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1904
In German South West Africa it comes to the uprising of the Herero and Nama .
The Russo-Japanese War begins with a surprise attack by Japan on Port Arthur .
The Doggerbank incident occurs between Russia and Great Britain .	France and Great Britain found the Entente cordiale .
1904 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1352/53 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1896/97 (turn of the year 10/11 September)
Baha'i calendar	60/61 (turn of the year 20/21 March)
Bengali solar calendar	1309/10 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2447/48 (southern Buddhism); 2446/47 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	76th (77th) cycle Year of the Wood Dragon甲辰 ( since February 16 , before that Water Hare癸卯)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1266/67 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4237/38 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1282/83 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1321/22 (March 18-19)
Japanese calendar	Meiji 37 ( 明治 37 年 ); Kōki 2564
Jewish calendar	5664/65 (9/10 September)
Coptic calendar	1620/21 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	1079/80
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire)	1319/20 (March 1)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2214/15 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2215/16 (turn of the year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2446/47 (April 1)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1960/61 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Russo-Japanese War

Russo-Japanese War battlefields

• February 6 : Japan breaks off diplomatic relations with Russia and withdraws its ambassador from Saint Petersburg .
• February 8 : Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur , beginning of the Russo-Japanese War
• August 2nd : The siege of Port Arthur begins.
• August 22 : The Japanese Empire and the Korean Empire sign the Japan-Korean Protocol of August 1904 .
• November 29 : Mass protests in Saint Petersburg and Moscow against the war with Japan and the rule of the tsars.

Europe

• January 1 : Robert Comtesse becomes President of Switzerland .
• January 1st : The Child Protection Act comes into force in Germany . It prohibits the work of children under the age of 12 in all commercial establishments.
• January 16 : Rosa Luxemburg is sentenced to three months imprisonment by the district court of Zwickau for insulting majesty . During the 1903 election campaign , she had accused Kaiser Wilhelm II of incompetence. The social democrat did not begin her prison sentence until August 26, 1904.
• April 8th : Formation of the Entente cordiale between Great Britain and France
• June 14th : The German Empress Auguste Viktoria receives a delegation of the international women's congress, which is meeting in Berlin under the chairmanship of Lina Morgenstern , in a private audience.
• June 16 : The Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinated the Russian Governor General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov , who succumbed the following day, and then killed himself.
• July 28 : Russian interior minister von Plewe is murdered by anarchists in a bomb attack.
• October 15 : Friedrich August III. becomes king of Saxony .
• October 22nd : Doggerbank Incident : Accidental shelling of English fishing boats by the Russian fleet
• November 16 : The naturalized British Carl Anton Larsen founds Grytviken , the capital of South Georgia , with a team of sixty Norwegians. The colony is supposed to be used for whaling .

Asia

• August 3rd : Units of the British Indian Army occupy the Tibetan capital Lhasa in the Tibet campaign . The Dalai Lama has fled the city.
• September 7th : After a British armed expedition led by Francis Younghusband reached Lhasa in August , Tibet was forced to grant Great Britain extensive trading rights and a military base in Lhasa in a treaty . China protests because it regards Tibet as its sphere of interest.

Africa

• January 12 : Outbreak of the Herero uprising in what was then German South West Africa . In the course of the colonial war, the German General von Trotha issued his notorious order to shoot "Call to the Herero people" .
• May 18 : Ion Perdicari's kidnapping in Tangier sparked a crisis between the United States and Morocco .
• August 11 : Battle of Waterberg : German colonial troops under Lothar von Trotha fight in Herero war indigenous Herero who escape to the east.
• September 25 : In the battle of the Pembe ford in southern Angola, Portuguese colonial troops suffer their worst defeat in sub-Saharan Africa to date. Cuamato-Ovambo insurgents put down more than 300 men from a 500-man squad.

Lothar von Trotha's extermination order , Botswana National Archives

• October 3 : Hendrik Witbooi , captain of the colony German South West Africa settled Witbooi , announces the existing protection contract and explained to the German Reich the war, one day after Lt. Gen. previously Lothar von Trotha called extermination order was proclaimed. His people attack Germans, the Nama War begins.

• Anyang uprising in Cameroon

America

• September 1st : In the Battle of Masoller , the soldiers of the ruling Colorados prevail against the Los Blancos fighters in the final battle of the Uruguayan civil war . The coup leader Aparicio Saravia is badly wounded, but can still go to Brazil.
• October 20 : Chile and Bolivia finally end the saltpeter war with a peace treaty . Twenty years earlier, the Valparaíso Treaty had already included the first regulation.
• November 8 : Presidential election in the United States. 1904 : Re-election of Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States .

The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea - Caricature on Theodore Roosevelt's policy of intervention

• December 6 : Theodore Roosevelt lays the foundations for a more expansionist US foreign policy with his speech to Congress on the Roosevelt Corollary , his addition to the Monroe Doctrine .

Australia

• April 27 : Chris Watson from the Australian Labor Party becomes Prime Minister of Australia ; he is the first national head of government to belong to a workers' party.

• On the recommendation of Charles Scrivener determines Australian Parliament in Melbourne the place Dalgety as a future capital. The government of New South Wales in Sydney is protesting against this decision, because the place is too close to Melbourne and threatens to leave the Australian Confederation .

economy

World exhibition

Official Louisiana Purchase Exposition program

• April 30 : In St. Louis , Missouri, which is World Fair Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened that up to December 1 last. The 1904 Summer Olympics were also held as part of the World Exhibition, but they received little attention. A total of 19.7 million people visit the exhibition.

Trademarks and patents

• January 6th : The Bayer cross is registered as a German trademark with the number 65.777.
• January 25th : On behalf of the manufacturer John B. Timberlake a patent is applied for at the United States Patent Office for the invented wire clothes hanger .
• August 23 : The American Harry D. Weed receives a patent for the snow chain he invented for cars.
• August 30th : The Hungarian inventor Alfred Pongracz receives the first patent for a floor polishing machine in Germany . As a result, however, his company went bankrupt because of technical inadequacies in the device .
• September 17th : The chemist Max Riese registers the Penaten cream he invented at the Reich Patent Office in Berlin.

Business start-ups

• April 16 : The captain Peter Mærsk Møller and his son Arnold Peter Møller found a steamship company in Svendborg , A / S Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg , which over time will develop into the largest Danish company AP Møller-Mærsk and a global player in the logistics sector .
• April 18 : The French newspaper L'Humanité , founded by Jean Jaurès , appears with its first edition. The paper developed into the central organ of the French Communist Party ( PCF ) for many years .
• May 4 : Henry Royce and Charles Rolls meet in a hotel in Manchester to agree to joint automobile sales with a handshake. The automaker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars continues to develop.
• November 22nd : The Kleine Zeitung is founded in Graz .

• Léon Levavasseur , Jules Gastambide and Louis Blériot found the Société Antoinette in Puteaux to build automobiles and airplanes.
• Anton Kreidler founds the Kreidler metal works .

traffic

• June 3 : The Büssing company opens Germany's first bus line on the Braunschweig - Wendeburg route .

Woermann dock in tow to Cameroon (by Willy Stöwer )

• July 17 : The floating dock of the Woermann Line in Duala is delivered by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg and begins the journey to Cameroon in the tug.
• October 27 : In New York , the subway is officially opened after four years of construction . The first route runs from City Hall via Grand Central Station and Times Square to the corner of Broadway and 145th Street in Harlem .

• Opening of the Pelionbahn

Others

• November 17 : The Rheinische Creditbank takes over the Oberrheinische Bank for 20 million marks.
• December 16 : Approval for the start of business activities of the “Gewerbekrankenkasse zu Leipzig” as the first starting point for today's Barmenia Krankenversicherung a. G.

science and technology

• February 22 : Argentina receives a building on Laurie Island that was built by a British Antarctic expedition last year . The country set up the Orcadas station , which has since been permanently inhabited , the first of the research stations in Antarctica .
• March 8 : A railway line is opened across part of the Great Salt Lake , the 12- mile (about 19 km) length of the embankment resting on planks is unprecedented anywhere in the world.
• March 11th : A prototype of the gyro compass is successfully tested in the Baltic Sea by Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe on the Schleswig steamer .
• March 22 : First color photo on the front page of the Daily Illustrated Mirror newspaper
• June 15 : Otto Nussbaumer achieves the first wireless transmission of music in the Physics Institute of the Graz University of Technology . For this purpose he uses the Dachstein song .
• June 29th : A Dutch peat cutter discovers two bog bodies, the men of Weerdinge , from the time of the birth of Christ in the Bourtanger Moor .
• July 29th : Landau Zoo in the Palatinate is founded.
• September 11 : The horse cabs in Paris introduce taximeters for the first time .
• September 20 : The American Wilbur Wright succeeds for the first time in a controlled sightseeing flight with a powered airplane
• December 3 : Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's moon Himalia (Jupiter VI)
• December 28th - Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly discovers a comet named after him.

• The company Magirus built the first machine-operated turntable ladder in the world
• Establishment of the coast radio station Elbe-Weser Radio
• US Army engineers build the Panama Canal (until 1914 )

Culture

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1904

• Peter Camenzind as Hermann Hesse's first novelin Berlin
• Dafnis poetry collection by Arno Holz, inspired by the Baroque era

The Sea-Wolf , First Edition

• The partly autobiographical adventure novel The Sea Wolf , published in New York, is Jack London's greatest success.
• Spanish trilogy by Pío Baroja in Madrid
• The Changes of Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello in Milan
• The Gothic Room by August Strindberg in Stockholm
• The farmers of Władysław Reymont in Warsaw (1924 Nobel Prize)

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1904

• January 20 : The world premiere of the operetta Der Göttergatte by Franz Lehár takes place at the Carl-Theater in Vienna.
• January 21 : Premiere of the opera Jenufa by Leoš Janáček in Brno
• January 22nd : World premiere of the opera Nal and Damajanti (orig .: Nal 'i Damajanti) by Anton Stepanowitsch Arenski in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow
• January 30 : The world premiere of the tragic, socially critical comedy The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov takes place on the author's 44th birthday at the Moscow Art Theater . She is the last piece of Chekhov to die of tuberculosis on July 15th .
• February 1st : The world premiere of the tragedy Pandora's Box takes place in front of an invited audience at the Intimate Theater in Nuremberg. The production is done by the director and former director of the German Theater in Munich , Emil Meßthaler . The play is the second part of the Lulu tragedy by Frank Wedekind . A theatrical scandal breaks out and the police prevent a second performance the next day. On March 29th there will be a one-time, closed performance in the Munich Schauspielhaus, which has received mostly negative press coverage. On July 23, the Munich public prosecutor brought charges against Wedekind and his publisher Bruno Cassirer for distributing indecent writings.
• February 13 : World premiere of the piece Der einsame Weg by Arthur Schnitzler in Berlin

Madama Butterfly , illustration by Adolfo Hohenstein

• February 17th : The original two-act version of the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, based on the story Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti , is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The libretto is by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica . The first female singer in the title role is the soprano Rosina Storchio , who is admired by Puccini . On May 28 , the premiere will take place a three-act amended.
• March 16 : World premiere of the opera La Fille de Roland by Henri Rabaud at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
• March 21 : World premiere of Richard Strauss's Sinfonia domestica in New York
• September 24th : Premiere of the tragic comedy Traumulus by Arno Holz and Oskar Jerschke in Berlin
• October 18 : the premiere of Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony marks the premiere for new musical techniques ( polyphony , polyrhythmics , thematic layering )
• November 23 : Premiere of Maxim Gorki's play Summer Guests in Moscow
• November 30th : Premiere of the drama Resurrezione (Resurrection) by Franco Alfano at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Turin
• December 13 : World premiere of the opera Der Roland von Berlin by Ruggero Leoncavallo in Berlin . It was a commission from Wilhelm II.
• December 22nd : premiere of the operetta Die Juxheirat von Franz Lehár at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
• December 27 : World premiere of the classic Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie in London

• Alexander Scriabin is composing his 3rd symphony
• Anton von Webern completes the musical poem Im Sommerwind and attends composition courses from Arnold Schönberg in Vienna.
• Charles Ives completes the march in 1776 .
• Claude Debussy writes Trois Chansons de France for his second wife after separating from his first wife.
• The Death of Children by Gustav Mahler arise also the composer creates a safe playground accident for his daughters in Maiernigg am Wörthersee .
• Max Reger closes the Bach Variations , one of his most important piano works.
• Sergei Rachmaninoff's opera Francesca di Rimini is finished.

Others

Friedrich Karl Ströher : Flea Market in Paris , 1904, oil on canvas

• May 8th : The world's first sugar museum opens in Berlin . It has been integrated into the German Museum of Technology since 1995 .
• June 16 : On this one day the famous novel Ulysses by James Joyce takes place - because of whose main character Leopold Bloom it is also called Bloomsday , it is celebrated as a memorial day , not only in Dublin .
• October 18 : With the opening of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum , the newly founded Islamic Department is presented to the public for the first time.
• December 31 : New York Times Square is used for the first time to celebrate the New Year.

society

• June 28 : The deaf-blind US American Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College with a Bachelor of Arts .

religion

Memorial Church 1904

• August 31 : After eleven years of construction is in Speyer by the architect Julius Flügge style doctrinaire neo-Gothic built Memorial Church of the protest opened with four memorial services.

Disasters

Shipping disasters

• January 8 : The Canadian steamship Clallam gets caught in a storm on Juan de Fuca Street and sinks. 56 people are killed, including all women and children on board.
• May 15 : The protected cruiser Yoshino sinks after colliding with the also for the Japanese Imperial Navy belonging armored cruiser Kasuga east of Lüda in the Yellow Sea, where 329 of the 419 crew members are killed.

The General Slocum burning in the East River

• June 15 : On the East River in New York, the paddle steamer General Slocum with 1,388 people, mostly of German immigrants, catches fire on board. At least 1,021 people are killed in the disaster. This makes it the worst civil shipping disaster in the USA to date .
• June 28 : The Danish passenger ship Norge runs into the North Atlantic on a reef in the immediate vicinity of the rocky island Rockall and sinks in 20 minutes. 625 passengers and crew are killed. The sinking of the Norge is the largest shipwreck in the North Atlantic to date.

City fires

Ålesund after the city fire

• January 23 : The Ålesund fire destroys the Norwegian city of Ålesund almost completely; over 10,000 people become homeless.

After the great fire in Baltimore

• February 7 : Baltimore , USA, is struck by a major fire that cremates large parts of the city. There are no direct personal injuries caused by the fire itself, but property damage is estimated at 150 million US dollars.

Front Street of Toronto after the fire disaster

• April 19 : The Toronto city ​​fire causes the city's largest fire disaster, destroying over 100 buildings in the city center. People do not die, but 5,000 will be unemployed in the short or medium term because numerous industrial and commercial buildings are affected by the fire.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1904

• January 29th : The Swedish sports club Västerås SK is founded.
• April 15 : Foundation of the football club FC Einigkeit Braunschweig (later name: VfB Rot-Weiß Braunschweig )
• May 1st : Football Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig is founded by the following clubs: FC Einigkeit Braunschweig , FuCC Eintracht 1895 Braunschweig, FC Viktoria 1900 Braunschweig, FC Fortuna 1901 Wolfenbüttel and FV 1902 Helmstedt
• May 4 : Foundation of the Westfalia Schalke football club (later name: FC Schalke 04 )
• May 21 : The world football association FIFA is founded in Paris by the football associations of the following countries: Belgium , Denmark , France , the Netherlands , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain
• May 29th : The final between VfB Leipzig - Britannia 92 Berlin for the German soccer championship did not take place. After a protest by the Karlsruher FV , the DFB canceled the final on the match day and canceled the championship finals.
• May 30th : Foundation of the German soccer club SC Freiburg
• July 1 : The sports and soccer club Bayer 04 Leverkusen is founded
• July 1 to November 23 : Summer Olympics in St. Louis , Missouri , United States . The play is a sack race , the first and only time Olympic sport , as well as tons jumping and tobacco spitting .
• July 20 : Foundation of the “Schwenningen Swimming and Ice Club”. V. "later in SERC Wild Wings is renamed
• August 12 : The football club Botafogo Football Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro .
• October 4th : The football club IFK Göteborg is founded.
• December 18th : Foundation of the German soccer club Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
• December 21 : The world motorcycle association, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme , is founded in Paris .

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Nobel Prizes

price	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
Nobel Price for physics	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919)	United Kingdom	"For his investigations into the density of the most important gases and his discovery of argon in connection therewith "
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)	United Kingdom	"In recognition of the merit he has earned through the discovery of the indifferent gaseous basic substances noble gases in the air and the determination of their place in the periodic system "
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936)	Russia	"In recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion which has improved and expanded knowledge of essential aspects of this area"
Nobel Prize in literature	Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914)	France	"With reference to the fresh originality, the ingenious and artistic in his poetry, which faithfully reflects nature and popular life of his homeland, as well as to his significant effectiveness as a Provencal philologist"
	José Echegaray (1832-1916)	Spain	"With reference to its extensive and ingenious authorship which, in an independent and original way, revived the great traditions of Spanish drama"
Nobel Peace Prize	" Institut de Droit international " (founded 1873)	Belgium	Work of the institute for the further development of international law

Born

January

• 0January 1 : Paul Laufer , MfS employee († 1969 )
• 0January 2 : Walter Heitler , German physicist († 1981 )
• 0January 2 : Walter Hewel , standard bearer in the 1923 Hitler coup († 1945 )
• 0January 3 : Caro Lamoureux , Canadian singer († 1998 )
• 0January 4th : Erhard Quack , German hymn poet and composer († 1983 )
• 0January 5 : Otto Niebergall , German politician († 1977 )
• 0January 7 : Fyodor Efimowitsch Bokow , political member of the War Council of the Soviet Military Administration († 1984 )
• 0January 7th : Ruth Landshoff , German-American actress and writer († 1966 )
• 0January 8 : Peter Arno , American cartoonist († 1968 )
• 0January 8 : Karl Brandt , physician and personal physician to Adolf Hitler († 1948 )
• 0January 8 : Otto Spülbeck , Bishop of the Diocese of Meißen († 1970 )
• 0January 8 : Tampa Red , American singer and guitarist († 1981 )
• 0January 8 : Jan Volkert Rijpperda Wierdsma , Dutch legal scholar († 1981 )
• 0January 9 : Adolf Schröter , German portrait and landscape painter († 1997 )
• 0January 9 : Hermann Gösmann , 6th President of the DFB († 1979 )
• 0January 9 : Conrad Letendre , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher († 1977 )
• January 10 : Gonzalo Curiel , Mexican pianist and composer († 1958 )
• January 12 : Bernhard Fischer-Schweder , police chief of Tilsit, mass murderer († 1960 )
• January 12 : Fred McDowell , American blues musician († 1972 )
• January 13 : Anton Besold , German politician († 1991 )
• January 13 : Nathan Milstein , Ukrainian-American violinist († 1992 )
• January 13 : Eduard Schüller , German engineer († 1976 )
• January 13 : Richard Addinsell , British film composer († 1977 )
• January 14th : Henri-Georges Adam , French university professor, painter, graphic artist, sculptor and designer († 1967 )
• January 15 : Jim Bowdoin , American football player († 1969 )
• January 15 : Ludvík Frejka , Czech politician and publicist († 1952 )

Cary Grant, 1973

• January 18 : Cary Grant , American actor († 1986 )
• January 19 : Gordon Beecher , American Navy Vice Admiral and composer († 1973 )
• January 22 : Sigurd Anderson , American politician († 1990 )
• January 22 : Arkadi Petrovich Gaidar , Russian writer for young people († 1941 )
• January 22 : George Balanchine , Russian choreographer, founder of the American Ballet († 1983 )
• January 23 : Karl Schlechta , German Nietzsche researcher († 1985 )
• January 24th : Hans Lauscher , German politician († 1981 )
• January 25 : Géza Frid , Hungarian pianist and composer († 1989 )
• January 25 : Sleepy John Estes , American blues musician († 1977 )
• January 26 : Otto Kässbohrer , German entrepreneur and vehicle designer († 1989 )
• January 26 : Seán MacBride , Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate († 1988 )
• January 29 : Arnold Gehlen , German philosopher and sociologist († 1976 )
• January 30th : Fritz Duda , German painter and graphic artist († 1991 )
• January 30th : Louis Häfliger , Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross († 1993 )
• January 31 : Frederick H. Boland , Irish politician († 1985 )
• January 31 : Max Sulzbachner , Swiss painter († 1985 )

February

• 0February 1 : Joseph Asajirō Satowaki , Archbishop of Nagasaki and Cardinal († 1996 )
• 0February 1 : Gerhard Wartenberg , German author († 1942 )
• 0February 2 : Valeri Pavlovich Tschkalow , Soviet pilot († 1938 )
• 0February 3 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Charkewitsch , Russian scientist in communications engineering († 1965 )
• 0February 3 : Luigi Dallapiccola , Italian composer († 1975 )
• 0February 4 : MacKinlay Kantor , American writer († 1977 )
• 0February 4 : Josef Klein , German motorcycle racer († 1973 )
• 0February 4 : Teo Otto , German set designer († 1968 )
• 0February 4 : Deng Yingchao , wife of Zhou Enlai († 1992 )
• 0February 5 : Walter Gross , German cabaret artist († 1989 )
• 0February 6 : Theo Balden , German sculptor and graphic artist († 1995 )
• 0February 7th : Ernst Ginsberg , German actor, director and theater manager († 1964 )
• 0February 9 : Harold J. Arthur , American politician († 1971 )
• February 10 : John Farrow , Australian screenwriter and director († 1963 )
• February 10 : Otto Dannebom , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1975 )
• February 10 : Tito Colliander , Finnish-Swedish writer († 1989 )
• February 11 : Mikhail Barschtsch , Russian architect and university professor († 1976 )
• February 12 : Rudolf Platte , German actor († 1984 )
• February 13 : Karaki Junzō , Japanese literary scholar († 1980 )
• February 14 : Hertta Kuusinen , Finnish communist politician († 1974 )
• February 14 : Walter Hochmuth , German politician and anti-fascist († 1979 )
• February 15 : Antonin Magne , French cyclist († 1983 )
• February 16 : George F. Kennan , US historian and diplomat († 2005 )
• February 16 : Hugo Wiener , Austrian composer and pianist († 1993 )
• February 17th : Philippe de Gunzburg , French resistance fighter and racing car driver († 1986 )
• February 17 : Hans Morgenthau , German lawyer and political scientist († 1980 )
• February 18 : Otto Rahn , German writer who dealt with the Grail myth († 1939 )
• February 20 : Herbert Brownell junior , American politician and former attorney general († 1996 )
• February 21 : Charles Frederick Goodeve , Canadian chemist († 1980 )
• February 22 : Robert Thomas Ashmore , American politician († 1989 )
• February 22nd : Clemens Lugowski , German Germanist († 1942 )
• February 22nd : Ernst Jakob Henne , German motor sportsman († 2005 )
• February 22 : Stephanos I. Sidarouss Cardinal and Patriarch of Alexandria († 1987 )
• February 23 : Erich Beyreuther , German Lutheran theologian and church historian († 2003 )
• February 23 : George Docking , American politician († 1964 )
• February 23 : Leopold Trepper , Polish communist, resistance fighter and publicist († 1982 )
• February 24 : Maitland Farmer , Canadian organist, harpsichordist and music teacher († 1995 )
• February 24 : Wilhelm Mantel , German forest officer and forest scientist († 1983 )
• February 26 : Curth Georg Becker , German painter and graphic artist († 1972 )
• February 26 : Hans-Joachim Fricke , German politician († 1974 )
• February 27 : André Leducq , French cyclist († 1980 )
• February 27 : Josef Maria Camenzind , Swiss clergyman and writer († 1984 )
• February 27 : James T. Farrell , American writer († 1979 )
• February 27 : Theodor Ritterspach , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court († 1999 )
• February 28 : Wilhelm Michels , teacher and headmaster, friend of Arno Schmidt († 1988 )
• February 29 : Rukmini Devi Arundale , Indian dancer, politician and theosophist († 1986 )
• February 29 : Hugh Bancroft , Canadian organist and composer († 1988 )
• February 29 : Jimmy Dorsey , American jazz musician († 1957 )
• February 29 : Walter Heinrich Fuchs , German phytomedicist († 1981 )
• February 29 : Alan Richardson , Scottish composer and pianist († 1978 )

March

• 0March 1 : Glenn Miller , American jazz trombonist and band leader († 1944 )
• 0March 2 : Theodor Seuss Geisel , American children's book author and cartoonist († 1991 )
• 0March 2nd : Elsie Wisdom , British racing driver († 1972 )
• 0March 3 : Unica Bachmann-Calcoen , German-Dutch portrait and animal painter († 1986 )
• 0March 3 : Horace Lapp , Canadian pianist, organist, conductor and composer († 1986 )
• 0March 3 : El Duque del Morteruelo , Spanish poet († 2004 )
• 0March 3 : Harry Werner Storz , German athlete († 1982 )
• 0March 4th : Luis Carrero Blanco , Spanish admiral and politician († 1973 )
• 0March 4 : Edgar Jené , German-French painter and graphic artist, Surrealist († 1984 )
• 0March 4 : George Gamow , Russian-American physicist († 1968 )
• 0March 4 : Joseph Schmidt , German-Austrian chamber singer and cantor († 1942 )
• 0March 5 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kosygin , Prime Minister of the Soviet Union († 1980 )

Karl Rahner, 1974 in conversation (left)

• 0March 5 : Karl Rahner , Catholic German theologian († 1984 )
• 0March 6 : José Antonio Aguirre , Basque politician († 1960 )
• 0March 6 : Andy Aitkenhead , Scottish-Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper († 1968 )
• 0March 7th : Jean Arnolds , Belgian clergyman († 1944 )
• 0March 7 : Reinhard Heydrich , Nazi politician († 1942 )
• 0March 8 : Hans Tschiggfrey , Austrian politician († 1963 )
• 0March 8 : Viktor de Kowa , German theater and film actor and director († 1973 )
• 0March 9 : Ellen Frank , German actress and dancer († 1999 )
• 0March 9 : Bobby Kohlrausch , German racing car driver († 1953 )
• March 10 : Hans Brehme , German composer († 1957 )
• March 10 : Oran Pape , American football player, police officer († 1936 )
• March 11 : Albrecht von Hagen , German lawyer and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• March 12 : Adolf Arndt , German politician († 1974 )
• March 12 : Bodo Uhse , German writer († 1963 )
• March 13 : Reidar Aulie , Norwegian painter († 1977 )
• March 13 : Wilhelm Eigener , German animal illustrator († 1982 )
• March 13 : Erhart Kästner , German writer and librarian († 1974 )
• March 13 : Paul Mattick , German communist and political writer († 1981 )
• March 14 : Armas Äikiä , Finnish author, communist writer and journalist († 1965 )
• March 14 : Doris Eaton Travis , American actress and dancer († 2010 )
• March 15 : Brunolf Baade , German engineer in the aircraft industry († 1969 )
• March 15 : George Brent , American film actor († 1979 )
• March 15 : Fritz Berendsen , German politician († 1974 )
• March 17 : Patrick Hamilton , English writer († 1962 )
• March 17 : Walfried Winkler , German motorcycle racer († 1982 )
• March 18 : Alfredo Poviña , Argentine sociologist († 1986 )
• March 19 : Tadeusz Kassern , Polish composer († 1957 )
• March 19 : John Sirica , American judge († 1992 )
• March 20 : BF Skinner , American psychologist († 1990 )
• March 20 : Walter Elsasser , German-American physicist († 1991 )
• March 21 : Nikos Skalkottas , Greek composer († 1949 )
• March 21 : Max Steenbeck , German physicist († 1981 )
• March 23 : Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld American lawyer († 1988 )
• March 22 : Jack Z. Anderson , American politician († 1981 )
• March 25 : Johann Baptist Gradl , German politician († 1988 )
• March 25 : Alexander Schawinsky , Swiss painter, photographer and set designer († 1979 )
• March 26 : Joseph Campbell , American professor and author († 1987 )
• March 26 : Attilio Ferraris , Italian football player († 1947 )
• March 26 : Hermann Schroeder , German composer and Catholic church musician († 1984 )
• March 26 : Willy Fischer , German politician († 1951 )
• March 30th : Alexandrina Maria da Costa , Portuguese mystic († 1955 )
• March 30 : EP Jacobs , Belgian comic artist († 1987 )
• March 30th : Ernesto de la Guardia Navarro , 30th President of Panama († 1983 )
• March 31 : Harry Buckwitz , German director († 1987 )

April

• 0April 1 : Nikolai Bersarin , first Soviet city commander of Berlin († 1945 )
• 0April 3 : Maria Wiłkomirska , Polish pianist, chamber musician and music teacher († 1995 )
• 0April 4 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afinogenow , Russian writer and playwright († 1941 )
• 0April 4 : Arne Hülphers , Swedish jazz musician, pianist and Kapellmeister († 1978 )
• 0April 4 : Walter Kohler , American politician († 1976 )
• 0April 5 : Hermann Bruse , German painter and graphic artist († 1953 )
• 0April 6 : Willy Harzheim , German working-class writer and communist († 1937 )

Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 1967

• 0April 6 : Kurt Georg Kiesinger , German politician and Federal Chancellor († 1988 )
• 0April 6 : Erwin Komenda , automobile designer († 1966 )
• 0April 7 : Curt Querner , painter († 1976 )
• 0April 8 : John Antill , Australian composer († 1986 )
• 0April 8 : Yves Congar , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1995 )
• 0April 8 : John Richard Hicks , British economist († 1989 )
• 0April 8 : Karl Scherm , German football player († 1977 )
• 0April 8 : Herbert Wolff , German politician († 1958 )
• 0April 9 : Ludwig Hohl , Swiss author († 1980 )
• 0April 9 : Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt , German teacher, Nazi functionary and politician († 1981 )
• 0April 9 : Paul Wessel , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR († 1967 )
• 0April 9 : August Wieschemeyer , German Marist father and theologian († 1979 )
• April 10 : Gerhard Aßfahl , German educator and local researcher († 2007 )
• April 10 : Scott E. Forbush , American geophysicist († 1984 )
• April 10 : Joachim Gottschalk , German actor († 1941 )
• April 11 : Werner Berg , German painter († 1981 )
• April 12 : Paul Dahlke , German actor († 1984 )
• April 13 : Martha Weber , German homeland poet († 1998 )
• April 14 : Matthias Andresen , German politician († 1992 )
• April 14 : John Gielgud , British actor († 2000 )
• April 14 : Hans Schumann , German motorcycle racer († 1968 )
• April 15 : Arshile Gorky , American painter († 1948 )
• April 16 : Clifford P. Case , American politician († 1982 )
• April 16 : Walter Walford Johnson , American politician († 1987 )
• April 17 : Joseph Ahrens , German composer and organist († 1997 )
• April 18 : Paul Zapp , leader of Sonderkommando 11a of Einsatzgruppe D, mass murderer († 1999 )
• April 21 : Leon Adde , American jazz drummer († 1942 )
• April 21 : Odilo Globocnik , National Socialist involved in the implementation of the Holocaust († 1945 )
• April 21 : Vasil Hopko , Greek Catholic auxiliary bishop of Prešov († 1976 )
• April 22 : Pino Bernasconi , Swiss lawyer and politician († 1983 )

Robert Oppenheimer, around 1944

• April 22 : Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist († 1967 )
• April 24 : Willem de Kooning , American painter († 1997 )
• April 25 : Huey Long , American musician († 2009 )
• April 26 : Igor Gorin , American singer, actor, composer and music teacher († 1982 )
• April 27 : Cecil Day-Lewis , writer and poet († 1972 )
• April 28 : Irene Ambrus , Hungarian singer and actress († 1990 )
• April 28 : Willi Kollo , German composer († 1988 )
• April 28 : Elisabeth Schumacher , German resistance fighter († 1942 )
• April 29 : Willi Dickhut , German communist and co-founder of the MLPD († 1992 )
• April 29 : Russ Morgan , American band leader, pianist, trombonist and composer († 1969 )
• April 29 : Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer († 1989 )

May

• 0May 3 : Bill Brandt , German photographer († 1983 )
• 0May 3 : Roberto Agramonte , Cuban philosopher, sociologist and politician († 1995 )
• 0May 4th : Antonio Buenaventura , Filipino composer († 1996 )
• 0May 4 : Umm Kulthum , Egyptian singer († 1975 )
• 0May 4 : Josef Pieper , German philosopher († 1997 )
• 0May 5 : Franz Arzdorf , German actor and director († 1974 )
• 0May 5 : Robert Kronfeld , Austrian glider pilot († 1948 )
• 0May 6 : Benjamin Akzin , Israeli professor († 1985 )
• 0May 6th : Clifford Raymond "Cliff" Carlisle , American country singer († 1983 )
• 0May 6 : Harry Martinson , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Winner (Literature) († 1978 )
• 0May 6 : Max Mallowan , British archaeologist († 1978 )
• 0May 6th : Moshé Feldenkrais , physicist, developed the Feldenkrais method († 1984 )
• 0May 9 : Erwin van Aaken , German architect († 2008 )
• 0May 9 : Gregory Bateson , British anthropologist († 1980 )
• 0May 9 : Pol Demeuter , Belgian motorcycle racer († 1934 )
• 0May 9 : David MacDonald , English film director († 1983 )
• 0May 9 : Grete Stern , German photographer and designer († 1999 )
• 0May 9 : Takeda Rintarō , Japanese writer († 1946 )
• May 10 : Kuwabara Takeo , Japanese literary scholar and translator († 1988 )

Salvador Dalí, 1965

• May 11 : Salvador Dalí , Spanish surrealism painter († 1989 )
• May 11 : Willy Sommerfeld , German silent film pianist († 2007 )
• May 13 : Ernst Duschön , German politician († 1981 )
• May 13 : Chishū Ryū , Japanese actor († 1993 )
• May 14 : Hans Albert Einstein , Albert Einstein's son and his wife Mileva Maric († 1973 )
• May 14 : Marcel Junod , Swiss doctor († 1961 )
• May 15 : Georg Knöpfle , German soccer player and soccer coach († 1987 )
• May 15 : Emmi Haux , German athlete († 1987 )
• May 15 : Merle Montgomery , American composer, pianist and music teacher († 1986 )
• May 16 : François Marty , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1994 )
• May 17 : Jean Gabin , French actor († 1976 )
• May 18 : Alfred Jäger , Czech-German medic († 1988 )
• May 20 : Margery Allingham , English crime novelist († 1966 )
• May 20 : Nagai Tatsuo , Japanese writer († 1990 )
• May 21 : Wolfgang Auler , German organist († 1986 )
• May 21 : Robert Montgomery , American actor († 1981 )
• May 21 : Fats Waller , jazz pianist, composer and singer († 1943 )
• May 22 : Erich Behrendt , German politician and SA member († 1941 )
• May 24 : Sefton Delmer , British journalist († 1979 )
• May 24 : Hanna Waag , German actress († 1995 )
• May 25 : Kurt Thomas , German composer and choir director († 1973 )
• May 25 : Lizzi Waldmüller , Austrian film actress and singer († 1945 )
• May 26 : Vincent Alo , high-ranking American mobster of La Cosa Nostra († 2001 )
• May 27 : Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete and Olympic champion († 1997 )
• May 29 : Grigori Romanowitsch Ginsburg , Russian pianist († 1961 )
• May 29 : Gregg Toland , American cameraman († 1948 )

June

• 0June 2 : František Plánička , Czech football player († 1996 )
• 0June 2 : Valaida Snow , American jazz trumpeter and singer († 1956 )

Johnny Weissmüller around 1925

• 0June 2 : Johnny Weissmüller , American swimmer and film actor († 1984 )
• 0June 3 : Friedrich Gondolatsch , German astronomer († 2003 )
• 0June 4th : Henry Grob , Swiss chess master († 1974 )
• 0June 4 : Anni Krahnstöver , German politician († 1961 )
• 0June 4 : Rudolf Preising , German Roman Catholic pastor, teacher, local researcher and archivist († 1981 )
• 0June 4th : Paul Schachtschabel , German soil scientist († 1998 )
• 0June 5 : Hans Furler , German politician († 1975 )
• 0June 6th : Hans Pauer , Austrian archivist and librarian († 1989 )
• 0June 7th : Udo Adelsberger , German inventor († 1992 )
• 0June 9 : William Joscelyn Arkell , British geologist († 1958 )
• 0June 9 : Herdis McCrary , American football player († 1981 )
• June 10 : Willi Agatz , German politician († 1957 )
• June 11 : Pinetop Smith , American jazz pianist († 1929 )
• June 11 : Emil František Burian , Czech composer († 1959 )
• June 12 : John Newmark , Canadian pianist († 1991 )
• June 13 : Hermann Stoll , German geologist and prehistorian († 1944 )
• June 14 : Benno Ammann , Swiss conductor and composer († 1986 )
• June 14 : Margaret Bourke-White , American photo reporter († 1971 )
• June 14 : Jenny Jugo , Austrian actress († 2001 )
• June 14 : Marion Yorck von Wartenburg , German lawyer and resistance activist († 2007 )
• June 15 : Anna Mahler , Austrian sculptor († 1988 )
• June 15 : Paul Joseph Z'dun , German "funny cyclist" († 1981 )
• June 16 : Paul Grupp , German cameraman († 1974 )
• June 17 : Ralph Bellamy , American actor († 1991 )
• June 18 : Clive Dunfee , British racing car driver († 1932 )
• June 18 : Manuel Rosenthal , French conductor and composer († 2003 )
• June 19 : Claus Back , German writer († 1969 )
• June 19 : Karl Fellinger , doctor († 2000 )

Heinrich von Brentano

• June 20 : Heinrich von Brentano , German politician († 1964 )
• June 20 : Antônio de Castro Mayer , Brazilian bishop († 1991 )
• June 23 : Placido Acevedo , Puerto Rican trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer († 1974 )
• June 23 : George William Ahr , American bishop († 1993 )
• June 24th : Louis Debeugny , French racing car driver († 1979 )
• June 24 : Kurt Kusenberg , German art critic and writer († 1983 )
• June 25 : Matthias Hoogen , German politician († 1985 )
• June 25 : Wladimir Konstantinowitsch Kokkinaki , Soviet test pilot († 1985 )
• June 26 : Peter Lorre , American-Hungarian film actor († 1964 )
• June 27 : Walter Damm , German politician, Member of the State Parliament in Schleswig-Holstein († 1981 )
• June 29 : Jean Berveiller , French organist and composer († 1976 )
• June 29 : Witold Hurewicz , Polish mathematician († 1956 )
• June 29 : Allie Morrison , American wrestler and Olympic champion († 1966 )
• June 29 : Umberto Mozzoni , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1983 )
• June 29 : Arthur Müller , German motorcycle racer († 1983 )
• June 30 : Oskar Paulini , German writer († 1980 )
• June 30 : Josef Wicki , Swiss Jesuit and missionary historian († 1993 )

July

• 0July 2nd : René Lacoste , French tennis player and fashion designer († 1996 )
• 0July 2 : Carl Weinrich , American organist and music teacher († 1991 )
• 0July 3 : Otto Gotsche , German politician and writer († 1985 )
• 0July 3 : Paul Bronisch , German artist and sculptor († 1989 )
• 0July 3 : Ralph Samuelson , American inventor of the sport of water skiing († 1977 )
• 0July 4th : Gerhard Just , German actor († 1977 )
• 0July 5 : Harold Mario Mitchell Acton , British author († 1994 )
• 0July 5 : Omar Cáceres , Chilean poet († 1943 )
• 0July 5 : Ernst Mayr , German-American biologist († 2005 )

Milton Stone as Dr. Galen "Doc" Adams in the television series Smoking Colts

• 0July 5 : Milburn Stone , American actor († 1980 )
• 0July 6 : Wilhelm Angerer , Austrian photographer († 1982 )
• 0July 8 : Henri Cartan , French mathematician († 2008 )
• 0July 9 : Heinz Jost , Head of Task Force A, Head of Office VI SD-Abroad in the RSHA († 1964 )
• 0July 9 : Otto Wahl , German cross-country skier († 1935 )
• July 12 : Heinrich Abegg (politician) , Swiss politician († 1984 )
• July 12 : Paul Braess , German university lecturer († 1972 )
• July 12 : Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet and diplomat († 1973 )
• July 12 : Pinchas Lawon , Israeli politician († 1976 )
• July 14 : Hans Bernd Gisevius , resistance fighter July 20, 1944 († 1974 )
• July 14 : Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld , German diplomat and author († 1999 )
• July 14 : Nadia Reisenberg , American pianist and music teacher († 1983 )
• July 15 : Hildegunde Fritzi Anders , German writer († 1944 )
• July 15 : Karl Richter , Berlin Social Democrat († 2005 )
• July 15 : Rudolf Arnheim , German-American art psychologist († 2007 )
• July 16 : Goffredo Petrassi , Italian composer († 2003 )
• July 16 : Léon-Joseph Suenens , Belgian theologian, Archbishop of Mechelen and Cardinal († 1996 )
• July 17 : Charlotte Prinz , German painter († 1993 )
• July 22nd : Georg Augustin , German lawyer († 1993 )
• July 22 : Karl Veken , German writer († 1971 )
• July 22nd : Otto Rombach , German journalist and writer († 1984 )
• July 22nd : Peter Igelhoff , musician and composer († 1978 )
• July 22nd : Walther G. Oschilewski , German publicist, poet and cultural historian († 1987 )
• July 23 : Georges Hugon , French composer († 1980 )
• July 24 : Léo Arnaud , American musician († 1991 )
• July 24th : Willi Boltze , German medium and long distance runner († 1937 )
• July 24 : Delmer Daves , American screenwriter and director († 1977 )
• July 27 : Hermann Jansen , Vicar General and Canon in Cologne (†)
• July 27 : Lyudmila Rudenko , Soviet chess player († 1986 )
• July 27 : Oskar Lange , Polish economist and minister († 1965 )
• July 28 : Elyesa Bazna , German spy († 1970 )
• July 28 : Pawel Alexejewitsch Cherenkov , Russian physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 1990 )
• July 30th : Irène Aïtoff , French pianist († 2006 )
• July 30 : Rudolf Anderl , German journalist and writer († 1971 )

August

• 0August 2 : Werner Seelenbinder , German wrestler and communist († 1944 )
• 0August 3 : Clifford D. Simak , American SF author († 1988 )
• 0August 3 : Wilhelm Naegel , German politician († 1956 )
• 0August 4th : Christian-Jaque , French director († 1994 )
• 0August 4th : Witold Gombrowicz , Polish writer († 1969 )
• 0August 4th : Otto Tschumi , Swiss painter († 1985 )
• 0August 6 : Henry Iba , American basketball coach († 1993 )
• 0August 6 : Tikhon Alexandrowitsch Rabotnow , Russian geobotanist and university professor († 2000 )
• 0August 7 : Erwin Fischer , German lawyer († 1996 )
• 0August 7th : Johanna Melzer , German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime († 1960 )
• 0August 7 : Ralph Bunche , American civil rights activist († 1971 )
• 0August 8 : Achille Varzi , Italian racing driver († 1948 )
• 0August 8 : István Szelényi , Hungarian composer († 1972 )
• 0August 9 : Hasso von Boehmer , Lieutenant Colonel in the General Staff and resistance fighter († 1945 )
• 0August 9 : Weston Adams , American sports official († 1973 )
• August 10 : Geraldo , English band leader († 1974 )
• August 10 : Karl Helling , German chess player († 1937 )
• August 10 : Albert Skira , Swiss publisher († 1973 )
• August 12 : Edward Montague Hussey Cooper , Australian actor († 2000 )
• August 12 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Romanow , heir to the throne, crown prince, son of Tsar Nicholas II († 1918 )
• August 14 : Martial Singher , French opera singer and music teacher († 1990 )
• August 15 : Victor Bruns , German bassoonist and composer († 1996 )
• August 16 : Genda Minoru , Japanese Air Force general and politician († 1989 )

Wendell Meredith Stanley

• August 16 : Wendell Meredith Stanley , American chemist and Nobel Prize winner († 1971 )
• August 17 : Franz Reuss , German major general († 1992 )
• August 20 : Hans-Georg Lindenstaedt , German table tennis player († 1975 )
• August 20 : Volodymyr Malanczuk , Ukrainian bishop († 1990 )
• August 21 : Count Basie , American jazz pianist, organist and band leader († 1984 )
• August 21 : Herbert Hesmer , German forest scientist († 1982 )
• August 22 : Deng Xiaoping , Chinese politician († 1997 )
• August 24 : Eric Ashby , British botanist († 1992 )
• August 24 : Ludwig Schmidseder , German composer († 1971 )
• August 25 : Wilhelm Abel , German economic historian († 1985 )

Christopher Isherwood, 1973

• August 26 : Christopher Isherwood , English-American writer († 1986 )
• August 26 : Michel Vieuchange , French adventurer († 1930 )
• August 27 : Ernst Degn , Austrian painter († 1990 )
• August 28 : Alfred Agar , English football player († 1989 )
• August 28 : Ernie Fields , American jazz trombonist and band leader († 1997 )
• August 29 : Louise Piëch , Austrian entrepreneur († 1999 )

Werner Forßmann

• August 29 : Werner Forßmann , German doctor, inventor of the cardiac catheter († 1979 )
• August 30 : Charles E. Bohlen , American diplomat († 1974 )
• August 30 : John Eldredge , American actor († 1961 )
• August 31 : Werner Weber , German constitutional lawyer († 1976 )

September

• 0September 1 : Viktor Aschenbrenner , expellee politician († 1992 )
• 0September 3 : Eduard Hartmann , Austrian politician († 1966 )
• 0September 4 : Gereon Josef Ausserlechner , Austrian Premonstratensian and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• 0September 5 : Johannes Spörl , German historian († 1977 )
• 0September 6 : Ljubomir Pipkow , Bulgarian composer († 1974 )
• 0September 7th : Hans Arnold , German SPD politician († 1981 )
• 0September 7th : Daniel Prenn , German tennis and table tennis player († 1991 )
• 0September 9 : Claudio Ferrer , Puerto Rican composer and singer († 1979 )
• 0September 9 : Feroze Khan , Pakistani hockey player and Olympic champion († 2005 )
• September 11 : William McKinley Gillum , American blues and hokum musician († 1966 )
• September 11th : Friedrich Schönauer , German politician († 1950 )
• September 11 : Kurt Karl Doberer , German engineer, journalist, writer and philatelist († 1993 )
• September 11 : Lyman Bradford Smith , American botanist († 1997 )
• September 12 : Joe Lederer , Austrian journalist and writer († 1987 )
• September 13 : Luigi Bertolini , Italian football player († 1977 )
• September 13 : Richard Scheringer , German anti-fascist and member of the KPD († 1986 )
• September 13 : Robert Stupperich , German theologian († 2003 )
• September 14 : Rudolf Zurmühl , German mathematician († 1966 )
• September 14 : Richard Mohaupt , German composer and Kapellmeister († 1957 )
• September 15 : Umberto II , King of Italy († 1983 )
• September 16 : Stewart Adams , Canadian ice hockey player († 1978 )
• September 16 : Alfred Klahr , Austrian communist and journalist († 1944 )
• September 17 : Edgar G. Ulmer , American film director († 1972 )
• September 17th : Frederick Ashton , British dancer and choreographer († 1988 )
• September 17 : Jürgen Kuczynski , German historian and social scientist († 1997 )
• September 17 : Jerry Colonna , American actor, comedian and musician († 1986 )
• September 17 : Wilfrid Schreiber , Professor of Social Policy († 1975 )
• September 18 : Dolores Viesèr , Austrian writer and narrator († 2002 )
• September 18 : Jean Dasté , French actor († 1994 )
• September 18 : Hans-Adolf Asbach , German politician († 1976 )
• September 20 : Raymond Gaillard , French entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1973 )
• September 21 : Norbert Dufourcq , French music historian and organist († 1990 )
• September 21 : Franz Stock , Catholic theologian († 1948 )
• September 21 : Hans Hartung , German-French painter and graphic artist († 1989 )
• September 22nd : Otto Guglia , Austrian historian, geographer and naturalist († 1984 )
• September 22 : Joe Valachi , Mafia member († 1971 )
• September 23 : Alfred Baum , Swiss composer, pianist and organist († 1993 )
• September 23 : Wilhelm Reitz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1980 )
• September 23 : Geoffrey Waddington , Canadian violinist and conductor († 1966 )
• September 25 : Ernst Zwilling , Austrian travel writer († 1990 )
• September 27 : Edvard Kocbek , Slovenian writer and publicist († 1981 )
• September 27 : Koene Dirk Parmentier , Dutch aviation pioneer († 1948 )
• September 28 : Luperce Miranda , Brazilian mandolinist and composer († 1977 )
• September 29 : Egon Eiermann , German architect († 1970 )
• September 29 : Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz , German diplomat († 1973 )
• September 29 : Greer Garson , American film actress († 1996 )
• September 29 : Jean-Pierre Timbaud , functionary of a French trade union († 1941 )
• September 29 : Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski , Soviet writer and revolutionary († 1936 )
• September 30 : Alfred F. Havighurst , American historian († 1991 )

October

• 0October 1 : Hans Brunke , German soccer player († 1985 )
• 0October 1 : Hermann Ehlers , German politician († 1954 )
• 0October 1 : Otto Frisch , Austro-British physicist († 1979 )
• 0October 1 : Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann , German sociologist and ethnologist († 1988 )
• 0October 1 : Milly Reuter , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1976 )
• 0October 2 : Graham Greene , British writer († 1991 )
• 0October 2 : Lal Bahadur Shastri , Indian politician and head of government († 1966 )
• 0October 3 : Pacho Galán , Colombian composer († 1988 )
• 0October 3 : Friedhelm Missmahl , German politician († 1967 )
• 0October 3 : Charles Pedersen , American chemist († 1989 )
• 0October 5 : Harald Lechenperg , German-Austrian photographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker († 1994 )
• 0October 6 : Horst Lange , German writer († 1971 )
• 0October 7th : Armando Castellazzi , Italian football player and coach († 1968 )
• 0October 7 : Günther Schwab , Austrian writer († 2006 )
• 0October 8 : Yves Giraud-Cabantous , French racing car driver († 1973 )
• October 10 : Sam Theard , American singer and songwriter († 1982 )
• October 12 : Ding Ling , Chinese writer († 1986 )
• October 13 : Jutta Hecker , German writer († 2002 )
• October 15 : Wolfgang Weyrauch , German writer and radio play author († 1980 )
• October 17 : Josef Klehr , SS-Unterscharführer, medic in Auschwitz, mass murderer († 1988 )
• October 20 : Tommy Douglas , Canadian politician († 1986 )
• October 20 : Mario von Galli , Jesuit, theological editor and publicist († 1987 )
• October 20 : Sergei Ignatjewitsch Rudenko , Soviet pilot († 1990 )
• October 21 : Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher , German-American psychologist († 2006 )
• October 21 : Edmond Hamilton , American author a. a. by Captain Future († 1977 )
• October 24 : Madeleine Delbrêl , French writer († 1964 )
• October 24 : Theodor Eschenburg , political scientist, journalist and constitutional lawyer († 1999 )
• October 24 : Moss Hart , American writer († 1961 )
• October 24 : Egon Strohm , German journalist, writer and translator († 1983 )
• October 25 : Cemal Reşid Rey , Turkish composer († 1985 )
• October 26 : Virgilio Felice Levratto , Italian football player and coach († 1968 )
• October 27 : Ludwig Raiser , Professor of Civil, Commercial and Business Law († 1980 )
• October 30 : Sergio Amidei , Italian screenwriter († 1981 )
• October 30 : Neil H. McElroy , American politician († 1972 )

November

• 0November 3 : Jānis Kalniņš , Canadian composer († 2000 )
• 0November 3 : Franz Varelmann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag († 1978 )
• 0November 4 : Friedrich Tamms , architect, professor at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg († 1980 )
• 0November 4 : Werner Henneberger , German architect, social democrat († 1977 )
• 0November 5 : Alfredo Brilhante da Costa , Brazilian soccer player († 1980 )
• 0November 6 : Paul Bleiß , German politician († 1996 )
• 0November 7th : Jonas Aistis , Lithuanian poet and essayist († 1973 )
• 0November 7th : Gino Rossetti , Italian football player († 1992 )
• 0November 7th : Aaly Tokombayev , Kyrgyz poet († 1988 )
• 0November 8 : Etienne Aigner , Hungarian fashion designer († 2000 )
• 0November 9 : Karl Adolphs , German politician († 1989 )
• 0November 9 : Viktor Brack , National Socialist functionary, war criminal († 1948 )
• November 10 : Hans Ahlgrimm , Austrian composer and violinist († 1945 )
• November 10 : Max Kukil , German politician († 1959 )
• November 10 : Tawee Boonyaket , Minister of Agriculture and Prime Minister of Thailand († 1971 )
• November 11 : Alger Hiss , American attorney († 1996 )
• November 11 : Erna Raupach-Petersen , German folk actress († 1997 )
• November 11 : John Henry Constantine Whitehead , British mathematician († 1960 )
• November 12th : Edmund Veesenmayer , National Socialist war criminal († 1977 )
• November 12 : Jacques Tourneur , American film director († 1977 )
• November 13 : Fritz Benscher , German actor, quiz master, presenter, radio play speaker and director († 1970 )
• November 13 : Günter Reimann , German economist and journalist († 2005 )
• November 13 : Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg , German lawyer and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• November 14th : Art Hodes , jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and journalist († 1993 )
• November 14 : Felix Messerschmid , German educator († 1981 )
• November 14 : Dick Powell , American actor († 1963 )
• November 14 : Arthur Michael Ramsey , Archbishop of Canterbury († 1988 )
• November 14 : Elise Aylen Scott , Canadian writer († 1972 )
• November 16 : Joseph Baumgartner , German economist and politician († 1964 )
• November 16 : Nnamdi Azikiwe , Nigerian politician (President) († 1996 )
• November 16 : Renée Saint-Cyr , French actress († 2004 )
• November 17 : Isamu Noguchi , Japanese sculptor († 1988 )
• November 17 : Paul Chaudet , Swiss politician († 1977 )
• November 18 : Mihai Antonescu , Romanian politician († 1946 )
• November 19 : Rudolf Meyer-Ronnenberg , German politician († 1973 )
• November 19 : Antonio Vojak , Italian football player and coach († 1975 )
• November 21 : Coleman Hawkins , American jazz musician († 1969 )
• November 22nd : Louis Néel , French physicist († 2000 )
• November 23 : Ludwig Rellstab , German chess player († 1983 )
• November 25th : Toni Ortelli , Italian alpinist, conductor and composer († 2000 )
• November 25 : Ba Jin , Chinese writer († 2005 )
• November 25 : Lillian Copeland , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1964 )
• November 26th : Hanna Adenauer , German art historian († 1978 )
• November 26 : Paul Klüber , German painter († 1944 )
• November 27 : Klara Blum , German-Chinese writer († 1971 )
• November 28 : Nancy Mitford , English writer and biographer († 1973 )
• November 29 : Franz Xaver Lehner , German composer and university lecturer († 1986 )
• November 30th : Helmuth Naudé , German modern pentathlon († 1943 )
• November 30th : Robert T. Odeman , German cabaret artist († 1985 )

• November 30th : Clyfford Still , American painter († 1980 )

December

• 0December 4 : Albert Norden , GDR politician († 1982 )
• 0December 4th : Herman Autrey , member of the band "Fats Waller & his Rhythm" († 1980 )
• 0December 6 : Alexander Ivanovich Vwedensky (poet) , Russian poet († 1941 )
• 0December 6 : Eve Curie , writer and advisor to the Secretary General of NATO († 2007 )
• 0December 7th : Martin Frey , German politician († 1971 )
• 0December 8 : Christopher Addison , British peer († 1976 )
• 0December 8 : Marty Barry , Canadian ice hockey player († 1969 )
• 0December 8 : Wilmer Allison , American tennis player († 1977 )
• 0December 9 : Cornelius Ysselstyn , Canadian cellist and music teacher († 1979 )
• December 10 : Antonín Novotný , Czechoslovak politician and president († 1975 )
• December 11 : Felix Nussbaum , German painter († 1944 )
• December 11 : Nicola Riezzo , Italian Archbishop († 1998 )
• December 11th : Franz Zauner , Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Linz († 1994 )
• December 14 : Gustav Burmester , German director and actor († 1978 )
• December 14 : Emmerich Nagy , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1929 )
• December 15 : Herbert Blankenhorn , diplomat († 1991 )
• December 16 : Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici , Italian sword fencer († 1970 )
• December 16 : Nakanoshima Kin-ichi , Japanese composer († 1984 )
• December 18 : Oskar Müller , Austrian football coach
• December 18 : George Stevens , American director († 1975 )
• December 19 : Fritz Richter , German graphic artist and painter († 1981 )
• December 20 : Lissy Arna , German actress († 1964 )
• December 21 : Erling Sivertsen , Norwegian carcinologist and zoologist († 1989 )
• December 24 : Hugo Friedrich , German Romanist († 1978 )
• December 25 : Gerhard Herzberg , German-Canadian chemist and physicist († 1999 )
• December 25th : Paul Kunze , Dutch fencer († 1983 )
• December 25 : Funabashi Seiichi , Japanese novelist († 1976 )
• December 26 : Alejo Carpentier , French-Cuban writer († 1980 )
• December 27 : René Bonnet , French racing driver and vehicle designer († 1983 )
• December 27 : Georg Groscurth , German doctor and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• December 27 : Konrad Wölki , German composer, mandolinist († 1983 )
• December 28 : Joseph Offenbach , German actor († 1971 )
• December 28 : Hori Tatsuo , Japanese writer († 1953 )
• December 29 : Michele Abbruzzo , Italian actor († 1996 )
• December 29 : Adolf Ott , leader of Sonderkommando 7b in Belarus († 1973 )
• December 30th : Edith Schultze-Westrum , German actress († 1981 )
• December 30th : Dmitri Borissowitsch Kabalewski , Russian composer († 1987 )
• December 31 : Johannes Pietzonka , researcher († 1989 )
• 00.December: Richard Watney , British racing driver and businessman († 1949 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Monroe Abbey , Canadian lawyer († 1993 )
• Aleksandrs Ābrams , Latvian football player († unknown)
• Max Aeschlimann , Swiss inventor and entrepreneur († 1971 )
• Glore Becker-Bettermann , German painter († 1980 )
• Oscar Muñoz Bouffartique , Cuban composer, songwriter, violinist, pianist and band leader († 1990 )
• Pete Briggs , American tuba player and bass player
• Magnus Henning , German composer and pianist († 1995 )
• İsmail Kılıç Kökten , Turkish archaeologist († 1974 )
• Shambhu Maharaj , Indian dancer († 1970 )
• Stefan Ochaba , Austrian composer, church musician and choir director († 1948 )
• Napoleón Zayas , Dominican merengue musician, composer, saxophonist and orchestra leader († 1979 )

Died

January to March

• 0January 2 : Ferdinand Bonaventura Prince Kinsky , Bohemian nobleman (* 1834 )
• 0January 2 : James Longstreet , General of the Confederation (* 1821 )
• 0January 3 : Otto Karlowa , German legal scholar, legal historian and Romanist (* 1836 )
• 0January 9 : Charles Foster , American politician (* 1828 )
• January 10 : Alfred Emil Oskar Agster , German politician (* 1858 )
• January 11 : John Young Brown , American politician (* 1835 )
• January 12 : Reinhold Johow , German lawyer (* 1823 )
• January 15 : Karl Eduard Ferdinand Ascherson , German classical philologist and librarian (* 1832 )
• January 15 : Asa S. Bushnell , American politician (* 1834 )
• January 24th : Friedrich I , Duke of Anhalt (* 1831 )
• January 24th : Albert Hollenbach , German organ builder (* 1850 )
• January 24th : Curt von Knobelsdorff , Prussian lieutenant colonel (* 1839 )

Johann Traugott Mutschink († 1904)

• January 24th : Johann Traugott Mutschink , Sorbian folk writer and local historian (* 1821 )
• January 27 : Heinrich Otto Lehmann , German legal scholar, legal historian and university professor (* 1852 )
• January 28 : Karl Emil Franzos , Austrian novelist, publicist, novelist and editor (* 1848 )

• 0February 7th : Emil Rosenow , German politician and writer (* 1871 )
• 0February 8 : Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Portuguese opera singer (* 1825 )
• February 11 : Vladimir Markovnikov , Russian chemist (* 1837 )
• February 15 : Mark Hanna , American industrialist and politician (* 1837 )
• February 23 : Friederike Kempner , German-speaking poet (* 1828 )
• February 28 : Levegh , French racing car driver (* 1870 )

• 0March 5 : Alfred von Waldersee , German military, Field Marshal General of Prussia (* 1832 )
• 0March 7th : Ferdinand André Fouqué , French geologist (* 1828 )
• March 13 : Hugo von François , German officer (* 1861 )
• March 17 : Gideon C. Moody , American politician (* 1832 )
• March 24th : Emma Herwegh , German revolutionary (* 1817 )
• March 25 : Conrad Justus Bredenkamp , German Protestant theologian and university professor (* 1847 )

April to June

• 0April 1 : Otto von Böhtlingk , Indologist (* 1815 )

Isabella II

• 0April 9th : Isabella II , Queen of Spain (* 1830 )
• April 13 : Stepan Ossipowitsch Makarow , Russian admiral and polar explorer (* 1849 )
• April 13 : Saitō Ryokuu , Japanese writer (* 1867 )
• April 13 : Michail Wassiljew , commander of the first Russian icebreaker (* 1857 )
• April 15 : Eugen Dieterich , chemist and pioneer in the German pharmaceutical industry (* 1840 )
• April 24th : Norodom I , King of Cambodia (* 1834 )

Antonín Dvořák

• 0May 1st : Antonín Dvořák , Czech composer (* 1841 )
• 0May 5 : Mór Jókai , Hungarian writer and journalist (* 1825 )
• 0May 6 : Franz von Lenbach , German painter (* 1836 )
• 0May 7 : Peter Hille , German writer (* 1854 )
• 0May 8 : Eadweard Muybridge , British photographer and pioneer of photographic technology (* 1830 )

Henry Morton Stanley

• May 10 : Henry Morton Stanley , Scottish journalist and Livingstone seeker in Africa (* 1841 )
• May 19 : Jamshedji Tata , Indian entrepreneur and industrialist (* 1839 )
• May 23 : Karl Christian Andreae , German painter (* 1823 )
• May 24th : Friedrich Siemens , German industrialist (* 1826 )
• May 30th : Robert Assmus , German landscape painter and illustrator (* 1842 )

• 0June 1 : George Frederic Watts , British painter (* 1817 )
• 0June 5 : Sami Frashëri , Albanian man of letters (* 1850 )
• 0June 7th : Otto von Heinemann , German librarian and historian (* 1824 )
• June 10 : Carl Weitbrecht , German poet and literary historian (* 1847 )
• June 12 : Camille de Renesse , Belgian count (* 1836 )
• June 24th : Frederick Field Bullard , American composer (* 1864 )
• June 25 : Wilhelm Jordan , German writer (* 1819 )
• June 29 : John L. Mitchell , American politician (* 1842 )

July to September

• 0July 2 : Henri Béconnais , French racing driver (* 1869 )
• 0July 3 : Theodor Herzl , Austrian writer and politician (* 1860 )
• 0July 6 : Abai Qunanbajuly , Kazakh poet, writer and thinker (* 1845 )
• July 14th : Paul Kruger , South African politician and founder of the Kruger National Park (* 1825 )

Anton Chekhov, around 1903

• July 15 : Anton Chekhov , Russian writer and playwright (* 1860 )
• July 17 : Wilhelm Marr , German political journalist (* 1819 )
• July 18 : Friedrich Jakob Dochnahl , German naturalist and pomologist (* 1820 )
• July 20 : Friedrich von Schele , German officer and governor of German East Africa (* 1847 )
• July 24th : Fulvio Fulgonio , Italian writer and librettist (* 1832 )
• July 24th : Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Koenigs , Cologne banker (* 1843 )
• July 25 : Marie von Najmájer , Austrian writer (* 1844 )
• July 30 : Joseph Lajeunesse , Canadian musician and music teacher (* 1818 )
• July 31 : Richard Kund , German officer and explorer (* 1852 )

• 0August 2 : Friedrich Bernhard Gustav von Arnim , Prussian politician (* 1820 )
• 0August 4th : Arnold Krug , German composer (* 1849 )
• 0August 6th : Eduard Hanslick , Austrian musicologist and music critic (* 1825 )
• 0August 7th : William Adams , English engineer (* 1823 )
• 0August 8 : James Cox Aikins , Canadian politician (* 1823 )
• 0August 9 : Friedrich Ratzel , German zoologist and geographer (* 1844 )
• August 11 : Rudolf Ganßer , German colonial officer (* 1866 )
• August 11 : Alexander Meyer-Cohn , German banker and autograph collector (* 1853 )
• August 15 / August 16 : Adolf Ausfeld , German classical philologist (* 1855 )
• August 18 : Peter Becker , German painter (* 1828 )
• August 22 : Kate Chopin , American writer (* 1850 )
• August 29 : Murad V , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (* 1856 )

• 0September 4 : Antonio Chiattone , Swiss sculptor (* 1856 )
• 0September 4 : Carlo von Erlanger , German explorer and ornithologist (* 1872 )
• 0September 4 : Martin Johnson Heade , American painter (* 1819 )
• September 16 : Gaston Thierry , German officer and colonial official (* 1866 )
• September 18 : Herbert von Bismarck , politician, son of Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (* 1849 )
• September 21 : Chief Joseph , chief of the Nez Percé Indians (* 1840 )
• September 23 : Émile Gallé , French artisan (* 1846 )
• September 24th : Niels Ryberg Finsen , Danish doctor and Nobel Prize winner (* 1860 )
• September 27 : Oskar Appelius , German architect (* 1837 )
• September 29 : Hugo Knorr , German painter (* 1834 )
• September 29 : Friedrich Eduard Krichauff , German-Australian botanist and politician (* 1824 )

October to December

• 0October 1 : Samuel Rousseau , French composer (* 1853 )

FA Bartholdi, sculptor and creator of the Statue of Liberty, 1898

• 0October 4th : Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi , French sculptor (* 1834 )
• 0October 4th : Adela Florence Nicolson , English poet (* 1865 )
• 0October 4 : Henry C. Payne , American politician (* 1843 )
• 0October 4 : Karl Tanera , German officer and writer (* 1849 )
• 0October 7th : Isabella Bishop , British travel writer (* 1831 )
• 0October 8 : Matt Whitaker Ransom , American officer and politician (* 1826 )

Clemens Winkler, around 1875

• 0October 8 : Clemens Winkler , German chemist (* 1838 )
• October 12 : Engelbert Lanz , Austrian composer and music teacher (* 1820 )
• October 13 : Harald Asplund , Swedish engineer (* 1831 )
• October 15 : George I , heir to the throne of Albert I (Saxony) (* 1832 )
• October 20 : Henry Hiles , English composer, organist and music teacher (* 1826 )
• October 21 : Isabelle Eberhardt , Swiss-French globetrotter and travel writer (* 1877 )
• October 22 : Carl Josef Bayer , Austrian chemist (* 1847 )
• October 28 : George K. Nash , American politician (* 1842 )
• October 29 : Benjamin Harrison Eaton , American politician (* 1833 )

• 0November 4th : Gaston Serpette , French composer (* 1846 )
• 0November 4 : Buren Sherman , American politician (* 1836 )
• 0November 5 : Heinrich Bertram , German educator (* 1826 )
• November 10 : Moritz Alphons Stübel , German naturalist (* 1835 )
• November 26th : Peter Heinrich Brincker , German missionary in German South West Africa (* 1836 )
• November 29th : Fanny Janauschek , actress (* 1828 )

• 0December 2 : Karl Koester , German pathologist and university professor (* 1843 )
• 0December 5 : James Noble Tyner , American politician (* 1826 )
• 0December 6th : Maria Zanders , German paper manufacturer and benefactor of culture (* 1839 )
• December 11th : Friedrich Hammacher , German lawyer, member of the Reichstag and business leader (* 1824 )
• December 12th : Emanuel Schiffers , Russian chess master (* 1850 )
• December 28 : Otto Intze , Professor of Hydraulic Engineering (* 1843 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Bertha Akermann-Hasslacher , German writer (* 1840 )
• Camille Andrès , French organist and composer (* 1864 )
• William Gillet Ritch , American politician (* 1830 )

Web links

Commons : 1904  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : 1904  - album containing pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/1904/ (Living virtual museum online)