* 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 )

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.

** Count Basie, American musician and composer ( b. 1904 )

* July 9 – Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count ( d. 1904 )

William " Count " Basie ( August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984 ) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

* Princess Irina Felixovna Yussupova, ( March 21, 1915, Saint Petersburg, Russia-August 30, 1983, Cormeilles, France ), married Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev ( October 28, 1904, Moscow, Russia – February 5, 1979, Paris, France ), son of Count Dmitri Sergeievich Sheremetev and wife Countess Irina Ilarionovna Vorontzova-Dachkova and a descendant of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev ; had issue:

* Count Basie ( 1904 – 84 ), jazz pianist and bandleader.

After Britain and France concluded the Entente Cordiale in 1904, Wilhelm asked Count Schlieffen to devise a plan which would allow Germany to fight a war on two fronts, and in December 1905 Schlieffen began circulating it.

He married Anne Gouvion ( Toul, 2 November 1775-Paris, 18 June 1844 ) and had issue, including Laurent François, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr ( 30 December 1815-30 January 1904 ), married in Saint-Bouize on 17 August 1847 to Marie Adélaïde Bachasson de Montalivet ( 5 November 1828-14 April 1880 ), daughter of Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and had issue.

* Count Basie ( 1904 – 1984 ), pianist, organist

Novels also came into vogue, with the first being James Hla Kyaw's Maung Yin Maung Ma Me Ma, written in 1904 and inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo.

" Count Gizycki came to America and they were married in Washington on April 14, 1904 despite the objections of her family, which later proved well-founded.

* Princess Irina Felixovna Yussupova, ( 21 March 1915, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 30 August 1983, Cormeilles, France ), married Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Sheremetev ( 28 October 1904, Moscow, Russia – 5 February 1979, Paris, France ), son of Count Dmitri Sergeievich Sheremetev and wife Countess Irina Ilarionovna Vorontzova-Dachkova and a descendant of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev ; had issue:

* Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld ( 1842 – 1904 )

After attending an agricultural school for four years in Belmonty, Bułak-Bałachowicz worked as an accountant, and in 1904 became a manager at the Count Plater's estates in Horodziec and Łużki.

Count Stefan Adam Zamoyski ( 17 February 1904 – 27 October 1976 ) was a Polish magnate, landowner.

In 1904, she was created Countess von Hohenfelsen by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria, making Vladimir Count Vladimir von Hohenfelsen.

He was made a Count of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and married Lillian Steinway-Oakes ( 1860 – 1904 ), daughter of the celebrated co-founder of Steinway & Sons, Henry Steinway, and sister-in-law of Baden's minister of the interior, Baron Heinrich von Bodman.

* 1904 – Pigmeat Markham, American comedian ( d. 1981 )

* 1904 – Helen Kane, American singer and actress ( d. 1966 )

* 1999 – Charles ' Buddy ' Rogers, American actor and jazz musician ( b. 1904 )

In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.

Burrhus Frederic " B. F ." Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990 ) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and roque, an American variation on croquet, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

* 1943 – Fats Waller, American musician ( b. 1904 )

* 1944 – Glenn Miller, American musician ( presumed date of death ) ( b. 1904 )

* 1984 – Jan Peerce, American tenor ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Theodore Roosevelt announced his " Corollary " to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

* 1904 – Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist ( d. 2008 )

* 1904 – Marge, American cartoonist ( d. 1993 )

* 1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1981 – Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer ( b. 1904 )

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

* The American Prisoner ( 1904 )