1904

This article is about the year 1904. Geographical Society of London in which he formu-
lates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of
geopolitics.
1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday
(dominical letter CB) of the Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of
1.2 February
the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era
(CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year February 7 The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore,
of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start
of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of
the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until
1923.

1 Events

1.1 January

Port Arthur from Gold Hill

February 89 Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise

Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lshun) in
Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.

February 7: Aftermath of the Great Baltimore Fire. February 10 Roger Casement publishes his ac-
count of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

January 7 The distress signal CQD is established, February 17 Puccini's opera Madama Buttery,
only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS. with a background theme of JapanUnited States re-
lations, debuts at La Scala in Milan to no great ac-
January 12 Henry Ford sets a new automobile land claim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia
speed record of 91.37 mph (147.05 km/h). to huge success.
January 16 The rst large-scale bodybuilding com- February 23 For $10 million, the United States
petition in America takes place at Madison Square gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
Garden in New York City.
February 28 Sport Lisboa e Benca is founded in
January 18 The Herero Rebellion in German
Portugal.
South-West Africa begins.
January 23 The lesund Fire destroys most build-
ings in the town of lesund, Norway, leaving about 1.3 March
10,000 people without shelter.
March 3 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes
January 25 Halford Mackinder presents a paper the rst person to make a political recording of a
on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.

1
2 1 EVENTS

March 4 Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops British expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Ti-
in Korea retreat toward Manchuria, followed by betans attack the British camp at Changlo and,
100,000 Japanese troops. for a while, hold the advantage before being
defeated by superior weapons and losing at
March 26 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde least 200 men.[1]
Park, London, to protest against the importation of
Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British May 9 Great Western Railway of England 3700
government. Class 3440 City of Truro becomes the rst railway
locomotive to exceed 100 mph (probably).
March 31 British expedition to Tibet Battle
of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis May 15 The Russian minelayer Amur lays a
Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops. mineeld about 15 miles (24 km) o Port Arthur
and sinks Japans battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons,
with 496 crew and Yashima.
1.4 April
May 21 The International Federation of Associa-
April 6 Joseph F. Smith announces the Second tion Football, FIFA, is established.
Manifesto in General Conference of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ending in fact the May 30 Alpha Gamma Delta, which becomes an
practice of plural marriage which had continued to international womens fraternity, is founded by 11
be practiced by many of its leaders in violation of women at Syracuse University.
the 1890 Manifesto ocially banning the practice.
April 8 1.6 June
The Entente Cordiale is signed between the June 10 Irish author James Joyce meets his future
UK and France. wife Nora Barnacle.
Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is
renamed Times Square after The New York June 15 A re aboard the steamboat General
Times. Slocum in New York Citys East River kills 1,021.
Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber Al vel June 16
Legis, better known as The Book of the Law,
a text central to Thelema. He completes this Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bo-
task on April 10. brikov, Governor-General of Finland.
James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Bar-
April 19 The Great Toronto Fire destroys much of
nacle; he later uses this date (Bloomsday) as
that citys downtown, but there are no fatalities.
the setting for his novel Ulysses.
April 27 The Australian Labor Party becomes the
June 28 The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs
rst such party to gain national government, under
aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, in-
Chris Watson.
cluding 225 Norwegian emigrants.
April 30 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Worlds Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes June 28 The original icon of Our Lady of Kazan
December 1). was stolen and subsequently destroyed in Russia.

June 29 The 1904 Moscow tornado occurs.

1.5 May
1.7 July
May 4
United States Army engineers begin work on July 1 The third Modern Olympic Games opens
the Panama Canal. in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the
Worlds Fair is 1st Summer Olympic Games of the
German football club FC Schalke 04 is estab-
20th Century.
lished.
May 5
1.8 August
Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics,
Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws August 3 British expedition to Tibet: The British
the rst perfect game in the modern era of expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband
baseball. takes Lhasa in Tibet.
1.10 October 3

September 25 The Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints President Joseph F. Smith issues
a Second Manifesto against polygamy.

September 26 New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack

is individually protected by Order in Council under
the Sea Fisheries Act.[2]

1.10 October
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 Professional

Business Fraternity, is founded on the campus of
New York University.

October 9 German journalist Anna Rling, in a

speech to the Scientic-Humanitarian Committee in
Berlin, makes the rst known public statement of the
socio-legal problems faced by lesbians.

October 15 Theta Tau, the Professional Engineer-

ing Fraternity, is founded at the University of Min-
nesota in Minneapolis.

October 19 Polytechnic University of the Philip-

pines is founded as Manila Business School
1904 Summer Olympics
through the superintendence of the American C.A.
O'Reilley.
August 11 Battle of Waterberg: Lothar von Trotha
October 21 Russo-Japanese War Dogger Bank
defeats the Herero in German South-West Africa
incident: The Russian Baltic Fleet res on British
and drives them into the Omaheke desert, start of
trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats in the
the Herero and Namaqua Genocide.
North Sea.
August 14 Ismael Montes becomes President of October 27 The rst underground line of the New
Bolivia. York City Subway opens.
August 17 Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese in- October 28 Panama and Uruguay establishes
fantry charge fails to take Port Arthur. diplomatic links.
August 18 Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister
of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid. 1.11 November
August 22 Chinas Deng Xiaoping ( )is born in November 8 U.S. presidential election, 1904:
Sichuan Province. Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats
Democrat Alton B. Parker.
1.9 September November 16 The settlement at Grytviken on
the British South Atlantic island territory of South
September 2 The rigged dugout canoe Tilikum Georgia is established by Norwegian sea captain
sails into the River Thames in England after a 3-year Carl Anton Larsen as a whaling station for his
voyage from Victoria, British Columbia westabout. Compaa Argentina de Pesca.[3]

September 7 British expedition to Tibet: The November 24 The rst successful caterpillar track
Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with is made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles
Colonel Francis Younghusband. and land warfare).
4 2 BIRTHS

November 24: caterpillar track

1.13 Date unknown

The Loftus Road and Grin Park football stadiums
open in London.

Stuyvesant High School is founded in New York

City.

November 8: Republican Theodore Roosevelt is elected President St. Bernards School is founded in New York City.
of the United States by defeating Democrat Alton B. Parker.
The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training
School for Negro Girls, now Bethune-Cookman
1.12 December University, is founded.

December 2 The St. Petersburg Soviet urges a The subject of alcohol and heart attacks is rst in-
run on the banks: the attempt fails and the execu- vestigated.
tive committee is arrested.

December 3 Charles Dillon Perrine discovers 2 Births

Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, Himalia.

December 4 The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom

2.1 January
(Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Her-
January 1 Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politi-
man von Rosen in Denmark.
cian (d. 1982)
December 6 Theodore Roosevelt announced his January 5 Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d.
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the 1997)
United States would intervene in the Western Hemi-
sphere should Latin American governments prove January 10 Ray Bolger, American actor, singer,
incapable or unstable. and dancer, better known for his role in The Wizard
of Oz(d. 1987)
December 10 The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is
founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, January 13 Richard Addinsell, British composer
SC. (d. 1977)

January 14
December 27 The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy
Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London. Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
December 30 The East Boston Tunnel opens. Ernst Wellmann, highly decorated German
Army ocer (d. 1970)
December 31 In New York City, the rst New
January 18 Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
Years Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
January 19 Leo Soileau, Cajun musician (d. 1980)
2.3 March 5

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 lm director (d.

1963)
Zacharias Roy, The 1st Teamspeak User

February 11 Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Min-

ister of New Zealand (d. 1983)

February 16

George F. Kennan, American diplomat (d.

2005)
Philip Rabinowitz (runner), South African
record breaking sprinter (d. 2008)
James Baskett, African-American actor (Un-
cle Remus in Disneys Song of the South) (d.
Cary Grant 1948)

February 20 Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet

January 21 Edris Rice-Wray Carson (d. 1990) Union (d. 1980)
January 22
February 22 Ernst Jakob Henne, German motor-
George Balanchine, Russian-born choreogra- cycle racer and racecar driver (d. 2005)
pher (d. 1983)
February 29 Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader
Arkady Gaidar, Russian childrens writer (d. (d. 1957)
1941)
January 26
2.3 March
Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
Sen 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 bod-
abil entertainer (d. 1979)
January 29 Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher
(d. 1976)

2.2 February
February 1
ngel Borlenghi, Argentine labor leader and
politician (d. 1962)
S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author
(d. 1979)
Dr. Seuss
February 3
6 2 BIRTHS

March 1

Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)

Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (d.
1973)

March 2 Dr. Seuss, American childrens 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, American-born stage and
lm actor (d. 1978)

March 5 Mow Pang Tzu, Republic of China air

force general (d. 1987)

March 6 Hugh Williams, English actor and drama-

tist (d. 1969)

March 7 Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi ocial

(d. 1942) Kurt Georg Kiesinger

March 14 Doris Eaton Travis, American actress

(d. 2010)

March 15 J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (d. 1985)

March 20 Frank Mills (politician), American

politician in Ohio legislature (1969)

B. F. Skinner, American behavioral psycholo-

gist (d. 1990)

March 22 Itche Goldberg, Yiddish author (d.

2006)

March 26

Gustave Biler, 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)

2.4 April Sir John Gielgud

April 1 Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army Gen-

eral (d. 1945) April 8 John Hicks, English economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1989)
April 3 Sally Rand, American dancer and actress
(d. 1979) April 9 Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician
(d. 1972)
April 6 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, former Chancellor
of West Germany (d. 1988) April 13 Elwood Pete Quesada, American air
2.5 May 7

Salvador Dal

J. Robert Oppenheimer

force general (d. 1993)

April 14 John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)

April 15 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter

(d. 1948)

April 16 Fi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)

April 22 J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physi-

cist (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)

Syd Nathan, American record producer and Fats Waller
music industry executive, founder of King
Records (d. 1968)
Joaqun Garca Morato, Spanish ghter ace (d.
April 29 Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor 1939)
(d. 1989)
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress
(d. 1975)
2.5 May May 6

May 4 Mosh Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born engineer

8 2 BIRTHS

2.6 June

Robert Montgomery

(d. 1984)
Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1978) Johnny Weissmuller
May 8 John Snagge, British radio personality (d.
1996) June 2
May 10 James Roy Andersen, American general Frantiek Plnika, Czech footballer (d. 1996)
(d. 1945)
Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and
May 11 Salvador Dal, Spanish artist (d. 1989) actor (Tarzan) (d. 1984)

May 17 June 3 Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)

Marie-Anne Desmarest, French novelist (d. June 6

1973)
Heinrich von Brentano, German politician (d.
Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976) 1964)
May 20 Margery Allingham, British detective c- June 7 Werner Gruner, German weapons designer
tion writer (d. 1966) (d. 1995)
May 21 Francisco Lpez Merino, Argentine poet (d.
Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian 1928)
(d. 1943) June 8 Angus McBean, Welsh photographer (d.
Robert Montgomery, American actor and di- 1990)
rector (d. 1981)
June 18 Keye Luke, Chinese-born American actor
May 22 Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (d. 1964) (d. 1991)
May 25 Charles L. Melson, United States Navy June 22 William O. Gallery, American admiral (d.
admiral (d. 1981) 1981)
May 26 George Formby, English singer and come- June 24 Phil Harris, American actor (d. 1995)
dian (d. 1961)
June 26 Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born lm actor (d.
May 27 Chhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1964)
1997)
June 27 Huguette Masson, French supercentenar-
May 30 Doris Packer, American actress (d. 1979) ian
2.8 August 9

2.7 July

Deng Xiaoping

July 2 Ren Lacoste, French tennis player and

businessman (d. 1996)

Christopher Isherwood July 5 Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist and au-

thor (d. 2005)

July 6 Erik Wickberg, General of The Salvation

Army (d. 1996)

July 8 Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d.

2008)

July 9 Hideo Oguni, Japanese writer (d. 1996)

July 12 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize

laureate (d. 1973)

July 15 Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d.

2007)

July 24 Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet

admiral (d. 1974)

July 26 Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer

in aviation, underwater archaeology, submersibles,
inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceano-
graphic equipment (d. 1981)

July 28 Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist, Nobel

Prize laureate (d. 1990)

Werner Forssmann July 29 J. R. D. Tata, Indian businessman (d.

1993)
10 2 BIRTHS

Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d.

1991)
August 19 George de la Warr, British alternative
physician (d. 1969)
August 21 Count Basie, American musician and
bandleader (d. 1984)
August 22
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (d. 1997)
Jay Novello, American actor (d. 1982)
August 23
Viscountess Furness, born Thelma Morgan,
American socialite twin (d. 1970)
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, born Gloria Mor-
gan, American socialite twin (d. 1965)
William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
August 24 Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jew-
ish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell
(d. 1986)
Dolores del Ro
August 26

2.8 August Christopher Isherwood, English writer (d.

1986)
August 3 Georgia Schmidt, American actress (d. 1997)
Dolores del Ro, Mexican actress (d. 1983) August 28 Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
August 4 (d. 1980)

Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and August 29 Werner Forssmann, German physi-
dramatist (d. 1969) cian, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (d. 1979)
Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, come-
dian, and actress (d. 1966)
August 7 Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, re- 2.9 September
cipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
August 12 Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Rus-
sia (d. 1918)
August 13
Charles Buddy Rogers, American actor and
jazz musician (d. 1999)
Jonathan Hole, American actor (d. 1998)
August 16
Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval ocer,
and politician (d. 1989)
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
Greer Garson
August 17
Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and September 9 Feroze Khan, Pakistani eld hockey
politician (d. 1984) player (d. 2005)
2.12 December 11

September 12 Lou Moore, American race car Alger Hiss, American lawyer, government of-
driver and team owner (d. 1956) cial, author and lecturer (d. 1996)
September 13 Alberta Williams King, American November 12 Jacques Tourneur, French director
civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King, (d. 1977)
Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Shot)
(d. 1974) November 14

September 14 Richard Mohaupt, German com- Dick Powell, American actor and singer (d.
poser and Kapellmeister (d. 1957) 1963)
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
September 19 Elvia Allman, American actress (d.
(d. 1988)
1992)
November 16 Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of
September 29 Greer Garson, English actress (d.
Nigeria (d. 1996)
1996)
November 18 Masao Koga, Japanese composer (d.
1978)
2.10 October
November 22 Louis Nel, French physicist, Nobel
October 1 Prize laureate (d. 2000)
Irene Craigmile Bolam, American Amelia November 25
Earhart look-alike/believed alias (d. 1982)
A. K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
1977) Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d.
2000)
October 2 Graham Greene, English author (d.
1991) November 30 Clyord Still, American painter (d.
1980)
October 3 Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
October 9 Wally Brown, American actor and co- 2.12 December
median (d. 1961)
October 18 Haim Shirman, Russian-born Israeli
professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry (d.
1981)
October 20 Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician
(d. 1986)
October 23 Harvey Penick, American golfer (d.
1995)
October 25 Vladimir Peter Tytla, American ani-
mator (d. 1968)

2.11 November
November 1 Laura La Plante, American silent lm
actress (d. 1996)
November 2 Hugh Lygon, English aristocrat (d.
1936)
November 4 Tadeusz yliski, Polish technician
and textilist (d. 1967) Clarence Nash
November 11
J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. December 4 Albert Norden, German politician (d.
1960) 1982)
12 3 DEATHS

December 30

Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d.

1987)
David M. Shoup, American general (d. 1983)

2.13 Date unknown

Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (d. 1991)

Tevk Esen, Turkish-born last speaker of the

Ubykh language (d. 1992)

Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator (d.

1999)

3 Deaths

3.1 JanuaryJune

George Stevens

December 6 ve 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 lm di-
rector (d. 1975)
December 20 Rambai Barni Svastivatana, Queen
consort of King Prajadhipok of Siam. (d. 1984)
December 24
Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and phi-
lanthropist (d. 2008)
Herbert D. Riley, United States Navy admiral
(d. 1973) Isabella II of Spain

December 25
January 2 James Longstreet, Confederate Civil
Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, War general (b. 1821)
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, American nutritionist January 7 Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer (b.
(d. 1980) 1836)

December 26 Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. January 10 Jean-Lon Grme, French painter (b.
1980) 1824)

December 27 Linwood G. Dunn, special eects January 17 Sir Henry Keppel, British admiral (b.
artist (d. 1998) 1809)
3.1 JanuaryJune 13

Antonn Dvok

Henry Morton Stanley

February 15 Mark Hanna, United States Senator

from Ohio (b. 1837)
February 22 Leslie Stephen, English writer and
critic (b. 1832)
March 5
Alfred von Waldersee, German Army marshal
(b. 1832)
John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British founder
of the Army Post Oce Corps (b. 1829)
March 17 Prince George, Duke of Cambridge,
grandson of King George III (b. 1819)
March 18 William Elbridge Sewell, American
naval ocer and Governor of Guam (b. 1851)
April 5 Tom Allen, British boxing champion (b.
1840)
April 10 Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
April 13 Stepan Makarov, Russian admiral (killed
in action) (b. 1849)
Manuel Candamo
May 1 Antonn Dvok, Czech composer (b.
1841)
February 4 Rudolf Maison, German sculptor (b.
May 6 Franz von Lenbach, German painter (b.
1854)
1836)
February 8 Alfred Ainger, English biographer (b. May 7 Manuel Candamo, Peruvian politician, 30th
1837) President of Peru (b. 1841)
14 3 DEATHS

May 8 Eadweard Muybridge, English photogra-

pher 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 3 Vincent Tancred, South African cricketer

(b. 1875)

June 4 George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born

military hero (b. 1862)

June 12 Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian

Count (b. 1836)

June 16 Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and

politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839)

June 22 Karl Ritter von Stremayr, former Prime

Minister of Austria (b. 1832)

3.2 JulyDecember Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau

July 14 Paul Kruger, President of the South

African Republic. (b. 1825)

July 15 Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)

July 26 Henry Clay Taylor, American admiral (b.

1845)

August 6 Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic

(b. 1825)

August 10

Wilgelm Vitgeft, Russian admiral (killed in

action) (b. 1847)
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman,
68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)

August 12

Kawamura Sumiyoshi, Japanese admiral (b.

1836)
William Renshaw, British tennis player (b.
1861)

Theodor Herzl August 16 Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, American

author of dime ction (b. 1843)

July 1 George Frederic Watts, British symbolist August 22 Kate Chopin, American author (b.
painter and sculptor (b. 1817) 1850)

July 3 Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of Zion- August 25 Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b.
ism (b. 1860) 1836)

July 6 Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845) August 29 Ottoman Sultan Murad V (b. 1840)
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September 22 Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 5 References

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Frdric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
Laurence Hope, English poet (b. 1865)
October 15 George, King of Saxony (b. 1832)
October 21 Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss-Algerian ex-
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6.2 Images
File:[Link] Source: [Link]
License: Public domain Contributors: Smithsonian Original artist: unknown. Signed at the bottom, center right, St. John. See the Daily
Ocial Program of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition from June 16, 1904. One Mrs. Elizabeth St. John Matthews (d. April 27, 1911[1])
was a juror at the expo[2], but she was a sculptor.
File:Baltimore_fire_aftermath.jpg Source: [Link] Li-
cense: Public domain Contributors: [Link] Original artist: Fred Pridham
File:Christopher_Isherwood_6_Allan_Warren.jpg Source: [Link]
Isherwood_6_Allan_Warren.jpg License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: Allan warren
File:Clarence_Nash_San_Diego_Comic_Con_1982_crop.jpg Source: [Link]
Clarence_Nash_San_Diego_Comic_Con_1982_crop.jpg License: CC BY 2.0 Contributors: Clarence Ducky Nash Original artist: Alan
Light; cropped by Beyond My Ken (<a href='//[Link]/wiki/User_talk:Beyond_My_Ken' title='User talk:Beyond My
Ken'>talk</a>) 03:00, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
File:[Link] Source: [Link] License: PD Contributors: ? Origi-
nal artist: ?
File:Deng_Xiaoping.jpg Source: [Link] License: Public domain
Contributors: This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the ARC
Identier (National Archives Identier) 183165. Original artist: Unknown or not provided
File:Dolores-del_Ro_in_1940.jpg Source: [Link]
[Link] License: Public domain Contributors: 'The Man from Dakota trailer Original artist: Trailer screenshot
File:[Link] Source: [Link] License: Public domain Contributors:
This image is available from Gallica Digital Library under the digital ID btv1b8417521d
Original artist: Unknown<a href='[Link] title='wikidata:Q4233718'><img alt='wikidata:Q4233718'
src='[Link] width='20'
height='11' srcset='[Link] 1.5x,
[Link] 2x' data-le-width='1050'
data-le-height='590' /></a>
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File:Fats_Waller_edit.jpg Source: [Link] License: Public domain

Contributors: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph
Collection. [Link] Original artist: New York World-Telegram and the Sun sta photographer: Fisher,
Alan, photographer.
File:George_Stevens_with_Oscar_for_Giant.jpg Source: [Link]
with_Oscar_for_Giant.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: Motion Picture Daily page 10 Original artist: Quigley Publishing
File:Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01_Crisco_edit.jpg Source: [Link]
Cary_%28Suspicion%29_01_Crisco_edit.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: This le was derived from Grant, Cary (Suspicion)
[Link]: <a href='//[Link]/wiki/File:Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01.jpg' class='image'><img alt='Grant, Cary (Suspicion)
[Link]' src='[Link]
2C_Cary_%28Suspicion%29_01.jpg' width='50' height='65' srcset='[Link]
Grant%2C_Cary_%28Suspicion%29_01.jpg/75px-Grant%2C_Cary_%28Suspicion%29_01.jpg 1.5x, [Link]
wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Grant%2C_Cary_%28Suspicion%29_01.jpg/100px-Grant%2C_Cary_%28Suspicion%29_01.jpg 2x'
data-le-width='1699' data-le-height='2200' /></a>
Original artist: Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01.jpg: RKO publicity photographer.
File:Greer_Garson_in_Pride_and_Prejudice2.jpg Source: [Link]
in_Pride_and_Prejudice2.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: Pride and Prejudice trailer, which is available at [Link]
mediaroom/[Link]?cid=16940 Original artist: MGM Studios (Producer: Hunt Stromberg; Director: Robert Z. Leonard)
File:Henry_M_Stanley_1872.jpg Source: [Link] License:
Public domain Contributors: The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1890 Original artist: Sir Henry Morton Stanley
File:[Link] Source: [Link]
jpg License: Public domain Contributors: Taken from a Los Alamos publication (Los Alamos: Beginning of an era, 1943-1945, Los Alamos
Scientic Laboratory, 1986.). Original artist: Department of Energy, Oce of Public Aairs
File:Johny_Weissmuller-[Link] Source: [Link]
JPG License: Public domain Contributors: eBay Original artist: MGM studio
File:Kurt_Georg_Kiesinger_(Nrburgring,_1969).jpg Source: [Link]
Kiesinger_%28N%C3%BCrburgring%2C_1969%[Link] License: CC BY-SA 3.0 de Contributors: This le was derived from Bundesarchiv
B 145 Bild-F029237-0007, Nrburgring, Bundeswehrparade zum [Link]: <a href='//[Link]/wiki/File:
Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F029237-0007,_N%C3%BCrburgring,_Bundeswehrparade_zum_NATO-Jubil%C3%[Link]'
class='image'><img alt='Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F029237-0007, Nrburgring, Bundeswehrparade zum [Link]' src='https:
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commons/thumb/5/5b/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F029237-0007%2C_N%C3%BCrburgring%2C_Bundeswehrparade_zum_
NATO-Jubil%C3%[Link]/75px-Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F029237-0007%2C_N%C3%BCrburgring%2C_Bundeswehrparade_
zum_NATO-Jubil%C3%[Link] 1.5x, [Link]
Bild-F029237-0007%2C_N%C3%BCrburgring%2C_Bundeswehrparade_zum_NATO-Jubil%C3%[Link]/100px-Bundesarchiv_
B_145_Bild-F029237-0007%2C_N%C3%BCrburgring%2C_Bundeswehrparade_zum_NATO-Jubil%C3%[Link] 2x' data-le-
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Original artist:
Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F029237-0007,_Nrburgring,_Bundeswehrparade_zum_NATO-[Link]
File:Leclerc_p1040868.jpg Source: [Link] License: CC-BY-
SA-3.0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: David Monniaux
File:Manuel_Candamo.jpg Source: [Link] Li-
cense: Public domain Contributors: Unknown Original artist: Unknown<a href='[Link]
title='wikidata:Q4233718'><img alt='wikidata:Q4233718' src='[Link]
[Link]/[Link]' width='20' height='11' srcset='[Link]
thumb/f/ff/[Link]/[Link] 1.5x, [Link]
[Link]/[Link] 2x' data-le-width='1050' data-le-height='590' /></a>
File:Nobel_medal.png Source: [Link] License: PD-US Contributors:
Photographer: David Monniaux (2005, 2006, 2007)
Original artist:
Design of the medal: The Nobel Foundation. Sculptor and engraver: Erik Lindberg (1902).
File:Pierre_Waldeck-Rousseau_by_Nadar.jpg Source: [Link]
Waldeck-Rousseau_by_Nadar.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: [Link]
universel/[Link], Couverture de l'illustration, Date fournir. Original artist: Nadar
File:Port_Arthur_from_Gold_Hill.jpg Source: [Link]
jpg License: Public domain Contributors: Records of Naval Battles in Meiji 37th, 38th vol. 2 Original artist: Imperial Japanese Navy General
Sta
File:President_Theodore_Roosevelt,_1904.jpg Source: [Link]
Roosevelt%2C_1904.jpg License: Public domain Contributors: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints
and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a53299.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Original artist: Pach Brothers
File:Reina_Isabel_II_de_Espaa.jpg Source: [Link]
C3%[Link] License: Public domain Contributors: [Link] Original artist: L.
Mouton
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File:[Link] Source: [Link]

jpg License: Public domain Contributors: Harris & Ewing Collection Original artist: Harris & Ewing
File:Salvador_Dal_1939.jpg Source: [Link] Li-
cense: Public domain Contributors: Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress Original artist: Carl Van Vechten
File:Sir_John_Gielgud_actor.jpg Source: [Link] License:
Public domain Contributors: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the
digital ID van.5a52023.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Original artist: Carl Van Vechten
File:Ted_Geisel_NYWTS_2_crop.jpg Source: [Link]
jpg License: Public domain Contributors: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the
Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. [Link] Original artist: Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram
and the Sun sta photographer
File:Theodor_Herzl.jpg Source: [Link] License:
Public domain Contributors: [Link]
[Link] Original artist: Carl Pietzner
File:Werner_Forssmann_nobel.jpg Source: [Link]
License: Public domain Contributors: [Link] Original artist:
Unknown<a href='[Link] title='wikidata:Q4233718'><img alt='wikidata:Q4233718'
src='[Link] width='20'
height='11' srcset='[Link] 1.5x,
[Link] 2x' data-le-width='1050'
data-le-height='590' /></a>

6.3 Content license

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