* 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 – 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.

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1904 – Joe Tate, English footballer ( d. 1973 )

The first was probably the cycle A Shropshire Lad set by Arthur Somervell in 1904, who had begun to develop the concept of the English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

* 1860 – Dan Leno, English entertainer ( d. 1904 )

* 1904 – Terence Fisher, English film director ( d. 1980 )

* 1846 – Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon ( d. 1904 )

* 1846 – Wilson Barrett, English playwright ( d. 1904 )

In 1904 the artist and writer Wynford Dewhurst wrote the first important study of the French painters published in English, Impressionist Painting: its genesis and development, which did much to popularize Impressionism in Great Britain.

* 1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress ( d. 1976 )

* 1988 – Ballard Berkeley, English actor ( b. 1904 )

* 1987 – Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur ( b. 1904 )

* Jack Brown ( cricketer ) ( 1869 – 1904 ), English cricketer

* John Brown ( actor ) ( 1904 – 1957 ), English radio and film actor

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

* 1904 – John Snagge, English newsreader and commentator ( d. 1996 )

* 1904 – George Formby, English singer-songwriter, actor, and comedian ( d. 1961 )

The term is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek (), meaning " imitator, pretender ", and was used in 1904, by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon, best known for his development of the engram theory of memory, in his work Die mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen, translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme.

* 1904 – Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat ( d. 1936 )

* 1904 – Nancy Mitford, English writer ( d. 1973 )

The religious philosophy of Thelema, founded in 1904 by the English ceremonial magician and occultist Aleister Crowley, instead advocated the law of " Do What Thou Wilt ", arguing that Thelemites should attune themselves to follow their own True Will, and therefore the Cosmic Will of the universe.

* 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve ( vacuum tube ).

* 1904 – Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster ( d. 1978 )

* Queen ( English automobile ), built from 1904 to 1905