* 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 – 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.

* August 15 – Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer, and politician ( b. 1904 )

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

* 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

* 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

* 1904 – Russo – Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.

Handbook of Japan and Japanese Exhibits at World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904.

It includes Japan's annexation of the Okinawan island group in 1872, the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), the annexation of Korea, and the rise of Japanese militarism ( 1905 – 1945 ).

The Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ), like the Russians, often combined their TBs ( which possessed only hull numbers ) with their torpedo boat destroyers ( TBDs ) ( often simply referring to them as destroyers ) and launched over 270 torpedoes ( counting the opening engagement at Port Arthur on 8 February 1904 ) during the war.

* July 25 – Masao Koga, Japanese composer ( b. 1904 )

After discussions broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war.

In Japan, Professor Shunkichi Kimura was commissioned into the Imperial Navy to develop their own wireless system, and this was in place on many of the Japanese warships before 1904.

On 8 February 1904 destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the Russian Far East Fleet anchored in Port Arthur ; 3 ships — 2 battleships and a cruiser — were damaged in the attack.

As a direct result of the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 / 05 ) Japanese influence replaced Russia's in Inner Manchuria.

These events eventually led to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 1905 by a renewed and modernized Japanese military.

Among the most important are the Forestburgh log cabin, one of the earliest structures built in Sullivan County, the Blackbrook District School, the Stokes-Hartwell Mill Foundation, David H. Handy ’ s Grave, the Railroad Station ( Gilman's Depot ), Sho-Foo-Den ( an elegant Japanese wooden structure from the 1904 St. Louis Centennial Exhibition, moved and re-assembled at Merriewold in 1905 by Jokichi Takamine ), and the old Hartwood Post Office.

Because of his revolutionary activities Song was forced to flee China for Japan in 1904, where he studied western political thought and made contacts among the expatriate Chinese student population and Japanese Pan-Asianists.

A Japanese folkswoman with her shamisen, 1904

The Combined Fleet was re-formed during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05 to provide a unified overall command for the three separate fleets in the Imperial Japanese Navy.