1904 in the United States

none August 2021 February 2026 1904 1904 Events from the year 1904 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) Vice President: vacant Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R–Illinois) Congress: 58th State governments Governors and lieutenant governors Governors 30em Governor of Alabama: William D. Jelks (Democratic) Governor of Arkansas: Jeff Davis (Democratic) Governor of California: George Pardee (Republican) Governor of Colorado: James Hamilton Peabody (Republican) Governor of Connecticut: Abiram Chamberlain (Republican) Governor of Delaware: John Hunn (Republican) Governor of Florida: William Sherman Jennings (Democratic) Governor of Georgia: Joseph M. Terrell (Democratic) Governor of Idaho: John T. Morrison (Republican) Governor of Illinois: Richard Yates, Jr. (Republican) Governor of Indiana: Winfield T. Durbin (Republican) Governor of Iowa: Albert B. Cummins (Republican) Governor of Kansas: Willis J. Bailey (Republican) Governor of Kentucky: J. C. W. Beckham (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: William Wright Heard (Democratic) (until May 10), Newton Crain Blanchard (Democratic) (starting May 10) Governor of Maine: John Fremont Hill (Republican) Governor of Maryland: John Walter Smith (Democratic) (until January 13), Edwin Warfield (Democratic) (starting January 13) Governor of Massachusetts: John L. Bates (Republican) Governor of Michigan: Aaron T. Bliss (Republican) Governor of Minnesota: Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Andrew H. Longino (Democratic) (until January 19), James K. Vardaman (Democratic) (starting January 19) Governor of Missouri: Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democratic) Governor of Montana: Joseph Toole (Democratic) Governor of Nebraska: John H. Mickey (Republican) Governor of Nevada: John Sparks (Silver) Governor of New Hampshire: Nahum J. Bachelder (Republican) Governor of New Jersey: Franklin Murphy (Republican) Governor of New York: Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. (Republican) (until end of December 31) Governor of North Carolina: Charles Brantley Aycock (Democratic) Governor of North Dakota: Frank White (Republican) Governor of Ohio: George K. Nash (Republican) (until January 11), Myron T. Herrick (Republican) (starting January 11) Governor of Oregon: George Chamberlain (Democratic) Governor of Pennsylvania: Samuel W. Pennypacker (Republican) Governor of Rhode Island: Lucius F. C. Garvin (Democratic) Governor of South Carolina: Duncan Clinch Heyward (Democratic) Governor of South Dakota: Charles N. Herreid (Republican) Governor of Tennessee: James B. Frazier (Democratic) Governor of Texas: S. W. T. Lanham (Democratic) Governor of Utah: Heber Manning Wells (Republican) Governor of Vermont: John G. McCullough (Republican) (until October 6), Charles J. Bell (Republican) (starting October 6) Governor of Virginia: Andrew Jackson Montague (Democratic) Governor of Washington: Henry McBride (Republican) Governor of West Virginia: Albert B. White (Republican) Governor of Wisconsin: Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (Republican) Governor of Wyoming: Fenimore Chatterton (Republican) Lieutenant governors 30em Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: Russell M. Cunningham (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of California: Alden Anderson (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Warren A. Haggott (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Henry Roberts (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Philip L. Cannon (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: James M. Stevens (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William Northcott (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Newton W. Gilbert (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: John Herriott (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: David J. Hanna (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: William P. Thorne (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Albert Estopinal (Democratic) (until May 10), Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (Democratic) (starting May 10) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Curtis Guild, Jr. (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Alexander Maitland (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Ray W. Jones (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: James T. Harrison (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), John Prentiss Carter (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Thomas Lewis Rubey (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Frank G. Higgins (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Edmund G. McGilton (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Lemuel Allen (political party unknown) Lieutenant Governor of New York: Frank W. Higgins (Republican) (until end of December 31) Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Wilfred D. Turner (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: David Bartlett (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Harry L. Gordon (Republican) (until January 11), Warren G. Harding (Republican) (starting January 11) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: William M. Brown (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Adelard Archambault (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), George H. Utter (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Sloan (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: George W. Snow (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: E. T. Seay (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: George D. Neal (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Zed S. Stanton (Republican) (until October 6), Charles H. Stearns (Republican) (starting October 6) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Joseph Edward Willard (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Washington: vacant Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: James O. Davidson (Republican) Events January–March January 2 – The first large-scale bodybuilding competition in America concludes at Madison Square Garden in New York City.https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951000756772n&view=1up&seq=569&skin=2021 Macfadden Bernarr Bernarr Macfadden Physical Culture Editorial Department X 6 December 1903 555 15 December 2021 HathiTrust January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.Chicago Public Works https://books.google.com/books?id=YW0rAQAAMAAJ 1975 Department of Public Works, City of Chicago 94 Google Books January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.371 mph.http://landspeedrecord.org/speed-records/ Land Speed Record Holders Timeline Dave Fowler, History in Numbers 15 December 2021 15 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211215100421/http://landspeedrecord.org/speed-records/ dead December 2021 February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040208.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Fire in Baltimore Causes a Loss of Nearly $50,000,000... Still Burning After Consuming 20 Blocks. Department is Powerless. Report That Reporters and Operators Are Hemmed In XXXI 132 8 February 1904 Page 1, columns 1-3 Los Angeles Herald 10 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040224.2.42&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Treaty Ratified; Temporary Panama Government Next. United States Cruiser Goes to Columbian Waters, Soldiers to Panama, Marines Ordered to Watch San Domingo XXXI 148 24 February 1904 Page 2, columns 4-5 Los Angeles Herald 13 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection February 26 – The Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, is almost entirely destroyed by fire after a gas jet ignites the newly varnished ceiling. https://www.wpr.org/1904-fire-gutted-capitol-nearly-cost-madison-state-capitol 1904 Fire Gutted Capitol, Nearly Cost Madison State Capitol Wisconsin Public Radio February 27, 2017 Erika Janik December 29, 2022 December 30, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221230214346/https://www.wpr.org/1904-fire-gutted-capitol-nearly-cost-madison-state-capitol live April–June 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.https://archive.org/details/improvementera0707unse/page/544/mode/2up?view=theater Seventy-Fourth Annual Conference Improvement Era Editor's Table VII 7 May 1904 545–546 14 February 2022 Internet Archive April 8 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/100-years-ago-an-intersection-s-new-name-times-square.html?_r=0 Barron James James Barron (journalist) 100 Years Ago, an Intersection's New Name: Times Square The New York Times 8 April 2004 14 February 2022 April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).https://www.bie-paris.org/site/en/1904-saint-louis 1904 Saint Louis Bureau International des Expositions Expo Timeline 16 February 2022 May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.American canal construction https://pancanal.com/en/american-canal-construction/ Panama Canal Authority 9 March 2022 May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.https://www.baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/05051904.shtml Cy Young Perfect Game Box Score Baseball Almanac 16 March 2022 May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta sorority is founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.https://alphagammadelta.org/about/history/ History 18 November 2016 Alpha Gamma Delta 15 March 2022 June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040616.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 600 PERSONS ARE CREMATED OR DROWNED DURING BURNING OF CROWDED EXCURSION STEAMER NEAR NEW YORK CITY. DEAD AWUFL [sic] SCENE ON BURNING STEAMER Decks Packed to Fullest Capacity Youth Who Lost His Mother and Brother Describes Horror MANY SWEPT INTO WATER BY CRUSH XXXI 261 16 June 1904 Page 1, columns 1-7 Los Angeles Herald 25 December 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection July–September July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri.Bell Daniel Encyclopedia of international games 2003 McFarland & Co Jefferson, N.C. 0-7864-1026-4 473 July 23 – In St. Louis, Missouri, the ice cream cone is invented during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. August 7 – Eden train wreck in Colorado: a bridge is washed away by a flash flood as a train crosses, resulting in at least 88 deaths. September – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys. September 24 – New Market train wreck in Tennessee: two trains collide head-on at speed, resulting in at least 56 deaths. October–December 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 eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College. October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University. October 10 – The opera The Sho-Gun, authored by George Ade and Gustav Luders and produced by Henry W. Savage, premieres at Wallack's Theatre in New York City, New York. October 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 17 – Amadeo Giannini founds the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, predecessor of the Bank of America. October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American Gabriel A. O'Reilly. October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens. November 8 – 1904 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker. November 23 – The Olympic Games end. November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company. December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. 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. Undated St. Bernard's School is founded in New York City on Manhattan. Ongoing Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1909)Gregory Rick Robertson County and the Black Patch War, 1904-1909 Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1980 39 3 341–358 42626100 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42626100 0040-3261 Births thumb|Dr.Seuss January 5 – Jeane Dixon, astrologer (died 1997)https://txarchives.org/unt/finding_aids/00044.xml Guide to the Jeane Dixon and Emerich P. Korecz Collection Texas Archival Resources Online The University of Texas at Austin 15 December 2021 January 10 – Ray Bolger, actor, singer and dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (died 1987)Ray Bolger - Broadway Cast & Staff https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ray-bolger-32422 Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 15 December 2021 January 19 – Leo Soileau, Cajun musician (died 1980)https://www.allmusic.com/artist/leo-soileau-mn0000889873/biography Harris Craig Leo Soileau Biography, Songs, & Albums AllMusic, Netaktion LLC 15 December 2021 January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson, medical researcher (died 1990)https://books.google.com/books?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1092 RICE-WRAY, EDRIS (1904— ) The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century 2: L—Z Ogilvie Marilyn Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie Harvey Joy Joy Harvey New York and London Routledge 2000 1092 0-415-92040-X 15 December 2021 Google Books January 26 – Ancel Keys, nutritionist (died 2004)Montani Jean-Pierre Ancel Keys: The legacy of a giant in physiology, nutrition, and public health Obesity Reviews 26 January 2021 22 S2 e13196 10.1111/obr.13196 33496369 231710294 free February 3 – Pretty Boy Floyd, bank robber (shot 1934)Wallis Michael Michael Wallis Floyd, Charles Arthur (1904–1934) http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FL004.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101018201933/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FL004.html 18 October 2010 Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture Oklahoma Historical Society 25 December 2021 February 13 – Erwin Canham, journalist (died 1982)Dicke William ERWIN CANHAM, LONGTIME EDITOR OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, DIES The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/04/obituaries/erwin-canham-longtime-editor-of-christian-science-monitor-dies.html 4 January 1982 B10 25 December 2021 December 26, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211226043710/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/04/obituaries/erwin-canham-longtime-editor-of-christian-science-monitor-dies.html live February 16 – George F. Kennan, political adviser (died 2005)http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/politics/18kennan.html?pagewanted=3 https://web.archive.org/web/20131014092245/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/politics/18kennan.html?pagewanted=3 14 October 2013 Weiner Tim Tim Weiner Crossette Barbara Barbara Crossette George F. Kennan Dies at 101; Leading Strategist of Cold War The New York Times Washington 18 March 2005 26 December 2021 James Baskett, actor (died 1948) March 1 Paul Hartman, actor and dancer (died 1973)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/paul-hartman-8025 Paul Hartman - Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 16 January 2022 Glenn Miller, bandleader (died 1944)Glenn Miller Biography ((Biography.com Editors)) Biography.com https://www.biography.com/musician/glenn-miller 16 January 2022 A&E Television Networks 3 September 2020 March 2 – Dr. Seuss, children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/theodor-seuss-geisel-76137 Theodor Seuss Geisel - Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 16 January 2022 March 4 – Chief Tahachee, writer and actor (died 1978) March 20 Frank Mills, politician in Ohio legislature (died 1969) B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (died 1990)https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/20/obituaries/b-f-skinner-the-champion-of-behaviorism-is-dead-at-86.html 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 6 August 2010 Sobel Dava Dava Sobel B. F. Skinner, the Champion Of Behaviorism, Is Dead at 86 The New York Times Obituaries 20 August 1990 16 January 2022 March 23 (possible year) – Joan Crawford, actress (died 1977)https://books.google.com/books?id=xfjCtf9scpUC&pg=PT8 Bret David David Bret Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr New York Da Capo Press 2006 8 9780786732364 16 January 2022 Google Books 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... March 26 – Joseph Campbell, author on mythology (died 1987)https://www.jcf.org/about-joseph-campbell/ About Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell Foundation 2 May 2016 16 January 2022 25 March 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220325083256/https://www.jcf.org/about-joseph-campbell/ dead April 6 – William Challee, actor (died 1989)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/william-challee-34982 William Challee – Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 14 February 2022 March 25, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115802/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/william-challee-34982 live April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (died 1972)https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sharkey-bonano-mn0000743882/biography Kelsey Chris Chris Kelsey Sharkey Bonano Biography, Songs, & Albums AllMusic, Netaktion LLC 14 February 2022 March 18, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318214357/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sharkey-bonano-mn0000743882/biography live April 12 – Glen H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1951 (died 1984)https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000079 TAYLOR, Glen Hearst (1904 – 1984) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 30 July 2022 April 18 – Pigmeat Markham, African American entertainer (died 1981)https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pigmeat-markham-mn0000287936/biography Deming Mark Mark Deming Pigmeat Markham Biography, Songs, & Albums AllMusic, Netaktion LLC 17 February 2022 April 20 – Bob Bartlett, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1968 (died 1968)https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B000201 BARTLETT, Edward Lewis (Bob) (1904 – 1968) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 30 July 2022 April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (died 1967)http://cstms.berkeley.edu/archive/oppenheimer/exhibit/ J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial – Exhibit https://web.archive.org/web/20131204154206/http://cstms.berkeley.edu/archive/oppenheimer/exhibit/ 4 December 2013 The Regents of the University of California 2004 16 February 2022 April 27 – Syd Nathan, record producer, music industry executive and founder of King Records (died 1968)https://www.allmusic.com/artist/syd-nathan-mn0000044204/biography Kurutz Steve Syd Nathan Biography, Songs, & Albums AllMusic, Netaktion LLC 16 February 2022 March 25, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115802/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/syd-nathan-mn0000044204/biography live May 10 – James Roy Andersen, general (died 1945)https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1748791/james-roy-andersen/ BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES ROY ANDERSEN United States Air Force Biography Display 10 March 2022 March 10, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220310095555/https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1748791/james-roy-andersen/ live May 17 – John J. Williams, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1947 to 1970 (died 1988)https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000518 WILLIAMS, John James 1904 – 1988 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 24 March 2022 May 21 Robert Montgomery, actor and director (died 1981)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/robert-montgomery-53470 Robert Montgomery - Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 11 March 2022 Fats Waller, African American jazz pianist and entertainer (died 1943)http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/waller-fats-thomas-wright https://web.archive.org/web/20090406062100/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/waller-fats-thomas-wright 6 April 2009 Tenenholtz David Waller, Fats (Thomas Wright) Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians 11 March 2022 jazz.com May 30 – Doris Packer, actress (died 1979)https://www.allmovie.com/artist/doris-packer-p54605 Doris Packer Movies and Filmography AllMovie, Netaktion LLC 15 March 2022 March 15, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220315150039/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/doris-packer-p54605 live June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (died 1984)https://www.johnnyweissmuller.com/biography/ Biography Johnny Weissmuller 27 July 2022 June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950)https://www.cdrewu.edu/about-cdu/about-dr-charles-r-drew About Our Namesake: Charles R. Drew, MD Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science About CDU 28 July 2022 16 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210416175524/https://www.cdrewu.edu/about-cdu/about-dr-charles-r-drew dead June 12 Bill Cox, athlete (died 1996)https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78272 Bill Cox Olympedia OlyMADMen 4 December 2022 December 4, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221204112608/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78272 live Johnny Murray, voice actor (died 1956) June 21 – Orian Landreth, American football coach (died 1996) June 22 – William O. Gallery, admiral (died 1981)https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/18/obituaries/rear-adm-william-o-gallery-a-navy-veteran-of-two-wars.html Rear Adm. William O. Gallery; A Navy Veteran of Two Wars The New York Times AP 18 November 1981 A28 27 July 2022 July 27, 2022 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 live June 24 – Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died 1995)https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-13-mn-34742-story.html Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies at 89 Los Angeles Times August 13, 1995 July 27, 2022 June 26 – Virginia Brown Faire, actress (died 1980)https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p22521 Erickson Hal Hal Erickson (author) Virginia Brown Faire Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos AllMovie, Netaktion LLC 28 July 2022 July 10, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220710121742/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p22521 live July 1 – Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate (died 1998)https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&q=Francesca+Calderone-Steichen&pg=PA99 More Ellen S. CALDERONE, Mary Steichen Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century Ware Susan Susan Ware Braukman Stacy Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004 99–101 0-674-01488-X 15 November 2022 Google Books July 5 – Eugenia Clinchard, child actress (died 1989)Kiehn David Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company 2003 978-09729-2265-4 Farewell Books Berkeley, California 258 July 8 – Nick Connor, politician (died 1995)https://archive.org/details/floridahandbook100morr/page/394/mode/2up The Florida Handbook, 1965-1966 Morris Allen Allen Morris (historian) 1965 Tallahassee, Florida The Peninsular Publishing Company 394 49-53676 16 December 2022 Internet Archive July 15 – Dorothy Fields, librettist (died 1974)http://www.dorothyfields.org/biog1.htm Biography : Early Years The Dorothy Fields Website Jon Aldous 2006 15 December 2022December 2022 July 16 – Geraldine Knight Scott, landscape architect (died 1989)http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4p300654/admin/ Geraldine Knight Scott Collection, 1914-1988 Online Archive of California 15 November 2022 November 15, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221115063153/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4p300654/admin/ live August 13 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, actor and jazz musician (died 1999)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/buddy-rogers-58189 Buddy Rogers - Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 2 August 2023 August 16 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (died 1971) August 17 – Mary Cain, newspaper editor and politician (died 1984) August 21 – Count Basie, African American jazz bandleader (died 1984) August 22 – Jay Novello, actor (died 1982)Jay Novello Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos AllMovie, Netaktion LLC https://www.allmovie.com/artist/jay-novello-vn15464920 8 April 2024 August 26 – Georgia Schmidt, actress (died 1997) September 12 – Lou Moore, race car driver and team owner (died 1956) September 19 – Elvia Allman, actress (died 1992) October 1 – Irene Craigmile Bolam, Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias (died 1982) October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 (died 1989) October 8 – Wally Brown, actor and comedian (died 1961) October 12 – Anthony F. DePalma, orthopedic surgeon and professor (died 2005)April 8, 2005 Anthony DePalma Obituary Sun-Sentinel https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sunsentinel/name/anthony-depalma-obituary?id=26797930 April 7, 2023 April 7, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230407074327/https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sunsentinel/name/anthony-depalma-obituary?id=26797930 live October 23 – Harvey Penick, golfer (died 1995) November 1 – Laura La Plante, silent film actress (died 1996) November 17 – Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (died 1988) November 18 – William H. Brockman Jr., United States Navy admiral (died 1979) November 25 – Lillian Copeland, Olympic field athlete (died 1964) December 7 – Clarence Nash, voice actor (died 1985) December 18 – George Stevens, film director (died 1975) December 19 – Benjamin W. Fortson Jr, politician, Georgia Secretary of State (died 1979) December 25 – Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, nutritionist (died 1980) December 30 – David M. Shoup, general (died 1983) Full date unknown E. Gifford Upjohn, American business executive (died 1993)https://www.hbs.edu/leadership/20th-century-leaders/details?profile=e_gifford_upjohn E. Gifford Upjohn biography HBS Deaths January 2 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (born 1821)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040103.2.53&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 DEATH CLOSES NOTED CAREER OF LONGSTREET 3 January 1904 San Francisco Call 95 34 Page 27, column 2 California Digital Newspaper Collection 21 December 2021 January 6 – Julia Anna Orum, educator, lecturer, and author (born 1843INVALID SCALDED TO DEATH IN BATHTUB https://www.newspapers.com/image/80626835/?terms=Julia%20Orum&match=1 13 December 2022 The Washington Times Newspapers.com 8 January 1904 3 en January 9 – John Brown Gordon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1873 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1897 (born 1832)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040110.2.63&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 CONFEDERATE GENERAL GOES TO LAST REST Death Calls John B. Gordon, Famous Southerner. San Francisco Call 95 41 10 January 1904 Page 29, columns 1-2 20 December 2021 California Digital Newspaper Collection January 20 – Maria Louisa Bustill, schoolteacher, mother of Paul Robeson (born 1853) February 9 – Mary Abbott, golfer (born 1857)Olympedia – Mary Abbott https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18139 www.olympedia.org 20 July 2021 February 15 – Mark Hanna, U.S. Senator from Ohio (born 1837)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040216.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 SENATOR HANNA DIES AND NATION MOURNS FOR THE STATESMAN Ohioan Passes Away Last Night After Hard Fight for Life XXXI 140 16 February 1904 Page 1, columns 1-2 Los Angeles Herald 12 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection March 17 – William Elbridge Sewell, naval officer and Governor of Guam (born 1851)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040318.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 FORMER NAVAL GOVERNOR OF GUAM IS DEAD 95 109 18 March 1904 Page 2, column 4 San Francisco Call 3 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection June 5 – Olivia Langdon Clemens, editor (born 1845)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040607.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 MRS. CLEMENS EXPIRES SUDDENLY Death Comes From Attack of Syncope XXXI 252 7 June 1904 Page 2, column 3 Los Angeles Herald 1 August 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection June 28 – Dan Emmett, founder of the Virginia Minstrels (born 1815)https://www.songhall.org/profile/Daniel_Decatur_Emmett Daniel Decatur Emmett Songwriters Hall of Fame 30 July 2022 July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor, admiral (born 1845)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040727.2.59&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR GOES TO FINAL REST XCVI 57 27 July 1904 Page 5, column 4 San Francisco Call 24 December 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection August 16 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, author of dime fiction (born 1843) August 22 – Kate Chopin, fiction writer (born 1850) October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, classicist and poet (born 1874) December 21 – George L. Shoup, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (born 1836) Little Joe Monahan, transgender rancher (born 1850) See also List of American films of 1904 Timeline of United States history (1900–1929) References Further reading 1905 HathiTrust Statistician and Economist Louis P. McCarty San Francisco Domestic Chronology 227–347 2027/uc1.b3142275?urlappend=%3Bseq=239 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3142275?urlappend=%3Bseq=239. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905.) External links 1904 Category:1900s in the United States United States United States Category:Years of the 20th century in the United States