1904: Encyclopedia II - 1904 - Births

1904 - Births

1904 - January-February

• January 1 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
• January 3 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
• January 10 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
• January 14 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
• January 18 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
• January 22 - George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
• January 22 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
• January 26 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d, 2004)
• January 26 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1988)
• January 29 - Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976)
• January 29 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• February 1 - S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979)
• February 3 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
• February 3 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
• February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (d. 1977)
• February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
• February 16 - George F. Kennan, American diplomat (d. 2005)
• February 20 - Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
• February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)

1904 - March-April

• March 1 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
• March 2 - Dr. Seuss, American author (d. 1991)
• March 4 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
• March 6 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
• March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
• March 20 - B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)
• March 26 - Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (d. 1987)
• March 26 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
• April 3 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (d. 1979)
• April 7 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
• April 8 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• April 9 - Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
• April 14 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
• April 15 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian- American abstract expressionist painter
• April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
• April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
• April 24 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
• April 26 - Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
• April 27 - Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)

1904 - May-July

• May 6 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984)
• May 6 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
• May 11 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
• May 17 - Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
• May 21 - Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
• May 21 - Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)
• May 27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
• June 2 - Frantisek Planicka, Czech footballer (d. 1996)
• June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
• June 3 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
• June 26 - Peter Lorre, Austria-Hugarian-born film actor (d. 1964)
• July 5 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and author (d. 2005)
• July 12 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• July 17 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
• July 28 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• July 31 - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)

1904 - August-December

• August 4 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
• August 7 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
• August 16 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• August 17 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
• August 21 - Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
• August 22 - Deng Xiaoping, de facto Chinese leader (d. 1997)
• August 23 - Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970)
• August 23 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
• August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
• August 29 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
• September 9 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
• September 22 - Joseph Valachi, gangster (d. 1971)
• September 29 - Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
• October 1 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
• October 3 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• October 23 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
• October 25 - Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (d. 1968)
• November 2 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• November 11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
• November 12 - Jacques Tourneur, French director (d. 1977)
• November 14 - Dick Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
• November 14 - Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1988)
• November 25 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
• November 30 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
• December 12 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (d. 1981)
• December 18 - George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
• December 25 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• December 26 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
• December 30 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)

1904 - Unknown dates

• Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944)
• Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991)
• J. J. Gibson, Gay psychologist (d. 1979)

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