1904

Events

= January =

January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established,{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064554713&view=1up&seq=368 |chapter=Distress Signalling |first=G. E. |last=Turnbull |title=The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony |year=1913 |pages=318–322 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=HathiTrust |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080658/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015064554713&view=1up&seq=368 |url-status=live}} only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.{{cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t80k29264&view=1up&seq=42 |article=Service Regulation XVI |title=International Wireless Telegraph Convention |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1907 |pages=38, 50 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=HathiTrust |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080721/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft80k29264&view=1up&seq=42 |url-status=live}}
January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.{{cite web |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Blackstone_Library.pdf |last1=Crawford |first1=Matt |last2=Tatum |first2=Terry |title=Landmark Designation Report: Blackston Library |publisher=Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Historic Preservation Division, Chicago Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning, City of Chicago |date=August 2010 |page=4 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130174754/https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Blackstone_Library.pdf |url-status=live }}
January 12 – The Herero Wars in German South West Africa begin.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1bRcJ885fAC |last=Bridgman |first=Jon M. |author-link=Jon Bridgman |title=The Revolt of the Hereros |location=Berkeley, Los Angeles, London |publisher=University of California Press |year=1981 |page=73 |isbn=0-520-04113-5 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard («Вишнëвый сад», Vishnevyi sad), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski, 6 month's before the author's death.
January 23 – The Ålesund fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ålesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter.{{cite web |url=http://bybrann.no/?page_id=92 |title=Brannsjefens rapport |trans-title=Fire chief's report |publisher=bybrann.no |year=2010 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826071841/http://bybrann.no/?page_id=92 |archive-date=26 August 2012 |access-date=15 December 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://bybrann.no/?page_id=113 |title=Bybrannfakta |trans-title=City fire facts |publisher=bybrann.no |year=2010 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826175552/http://bybrann.no/?page_id=113 |archive-date=26 August 2012 |access-date=15 December 2021}}
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.{{cite journal |last=Mackinder |first=H. J. |author-link=Halford Mackinder |title=The Geographical Pivot of History |title-link=The Geographical Pivot of History |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=XXIII |issue=4 |date=April 1904 |pages=421–444|doi=10.2307/1775498 |jstor=1775498 |bibcode=1904GeogJ..23..421M |hdl=2027/uc1.b000726582 }}, cited in {{cite journal |last=Mackinder |first=H J |title=The geographical pivot of history (1904) |journal=The Geographical Journal |url=https://www.iwp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf |volume=170 |issue=4 |date=December 2004 |pages=298–321 |doi=10.1111/j.0016-7398.2004.00132.x |bibcode=2004GeogJ.170..298M |hdl=2027/uc1.b000726582 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031836/http://www.iwp.edu/docLib/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=live}}

= February =

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February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 31 hours.{{cite web |author=((History.com Editors)) |title=The Great Baltimore Fire begins |website=HISTORY |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-baltimore-fire-begins |access-date=25 December 2021 |publisher=A&E Television Networks |date=4 February 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225071251/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-baltimore-fire-begins |url-status=live }}

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February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up 54-61] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co.|year=1905 |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515202140/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 |archive-date=15 May 2016 |last=Butcher |first=Clifford F. |title=Port Arthur Was 'the Pearl Harbor of 1904': While Officers and Men of Russian Fleet Were Attending a Reception the Japanese Navy Slipped Into Harbor and Attacked Czar's Ships Two Days Before Declaring War |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=19 January 1942 |page=8 |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Google News and Internet Archive}}
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.{{cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Chadwick |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/NYCO/butterfly/fiasco.html |title=The Fiasco of Madama Butterfly's First Performance: Feb 17, 1904 |website=New York City Opera Project: Madama Butterfly |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217190529/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/music/NYCO/butterfly/fiasco.html |url-status=live }}
February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.{{cite web |url=https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-panama-canal |title=Introduction |department=Panama Canal: Topics in Chronicling America |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226084809/https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-panama-canal |url-status=live }}
February 26 – The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, is almost entirely destroyed by fire after a gas jet ignites the newly varnished ceiling.{{cite news |url= https://www.wpr.org/1904-fire-gutted-capitol-nearly-cost-madison-state-capitol |title= 1904 Fire Gutted Capitol, Nearly Cost Madison State Capitol |work= Wisconsin Public Radio |date= February 27, 2017 |first= Erika |last= Janik |accessdate= December 29, 2022 |archive-date= December 30, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221230214346/https://www.wpr.org/1904-fire-gutted-capitol-nearly-cost-madison-state-capitol |url-status= live }}

= March =

March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
March 4 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria, followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040305.2.34.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Japanese Transports Disembark a Hundred Thousand Men in Korea. Immediate Advance by a Tremendous Array of Soldiery Said to Have Been Ordered. |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=95 |issue=96 |date=5 March 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-2 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120194018/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040305.2.34.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040306.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Russian Troops Retire to the Yalu; Squadrons May Meet in Sea Battle |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=95 |issue=97 |date=6 March 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-7 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120163928/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040306.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
March 6 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.{{cite book | last1 = Rudmose Brown | first1 = R. N. | author-link1 = Robert Rudmose-Brown | last2 = Pirie | first2 = J. H. | last3 = Mossman | first3 = R. C. | year = 2002 | title = The Voyage of the Scotia | publisher = Mercat Press | location = Edinburgh | isbn = 1-84183-044-5 | ref = {{sfnRef|Rudmose Brown}} |page=121}}
March 26 – 20,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South African gold mines.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Big Mass-Meeting is Held in London: Trades Unions Show Their Opposition to the Introduction of Chinese Labor in South Africa. |volume=95 |issue=118 |date=27 March 1904 |at=Page 21, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208084010/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
March 31 – British expedition to Tibet: The Battle of Guru – British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Tibetans Attack British Column and are Repulsed with Loss of Hundreds. Natives Armed With Ancient Weapons Oppose Advance of Younghusband's Expedition and Display Fanatical Valor in Face of Slaughtering Rifle Fire |volume=XCV |issue=123 |date=1 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208102417/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA421 |last=Jaques |first=Tony |title=Guru {{!}} 1904 {{!}} British Invasion of Tibet |dictionary=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century |volume=2: F-O |location=Westport, Connecticut and London |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2007 |page=421 |isbn=978-0-313-33538-9 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8k0FEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT102 |last=Malhotra |first=Iqbal Chand |title=Red Fear: The China Threat |location=Vasant Kunj New Delhi |publisher=Bloomsbury India |year=2021 |pages=102–103 |isbn=9789-3898-6759-6 |access-date=20 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}

= April =

April 4 – 1904 Kresna earthquakes: two earthquakes strike near Kresna, Bulgaria, killing at least 200 people.{{cite journal |title=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search |website=Global Significant Earthquake Database |year=1972 |publisher=NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |access-date=31 October 2021 |doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K |author1=National Geophysical Data Center |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220100414/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/search |url-status=live }}
April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory, prohibiting the practice of polygamy, which has continued to be sanctioned by some of its leaders in violation of the 1890 Manifesto officially banning the practice.{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/improvementera0707unse/page/544/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Seventy-Fourth Annual Conference|magazine=Improvement Era |department=Editor's Table|volume=VII |issue=7 |date=May 1904 |pages=545–546 |access-date=14 February 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}
April 8
The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/entente_toc.html |title=Entente Cordiale Table of Contents |year=2000 |publisher=Memorial University of Newfoundland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812065412/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/entente_toc.html |archive-date=12 August 2004 |access-date=14 February 2022}}{{cite web |title=British History Timeline |publisher=BBC |location=UK |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |website=bbc.co.uk |access-date=8 October 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127015243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/worldwars_timeline_noflash.shtml |url-status=live }}
Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square, after The New York Times.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 |last=Barron |first=James |author-link=James Barron (journalist) |title=100 Years Ago, an Intersection's New Name: Times Square |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 April 2004 |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909125612/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}
April 8–10 – Aleister Crowley writes Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema, in Cairo.{{cite journal |last=Van Kleeck |first=Justin Scott |url=http://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/ArtofLaw.htm |title=The Art of the Law: Aleister Crowley's Use of Ritual and Drama |journal=Esoterica |volume=V |page=195 |issn=1523-1224 |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=Michigan State University |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314065735/http://esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/ArtofLaw.htm |url-status=live }}
April 19 – The Great Fire of Toronto destroys much of the city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=$10,000,000 Fire at Toronto: Blocks of Buildings Wiped Out. Wind Causes Flames to Spread Very Rapidly. Firemen Make Heroic Fight. Assistance Came From Cities Around Toronto |volume=XXXI |issue=204 |date=20 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3; page 2, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121937/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Fire Brigade is Almost Helpless: Great Portion of Business and Manufacturing Section Destroyed |volume=XXXI |issue=204 |date=20 April 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040420.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=The Great Toronto Fire, April 19, 1904 |website=Archives of Ontario |url=http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fire/index.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825133436/http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fire/index.aspx |archive-date=25 August 2017 |publisher=Queen's Printer for Ontario |access-date=16 March 2022}}{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bradburn |first=Jamie |title=Great Fire of Toronto (1904) |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=22 April 2020 |publisher=Historica Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904 |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-fire-of-toronto-1904 |url-status=live }}
April 27 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.{{cite encyclopedia |first=Bede |last=Nairn |title=Watson, John Christian (Chris) (1867–1941) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |year=1990 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115138/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |last=Rhodes |first=Campbell |title=A perfect picture of the statesman: John Christian Watson |date=30 April 2013 |website=Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House |department=Blog |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402162747/https://moadoph.gov.au/blog/a-perfect-picture-of-the-statesman-john-christian-watson/ |url-status=live }}
April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040430.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOUISIANA PURCHASE FAIR TO THROW WIDE ITS GATES TODAY Men Worked Late to Complete the Grounds Ceremony to Be More Practical Than Gaudy Enormous Crowd Pours in to Witness Opening |volume=XXXI |issue=214 |date=30 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040430.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=WORLD'S FAIR GATES OPENED; ROOSEVELT BOOMS ATHLETICS Perfect Day Shines on the Great Event at St. Louis |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 4-6; page 5, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PRESIDENT PUTS POWER IN MOTION AT FAIR |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318121946/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.50&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.51&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CEREMONIOUS OPENING OF GREAT EXPOSITION |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 5, columns 1-3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115131/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.51&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.123&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IS GREATEST UNIVERSAL FAIR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD Opening Day Finds Vast Exhibition in Full and Satisfying Readiness for Visitors. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 17, columns 1-7; page 19, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115131/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.123&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.124&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Display Spreads Over Area of 1240 Acres, Representing an Expenditure of $50,000,000. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 17, columns 6-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115134/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.124&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION IS FORMALLY THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Exercises of a Simple Nature Mark the Inaugural. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115148/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Roosevelt Presses Key and the Machinery Is Started. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 25, column 7; page 28, columns 5-7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115150/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=VAST ASSEMBLAGE TAKES PART IN INAUGURAL CEREMONY St. Louis Puts Forth Her Best and Bravest Efforts in Honor of Her Great and Magnificent Exposition. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=Page 27, columns 1-7; page 28, columns 1-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=O'Neil |first=Tim |title=April 30, 1904: The most anticipated day in St. Louis history |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |department=History |date=30 April 2021 |url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/april-30-1904-the-most-anticipated-day-in-st-louis-history/article_42cfb7bc-121d-5aa3-86a2-6df0b4f70da5.html |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/april-30-1904-the-most-anticipated-day-in-st-louis-history/article_42cfb7bc-121d-5aa3-86a2-6df0b4f70da5.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis |title=1904 Saint Louis |website=Bureau International des Expositions |department=Expo Timeline |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318232255/https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis |url-status=live }}

= May =

May 4
United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.{{cite web |title=American canal construction |url=https://pancanal.com/en/american-canal-construction/ |publisher=Panama Canal Authority |access-date=9 March 2022 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144320/https://pancanal.com/en/american-canal-construction/ |url-status=live }}
Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time, in Manchester (England), to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December.{{cite web |url=https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/inspiring-greatness/values/how-rolls-met-royce.html |title=How Rolls Met Royce |publisher=Rolls-Royce Motor Cars |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208033642/https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/inspiring-greatness/values/how-rolls-met-royce.html |url-status=live }}
German Association football club FC Schalke 04 is established.{{cite web |url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/schalke-10-things-you-need-to-know-on-germany-s-coal-mining-heroes-512693.jsp |title=Schalke: 10 things you need to know about Germany's coal-mining heroes |website=bundesliga.com |publisher=DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH |year=2019 |access-date=9 March 2022 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144320/https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/schalke-10-things-you-need-to-know-on-germany-s-coal-mining-heroes-512693.jsp |url-status=live }}
May 5
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.{{cite book |last=Grant |first=Neil |title=Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict |year=1993 |publisher=Reed International Books Ltd & Smithmark Publishers Inc |location=New York City |isbn=0-8317-1371-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 18–19] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18}}
Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05051904.shtml |title=Cy Young Perfect Game Box Score |publisher=Baseball Almanac |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115135/https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05051904.shtml |url-status=live }}
May 9 – Great Western Railway of England 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro possibly becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed {{Convert|100|mph}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/aboutus/Pages/Swindon-175.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211090556/http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/aboutus/Pages/Swindon-175.aspx |archive-date=11 February 2016 |title=STEAM Gets Set for Swindon175 Celebrations |department=Swindon 175 |website=STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway |publisher=Swindon Borough Council Civic Offices |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 15 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about {{convert|15|mi|km}} off Port Arthur, and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons with 496 crew, and Yashima. On the same day, the Japanese protected cruiser Yoshino sinks after being accidentally rammed by the armored cruiser Kasuga, killing over 270 crew, including Captain Sayegi and his second-in-command, Commander Hirowateri.{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/226/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/226/mode/2up 226-231] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Internet Archive}} Japan will keep the loss of Yashima secret for over a year.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1905/06/02/archives/loss-of-yashima-admitted-japan-announces-that-battleship-struck-a.html |title=Loss of YASHIMA Admitted; Japan Announces That Battleship Struck a Mine a Year Ago. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 June 1905 |page=2 |access-date=13 March 2022 |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512090801/https://www.nytimes.com/1905/06/02/archives/loss-of-yashima-admitted-japan-announces-that-battleship-struck-a.html |url-status=live }}
May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.{{cite web |url=https://www.ussoccer.com/history/organizational-structure/fifa |title=FIFA |publisher=U.S. Soccer |department=Organizational Structure |year=2022 |access-date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311165210/https://www.ussoccer.com/history/organizational-structure/fifa |url-status=live }}
May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta, which becomes an international sorority, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University.{{cite web |url=https://alphagammadelta.org/about/history/ |title=History |date=November 18, 2016 |publisher=Alpha Gamma Delta |access-date=15 March 2022 |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417140231/https://alphagammadelta.org/about/history/ |url-status=live }}

= June =

June 3 – The International Alliance of Women is founded.{{cite book |last1=Liddington |first1=Jill |title=The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-militarism in Britain Since 1820 |date=1989 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-2539-1 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VWEjQu6rv8C |access-date=2015-03-13}}
June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/nyregion/02fatigue.html?ex=1346385600&en=7c3b9a843ec42d62&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |last=Kleinfield |first=N. R. |title=As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 September 2007 |access-date=26 July 2022 |quote=Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001. |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124100304/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/nyregion/02fatigue.html?ex=1346385600&en=7c3b9a843ec42d62&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |url-status=live }}
June 16
Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki.{{cite news |url=https://yle.fi/news/3-6184100 |title=Finnish fans fete new translation of Irish classic |date=15 June 2012 |website=Yle |language=en |access-date=26 July 2022 |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726105323/https://yle.fi/news/3-6184100 |url-status=live }}
The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He sets the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on this date.{{cite magazine |last=Menand |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Menand |title=Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce's chance encounters. |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/02/silence-exile-punning |magazine=The New Yorker |department=A Critic at Large |date=25 June 2012 |access-date=26 July 2022 |archive-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123100705/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/02/silence-exile-punning |url-status=live }}
June 28
Danish ocean liner {{SS|Norge}} runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing approximately 627 people, many of whom are Russian-Polish and Scandinavian emigrants.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ventegodt |first=Ole |title=Norge - emigrantskib |trans-title=Norge - emigrant ship |encyclopedia=Den Store Danske |date=February 2009 |via=lex.dk |access-date=26 July 2022 |language=da |url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Norge_-_emigrantskib |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727042325/https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Norge_-_emigrantskib |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Screw Steamer PIETER DE CONINCK built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. in 1881 for Theodore C Engels, Antwerp, Passenger/Cargo |website=Scottish Built Ships |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=27 July 2022 |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=23683&vessel=PIETER+DE+CONINCK |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604101133/https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=23683&vessel=PIETER+DE+CONINCK |url-status=live }}
The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan is stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.{{cite web |url=https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/07/the-icon-of-our-lady-of-kazan.html#.YuC7QT3MK5d |last=DiPippo |first=Gregory |title=The Icon of Our Lady of Kazan |website=New Liturgical Movement |date=21 July 2021 |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727042322/https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/07/the-icon-of-our-lady-of-kazan.html#.YuC7QT3MK5d |url-status=live }}
English Association football club Hull City A.F.C. is established.
June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Arseniev |first=Sergey |title=СМЕРЧИ И ТОРНАДО |trans-title=WHIRLWINDS AND TORNADOES |url=https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/SMERCHI_I_TORNADO.html |encyclopedia=Krugosvet |language=ru |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=May 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516145950/https://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/SMERCHI_I_TORNADO.html |url-status=live }}

= July =

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July – Pavlos Melas enters Macedonia with a small unit of men during the Macedonian Struggle.
July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games open in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, as part of the World's Fair.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |title=1904 Summer Olympics |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 November 2022 |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115052801/https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |url-status=live }}
July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.{{cite book|first=Walter|last=Liggett|authorlink=Walter Liggett|title=The Rise of Herbert Hoover|location=New York|year=1932}}
July 23 – A continuous track tractor is patented by David Roberts of Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham in England.British Patent No. 16,345. {{cite book|first=Peter|last=Robinson|title=Lincoln's Excavators: The Ruston years 1875–1930|year=2003|location=Nynehead|publisher=Roundoak|isbn=1-871565-42-1}}

= August =

August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet.{{cite news |title=BRITISH ARE IN LHASA.; Expedition Entered Sacred City Aug. 3 Without Further Fighting. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/07/archives/british-are-in-lhasa-expedition-entered-sacred-city-aug-3-without.html |access-date=31 July 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040808.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DALAI LAMA FLEES FROM THE BRITISH Younghusband's Expedition Reaches Lassa. Invaders Pitch Camp Near the Sacred Mountain of Potala. Appearance of Tibetan Capital Agrees With Descriptions Given by Explorers. |volume=XCVI |issue=69 |date=8 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
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.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040817.2.28&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HEREROS MEET WITH DEFEAT German Troops Attack the Natives Near Hamakari and Blacks Lose Heavily FIGHT LASTS ALL DAY Five of Emperor William's Officers and Nineteen Men Meet Death in the Battle |volume=XCVI |issue=78 |date=17 August 1904 |at=Page 2, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=http://www.namibia-1on1.com/battleofwaterberg.html |title=Battle of Waterberg - 11 August 1904 - Pt 1 |editor-last=Irwing |editor-first=Keith

|publisher=Namibia-1on1 |year=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016072254/http://www.namibia-1on1.com/battleofwaterberg.html |archive-date=16 October 2018 |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.namibia-1on1.com/a-northern/battle-of-waterberg-2.html |title=Battle of Waterberg Pt 2 - 12 August 1904 |editor-last=Irwing |editor-first=Keith |publisher=Namibia-1on1 |year=2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916214209/http://www.namibia-1on1.com/a-northern/battle-of-waterberg-2.html |archive-date=16 September 2018 |access-date=2 August 2023}}

August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia.{{cite web |title=1904 - ISMAEL MONTES GAMBOA |url=https://www.museovirtualbo.com/producto/1904-ismael-montes-gamboa/ |last1=Delgadillo Pacheco |first1=Miguel |last2=Delgadillo Cervantes |first2=Miguel |publisher=www.museovirtualbo.com |language=es |access-date=18 October 2023}}
August 17 – Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur.
August 18 – Chris Watson resigns as the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid (Free Trade Party).{{cite encyclopedia |first=Bede |last=Nairn |title=Watson, John Christian (Chris) (1867–1941) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watson-john-christian-chris-9003/text15849 |year=1990 |access-date=7 April 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/in-office.aspx |title=In office - Chris Watson |archive-date=18 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218184033/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/in-office.aspx#section1 |website=National Archives of Australia |department=Australia's Prime Ministers |access-date=7 April 2024}}
August 24 – Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag is established.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/teams/ki-klaksvik/1/ |title=KÍ Klaksvík » Profile |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=10 April 2024}}
Summer – Henri Matisse paints Luxe, Calme et Volupté at Saint-Tropez; it will be considered the starting point of Fauvism.{{cite book |last=Dempsey |first=Amy |author-link=Amy Dempsey |year=2002 |title=Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art |pages=66–69 |location=London |publisher=Thames & Hudson}}

= September =

September – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys.
September 1 – Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in London.
September 2 – John Voss sails the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum 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 17 – An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease is published in the United States.{{cite journal|last=Cabot|first=Richard C.|author-link=Richard Clarke Cabot|title=The relation of alcohol to arterioscleroisis|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|year=1904|volume=43|issue=12|pages=774–775|doi=10.1001/jama.1904.92500120002a|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1447273|access-date=2019-10-04|archive-date=April 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411134213/https://zenodo.org/record/1447273|url-status=live}}
September 26 – New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack is individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/P/PelorusJack/PelorusJack/en|access-date=2006-12-29|last=Alpers|first=A. F. G.|title=Pelorus Jack|encyclopedia=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand|year=1966|archive-date=July 24, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724174656/http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/P/PelorusJack/PelorusJack/en|url-status=live}}

= October =

October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University, is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune.
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 Association football club IFK Göteborg is founded, becoming the 39th IFK-association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Om-IFK-Goteborg/Presentation/Historik/bla/|title=IFK – 1904–1908|website=www.ifkgoteborg.se|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401123900/http://www.ifkgoteborg.se/Om-IFK-Goteborg/Presentation/Historik/bla/|archive-date=April 1, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-11-03|df=mdy-all}}
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 11 – Loftus Road football stadium opens in London.
October 13 – Pavlos Melas is encircled at Statista and killed during the Macedonian Struggle.
October 15 – Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
October 18 – In Germany:
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum opens in Berlin for the display of fine art.
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.
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 establish diplomatic relations.
Late October – The first members of what will become the Bloomsbury Group move to the Bloomsbury district of London; they will be joined about November 8 by the future novelist Virginia Woolf.{{cite book |editor-last=Nicolson |editor-first=Nigel |editor-link=Nigel Nicolson |title=The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf |volume=I: 1888–1912 (Virginia Stephen) |location=London |publisher=Hogarth Press |year=1975 |isbn=0701204036}}

= November =

November 8 – 1904 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
November 16
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.{{cite book|first=R. K.|last=Headland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ04AAAAIAAJ|title=The Island of South Georgia|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1984|isbn=0-521-25274-1|access-date=October 29, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921000425/http://books.google.com/books?id=lZ04AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
English engineer John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic vacuum tube, the two-electrode diode ("oscillation valve" or Fleming valve).{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=978-1-85986-343-5}}
November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company in the United States. The "caterpillar track" will come to revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare.

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= December =

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, later called 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.
The Abbey Theatre in Dublin opens.
December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens, for streetcars.
December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.

= Date unknown =

Global cosmetics companies are founded in Paris (France): Coty, by François Coty,{{cite news|last1=Wohl|first1=Jessica|title=Coty has staying power in bid for Avon|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/coty-avon-company-idUSL2E8F28HB20120402|access-date=2018-05-01|work=Reuters|date=2012-04-02|archive-date=2021-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202005550/https://www.reuters.com/article/coty-avon-company-idUSL2E8F28HB20120402|url-status=live}} and Garnier, by Alfred Amour Garnier.{{Cite web|title=Our Heritage|publisher=Garnier|url=https://www.garnierusa.com/about-garnier/our-heritage|access-date=2023-02-22|language=en|archive-date=October 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022192441/https://www.garnierusa.com/about-garnier/our-heritage|url-status=live}}
Canada Dry Ginger Ale is created by John J. McLaughlin.

Births

= January =

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January 1
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (died 1982){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ9CAQAAIAAJ&q=Fazal+Ilahi+Chaudhry+1904 |title=Current World Leaders |year=1977 |page=4 |access-date=14 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
Quatre Sou Quatre, a Chad politician (died 1963){{Cite web|url=https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/6874|title=Quatre Sou Quatre - Base de données des députés français depuis 1789 - Assemblée nationale|website=www2.assemblee-nationale.fr|access-date=January 9, 2023|archive-date=January 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109234022/https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/(num_dept)/6874|url-status=live}}
January 5 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (died 1997)
January 6 – Ramiro Prialé, Peruvian politician (died 1988){{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.gob.pe/participacion/museo/congreso/presidentes/Ramiro_Priale_a |title=RAMIRO ABELARDO PRIALÉ PRIALÉ |publisher=Congreso de la República |language=es |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215124947/https://www.congreso.gob.pe/participacion/museo/congreso/presidentes/Ramiro_Priale_a/ |url-status=live }}
January 10 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer and dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (died 1987){{cite web |title=Ray Bolger – Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ray-bolger-32422 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215092924/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ray-bolger-32422 |url-status=live }}
January 13 – Richard Addinsell, British composer (died 1977){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/5/mode/2up |title=Addinsell, Richard (Stewart) |dictionary=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music |editor-last=Randel |editor-first=Don Michael |editor-link=Don Michael Randel |series=Harvard University Press Reference Library |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=1996 |page=5 |isbn=0-674-37299-9 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Internet Archive}}
January 14
Cecil Beaton, English photographer (died 1980){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cecil-beaton-24657 |title=Cecil Beaton – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215105048/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cecil-beaton-24657 |url-status=live }}
Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director (died 1985){{cite encyclopedia |chapter-url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/grey-hector-a3632 |dictionary=Dictionary of Irish Biography |chapter=Grey, Hector |last=Boylan |first=Shaun |title=Grey, Hector | Dictionary of Irish Biography |doi=10.3318/dib.003632.v1 |date=October 2009 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215105114/https://www.dib.ie/biography/grey-hector-a3632 |url-status=live }}
Ernst Wellmann, highly decorated German Army officer (died 1970){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pda3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 |last1=Lucke |first1=Fritz |last2=Edwards |first2=Robert |last3=Olive |first3=Michael |title=Panzer Wedge |volume=Two: The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow |series=Stackpole Military History Series |publisher=Stackpole Books |year=2013 |page=215 |isbn=978-0-8117-1205-7 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
January 18 – Cary Grant, English actor (died 1986){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cary-grant-78289 |title=Cary Grant – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209205917/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cary-grant-78289 |url-status=live }}
January 19 – Leo Soileau, American Cajun musician (died 1980){{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leo-soileau-mn0000889873/biography |last=Harris |first=Craig |title=Leo Soileau Biography, Songs, & Albums |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215114953/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leo-soileau-mn0000889873/biography |url-status=live }}
January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson, American medical researcher (died 1990){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1092 |title=RICE-WRAY, EDRIS (1904– ) |dictionary=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century |volume=2: L–Z |editor1-last=Ogilvie |editor1-first=Marilyn |editor1-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie |editor2-last=Harvey |editor2-first=Joy |editor2-link=Joy Harvey |location=New York and London |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |page=1092 |isbn=0-415-92040-X |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
January 22
George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (died 1983){{cite news |last=Kisselgoff |first=Anna |author-link=Anna Kisselgoff |title=George Balanchine, 79, Dies in New York |journal=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/01/obituaries/george-balanchine-79-dies-in-new-york.html |date=1 May 1983 |page=1 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215122316/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/01/obituaries/george-balanchine-79-dies-in-new-york.html |url-status=live }}
Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (died 1941){{cite encyclopedia |title=Gaidar, A.P. |url=http://www.sovlit.net/bios/gaidar.html |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers |publisher=SovLit.net |year=2012 |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225182623/http://www.sovlit.net/bios/gaidar.html |url-status=live }}
January 26
Ancel Keys, American scientist (died 2004){{cite journal |last=Montani |first=Jean-Pierre |title=Ancel Keys: The legacy of a giant in physiology, nutrition, and public health |journal=Obesity Reviews |date=26 January 2021 |volume=22 |issue=S2 |pages=e13196 |doi=10.1111/obr.13196|pmid=33496369 |s2cid=231710294 |doi-access=free }}
Donald Macintyre, British naval officer and naval historian (died 1981){{cite web |title=Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945 – M |website=unithistories.com |url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersM.html#MacIntyre_DGFW |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115500/https://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersM.html#MacIntyre_DGFW |url-status=dead }}
Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1988){{cite web |title=Seán MacBride – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2021 |access-date=15 December 2021 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1974/macbride/facts/ |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220230818/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1974/macbride/facts/ |url-status=live }}
January 27 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist (died 1979){{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmeZhR9sP6MC&pg=PA161 |last=Hochberg |first=Julian |author-link=Julian Hochberg |title=JAMES JEROME GIBSON: January 27, 1904–December 11, 1979 |journal=Biographical Memoirs |volume=63 |year=1994 |pages=151–171 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |pmid=11615383 |isbn=9780309049764 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
January 28 – Canuplin, Filipino magician, bodabil entertainer (died 1979){{cite web |url=https://www.spot.ph/entertainment/entertainment-peopleparties/71169/10-filipino-film-actors-and-their-hollywood-lookalikes-a1806-20170827-lfrm2 |last=Castro |first=Alex |title=10 Classic Filipino Film Actors and Their Hollywood Lookalikes |website=SPOT.ph |department=People |date=27 August 2017 |publisher=Summit Digital |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215134155/https://www.spot.ph/entertainment/entertainment-peopleparties/71169/10-filipino-film-actors-and-their-hollywood-lookalikes-a1806-20170827-lfrm2 |url-status=live }}
January 29 – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (died 1976){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZQqBgAAQBAJ |last=Lange |first=Bettina |title=Gehlen, Arnold |dictionary=Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers |editor1-last=Brown |editor1-first=Stuart |editor2-last=Collinson |editor2-first=Diané |editor3-last=Wilkinson |editor3-first=Robert |location=London and New York |publisher=Routledge Reference |year=1996 |pages=269–270 |isbn=0-415-06043-5 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}

= February =

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February 1
Ángel Borlenghi, Argentine labor leader, politician (died 1962)
S. J. Perelman, American humorist, author (died 1979){{cite web |url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/s-j-perelman-crazy-like-fox/ |title=S.J. Perelman, the R.I. Wit Who Wrote Groucho's Jokes |department=Arts and Leisure |publisher=New England Historical Society |year=2021 |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225062111/https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/s-j-perelman-crazy-like-fox/ |url-status=live }}
February 2 – Valery Chkalov, Soviet test pilot (died 1938){{cite magazine |url=http://history-gatchina.ru/article/chkalov3 |title=Валерий Чкалов – человек и герой |trans-title=Valery Chkalov – a man and a hero |magazine=Исторический журнал "Гатчина сквозь столетия" |language=ru |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118041432/http://history-gatchina.ru/article/chkalov3 |url-status=live }}
February 3
Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (died 1975){{BrahmsOnline|1023|title=Luigi Dallapiccola}}
Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (died 1934){{cite encyclopedia |last=Wallis |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Wallis |title=Floyd, Charles Arthur (1904–1934) |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FL004.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018201933/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FL004.html |archive-date=18 October 2010 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |access-date=25 December 2021}}
February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer, historian (died 1977){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921544 |title=MacKinlay Kantor |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225062120/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921544 |url-status=live }}
February 10
Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (died 1976){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=es5wDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT10 |last=Deletant |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis Deletant |title=Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration |series=Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe |location=Abingdon, Oxon and New York, NY |publisher=Routledge |year=2019 |pages=10–11 |isbn=978-1-315-20140-5 |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
John Farrow, Australian film director (died 1963){{cite encyclopedia |first=Cameron |last=Hazlehurst |title=Farrow, John Villiers (1904–1963) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/farrow-john-villiers-10158/text17941 |year=1996 |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225062045/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/farrow-john-villiers-10158/text17941 |url-status=live }}
February 11
Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983){{cite encyclopedia |first=G. A. |last=Wood |title=Holyoake, Keith Jacka |dictionary=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |year=2000 |via=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5h33/holyoake-keith-jacka |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810040933/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5h33/holyoake-keith-jacka |url-status=live }}
Roy MacNairy, English cricketer (died 1962){{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/roy-macnairy-17268 |title=Roy MacNairy profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225141707/https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/roy-macnairy-17268 |url-status=live }}
José do Patrocínio Oliveira, Brazilian musician and voice actor (died 1987){{cite web |url=http://guiadoestudante.abril.com.br/aventuras-historia/ze-carioca-era-paulista-434986.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224002017/http://guiadoestudante.abril.com.br/aventuras-historia/ze-carioca-era-paulista-434986.shtml |archive-date=24 December 2014 |last=Ribeiro |first=Flávia |title=Zé Carioca era paulista |trans-title=Zé Carioca was a Paulista |website=Guia do Estudante |department=Aventuras na História |date=1 December 2006 |language=pt |access-date=25 December 2021}}
Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1904{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56005488 |title=Europe's oldest person survives Covid just before 117th birthday |date=9 February 2021 |department=Europe |publisher=BBC News |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=August 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831151436/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56005488 |url-status=live }} (died 2023)
February 13 – Erwin Canham, journalist (died 1982){{cite news |last=Dicke |first=William |title=ERWIN CANHAM, LONGTIME EDITOR OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, DIES |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/04/obituaries/erwin-canham-longtime-editor-of-christian-science-monitor-dies.html |date=4 January 1982 |page=B10 |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226043710/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/04/obituaries/erwin-canham-longtime-editor-of-christian-science-monitor-dies.html |url-status=live }}
February 16
James Baskett, African-American actor (Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South) (died 1948){{cite web |last=Campbell |first=Brent |date=17 January 2007 |title=James Baskett (1904–1948) |website=BlackPast.org |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/baskett-james-1904-1948/ |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226055044/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/baskett-james-1904-1948/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2019/02/22/oscars-james-baskett-indianapolis-actor-groundbreaking-academy-award-recipient-retroindy/2927638002/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204124713/https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2019/02/22/oscars-james-baskett-indianapolis-actor-groundbreaking-academy-award-recipient-retroindy/2927638002/ |archive-date=4 December 2019 |last=Mitchell |first=Dawn |author-link=Dawn Mitchell |title=Indianapolis actor famous for 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' was groundbreaking Oscars recipient |newspaper=Indianapolis Star |date=22 February 2019 |access-date=26 December 2021}}
George F. Kennan, American diplomat (died 2005){{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/politics/18kennan.html?pagewanted=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014092245/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/politics/18kennan.html?pagewanted=3 |archive-date=14 October 2013 |last1=Weiner |first1=Tim |author-link1=Tim Weiner |last2=Crossette |first2=Barbara |author-link2=Barbara Crossette |title=George F. Kennan Dies at 101; Leading Strategist of Cold War |newspaper=The New York Times |department=Washington |date=18 March 2005 |access-date=26 December 2021}}
Philip Rabinowitz, South African record-breaking sprinter (died 2008)
February 21 – Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1980){{cite encyclopedia |last1=Guerrier |first1=Steven W. |last2=Mukhina |first2=Irina |title=Kosygin, Alexei |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&q=Alexei%2520Nikolayevich%2520Kosygin&pg=PA591 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History |editor1-last=Tucker |editor1-first=Spencer C. |editor1-link=Spencer C. Tucker |editor2-last=Roberts |editor2-first=Priscilla |location=Santa Barbara, California, Denver, Colorado, Oxford, England |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2008 |page=591 |isbn=978-1-85109-842-2 |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
February 22 – Ernst Jakob Henne, German motorcycle racer and racing driver (died 2005){{cite web |url=http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/Henne/HenneObit.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220044430/http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/Henne/HenneObit.htm |archive-date=20 December 2011 |title=Racing legend Ernst Jakob Henne dies |date=24 May 2005 |publisher=BMW Motorcycle Owners of America, Inc. |access-date=26 December 2021}}
February 23
Gaston Marie Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop in Algeria (died 1976){{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjacquier.html |title=Bishop Gaston-Marie Jacquier |website=Catholic-Hierarchy |date=18 November 2020 |publisher=David M. Cheney |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226065913/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjacquier.html |url-status=live }}{{Self-published source|date=December 2021}}
William L. Shirer, American journalist, author (died 1993){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/29/obituaries/william-l-shirer-author-is-dead-at-89.html?pagewanted=all |last=Mitgang |first=Herbert |author-link=Herbert Mitgang |title=William L. Shirer, Author, Is Dead at 89 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=29 December 1993 |page=D18 |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130165236/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/29/obituaries/william-l-shirer-author-is-dead-at-89.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}
February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (died 1957){{cite web |url=https://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Dorsey__Jimmy |last=DeCicco |first=Nicole |title=Jimmy Dorsey |website=Pennsylvania Center for the Book |date=Fall 2020 |publisher=The Pennsylvania State University |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226080432/https://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Dorsey__Jimmy |url-status=live }}

= March =

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March 1
Paul Hartman, American actor, dancer (died 1973){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/paul-hartman-8025 |title=Paul Hartman – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115749/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/paul-hartman-8025 |url-status=live }}
Glenn Miller, American bandleader (died 1944){{cite web |title=Glenn Miller Biography |author=((Biography.com Editors)) |website=Biography.com |url=https://www.biography.com/musician/glenn-miller |access-date=16 January 2022 |publisher=A&E Television Networks |date=3 September 2020 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115749/https://www.biography.com/musician/glenn-miller |url-status=live }}
March 2 – Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/theodor-seuss-geisel-76137 |title=Theodor Seuss Geisel – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115750/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/theodor-seuss-geisel-76137 |url-status=live }}
March 4
Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1973){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4-dAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 |last=Newton |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Newton (author) |title=Carrero Blanco, LUIS (1904–1973) |encyclopedia=Famous Assassinations in World History: An Encyclopedia |volume=1: A–P |location=Santa Barbara, California, Denver, Colorado, Oxford, England |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2014 |page=77 |isbn=978-1-61069-286-1 |access-date=19 January 2022 |via=Google Books}}
George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (died 1968){{cite web |title=The Distinguished Life and Career of George Gamow |url=https://www.colorado.edu/physics/events/outreach/george-gamow-memorial-lecture-series/distinguished-life-and-career-george-gamow |website=University of Colorado Boulder |date=11 May 2016 |department=Physics |publisher=Regents of the University of Colorado |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528173448/https://www.colorado.edu/physics/events/outreach/george-gamow-memorial-lecture-series/distinguished-life-and-career-george-gamow |url-status=live }}
Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor, actor (died 1942){{cite web |url=https://historyofthetenor.com/joseph-schmidt/ |last=Barker |first=Sydney Rhys |title=Joseph Schmidt |year=1988 |publisher=The History of The Tenor |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116101655/https://historyofthetenor.com/joseph-schmidt/ |url-status=live }}
Chief Tahachee, American-born stage, film actor (died 1978)
March 5 – Mao Bangchu, Republic of China air force general (died 1987){{cite web |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/68896/Mow-Pang-Tzu.htm |title=Mow, Pang Tzu |website=TracesOfWar.com |department=Persons |publisher=STIWOT |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115754/https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/68896/Mow-Pang-Tzu.htm |url-status=live }}
March 6 – Hugh Williams, English actor, dramatist (died 1969){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/hugh-williams-65058 |title=Hugh Williams – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115750/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/hugh-williams-65058 |url-status=live }}
March 7 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (died 1942){{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Reinhard Heydrich |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=31 May 2021 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=November 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106131059/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich |url-status=live }}
March 14 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress (died 2010){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/arts/dance/12travis.html |last=Martin |first=Douglas |title=Doris E. Travis, Last of the Ziegfeld Girls, Dies at 106 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 May 2010 |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=October 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007181709/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/arts/dance/12travis.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/doris-eaton-39166 |title=Doris Eaton – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115757/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/doris-eaton-39166 |url-status=live }}
March 15 – J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (died 1985){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/j-pat-omalley-54908 |title=J. Pat O'Malley – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115757/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/j-pat-omalley-54908 |url-status=live }}
March 20
Frank Mills (politician), American politician in Ohio legislature (died 1969)
B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (died 1990){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/20/obituaries/b-f-skinner-the-champion-of-behaviorism-is-dead-at-86.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806193149/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/20/obituaries/b-f-skinner-the-champion-of-behaviorism-is-dead-at-86.html |archive-date=6 August 2010 |last=Sobel |first=Dava |author-link=Dava Sobel |title=B. F. Skinner, the Champion Of Behaviorism, Is Dead at 86 |newspaper=The New York Times |department=Obituaries |date=20 August 1990 |access-date=16 January 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50391.html |title=B. F. Skinner |department=Member Directory |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115757/http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50391.html |url-status=live }}
March 22 – Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (died 2006){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb128992472 |title=Notice de personne "Goldberg, Itche (1904-2006)" |trans-title=Person notice "Goldberg, Itche (1904-2006)" |date=26 November 2007 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=16 January 2022}}
March 23 – Joan Crawford, American actress (died 1977){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfjCtf9scpUC&pg=PT8 |last=Bret |first=David |author-link=David Bret |title=Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr |location=New York |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=2006 |page=8 |isbn=9780786732364 |access-date=16 January 2022 |via=Google Books |quote=She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur, most likely on 23 March 1904 (though she always maintained it was 1908, when birth certificates became state mandatory, and also the year of arch-rival Bette Davis's birth) in San Antonio, Texas...}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAzP__xv7CkC&pg=PA233 |last=Knowles |first=Mark |title=The Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances: Outrage at Couple Dancing in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries |location=Jefferson, North Carolina, and London |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=2009 |page=233 |isbn=978-0-7864-3708-5 |access-date=16 January 2022 |via=Google Books |quote=Joan Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas on March 23, 1904. (After she was famous, the date of her birth mysteriously changed to 1906 or 1908.)}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fqY4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 |last=Crawford |first=Christina |author-link=Christina Crawford |title=Mommie Dearest |publisher=Open Road Media |year=2017 |page=20 |isbn=9781504049085 |access-date=16 January 2022 |via=Google Books |quote=Publicly, her birth date was always reported as March 23, 1908, but Grandmother told me once that she was actually born in 1904.}} (other sources report her year of birth as 1905,{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&pg=PA143 |last=Smith |first=Judith E. |title=CRAWFORD, Joan |dictionary=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century |editor1-last=Ware |editor1-first=Susan |editor1-link=Susan Ware |editor2-last=Braukman |editor2-first=Stacy |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2004 |page=143 |isbn=0-674-01488-X |access-date=16 January 2022 |via=Google Books}} 1906, or 1908)
March 26
Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (died 1944){{cite web |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8995512 |title=Gustave Daniel Alfred BIELER, aka Guy MORIN, aka TELL, aka BLANC – born 26.03.1904 |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116083104/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8995512 |url-status=live }}
Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (died 1987){{cite web |url=https://www.jcf.org/about-joseph-campbell/ |title=About Joseph Campbell |website=Joseph Campbell Foundation |date=2 May 2016 |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325083256/https://www.jcf.org/about-joseph-campbell/ |url-status=live }}
Emilio Fernández, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (died 1986){{cite web |url=http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/directores/indio_fernandez.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927111206/http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/directores/indio_fernandez.html |archive-date=27 September 2011 |title=Emilio Fernández |website=Directores del cine mexicano |publisher=Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education |language=es |access-date=16 January 2022}}
March 30
Alexandrina Maria da Costa, Portuguese Roman Catholic mystic, victim soul and blessed (died 1955){{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20040425_da-costa_en.html |title=Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955), biography |website=vatican.va |access-date=30 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115758/https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20040425_da-costa_en.html |url-status=live }}
Shin Matsushita, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2019){{cite web |url=https://grg.org/WSRL/TableE.aspx |title=GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List |publisher=Gerontology Research Group |date=15 January 2022 |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=May 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525151117/http://supercentenarian-research-foundation.org/TableE.aspx |url-status=live }}

= April =

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April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet general (died 1945){{cite news |newspaper=Berliner Zeitung |language=de |url=http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2002/0506/berlin/0026/index.html |first1=Ingeborg |last1=Ruthe |first2=Jan |last2=Thomsen |title=Nikolai Bersarin kann noch immer nicht Ehrenbürger Berlins werden: Senat scheut neuen Namensstreit |trans-title=Nikolai Bersarin is still unable to become an honorary citizen of Berlin: the Senate is afraid of a new name dispute |date=6 May 2002 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729014028/http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2002/0506/berlin/0026/index.html |archive-date=29 July 2012 |access-date=17 February 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/69106/Berzarin-Nikolai-Erastovich.htm |title=Berzarin, Nikolai Erastovich |website=TracesOfWar.com |publisher=STIWOT |access-date=17 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115759/https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/69106/Berzarin-Nikolai-Erastovich.htm |url-status=live }}
April 3 – Sally Rand, American dancer, actress (died 1979){{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19790830&id=eC8dAAAAIBAJ&pg=6664,7721971 |title=Sally Rand dies of heart failure |newspaper=The Tuscaloosa News |agency=AP |date=30 August 1979 |at=Page 2, columns 1-3 |access-date=14 February 2022 |via=Google News |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115801/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19790830&id=eC8dAAAAIBAJ&pg=6664,7721971 |url-status=live }}
April 4 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian author, educator (died 1999){{cite book |last1=Asril |first1=St. Zaili |display-authors=etal |title=Tragedi Riau menegakkan demokrasi: peristiwa 2 September 1985 |trans-title=The tragedy of Riau upholding democracy: the events of 2 September 1985 |year=2002 |language=id |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlVxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA280 |page=280 |access-date=17 February 2022 |via=Google Books}}
April 6
William Challee, American actor (died 1989){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/william-challee-34982 |title=William Challee – Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115802/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/william-challee-34982 |url-status=live }}
Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany (died 1988){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12029534q |title=Notice de personne "Kiesinger, Kurt Georg (1904–1988)" |trans-title=Person notice "Kiesinger, Kurt Georg (1904–1988)" |date=18 March 2013 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=14 February 2022}}
April 8 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989){{cite web |title=John R. Hicks – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=14 February 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1972/hicks/facts/ |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318082332/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1972/hicks/facts/ |url-status=live }}
April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (died 1972){{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sharkey-bonano-mn0000743882/biography |last=Kelsey |first=Chris |author-link=Chris Kelsey |title=Sharkey Bonano Biography, Songs, & Albums |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318214357/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sharkey-bonano-mn0000743882/biography |url-status=live }}
April 10 – Nino Pavese, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1979){{cite web |url=https://www.mymovies.it/persone/nino-pavese/10638/ |title=Nino Pavese biografia |trans-title=Nino Pavese biography |publisher=MYmovies.it |language=it |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318232244/https://www.mymovies.it/persone/nino-pavese/10638/ |url-status=live }}
April 13 – Elwood Richard Quesada, American air force general (died 1993){{cite web |url=https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/quesada-elwood-richard/ |title=Quesada, Elwood Richard |publisher=National Aviation Hall of Fame |year=2020 |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=February 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218053146/https://www.nationalaviation.org/our-enshrinees/quesada-elwood-richard/ |url-status=dead }}
April 14 – John Gielgud, English actor (died 2000){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/john-gielgud-9565 |title=John Gielgud – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115804/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/john-gielgud-9565 |url-status=live }}
April 15 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (died 1948){{cite web |last1=Boddewyn |first1=Julia May |last2=McCormick-Goodhart |first2=Anna |last3=Field |first3=Parker |title=Chronology – Artist |publisher=The Arshile Gorky Foundation |url=https://www.arshilegorkyfoundation.org/artist/chronology |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401091257/https://www.arshilegorkyfoundation.org/artist/chronology |url-status=live }}
April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (died 1983){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/04/obituaries/fifi-d-orsay-movie-actress-played-french-flirts-in-30-s.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A16%22%7D |title=Fifi d'Orsay, Movie Actress; Played French Flirts in 30's |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=4 December 1983 |page=52 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306153317/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/04/obituaries/fifi-d-orsay-movie-actress-played-french-flirts-in-30-s.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias:w,%7B%222%22:%22RI:16%22%7D |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/fifi-dorsay-80203 |title=Fifi D'Orsay – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115802/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/fifi-dorsay-80203 |url-status=live }}
April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (died 1967){{cite web |url=http://cstms.berkeley.edu/archive/oppenheimer/exhibit/ |title=J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial – Exhibit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204154206/http://cstms.berkeley.edu/archive/oppenheimer/exhibit/ |archive-date=4 December 2013 |publisher=The Regents of the University of California |year=2004 |access-date=16 February 2022}}
April 24 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (died 1997){{cite web |url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/de-kooning-willem/ |title=Willem de Kooning Paintings, Bio, Ideas |website=TheArtStory |publisher=The Art Story Foundation |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712195213/https://www.theartstory.org/artist/de-kooning-willem/ |url-status=live }}
April 26
Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (died 1982){{cite encyclopedia |last=McManus |first=John |title=Jimmy McGrory |dictionary=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press}}, cited in {{cite news |author=((The Newsroom)) |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/jimmy-mcgrory-2511339 |title=Jimmy McGrory |newspaper=The Scotsman |department=People |date=28 October 2006 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115759/https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/jimmy-mcgrory-2511339 |url-status=live }}
Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004){{cite web |url=http://www.sperchios.com/news/xenofon-zolotas-o-spercheiaditis-poy-eftase-stin-koryfi-tis-elladas-kai-tis-eyropis/ |title=Ξενοφών Ζολώτας: Ο Σπερχειαδίτης πού έφτασε στην "κορυφή" της Ελλάδας καί της Ευρώπης |trans-title=Xenophon Zolotas: The Spercheiadite who reached the "top" of Greece and Europe |date=27 November 2016 |website=Sperchios.com |language=el |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=June 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627021449/http://www.sperchios.com/news/xenofon-zolotas-o-spercheiaditis-poy-eftase-stin-koryfi-tis-elladas-kai-tis-eyropis/ |url-status=dead }}
April 27
Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (died 1972){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3jUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 |last=Stanford |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Stanford |title=C Day-Lewis – A Life |publisher=Continuum |year=2007 |page=6 |isbn=9780826486035 |access-date=16 February 2022 |via=Google Books}}
Syd Nathan, American record producer, music industry executive and founder of King Records (died 1968){{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/syd-nathan-mn0000044204/biography |last=Kurutz |first=Steve |title=Syd Nathan Biography, Songs, & Albums |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115802/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/syd-nathan-mn0000044204/biography |url-status=live }}
April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer, actor (died 1989)

= May =

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May 4
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (died 1975)
Joaquín García Morato, Spanish fighter ace (died 1939){{cite web |url=http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/morato/morato.htm |last=Zhirohov |first=Mihail |title=Joaquin Garcia-Morato – Best Ace of Spanish Civil War. |date=7 September 2003 |publisher=WW II Ace Stories |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126124138/http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/morato/morato.htm |archive-date=26 January 2010 |access-date=9 March 2022}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uVa1CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |last=Logoluso |first=Alfredo |title=Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War |others=Series edited by Tony Holmes |series=Osprey Aircraft of the Aces |volume=94 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |year=2013 |page=13 |isbn=9781846039843 |access-date=9 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
May 6
Raymond Bailey, American actor (died 1980){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/raymond-bailey-107569 |title=Raymond Bailey – Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906075345/http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=107569 |url-status=live }}
Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (died 1984){{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1984-the-father-of-feldenkrais-dies-1.5374676 |last=Green |first=David B. |title=This Day in Jewish History {{!}} 1984: The father of Feldenkrais dies |newspaper=Haaretz |department=Jewish World |date=1 July 2015 |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310070623/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1984-the-father-of-feldenkrais-dies-1.5374676 |url-status=live }}
Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978){{cite web |title=Harry Martinson – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=10 March 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1974/martinson/facts/ |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318041914/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1974/martinson/facts/ |url-status=live }}
May 8 – John Snagge, British radio personality (died 1996){{cite news |last=Miall |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Miall |title=Obituary: John Snagge |newspaper=The Independent |department=People |date=28 March 1996 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-snagge-1344505.html |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=September 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916165542/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-snagge-1344505.html |url-status=live }}
May 10 – James Roy Andersen, American general (died 1945){{cite web |url=https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1748791/james-roy-andersen/ |title=BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES ROY ANDERSEN |website=United States Air Force |department=Biography Display |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310095555/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1748791/james-roy-andersen/ |url-status=live }}
May 11 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989){{cite magazine |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-surreal-world-of-salvador-dali-78993324/ |last=Meisler |first=Stanley |title=The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí |magazine=Smithsonian |department=Arts & Culture |date=April 2005 |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518170614/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-surreal-world-of-salvador-dali-78993324/ |archive-date=18 May 2014 |url-status=live}}
May 17
Marie-Anne Desmarest, French novelist (died 1973){{cite book |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12601625q |title=Marie-Anne Desmarest (1904-1973) |date=22 November 2021 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=15 March 2022}}
Jean Gabin, French actor (died 1976){{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p25439 |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |title=Jean Gabin {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=15 March 2022 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310034601/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p25439 |url-status=live }}
May 20 – Margery Allingham, British detective fiction writer (died 1966){{cite encyclopedia |first1=David |last1=Langford |author1-link=David Langford |first2=John |last2=Clute |author2-link=John Clute |title=Allingham, Margery |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor3-first=Peter |editor3-last=Nicholls |editor3-link=Peter Nicholls (writer) |editor4-first=Graham |editor4-last=Sleight |editor4-link=Graham Sleight |location=London |publisher=Gollancz |date=14 October 2021 |edition=Web |access-date=10 March 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/allingham_margery |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310093031/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/allingham_margery |url-status=live }}
May 21
Robert Montgomery, American actor, director (died 1981){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/robert-montgomery-53470 |title=Robert Montgomery – Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=11 March 2022 |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311164622/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/robert-montgomery-53470 |url-status=live }}
Fats Waller, American pianist, comedian (died 1943){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/waller-fats-thomas-wright |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406062100/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/waller-fats-thomas-wright |archive-date=6 April 2009 |last=Tenenholtz |first=David |title=Waller, Fats (Thomas Wright) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians |access-date=11 March 2022 |via=jazz.com}}
May 22 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (died 1964){{cite news |url=http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/1467247/Anne+de+Vries+was+dol+op+bruine+bonen.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530031041/http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/1467247/Anne+de+Vries+was+dol+op+bruine+bonen.html |archive-date=30 May 2012 |last=Wilbrink-Donkersteeg |first=Jeannette |title=Anne de Vries was dol op bruine bonen |trans-title=Anne de Vries loved kidney beans |date=12 March 2010 |newspaper=Reformatorisch Dagblad |language=nl |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 24 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (died 1997){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72553 |title=Chuhei Nanbu |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=17 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115836/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72553 |url-status=live }}
May 25 – Charles L. Melson, United States Navy admiral (died 1981){{cite web |url=https://www.usna.edu/Library/sca/man-findingaids/view.php?f=MS_553#Biographical+Chronology+of+Charles+Leroy+Melson |title=Charles Leroy Melson Papers, 1921-1976: Finding Aid |location=Annapolis, Maryland |publisher=United States Naval Academy, Special Collections & Archives |date=November 2020 |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115836/https://www.usna.edu/Library/sca/man-findingaids/view.php?f=MS_553#Biographical+Chronology+of+Charles+Leroy+Melson |url-status=live }}
May 26 – George Formby, English singer, comedian (died 1961){{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f471218 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324025741/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f471218 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |title=George Formby |publisher=British Film Institute |department=Films, TV and people |access-date=8 March 2022}}
May 28 – George Beck, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (died 1978){{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbeckg.html |title=Archbishop George Andrew Beck |website=Catholic-Hierarchy |publisher=David M. Cheney |date=8 February 2021 |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310094916/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbeckg.html |url-status=live }}{{Self-published source|date=March 2022}}
May 29 – Abu Bakar of Pahang, sultan of Pahang (died 1974){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7p8CAAAAMAAJ&q=abu+bakar+of+pahang+1974 |title=Who's who in Malaysia and Guide to Singapore |chapter=Obituary |volume=10 |editor-last=Morais |editor-first=John Victor |editor-link=John Victor Morais |publisher=J. V. Morais |year=1975 |page=138 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
May 30 – Doris Packer, American actress (died 1979){{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/doris-packer-p54605 |title=Doris Packer {{!}} Movies and Filmography |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=15 March 2022 |archive-date=March 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315150039/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/doris-packer-p54605 |url-status=live }}

= June =

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June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer, actor (Tarzan) (died 1984){{cite web |url=https://www.johnnyweissmuller.com/biography/ |title=Biography |website=Johnny Weissmuller |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815183606/https://www.johnnyweissmuller.com/biography/ |url-status=live }}
June 3 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (died 1984){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jan-peerce-101773 |title=Jan Peerce - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=27 June 2022 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727133424/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jan-peerce-101773 |url-status=live }}
June 5 – Edith Clark, French aviator, parachutist (died 1937){{cite web |url=http://mairiecuffy.free.fr/principal/article.php?catid=71 |title=Les articles |website=mairiecuffy.free.fr |date=13 April 2015 |language=fr |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604101128/http://mairiecuffy.free.fr/principal/article.php?catid=71 |url-status=live }}
June 6 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (died 1928){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb126685183 |title=Notice de personne "López Merino, Francisco (1904-1928)" |trans-title=Person notice "López Merino, Francisco (1904-1928)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=28 June 2007 |access-date=27 July 2022}}
June 12
Bill Cox, American athlete (died 1996){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78272 |title=Bill Cox |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=4 December 2022 |archive-date=December 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204112608/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78272 |url-status=live }}
Johnny Murray, American voice actor (died 1956)
June 17
Ralph Bellamy, American actor (died 1991){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ralph-bellamy-14150 |title=Ralph Bellamy - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727151846/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ralph-bellamy-14150 |url-status=live }}
J. Vernon McGee, American theologian, pastor, author, and Bible teacher (died 1988){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73xfDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1460 |last=LaGioia |first=Rock M. |title=McGee, John Vernon |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States |volume=5 |page=1460 |editor1-last=Kurian |editor1-first=George Thomas |editor1-link=George Thomas Kurian |editor2-last=Lamport |editor2-first=Mark A. |editor2-link=Mark A. Lamport |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2016 |isbn=9781442244320 |access-date=27 July 2022 |via=Google Books}}
June 18 – Keye Luke, Chinese-born American actor (died 1991){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/keye-luke-92714 |title=Keye Luke - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=July 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728071415/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/keye-luke-92714 |url-status=live }}
June 20 – Heinrich von Brentano, German politician (died 1964){{cite book |last=Webb |first=Adrian |title=The Longman companion to Germany since 1945 |publisher=Longman |location=London, England |year=1998 |isbn=9781317884248}}
June 21 – Orian Landreth, American football coach (died 1996)
June 22 – William O. Gallery, American admiral (died 1981){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/18/obituaries/rear-adm-william-o-gallery-a-navy-veteran-of-two-wars.html |title=Rear Adm. William O. Gallery; A Navy Veteran of Two Wars |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=18 November 1981 |page=A28 |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727130613/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/18/obituaries/rear-adm-william-o-gallery-a-navy-veteran-of-two-wars.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG26.HTM |title=USS Gallery (FFG 26) |website=www.navysite.de |language=en |access-date=27 July 2022 |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604101127/https://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG26.HTM |url-status=live }}
June 24
Francis Leslie Ashton, British writer (died 1994){{cite encyclopedia |first=John |last=Clute |author-link=John Clute |title=Ashton, Francis Leslie |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |location=London, Reading |publisher=SFE Ltd/Ansible Editions |date=10 August 2018 |edition=Web |access-date=27 July 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ashton_francis_leslie |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727153905/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ashton_francis_leslie |url-status=live }}
Phil Harris, American actor (died 1995){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2874700132.html |title=Harris, (Wanga) Phillip ("Phil") |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216052836/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2874700132.html |archive-date=16 February 2013 |encyclopedia=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives |year=2001 |access-date=27 July 2022 |via=HighBeam Research}}
June 26
Virginia Brown Faire, American actress (died 1980){{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p22521 |last=Erickson |first=Hal |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |title=Virginia Brown Faire {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710121742/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p22521 |url-status=live }}
Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born film actor (died 1964){{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba182acb2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306193947/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba182acb2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |title=Peter Lorre |publisher=British Film Institute |department=Films, TV and people |access-date=28 July 2022}}

= July =

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July 1
Mary Calderone, American physician, public health advocate (died 1998){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&q=Francesca+Calderone-Steichen&pg=PA99 |last=More |first=Ellen S. |title=CALDERONE, Mary Steichen |dictionary=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century |editor1-last=Ware |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Braukman |editor2-first=Stacy |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England |publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |year=2004 |pages=99–101 |isbn=0-674-01488-X |access-date=15 November 2022 |via=Google Books |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115052754/https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&q=Francesca%20Calderone-Steichen&pg=PA99 |url-status=live }}
Gordon Gunson, English football player (died 1991){{cite web |url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/646 |title=PLAYERS - GORDON GUNSON |publisher=LFCHistory.net |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=December 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215151318/https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/646 |url-status=live }}
July 2
René Lacoste, French tennis player, businessman (died 1996){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22 |title=René Lacoste |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 November 2022 |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126113944/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22 |url-status=live }}
František Plánička, Czech footballer (died 1996){{NFT player|20130|František Plánička|access-date=27 July 2022}}
July 5
Harold Acton, British writer, scholar, and aesthete (died 1994){{cite news |title=Obituary: Sir Harold Acton |last=Pryce-Jones |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Pryce-Jones |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-harold-acton-1397017.html |newspaper=The Independent |department=People |date=28 February 1994 |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707171238/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-harold-acton-1397017.html |url-status=live }}
Eugenia Clinchard, American child actress (died 1989){{cite book |last=Kiehn |first=David |title=Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company |year=2003 |isbn=978-09729-2265-4 |publisher=Farewell Books |location=Berkeley, California |page=258}}
Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist, author (died 2005){{cite journal |last=Bock |first=Walter J. |date=1 December 2006 |title=Ernst Walter Mayr. 5 July 1904 — 3 February 2005 |journal=Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. |volume=52 |pages=167–187 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2006.0013 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0013 |publisher=The Royal Society |s2cid=70809804 |issn=1748-8494 |access-date=4 December 2022 |archive-date=December 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226125439/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0013 |url-status=live }}
July 6
Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari, Pakistani broadcaster (died 1975){{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army (died 1996){{cite web |url=https://www.abc.se/~m1384/htmle/ewcarere.html |title=Curriculum vitae of Erk Wickberg |last=Wickberg |first=Sven |date=1998-05-06 |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216064850/https://www.abc.se/~m1384/htmle/ewcarere.html |url-status=live }}{{Self-published source|date=December 2022}}{{Citation needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of birth.}}
July 7
Nick Connor, American politician (died 1995){{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/floridahandbook100morr/page/394/mode/2up |title=The Florida Handbook, 1965-1966 |last=Morris |first=Allen |author-link=Allen Morris (historian) |year=1965 |location=Tallahassee, Florida |publisher=The Peninsular Publishing Company |page=394 |lccn=49-53676 |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/12/09/former-florida-senate-president-dies/ |title=Former Florida Senate president dies |last1=Basse |first1=Craig |last2=DeWitt |first2=Dan |newspaper=Tampa Bay Times |date=9 December 1995 |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216070235/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/12/09/former-florida-senate-president-dies/ |url-status=live }}
Josephine Wilson, British stage, film actress (died 1990){{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}
July 8 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (died 2008){{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cartan_Henri/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |title=Henri Cartan (1904 - 2008) - Biography |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics |date= |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=December 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215144418/https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cartan_Henri/ |url-status=live }}
July 9 – Hideo Oguni, Japanese writer (died 1996){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb141254923 |title=Notice de personne "Oguni, Hideo (1904-1996)" |trans-title=Person notice "Oguni, Hideo (1904-1996)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=4 November 2021 |access-date=16 December 2022}}
July 10
Haim Ben-Asher, Israeli politician (died 1998){{cite web |url=https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/296 |title=Chaim Ben-Asher |website=The Knesset |department=All Past and Present MKs |publisher=The State of Israel |access-date=15 December 2022}}
Lili Damita, French-American actress, singer (died 1994){{cite web | last=Shipman | first=David | title=Obituary: Lili Damita | website=The Independent | date=April 4, 1994 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lili-damita-1367971.html | access-date=January 17, 2024}}
Tom Tippett, English footballer (died 1997){{cite web |url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=640&united=Tommy_Tippett |title=Tommy Tippett |website=westhamstats.info |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216043707/http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=640&united=Tommy_Tippett |url-status=live }}{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2022}}
July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973){{cite web |title=Pablo Neruda – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=4 December 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1971/neruda/facts/ |archive-date=December 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204112504/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1971/neruda/facts/ |url-status=live }}
July 13 – Jim Burrows, New Zealand teacher, sportsman, administrator, and military leader (died 1991){{cite encyclopedia |first=Gordon |last=Ogilvie |author-link=Gordon Ogilvie |title=Burrows, James Thomas |dictionary=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |year=2000 |via=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5b52/burrows-james-thomas |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216045819/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5b52/burrows-james-thomas |url-status=live }}
July 14
Richard Clarkson, British aeronautical engineer (died 1996){{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-richard-clarkson-1313795.html |last=Ramsden |first=J. M. |title=Obituary: Richard Clarkson |newspaper=The Independent |department=Obituaries |date=9 December 1996 |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817182828/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-richard-clarkson-1313795.html |url-status=live }}
Zita Johann, Austrian-American actress (died 1993){{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5a7cc79 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108140414/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5a7cc79 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 8, 2016 |title=Zita Johann |department=Films, TV and people |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=16 December 2022}}
July 15
Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (died 2007){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11889169r |title=Notice de personne "Arnheim, Rudolf (1904-2007)" |trans-title=Person notice "Arnheim, Rudolf (1904-2007)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=15 December 2022}}
Dorothy Fields, American librettist (died 1974){{cite web |url=http://www.dorothyfields.org/biog1.htm |title=Biography : Early Years |website=The Dorothy Fields Website |publisher=Jon Aldous |year=2006 |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302063618/http://www.dorothyfields.org/biog1.htm |url-status=live }}{{Self-published source|date=December 2022}}
July 16 – Geraldine Knight Scott, pioneering American woman landscape architect (died 1989){{cite web |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4p300654/admin/ |title=Geraldine Knight Scott Collection, 1914-1988 |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=15 November 2022 |archive-date=November 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115063153/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4p300654/admin/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Scott, Geraldine Knight |url=https://ced.berkeley.edu/collections/scott-geraldine-knight |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design |language=en-US |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603203605/https://ced.berkeley.edu/collections/scott-geraldine-knight |url-status=live }}
July 18 – Stella Skopal, Croatian Jewish sculptor (died 1992){{cite web |url=http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 |title=Marina Baričević: Stella Skopal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607182840/http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 |archive-date=7 June 2017 |author=ULUPUH |date=16 June 2009 |language=hr |access-date=16 December 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Skopal, Stella |url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/skopal-stella |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=enciklopedija.hr |archive-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128005901/https://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=56477 |url-status=live }}
July 19 – Mark Koenig, American baseball shortstop (died 1993){{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/koenima01.shtml |title=Mark Koenig Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=July 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709220624/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/koenima01.shtml |url-status=live }}
July 20 – René Couzinet, French aeronautics engineer, aircraft manufacturer (died 1956){{cite web |title=René Couzinet from glory to decline |last=Caloyanni |first=Emmanuel |translator-last=Leveillard |translator-first=Mike |url=http://aerostories.free.fr/constructeurs/couzinet/page3.html |publisher=Aérostories |year=2001 |language=en |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707053300/http://aerostories.free.fr/constructeurs/couzinet/page3.html |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12047756h |title=Notice de personne "Couzinet, René (1904-1956)" |trans-title=Person notice "Couzinet, René (1904-1956)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=21 April 2009 |access-date=16 December 2022}}
July 21
Wilhelm Harster, German officer (died 1991){{cite web |title=SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Dr. jur. Wilhelm Harster |url=http://www.specialcamp11.co.uk/SS-Gruppenfuhrer_und_Generalleutnant_der_Polizei_Dr_jur_Wilhelm_Harster.htm |website=ISLAND FARM SPECIAL CAMP 11 THE GERMAN OFFICERS HELD IN BRIDGEND 1946 - 1948 |department=SOME OF THE PRISONERS HELD AT SPECIAL CAMP 11 |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408074420/http://www.specialcamp11.co.uk/SS-Gruppenfuhrer_und_Generalleutnant_der_Polizei_Dr_jur_Wilhelm_Harster.htm |url-status=live }}
Louis Meyer, American Hall of Fame race car driver (died 1995){{cite web |url=https://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/inductees/louis-meyer/ |title=Louis Meyer |website=International Motorsports Hall of Fame |department=Inductees |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216121047/https://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/inductees/louis-meyer/ |url-status=live }}
July 24 – Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet admiral (died 1974){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16675061w |title=Notice de personne "Kouznetsov, Nikolaï Guerassimovitch (1904-1974)" |trans-title=Person notice "Kouznetsov, Nikolaï Guerassimovitch (1904-1974)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=4 April 2013 |access-date=16 December 2022}}
July 26 – Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (died 1981){{cite web |url=http://library.binghamton.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/linkcoll_m4.html |title=Edwin Albert Link - A Chronological Biography |access-date=4 December 2022 |publisher=Binghamton University Libraries |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317171714/http://library.binghamton.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/linkcoll_m4.html |archive-date=17 March 2012}}
July 28 – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990){{cite web |title=Pavel A. Cherenkov – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=4 December 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1958/cerenkov/facts/ |archive-date=October 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004023924/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1958/cerenkov/facts/ |url-status=live }}
July 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman (died 1993){{cite web |url=https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/jrd117 |title=JRD Tata: 117th Birth Anniversary |publisher=Tata Sons Private Limited |department=About Us |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216153659/https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/jrd117 |url-status=live }}

= August =

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August 3 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (died 1983){{cite news |last1=Jarlson |first1=Gary |last2=Thackrey |first2=Ted Jr. |author2-link=Ted Thackrey#Family |title=From the Archives: Dolores Del Rio, Exotic Queen of Films, Dies |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dolores-del-rio-19830413-20160401-snap-story.html |department=Obituaries |date=13 April 1983 |access-date=27 July 2023}}
August 4
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist, dramatist (died 1969){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119053524 |title=Notice de personne "Gombrowicz, Witold (1904-1969)" |trans-title=Person notice "Gombrowicz, Witold (1904-1969)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=29 December 2020 |access-date=2 August 2023}}
Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress (died 1966){{cite book |last=Taylor |first=James D. Jr. |title=Helen Kane and Betty Boop: On Stage and On Trial |publisher=Algora Publishing |year=2017 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cQ9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223 |page=223 |isbn=9781628942996 |access-date=2 August 2023 |via=Google Books}}{{cite web |title=Helen Kane - Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/helen-kane-47441 |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=2 August 2023}}
August 5 – Hugh Greer, American basketball coach (died 1963){{cite web |url=https://blogs.lib.uconn.edu/archives/2018/08/ |title=Hugh S. Greer Field House |last=Smith |first=Laura |date=August 31, 2018 |website=uconn.edu |publisher=UConn Library |access-date=18 February 2024}}
August 6 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (died 1988){{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
August 7 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/10/archives/dr-bunche-of-un-nobel-winner-dies-dr-ralph-j-bunche-of-un-is-dead.html |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |title=Dr. Bunche of U.N., Nobel Winner, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 December 1971 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3 |access-date=27 July 2023}}{{cite web |title=Ralph Bunche – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2023 |access-date=27 July 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1950/bunche/facts/}}
August 11 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (died 1991){{cite encyclopedia |title=Castro, Bernard |encyclopedia=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives |access-date=2 August 2023 |via=Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/castro-bernard}}
August 12 – Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia{{cite news |title=RUSSIA JOYFUL OVER BIRTH OF CZAREVITCH; Church Bells Ring and Thanksgiving Services Are Held. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 August 1904 |at=Page 7, columns 5-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/13/archives/russia-joyful-over-birth-of-czarevitch-church-bells-ring-and.html |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040813.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FORGET WAR WHEN CZAR'S SON IS BORN Russians Wild With Rejoicing Over the Event. Birth of Heir to the Throne May Mean Much for the Slav Race. Emperor Nicholas Said to Have Promised to Give to His Nation a Constitution |volume=XCVI |issue=74 |date=13 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 3; page 2, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=11 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} (died 1918)
August 13
Jonathan Hole, American actor (died 1998){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jonathan-hole-45379 |title=Jonathan Hole - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=2 August 2023}}
Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor, jazz musician (died 1999){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/buddy-rogers-58189 |title=Buddy Rogers - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=2 August 2023}}
August 16
Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician (died 1989){{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Genda Minoru |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=12 August 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genda-Minoru |access-date=18 October 2023}}
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971){{cite web |title=Wendell M. Stanley – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |date=27 July 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1946/stanley/facts/}}
August 17
Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (died 1984){{cite news |title=Mary Cain, Mississippi Editor Who Fought U.S. Taxes, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/08/obituaries/mary-cain-mississippi-editor-who-fought-us-taxes-dies.html |date=8 May 1984 |at=Page B6, column 4 |access-date=19 October 2023}}
Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (died 1991){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122883842 |title=Notice de personne "Nowak, Leopold (1904-1991)" |trans-title=Person notice "Nowak, Leopold (1904-1991)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=3 November 2007 |access-date=19 October 2023}}
August 19 – George de la Warr, British alternative physician (died 1969){{cite web |title=Summary Bibliography: George de la Warr |url=https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?204034 |work=Internet Speculative Fiction Database |publisher=Al von Ruff and the ISFDB Team |access-date=19 October 2023}}
August 21 – Count Basie, African-American musician, bandleader (died 1984){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/count-basie-89863 |title=Count Basie - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=19 October 2023}}
August 22
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader (died 1997){{cite book |last1=Pantsov |first1=Alexander V. |last2=Levine |first2=Steven I. |title=Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w__VBgAAQBAJ&q=Deng+Xiaoping |location=Oxford, New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-939203-2 |page=12 |access-date=8 April 2024 |via=Google Books}}
Jay Novello, American actor (died 1982){{cite web |title=Jay Novello {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/jay-novello-vn15464920 |access-date=8 April 2024}}
August 23
Viscountess Furness (born Thelma Morgan), American socialite twin (died 1970)
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Gloria Morgan), American socialite twin (died 1965)
William Primrose, Scottish violist (died 1982){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/04/obituaries/william-primrose-77-is-dead-violist-knowen-for-purity-of-tone.html |last=Schonberg |first=Harold C. |author-link=Harold C. Schonberg |title=William Primrose, 77, Is Dead; Violist Known for Purity of Tone |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 May 1982 |at=Page D31, columns 1-3 |access-date=10 April 2024}}
August 24
Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (died 1986){{cite news |last=Carpenter |first=Louise |title=Rescue mission |date=14 July 2007 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3666564/Rescue-mission.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=10 April 2024}}
Aparicio Méndez, 50th President of Uruguay (died 1988){{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Aparicio Méndez |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=26 March 2024 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aparicio-Mendez |access-date=10 April 2024}}
August 26
Christopher Isherwood, English writer (died 1986){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/06/obituaries/christopher-isherwood-is-dead-at-81.html |title=Christopher Isherwood Is Dead at 81 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 January 1986 |at=Page B7, columns 1-4 |access-date=10 April 2024}}
Georgia Schmidt, American actress (died 1997)
August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (died 1980){{cite encyclopedia |title=CAMPINI, Secondo |language=it |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/secondo-campini_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |last=Ferraris |first=Mattia |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=34 |year=1988 |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=Treccani}}
August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1979){{cite web |title=Werner Forssmann – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2023 |access-date=27 July 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1956/forssmann/facts/}}

= September =

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September 7 – Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player (died 1991){{Cite web |url=https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/daniel-prenn/800170543/ger/mt/d/overview/ |title=Daniel Prenn|publisher=International Tennis Federation|access-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028114032/https://www.itftennis.com/en/players/daniel-prenn/800170543/ger/mt/d/overview/ |url-status=live }}
September 9 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (died 2005){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/19198 |title=Feroze Khan |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=12 June 2024}}
September 12 – Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner (died 1956)
September 13
Gladys George, American actress (died 1954){{cite web |title=Gladys George - Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/gladys-george-41952 |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=12 June 2024}}
Alberta Williams King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (assassinated 1974)
September 14
Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist (died 1962){{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/9244 |title=Frank Amyot |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=12 June 2024}}
Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister (died 1957)
September 15 – Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy (died 1983)
September 19 – Elvia Allman, American actress (died 1992)
September 22 – Lessie Brown, oldest living American (died 2019)
September 26 – Constantin Doncea, Romanian communist activist and politician (died 1973)
September 29
Greer Garson, English actress (died 1996){{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/greer-garson-22101 |title=Greer Garson - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=12 June 2024}}
Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer (died 1965){{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913773/ |title=Michal Waszynski |website=IMDb |access-date=January 18, 2023 |archive-date=December 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225041236/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913773/ |url-status=live}}{{Unreliable source?|reason=IMDb content is user-generated.|date=June 2024}}

= October =

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October 1
Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias (died 1982)
A. K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (died 1977)
October 2
Graham Greene, English author (died 1991)
Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd Prime Minister of India (died 1966)
October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
October 7 – Cyril Horn, English speed skater (died 1987)
October 9 – Wally Brown, American actor, comedian (died 1961)
October 11 – Tita Merello, Argentine actress, singer, and tango dancer (died 2002)
October 12 – Anthony F. DePalma, American orthopedic surgeon and professor (died 2005){{Cite news |date=April 8, 2005 |title=Anthony DePalma Obituary |work=Sun-Sentinel |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sunsentinel/name/anthony-depalma-obituary?id=26797930 |access-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407074327/https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sunsentinel/name/anthony-depalma-obituary?id=26797930 |url-status=live }}
October 18 – Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (died 1981)
October 20 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (died 1986)
October 23 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (died 1995)
October 25 – Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (died 1968)
October 29 – Casimiro Montenegro Filho, Brazilian army and air force officer (died 2000)

= November =

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November 1 – Laura La Plante, American silent film actress (died 1996)
November 2 – Hugh Lygon, English aristocrat (died 1936)
November 4 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician, textilist (died 1967)
Horace Mann Bond – African American historian and college administrator (died 1972)
November 11
J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (died 1960)
Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government official, author and lecturer (died 1996)
November 12 – Jacques Tourneur, French director (died 1977)
November 14
Dick Powell, American actor, singer (died 1963)
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1988)
William H. Brockman Jr., United States Navy admiral (d. 1979)
November 16 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (died 1996)
November 18 – Masao Koga, Japanese composer (died 1978)
November 22 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000){{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1970/neel/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=22 November 2021 |archive-date=October 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025120714/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1970/neel/facts/ |url-status=live }}
November 25
Lillian Copeland, American Olympic athlete (died 1964)
Toni Ortelli, Italian composer, alpinist (died 2000)
November 30 – Clyfford Still, American painter (died 1980)

= December =

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December 2 – Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba (1940-1944) (d. 1993)
December 3 – Roberto Marinho, Brazilian publisher, businessman and media mogul (died 2003)
December 4 – Albert Norden, German politician (died 1982)
December 6 – Ève Curie, French author (died 2007)
December 7 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor (died 1985)
December 10 – Antonín Novotný, 7th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1975)
December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor, socialite (died 1981)
December 17 – Paul Cadmus, American artist (died 1999)
December 18 – George Stevens, American film director (died 1975)
December 19 – Benjamin W. Fortson Jr, American politician and Georgia Secretary of State from 1946 to 1979 (died 1979)
December 20 – Rambai Barni Svastivatana, queen consort of King Prajadhipok of Siam, (died 1984)
December 21 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter (died 2001)
December 24
Joseph M. Juran, American engineer, philanthropist (died 2008)
Herbert D. Riley, United States Navy admiral (died 1973)
December 25
Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist (died 1980)
December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (died 1980)
December 27 – Linwood G. Dunn, American special effects artist (died 1998)
December 30
Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (died 1987)
David M. Shoup, American general (died 1983)

= Date unknown =

Salise Abanozoğlu, Turkish teacher and politician (died 1983){{Cite book |last=Gökçi̇men |first=Semra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydSgswEACAAJ |title=Türk parlamento tarihinde kadın parlamenterler 1935-2009 |date=2009 |publisher=Grand National Assembly of Turkey |location=Ankara |pages=28 |language=tr |trans-title=Female Parliamentarians in Turkish Parliamentary History 1935-2009}}
Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh language (died 1992)

Deaths

= January =

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January 1 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer (born 1836){{cite news |title=FREDERICK PABST DEAD.; The Milwaukee Brewer Passes Away at His Home. |journal=The New York Times |date=2 January 1904 |page=1 |access-date=14 December 2021 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/01/02/archives/frederick-pabst-dead-the-milwaukee-brewer-passes-away-at-his-home.html |archive-date=December 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214170215/https://www.nytimes.com/1904/01/02/archives/frederick-pabst-dead-the-milwaukee-brewer-passes-away-at-his-home.html |url-status=live }}
January 2
Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (born 1820){{cite web |title=Princess Mathilde Bonaparte |work=Collective Biographies of Women |url=http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=9981 |date=8 March 2018 |publisher=Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=June 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629222322/http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=9981 |url-status=live }}
James Longstreet, American Confederate Civil War general (born 1821){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n24-UIO3TuUC&q=January+1904 |last=Piston |first=William Garrett |title=Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History |location=Athens, Georgia and London |publisher=The University of Georgia Press |year=1987 |page=168 |isbn=0-8203-0907-9 |access-date=14 December 2021 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207122958/https://books.google.com/books?id=n24-UIO3TuUC&q=January+1904#v=snippet&q=January%201904&f=false |url-status=live }}
January 7
Parke Godwin, American journalist (born 1816){{cite web |title=Parke Godwin |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.67.45 |website=National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029082604/https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.67.45 |url-status=live }}
Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck, German engineer (born 1845){{cite encyclopedia |last=Wißner |first=Adolf |title=Hefner-Alteneck, Friedrich von |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=8 |year=1969 |pages=203–204 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118773615.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215081107/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118773615.html#ndbcontent |url-status=live }}
Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer (born 1836){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119217651 |title=Notice de personne "Roḯdīs, Emmanouī́l" (1836–1904) |trans-title=Person notice "Roḯdīs, Emmanouī́l" (1836–1904) |date=3 September 2013 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123001/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119217651 |url-status=live }}
January 9
John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (born 1832){{cite news |url=https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gordonobits/pdfs/gco-dg-00008264.pdf |title=Gordon's Memory. Services Will Be Held Thursday. |work=Calhoun Times |location=Calhoun, Georgia |date=14 January 1904 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Digital Library of Georgia |archive-date=May 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523173107/https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/gordonobits/pdfs/gco-dg-00008264.pdf |url-status=live }}
Hannah Lynch, Irish translator (born 1859){{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Susan |last2=Clements |first2=Patricia |last3=Grundy |first3=Isobel |title=Hannah Lynch entry: Overview screen. |work=Orlando Project |url=http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=lyncha |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215191506/http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=lyncha |url-status=dead }}
January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter (born 1824){{cite web |title=Jean-Léon Gérôme – Biography and Legacy |url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/gerome-jean-leon/life-and-legacy/ |website=TheArtStory |publisher=The Art Story Foundation |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215092934/https://www.theartstory.org/artist/gerome-jean-leon/life-and-legacy/ |url-status=live }}
January 13 – Samuel G. Havermale, American Methodist minister (born 1824){{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87511445/death-of-rev-havermale/ |title=DEATH OF REV. HAVERMALE. Was the Pioneer of Northwest Methodism—Ill for Several Months. |journal=The News Tribune |location=Tacoma, Washington |date=15 January 1904 |page=12 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024125032/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87511445/death-of-rev-havermale/ |url-status=live }}
January 17
Sir Henry Keppel, British admiral (born 1809){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb105500451 |title=Notice de personne "Keppel, Henry" (1809–1904) |trans-title=Person notice "Keppel, Henry" (1809–1904) |date=11 February 2019 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123018/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb105500451 |url-status=live }}
Joseph Nirschl, German Roman Catholic theologian (born 1823){{cite encyclopedia |last=Ott |first=Michael |title=Joseph Nirschl |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=11 |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |year=1911 |access-date=15 December 2021 |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11084b.htm |via=New Advent |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215113436/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11084b.htm |url-status=live }}
January 22 – Laura Vicuña, Chilean Roman Catholic holy figure and blessed (born 1891){{cite web |title=Blessed Laura Vicuña |website=CatholicSaints.Info |date=23 September 2021 |access-date=15 December 2021 |url=http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-laura-vicuna/ |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215122320/https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-laura-vicuna/ |url-status=live }}
January 23 – Gédéon Bordiau, Belgian architect (born 1832){{cite encyclopedia |last=State |first=Paul F. |title=Bordiau, Gédéon-Nicolas-Joseph (1832–1904) |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of Brussels |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc. |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LErne3-05qoC&pg=PA39 |page=39 |isbn=0-8108-5075-3 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
January 24 – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (born 1831){{cite web |url=https://rism.online/people/485355 |title=Name: Friedrich I., Herzog von Anhalt-Dessau, Herzog (1831–1904) |work=RISM catalog |publisher=Répertoire International des Sources Musicales |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123100/https://opac.rism.info/metaopac/error.do;jsessionid=61396C2D9634011280256C6F327EBCD0.touch02 |url-status=live }}
January 28
Karl Emil Franzos, Austrian novelist (born 1848){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121681095 |title=Notice de personne "Franzos, Karl Emil" (1848–1904) |trans-title=Person notice "Franzos, Karl Emil" (1848–1904) |date=14 April 2016 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=15 December 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123058/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121681095 |url-status=live }}
Elphège Gravel, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and bishop (born 1838){{cite encyclopedia |first=Jean |last=Roy |title=GRAVEL, ELPHÈGE |dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |volume=13 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |year=1994 |access-date=15 December 2021 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gravel_elphege_13E.html |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215134154/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gravel_elphege_13E.html |url-status=live }}
January 30
Józef Gosławski, Polish architect (born 1865)
Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait, American physician (born 1838){{cite news |title=Dr. Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14181569/the-new-york-times/ |journal=The New York Times |date=31 January 1904 |page=7 |access-date=15 December 2021 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215140459/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14181569/the-new-york-times/ |url-status=live }}

= February =

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File:Prince Henry of Prussia (1900–1904).JPG]]

February 3 – John James McDannold, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1851){{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/m000401 |title=MCDANNOLD, John James 1851 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225062044/https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/m000401 |url-status=live }}
February 8
Alfred Ainger, British biographer (born 1837){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Ainger, Alfred|volume=1|page=440}}
Malvina Garrigues, Portuguese soprano (born 1825){{cite web |url=https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p026895.htm |title=Garrigues, Eugenia Malvina (1825–1904) |date=5 October 2019 |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225062106/https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p026895.htm |url-status=live }}
February 10 – Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Russian writer (born 1842){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZQqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA535 |last=Chant |first=Colin |title=Mikhailovsky, Nikolai Konstantinovich |page=535 |dictionary=Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers |editor1-last=Brown |editor1-first=Stuart |editor2-last=Collinson |editor2-first=Diané |editor3-last=Wilkinson |editor3-first=Robert |location=London and New York |publisher=Routledge Reference |year=1996 |isbn=0-415-06043-5 |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
February 11 – Vladimir Markovnikov, Russian chemist (born 1838){{cite web |url=http://www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/chemists/markovnikov.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416082735/https://www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/chemists/markovnikov.htm |archive-date=16 April 2021 |access-date=25 December 2021 |publisher=Institute of Chemistry, Skopje, Macedonia |date=18 February 1997 |title=Vladimir Vasilevich MARKOVNIKOV}}{{cite journal |last=Hughes |first=Peter |title=Was Markovnikov's Rule an Inspired Guess? |journal=Journal of Chemical Education |volume=83 |issue=8 |page=1152 |date=1 August 2006 |doi=10.1021/ed083p1152|bibcode=2006JChEd..83.1152H }}
February 12 – Rudolf Maison, German sculptor (born 1854){{cite web |url=http://www.rudolf-maison.de/das-leben/ |last=Maison |first=Wolfgang R. |title=Das Leben – Rudolf Maison – Ein deutscher Bildhauer |trans-title=Life – Rudolf Maison – A German sculptor |website=Rudolf Maison |year=2018 |language=de |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=October 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005121604/http://www.rudolf-maison.de/das-leben/ |url-status=live }}
February 13
John Ellison-Macartney, Irish politician (born 1818){{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-john-ellison-macartney |title=Mr John Ellison-Macartney (Hansard) |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226043708/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-john-ellison-macartney |url-status=live }}
Émile Metz, Luxembourgish politician, industrialist and engineer (born 1835){{cite book |chapter-url=https://luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/luxonline1_2.pl?action=fv&sid=luxbio&vol=12&page=383&zoom=3 |chapter=Emile METZ |title=Biographie nationale du pays de Luxembourg : Fascicule 12 |trans-title=National biography of the country of Luxembourg : Fascicule 12 |year=1963 |page=[https://luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/luxonline1_2.pl?action=fv&sid=luxbio&vol=12&page=383&zoom=3 383] |language=fr |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg Luxembourgensia online |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226043708/https://luxemburgensia.bnl.lu/cgi/luxonline1_2.pl?action=fv&sid=luxbio&vol=12&page=383&zoom=3 |url-status=live }}
February 14 – Alvinza Hayward, American financier and businessman (born 1822){{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HfBEZVtzVZ4C&pg=RA2-PA200 |title=OBITUARY. |journal=Mining Reporter |volume=XLIX |issue=8 |date=25 February 1904 |page=200 |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125328/https://books.google.com/books?id=HfBEZVtzVZ4C&pg=RA2-PA200#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
February 15 – Mark Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio (born 1837){{cite web |title=HANNA, Marcus Alonzo (Mark) 1837 – 1904 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000163 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=25 December 2021 |archive-date=December 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223172420/https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000163 |url-status=live }}
February 17 – Hermann Emminghaus, German psychiatrist (born 1845){{cite encyclopedia |last=Leibbrand |first=Werner |author-link=Werner Leibbrand |title=Emminghaus, Hermann |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=4 |year=1959 |pages=485–486 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118906216.html#ndbcontent |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Deutsche Biographie |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225143628/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118906216.html#ndbcontent |url-status=live }}
February 19 – Alice Sudduth Byerly, American temperance activist (born 1855){{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yHQtH59nILcC&pg=PA111 |title=Alice Sudduth Byerly. |journal=Journal and Records of the Eighty-first Session of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Held at Springfield, Illinois, Commencing September 7 and Ending September 12, 1904. |editor-last=Madden |editor-first=F. B. |volume=81 |location=Springfield, Ill. |publisher=The Illinois State Register |year=1904 |department=Memoirs. |pages=111–112 |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125331/https://books.google.com/books?id=yHQtH59nILcC&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
February 22 – Sir Leslie Stephen, British writer and critic (born 1832){{cite book |last=Maitland |first=Frederic William |author-link=Frederic William Maitland |title=The life and letters of Leslie Stephen |url=https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofles00maituoft/page/490/mode/2up |location=London |publisher=Duckworth & Co. |year=1906 |pages=9, [https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofles00maituoft/page/490/mode/2up 490-491] |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Internet Archive}}
February 26 – Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1900){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040227.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATHS OF THE DAY Prince Henry |volume=XXXI |issue=151 |date=27 February 1904 |at=Page 3, column 1 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=14 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=January 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114091229/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040227.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/prince-henry-of-prussia-birth-1900-death-1904/192691029 |title=Prince Henry of Prussia (1900–1904) – Kiel, SH |publisher=AncientFaces |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226091159/https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/prince-henry-of-prussia-birth-1900-death-1904/192691029 |url-status=live }}
February 27 – Richard Hawksworth Barnes, English coffee grower, naturalist and meteorologist (born 1831){{cite news |title=Obituary |work=The Times |issue=37333 |date=4 March 1904}}
February 28 – Anthony Durier, American Roman Catholic bishop (born 1833){{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdurier.html |title=Bishop Anthony Durier |website=Catholic-Hierarchy |date=18 November 2020 |publisher=David M. Cheney |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226075322/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdurier.html |url-status=live }}{{Self-published source|date=December 2021}}
February 29 – Antonio De Martino, Italian physician (born 1815){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-de-martini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |last=Armocida |first=Giuseppe |title=DE MARTINI, Antonio |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=38 |year=1990 |language=it |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Treccani |archive-date=December 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226080412/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-de-martini_(Dizionario-Biografico) |url-status=live }}

= March =

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March 2 – Mary C. Billings, American evangelist and missionary (born 1824){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://uudb.org/articles/marybillings.html |last=Coeyman |first=Barbara |title=Mary Billings |dictionary=Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography |date=23 December 2007 |publisher=Unitarian Universalist History & Heritage Society (UUHHS) |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701053557/https://uudb.org/articles/marybillings.html |url-status=dead }}
March 5
John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (born 1829){{cite web |title=REA Photo Gallery 2 |url=https://pcsbranch.org.uk/REAphoto[2].html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214518/https://pcsbranch.org.uk/REAphoto[2].html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |publisher=Simon Fenwick and PCS Branch REA |access-date=16 January 2022}}
Alfred von Waldersee, Imperial German Army marshal (born 1832){{EB1911|wstitle=Waldersee, Alfred, Count|inline=y|volume=28|page=258}}
March 7 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (born 1828){{EB1911|wstitle=Fouqué, Ferdinand André|inline=y|volume=10|page=749}}
March 12 – Oliver Harriman, American businessman (born 1829){{cite news |title=Page 52 – The Brooklyn Daily Eagle at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/53410741/?terms=%22Oliver%2BHarriman%22 |newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=13 March 1904 |at=Page 10, column 2 |access-date=16 January 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121257/http://www.newspapers.com/image/53410741/?terms=%22Oliver%2BHarriman%22 |url-status=live }}
March 14 – Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow, Prussian explorer (born 1831)
March 17
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (born 1819){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040318.2.18.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE DEAD. Cousin of the Late Queen Victoria Passes Away in London. |volume=95 |issue=109 |date=18 March 1904 |at=Page 2, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=3 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120005/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040318.2.18.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=George William Frederick Charles, 2nd duke of Cambridge |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=22 March 2021 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-William-Frederick-Charles-2nd-Duke-of-Cambridge |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120005/https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-William-Frederick-Charles-2nd-Duke-of-Cambridge |url-status=live }}
William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer, Governor of Guam (born 1851){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040318.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FORMER NAVAL GOVERNOR OF GUAM IS DEAD |volume=95 |issue=109 |date=18 March 1904 |at=Page 2, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=3 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120005/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040318.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.guampedia.com/guam-leaders-from-1899-1904/ |last=Leon-Guerrero |first=Jillette |title=Guam Leaders from 1899–1904 |encyclopedia=Guampedia |date=15 July 2021 |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726153643/http://guampedia.com/guam-leaders-from-1899-1904/ |url-status=live }}
March 21 – Aurélie Ghika, French writer (born 1820){{cite book |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12214233g |title=Aurélie de Soubiran Ghika (princesse, 1820–1904) |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |date=22 November 2021 |language=fr |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125228/https://data.bnf.fr/en/12214233/aurelie_de_soubiran_ghika/ |url-status=live }}
March 24 – Emma Herwegh, German writer (born 1817){{cite encyclopedia |last=Ludi |first=Regula |title=Herwegh, Emma |dictionary=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS) |date=26 February 2008 |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/019132/2008-02-26/ |access-date=16 January 2022 |language=de |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116092205/https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/019132/2008-02-26/ |url-status=live }}
March 31
Mifflin E. Bell, American architect (born 1847)
Valentine Blake Dillon, Irish politician (born 1847){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.39&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Dublin's Former Lord Mayor Dead. |volume=XCV |issue=123 |date=1 April 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=8 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120019/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040401.2.39&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://dillonsballina.ie/history-of-dillions/ |title=History of Dillon's |publisher=Dillons Bar & Restaurant |access-date=16 January 2022 |archive-date=January 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116092004/https://dillonsballina.ie/history-of-dillions/ |url-status=live }}

= April =

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April 1 – Abby Morton Diaz, American teacher (born 1821){{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67224500/noted-reformer/ |title=NOTED REFORMER. Death of Mrs Abby Morton Diaz at Belmont. Her Life Was Devoted to the Work of Helping All Classes. |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=1 April 1904 |page=8 |access-date=14 February 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120005/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67224500/noted-reformer/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040402.2.54&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATHS OF THE DAY Mrs. Abbey Morton Diaz |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |volume=XXXI |issue=186 |date=2 April 1904 |at=Page 3, column 3 |access-date=19 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318232248/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040402.2.54&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}
April 3
Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar (born 1827){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040404.2.46&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATHS OF THE DAY Princess Edward |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |volume=XXXI |issue=188 |date=4 April 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |access-date=19 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318205537/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040404.2.46&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/317550 |title=From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Untitled (seven photographs, clockwise from upper left, Alfred (2 photos); Albert Edward; unidentified man, seated holding book; unidentified man in uniform; Edward Saxe-Weimar, center, Augusta of Saxe Weimar) |website=Harvard Art Museums |access-date=17 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318214403/https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/317550 |url-status=live }}
Théophile Pépin, French mathematician (born 1826)
Princess Piyamavadi Sri Bajarindra Mata (born 1838)
April 5 – Tom Allen, British boxing champion (born 1840)
April 6
Émile de Kératry, French author (born 1832)
Princess Sophie of Baden (born 1834)
April 9 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (born 1830){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040410.2.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FORMER QUEEN'S DEATH SUSPENDS FESTIVITIES IN HONOR OF ALFONSO Hand of Death Is Laid on Isabella, Whose Reign of Strife Forced Abdication and Caused Overthrow of One Dynasty |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |volume=XXXI |issue=194 |date=10 April 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-6 |access-date=20 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120010/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040410.2.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040410.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ALFONSO FESTIVITIES WILL BE SUSPENDED Damper on Further Celebration at Barcelona |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |volume=XXXI |issue=194 |date=10 April 1904 |at=Page 1, column 5 |access-date=20 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120009/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040410.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=50 |access-date=18 February 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf |archive-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323195647/https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120667707 |title=Notice de personne "Isabelle II (1830–1904; reine d'Espagne)" |trans-title=Person notice "Isabelle II (1830–1904; queen of Spain)" |date=25 July 2012 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125705/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120667707 |url-status=live }}
April 12 – Elizaveta Akhmatova, Russian translator (born 1820){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lI4hPO8u3ecC&pg=PA12 |last=Zirin |first=Mary |author-link=Mary Zirin |title=AKHMÁTOVA, Elizavéta Nikoláevna |dictionary=Dictionary of Russian Women Writers |editor1-last=Ledkovsky |editor1-first=Marina |editor2-last=Rosenthal |editor2-first=Charlotte |editor3-last=Zirin |editor3-first=Mary |location=Westport, Connecticut and London |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1994 |page=12 |isbn=0-313-26265-9 |access-date=18 February 2022 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125901/https://books.google.com/books?id=lI4hPO8u3ecC&pg=PA12 |url-status=live }}
April 13 – Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral (killed in action) (born 1849){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040414.2.12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NEWCHWANG, April 13. ---There are rumors tonight that a terrific battle is going on in the harbor, the Japanese using their torpedo boat destroyers against the Russian warships. This came from Dalny, the commercial depot for Port Arthur. Petropavlovsk Sunk in Furious Attack Beset by Torpedoes She Was Struck Five Times Japs Follow Advantage by Making General Assault |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |volume=XXXI |issue=198 |date=14 April 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7; page 3, columns 1-5 |access-date=20 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120010/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040414.2.12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/142/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/142/mode/2up 143–158] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co.|year=1905 |access-date=20 February 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG235489 |title=Stepan Makarov |website=The British Museum |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318214357/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG235489 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.peoples.ru/military/admiral/makarov/ |title=В море – дома, на берегу – в гостях |trans-title=At sea – at home, on the shore – away |website=peoples.ru |language=ru |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120006/https://www.peoples.ru/military/admiral/makarov/ |url-status=live }}
April 15 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (born 1888){{cite book |last=Winkler |first=Michael |title=Stefan George |series=Sammlung Metzler |volume=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRe1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |location=Stuttgart |publisher=J. B. Metzler |year=1970 |language=de |page=45 |isbn=978-3-476-03823-4 |doi=10.1007/978-3-476-03823-4 |access-date=17 February 2022 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125905/https://books.google.com/books?id=oRe1DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
April 17 – Joe Cain, American Mardi Gras parade organizer (born 1832){{cite web |url=http://www.museumofmobile.com/html/mardi_gras_timeline.php |title=Carnival/Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline |website=Museum of Mobile |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112065612/http://www.museumofmobile.com/html/mardi_gras_timeline.php |archive-date=12 November 2007 |access-date=18 February 2022}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2923 |last=Kirkland |first=Scotty E. |title=Joe Cain |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Alabama |date=13 May 2019 |publisher=Alabama Humanities Alliance |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318214357/http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2923 |url-status=live }}
April 20 – Sara Jane Lippincott, American journalist (born 1823){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040421.2.43&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATHS OF THE DAY Sarah Jane Lippincott |volume=XXXI |issue=205 |date=21 April 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318205546/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040421.2.43&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |title=OBITUARY NOTES. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSEDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1139 |magazine=The Publishers' Weekly |volume=65 |issue=1682 |date=23 April 1904 |page=1139 |access-date=16 February 2022 |via=Google Books |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140157/https://books.google.com/books?id=xSEDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1139#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Grace Greenwood (1823–1904) aka Sarah J. Clarke or Mrs. Leander Lippincott |url=https://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/greenwood.htm |publisher=Library Company of Philadelphia |year=2005 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401091300/https://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/greenwood.htm |url-status=live }}
April 21 – Piatus of Mons, Belgian Roman Catholic theologian (born 1815){{cite encyclopedia |last=Hess |first=Lawrence |title=Piatus of Mons |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=16 (Index) |location=New York |publisher=The Encyclopedia Press |year=1914 |access-date=16 February 2022 |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16067a.htm |via=New Advent |archive-date=February 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216155340/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16067a.htm |url-status=live }}
April 24 – Norodom of Cambodia, King of Cambodia (born 1834){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040426.2.41&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATHS OF THE DAY Norodom I |volume=XXXI |issue=210 |date=26 April 1904 |at=Page 2, column 5 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=22 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318214422/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040426.2.41&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Norodom |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=1 January 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norodom |access-date=18 February 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120006/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norodom |url-status=live }}
April 27 – Mykhailo Starytsky, Ukrainian poet and writer (born 1840){{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CT%5CStarytskyMykhailo.htm |last=Odarchenko |first=Petro |title=Starytsky, Mykahilo |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |volume=5 |year=1993 |access-date=16 February 2022 |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311104155/http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CT%5CStarytskyMykhailo.htm |url-status=live }}

= May =

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May – Henry F. Frizzell, American soldier (born 1839)
May 1
Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (born 1841){{cite web |url=http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/life |title=Biography |publisher=www.antonin-dvorak.cz |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=April 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419222900/http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/life |url-status=live }}
Wilhelm His Sr., Swiss anatomist (born 1831){{cite encyclopedia |title=Wilhelm His |dictionary=Whonamedit? |url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2606.html |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-date=April 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410154616/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2606.html |url-status=live }}
May 2
Émile Duclaux, French microbiologist (born 1840){{cite web |title=Biographical sketch Emile Duclaux (1840–1904) |url=https://webext.pasteur.fr/archives/e_duc0.html |publisher=Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-date=May 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144321/https://webext.pasteur.fr/archives/e_duc0.html |url-status=live }}
Mathilde Esch, Austrian genre painter (born 1815)
Edgar Fawcett, American poet and novelist (born 1847){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17156850j |title=Notice de personne "Fawcett, Edgar (1847–1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Fawcett, Edgar (1847–1904)" |date=12 October 2017 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=8 March 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130213/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17156850j |url-status=live }}
May 3 – Tycho Kielland, Norwegian jurist and journalist (born 1854)
May 6
Franz von Lenbach, German painter (born 1836){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14795159x |title=Notice de personne "Lenbach, Franz von (1836–1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Lenbach, Franz von (1836–1904)" |date=5 December 2012 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130208/https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14795159x |url-status=live }}
Alexander William Williamson, English chemist (born 1824){{EB1911|wstitle=Williamson, Alexander William|volume=28|page=684}}
May 7
Manuel Candamo, Peruvian politician, 23rd President of Peru (born 1841){{cite web |url=https://www.congreso.gob.pe/participacion/museo/congreso/presidentes/Manuel_Candamo_d |title=MANUEL GONZÁLEZ DE CANDAMO IRIARTE |publisher=Congreso de la República |language=es |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120007/https://www.congreso.gob.pe/participacion/museo/congreso/presidentes/Manuel_Candamo_d |url-status=live }}
Émile-Jules Dubois, French doctor (born 1853){{cite web |title=Emile, Jules Dubois |publisher=Assemblée nationale |url=https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/%28num_dept%29/2618 |year=2019 |language=fr |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325120012/https://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche/%28num_dept%29/2618 |url-status=live }}
May 8
Richard Xavier Baxter, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (born 1821){{cite encyclopedia |first=Elinor |last=Barr |title=BAXTER, RICHARD |dictionary=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |volume=13 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval |year=1994 |access-date=10 March 2022 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baxter_richard_13E.html}}
Eadweard Muybridge, British photographer and motion picture pioneer (born 1830){{cite web |url=http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muychron05.htm#part5 |title=Chronology 1893–1904 |website=The Compleat Eadward Muybridge |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 9
George Johnston Allman, Irish mathematician, scholar and historian (born 1824){{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Allman/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson |title=George Allman (1824–1904) – Biography |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics |date=April 2009 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=10 March 2022}}
Aleksandar Bresztyenszky, Croatian writer (born 1843){{cite web |title=Aleksandar Bresztyenszky |url=http://hosting.unizg.hr/rektori/abresztensztky.htm |website=University of Zagreb |language=hr |access-date=10 March 2022}}
Bonaventura Gargiulo, Italian Capuchin friar and Roman Catholic bishop (born 1843){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonino-gargiulo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |title=GARGIULO, Antonino |first=Francesca |last=Brancaleoni |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=52 |year=1999 |language=it |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=Treccani}}
May 10
Émile Sarrau, French chemist (born 1837){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjUoAAAAMAAJ&q=Emile+Sarrau |title=Sarrau, Jacques Rose Ferdinand Émile (1837–1904) |encyclopedia=The New International Encyclopædia |edition=Second |volume=XX |location=New York |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company |year=1926 |page=475 |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |last1=Brezinski |first1=Claude |last2=Tournès |first2=Dominique |pages=1–44 |year=2014 |chapter=Biography of Cholesky |title=André-Louis Cholesky |publisher=Birkhäuser, Cham. |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-08135-9_1 |isbn=978-3-319-08135-9 |access-date=10 March 2022 |via=SpringerLink |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-08135-9_1}}
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer (born 1841){{cite encyclopedia |last=Middleton |first=Dorothy |author-link=Dorothy Middleton |title=Henry Morton Stanley |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=24 January 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Morton-Stanley |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 11
Hans Grisebach, German architect (born 1846){{cite encyclopedia |last=Wirth |first=Irmgard |title=Grisebach, Hans |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=7 |year=1966 |pages=99–100 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd124637817.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 12 – Isabella Eugénie Boyer, French model (born 1841)
May 13
Walter Carpenter, British admiral (born 1834){{cite web |url=https://www.pdavis.nl/ShowBiog.php?id=1322 |title=Biography of Hon. Walter Cecil Carpenter (Walter Cecil Talbot) R.N. |website=pdavis.nl |access-date=10 March 2022}}
Eugen Kumičić, Croatian writer (born 1850){{cite encyclopedia |last=Biletić |first=Boris Domagoj |title=Kumičić Eugen |url=https://www.istrapedia.hr/it/natuknice/1502/kumicic-eugen |encyclopedia=Istrapedia |date=8 January 2015 |language=it |access-date=10 March 2022}}
Ottokar Lorenz, German genealogist (born 1832){{cite encyclopedia |last=Backs |first=Silvia |title=Lorenz, Ottokar |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=15 |year=1987 |pages=170–172 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117216062.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 14
Rita Barcelo y Pages, Spanish Augustinian religious sister and servant of God (born 1843){{cite web |url=http://lcctanauan.edu.ph/our-roots/mo-rita.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222155856/http://lcctanauan.edu.ph/our-roots/mo-rita.php |archive-date=22 February 2018 |title=Mother Rita Barcelo y Pages, OSA |website=La Consolacion College Tanuan |access-date=13 March 2022}}
Fyodor Bredikhin, Russian astronomer (born 1831){{cite journal |title=Obituary Notice: Associate:- Theodor Bredichin |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=LXV |issue=4 |date=February 1905 |pages=348–349 |doi=10.1093/mnras/65.4.348 |bibcode=1905MNRAS..65..348. |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) |url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0065//0000348.000.html|doi-access=free }}
May 15 – Étienne-Jules Marey, French inventor (born 1830){{cite web |url=https://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/people/data?id=per113 |title=Marey, Étienne Jules |work=Virtual Laboratory |department=People |publisher=Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |location=Berlin |issn=1866-4784 |access-date=13 March 2022}}
May 16 – Harold Finch-Hatton, British politician (born 1856){{cite encyclopedia |first1=D. P. |last1=Crook |first2=David |last2=Denholm |author2-link=David Denholm |title=Finch-Hatton, Harold Heneage (1856–1904) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/finch-hatton-harold-heneage-3515/text5405 |year=1972 |access-date=10 March 2022}}
May 17
Tomás Cámara y Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop (born 1847){{cite encyclopedia |last=Rodríguez y Fernández |first=Teodoro |title=Tomás Cámara y Castro |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=16 (Index) |location=New York |publisher=The Encyclopedia Press |year=1914 |access-date=15 March 2022 |via=New Advent |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16016c.htm}}
Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1852){{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/18/101236176.pdf |title=GRAND DUCHESS DEAD. Pauline of Saxe-Weimar Expires Suddenly on a Train. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 May 1904 |access-date=15 March 2022}}
May 19
Auguste Molinier, French historian (born 1851){{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Molinier, Auguste|volume=18|page=667}}
Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (born 1839){{cite web |title=Did You Know |url=https://www.tatacentralarchives.com/tata-legacy/recollection.html |publisher=Tata Central Archives |department=Recollections |access-date=13 March 2022}}{{cite web |title=Jamsetji Tata |url=https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/tata-titans/jamsetji-tata |publisher=Tata Sons Private Limited |department=Tata Titans |access-date=13 March 2022}}
May 21 – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg (born 1882)
May 22 – Charles Elwood Brown, U.S. Representative from Ohio (born 1834){{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000907 |title=BROWN, Charles Elwood 1834 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=8 March 2022}}
May 24 – Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg (born 1871)
May 26 – Mary Ellen Bagnall-Oakeley, English antiquarian, author, and painter (born 1833){{cite web |title=Bagnall Oakeley |url=http://www.hmsg.co.uk/en/H_Bagnall1 |website=Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls |department=School Houses |year=2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424113913/http://www.hmsg.co.uk/en/H_Bagnall1 |archive-date=24 April 2012 |access-date=8 March 2022}}
May 27
Anđelko Aleksić, Serbian general (born 1876)
François Coillard, French missionary (born 1834){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15369357k |title=Notice de personne "Coillard, François (1834–1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Coillard, François (1834–1904)" |date=28 December 2016 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |access-date=17 March 2022}}
May 29 – Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy, Mexican politician (born 1826){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cp50BQAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA1909 |last=Camp |first=Roderic Ai |author-link=Roderic Ai Camp |title=Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934 |location=Austin, Texas |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=1991 |page=1909 |isbn=978-0-292-75603-8 |doi=10.7560/751194 |access-date=13 March 2022 |via=Google Books}}
May 30
Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1819){{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/31/100471126.pdf |title=WEALTHIEST GRAND DUKE DEAD Ruler of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Owned More Than Half His Country. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 May 1904 |access-date=15 March 2022}}
Marta Anna Wiecka, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (born 1874){{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/2008/ns_lit_doc_20080524_marta_en.html |title=Blessed Marta Maria Wiecka – Biography |website=vatican.va |access-date=15 March 2022}}

= June =

June 1 – Ivan Kondratyev, Russian writer (born 1849){{cite web |title=Иван Кондратьев ( 1849 – 1904 ) |trans-title=Ivan Kondratyev ( 1849 – 1904 ) |url=http://www.russianresources.lt/archive/Kondr/Kondr_0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828174942/http://www.russianresources.lt/archive/Kondr/Kondr_0.html |archive-date=28 August 2020 |website=www.russianresources.lt |year=2006 |language=ru |access-date=27 July 2022}}
June 4
Princess Marie of Hanover (born 1849){{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
Muhammad bin Yahya Hamid ad-Din, Imam of Yemen (born 1839)
George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born American military hero (born 1862){{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/g-philps.htm |title=Chief Machinist (?) George F. Phillips, USN, (1862-1904) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726231435/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-p/g-philps.htm |archive-date=26 July 2010 |website=Naval Historical Center |date=3 May 2006 |access-date=27 July 2022}}
June 9 – Kwasi Boachi, Dutch engineer (born 1827){{cite web |url=https://thepostghana.com/meet-kwasi-boakye-otumfuo-kwaku-duas-son-who-was-sent-to-the-netherlands-to-study-but-never-returned/ |last=Asabere |first=Nana |title=Meet Kwasi Boakye, Otumfuo Kwaku Dua's son who was sent to the Netherlands to study but never returned |website=ThePostGhana |date=May 19, 2019 |department=Stories |access-date=27 July 2022}}
June 12 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian count (born 1836)
June 16
Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier, politician and Governor-General of Finland (born 1839)
Eugen Schauman, Finnish nationalist, assassin of Nikolay Bobrikov (born 1875)
Manuel Uribe Ángel, Colombian physician (born 1822){{cite book |last=Dario López |first=Rubén |chapter=Manuel Uribe Ángel |title=Gobernantes de Antioquia |trans-title=Leaders of Antioquia |url=http://www.lea.org.co/Uploads/documentosCompletos/GOBERNANTES%20DE%20ANTIOQUIA.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707053350/http://www.lea.org.co/Uploads/documentosCompletos/GOBERNANTES%20DE%20ANTIOQUIA.pdf |archive-date=7 July 2011 |location=Medellín |publisher=Academia Antioqueña de Historia, Asociación de Exgobernadores y Exdiputados de Antioquia |date=December 2007 |pages=389–391 |language=es |access-date=27 July 2022}}
June 18
Sami Frashëri, Albanian writer (born 1850){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb134889459 |title=Notice de personne "Șemseddin Sami (1850-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Șemseddin Sami (1850-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=30 June 2015 |access-date=28 July 2022}}
Celia Logan, American actress (born 1837){{cite book |last=Coyle |first=William |title=Ohio Authors and Their Books: Biographical Data and Selective Bibliographies for Ohio Authors, Native and Resident, 1796-1950 |url=https://archive.org/details/ohioauthorstheir00coyl |year=1962 |publisher=World Publishing Company |via=Internet Archive}}
June 22 – Karl Ritter von Stremayr, former Minister-President of Austria (born 1832){{cite encyclopedia |last=Höbelt |first=Lothar |author-link=Lothar Höbelt |title=Stremayr, Carl Ritter von |dictionary=Neue Deutsche Biographie |volume=25 |year=2013 |pages=540–541 |edition=online version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117317810.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=27 July 2022}}
June 24 – Richard Knill Freeman, British architect (born 1840){{cite journal |title=Report of the Council. |editor-last=Sutton |editor-first=Charles W. |editor-link=Charles William Sutton |journal=Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society |volume=XXII |year=1904 |page=228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5hHAAAAYAAJ&q=richard+knill+freeman |access-date=27 July 2022 |via=Google Books}}
June 27 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist (born 1821){{EB1911 |wstitle=Barthélemy, Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de |volume=3 |page=448}}
June 28 – Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (born 1873)
June 29
Pablo de Anda Padilla, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and venerable (born 1830){{cite web |url=https://www.ruelsa.com/gto/leon/leon4b.htm |title=LEÓN, Guanajuato |website=www.ruelsa.com |language=es |access-date=28 July 2022}}
Tom Emmett, English cricketer (born 1841){{cite book |title=The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook |last=Warner |first=David |year=2011 |edition=113th |publisher=Great Northern Books |location=Ilkley, West Yorkshire |isbn=978-1-905080-85-4 |page=87}}

= July =

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File:Joseph-Paul Blanc photo.jpg]]

File:Edouard Thilges.jpg]]

File:KrugerPaulusJohannes.jpg]]

July 1 – George Frederic Watts, British symbolist painter and sculptor (born 1817){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19040702.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- |title=Celebrated English Painter Dead |newspaper=The Press Democrat |location=Santa Rosa, California |volume=XXX |issue=155 |date=2 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 4 |access-date=26 November 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040702.2.35&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH DEPRIVES WORLD OF ART OF GREAT MASTER At Age of Eighty-Seven George Frederick Watts, English Painter, Lays Aside Brush That for More Than Sixty Years Has Won Him Honors |volume=XCVI |issue=32 |date=2 July 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{EB1911|wstitle=Watts, George Frederick|volume=28|page=420}}
July 2 – Eugénie Joubert, French Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (born 1876){{cite web |url=http://spirituality.ucanews.com/2014/07/02/blessed-eugenia-eugenie-joubert-2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119055350/http://spirituality.ucanews.com/2014/07/02/blessed-eugenia-eugenie-joubert-2/ |archive-date=19 November 2016 |title=Blessed Eugenia (Eugénie) Joubert |website=UCAN Spirituality |publisher=ucanews.com |access-date=15 December 2022}}
July 3
John Bell Hatcher, American paleontologist (born 1861){{cite book |last=Dingus |first=Lowell |title=King of the Dinosaur Hunters: the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology |date=2018 |publisher=Pegasus Books |isbn=9781681778655 |pages=3, 390–391}}
Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism (born 1860){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/07/04/archives/dr-theodor-herzl-dead-founder-of-the-zionist-movement-was-born-in.html |title=DR. THEODOR HERZL DEAD.; Founder of the Zionist Movement Was Born in Budapest in 1860. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 July 1904 |page=5 |access-date=17 December 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040704.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ZIONIST LEADER DIES. Dr. Herzl, Founder of Movement, Passes Away at Vienna. |volume=XCVI |issue=34 |date=4 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_herzl.htm |title=Theodor Herzl |last=Isseroff |first=Ami |department=Zionism and Israel - Biographies |publisher=Zionism-Israel Information Center |access-date=15 December 2022}}{{cite news |last=Zandberg |first=Esther |author-link=Esther Zandberg |title=Would Herzl Roll Over in His Grave? |newspaper=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2013-07-26/ty-article/.premium/would-herzl-roll-over-in-his-grave/0000017f-e7c1-d62c-a1ff-fffba1120000 |date=26 July 2013 |access-date=17 December 2022}}{{cite news |title=This week in Israeli history: July 1–7 |author=Center for Israel Education |newspaper=St. Louis Jewish Light |department=Lifestyles |date=1 July 2021 |url=https://stljewishlight.org/lifestyles/this-week-in-israeli-history-july-1-7/ |access-date=17 December 2022}}
July 4 – Bódog Czorda, Hungarian politician (born 1828){{cite encyclopedia |title=Czorda Bódog |url=http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/ABC02469/03000.htm |dictionary=Hungarian Biographical Lexicon 1000-1990 |language=hu |access-date=15 December 2022}}
July 5
Joseph Evans, British-born Australian politician (born 1837){{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/Pages/former-member-details.aspx?pk=710 |title=Mr Joseph George EVANS (1837 - 1904) |website=Parliament of New South Wales |department=Former Members |access-date=15 December 2022}}
Matsudaira Yasuhide, Japanese daimyō (born 1830){{Cite web |title=BAKUMATSUYA • Large Format Photo of Matsudaira Yasunao & Kyogoku Takaaki Taken in Hong Kong by Milton M. Miller (Old Japanese Photos / Photo Albums ) • Rare books & photos of Japan |url=https://www.bakumatsuya.com/shop-description.php?ID=1583686242&La=E |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.bakumatsuya.com}}
July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet (born 1845){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://bigenc.ru/literature/text/660097 |title=АБА́Й КУНАНБА́ЕВ |trans-title=ABAI KUNANBAEV |encyclopedia=Great Russian Encyclopedia |language=ru |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=August 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812122544/https://bigenc.ru/literature/text/660097 |url-status=dead }}
July 7 – Adolph Friedländer, German lithographer (born 1851){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16533732r |title=Notice de personne "Friedländer, Adolph (1851-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Friedländer, Adolph (1851-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=29 August 2011 |access-date=16 December 2022}}{{Citation needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of death.}}
July 8 – Joseph Blanc, French painter (born 1846){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb153740583 |title=Notice de personne "Blanc, Joseph (1846-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Blanc, Joseph (1846-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=6 August 2010 |access-date=15 December 2022}}
July 9 – Édouard Thilges, Luxembourgish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1817){{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}
July 14 – Paul Kruger, South African military and political figure, 3rd President of South Africa (born 1825){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040714.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LATE HEAD OF THE BOER REPUBLIC PASSES AWAY IN HIS HAVEN IN SWITZERLAND Close of Patriot's Remarkable Career Marks the End of an Epoch in South African History. |volume=XCVI |issue=44 |date=14 July 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7; page 3, columns 5-6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=BOERS MOURN CHIEF'S DEATH Flags on All Government Buildings in Pretoria Are Placed at Half-Mast SORROW OF BURGHERS Memorial Services Will Be Held in Dutch Churches Throughout the Transvaal |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.27.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH GRIEVES FRANCE. Passing of the Boer Patriarch Arouses Widespread Regret. |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.27.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LAST HOURS OF KRUGER. Unconscious for Three Days Before Death Gave Relief. |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
July 15 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (born 1860){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040717.2.26.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIA LOSES NOTED AUTHOR. Czar's Empire Mourns the Death of Antoin Checkoff. |volume=XCVI |issue=47 |date=17 July 1904 |at=Page 24, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=http://authorscalendar.info/tsehov.htm |title=Anton Chekhov |last=Liukkonen |first=Petri |website=Authors' Calendar |access-date=15 December 2022}}
July 17 – Isaac Roberts, Welsh astronomer (born 1829){{cite journal |date=1904–1905 |title=Obituary Notices of Fellow Deceased |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56168b/f371.chemindefer |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society |volume=75 |pages=356–363}} [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsroya16britgoog]{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10328895r |title=Notice de personne "Roberts, Isaac (1829-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Roberts, Isaac (1829-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=20 November 2018 |access-date=22 December 2022}}
July 19 – Herbert Campbell, English actor (born 1844){{cite web |title=Herbert Campbell |last=Patient |first=Alan |publisher=London Remembers |department=People |access-date=16 December 2022 |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/herbert-campbell}}
July 22 – Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (born 1846){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040723.2.124.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH OF WILSON BARRETT. Actor Succumbs to the Effects of an Operation for Cancer. |volume=XCVI |issue=53 |date=23 July 1904 |at=Page 14, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{EB1911|wstitle=Barrett, Wilson|volume=3|page=434}}
July 23
Isaías Gamboa, Colombian poet (born 1872){{cite web |url=http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX1278377 |title=Gamboa, Isaías (1872-1904) |website=Catálogo BNE |language=es |access-date=16 December 2022}}
Rodolfo Amando Philippi, German–born Chilean paleontologist and zoologist (born 1808){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040726.2.100.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Famous Naturalist Dead. |volume=XCVI |issue=56 |date=26 July 1904 |at=Page 9, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite journal |url=https://fundacionphilippi.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the_life_and_work_of_r.a._philippi.pdf |last1=Kabat |first1=Alan R. |last2=Coan |first2=Eugene V. |title=The Life and Work of Rudolph Amandus Philippi (1808–1904) |journal=Malacologia |year=2017 |volume=60 |issue=1−2 |pages=12−13 |doi=10.4002/040.060.0103 |s2cid=90423282 |access-date=16 December 2022}}
July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor, American admiral (born 1845){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040727.2.59&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR GOES TO FINAL REST |volume=XCVI |issue=57 |date=27 July 1904 |at=Page 5, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite encyclopedia |title=Taylor I (Destroyer No. 94) |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/taylor-i.html |dictionary=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |access-date=15 December 2022}}
July 30 – Richard A. Harrison, U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (born 1824){{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000274 |title=HARRISON, Richard Almgill 1824 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=15 November 2022}}

= August =

File:Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau by Nadar.jpg]]

File:Gaudensi Allar.jpg]]

File:Portrait of Murad V.jpg]]

August 3 – Ernst Jedliczka, Russian-born German pianist (born 1855){{cite web |last=Pereira |first=Daniel |title=The Egon Petri Tradition |work=Piano Traditions Through Their Genealogy Trees |year=2022 |publisher=International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM), University of Maryland |access-date=2 August 2023 |url=https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/piano-genealogies/pianist-bios/petri-tradition}}
August 6 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (born 1825){{cite news |title=Dr. Eduard Hanslick Dead.; Austrian Musical Critic Once Was a Bitter Opponent of Wagner. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 August 1904 |at=Page 7, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/08/archives/dr-eduard-hanslick-dead-austrian-musical-critic-once-was-a-bitter.html |access-date=31 July 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040808.2.87&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Death Calls Famous Critic. |volume=XCVI |issue=69 |date=8 August 1904 |at=Page 10, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=11 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
August 8 – John Innes, British philanthropist (born 1828){{London Gazette|issue=27840 |date=29 September 1905 |page=6583}}{{cite web |title=What is the John Innes Society? |department=About Us |url=https://www.johninnessociety.org.uk/about-us |year=2021 |publisher=John Innes Society |access-date=2 August 2023}}
August 9
Joseph David Everett, English physicist (born 1831){{cite encyclopedia |last=Newmann |first=Kate |author-link=Kate Newmann |title=Joseph David Everett |dictionary=Dictionary of Ulster Biography |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/printPerson/468 |publisher=Ulster History Circle |access-date=2 August 2023}}
Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (born 1844){{cite news |title=Prof. Friedrich Ratzel. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 August 1904 |page=7 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/11/archives/prof-friedrich-ratzel.html |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12094554k |title=Notice de personne "Ratzel, Friedrich (1844-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Ratzel, Friedrich (1844-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=10 August 2022 |access-date=2 August 2023}}
August 10
Wilgelm Vitgeft, Russian admiral (killed in action) (born 1847){{cite web |title=The Battle Of The Yellow Sea |url=http://www.russojapanesewar.com/bttl-yellow-sea.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228031406/http://www.russojapanesewar.com/bttl-yellow-sea.html |archive-date=28 December 2016 |website=The Russo-Japanese War Research Society |publisher=russojapanesewar.com |year=2002 |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=309725075 |website=VIAF |publisher=OCLC |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/309725075/ |access-date=2 August 2023}}
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 29th Prime Minister of France (born 1846){{cite news |title=M. WALDECK-ROUSSEAU DIES AFTER OPERATION; Famous Specialists Tried in Vain to Save ex-Premier's Life. PRIEST ARRIVED TOO LATE Was Summoned from Paris -- French Government Desires a National Funeral for the Dead Statesman. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 August 1904 |at=Page 7, column 5 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/11/archives/m-waldeckrousseau-dies-after-operation-famous-specialists-tried-in.html |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040811.2.38&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FORMER HEAD OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY DIES |volume=XCVI |issue=72 |date=11 August 1904 |at=Page 5, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=11 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
August 12
Kawamura Sumiyoshi, Japanese admiral (born 1836){{cite news |title=DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Count Kawamura. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 August 1904 |at=Page 7, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/16/archives/death-list-of-a-day-count-kawamura.html |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040816.2.44.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Japan Loses a Noted Strategist. |volume=XCVI |issue=77 |date=16 August 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/px00.htm#a003 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121204191935/http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/px00.htm#a003 |archive-date=4 December 2012 |title=Materials of IJN (Deck officers, in the cradle era) |publisher=Hiroshi Nishida (Misohito) |year=2002 |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{Self-published inline|date=August 2023}}
William Renshaw, British tennis player (born 1861){{cite news |title=Renshaw, the Tennis Player, Dead. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 August 1904 |at=Page 7, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/13/archives/renshaw-the-tennis-player-dead.html |access-date=2 August 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040813.2.61.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Famous Tennis Player Dies. |volume=XCVI |issue=74 |date=13 August 1904 |at=Page 5, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=11 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=http://www.db4tennis.com/players/male/william-renshaw |title=William Renshaw's GS Performance Timeline & Stats |date=20 September 2020 |publisher=db4tennis.com |access-date=27 July 2023}}
August 13 – Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (born 1820){{cite web |url=https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/WEL008 |title=Wellesley, Elizabeth, Duchess of Wellington (1820-1904) |website=British Armorial Bindings |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=18 October 2023}}
August 14 – Eduard von Martens, German zoologist (born 1831)
August 15 – John Henry Kinkead, American businessman and politician, 1st Governor of Alaska and 3rd Governor of Nevada (born 1826){{cite news |title=DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; John H. Kinkead. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/17/archives/death-list-of-a-day-john-h-kinkead.html |date=17 August 1904 |at=Page 7, column 6 |access-date=18 October 2023}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldire0000mcmu/page/2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldire0000mcmu/page/2 3-4] |title=Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors |last1=McMullin |first1=Thomas A. |last2=Walker |first2=David |location=Westport, Connecticut, and London |publisher=Meckler Publishing |year=1984 |isbn=0-930466-11-X |access-date=18 October 2023 |via=Internet Archive}}
August 16
Joachim Grassi, Italian architect (born 1837)
Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (born 1843){{cite news |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=127 |access-date=23 May 2024}}{{cite news |title=Col. Prentiss Ingraham. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86090233/1904-08-25/ed-1/seq-1/ |author=C. S. P. |newspaper=The Port Gibson Reveille |date=25 August 1904 |volume=XXIX |issue=22 |at=Page 1, column 4 |access-date=18 October 2023 |via=Chronicling America}}
August 21 – Gaudensi Allar, French architect (born 1841){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14869913b |title=Notice de personne "Allar, Gaudensi (1841-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Allar, Gaudensi (1841-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=18 June 2016 |access-date=13 June 2024}}
August 22 – Kate Chopin, American author (born 1850){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040823.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Writer of Creole Stories Dead. |volume=XCVI |issue=84 |date=23 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=5 June 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin |title=Kate Chopin |publisher=AmericanLiterature.com |year=2022 |access-date=8 April 2024}}
August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (born 1836){{cite news |title=FANTIN-LATOUR IS DEAD.; Well-Known French Painter Expires Suddenly -- Some of His Works. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 August 1904 |at=Page 9, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/28/archives/fantinlatour-is-dead-wellknown-french-painter-expires-suddenly-some.html |access-date=25 May 2024}}{{cite book |first=Edward |last=Lucie-Smith |author-link=Edward Lucie-Smith |title=Henri Fantin-Latour |location=New York |publisher=Rizzoli |year=1977}}
August 29 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V (born 1840){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040831.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH FREES FAMOUS TURK Former Sultan Murad V, Who Was Dethroned in Favor of Present Ruler, Passes Away CONFINED SINCE 1876 Eventful Life of the "Man With the Iron Mask" Ends in Constantinople Palace |volume=XCVI |issue=92 |date=31 August 1904 |at=Page 2, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=2 May 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite book |first=Douglas Scott |last=Brookes |title=The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem |year=2010 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-78335-5 |page=17}}

= September =

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September 2
James Brady, American criminal (born 1875)
Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso, New Zealander Protestant missionary (born 1821)
September 3
James Archer, Scottish artist (born 1822)
Heinrich Koebner, German-born Israeli dermatologist (born 1838)
September 4 – William McCallin, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1842)
September 5 – Herbert von Bismarck, German politician (born 1849)
September 13 – James Jameson, British Army surgeon (born 1837)
September 17 – Kartini, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist (born 1879){{cite web |title=Raden Adjeng Kartini Biography |author=((Biography.com Editors)) |website=Biography.com |url=https://www.biography.com/activists/raden-adjeng-kartini |access-date=13 June 2024 |publisher=A&E Television Networks |date=21 April 2020 |orig-date=Originally published 2 April 2014}}
September 20
R. W. H. T. Hudson, British mathematician (born 1876){{cite journal |title=Hudson RWHT |author=F. S. M. |department=Obituary |journal=The Mathematical Gazette |date=October 1904 |volume=3 |issue=47 |pages=73–75 |doi=10.1017/S0025557200241454 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mathematical-gazette/article/obituary/F2156E757DF809FB524278746354F8D6 |publisher=Mathematical Association |access-date=13 June 2024 |via=Cambridge University Press}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12365167z |title=Notice de personne "Hudson, Ronald William Henry Turnbull (1876-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Hudson, Ronald William Henry Turnbull (1876-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=21 January 1994 |access-date=13 June 2024}}{{Better source needed|date=June 2024|reason=Sources do not give date of death.}}
José Maria de Yermo y Parres, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint (born 1851)
September 22 – Louis Massebieau, French historian and Protestant theologian (born 1840)
September 23
George Adams, Australian businessman (born 1839)
Émile Gallé, French artist (born 1846)
September 24
Niels Ryberg Finsen, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist (born 1860)
Gustav Frank, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian (born 1832)
Caleb C. Harris, American farmer and physician (born 1836){{cite book |title=Wisconsin Blue Book 1895 |year=1895 |chapter=Biographical Sketch of Caleb C. Harris |page=693}}{{cite news |title=Dr C. C. Harris Dead |newspaper=Waukesha Freeman |date=29 September 1904 |page=1}}
September 26
Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (born 1842)
Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Irish Japanese author (born 1850)
September 27 – David Grant Colson, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (born 1861){{cite web |title=COLSON, David Grant 1861 – 1904 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000649 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=13 June 2024}}

= October =

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October 4
Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (born 1834)
Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (born 1847)
Edmund Francis Dunne, American politician, jurist and Catholic orator (b 1835)
Violet Nicolson, British poet (born 1865)
Pierre Sainsevain, French settler (born 1818)
October 8 – Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian philosopher (born 1842)
October 11
Mary Tenney Gray, American club-woman
Archie Hooper, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1881)
October 13 – Pavlos Melas, Greek revolutionary and army officer (born 1870)
October 15 – George, King of Saxony (born 1832)
October 17
Mercedes, Princess of Asturias (born 1880)
Ștefan Petică, Romanian poet and writer (born 1877)
October 19 – Maurice Baldwin, Canadian Anglican bishop (born 1836)
October 21
Euphemia Vale Blake, British-born American critic (born 1817)
Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer (born 1877)
Braulio Orue-Vivanco, Cuban Roman Catholic bishop (born 1843)
October 23 – Emilia Dilke, English author (born 1840)
October 24 – Moultrie Kelsall, Scottish film, television actor (d. 1980)
October 26 – Princess Srivilailaksana of Suphanburi, daughter of King Rama V and Pae Bunnag (born 1868)

= November =

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November 2 – Henry Austin, American baseball player (born 1844)
November 3 – Carl Daniel Ekman, Swedish engineer (born 1845)
November 7 – Guillermo Blest Gana, Chilean writer (born 1829)
November 9 – Joseph C. Hendrix, U.S. Representative from New York (born 1853)
November 10
Augustus Brandegee, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut (born 1828)
Oreste Recchione, Italian painter (born 1841)
November 12
Daniel Read Anthony, American publisher and abolitionist (born 1824)
Eliza Ann Otis, American poet, newspaper publisher, philanthropist (born 1833)
Georges Rohault de Fleury, French archaeologist (born 1835)
November 14
John Murray Mitchell, British missionary (born 1815)
Mario Mocenni, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1823)
Isadore Rush, American actress (born 1866)
November 15 – Mary of the Passion, French Roman Catholic religious sister, missionary and blessed (born 1839)
November 16 – Clara Conway, American teacher (born 1844)
November 18 – Justus van Maurik, Dutch author (born 1846)
November 19 – Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, American writer, reformer, philanthropist (born 1824)
November 27
Annie Chambers Ketchum (religious name, Sister Amabilis), American school founder (born 1824)
Paul Tannery, French mathematician (born 1843)
November 28 – Fanny Janauschek, Czech actress (born 1829)
November 29 – Helen Abbott Michael, American scientist (born 1857)

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Charles D. F. Phillips, British medical doctor (born 1830)

= December =

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December 1
Johanna Anderson, Swedish Baptist missionary (born 1856)
Hector Giacomelli, French artist (born 1822)
December 2
Enrico Carfagnini, Italian Roman Catholic friar and bishop (born 1823)
Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born 1843)
December 4 – Cristiano Banti, Italian painter (born 1824)
December 8 – John Kirkpatrick, British-born Australian politician (born 1840)
December 11
Spencer Charrington, English brewer and politician (born 1818)
Mahmoud Samy El Baroudy, Egyptian political figure, 5th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1839)
December 13
Bob Murphy, American baseball player (born 1866)
Nikolay Sklifosovsky, Russian surgeon (born 1836)
Henry Freeman, English fisherman and lifeboatmen (born 1835)
December 14 – Mélanie Calvat, French Roman Catholic nun, Marian visionary and saint (born 1831)
December 15 – Roman Kondratenko, Russian general (born 1857)
December 16 – Daniel W. Mills, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1838)
December 19 – Lewis Tappan Barney, American army officer (born 1844)
December 20 – Princess Alexandrine of Baden (born 1820)
December 21 – Edward H. Dewey, American physician (born 1837)
December 22 – Horace Sumner Lyman, American journalist (born 1855)
December 24 – Gustav Bauernfeind, German painter (born 1848)
December 25 – Guido Bodländer, German chemist (born 1855)
December 27 – William F. Mahoney, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1856)
December 29 – Friedrich Moritz Brauer, German entomologist (born 1832)
December 30 – Frederick Clifford, English journalist (born 1828)

Nobel Prizes

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Physics – The Lord Rayleigh
Chemistry – Sir William Ramsay
Physiology or Medicine – Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Literature – Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray
Peace – Institut de Droit International

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