1904

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909

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Births

• February 11 - Henry LaBouisse, head of UNICEF (1965-1979).
• February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand Prime Minister (1960-1972).
• June 2 -- Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor.
• July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet

Deaths

• July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer

Events

• February 8 - Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur starts Russo-Japanese War
• The second Summer Olympic Games are held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• November - Theodore Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker in the U.S. presidential election

Films

• The Great Train Robbery, by Siegmund Lubin (a remake of the 1903 classic...)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh
• Chemistry - Sir William Ramsay
• Medicine - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
• Literature - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
• Peace - Institut De Droit International