* 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.

No more than twelve months passed before the British and Irish team ventured to Australia and New Zealand in 1904.

In Ó Duinnín's Irish dictionary ( 1904 ) it is referred to as Céadamh ( ain ) which it explains is short for Céad-shamh ( ain ) meaning " first ( of ) summer ".

* 1904 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish writer ( d. 1950 )

* 1904 – Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1988 )

* 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1904 )

This became the Cuala Press in 1904, and inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, sought to " find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things.

* January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1904 )

However, there were international protests particularly in Britain and the United States in 1903-04 spearheaded mainly by Edmund Dene Morel and British diplomat / Irish patriot Roger Casement, whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice, as well as famous writers such as Mark Twain ( who wrote King Leopold's Soliloquy ) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

When an organisation for women was set up in 1904, it was decided to Anglicise the Irish name camógaíocht to camogie.

In her English translation of Irish myth, Lady Augusta Gregory ( Gods and Fighting Men, 1904 ), describes Brigit as " a woman of poetry, and poets worshipped her, for her sway was very great and very noble.

* Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1904 – 1972 ), Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate

Again though approving of the 1904 devolution proposals of the Irish Reform Association, fearing another party split, Redmond quietly endured Dillon ’ s dictate of distancing from any understanding with the landlord class.

She also produced a number of collections of " Kiltartanese " versions of Irish myths, including Cuchulain of Muirthemne ( 1902 ) and Gods and Fighting Men ( 1904 ).

Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel Ulysses ( which is set on 16 June 1904 ) are relived.

Seán MacBride ( 26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988 ) was an Irish government minister and prominent international politician as well as a Chief of Staff of the IRA.

Boland was enrolled in the Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) along with his younger brother Harry in 1904, following in the footsteps of his father Jim, uncle Jack and, probably, grandfather Patrick.

* John Welsh ( actor ) ( 1904 – 1985 ), Irish actor

John Welsh ( 7 November 1904, Wexford – 21 April 1985, London ) was an Irish actor.

Armstrong " The Irish and Highland Harps ", Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1904.

Winifred Faraday's The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge ( 1904 ) translates the first recension, and Joseph Dunn's The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúailnge ( 1914 ) translates the second, with passages added from the first recension and the Stowe version.

During 1904 O ' Brien had already embarked on advancing full scale implementation of the Act in alliance with D. D. Sheehan MP and his Irish Land and Labour Association ( ILLA ), when they formed the Cork Advisory Committee to help tenants in their negotiations.

He also wrote eight string quartets, and was co-founder ( in 1904 ) of the Irish Folk Song Society.

His grandson, the third Baron, was also Lord Lieutenant of County Louth and sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1904 to 1911.

From 30 October 1904 to March 1905 Irish writer James Joyce taught English at the Berlitz School ; his students were mainly Austro-Hungarian naval officers who were stationed at the Naval Shipyard.