1904: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1904

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Birthdays

January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
January 1 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
January 2 - Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
January 5 - Erica Morini, Austrian violinist (d. 1995)
January 5 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
January 8 - Karl Brandt, Alsacian Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
January 10 - Ray Bolger, American actor/dancer (d. 1987)
January 12 - Fred McDowell, American blues musician (d. 1972)
January 13 - Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)
January 14 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
January 14 - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)
January 14 - Babe Siebert, National Hockey League player (d. 1939)
January 18 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
January 18 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (d. 2006)
January 22 - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
January 22 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
January 26 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
January 26 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman
January 28 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
February 1 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist (d. 1979)
February 3 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
February 3 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)
February 10 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
February 12 - Ted Mack, American television host (d. 1976)
February 14 - Charles Oatley, Professor of electrical engineering
February 14 - Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish communist (d. 1974)
February 15 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (d. 1983)
February 16 - George F. Kennan, American historian
February 17 - Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
February 19 - Havank, Dutch writer (d. 1964)
February 20 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
February 23 - Terence Fisher, English film director (d. 1980)
February 23 - William L. Shirer, American historian (d. 1993)
February 23 - Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
February 27 - James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
February 27 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
February 27 - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
February 27 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)
February 29 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (d. 1965)
February 29 - Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and founder of Kalakshetra (d. 1986)
March 1 - Paul Hartman, American actor (d. 1973)
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)
March 4 - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor, (d. 1942)
March 4 - Chief Tahachee, American stage and film actor (d. 1978)
March 5 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
March 6 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
March 7 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official (d. 1942
March 9 - Paul Klipsch, American engineer
March 14 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress
March 18 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
March 19 - John Sirica, American judge (d. 1992)
March 20 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
March 21 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
March 21 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (d. 1949)
March 23 - H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author (d. 1964)
March 26 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987)
March 26 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor
March 26 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist
March 30 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (d. 1999)
April 3 - Russel Wright, American industrial designer (d. 1976)
April 8 - John Hicks, British economist
April 8 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (d.1970)
April 9 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
April 13 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
April 14 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
April 15 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
April 18 - Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
April 20 - Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
April 20 - George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
April 21 - Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945)
April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
April 23 - Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (d. 1985)
April 24 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
April 26 - Paul-Émile Léger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (d. 1972)
May 4 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (d. 1975)
May 6 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980)
May 6 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
May 6 - Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
May 8 - John Snagge, British radio personality (d. 1996)
May 11 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
May 13 - Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
May 14 - Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
May 14 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
May 17 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
May 18 - Jacob K. Javits, American politician (d. 1986)
May 21 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
May 21 - Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
May 22 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
May 26 - George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
May 26 - Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
June 2 - Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
June 3 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
June 17 - Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991)
June 18 - Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (d. 1991)
June 18 - Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
June 24 - Phil Harris, American singer
June 26 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
June 26 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1964)
July 2 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (d. 1996)
July 4 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
July 5 - Harold Acton, American writer and dilettante (d. 1994)
July 5 - Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)
July 5 - Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
July 6 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
July 7 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
July 8 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
July 12 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet
July 15 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
July 19 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (d.1985)
July 24 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
July 29 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
July 30 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
July 31 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
August 3 - Clifford D. Simak, American author (d. 1988)
August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
August 4 - Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
August 6 - Henry Iba, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
August 7 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat
August 8 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
August 12 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
August 13 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)
August 16 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist
August 17 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
August 17 - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
August 18 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
August 21 - William "Count" Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)
August 22 - Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
August 24 - Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
August 26 - Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)
August 27 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
August 27 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
August 29 - Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
September 1 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)
September 6 - Max Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
September 9 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
September 10 - Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
September 15 - King Umberto II of Italy, (d. 1983)
September 22 - Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
September 29 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
September 30 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
October 1 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
October 1 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
October 2 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
October 2 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d.1966)
October 3 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist
October 3 - Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 (d. 1998)
October 5 - John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991)
October 12 - Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
October 12 - Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959)
October 13 - Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (d. 1978)
October 14 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
October 18 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
October 20 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
October 20 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
October 21 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (d. 1967)
October 22 - Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
October 23 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
October 24 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
October 27 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
November 4 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
November 5 - Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985)
November 8 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer, (d. 1990)
November 9 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
November 11 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1996)
November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
November 13 - H. C. Potter, American film and theater director (d. 1977)
November 14 - Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)
November 14 - Harold Larwood, English cricketer (d. 1995)
November 16 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
November 17 - Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
November 18 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
November 21 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (d. 1969)
November 22 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist
November 25 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
November 25 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
November 25 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
November 26 - Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
November 28 - Nancy Mitford, British essayist (d. 1973)
November 28 - James Eastland, American politician (d. 1986)
November 29 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970)
November 30 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
December 6 - Ève Curie, French writer (d. 2007)
December 7 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
December 9 - Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
December 11 - Marge, American cartoonist (d 1993)
December 12 - Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
December 17 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
December 18 - George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
December 20 - Spud Davis, baseball player (d. 1984)
December 24 - Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist.
December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
December 26 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
December 30 - Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
December 31 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)

Deaths

January 2 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
January 5 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
January 10 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
January 26 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
February 2 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
February 10 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
February 22 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
March 7 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
April 10 - Queen Isabella II of Spain, (b. 1830)
April 16 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
April 16 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
May 1 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
May 10 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
May 26 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
June 12 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
June 13 - Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
June 17 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician
July 3 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
July 3 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
July 5 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
July 14 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824)
July 15 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
July 22 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
August 6 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
August 20 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
August 25 - William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
August 29 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)
September 13 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
September 21 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
September 24 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician
September 26 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
September 26 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek writer (b. 1850)
October 4 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
October 4 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
October 13 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
October 21 - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)

Events

January 7 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
January 17 - Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
January 23 - Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
February 7 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 8 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
February 9 - Russo–Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur
February 10 - The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
February 17 - Madama Butterfly premiers at La Scala in Milan.
February 22 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
February 23 - The United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
March 3 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
March 4 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
March 5 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
April 5 - The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
April 8 - The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
April 8 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
April 8 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 19 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
April 27 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
April 30 - The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 4 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
May 4 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
May 5 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
May 9 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
May 21 - The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
June 15 - A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1000.
June 16 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 16 - Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; traditionally "Bloomsday".
August 10 - Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
August 18 - Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
August 23 - The automobile tire chain is patented.
October 15 - The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
October 19 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
October 27 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
November 18 - General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
December 3 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
December 8 - Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) in Denmark is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen. Still existing today, it is the oldest political youth organization in Denmark and believed to be one of the oldest in the world.
December 10 - Founding of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
December 31 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.

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