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Who Was Alive in 1904

118 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1904

Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 84
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 84
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 82
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 76
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 76
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 76
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 70
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 69
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 69
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 65
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 64
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 63
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 60
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 57
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 57
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 52
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 48
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 48
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 48
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 48
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 46
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 46
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 46
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 45
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 44
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 43
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 42
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 42
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 42
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 41
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 41
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 40
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 39
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 38
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 38
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 37
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 37
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 36
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 36
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 35
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 35
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 35
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 34
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 33
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 33
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 33
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 33
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 32
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 32
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 30
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 30
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 30
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 30
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 29
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 29
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 29
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 26
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 26
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 26
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 25
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 25
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 24
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 23
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 23
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 23
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 22
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 22
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 22
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 22
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 21
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 21
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 21
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 21
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 20
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 20
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 19
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 18
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 17
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 17
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 17
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 17
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 16
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 15
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 15
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 15
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 15
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 14
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 14
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 14
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 14
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 12
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 12
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Mao Zedong
Mao ZedongAge 11
1893–1976 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Aldous Huxley
Aldous HuxleyAge 10
1894–1963 · Literature
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita KhrushchevAge 10
1894–1971 · Politics & Leadership
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babe Ruth
Babe RuthAge 9
1895–1948 · Sports
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Buster Keaton
Buster KeatonAge 9
1895–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Silent film comedian, The General
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 8
1896–1940 · Literature
The Great Gatsby
Amelia Earhart
Amelia EarhartAge 7
1897–1937 · Exploration
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Golda Meir
Golda MeirAge 6
1898–1978 · Politics & Leadership
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisAge 6
1898–1963 · Literature
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Duke Ellington
Duke EllingtonAge 5
1899–1974 · Music
Jazz legend, big band pioneer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest HemingwayAge 5
1899–1961 · Literature
The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel laureate
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 5
1899–1986 · Literature
Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred HitchcockAge 5
1899–1980 · Film & Entertainment
Master of Suspense — Psycho, Vertigo
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey BogartAge 5
1899–1957 · Film & Entertainment
Casablanca, Hollywood icon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 4
1900–1944 · Literature
Aviator and author of The Little Prince
Werner Heisenberg
Werner HeisenbergAge 3
1901–1976 · Science & Invention
Uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics pioneer
Louis Armstrong
Louis ArmstrongAge 3
1901–1971 · Music
What a Wonderful World, jazz trumpet
Walt Disney
Walt DisneyAge 3
1901–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Created Mickey Mouse, Disney empire
Enrico Fermi
Enrico FermiAge 3
1901–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of the nuclear age, first nuclear reactor
Hirohito
HirohitoAge 3
1901–1989 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Japan during WWII
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene DietrichAge 3
1901–1992 · Film & Entertainment
German-American film star and singer
George Orwell
George OrwellAge 1
1903–1950 · Literature
1984, Animal Farm
Bob Hope
Bob HopeAge 1
1903–2003 · Film & Entertainment
Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert OppenheimerAge 0
1904–1967 · Science & Invention
Father of the atomic bomb
Salvador Dalí
Salvador DalíAge 0
1904–1989 · Art
The Persistence of Memory, surrealist
Pablo Neruda
Pablo NerudaAge 0
1904–1973 · Literature
Chilean poet and Nobel laureate

Born in 1904

Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
1904–1989 · Art
The Persistence of Memory, surrealist
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
1904–1973 · Literature
Chilean poet and Nobel laureate
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
1904–1967 · Science & Invention
Father of the atomic bomb

Also Born in 1904

1904–1973 · born July 12
Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician (1904–1973)
1904–1997 · born August 22
Leader of China from 1978 to 1989
1904–1991 · born October 2
British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
1904–1986 · born January 18
British-American actor (1904–1986)
1904–1990 · born March 20
American psychologist and social philosopher (1904–1990)
1904–1978 · born May 6
Swedish writer
1904–1942 · born March 7
German high-ranking Nazi official (1904–1942)
1904–1991 · born March 2
American author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
1904–1988 · born April 6
Chancellor of West Germany from 1966 to 1969
1904–1966 · born October 2
Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966
1904–1980 · born December 26
Cuban novelist (1904–1980)
1904–2000 · born November 22
French physicist (1904–2000)

Died in 1904

Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master

Also Died in 1904

1860–1904 · died July 15
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
1841–1904 · died May 1
Czech composer (1841–1904)
1860–1904 · died July 3
Father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
1830–1904 · died April 9
Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
1860–1904 · died September 24
Faroese physician and Nobel laureate (1860–1904)
1840–1904 · died August 29
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1876
1845–1904 · died July 6
Kazakh poet and composer (1845–1904)
1839–1904 · died May 19
Indian industrialist (1839–1904)
1824–1904 · died January 10
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
1825–1904 · died July 14
South African politician (1825–1904)
1850–1904 · died August 22
American author (1850–1904)
1834–1904 · died October 4
French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)

Sources

  1. 1904 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  3. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  4. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  5. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  6. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  7. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  8. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  9. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  10. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  11. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  12. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  13. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  14. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  15. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  16. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  17. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  18. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  19. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  20. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  21. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  22. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  23. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  24. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  25. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  26. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  27. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  28. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  29. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  30. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  31. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  32. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  33. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  34. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  35. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  36. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  37. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  38. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  39. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  40. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  41. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  42. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  43. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  44. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  45. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  46. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  47. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  48. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  49. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  50. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  51. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  52. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  53. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  54. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  55. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  56. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  57. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  58. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  59. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  60. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  61. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  62. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  63. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  64. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  65. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  66. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  67. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  68. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  69. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  70. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  71. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  72. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  73. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  74. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  75. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  76. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  77. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  78. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  79. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  80. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  81. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  82. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  83. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  84. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  85. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  86. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  87. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  88. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  89. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  90. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  91. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  92. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  93. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
  94. Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
  95. Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
  96. Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
  97. Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
  98. Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
  99. F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  100. Amelia Earhart — Wikipedia
  101. Golda Meir — Wikipedia
  102. C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
  103. Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
  104. Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
  105. Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
  106. Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
  107. Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
  108. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
  109. Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
  110. Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
  111. Walt Disney — Wikipedia
  112. Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
  113. Hirohito — Wikipedia
  114. Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
  115. George Orwell — Wikipedia
  116. Bob Hope — Wikipedia
  117. J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
  118. Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
  119. Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
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