* 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.

* 1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor ( d. 1988 )

* Robert Lowery ( 1824 – 1904 )

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

* RRS Discovery, a Royal Geographical Society research vessel which, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, was the main ship of the 1901 – 1904 " Discovery Expedition " to Antarctica which is still preserved as a museum in Dundee, Scotland.

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

** Robert Livingston, American actor ( b. 1904 )

* February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist ( b. 1904 )

* September 27 – Robert Montgomery, American actor ( b. 1904 )

Julius Robert Oppenheimer ( April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967 ) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1904, Crapper retired, passing the firm to his nephew George and his business partner Robert Marr Wharam.

James Longstreet ( January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904 ) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his " Old War Horse.

Robert Esnault-Pelterie, a Frenchman, built a Wright-style glider in 1904 that used ailerons in lieu of wing-warping.

* Robert H. Snyder, state representative from Tensas Parish from 1890 – 1896 and 1904 – 1906, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the second term, died in office ; Lieutenant governor from 1896 – 1900

A post office opened there on 29 February 1904 with Robert T. Payne as postmaster.

* Robert H. Snyder ( died 1906 ), state representative and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1904 until his death.

Town Alderman, 1904, Louisiana State Senator 1916-1920, District Attorney 1920-1924, Chairman of the Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee, four-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, Democratic National Convention Rules Committee Member 1945, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner 1928-1936 ( PSC chairman 1932-1936 ), Federal Prosecutor for the Western District of Louisiana 1937-1941, Chairman of the Ouachita Valley Farmers Association, Law partner of Huey Long and Earl Long and Robert O ' Neal.

* Robert O. Trout, American sociologist and professor at Louisiana Tech University, was born in Marion in 1904.

The post office was established on July 15, 1904, with Robert C. Lovelace as postmaster.

* Robert Montgomery ( actor ) ( 1904 – 1981 ), American actor and director

In 1904, the manager of the Queen's Hall, Robert Newman and the conductor of his promenade concerts, Henry Wood, agreed that they could no longer tolerate the deputy system.

In 1904, the manager of the Queen's Hall, Robert Newman and the conductor of his promenade concerts, Henry Wood, agreed that they could no longer tolerate the deputy system.

Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., ( November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971 ) and Richard Albert Loeb ( June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936 ), more commonly known as " Leopold and Loeb ", were two wealthy University of Chicago law students ( with undergraduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, respectively ) who murdered 14-year-old Robert " Bobby " Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, where his grandfather James Smith Bush, class of 1844, and his uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr., class of 1904, had matriculated.

* Robert Livingston ( actor ) ( 1904 – 1988 ), American actor