1904 (MCMIV Roman numerals are a numeral system of ancient Rome based on letters of the alphabet, which are combined to signify the sum of their values. The first ten Roman numerals are) was a leap year starting on Friday This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Friday , such as 1988, 1960, or 2016 (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas. The reformed calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries (or a leap year starting on Thursday This is the calendar for any leap year starting on Thursday , such as 1976 or 2004 of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus. It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12).

Events of 1904

January–February

• January 7 January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of the year – The distress signal A distress signal is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help. Distress signals take the form of or are commonly made by using radio signals, displaying a visually detected item or illumination, or making an audible sound, from a distance CQD CQD, transmitted in Morse code as — · — · · · · is one of the first distress signals adopted for radio use. It was announced on January 7, 1904, by "Circular 57" of the Marconi International Marine Communication Company, and became effective, for Marconi installations, beginning February 1, 1904 is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS SOS is the commonly used description for the international Morse code distress signal . This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard under the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906 and became effective.
• January 12 January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of the year – Henry Ford Henry Ford was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and sets a new automobile An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the land speed record The 'land speed record' is the fastest speed achieved by any wheeled vehicle on land. There is no single body for validation and regulation; what is used in practice is the Category C ("Special Vehicles") flying start regulations, officiated by regional or national organizations under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de l' of 91.37 mph.
• January 16 January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of the year – The first large-scale bodybuilding Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy; an individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their appearance. The muscles are revealed through a process known as the & competition in America takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over global commerce, finance, media, culture, art, fashion, research, education, and entertainment. As host of the.
• February 7 February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days remaining until the end of the year – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore , is an independent city and the largest city and cultural center of the U.S. state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding Baltimore County. Founded in destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• February 8 February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of the year – A Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur (Lushun) Lüshunkou is located at the extreme southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. It has an excellent natural harbour, the possession and control of which became a casus belli in the Russo-Japanese War . Japanese and then Soviet administration would continue until 1953. During the first decade of that period, it was world famous and was more starts the Russo-Japanese War The Russo–Japanese War (Japanese: 日露戦争; Romaji: Nichi-Ro Sensō; Russian: Русско-японская война Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna; simplified Chinese: 日 .
• February 10 February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 324 days remaining until the end of the year – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian Belgium (pronounced /ˈbɛldʒəm/ , BEL-jəm), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a atrocities in the Congo The Congo Free State was a government privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through a dummy non-governmental organization, the Association Internationale Africaine. Leopold was the sole shareholder and chairman, who increasingly used it for rubber, copper and other minerals in the upper Lualaba River basin . The state included.
• February 23 February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of the year – For $10 million, the United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language gains control of the Panama Canal The Panama Canal is a 77 km ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal's early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008, displacing a total 309.6 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons Zone.
• February 28 February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of the year – Sport Lisboa e Benfica is founded in Portugal Portugal /ˈpɔɹtʃʉɡəl/ (Portuguese: Portugal, Mirandese: Pertual), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa; Mirandese: República Pertuesa), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and.

March–April

• March 3 March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 303 days remaining until the end of the year – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany Wilhelm II (27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. Among the Allies during World War I, he was known either as The Kaiser or Kaiser Bill becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he's cylinder.
• March 4 March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year – Russo-Japanese War The Russo–Japanese War (Japanese: 日露戦争; Romaji: Nichi-Ro Sensō; Russian: Русско-японская война Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna; simplified Chinese: 日 : Russian Russia (pronounced /ˈrʌʃə/ ; Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya, pronounced [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian Federation (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, pronounced [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈraʦəjə] ( listen)), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal troops in Korea Korea (Korean: 한국 "Hanguk" [ˌhanˈkuːk—]-South and North Korea, rsp. ) is a territory of East Asia that was formerly unified under one state, but now divided into two separate states and a region in northeastern Asia. Located on the Korean Peninsula, it is bordered by China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is retreat toward Manchuria Manchuria is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within People's Republic of China, or is divided between China and Russia. The region is commonly referred to as Northeast China , and historically referred as Guandong (simplified Chinese: �, followed by 100,000 Japanese Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is troops.
• March 31 March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of the year – British expedition to Tibet – Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered chiefly for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British expedition to Tibet, which he led, during which a massacring of Tibetan soldiers occurred , and for his writings on Asia defeat ill-equipped Tibetan Tibet is a plateau region in Asia and a disputed territory, north of the Himalayas. It is home to the indigenous Tibetan people, and to some other ethnic groups such as Monpas and Lhobas, and is inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft). It troops.
• April 8 April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining until the end of the year
  • The Entente Cordiale The Entente-cordiale is a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and the French Republic. Beyond the immediate concerns of colonial expansion addressed by the agreement, the signing of the Entente cordiale marked the end of almost a millennium of intermittent conflict between the two nations and their predecessor is signed between the UK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land and France France (pronounced /ˈfrænts/ frantss or /ˈfrɑːnts/ frahnts; French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a state in Western Europe with several of its overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian,.
  • Longacre Square Longacre Square in New York City, the predecessor of Times Square, Manhattan, formed a nexus of important roads to the north of the island at the intersection of 42nd Street, Bloomingdale Road and Seventh Avenue, today in Midtown Manhattan in Midtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square. Midtown Manhattan is home to the city's tallest and most famous buildings such as the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building is renamed Times Square Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th after The New York Times The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. Although it remains both the largest local metropolitan newspaper in the United States as well as third largest overall behind The Wall Street Journal and USA Today, the weekday circulation of the paper has fallen precipitously in.
  • Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema. He completes this task on April 10.
• April 19 – The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of that city's downtown, but there are no fatalities.
• April 27 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
• April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).

May–June

• May 4 – U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.
• May 4 – German football club FC Schalke 04 is established.
• May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• May 9 – GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.
• May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.
• June 10 – Irish author James Joyce meets his future wife Nora Barnacle.
• June 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,021.
• June 16 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• June 16 – James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle; he later uses this date (Bloomsday) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.
• June 28 – The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.
• June 29 – The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.

July–August

• July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the World's Fair.
• July 21 – The Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
• August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet.
• August 14 – Ismael Montes becomes President of Bolivia.
• August 17 – Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese infantry charge fails to take Port Arthur.
• August 18 – Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.

September–October

• September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
• 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 Professsional Business Fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University
• October 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
• October 21 – Russo-Japanese War – Dogger Bank incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the North Sea.
• October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.

November–December

• November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
• November 24 – The first successful caterpillar track is made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles and land warfare).
• December 2 – The St. Petersburg Soviet urges a run on the banks: the attempt fails and the executive committee is arrested.
• December 3 – Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia.
• December 4 – The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen in Denmark .
• December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity is founded.
• December 27 – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
• December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens.
• December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.

Undated

• The Herero Wars begin.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues a Second Manifesto against polygamy.
• The subject of alcohol and heart attacks is first investigated.
• The Loftus Road and Griffin Park football stadiums open.
• Stuyvesant High School is founded in New York City.
• The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman University, is founded.
• Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics.

Ongoing

• Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
• 1904-1905 Welsh Revival

Births

January–February

• January 1 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
• January 5 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
• January 10 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (The Wizard of Oz)(d. 1987)
• January 13 – Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
• January 14 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
• January 18 – Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
• January 22
  • George Balanchine, Russian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
  • Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
• January 26
  • Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
  • Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1988)
• January 27 – J. J. Gibson, American psychologist (d. 1979)
• January 28 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
• January 29 – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (d. 1976)
• February 1 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author (d. 1979)
• February 3
  • Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
  • Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
• February 4 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (d. 1977)
• February 10 – John Farrow, Australian film director (d. 1963)
• February 11 – Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1983)
• February 16
  • George F. Kennan, American diplomat (d. 2005)
  • Philip Rabinowitz (runner), South African record breaking sprinter (d. 2008)
• February 20 – Aleksei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
• February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957)

March–April

• March 1 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
• March 2 – Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (d. 1991)
• March 4
  • George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
  • Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
  • Chief Tahachee (actor), American-born stage and film actor (d. 1978)
• March 7 – Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (d. 1942)
• March 14 – Doris Eaton Travis, American actress (d. 2010)
• March 20 – B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psychologist (d. 1990)
• March 22 – Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (d. 2006)
• March 26
  • Gustave Biéler, Swiss-born hero of World War II (executed) (d. 1944)
  • Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (d. 1987)
  • Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
• April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General (d. 1945)
• April 3 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (d. 1979)
• April 8 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
• April 14 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
• April 15 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (d. 1948)
• April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
• April 22 – Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
• April 24 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
• April 26 – Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
• April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
• April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)

May–June

• May 6
  • Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer (d. 1984)
  • Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
• May 8 – John Snagge, British radio personality (d. 1996)
• May 11 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
• May 17 – Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
• May 21
• May 22 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (d. 1964)
  • Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
  • Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)
• May 26 – George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
• May 27 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
• June 2
  • Frantisek Planicka, Czech footballer (d. 1996)
  • Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (d. 1984)
• June 3 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
• June 6 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (d. 1928)
• June 26 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born film actor (d. 1964)

July–August

• July 5 – Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and author (d. 2005)
• July 6 – Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)
• July 8 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
• July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• July 15 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
• July 28 – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• August 4 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
• August 7 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
• August 12 – Tsarevich Alexei of Russia (d. 1918)
• August 16 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• August 17
  • Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
  • Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
• August 21 – Count Basie, American musician and bandleader (d. 1984)
• August 22 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997)
• August 23
  • Viscountess Furness, American socialite twin (d. 1970)
  • Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
• August 28 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
• August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)

September–October

• September 9 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
• September 22 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
• September 29 – Greer Garson, English actress (d. 1996)
• October 1
  • A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
  • Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia Earhart look-alike/believed alias(d. 1982)
• October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• October 9 – Wally Brown, American actor and comedian (d. 1961)
• October 20 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
• October 23 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
• October 25 – Vladimir Peter Tytla, American animator (d. 1968)
• October 27 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)

November–December

• November 1 – Laura LaPlante, American silent film actress (d. 1996)
• November 2 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• November 4 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
• November 11 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960) and Alger Hiss, American Government official
• November 12 – Jacques Tourneur, French director (d. 1977)
• November 14
  • Dick Powell, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
  • Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1988)
• November 16 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (d. 1996)
• November 18 – Masao Koga, Japanese composer (d. 1978)
• November 25
  • Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
  • Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
• November 30 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
• December 6 – Eve Curie, French author (d. 2007)
• December 7 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor (d. 1985)
• December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor and socialite (d. 1981)
• December 18 – George Stevens, American film director (d. 1975)
• December 24 – Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and philanthropist (d. 2008)
• December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980)
• December 30 – Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
• December 31 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)
• date unknown
  • Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991)
  • Tevfik Esenç, Turkish-born last speaker of the Ubykh language (d. 1992)

Deaths

January–June

• January 2 – James Longstreet, Confederate Civil War general (b. 1821)
• January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter (b. 1824)
• February 8 – Alfred Ainger, English biographer (b. 1837)
• February 15 – Mark Hanna, United States Senator from Ohio (b. 1837)
• February 22 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
• March 5 – John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British founder of the Army Post Office Corps (b. 1829)
• March 17 – Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (b. 1819)
• April 10 – Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
• May 1 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
• May 8 – Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and motion picture pioneer (b. 1830)
• May 10 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (b. 1841)
• May 19 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
• June 4 – George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (b. 1862)
• June 12 – Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)

July–December

• July 3 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zionism (b. 1860)
• July 5 – Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
• July 14
  • Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
  • Paul Kruger, South African resistance leader (b. 1825)
• July 22 – Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)

• August 6 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
• August 12 – William Renshaw, British tennis player (b. 1861)
• August 16 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (b. 1843)
• August 22 – Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1851)
• August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
• August 29 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V (b. 1840)
• September 24 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist (b. 1860)
• September 26
  • Lafcadio Hearn, American-Japanese author (b. 1850)
  • John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
• October 4
  • Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
  • Laurence Hope, English poetess (b. 1865)
• October 18 – Haim Shirman, Russsian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (d. 1981)
• October 21 – Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss-Algerian explorer (b. 1877)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – The Lord Rayleigh
• Chemistry – Sir William Ramsay
• Physiology or Medicine – Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
• Literature – Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre
• Peace – Institut De Droit International

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