* 1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer ( d. 1951 )

* March 31 – Frank Tieri, American gangster ( b. 1904 )

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

In 1904, the Emmanuel Church opened, having been designed by Sir Frank Elgood, a local architect.

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 ).

Ventriloquist The Great Lester with Frank Byron, Jr. on his knee, c. 1904

The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit, 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box, 1904 ).

( Frank ) Corbin family lived atop the hill, west of the sawmill in a Victorian house which they erected about the year 1904.

* Frank A. Mathews, Jr. ( 1904 – 64 ), represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 to 1949.

* Frank A. Mathews, Jr. ( 1904 – 1964 ), represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 to 1949.

Italian-Americans have served an important role in the economy of the United States, and have founded companies of great national prominence, such as Bank of America ( by Amadeo Giannini in 1904 ), and many companies that have contributed to the local culture and character of U. S. cities, such as Petrini's Markets ( founded by Frank Petrini in 1935 ), among many others.

In 1904, the Rider Hotel in Cambridge Springs was the site of a famous chess tournament won by Frank Marshall ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker and fourteen other players.

Bushnell was founded in 1904 and named for Frank E. Bushnell, owner of the land on which the train depot was erected ( the community was already built before but didn't have a name ).

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900, and Baum created a number of other successful Oz-oriented books in the period from 1904 to 1920.

See R. Haym, Die romantische Schule ( 1870 ); I. Rouge, F. Schlegel et la genie du romantisme allemand ( 1904 ); by the same, Erläuterungen In F. Schiegels Lucinde ( 1905 ); M. Joachimi, Die Weltanschauung der Romantik ( 1905 ); W. Glawe, Die Religion F. Schlegels ( 1906 ); E. Kircher, Philosophie der Romantik ( 1906 ); M. Frank '" Unendliche Annäherung " Die Anfänge der philosophischen Frühromantik ' ( 1997 ); Andrew Bowie From Romanticism to Critical Theory.

She was born October 27, 1904, in Fremont, Nebraska, the daughter of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendant of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (, 1904 – 1990 ) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.

Pixies serve as helpers of Santa Claus in L. Frank Baum's 1902 novel The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and his 1904 short story A Kidnapped Santa Claus.

The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

* January 1 – Frank Scott Hogg, astrophysicist ( b. 1904 )

* November 21 – Frank Amyot, sprint canoer and Olympic gold medalist ( born 1904 )

* Sir Frank Adcock OBE, Professor of Ancient History from 1925-51 at the University of Cambridge, and President from 1947-8 of the Classical Association ( 1897 – 1904 )

In 1904, Kraus supported Frank Wedekind to make possible the staging in Vienna of his controversial play, Pandora's Box ; the play told the story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in German society through her relationships with wealthy men, but who later falls into poverty and prostitution.

Launched by a commission to illustrate L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose in 1897, his repertoire included many prestigious projects including Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood ( including 8 color plates ) ( 1904 ) ( see illustration ) and such traditional works as Arabian Nights ( including 12 color plates ) ( 1909 ).

Alvah Cecil Bessie ( June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985 ) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten.

" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.

Parsons adhered to the religion of Thelema, which had been founded in 1904 by the English occultist Aleister Crowley following a spiritual revelation that he had in the city of Cairo, Egypt, when — according to Crowley's own accounts — a spirit being known as Aiwass dictated to him a prophetic text known as The Book of the Law.

Greek, by Richard Parsons, 1904, at the Internet Archive.

Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904 and 1905, and was translated into English for the first time by Talcott Parsons in 1930.

He first met Poirot in Belgium, 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery and later that year they joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara.

The league joined with teams in Michigan and Ontario to form the first fully professional International Professional Hockey League ( IPHL ), in 1904.

In 1894 Dewey joined the newly founded University of Chicago ( 1894 – 1904 ) where he developed his belief in an empirically based theory of knowledge, becoming associated with the newly emerging Pragmatic philosophy.

Radek joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( SDKPiL ) in 1904 and participated in the 1905 Revolution in Warsaw where he was responsible for the party's newspaper Czerwony Sztandar.

Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.

After graduation, in 1904, Antonescu joined the Romanian Army with the rank of Second Lieutenant.

As Russian society went into crisis, Kirov became a Marxist and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ) in 1904.

Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900 ; Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841, became an official divinity school of the university in 1901 ; Goldsmiths College joined in 1904 ; Imperial College was founded in 1907 ; Queen Mary College joined in 1915 ; the School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 ; and Birkbeck joined in 1920.

In 1904 he joined the Social Democratic Workers ' Party, which later was absorbed into the Labour Party in 1946.

When fire destroyed Havre's business district in 1904, legitimate above-ground businesses joined the illicit businesses operating in the underground while the new brick buildings were built in the streets above.

Wallace Beery joined his brother Noah in New York City in 1904, finding work in comic opera as a baritone and began to appear on Broadway as well as Summer stock theatre.

Ма ́ рин in Russian ; born 1887 – died circa 1937 ), was a metal worker from Ukraine who in 1904, joined the Bolshevik Party and began to edit the paper Molot ( hammer ).

Ludwig Prandtl joined the university in 1904, and developed it into a leader in fluid mechanics and in aerodynamics over the next two decades.

Tacoma's first team in the PCL was the Tacoma Tigers, who joined the league in 1904, having moved from Sacramento after the 1903 season.

He soon came to socialism, however, and in 1904 he joined the Barrhead branch of the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ).

In 1905, under von Schlieffen, he joined the Second Section of the Great General Staff in Berlin, responsible for the Mobilisation Section from 1904 – 13.

The Nebraska Synod joined the federation in 1904.

In a motu proprio on 28 January 1904, Pius X joined the Congregation of Indulgences with that of Rites, but with the restructuring of the Roman Curia in 1908 all matters regarding indulgences was assigned to the Holy Office.

In 1904, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, entered the Methodist seminary, and became a pastor for a while.

He received his doctorate in 1904 and immediately joined the faculty as a lecturer.

In 1904, the Welsh Revival took place, during which approximately 100, 000 people in Wales joined the movement.