* 1969 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10, 000 people homeless and one person dead.

A Norwegian, Carl Anton Larsen, established the first land-based whaling station and first permanent habitation at Grytviken in 1904.

* June 1 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian Olympic speed skater ( b. 1904 )

* June 28, 1904 — The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.

Odds BK / Odd Grenland won the Norwegian Football Cup in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931 and 2000, more than any other team in Norway.

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 ).

Holst Township was named after a Norwegian pioneer farmer, H. J. Hoist, who from 1904 to 1908 was the county sheriff.

In 1904 he was appointed a Knight of the Norwegian Lion by King Oscar II.

Vebjørn Tandberg ( 16 September 1904 – 30 August 1978 ) was a Norwegian electronics engineer.

** Més enllà de las forsas, of the Norwegian Björnson ( 1904 )

* Anders Lange ( 1904 – 1974 ), Norwegian politician

The settlement at Grytviken was established on November 16, 1904, by the Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca ( Argentine Fishing Company ).

In his application for British citizenship, filed with the British Magistrate of South Georgia and granted in 1910, Captain Larsen wrote: " I have given up my Norwegian citizens rights and have resided here since I started whaling in this colony on the 16 November 1904 and have no reason to be of any other citizenship than British, as I have had and intend to have my residence here still for a long time.

* Arne Holst ( 1904 – 1991 ), Norwegian bobsledder

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is assisted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, established in 1904.

With a name thought to have been derived from the Norwegian barque Inglewood ( its late nineteenth century voyage was mentioned in The West Australian on 24 May 1904 ), the suburb of Inglewood began when land was first granted to John Gregory in 1831.

The Ålesund Fire happened in the Norwegian city of Ålesund on 23 January 1904.

Pedersen was born in Busan, on the coast of south-eastern Korea, then under the rule of Japan, to a Norwegian father and a Japanese mother, in 1904.

* Mauritz Amundsen ( 1904 – 1982 ), Norwegian Olympic sport shooter

Anders Sigurd Lange ( 5 September 1904 – 18 October 1974 ) was a Norwegian political activist, writer and politician.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute () was established in 1904 in Kristiania ( today Oslo ), Norway.

His fame as a wandering storyteller eventually led him to the States in 1904, where he visited several of the Norwegian immigrant communities which had grown up after the great migration from Norway.

* 1904 – Ancel Keys, American scientist ( d. 2004 )

* René Dumont ( 1904 – 2001 ), French agronomist, sociologist and scientist

Niels Ryberg Finsen ( December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904 ) was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent.

In 1904 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes created a special lab in Leiden with the aim of producing liquid helium.

* George F. Kennan ( 1904 – 2005 ), American diplomat, political scientist and historian

This model was developed in 1904 by J. J. Thomson, the scientist who discovered the electron.

* Étienne-Jules Marey ( 1830 – 1904 ), scientist and chronophotographer, widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema.

The Italian scientist and one of the pioneers in wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi, made a radio connection between Bar and Bari on August 30, 1904, and in 1908 the first railroad in this part of the Balkans was put into operation in 1913.

Lester Dent ( October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959 ) was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage.

The species was first described in 1908 by the American scientist Roy Chapman Andrews from a specimen collected at New Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand, in 1904.

George Frost Kennan ( February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005 ) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as " the father of containment " and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.

* William Vernon Harcourt ( politician ) ( 1827 – 1904 ), son of the scientist, and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Werner syndrome is named after Otto Werner, a German scientist, who, as a student, described the syndrome as part of his doctoral thesis in 1904.

* Emmette Redford ( 1904 – 1998 ), American political scientist and historian

* Orcadas Base ( since 1904 – bought as a meteorological station from Scottish scientist William Speirs Bruce in 1904 )

* Jan Jesenský, Jr. ( 1904 – 1942 ), Czech scientist, assistant professor of Charles University

Jan Jesenský jr. ( 1904 in Prague-1942 ) was a scientist and collaborator of prof. Jan Jesenský at Prague Stomatologic Clinic, assistant professor at Prague University.

On 16 January 1938, shortly after the original release of The Hobbit a letter by a Habit in the English paper The Observer asked if Tolkien's Hobbits were modelled after "' little furry men ' seen in Africa by natives and … at least one scientist ", and also referenced an old fairy tale called The Hobbit from 1904, but Tolkien denied using these sources as inspiration, and no trace of the African Hobbits or the fairy tale collection was ever found.

Étienne-Jules Marey ( 5 March 1830, Beaune, Côte-d ' Or – 21 May 1904, Paris ) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer.

* Alexander Krylov ( 1904 – ), a Soviet academician and scientist in the field of oil deposits development

* Hans Morgenthau ( 1904 – 1980 ), political scientist

In 1904, scientist Lord Kelvin led a campaign for metrication and collected 8 million signatures of British subjects.

* Ralph Bunche ( 1903 or 1904 – 1971 ), political scientist, diplomat and recipient of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize.