraft manufacturer (d. 1956 )
July 21
July 24 – Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov , Soviet admiral (d. 1974 )
July 26 – Edwin Albert Link , American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (d. 1981 )
July 28 – Pavel Cherenkov , Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
July 29 – J. R. D. Tata , Indian businessman (d. 1993 )
August [ ]
August 3 – Dolores del Río , Mexican actress (d. 1983 )
August 4
August 6 – Ballard Berkeley , British actor (d. 1988 )
August 7 – Ralph Bunche , American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971 )
August 11 – Bernard Castro , Italian inventor (d. 1991 )
August 12 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (d. 1918 )
August 13
August 16
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August 19 – George de la Warr , British alternative physician (d. 1969 )
August 21 – Count Basie , African-American musician, bandleader (d. 1984 )
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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 )
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October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989 )
October 9 – Wally Brown , American actor, comedian (d. 1961 )
October 11 – Tita Merello , Argentine actress, singer, and tango dancer (d. 2002 )
October 18 – Haim Shirman , Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (d. 1981 )
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 )
October 29 – Casimiro Montenegro Filho , Brazilian army and air force officer (d. 2000 )
November [ ]
November 1 – Laura La Plante , American silent film actress (d. 1996 )
November 2 – Hugh Lygon , English aristocrat (d. 1936 )
November 4 – Tadeusz Żyliński , Polish technician, textilist (d. 1967 )
November 11
November 12 – Jacques Tourneur , French director (d. 1977 )
November 14
November 16 – Nnamdi Azikiwe , President of Nigeria (d. 1996 )
November 18 – Masao Koga , Japanese composer (d. 1978 )
November 22 – Louis Néel , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
November 25
November 30 – Clyfford Still , American painter (d. 1980 )
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December 3 – Roberto Marinho , Brazilian publisher, businessman and media mogul (d. 2003 )
December 4 – Albert Norden , German politician (d. 1982 )
December 6 – Ève Curie , French author (d. 2007 )
December 7 – Clarence Nash , American voice actor (d. 1985 )
December 10 – Antonín Novotný , 7th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1975 )
December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg , French-born magazine or, socialite (d. 1981 )
December 18 – George Stevens , American film director (d. 1975 )
December 20 – Rambai Barni Svastivatana , queen consort of King Prajadhipok of Siam , (d. 1984 )
December 21 – Jean René Bazaine , French painter (d. 2001 )
December 24
December 25
December 26 – Alejo Carpentier , Cuban writer (d. 1980 )
December 27 – Linwood G. Dunn , American special effects artist (d. 1998 )
December 30
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Deaths [ ]
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February 3 – John James McDannold , U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1851 )
February 4 – Rudolf Maison , German sculptor (b. 1854 )
February 8
February 10 – Nikolay Mikhaylovsky , Russian writer (b. 1842 )
February 11 – Vladimir Markovnikov , Russian chemist (b. 1838 )
February 13
February 14 – Alvinza Hayward , American financier and businessman (b. 1822 )
February 15 – Mark Hanna , United States Senator from Ohio (b. 1837 )
February 17 – Hermann Emminghaus , German psychiatrist (b. 1845 )
February 19 – Alice Sudduth Byerly , American temperance activist (b. 1855 )
February 22 – Sir Leslie Stephen , British writer and critic (b. 1832 )
February 24 – Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1900 )
February 28 – Anthony Durier , American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1833 )
February 29 – Antonio De Martino , Italian physician (b. 1815 )
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April 1 – Abby Morton Diaz , American teacher (b. 1821 )
April 3
April 5 – Tom Allen , British boxing champion (b. 1840 )
April 6
April 9 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830 )
April 12 – Elizaveta Akhmatova , Russian translator (b. 1820 )
April 13 – Stepan Makarov , Russian admiral (killed in action) (b. 1849 )
April 16 – Maximilian Kronberger , German poet (b. 1888 )
April 17 – Joe Cain , American Mardi Gras parade organiser (b. 1832 )
April 20 – Sara Jane Lippincott , American journalist (b. 1823 )
April 21 – Piatus of Mons , Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1815 )
April 24 – Norodom of Cambodia , King of Cambodia (b. 1834 )
April 27 – Mykhailo Starytsky , Ukrainian poet and writer (b. 1840 )
May [ ]
May – Henry F. Frizzell , American soldier (b. 1839 )
May 1
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May 3 – Tycho Kielland , Norwegian jurist and journalist (b. 1854 )
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May 12 – Isabella Eugénie Boyer , French model (b. 1841 )
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May 15 – Étienne-Jules Marey , French inventor (b. 1830 )
May 16 – Harold Finch-Hatton , British politician (b. 1856 )
May 17
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May 21 – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (b. 1882 )
May 22 – Charles Elwood Brown , U.S. Representative from Ohio (b. 1834 )
May 24 – Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg (b. 1871 )
May 26 – Mary Ellen Bagnall-Oakeley , English antiquarian, author, and painter (b. 1833 )
May 27 – Anđelko Aleksić , Serbian general (b. 1876 )
May 29 – Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy , Mexican politician (b. 1829 )
May 30
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July 1 – George Frederic Watts , British symbolist painter and sculptor (b. 1817 )
July 2 – Eugénie Joubert , French Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1876 )
July 3
July 4 – Bódog Czorda , Hungarian politician (b. 1828 )
July 5
July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuli , Kazakh poet (b. 1845 )
July 7 – Adolph Friedländer , German lithographer (b. 1851 )
July 9 – Édouard Thilges , Luxembourgish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1817 )
July 14 – Paul Kruger , South African military and political figure, 3rd President of South Africa (b. 1825 )
July 15 – Anton Chekhov , Russian writer (b. 1860 )
July 17 – Isaac Roberts , Welsh astronomer (b. 1829 )
July 19 – Herbert Campbell , English actor (b. 1844 )
July 22 – Wilson Barrett , English actor and playwright (b. 1846 )
July 23
July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor , American admiral (b. 1845 )
July 30 – Richard A. Harrison , U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (b. 1824 )
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November 2 – Henry Austin , American baseball player (b. 1844 )
November 3 – Carl Daniel Ekman , Swedish engineer (b. 1845 )
November 7 – Guillermo Blest Gana , Chilean writer (b. 1829 )
November 9 – Joseph C. Hendrix , U.S. Representative from New York (b. 1853 )
November 10
November 12
November 14
November 15 – Mary of the Passion , French Roman Catholic religious sister, missionary and blessed (b. 1839 )
November 16 – Clara Conway , American teacher (b. 1844 )
November 18 – Justus van Maurik , Dutch author (b. 1846 )
November 19 – Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney , American writer, reformer, philanthropist (b. 1824 )
November 27
November 28 – Fanny Janauschek , Czech actress (b. 1829 )
November 29 – Helen Abbott Michael , American scientist (b. 1857 )
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December 2
December 4 – Cristiano Banti , Italian painter (b. 1824 )
December 8 – John Kirkpatrick , British-born Australian politician (b. 1840 )
December 11
December 13
December 14 – Mélanie Calvat , French Roman Catholic nun, Marian visionary and saint (b. 1831 )
December 16 – Daniel W. Mills , U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1838 )
December 19 – Lewis Tappan Barney , American army officer (b. 1844 )
December 20 – Princess Alexandrine of Baden (b. 1820 )
December 21 – Edward H. Dewey , American physician (b. 1837 )
December 22 – Horace Sumner Lyman , American journalist (b. 1855 )
December 24 – Gustav Bauernfeind , German painter (b. 1848 )
December 25 – Guido Bodländer , German chemist (b. 1855 )
December 27 – William F. Mahoney , U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1856 )
December 29 – Friedrich Moritz Brauer , German entomologist (b. 1832 )
December 30 – Frederick Clifford , English journalist (b. 1828 )
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References [ ]
Further reading [ ]
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 89–104.
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