* 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.

The records of St Rochus Church in Freidorf show that Johann, son of Peter Weissmüller and Elizabeth Kersch, was baptized there on 6 May 1904.

Peter Weissmüller and John Ott were both brewers, Ott immigrating in 1902, Weissmüller in 1904.

Peter Sinnerud was disqualified for professionalism in 1904 and lost his world title.

* March 23 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor ( b. 1904 )

* February 22 – Peter Arno, American cartoonist ( b. 1904 )

** Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator ( b. 1904 )

Peter Lorre ( 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964 ) was a Hungarian-American actor.

Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class Austrian mother, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner ( 1852 – 1904 ), and an Austrian – Italian bank manager, Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal ( 1841 – 1915 ).

The Karađorđević Crown Jewels of Serbia were created in 1904 for the coronation of King Peter I.

* Vladimir Peter Tytla, ( 1904 – 1968 ) known as Bill Tytla was one of the original Disney animators.

* Peter Fiordalisi ( 1904 – 88 ), modern artist whose work was inspired by the New Jersey Palisades.

It was first introduced as " the Never Never Land " in the theatre play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904.

* Peter Lorre ( 1904 – 1964 ), actor

In 1904, author J. M. Barrie awarded the Peter Pan Cup to the winner of the race, a tradition which has continued ever since.

Tinker Bell ( often misspelled as Tinkerbell, also referred to as Tink for short ), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy.

* John Peter Zenger ; his press, his trial, and a bibliography of Zenger imprints ... also a reprint of the first edition of the trial by Livingston Rutherfurd New York: Dodd, Mead & company 1904

In education, the Company has administered St Paul's School since 1509, and St Paul's Girls ' School since 1904, and retains close links with Collyer's College, Dauntsey's School, Abingdon School, Peter Symonds College and Gresham College, all founded by Mercers.

* Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, ( 1904 – 1944 ) German jurist and a member of the German Resistance against Nazism

by Peter Hume Brown ( 1904 );

* Stansky, Peter ( 2008 ) " Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon ( 1827 – 1904 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edn, accessed 17 February 2008

Peter Verigin moved his residence and the headquarters to Veregin from Otradnoye in 1904 ,.

* Peter Paul Pugin ( 1851 – 1904 ), his youngest son, also an architect

Among the most successful were the 1955 and 1956 telecasts of Peter Pan, a 1954 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play, starring Mary Martin, and Cyril Ritchard.