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The following events occurred in August 1904:
August 1, 1904 (Monday)[edit]
- John Carr, a contractor, carried out a mass shooting at a hotel in Nebraska City, Nebraska, killing one man and wounding eight others, including two police officers.[1][2]
- Died: Robert E. Pattison, 53, American politician, former Governor of Pennsylvania, died of pneumonia.[3][4]
August 2, 1904 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Died: Jacob H. Studer, 64, American ornithologist, died of heart failure.[5][6]
August 3, 1904 (Wednesday)[edit]
- The British expedition to Tibet under Colonel Francis Younghusband took Lhasa.[7][8]
- Born: Dolores del Río (born Lolita Dolores Martinez Asúnsolo López Negrette), Mexican actress; in Durango, Mexico (d. 1983, liver failure due to hepatitis)[9]
- Died:
- Ernst Jedliczka, 49, Russian-born German pianist[10]
- William O'Connor Morris, 79, Irish county court judge and historian[11]
- Pierre-Nicolas "Peter" Remillard, 67, Quebec-born brick manufacturer, died of a heart attack.[12]
August 4, 1904 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born:
- Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist; in Małoszyce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1969)[13]
- Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress; in The Bronx, New York City (d. 1966, breast cancer)[14][15]
- Died:
- James T. Lewis, 84, former Governor of Wisconsin, died of apoplexy.[16][17]
- Jo Hamilton, 77, American lawyer and politician, former Attorney General of California[18]
- Robert Crannell Minor, 65, American artist[19][20]
August 5, 1904 (Friday)[edit]
- Died: Sir George Dibbs KCMG, 69, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales, died of heart disease.[21][22][23]
August 6, 1904 (Saturday)[edit]
- Edmund Bell, an African American man, was lynched 8 miles (13 km) from Selma, Alabama, by a 300-person masked African American mob for the August 2 murder of Houston Cruggs, also African American.[24]
- Born: Ballard Berkeley (born Ballard Blascheck), British actor; in Kent, England (d. 1988)[25][better source needed]
- Died:
- Eduard Hanslick, 78, Austrian music critic[26][27]
- James Cox Aikins, PC, 81, Canadian politician[28][29][30]
August 7, 1904 (Sunday)[edit]
- On the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near Pueblo, Colorado, a flash flood caused the Eden train wreck, which left over 100 people dead or missing.[31][32][33][34][35]
- Rafael Reyes assumed office as President of Colombia, succeeding José Manuel Marroquín.[36]
- Born: Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize; in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1971, complications of heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes)[37][38]
- Died: Yamaguchi Motomi, 58, Imperial Japanese Army general and samurai, died of natural causes.[39]
August 8, 1904 (Monday)[edit]
- A conflagration in the old quarter of Strasbourg (then in the German Empire) destroyed an orphan asylum and the Sainte-Madeleine Church and caused $1,500,000 in damage.[40][41] The church would be rebuilt in 1907, destroyed again in 1944 during World War II, and once again rebuilt in 1958.
- Died:
- Mamie Gilroy, c. 33, American actress, died of heart disease.[42]
- John Innes JP, 75, British philanthropist[43][44]
August 9, 1904 (Tuesday)[edit]
- An earthquake with a magnitude estimated at 6.8 Ms and 7.0–7.2 Mw struck 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Cape Turnagain, New Zealand. The quake, the largest in New Zealand since 1888, caused one death and extensive damage.[45][46]
- Eight Moro and Igorrote leaders, who were participating in the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, visited U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House.[47]
- Died:
- George Graham Vest, 73, American politician, former member of the Confederate States Congress and the United States Senate from Missouri[48][49][50]
- Sir William Mitchell Banks FRCS, 61, Scottish surgeon[51][52]
- Joseph David Everett, 72, English physicist, died of heart failure.[53]
- Friedrich Ratzel, 59, German geographer and ethnographer[54][55]
- John F. Starr, 86, American businessman and politician, former member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey[56][57][58]
August 10, 1904 (Wednesday)[edit]
- The Battle of the Yellow Sea resulted in a strategic Japanese victory.[59]
- Died:
- Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, 57, French politician, 29th Prime Minister of France, died after surgery.[60][61]
- Wilgelm Vitgeft, 56, Russian admiral, was killed in action at the Battle of the Yellow Sea.[59][62]
August 11, 1904 (Thursday)[edit]
- A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Samos in the Ottoman Empire, with an aftershock occurring three days later. Four people were killed.[63][64]
- Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero people at the Battle of Waterberg in German South West Africa and drove them into the Omaheke desert, beginning the Herero and Namaqua genocide.[65][66][67]
- Eight miners drowned when the Berringer gold mine near Gold Hill, North Carolina, filled with water due to a dam giving way.[68]
- Born: Bernard Castro, Italian inventor; near Palermo, Sicily (d. 1991)[69]
- Died: Samuel Putnam Avery, 82, American art dealer and connoisseur[70][71]
August 12, 1904 (Friday)[edit]
- Born: Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia; at Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire[72][73] (murdered in 1918)
- Died:
- George H. Brickner, 70, German-born American politician, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin[74][75]
- Kawamura Sumiyoshi, 67, Japanese admiral[76][77][78][self-published source?]
- William Renshaw, 43, British tennis player, died of epileptic convulsions.[79][80][81]
August 13, 1904 (Saturday)[edit]
- Ten spectators at the annual regatta on the Potomac River at Georgetown drowned when the gasoline launch Recreation capsized. Four people were rescued.[82][83]
- Born:
- Jonathan Hole, American actor; in Eldora, Iowa (d. 1998)[84]
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor and jazz musician; in Olathe, Kansas (d. 1999)[85]
- Died: Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington, 83[86]
August 14, 1904 (Sunday)[edit]
- Ismael Montes became President of Bolivia.[87]
- Died:
- Eduard von Martens, 73, German zoologist[citation needed]
- William Wainwright, 67–68, American real estate developer, died of gastritis.[88]
August 15, 1904 (Monday)[edit]
- Died: John Henry Kinkead, 77, American businessman and politician, 1st Governor of Alaska and 3rd Governor of Nevada[89][90]
August 16, 1904 (Tuesday)[edit]
- In Statesboro, Georgia, a lynch mob invaded a courthouse where two African-American men, Paul Reed and Will Cato, had just been convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of five members of a white family. The lynchers chained Reed and Cato to a tree stump and burned them to death.[91][92]
- Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Edward VII of the United Kingdom paid mutual visits at Marienbad, Bohemia.[93]
- Born:
- Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate; in Ridgeville, Indiana (d. 1971)[94]
- Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician; in Hiroshima (d. 1989)[95]
- Died:
- Prentiss Ingraham, 60, Confederate Army colonel and author of dime fiction, died of Bright's disease.[96]
- George E. Lounsbury, 66, American politician, 58th Governor of Connecticut[97][98]
August 17, 1904 (Wednesday)[edit]
- A Japanese infantry charge failed to take Port Arthur.[citation needed]
- In Chicago, a collision between a train of three trolley cars and a Chicago Great Western Railroad express train killed 4 people and injured 24.[99][100]
- Born:
- Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician; in Burke, Louisiana (d. 1984)[101]
- Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist; in Vienna (d. 1991)[102]
August 18, 1904 (Thursday)[edit]
- Chris Watson resigned as the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia and was succeeded by George Reid (Free Trade Party).[103][104]
August 19, 1904 (Friday)[edit]
- Born: George de la Warr, British civil engineer and alternative physician; in Southwick, Sussex (d. 1969)[105]
August 20, 1904 (Saturday)[edit]
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August 21, 1904 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Count Basie (born William James Basie), American musician and bandleader; in Red Bank, New Jersey (d. 1984, pancreatic cancer)[106]
- Died: Gaudensi Allar, 63, French architect[107]
August 22, 1904 (Monday)[edit]
- Born:
- Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader; in Sichuan, Qing China (d. 1997)[108]
- Jay Novello (born Michael Romano), American actor; in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1982, lung cancer)[109]
- Died: Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty), 54, American author[110]
August 23, 1904 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born:
- Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (born Thelma Morgan), American socialite twin; in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1970, heart attack)[citation needed]
- Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Maria Mercedes Morgan), American socialite twin; in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1965, cancer)[citation needed]
- William Primrose, Scottish violist; in Glasgow (d. 1982, cancer)[111]
August 24, 1904 (Wednesday)[edit]
- The Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag was established.[112]
- Born:
- Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell; in Sunderland (d. 1986, cancer)[113]
- Aparicio Méndez, 50th President of Uruguay; in Rivera (d. 1988)[114]
August 25, 1904 (Thursday)[edit]
- Died: Henri Fantin-Latour, 68, French painter[115]
August 26, 1904 (Friday)[edit]
- Born:
- Christopher Isherwood, English writer; in High Lane, Cheshire (d. 1986, prostate cancer)[116]
- Georgia Schmidt, American actress; in Marion, Indiana (d. 1997)[citation needed]
August 27, 1904 (Saturday)[edit]
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August 28, 1904 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer; in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (d. 1980)[117]
August 29, 1904 (Monday)[edit]
- Born: Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; in Berlin, Germany (d. 1979, heart failure)[118]
- Died: Murad V, 63, former Ottoman Sultan, died of diabetes.[119][120]
August 30, 1904 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Died:
- Michael A. Healy, 64, United States Revenue Cutter Service captain, died of a heart attack.[121] Healy was the first man of African American descent to command a U.S. government ship, but self-identified as white in his lifetime.[citation needed]
- George Ridding, 76, English headmaster and bishop, first Bishop of Southwell[122]
August 31, 1904 (Wednesday)[edit]
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- ^ "76 KNOWN DEAD IN FLOOD TRAIN WRECK; Cars Dropped Into a Torrent When Trestle Collapsed". The New York Times. 9 August 1904. Page 1, column 1. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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- ^ "RAFAEL REYES ASSUMES REINS OF GOVERNMENT Succeeds Senor Maroquin as President of Colombia—New Cabinet Is Named". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 70. 9 August 1904. Page 3, column 5. Retrieved 11 April 2024 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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- ^ "Ex-Senator Vest Dies at Sweet Springs, Mo.; Had Been Unconscious Since Early Sunday Morning". The New York Times. 10 August 1904. Page 7, column 5. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ "MISSOURI'S DISTINGUISHED SON IS VISITED BY ANGEL OF DEATH Former Senator George Vest Gives Up the Struggle Against the Inevitable and Peacefully Passes Away at His Home". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 71. 10 August 1904. Page 2, columns 2-3. Retrieved 11 April 2024 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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