* 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 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer ( d. 1974 )

* January 23 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist ( b. 1904 )

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was born on May 11, 1904, at 8: 45 am GMT in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain.

* Salvador Dalí ( 1904 – 1989 )

* 1904 in art-Birth of Arshile Gorky, Paul Cadmus, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dalí

* 23 January – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist ( b. 1904 ).

* Salvador Dalí ( 1904 − 1989 ), Spanish surrealist painter

* Salvador Novo ( 1904 − 1974 ), Mexican writer

* Many works by Salvador Dalí ( 1904 – 1989 )

Salvador Novo López ( 30 July 1904 – 13 January 1974 ) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City, his birthplace and home.

* 2007 – The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch ( 1904 ), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

* 1904 – Niño Ricardo, Spanish guitarist and composer ( d. 1972 )

** María Zambrano, Spanish essayist and philosopher ( b. 1904 )

* Spanish — Barrera, Tomás: Pierrot's Dream ( 1914 ; libretto by Luis Pascual Frutos ); Chapí, Ruperto: The Tragedy of Pierrot ( 1904 ; libretto by Ramón Asensio Más and José Juan Cadenas ).

Picayune was founded in 1904, named by Eliza Jane Poitevent Nicholson, the owner and the publisher of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a newspaper named for the Spanish Coin.

The mission thereby suffered greatly, and the Propaganda Fide finally deemed it advisable to replace the Spanish Capuchins with others of German nationality ( 7 November 1904 ) and to erect one Apostolic prefecture instead of the two separate missions ( 18 December 1905 ).

Designed by Eames and Young, the Visitor Center is in the Spanish Revival style, and was occupied by tenants of the World's Fair in 1904.

The town was incorporated in 1904, when a hydroelectric dam and power plant were built on the Spanish River.

* Charles Morton – Sundridge ( 1903, 1904 ), Spanish Prince ( 1912, 1913 ), Golden Sun ( 1914 )

* Jack Joel – Sundridge ( 1903, 1904 ), Spanish Prince ( 1912, 1913 ), Golden Sun ( 1914 )

Anglada is notable today, if at all, for producing the first Spanish car purchased by Alfonso XIII ; the King bought a four from the company in 1904.

He served as the first commander in chief of the United Spanish War Veterans from 1900 to 1901 and in 1903 and 1904 as the Ohio commander of the Loyal Legion.

Henry Clay Taylor ( 4 March 1845 – 26 July 1904 ) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy who served in the American Civil War and the Spanish – American War.

* Henry Butler Clarke ( 1863 – 1904 ), lecturer on Spanish at the University of Oxford

; University of San Agustin: An institution of Catholic Higher Education founded on July 15, 1904 by Spanish Augustinian friars belonging to the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines and their American confreres from the Augustinian U. S. Province of St. Thomas of Villanova.

In 1904, he received his first mural commissions: in the chapel of the Santísimo Sacramento of the church of San Agustín in Barcelona ( which murals were destroyed during the Spanish Civil War ) and the apse of the Iglesia de la Divina Pastora in Sarrià, which was quickly covered by other paintings and is no longer visible today.

The Blue Period () is a term used to define to the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.