* 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 – 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 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player ( d. 1974 )

Lorre was born László Löwenstein on 26 June 1904, as the first child of Jewish couple Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger, in the Austrian-Hungarian town of Ružomberok in present-day Slovakia, then known by its Hungarian name Rózsahegy.

Hungarian historian Emil Reich ( 1854 – 1910 ) is considered to be the first having coined the acception in English as early as 1902 and later in 1904 in his book Foundations of Modern Europe.

* Mór Jókai ( 1825 – 1904 ), one of the greatest Hungarian writers

Mór Jókai, born Móric Jókay de Ásva ( 19 February 1825 – 5 May 1904 ), outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.

István Horthy de Nagybánya ( September 12, 1904, Pula – August 20, 1942, Aleksejevka ) ) was Hungarian Regent Admiral Miklós Horthy's eldest son, a politician, and, during World War II, a fighter pilot.

Sotler had stuided at the Technical University of Munich from 1904 until 1908 and had won the Hungarian National Architecture award as well as a prize from the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts.

* Emerik Feješ Hungarian and Serbian painter ( b. 1904 )

In 1904 Wolfner was the recipient of a rare honor, when the king appointed him a captain of hussars in the reserves and elevated him to the Hungarian nobility.

In 1876 he was appointed assistant custodian of the state archives, in 1904 chief custodian ; and in 1892 he was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

* 1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter ( d. 1997 )

* 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.

* 1836 – Franz von Lenbach, German painter ( d. 1904 )

* 1904 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor ( b. 1824 )

* 1824 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor ( d. 1904 )

* 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter ( d. 1989 )

* 2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter ( d. 1990 )

* 1842 – Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter ( d. 1904 )

* 1861 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter ( d. 1904 )

* July 21 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter ( b. 1904 )

** Hans Hartung, German-French painter ( b. 1904 )

* January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter ( d. 1904 )

* Jean-Léon Gérôme ( 1824 – 1904 ), painter

* Mosè Bianchi, ( 1840 – 1904 ) painter

Henri Fantin-Latour ( 14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904 ) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

Clyfford Still ( November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980 ) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.

Svetoslav Nikolaevich Roerich () ( October 23, 1904, Saint Petersburg – January 30, 1993, Bangalore ), Russian painter, son of Nicholas Roerich, studied from a young age under his father's tutelage.

** Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer ( b. 1904 )

* January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer ( d. 1904 )

* December 13 – Franz von Lenbach, painter ( d. 1904 )