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1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on
Friday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
904th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 4th year of the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904,
the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit]
February 7: Aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire. ·
January 7 – The distress signal CQD is
established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS. ·
January 8 – The Blackstone Library is
dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. ·
January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of
91.37 mph (147.05 km/h). ·
January 16 – The first
large-scale bodybuilding competition
in America takes place at Madison
Square Garden in New York City. ·
January 18 – The Herero Rebellion in German
South-West Africa begins. ·
January 23 – The Ålesund Fire destroys most buildings in
the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving
about 10,000 people without shelter. ·
January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents
a paper on "The
Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal
Geographical Society of London in which he formulates
the Heartland Theory,
originating the study of geopolitics. February[edit] ·
February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland,
destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
Port Arthur from Gold
Hill ·
February 8–9 – Battle of Port
Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun)
in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War. ·
February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of
Belgian atrocities in the Congo. ·
February 17 – Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, with a background
theme of Japan–United
States relations, debuts at La Scala in Milan, to no great acclaim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia, to huge success. ·
February 23 – For $10 million, the
United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone. ·
February 28 – Sport Lisboa e Benfica is founded
in Portugal. March[edit] ·
March 1 – Glenn Miller is born; Miller was the
best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, a bandleader, arranger and
composer. ·
March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of
Germany becomes the first person to make a political
recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder. ·
March 4 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat
toward Manchuria, followed by
100,000 Japanesetroops. ·
March 26 – 80,000 demonstrators gather
in Hyde Park, London,
to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers
to South Africa, by the British
government. ·
March 31 – British
expedition to Tibet – Battle of
Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat
ill-equipped Tibetan troops. April[edit] ·
April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General
Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
ending in fact the practice of plural marriage, which had continued to be practiced
by many of its leaders, in violation of the 1890 Manifesto officially banning the
practice. ·
April 8 ·
The Entente Cordiale is signed between the
UK and France. ·
Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is
renamed Times Square,
after The New York Times. ·
Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber
Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law,
a text central to Thelema(he completes
this task on April 10). ·
April 19 – The Great
Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but there
are no fatalities. ·
April 27 – The Australian Labor
Party becomes the first such party to gain national
government, under Chris Watson. ·
April 30 – The Louisiana
Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1). May[edit] ·
May 4 ·
United States Army engineers begin work
on the Panama Canal. ·
German football club FC Schalke 04 is established. ·
May 5 ·
Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. ·
British
expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp
at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior
weapons, and losing at least 200 men.[1] ·
May 9 – Great Western
Railway of England 3700 Class
3440 City of Truro becomes the first
railway locomotive to
exceed 100 mph (probably). ·
May 15– Russo-Japanese War: Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles (24 km)
off Port Arthur,
and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse,
15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima. ·
May 21 – The International Federation
of Association Football, FIFA, is established. ·
May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta,
which becomes an international women's fraternity, is founded by 11 women
at Syracuse University. June[edit] ·
June 3 – The International
Alliance of Women is founded. ·
June 10 – Irish author James Joyce meets his future
wife, Nora Barnacle. ·
June 15 – A fire aboard the
steamboat General Slocum in
New York City's East River kills 1,021. ·
June 16 ·
Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai
Bobrikov, Governor-General
of Finland. ·
James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he later uses this date (Bloomsday) as the setting for his
novel Ulysses. ·
June 28 ·
Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and
sinks close to Rockall, killing 635,
including 225 Norwegian emigrants. ·
The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan is
stolen, and subsequently destroyed in Russia. ·
English football club Hull City A.F.C. is established. ·
June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs. July[edit]
·
July 1 – The third Modern Olympic
Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri,
United States as part of the World's
Fair (the 1st Summer Olympic Games of
the 20th Century). August[edit] ·
August 3 – British
expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet. ·
August 11 – Battle of Waterberg: Lothar von Trotha defeats
the Herero people in German
South-West Africa, and drives them into the Omaheke desert, starting the Herero and
Namaqua Genocide. ·
August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia. ·
August 17 – Russo-Japanese War:
A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur. ·
August 18 – Chris Watson resigns as Prime
Minister of Australia, and is succeeded by George
Reid. ·
August 24 – Faroese football club Klaksvíkar
Ítróttarfelag is established. September[edit] ·
September 2 – The rigged dugout canoe Tilikum sails into the River Thames in England, after a 3-year
voyage from Victoria,
British Columbia westabout. ·
September 7 – British
expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan
Treaty, with Colonel Francis Younghusband. ·
September 25 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a Second Manifesto against polygamy. ·
September 26 – New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack is individually protected
by Order in Council,
under the Sea Fisheries Act.[2] October[edit] ·
October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon,
the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and 8 of his
friends, at Cornell
University Medical College. ·
October 4 – Swedish football club IFK Göteborg is founded, becoming the
39th IFK-association.[3] ·
October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed professional business fraternity, is founded on the
campus of New York University. ·
October 9 – German journalist Anna Rüling, in a speech to the Scientific-Humanitarian
Committee in Berlin, makes the first known public statement of the
socio-legal problems faced by lesbians. ·
October 15 – Theta Tau, a professional engineering
fraternity, is founded at the University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis. ·
October 19 – Polytechnic
University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business
School, through the superintendence of American C.A. O'Reilley. ·
October 21 – Russo-Japanese War – Dogger Bank incident:
The Russian Baltic Fleet fires
on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the North Sea. ·
October 27 – The first underground line
of the New York City Subway opens. ·
October 28 – Panama and Uruguay establishes diplomatic links. November[edit]
November 8: Republican Theodore Roosevelt is
elected President of the United States by defeating Democrat Alton B. Parker.
November 24: caterpillar track ·
November 8 – U.S.
presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats
Democrat Alton B. Parker. ·
The settlement at Grytviken, on the British South Atlantic
island territory of South Georgia,
is established by Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen,
as a whaling station for his Compañía
Argentina de Pesca.[4] ·
English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives
a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). ·
November 24 – The first
successful caterpillar track is
made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles and land warfare). December[edit] ·
December 2 – The St. Petersburg
Soviet urges a run on the banks; the attempt fails, and the
executive committee is arrested. ·
December 3 – Charles Dillon
Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia, at California's Lick Observatory. ·
December 4 – The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young
Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark. ·
December 6 – Theodore Roosevelt announces
his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United
States will intervene in the Western Hemisphere, should Latin American
governments prove incapable or unstable. ·
December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at
the College of
Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. ·
December 27 – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres
in London. ·
December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens. ·
December 31 – In New York City, the
first New Year's Eve celebration
is held in Times Square. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Loftus Road and Griffin Park football stadiums open in
London. ·
Stuyvesant High
School is founded in New York City. ·
St. Bernard's School is
founded in New York City. ·
The Daytona Educational and Industrial
Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman
University, is founded. ·
The subject of alcohol and
heart attacks is first investigated.[clarification
needed] Births[edit] January[edit]
·
January 1 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry,
Pakistani politician (d. 1982) ·
January 5 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997) ·
January 10 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer and
dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard
of Oz (d. 1987) ·
January 13 – Richard Addinsell,
British composer (d. 1977) ·
Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980) ·
Ernst Wellmann, highly decorated German Army
officer (d. 1970) ·
January 18 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986) ·
January 19 – Leo Soileau, American Cajun musician (d. 1980) ·
January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray
Carson, American medical researcher (d. 1990) ·
George Balanchine,
Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983) ·
Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer
(d. 1941) ·
Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004) ·
Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1988) ·
January 27 – J. J. Gibson, American psychologist
(d. 1979) ·
January 28 – Canuplin, Filipino magician, bodabil
entertainer (d. 1979) ·
January 29 – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976) February[edit]
·
Ángel Borlenghi,
Argentine labor leader, politician (d. 1962) ·
S. J. Perelman, American humorist, author
(d. 1979) ·
February 2 – Valery Chkalov, Soviet test pilot (d. 1938) ·
Luigi Dallapiccola,
Italian composer (d. 1975) ·
Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster
(d. 1934) ·
February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer, historian
(d. 1977) ·
February 10 – John Farrow, Australian film director
(d. 1963) ·
Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983) ·
Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian ·
James Baskett, African-American actor (Uncle
Remus in Disney's Song of the South)
(d. 1948) ·
George F. Kennan, American diplomat
(d. 2005) ·
Philip
Rabinowitz, South African record-breaking sprinter (d. 2008) ·
February 20 – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union
(d. 1980) ·
February 22 – Ernst Jakob Henne,
German motorcycle racer, racecar driver (d. 2005) ·
Gaston Marie
Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop in Algeria (d. 1976) ·
William L. Shirer,
American journalist, author (d. 1993) ·
February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957) March[edit]
·
March 1 ·
Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944) ·
Paul Hartman, American actor, dancer
(d. 1973) ·
March 2 – Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The
Cat in the Hat) (d. 1991) ·
March 4 ·
Luis Carrero Blanco,
Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1973) ·
George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist
(d. 1968) ·
Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor,
actor (d. 1942) ·
Chief Tahachee, American-born stage, film
actor (d. 1978) ·
March 5 – Mow Pang Tzu, Republic of China air
force general (d. 1987) ·
March 6 – Hugh Williams, English actor, dramatist
(d. 1969) ·
March 7 – Reinhard Heydrich,
German Nazi official (d. 1942) ·
March 14 – Doris Eaton Travis,
American actress (d. 2010) ·
March 15 – J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (d. 1985) ·
March 20 ·
Frank Mills
(politician), American politician in Ohio legislature (d. 1969) ·
B. F. Skinner, American behavioral
psychologist (d. 1990) ·
March 22 – Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (d. 2006) ·
March 23 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
(other sources report her year of birth as 1903, 1905, 1906, and 1908) ·
March 26 ·
Gustave Biéler,
Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944) ·
Joseph Campbell, American author on
mythology (d. 1987) ·
Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece
(d. 2004) ·
March 30 ·
Alexandrina
Maria da Costa, Portuguese Roman Catholic mystic, victim soul and
blessed (d. 1955) ·
Shin Matsushita, Japanese supercentenarian April[edit]
·
April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General
(d. 1945) ·
April 3 – Sally Rand, American dancer, actress
(d. 1979) ·
April 4 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian author, educator
(d. 1999) ·
April 6 ·
William Challee, American actor (d. 1989) ·
Kurt Georg Kiesinger,
former Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1988) ·
April 8 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1989) ·
April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician
(d. 1972) ·
April 13 – Elwood Richard
Quesada, American air force general (d. 1993) ·
April 14 – John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000) ·
April 15 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter
(d. 1948) ·
April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983) ·
April 22 – J. Robert
Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967) ·
April 24 – Willem de Kooning,
Dutch artist (d. 1997) ·
April 26 ·
Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982) ·
Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece
(d. 2004) ·
April 27 ·
Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972) ·
Syd Nathan, American record producer, music industry executive and founder
of King Records (d. 1968) ·
April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer, actor
(d. 1989) May[edit]
·
May 4 ·
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress
(d. 1975) ·
Joaquín García
Morato, Spanish fighter ace (d. 1939) ·
May 6 ·
Raymond Bailey, American actor (d. 1980) ·
Moshé Feldenkrais,
Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984) ·
Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1978) ·
May 8 – John Snagge, British radio personality
(d. 1996) ·
May 10 – James Roy Andersen,
American general (d. 1945) ·
May 11 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989) ·
May 17 ·
Marie-Anne Desmarest,
French novelist (d. 1973) ·
Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976) ·
May 20 – Margery Allingham,
British detective fiction writer (d. 1966) ·
May 21 ·
Robert
Montgomery, American actor, director (d. 1981) ·
Fats Waller, American pianist, comedian
(d. 1943) ·
May 22 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (d. 1964) ·
May 25 – Charles L. Melson,
United States Navy admiral (d. 1981) ·
May 26 – George Formby, English singer, comedian
(d. 1961) ·
May 27 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete
(d. 1997) ·
May 28 – George Beck,
British Roman Catholic prelate
and reverend (d. 1978) ·
May 30 – Doris Packer, American actress (d. 1979) June[edit]
·
June 2 ·
František
Plánička, Czech footballer (d. 1996) ·
Johnny Weissmuller,
American swimmer, actor (Tarzan) (d. 1984) ·
June 3 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984) ·
June 6 – Heinrich von
Brentano, German politician (d. 1964) ·
June 7 ·
Werner Gruner, German weapons designer
(d. 1995) ·
Francisco López
Merino, Argentine poet (d. 1928) ·
June 8 – Angus McBean, Welsh photographer (d. 1990) ·
June 15 – Edith Clark, French aviator, parachutist
(d. 1937) ·
June 17 ·
Ralph Bellamy, American actor (d. 1991) ·
J. Vernon McGee, American theologian,
pastor, author, and Bible teacher (d. 1988) ·
June 18 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born American actor
(d. 1991) ·
June 21 – Orian Landreth, American football coach
(d. 1996) ·
June 22 – William O. Gallery,
American admiral (d. 1981) ·
June 24 ·
Phil Harris, American actor (d. 1995) ·
Francis Leslie
Ashton, British writer (d. 1994) ·
June 26 ·
Virginia Brown Faire,
American actress (d. 1980) ·
Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born film actor
(d. 1964) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Mary Calderone, American physician, public
health advocate (d. 1998) ·
Gordon Gunson, English football player
(d. 1991) ·
July 2 – René Lacoste, French tennis player,
businessman (d. 1996) ·
July 5 ·
Harold Acton, British writer, scholar, and
aesthete (d. 1994) ·
Eugenia Clinchard,
American child actress (d. 1989) ·
Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist, author
(d. 2005) ·
July 6 ·
Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army
(d. 1996) ·
Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari,
Pakistani broadcaster (d. 1975) ·
July 7 ·
Josephine Wilson, British stage, film
actress (d. 1990) ·
Nick Connor, American politician (d. 1995) ·
July 8 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008) ·
July 9 – Hideo Oguni, Japanese writer (d. 1996) ·
July 10 ·
Lili Damita, French-American actress, singer
(d. 1994) ·
Tom Tippett, English footballer (d. 1997) ·
Haim Ben-Asher, Israeli politician (d. 1998) ·
July 12 ·
William Cox,
American athlete (d. 1996) ·
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1973) ·
July 13 – James Thomas Burrows,
New Zealand teacher, sportsman, administrator, and military leader (d. 1991) ·
July 14 ·
Zita Johann, Austrian-American actress
(d. 1993) ·
Richard Clarkson, British aeronautical
engineer (d. 1996) ·
July 15 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007) ·
July 16 – Geraldine Knight
Scott, pioneering American woman landscape architect (d. 1989) ·
July 18 – Stella Skopal, Croatian Jewish sculptor
(d. 1992) ·
July 19 – Mark Koenig, American baseball shortstop
(d. 1993) ·
July 20 – René Couzinet, French aeronautics engineer,
aircraft manufacturer (d. 1956) ·
July 21 ·
Louis Meyer, American Hall of Fame race car
driver (d. 1995) ·
Wilhelm Harster, German officer (d. 1991) ·
July 24 – Nikolay
Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet admiral (d. 1974) ·
July 26 – Edwin Albert Link,
American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles,
inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (d. 1981) ·
July 28 – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1990) ·
July 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman (d. 1993) August[edit]
·
August 3 – Dolores del Río,
Mexican actress (d. 1983) ·
August 4 ·
Witold Gombrowicz,
Polish novelist, dramatist (d. 1969) ·
Helen Kane, American singer, dancer,
comedian and actress (d. 1966) ·
August 6 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (d. 1988) ·
August 7 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971) ·
August 11 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991) ·
August 12 – Alexei
Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (d. 1918) ·
Jonathan Hole, American actor (d. 1998) ·
Charles
"Buddy" Rogers, American actor, jazz musician (d. 1999) ·
Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval
officer and politician (d. 1989) ·
Wendell Meredith
Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1971) ·
Mary Cain,
American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984) ·
Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist
(d. 1991) ·
August 19 – George de la Warr,
British alternative physician (d. 1969) ·
August 21 – Count Basie, African-American musician,
bandleader (d. 1984) ·
Jay Novello, American actor (d. 1982) ·
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997) ·
Viscountess
Furness (b. Thelma Morgan), American socialite twin (d. 1970) ·
Gloria Morgan
Vanderbilt (b. Gloria Morgan), American socialite twin
(d. 1965) ·
William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982) ·
Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish
refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (d. 1986) ·
Aparicio Méndez,
50th President of Uruguay (d. 1988) ·
Christopher
Isherwood, English writer (d. 1986) ·
Georgia Schmidt, American actress (d. 1997) ·
August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
(d. 1980) ·
August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979) September[edit]
·
September 9 – Feroze Khan,
Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005) ·
September 12 – Lou Moore, American race car driver, team
owner (d. 1956) ·
Gladys George, American actress (d. 1954) ·
Alberta Williams
King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther
King, Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King,
Jr. (shot) (d. 1974) ·
September 14 – Richard Mohaupt, German composer,
Kapellmeister (d. 1957) ·
September 19 – Elvia Allman, American actress (d. 1992) ·
September 22 – Lessie Brown, oldest living American ·
September 29 – Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996) October[edit] ·
Irene Craigmile
Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias (d. 1982) ·
A. K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader
(d. 1977) ·
Graham Greene, English author (d. 1991) ·
Lal Bahadur Shastri,
2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966) ·
October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen,
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1989) ·
October 9 – Wally Brown, American actor, comedian
(d. 1961) ·
October 11 – Tita Merello, Argentine actress, singer, and
tango dancer (d. 2002) ·
October 18 – Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli professor
of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (d. 1981) ·
October 20 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986) ·
October 23 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995) ·
October 25 – Vladimir Peter Tytla,
American animator (d. 1968) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Laura La Plante, American silent film
actress (d. 1996) ·
November 2 – Hugh Lygon, English aristocrat (d. 1936) ·
November 4 – Tadeusz
Żyliński, Polish technician, textilist (d. 1967) ·
J. H. C. Whitehead,
British mathematician (d. 1960) ·
Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government
official, author and lecturer (d. 1996) ·
November 12 – Jacques Tourneur, French director (d. 1977) ·
Dick Powell, American actor, singer
(d. 1963) ·
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
(d. 1988) ·
November 16 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria
(d. 1996) ·
November 18 – Masao Koga, Japanese composer (d. 1978) ·
November 22 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2000) ·
Lillian Copeland, American Olympic athlete
(d. 1964) ·
Toni Ortelli, Italian composer, alpinist
(d. 2000) ·
November 30 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980) December[edit]
·
December 3 – Roberto Marinho, Brazilian publisher,
businessman and media mogul (d. 2003) ·
December 4 – Albert Norden, German politician (d. 1982) ·
December 6 – Ève Curie, French author (d. 2007) ·
December 7 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor
(d. 1985) ·
December 10 – Antonín Novotný,
7th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1975) ·
December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg,
French-born magazine editor, socialite (d. 1981) ·
December 18 – George Stevens, American film director
(d. 1975) ·
December 20 – Rambai Barni Svastivatana, queen consort of
King Prajadhipok of Siam,
(d. 1984) ·
December 21 – Jean René Bazaine,
French painter (d. 2001) ·
Joseph M. Juran, American engineer,
philanthropist (d. 2008) ·
Herbert D. Riley, United States Navy admiral
(d. 1973) ·
Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999) ·
Flemmie Pansy
Kittrell, American nutritionist (d. 1980) ·
December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980) ·
December 27 – Linwood G. Dunn, American special effects artist (d. 1998) ·
Dmitri Kabalevsky,
Russian composer (d. 1987) ·
David M. Shoup, American general (d. 1983) Date unknown[edit] ·
Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of
the Ubykh language (d. 1992) Deaths[edit] January[edit]
Blessed Laura Vicuña
·
Mathilde Bonaparte,
French princess (b. 1820) ·
James Longstreet, American Confederate Civil
War general (b. 1821) ·
January 6 – Friedrich
von Hefner-Alteneck, German engineer (b. 1845) ·
Parke Godwin,
American journalist (b. 1816) ·
Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer (b. 1836) ·
John Brown Gordon,
American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (b. 1832) ·
Hannah Lynch, Irish translator (b. 1859) ·
January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme,
French painter (b. 1824) ·
Sir Henry Keppel, British admiral (b. 1809) ·
Joseph Nirschl, German Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1823) ·
January 22 – Laura Vicuña, Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed
(b. 1891) ·
January 23 – Gédéon Bordiau,
Belgian architect (b. 1832) ·
January 24 – Frederick I,
Duke of Anhalt (b. 1831) ·
Karl Emil Franzos,
Austrian novelist (b. 1848) ·
Elphège Gravel,
Canadian Roman Catholic priest
and bishop (b. 1838) ·
January 30 – Józef
Gosławski, Polish architect (b. 1865) ·
January 31 – Samuel G. Havermale,
American Methodist minister
(b. 1824) February[edit]
·
February 3 – John James McDannold, U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1851) ·
February 4 – Rudolf Maison, German sculptor (b. 1854) ·
Alfred Ainger, British biographer (b. 1837) ·
Malvina Garrigues,
Portuguese soprano (b. 1825) ·
February 10 – Nikolay Mikhaylovsky,
Russian writer (b. 1842) ·
February 11 – Vladimir Markovnikov,
Russian chemist (b. 1838) ·
John
Ellison-Macartney, Irish politician (b. 1818) ·
Émile Metz, Luxembourgish politician,
industrialist and engineer (b. 1835) ·
February 14 – Alvinza Hayward, American financier and
businessman (b. 1822) ·
February 15 – Mark Hanna, United States
Senator from Ohio (b. 1837) ·
February 17 – Hermann Emminghaus,
German psychiatrist (b. 1845) ·
February 19 – Alice Sudduth Byerly,
American temperance activist (b. 1855) ·
February 22 – Leslie Stephen, British writer and critic
(b. 1832) ·
February 24 – Prince
Henry of Prussia (b. 1900) ·
February 28 – Anthony Durier, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1833) ·
February 29 – Antonio De Martino,
Italian physician (b. 1815) March[edit]
Prince
George, Duke of Cambridge ·
March 5 ·
Alfred von Waldersee,
German Army marshal (b. 1832) ·
John Lowther
du Plat Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corpps
(b. 1829) ·
March 7 – Ferdinand André
Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828) ·
March 12 – Oliver Harriman, American businessman
(b. 1829) ·
March 14 – Friedrich
Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow, Prussian explorer (b. 1888) ·
March 17 – Prince
George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (b. 1819) ·
March 18 – William Elbridge
Sewell, American naval officer, Governor of Guam (b. 1851) ·
March 21 ·
Mary Billings, American evangelist and missionary
(b. 1824) ·
Aurélie Ghika, French writer (b. 1820) ·
March 24 – Emma Herwegh, German writer (b. 1817) ·
March 31 – Valentine Blake
Dillon, Irish politician (b. 1847) April[edit]
Queen Isabella II of Spain
King Norodom of Cambodia ·
April 1 – Abby Morton Diaz, American teacher (b. 1821) ·
April 3 ·
Théophile Pépin,
French mathematician (b. 1826) ·
Princess Piyamavadi Sri Bajarindra Mata (b. 1838) ·
Princess
Edward of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1827) ·
April 5 – Tom Allen,
British boxing champion (b. 1840) ·
April 6 ·
Émile de Kératry,
French author (b. 1832) ·
Princess Sophie
of Baden (b. 1834) ·
April 10 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830) ·
April 12 – Elizaveta Akhmatova,
Russian translator (b. 1820) ·
April 13 – Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral (killed in
action) (b. 1849) ·
April 16 – Maximilian
Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888) ·
April 20 – Sara Jane Lippincott,
American journalist (b. 1823) ·
April 21 – Piatus of Mons, Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1815) ·
April 24 – Norodom of Cambodia, King of Cambodia (b. 1834) ·
April 27 – Mykhailo Starytsky,
Ukrainian poet and writer (b. 1840) May[edit]
Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg
Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and
Blessed Marta Anna Wiecka died
on May 30, 1904 ·
May – Henry F. Frizzell,
American soldier (b. 1839) ·
May 1 – Antonín Dvořák,
Czech composer (b. 1841) ·
May 2 ·
Émile Duclaux, French microbiologist
(b. 1840) ·
Edgar Fawcett, American poet and novelist
(b. 1847) ·
May 3 – Tycho Kielland, Norwegian jurist and
journalist (b. 1854) ·
May 6 ·
Franz von Lenbach,
German pahinter (b. 1836) ·
Alexander
William Williamson, English chemist (b. 1824) ·
May 7 ·
Manuel Candamo, Peruvian politician,
23rd President of Peru (b. 1841) ·
Émile-Jules Dubois,
French doctor (b. 1853) ·
May 8 ·
Richard Xavier
Baxter, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and venerable
(b. 1821) ·
Eadweard Muybridge,
British photographer and motion picture pioneer (b. 1830) ·
May 9 ·
George Johnston
Allman, Irish mathematician, scholar and historian (b. 1824) ·
Aleksandar
Bresztyenszky, Croatian writer (b. 1843) ·
Bonaventura Gargiulo,
Italian Capuchin monk
and Roman Catholic bishop
(b. 1843) ·
May 10 ·
Émile Sarrau, French chemist (b. 1837) ·
Henry Morton Stanley,
British explorer (b. 1841) ·
May 11 ·
Hans Griesbach,
German architect (b. 1846) ·
Eugen
Kumičić, Croatian writer (b. 1850) ·
May 12 – Isabella Eugénie
Boyer, French model (b. 1841) ·
May 13 ·
Walter Carpenter, British admiral (b. 1834) ·
Ottokar Lorenz, German genealogist (b. 1832) ·
May 14 ·
Rita Barcelo y Pages,
Spanish Augustinian religious
sister and servant of God (b. 1843) ·
Fyodor Bredikhin, Russian astronomer
(b. 1831) ·
May 15 – Étienne-Jules Marey,
French inventor (b. 1830) ·
May 16 – Harold Finch-Hatton,
British politician (b. 1856) ·
May 17 ·
Tomás Cámara y
Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1847) ·
François Coillard,
French missionary (b. 1834) ·
Princess
Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1852) ·
May 19 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851) ·
May 21 – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (b. 1882) ·
May 22 – Charles Elwood Brown, U.S. Representative from Ohio (b. 1834) ·
May 24 – Duchess
Maria Isabella of Württemberg (b. 1871) ·
May 26 – Mary Ellen
Bagnall-Oakeley, English antiquarian, author, and painter
(b. 1833) ·
May 27 – Anđelko
Aleksić, Serbian general (b. 1876) ·
May 29 – Manuel
María de Zamacona y Murphy, Mexican politician (b. 1829) ·
May 30 ·
Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1819) ·
Marta Anna Wiecka,
Polish Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1874) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Ivan Kondratyev, Russian writer (b. 1849) ·
June 3 – Vincent Tancred, South African cricketer
(b. 1875) ·
June 4 ·
Muhammad
bin Yahya Hamid ad-Din, Imam of Yemen (b. 1839) ·
George
Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (b. 1862) ·
Princess Marie
of Hanover (b. 1849) ·
June 9 – Kwasi Boakye, Dutch engineer (b. 1827) ·
June 12 – Camille of
Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian Count (b. 1836) ·
June 14 – Richard Knill
Freeman, British architect (b. 1840) ·
June 16 ·
Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier,
politician and Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839) ·
Manuel Uribe Ángel,
Colombian physician (b. 1822) ·
June 18 ·
Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (b. 1850) ·
Celia Logan, American actress (b. 1837) ·
June 22 – Karl Ritter von
Stremayr, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1832) ·
June 27 – Anatole
Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist
(b. 1821) ·
June 28 – Princess and
Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (b. 1873) ·
June 29 – Tom Emmett, English cricketer (b. 1841) ·
June 30 – Pablo de Anda
Padilla, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and venerable
(b. 1830) July[edit]
·
July 1 – George Frederic
Watts, British symbolist painter and sculptor
(b. 1817) ·
July 2 – Eugénie Joubert,
French Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1876) ·
July 3 ·
John Bell Hatcher,
American paleontologist (b. 1861) ·
Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism
(b. 1860) ·
July 4 – Bódog Czorda, Hungarian politician (b. 1828) ·
July 5 ·
Joseph Blanc, French painter (b. 1846) ·
Joseph Evans,
British-born Australian politician (b. 1837) ·
Matsudaira Yasuhide,
Japanese daimyō (b. 1830) ·
July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845) ·
July 7 – Adolph Friedländer,
German lithographer (b. 1851) ·
July 9 – Édouard Thilges,
Luxembourgish politician, 7th Prime
Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1817) ·
July 14 – Paul Kruger, South African military and
political figure, 3rd President of
South Africa (b. 1825) ·
July 15 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860) ·
July 19 – Herbert Campbell, English actor (b. 1844) ·
July 22 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright
(b. 1846) ·
July 23 ·
Isaías Gamboa, Colombian poet (b. 1872) ·
Rodolfo Amando
Philippi, German–born Chilean paleontologist and zoologist
(b. 1808) ·
July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor,
American admiral (b. 1845) ·
July 30 – Richard A. Harrison, U.S. House
of Representatives from Ohio (b. 1824) August[edit]
Sultan Murad V ·
August 3 – Ernst Jedliczka, Russian-born German pianist
(b. 1855) ·
August 6 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic
(b. 1825) ·
August 8 – John Innes,
British philanthropist (b. 1828) ·
August 9 ·
Joseph David Everett,
English physicist (b. 1831) ·
Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and
ethnographer (b. 1844) ·
Wilgelm Vitgeft, Russian admiral (killed in
action) (b. 1847) ·
Pierre
Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 29th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1846) ·
Kawamura Sumiyoshi,
Japanese admiral (b. 1836) ·
William Renshaw, British tennis player
(b. 1861) ·
August 13 – Elizabeth
Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (b. 1820) ·
August 14 – Eduard von Martens,
German zoologist (b. 1831) ·
August 15 – John Henry Kinkead,
American businessman and politician, 1st Governor of Alaska and
3rd Governor of Nevada (b. 1826) ·
Joachim Grassi, Italian architect (b. 1837) ·
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham,
American author of dime fiction (b. 1843) ·
Gaudensi Allar, French architect (b. 1841) ·
Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850) ·
August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour,
French painter (b. 1836) ·
August 29 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V (b. 1840) September[edit]
Saint José Maria
de Yermo y Parres
Ernest,
Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld ·
James Brady,
American criminal (b. 1875) ·
Elizabeth
Fairburn Colenso, New Zealander Protestant missionary (b. 1821) ·
James Archer,
Scottish artist (b. 1822) ·
Heinrich Koebner, German-born Israeli
dermatologist (b. 1838) ·
September 4 – William McCallin, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1842) ·
September 5 – Herbert von Bismarck,
German politician (b. 1849) ·
September 13 – James Jameson,
American surgeon (b. 1837) ·
R. W. H. T. Hudson,
British mathematician (b. 1875) ·
José Maria
de Yermo y Parres, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1851) ·
Wilson Barrett, British actor (b. 1846) ·
Louis Massebieau, French historian and Protestant theologian (b. 1840) ·
George Adams,
Australian businessman (b. 1839) ·
Émile Gallé, French artist (b. 1846) ·
Niels Ryberg Finsen, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist (b. 1860) ·
Gustav Frank, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian (b. 1832) ·
Caleb C. Harris, American farmer and
physician (b. 1836) ·
Ernest,
Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1842) ·
Lafcadio Hearn, American-born Japanese
author (b. 1850) ·
John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and
statesman (b. 1848) ·
September 27 – David Grant Colson,
American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (b. 1861) October[edit]
Isabelle Eberhardt and Braulio Orue-Vivanco died
on October 21, 1904 ·
Frédéric Bartholdi,
French sculptor (b. 1834) ·
Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847) ·
Edmund Francis Dunne,
American politician, jurist and Catholic orator (b 1835) ·
Laurence Hope,
British poet (b. 1865) ·
Pierre Sainsevain,
French settler (b. 1818) ·
October 8 – Gustav Ratzenhofer,
Austrian philosopher (b. 1842) ·
Mary Tenney Gray, American club-woman ·
Archie Hooper Canadian ice hockey
player (b. 1881) ·
October 15 – George,
King of Saxony (b. 1832) ·
Mercedes,
Princess of Asturias (b. 1880) ·
Ștefan
Petică, Romanian poet and writer (b. 1877) ·
October 19 – Maurice Baldwin, Canadian Anglican bishop (b. 1836) ·
Euphemia Vale Blake,
British-born American critic (b. 1817) ·
Isabelle Eberhardt,
Swiss explorer (b. 1877) ·
Braulio Orue-Vivanco,
Cuban Roman Catholic bishop
(b. 1843) ·
October 23 – Emilia Dilke, English author (b. 1840) ·
October 26 – Princess Srivilailaksana of Suphanburi, daughter
of King Rama V and Pae Bunnag (b. 1868) November[edit]
Blessed Mary of the Passion ·
November 2 – Henry Austin,
American baseball player (b. 1844) ·
November 3 – Carl Daniel Ekman,
Swedish engineer (b. 1845) ·
November 7 – Guillermo Blest Gana,
Chilean writer (b. 1829) ·
November 9 – Joseph C. Hendrix, U.S. Representative from New York (b. 1853) ·
Augustus Brandegee,
American lawyer and politician, U.S. House
of Representatives from Connecticut (b. 1828) ·
Oreste Recchione, Italian painter (b. 1841) ·
Daniel Read Anthony,
American publisher and abolitionist (b. 1824) ·
Georges Rohault
de Fleury, French archaeologist (b. 1835) ·
John
Murray Mitchell, British missionary (b. 1815) ·
Mario Mocenni, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1823) ·
Isadore Rush, American actress (b. 1866) ·
November 15 – Mary of the Passion,
French Roman Catholic religious
sister, missionary and blessed (b. 1839) ·
November 16 – Clara Conway, American teacher (b. 1844) ·
November 18 – Justus van Maurik,
Dutch author (b. 1846) ·
Annie Chambers
Ketchum (religious name, Sister Amabilis), American school
founder (b. 1824) ·
Paul Tannery, French mathematician (b. 1843) ·
November 28 – Fanny Janauschek, Czech actress (b. 1829) ·
November 29 – Helen Abbott Michael,
American scientist (b. 1857) December[edit]
Prince
Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
·
Johanna Anderson, Swedish Baptist missionary (b. 1856) ·
Hector Giacomelli,
French artist (b. 1822) ·
Enrico Carfagnini,
Italian Roman Catholic friar
and bishop (b. 1823) ·
Prince
Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (b. 1843) ·
December 4 – Cristiano Banti, Italian painter (b. 1824) ·
December 8 – John
Kirkpatrick, British-born Australian politician (b. 1840) ·
Spencer Charrington,
English brewer and politician (b. 1818) ·
Mahmoud Samy El
Baroudy, Egyptian political figure, 5th Prime Minister of
Egypt (b. 1839) ·
Bob Murphy,
American baseball player (b. 1866) ·
Nikolay Sklifosovsky,
Russian surgeon (b. 1836) ·
Henry Freeman,
English fisherman and lifeboatmen (b. 1835) ·
December 14 – Mélanie Calvat,
French Roman Catholic nun,
Marian visionary and saint (b. 1831) ·
December 16 – Daniel W. Mills, U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1838) ·
December 19 – Lewis Tappan Barney,
American army officer (b. 1844) ·
December 20 – Princess
Alexandrine of Baden (b. 1820) ·
December 21 – Edward H. Dewey, American physician
(b. 1837) ·
December 22 – Horace Sumner Lyman,
American journalist (b. 1855) ·
December 24 – Gustav Bauernfeind,
German painter (b. 1848) ·
December 25 – Guido Bodländer,
German chemist (b. 1855) ·
December 27 – William F. Mahoney, U.S. Representative from Illinois (b. 1856) ·
December 29 – Friedrich Moritz
Brauer, German entomologist (b. 1832) ·
December 30 – Frederick Clifford,
English journalist (b. 1828) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Phoebe Jane
Babcock Wait, American physician (b. 1838) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry –
Sir William Ramsay ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Ivan Petrovich Pavlov ·
Literature – Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray ·
Peace – Institut
de Droit International References[edit] 1. ^ Grant, Neil
(1993). Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict. New York City: Reed
International Books Ltd. & Smithmark Publishers Inc.
pp. 18–19. ISBN 0-8317-1371-2. 2. ^ Alpers, A. F. G. (1966). "Pelorus Jack". An
Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2006-12-29. 3. ^ "IFK - 1904-1908". www.ifkgoteborg.se (in
Swedish). Archived from the original on April 1, 2014.
Retrieved November 3, 2017. 4. ^ Headland, R. K. (1984). The Island of South Georgia. Cambridge
University Press. ISBN 0-521-25274-1. Further reading[edit] ·
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the
Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of
politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 89–104. External links[edit] ·
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