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

Willem de Kooning ( April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997 ) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

* Willem de Kooning ( 1904 – 1997 )

Among the movement's leaders were Jackson Pollock ( 1912 – 1956 ), Willem de Kooning ( 1904 – 1997 ), and Mark Rothko ( 1903 – 1970 ).

* 19 March – Willem de Kooning, Dutch born American abstract expressionist painter ( b. 1904 ).

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

The main building of the Bauhaus-University Weimar ( built 1904 – 1911, designed by Henry van de Velde to house the sculptors ’ studio at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School.

In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog ( Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard ) ( 1904 ), sold for US $ 20. 1 million.

* 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.

* Frans de Potter, writer, ( 1834 – 1904 )

Born in Madrid, Gris studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals.

El Juicio de Paris ( Simonet ) | El Juicio de Paris by Enrique Simonet, c. 1904 ( Museo de Málaga ).

From 1904 until 1975, Spain occupied the entire territory, which is divided into a northern portion, the Saguia el-Hamra, and a southern two-thirds, known as Río de Oro.

* 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ) is founded in Paris.

* 1847 – Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor ( d. 1904 )

* 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( d. 1904 )

Such a convention was concluded in Rio de Janeiro on 12 June 1904.

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

But the caudillo mentality was difficult to erase from Uruguay and political feuding continued culminating in the Revolution of the Lances ( Revolución de las Lanzas ) ( 1870 – 1872 ), and later with the uprising of Aparicio Saravia, who was fatally injured at the Battle of Masoller ( 1904 ).

The Ottomans and the British eventually established a de facto border between north and south Yemen, which was formalized in a treaty in 1904.

* November 29 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer ( b. 1904 )

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* February 20 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor and playboy ( b. 1904 )

* July 1 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist ( d. 1904 )