* 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 – 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.

* 2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter ( d. 1990 )

* November 15 – Jean Gabin, French actor ( b. 1904 )

* Jean Zay ( 1904 – 1944 ), jurist and politician

Born Julia Jean Turner in Wallace, Idaho, she was the daughter of John Virgil Madison Turner, a miner from Hohenwald, Tennessee ( January 23, 1903 – December 14, 1930 ), and Mildred Frances Cowan, a sixteen-year-old native of Arkansas ( June 19, 1904 – February 22, 1982 ).

Roger Louis and Jean Stengers, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968 ( includes Morel and the Congo Reform Association, 1904 – 1913, by W. R. Louis and Morel and Belgium, by J. Stengers ).

* Woman and Her Master ( 1904 ) by Jean de Villiot, pseudonym of Georges Grassal – a novel of flagellation erotica translated into English by Charles Carrington from the original 1902 French edition, La Femme et son maître.

* Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit ( 1904, posthumous ), to which his colleague Jean Réville prefixed a short memoir.

See Albert Mennung's Jean François Sarasins Leben und Werke ( 2 vols., Halle, 1902 – 1904 ).

** Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer ( b. 1904 )

The founders of the SFIC took with them the party paper L ' Humanité, founded by Jean Jaurès in 1904, which remained tied to the party until the 1990s.

Jean Dasté, born Jean Georges Gustave Dasté, ( 18 September 1904 in Paris, France-15 October 1994 in Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, Loire, France ) was an actor and theatre director.

* Jean Baptiste Blanchet, politician ( died 1904 )

L ' Humanité ( ; French for " Humanity "), formerly the daily newspaper linked to the French Communist Party ( PCF ), was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ).

47, was written by Jean Sibelius in 1904.

A key figure in the early bank was Jean ( John ) Pesmatzoglou, an Alexandrian private banker, who merged his bank with Bank of Athens, became chairman in 1896, and formed an alliance with Banque de l ' Union parisienne in 1904.

Jean Paul Lemieux, ( 18 November 1904 – 7 December 1990 ) was one of the foremost painters of twentieth century Quebec.

* Jean René Bazaine ( 1904 – 2001 )

Ainola, meaning " Aino's land ", was the home of Jean Sibelius, his wife Aino and their family from the fall of 1904 until 1972.

The small fishing village of Saint Jean develops and by 1904 is established as a self-standing commune with the rest of the peninsula, separated from nearby Villefranche-sur-Mer.

See J Czerny, Sterne, Hippel and Jean Paul ( Berlin, 1904 ).

Other important names in its historical development were Jean Zuléma Amussat ( 1796 – 1856 ), Auguste Nélaton ( 1807 – 1873 ), Henry Thompson ( 1820 – 1904 ) and William Cheselden ( 1688 – 1752 ).

* Jean Hélion ( 1904 – 1987 ), French painter