* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery case – you remember he was run down in Brussels.

* 1904 – Kurt Kiesinger, German politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1904 – Norah Lofts, English author ( d. 1983 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer ( d. 1970 )

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty ( d. 1904 )

* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, American writer ( d. 1988 )

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

* 1904 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1904 – Fifi D ' Orsay, Canadian actress ( d. 1983 )

* 1904 – George Klein, Canadian inventor ( d. 1992 )

* 1856 – Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader ( d. 1904 )

* 1904 – Minoru Genda, Japanese pilot and politician ( d. 1989 )

* 1904 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1904 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia ( d. 1918 )

* 1904 – Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter ( d. 2009 )

* 1904 – Count Basie, American pianist, bandleader, and composer ( Count Basie Orchestra ) ( d. 1984 )

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

Achille Varzi ( August 8, 1904 – July 1, 1948 ), was an Italian Grand Prix driver.

* 1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian engineer ( d. 1980 )

Italian cavalry officers practice their horsemanship in 1904 outside Rome.

* 1975 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

The Italian Giuseppe Ciancabilla ( 1872 – 1904 ) wrote in " Against organization " that " we don't want tactical programs, and consequently we don't want organization.

* 1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist ( d. 2000 )

The Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini used an extract of melody to write the aria " Ovunque al mondo ... ", in 1904 for his work Madama Butterfly.

* October 21 – Elissa Landi, Italian actress ( b. 1904 )

** Ferruccio Cerio, Italian film writer and director ( b. 1904 )

* May 27 – Mathilde Bonaparte, Italian princess ( d. 1904 )

In 1904 he was the first British subject to receive the Lavoisier medal of the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1906 he was the first to be awarded the Matteucci medal of the Italian Society of Sciences.

Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class Austrian mother, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner ( 1852 – 1904 ), and an Austrian – Italian bank manager, Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal ( 1841 – 1915 ).

However, delays followed due to financial difficulties, arguments regarding the location, the death of Tamburini in 1891, the murder of Meano in 1904 and the death of Angelo Ferrari, an Italian businessman who was the financing the new theatre.

In 1904 the firm started a Fiume – New York service with calls at Italian ports and Gibraltar.

On December 8, 1904, the Italian crypt was shipped, in sixteen crates from Italy.

His wife, the American Mary Alsop King, wrote her recollections of their diplomatic experiences – Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883 – 1900 ( New York, 1903 ), and Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife ( 1904 ).

Alternate and improved direction finding systems were invented by Lee de Forest in 1904 ( U. S. Patent 771, 819 ), and by Italian engineers Ettore Bellini and Alessandro Tosi in 1909 ( U. S. Patent 943, 960 ).

In America, Tresca was elected Secretary of the Italian Socialist Federation of North America in 1904.

He was the only son of Francisco Coelho do Amaral Reis, 1st Viscount of Pedralva by Carlos I of Portugal in 1904 ( Sátão, Águas Boas, 3 August 1873 – 5 April 1938 ), 100th Governor of Angola from 1920 to 1921, son of José Caetano dos Reis and wife Lucrécia Coelho do Amaral, and first wife, as her second husband, Guida Maria Josefina Cinatti Keil, daughter of German Alfredo Cristiano Keil and wife Italian Cleyde Maria Margarida Cinatti.

The Italian scientist and one of the pioneers in wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi, made a radio connection between Bar and Bari on August 30, 1904, and in 1908 the first railroad in this part of the Balkans was put into operation in 1913.

* Ferdinando Botteon ( Born 1904 ); Italian violinist.

The initial design and construction was undertaken by Italian architect Adamo Boari in 1904, but complications arising from the soft subsoil and the political problem both before and during the Mexican Revolution, hindered then stopped construction completely by 1913.

* February 7 – Secondo Campini ( b 1904 ), Italian jet engine pioneer.

In 1904 the ten-degree Mercalli scale was expanded to twelve degrees by Italian physicist Adolfo Cancani ; he added two extra degrees at the top of the scale ( the degrees XI ( catastrophe ) and XII ( enormous catastrophe )).