* 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 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver ( d. 1948 )

* 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.

A Norwegian, Carl Anton Larsen, established the first land-based whaling station and first permanent habitation at Grytviken in 1904.

* July 6 – Anton Yugov, Bulgarian Communist politician, former Prime Minister ( b. 1904 )

** Anton Chekhov, Russian writer ( d. 1904 )

Among later visual artists who depicted Triglav, the most known are Anton Karinger ( 1829 – 1870 ) from Ljubljana, Marko Pernhart ( 1824 – 1871 ) from Klagenfurt, Valentin Hodnik ( 1896 – 1935 ) from Stara Fužina, Edo Deržaj ( 1904 – 1980 ) from Ljubljana, and recently Marjan Zaletel ( born 1945 ), living in Ljubljana.

In chamber music, he founded the Schnabel Trio with the violinist Alfred Wittenberg and the cellist Anton Hekking ; they played together between 1902 and 1904.

* Anton Chekhov ( 1860 – 1904 ), Russian writer

Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger, a Bavarian sausage seller, is said to have served sausages in rolls at the World's Fair – either the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago or the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis – again allegedly because the white gloves he gave to customers so that they could eat his hot sausages in comfort began to disappear as souvenirs.

The 17th-Century German grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon mentions Belial, as does Aleister Crowley's Goetia ( 1904 ) and Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible ( 1969 ).

Anton Behme Burg ( October 18, 1904 – November 18, 2003 ) was the founder of the University of Southern California chemistry department and an expert on boron.

Leopold Nowak ( 17 August 1904 – May 27, 1991 ) was a musicologist chiefly known for editing the works by Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society.

The settlement at Grytviken was established on November 16, 1904, by the Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca ( Argentine Fishing Company ).

* Australia Dancing – Dolin, Anton ( 1904 – 1983 )

Kosovel was born in 1904 to Anton and Katarina Kosovel ( née Streš ) in Sežana, a town in the Kras region of the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

* Karl Anton Nowotny ( 1904 – 1978 ), Austrian ethnographer, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar

Prince Ernst Alfons Franz Ignaz Joseph Maria Anton von Hohenberg ( 17 May 1904 – 5 March 1954 ) was the younger son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.

The Bavarian concessionaire, Anton Feuchtwange, was giving out gloves to hold sausages in the 1904 exposition to his customers.

A Melbourne lawyer once remarked that Incitatus would have the numbers for premier in Victoria, and in act III of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ( 1904 ) Pishchik says that his family is " descended from that very nag Caligula inducted in the Senate.

Although critics at the time were divided in their response to the play, the debut of The Cherry Orchard by the Moscow Art Theater on January 17, 1904 ( Chekhov's birthday ) was a resounding theatrical success and the play was almost immediately presented in many of the important provincial cities.