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1904
1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-March
April-June
July-December
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Births
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January-February
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January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, (d. 1982)
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January 5 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (d. 1997)
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January 10 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (d. 1987)
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January 14 - Cecil Beaton, photographer (d. 1980)
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January 18 - Cary Grant, actor (d. 1986)
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January 22 - George Balanchine, choreographer (d. 1983)
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January 26 - Ancel Keys, scientist (d, 2004)
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January 29 - Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976)
- January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
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February 1 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author (d. 1979)
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February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, historian (d. 1977)
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February 5 - Walter Gross , cabaretist (d. 1989)
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February 7 - Ernst Ginsberg , actor and film director (d. 1964)
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February 11 - Henry LaBouisse , head of UNICEF (1965-1979)
- February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand Prime Minister (1960-1972)
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February 15 Evald Tammlaan , Estonian writer (d. 1945)
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February 16 George F. Kennan, U.S. diplomat who formulated Containment policy towards the Soviet Union.
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February 20 - Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
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February 25 - Adelle Davis , nutritionist, writer (d. 1974)
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February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (d. 1957)
March-April
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March 1 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (d. 1944)
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March 2 - Dr. Seuss, author (d. 1991)
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March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
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March 8 - Victor de Kowa , actor (d. 1973)
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March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor (d. 1942)
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March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
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March 20 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)
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March 23 - Joan Crawford, actress (d. 1977)
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March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology (d. 1987)
- March 26 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece. (d. 2004)
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March 28 - Werner Bahlsen , biscuit producer (d. 1985)
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April 3 - Sally Rand, dancer (d. 1979)
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April 7 - Ralph Bunche, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
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April 9 - Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)
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April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d. 1983)
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April 21 - Lembit Pärn , Soviet general
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April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (d. 1967)
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April 26 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer, prolific goalscorer (d. 1982)
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April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
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April 29 - Karin Luts , Estonian painter (d. 1993)
May-July
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May 6 - Harry Martinson, Swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1978)
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May 6 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method (d. 1984)
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May 11 - Salvador Dalí, artist (d. 1989)
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May 17 - Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
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May 21 - Fats Waller, pianist (d. 1943)
- May 21 - Robert Montgomery (actor), actor (d. 1981)
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May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
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June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
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June 3 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
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July 5 - Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist and author
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July 12 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader (d. 1997)
- July 12 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (d. 1973)
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July 17 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, eldest son and heir of Tsar Nicholas II (d. 1918).
August-December
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August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
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August 6 - Jean Desses , French couturier (d. 1970)
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August 17 - Leopold Nowak, musicologist (d. 1991)
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August 21 - Count Basie, jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
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August 22 - Deng Xiaoping, revolutionary elder in the Communist Party of China (d. 1997)
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August 23 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
- August 23 - Thelma Morgan, socialite twin, Viscountess Furness (d. 1970)
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August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
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September 29 - Greer Garson, actress (d. 1996)
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October 25 - Vladimir Peter Tytla, United States animator (d. 1968)
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November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
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November 12 - Jacques Tourneur, director (d. 1977)
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November 14 - Dick Powell, actor and singer (d. 1963)
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November 25 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
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November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter (d. 1980)
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Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1988)
Deaths
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table (b. 1834)
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May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
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June 4 - George Frederick Phillips, military hero of the Spanish-American War (b. 1862)
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July 3 - Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism (b. 1860)
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July 5 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
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July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short-story writer (b. 1860)
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July 22 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
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August 6 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
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August 22 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
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August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
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August 29 - Murad V, deposed Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
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September 26 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman, statesman (b. 1848)
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October 4 - Frédéric Bartholdi, Alsatian sculptor (b. 1834)
Last updated: 10-16-2005 15:15:34
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