* 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.

* July 5 – Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general ( b. 1904 )

* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".

** Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1904 )

It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled " On a continuous curve without tangents, constructible from elementary geometry " ( original French title: Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire ) by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.

In 1903 followed the Swiss association, in 1904 the British, in 1906 the German and Swedish etc.

AGA AB, previously AB Gasaccumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish industrial gas company founded in 1904.

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 ).

The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament.

The second edition was published between 1904 and 1926 in 38 volumes, and is thereby the most comprehensive encyclopedia published in the Swedish language.

For example, the Swedish encyclopedic dictionary Nordisk familjebok of 1904 showed an inaccurate Archaeopteryx reconstruction ( see illustration ) of the fossil, " ett af de betydelsefullaste paleontologiska fynd, som någonsin gjorts " (" one of the most significant paleontological discoveries ever made ").

Alexander Lagerman ( 1836 – 1904 ), a Swedish engineer that was employed by the Lundström brothers, invented the first fully automatic match machine.

* Lindorm, an article from Nordisk Familjebok ( 1904 – 1926 ), a Swedish encyclopedia now in the Public Domain.

Between 1901 and 1904, Otto Nordenskiöld led the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, one of the first expeditions that was to explore parts of Antarctica.

* Carl Daniel Ekman ( 1845 – 1904 ), Swedish chemical engineer

The Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1904 by the Geological Society of London, and in 1905 he was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

After a visit to Sweden in 1904, a Swedish tournament called the Corinthian Bowl was set up to commemorate them.

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 1904 ) named a glacier on South Georgia Island in the southern Atlantic Ocean after De Geer.

Bo Gunnar Rickardsson Hägglöf GCVO ( 1904 – 1994 ) was a Swedish diplomat, in 1939 briefly cabinet member, then head of the foreign ministry's bureau for foreign trade during World War II, after the war participating in the preparations of the United Nations ' 1947 UN Partition Plan of Palestine, then ambassador to London 1948 – 1967 and Paris 1967 – 1971.

* Wargentins notes on his family, edited and published in the journal Personhistorisk tidskrift 1904, pp. 28 – 38 ( in Swedish ).

* Upplands regemente ( infantry ), Swedish Army infantry regiment ( 1626 – 1904, 1928 – 1957 )

Gustav Adolfs akademiens årsbok, founded in 1934 and Arv: Nordic yearbook of folklore, founded in 1946, and Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv ( English title: Swedish dialects and folk traditions ), published since 1904 by the Archives for Dialect and Folklore studies in Uppsala and taken over by the Academy in 1996.

He joined the Swedish Coast Guard in 1904 as a midshipman.

The Swedish Literature in Summary ( 1904 ) writes that no Swedish orator or preacher ever had his distinctive glow as a speaker.