His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

* 1876 – George Sand, French author ( b. 1804 )

* May 19 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author ( b. 1804 )

George Barrington ( 14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804 ), an Irish-born pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer ( following his transportation to Botany Bay ), and author.

Friedrich Schlegel's wife, Dorothea von Schlegel, a daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, was the author of an unfinished romance, Florentin ( 180 ,), a Sammlung romantischer Dichtungen des Mittelalters ( Collection of Romantic Poems of the Middle Ages ) ( 2 vols., 1804 ), a version of Lother und Maller ( 1805 ), and a translation of Madame de Staël's Corinne ( 1807 – 1808 )-all of which were issued under her husband's name.

Delphine de Girardin ( January 24, 1804, Aachen – June 29, 1855, Paris ), pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French author.

Samuel Laman Blanchard ( 15 May 1804 – 15 February 1845 ) was a British author and journalist.

* Thomas Seir Cummings ( 1804 – 94 ), English-born painter and author

* William Gilbert ( author ) ( 1804 – 1890 ), English novelist & surgeon ( father of W. S. Gilbert )

Charlotte Lennox ( c. 1730 – 4 January 1804 ) was an English author and poet.

In Alexander ( 1928 ) the author refers to Colonel T. Thornton visiting the area about 1786, and his book Sporting Tour published in 1804 in which he refers to the range as the Cairngorms-continuing:

* Alexander Hamilton ( 1755 – 1804 ), Continental Army officer and military aide to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, first U. S. secretary of the Treasury, Federalist Papers author and founder of The Bank of New York

The Bravo of Venice, a translation of the German author Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke's Abaellino written in 1794, was published in 1804 ; after The Monk it is his best known work.

Karlsruhe, 1803, anonymous ( second edition in 1804 with author statement )

He wrote an Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth ( 1804 and 1819 ), a work which has been translated into French and Italian and which produced a controversy between the author and Lord Brougham ; The Depreciation of the Paper-currency of Great Britain Proved ( 1812 ); and other writings of a similar nature.

In 1804, a famous writer settled in Éragny: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was the famous author of Paul and Virginie, and disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

* James Waddel Alexander ( 1804 – 1859 ), American Presbyterian minister and author

William Gilbert, ( 20 May 1804 – 3 January 1890 ) was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s.

He was the author of Tabula affinitatum animalium ( 1783 ) and Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, published posthumously in 1804.

Shlomo Ganzfried ( Solomon ben Joseph Ganzfried ; Hungary, 1804 to 1886 ) was an Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha ( Jewish law ), the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch ( Hebrew: קיצור שולחן ערוך, " The Abbreviated Shulchan Aruch "), by which title he is also known.

* James Waddel Alexander ( 1804 – 1859 ), American Presbyterian minister and author

Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd () ( 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804 ) was a Hungarian author and inventor.

* Stefano Borgia ( Velletri, 1731-Lyon, 1804 ), cardinal, author of History of Benevento in the State of the Church, founder of the Museo Borgia ;

William Gilpin ( 4 June 1724 – 1804 ) was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster, and author, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque.

Jean Jacques Dessalines became Haiti's first emperor in 1804.

Weismann was born a son of high school teacher Johann ( Jean ) Konrad Weismann ( 1804 – 1880 ), a graduate of ancient languages and theology, and his wife Elise ( 1803 – 1850 ), née Lübbren, the daughter of the county councillor and mayor von Stade, on January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1804 Kinzie purchased the former house and lands of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, located near the mouth of the Chicago River.

During December 1804, prisoners Nicholas Deschamps and Jean Roubillard were discovered forging £ 1 notes.

* Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello ( 1769-1809 ), Marshal of France in 1804, fought in: Arcola, Aboukir, Egypt, Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena.

Aikin also was responsible for translating the French texts: Louis Francois Jauffret ’ s The Travels of Rolando ( publication appears to be around 1804 ), and Jean Gaspard Hess ’ s The Life of Ulrich Zwingli ( 1812 ), a life of the leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.

< span lang =" fr "> Pichegru </ span > met < span lang =" fr "> Jean Victor Marie Moreau </ span >, one of < span lang =" fr "> Napoleon </ span >' s generals and a former protege of < span lang =" fr "> Pichegru </ span >, on 28 January 1804.

There he wrote Memoires d ' un pere ( 4 vols., 1804 ), including a picturesque review of his life, a literary history of two important reigns, a great gallery of portraits extending from the venerable Jean Baptiste Massillon, whom more than half a century previously he had seen at Clermont, to Honoré Mirabeau.

* probable – Louis Jean Desprez, painter and architect ( died 1804 )

* Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte ( 1763 – 1844 ), Prince of Ponte Corvo, King of Sweden and Norway under the name Charles XIV John ( 1818 – 1844 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804

* Jean de Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatie ( 1769 – 1851 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804, Marshal General of France in 1847

* Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello ( 1769 – 1809 ), Marshal of the Empire in 1804

Alexandre was born at Versailles to Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Baptiste Berthier ( 1721 – 1804 ), an officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers, and first wife ( married in 1746 ) Marie Françoise L ' Huillier de La Serre.

* Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre ( 1804 – 1822 )

Famous poets such as Jean Paul ( 1803 ) and Goethe ( 1804 ) wrote receptions to the poems.

In 1804 after the United States made the Louisiana Purchase, the wealthy French fur trader Jean Pierre Chouteau, a half-brother of René Auguste Chouteau, was appointed the US agent assigned to the Osage.

Louis Jean Desprez ( occasionally but incorrectly Jean Louis Desprez ) ca 1743 – 18 March 1804 was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.

Her husband was recalled in 1804, and was offered the Saint Petersburg embassy ; but in the next year he resigned, to settle permanently in Paris, where he had many friends, among them the historian Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi.

They are those of :- Jules Dumont d ' Urville with René-Primevère Lesson ( the largest including material from the Falkland Islands, the coast of Chile and Peru, the southern and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea ); Justin Goudot who had explored South America from 1822 ( and continued to until 1842 ); a Louis Pilate who was based in Georgia and Louisiana U. S. A. but lived for five years in Mérida, Yucatán ; Auguste Sallé, a young collector later to become a Paris insect dealer with South American connections ; Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d ' Orbigny who between 1826 and 1823 had travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru returning France with an enormous collection of more than 10, 000 natural history specimens ; Peter Claussen ( c. 1804 – 1855 ) a Danish naturalist who collected in Brazil, a M. Giesebrecht, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( Diptera from Egypt ) and three members of a Belgian Commission for the exploration of tropical countries, August Giesebreght ( 1810 – 1893 ), Nicholas Funk ( 1817 – 1896 ) and Jean Jules Linden ( 1817 – 1898 ).