Birthdays In History 1904

1904 Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry Pakistani lawyer and politician 5th President of Pakistan (d. 1982)

1904 Walter Heitler German physicist and chemist (d. 1981)

1904 Jeane Dixon American astrologer and psychic (d. 1997)

1904 Erika Morini Austrian violinist (d. 1995)

1904 George Plant Executed Irish Republican (d. 1942)

1904 Karl Brandt German physician and SS officer (d. 1948)

1904 Ray Bolger American actor and dancer (d. 1987)

1904 Mississippi Fred McDowell American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)

1904 Richard Addinsell English composer (d. 1977)

1904 Nathan Milstein Ukrainian-American violinist and composer (d. 1992)

1904 Dick Rowley Irish footballer (d. 1984)

1904 Cecil Beaton English photographer painter and costume designer (d. 1980)

1904 Emily Hahn American journalist and author (d. 1997)

1904 Babe Siebert Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1939)

1904 Hem Vejakorn Thai painter and illustrator (d. 1969)

1904 Anthony Galla-Rini American accordion player and composer (d. 2006)

1904 Puck van Heel Dutch footballer (d. 1984)

1904 John Porter Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)

1904 Arkady Gaidar Russian journalist and author (d. 1941)

1904 Ancel Keys American physiologist and nutritionist (d. 2004)

1904 Bozorg Alavi Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)

1904 MacKinlay Kantor American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1904 Ernest E. Debs American politician (d. 2002)

1904 John Farrow Australian-American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1963)

1904 Lucile Randon French supercentenarian (d. 2023)

1904 Mary Adshead English painter (d. 1995)

1904 Antonin Magne French cyclist and manager (d. 1983)

1904 James Baskett African-American actor and singer (d. 1948)

1904 George F. Kennan American historian and diplomat United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005)

1904 Hans Morgenthau German-American political scientist philosopher and academic (d. 1980)

1904 Havank Dutch journalist and author (d. 1964)

1904 Terence Fisher English director and screenwriter (d. 1980)

1904 William L. Shirer American journalist and historian (d. 1993)

1904 James T. Farrell American author and poet (d. 1979)

1904 André Leducq French cyclist (d. 1980)

1904 Yulii Borisovich Khariton Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996)

1904 Jimmy Dorsey American saxophonist composer and bandleader (d. 1957)

1904 Pepper Martin American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)

1904 Paul Hartman American actor singer and dancer (d. 1973)

1904 Luis Carrero Blanco Spanish admiral and politician 69th President of the Government of Spain (d. 1973)

1904 George Gamow Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968)

1904 Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)

1904 Karl Rahner German priest and theologian (d. 1984)

1904 Ivar Ballangrud Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)

1904 Kurt Weitzmann German-American historian and author (d. 1993)

1904 Paul Wilbur Klipsch American soldier and engineer founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (d. 2002)

1904 Lyudmila Keldysh Russian mathematician (d. 1976)

1904 Clifford Roach Trinidadian cricketer and footballer (d. 1988)

1904 Doris Eaton Travis American actress and dancer (d. 2010)

1904 George Brent Irish-American actor (d. 1979)

1904 J. Pat O'Malley English-American actor (d. 1985)

1904 Chaim Gross Austrian-American sculptor and educator (d. 1991)

1904 Srečko Kosovel Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926)

1904 B. F. Skinner American psychologist and author (d. 1990)

1904 Jehane Benoît Canadian journalist and author (d. 1987)

1904 Forrest Mars Sr. American candy maker created M&M's and Mars bar (d. 1999)

1904 Nikos Skalkottas Greek violinist and composer (d. 1949)

1904 Pete Johnson American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist (d. 1967)

1904 Joseph Campbell American mythologist and author (d. 1987)

1904 Emilio Fernández Mexican actor director and screenwriter (d. 1986)

1904 Attilio Ferraris Italian footballer (d. 1947)

1904 Xenophon Zolotas Greek economist and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)

1904 Margaret Tucker Australian author and activist (d. 1996)

1904 Ripper Collins American baseball player and coach (d. 1970)

1904 Harald Berglund Swedish cinematographer (d. 1980)

1904 Iron Eyes Cody American actor and stuntman (d. 1999)

1904 Sally Rand American dancer (d. 1979)

1904 Russel Wright American furniture designer (d. 1976)

1904 Richard Eberhart American poet and academic (d. 2005)

1904 Kurt Georg Kiesinger German lawyer politician and Chancellor of Germany (d. 1988)

1904 Erwin Komenda Austrian car designer and engineer (d. 1966)

1904 Roland Wilson Australian economist and statistician (d. 1996)

1904 John Hicks English economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

1904 Hirsch Jacobs American horse trainer (d. 1970)

1904 Sharkey Bonano American singer trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1972)

1904 K. L. Saigal Indian singer and actor (d. 1947)

1904 David Robinson English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1987)

1904 Fifi D'Orsay Canadian-American vaudevillian actress and singer (d. 1983)

1904 Pigmeat Markham African-American comedian singer and dancer (d. 1981)

1904 Jean Hélion French painter (d. 1987)

1904 Odilo Globocnik Italian-Austrian SS officer (d. 1945)

1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer American physicist and academic (d. 1967)

1904 Clifford Bricker Canadian long-distance runner (d. 1980)

1904 Louis Muhlstock Polish-Canadian painter (d. 2001)

1904 Duncan Renaldo American actor (d. 1985)

1904 Willem de Kooning Dutch-American painter and educator (d. 1997)

1904 Paul-Émile Léger Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)

1904 Xenophon Zolotas Greek economist and politician 177th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)

1904 Cecil Day-Lewis Anglo-Irish poet and author (d. 1972)

1904 Nikos Zachariadis Greek politician (d. 1973)

1904 Moshé Feldenkrais Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 1984)

1904 Catherine Lacey English actress (d. 1979)

1904 Harry Martinson Swedish novelist essayist and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)

1904 John Snagge English journalist (d. 1996)

1904 Louis Duffus Australian-South African cricketer and journalist (d. 1984)

1904 Hans Albert Einstein Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973)

1904 Marcel Junod Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (d. 1961)

1904 Clifton Fadiman American game show host and author (d. 1999)

1904 Marie-Anne Desmarest French author (d. 1973)

1904 Margery Allingham English author of detective fiction (d. 1966)

1904 Robert Montgomery American actor and director (d. 1981)

1904 Uno Lamm Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)

1904 Chūhei Nambu Japanese jumper and journalist (d. 1997)

1904 George Formby English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1961)

1904 Necip Fazıl Kısakürek Turkish author poet and playwright (d. 1983)

1904 Vlado Perlemuter Lithuanian-French pianist and educator (d. 2002)

1904 Hubert Opperman Australian cyclist and politician (d. 1996)

1904 Frank Runacres English painter and educator (d. 1974)

1904 Jan Peerce American tenor and actor (d. 1984)

1904 Bhagat Puran Singh Indian publisher environmentalist and philanthropist (d. 1992)

1904 Lin Huiyin Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)

1904 Margaret Bourke-White American photographer and journalist (d. 1971)

1904 Ralph Bellamy American actor (d. 1991)

1904 J. Vernon McGee American pastor and theologian (d. 1988)

1904 Patrice Tardif Canadian farmer and politician (d. 1989)

1904 Keye Luke Chinese-American actor (d. 1991)

1904 Manuel Rosenthal French conductor and composer (d. 2003)

1904 Quintin McMillan South African cricketer (d. 1938)

1904 Phil Harris American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)

1904 Peter Lorre Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964)

1904 Witold Hurewicz Polish mathematician (d. 1956)

1904 Angela Baddeley English actress (d. 1976)

1904 Harold Acton English scholar and author (d. 1994)

1904 Ernst Mayr German-American biologist and ornithologist (d. 2005)

1904 Milburn Stone American actor (d. 1980)

1904 Robert Whitney American conductor and composer (d. 1986)

1904 Erik Wickberg Swedish 9th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1996)

1904 Simone Beck French chef and author (d. 1991)

1904 Henri Cartan French mathematician and academic (d. 2008)

1904 Lili Damita French-American actress (d. 1994)

1904 Niño Ricardo Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1972)

1904 Rudolf Arnheim German-American psychologist and author (d. 2007)

1904 Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith American lawyer and farmer (d. 1985)

1904 Frank Scott Hogg Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951)

1904 Edwin Albert Link American industrialist and entrepreneur invented the flight simulator (d. 1981)

1904 Lyudmila Rudenko Soviet chess player (d. 1986)

1904 Mahasi Sayadaw Burmese monk and philosopher (d. 1982)

1904 J. R. D. Tata French-Indian pilot and businessman founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (d. 1993)

1904 Salvador Novo Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974)

1904 Brett Halliday American engineer surveyor and author (d. 1977)

1904 Dolores del Río Mexican actress (d. 1983)

1904 Clifford D. Simak American journalist and author (d. 1988)

1904 Witold Gombrowicz Polish author and playwright (d. 1969)

1904 Helen Kane American singer and actress (d. 1966)

1904 Joe Tate English footballer and manager (d. 1973)

1904 Kenneth V. Thimann English-American botanist and microbiologist (d. 1997)

1904 Jean Dessès Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)

1904 Henry Iba American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)

1904 Achille Varzi Italian racing driver (d. 1948)

1904 Idel Jakobson Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer (d. 1997)

1904 Tamás Lossonczy Hungarian painter (d. 2009)

1904 Buddy Rogers American actor and musician (d. 1999)

1904 Margaret Tafoya Native American Pueblo potter (d. 2001)

1904 George Klein Canadian inventor invented the motorized wheelchair (d. 1992)

1904 Minoru Genda Japanese general pilot and politician (d. 1989)

1904 Wendell Meredith Stanley American biochemist and virologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1904 Mary Cain American journalist and politician (d. 1984)

1904 Leopold Nowak Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991)

1904 Max Factor Jr. American businessman (d. 1996)

1904 Maurice Wilks English engineer and businessman (d. 1963)

1904 Count Basie American pianist composer and bandleader (d. 1984)

1904 William Primrose Scottish viola player and educator (d. 1982)

1904 Ida Cook English campaigner for Jewish refugees and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (d. 1986)

1904 Christopher Isherwood English-American author and academic (d. 1986)

1904 Joe Hulme English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991)

1904 Alar Kotli Estonian architect (d. 1963)

1904 Norah Lofts English author (d. 1983)

1904 John Hay Whitney American businessman publisher and diplomat founded J.H. Whitney & Company (d. 1982)

1904 Secondo Campini Italian-American engineer (d. 1980)

1904 Leho Laurine Estonian chess player (d. 1998)

1904 Werner Forssmann German physician and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

1904 Johnny Mack Brown American football player and actor (d. 1974)

1904 August Jakobson Estonian author and politician (d. 1963)

1904 Vera Bradford Australian pianist and educator (d. 2004)

1904 C. B. Colby American author (d. 1977)

1904 Feroze Khan Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (d. 2005)

1904 Arthur Laing Canadian lawyer and politician 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (d. 1975)

1904 Honey Craven American horse rider and manager (d. 2003)

1904 Max Shachtman American theorist and politician (d. 1972)

1904 Karl Plutus Estonian lawyer and jurist (d. 2010)

1904 István Horthy Hungarian fighter pilot and deputy regent (d. 1942)

1904 John Courtney Murray American priest and theologian (d. 1967)

1904 Lou Moore American race car driver (d. 1956)

1904 Alberta Williams King American civil rights organizer mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 1974)

1904 Gladys George American actress (d. 1954)

1904 Frank Amyot Canadian sprint canoeist (d. 1962)

1904 Richard Mohaupt German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1957)

1904 Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)

1904 Sheilah Graham Westbrook English-American actress journalist and author (d. 1988)

1904 Bun Cook Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)

1904 Jose de Rivera American soldier and sculptor (d. 1985)

1904 David Eccles 1st Viscount Eccles English businessman and politician Secretary of State for Education (d. 1999)

1904 Hans Hartung German-French painter (d. 1989)

1904 Arthur Folwell English-Australian rugby league player coach and administrator (d. 1966)

1904 Edvard Kocbek Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981)

1904 Michał Waszyński Polish film director and producer (d. 1965)

1904 Waldo Williams Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971)

1904 Otto Robert Frisch Austrian-English physicist and academic (d. 1979)

1904 A. K. Gopalan Indian educator and politician (d. 1977)

1904 Lal Bahadur Shastri Indian and politician Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)

1904 Ernst-Günther Schenck German colonel and physician (d. 1998)

1904 Armando Castellazzi Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)

1904 Yves Giraud-Cabantous French race car driver (d. 1973)

1904 Lester Dent American journalist and author (d. 1959)

1904 Ding Ling Chinese author and educator (d. 1986)

1904 Wilfred Pickles English actor and radio host (d. 1978)

1904 Christian Pineau French politician French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1995)

1904 Mikhail Pervukhin Soviet politician First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)

1904 Björn Berglund Swedish actor (d. 1968)

1904 Aarne Juutilainen Finnish army captain (d. 1976)

1904 A. J. Liebling American journalist and author (d. 1963)

1904 Haim Shirman Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)

1904 Enolia McMillan American educator and activist (d. 2006)

1904 Anna Neagle English actress singer and producer (d. 1986)

1904 Constance Bennett American actress singer and producer (d. 1965)

1904 Saúl Calandra Argentine football player (d. 1973)

1904 Karl Guthe Jansky American physicist and radio engineer (d. 1950)

1904 Harvey Penick American golfer and coach (d. 1995)

1904 A.K. Golam Jilani Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932)

1904 Riho Lahi Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)

1904 George Dangerfield English-American historian journalist and author (d. 1986)

1904 Laura LaPlante American silent film actress (d. 1996)

1904 Tadeusz Żyliński Polish engineer technician and academic (d. 1967)

1904 Cooney Weiland Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)

1904 Cedric Belfrage English-American journalist and author co-founded the National Guardian (d. 1990)

1904 Viktor Brack German SS officer (d. 1948)

1904 Heiti Talvik Estonian poet (d. 1947)

1904 Alger Hiss American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996)

1904 J. H. C. Whitehead British mathematician and academic (d. 1960)

1904 Max Hoffman Austrian-born car importer and businessman (d. 1981)

1904 H. C. Potter American director and producer (d. 1977)

1904 Harold Haley American lawyer and judge (d. 1970)

1904 Harold Larwood English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995)

1904 Dick Powell American actor singer director and producer (d. 1963)

1904 Nnamdi Azikiwe 1st President of Nigeria (d. 1996)

1904 Isamu Noguchi American sculptor and architect (d. 1988)

1904 Alan Lennox-Boyd 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton English lieutenant and politician Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1983)

1904 Masao Koga Japanese composer and guitarist (d. 1978)

1904 Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. American murderer (d. 1971)

1904 Arnold Gartmann Swiss bobsledder (d. 1980)

1904 Coleman Hawkins American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1969)

1904 Miguel Covarrubias Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957)

1904 Louis Néel French physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)

1904 Fumio Niwa Japanese author (d. 2005)

1904 Albert Ross Tilley Canadian captain and surgeon (d. 1988)

1904 Lillian Copeland American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1964)

1904 Toni Ortelli Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)

1904 Armand Frappier Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)

1904 K. D. Sethna Indian poet scholar writer philosopher and cultural critic (d. 2011)

1904 James Eastland American planter and politician (d. 1986)

1904 Nancy Mitford English journalist and author (d. 1973)

1904 Margaret Barr Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (d. 1991)

1904 Clyfford Still American painter and educator (d. 1980)

1904 Edgar Moon Australian tennis player (d. 1976)

1904 Albert Norden German journalist and politician (d. 1982)

1904 Ève Curie French-American journalist and pianist (d. 2007)

1904 Clarence Nash American voice actor and singer (d. 1985)

1904 Robert Livingston American actor and singer (d. 1988)

1904 Antonín Novotný Czechoslovak politician President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1975)

1904 Marge American cartoonist (d. 1993)

1904 Virginia Coffey American civil rights activist (d. 2003)

1904 Paul Cadmus American painter and illustrator (d. 1999)

1904 George Stevens American director producer screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1975)

1904 Spud Davis American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1984)

1904 Yevgenia Ginzburg Russian author (d. 1977)

1904 Joseph M. Juran Romanian-American engineer and businessman (d. 2008)

1904 Gerhard Herzberg German-Canadian physicist and chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

1904 Alejo Carpentier Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (d. 1980)

1904 René Bonnet French race car driver and engineer (d. 1983)

1904 Kuvempu Indian author and poet (d. 1994)

1904 Dmitry Kabalevsky Russian composer and academic (d. 1987)

1904 James J. Gibson American psychologist and academic (d. 1979)

1904 S.J. Perelman American humorist and screenwriter (d. 1979)

1904 Ted Mack American radio and television host (d. 1976)

1904 José Antonio Aguirre Spanish lawyer and politician 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)

1904 Goffredo Petrassi Italian composer and conductor (d. 2003)

1904 Jacob K. Javits American colonel and politician 58th New York Attorney General (d. 1986)

1904 Shunryū Suzuki Japanese-American monk and educator (d. 1971)

1904 Conrad Bernier Canadian-American organist composer and educator (d. 1988)

1904 Bruce Cabot American actor (d. 1972)

1904 Arshile Gorky Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)

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