Famous People Who Died in 1904

September 14, 2024

1904 Calendar

Jan 2 Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Württemberg) and socialite, dies at 83
Jan 5 Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel, German geologist and paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64
Jan 10 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
Jan 11 Mary Ellen Pleasant, American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate, abolitionist, and civil rights pioneer, dies at 89 [1]
Jan 15 Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, dies at 73
Jan 24 Franz Coenen, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 77
Jan 26 John P. R. Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64
Jan 26 Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
Jan 27 Adam Münchheimer [Minchejmer], Polis composer, dies at 73
Feb 1 Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer, dies at 76
Feb 2 William C. Whitney, American financier and 31st United States Secretary of the Navy, dies at 62
Feb 10 John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
Feb 20 Gustav Adolf Heinze, Dutch composer, dies at 83
Feb 22 Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
Feb 23 Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian homeopath doctor and founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, dies at 70
Mar 5 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal and Chief of the German General Staff, dies at 71
Mar 7 Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
Mar 24 Edwin Arnold, English writer (The Light of Asia), dies at 71
Mar 29 William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, American lawyer and soldier (Brigadier General in Confederate Army), dies at 74
Apr 9 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
Apr 13 Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (War & Peace), dies at 61
Apr 16 Maximilian Kronberger, German poet, dies at 16
Apr 16 Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer (Self Help), dies at 91
Apr 24 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, dies at 77
May 1 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (Slavonic Dances; New World Symphony; Cello Concerto in b, Op. 104), dies at 62
May 6 Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67
May 7 Peter Hille, German writer, dies at 49
May 8 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer, pioneer in study of motion, dies at 74

May 14 Richard Hol, Dutch composer, organist and conductor, dies at 78
May 16 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
May 19 Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
May 19 Jamsetji Tata, Indian pioneer industrialist (Tata Group), dies at 65
May 22 Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist, hysteria specialist, and namesake of Tourette's syndrome, dies from syphilis at 46
Jun 12 Camille de Renesse, Belgian nobleman and entrepreneur, dies at 67
Jun 13 Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
Jun 19 Mungo Park, Scottish golfer (British Open 1874), dies of pernicious anemia at 67
Jun 29 Tom Emmett, England cricket fast bowler (7 Tests, famous roundarm action), dies at 62
Jul 1 George Frederic Watts, British painter and sculptor of the Symbolist movement ("Hope"; "Love and Life"), dies at 87
Jul 3 Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)

Jul 3 Austrian journalist and father of modern political Zionism (World Zionist Organization), dies of cardiac sclerosis at 44

Jul 5 Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)

Jul 14 3rd President of South African Republic (1883-1900) and face of Boer resistance during the Second Boer War, dies of pneumonia at 78

Jul 22 Wilson Barrett, British manager, actor, and playwright (The Sign of the Cross), dies at 58
Jul 23 John Simon, British pathologist, public health officer, and 1st Chief Medical Officer (1855-76), dies at 87
Jul 28 Vyacheslav von Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, killed by Jewish revolutionaries after a bomb is thrown at his carriage, dies at 58
Aug 4 Arnold Krug, German composer, dies at 54
Aug 6 Eduard Hanslick, German music critic, dies at 78
Aug 9 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59
Aug 10 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician (29th Prime Minister of France), dies at 57
Aug 12 William Renshaw, British tennis player and Wimbledon singles (1881-86, 1889 and with twin brother Ernest doubles champion (1884-86, 1888-89), dies of epileptic convulsions at 43
Aug 22 Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, American writer, dies at 54
Aug 25 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
Aug 29 Murad V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876), dies at 63
Aug 30 Kate Fanny Loder, English composer and pianist, dies at 79
Sep 13 Kartini, Indonesian activist for women's rights and national heroine, dies at 25
Sep 18 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician, son of Otto, dies at 54

Sep 21 Nez Perce leader who tried to led his people to Canada (Nez Perce War), dies of a supposed broken heart on an Indian reservation unable to return to his native Wallowa Valley at 64 [1]

Sep 24 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and phototherapist (Nobel 1903), dies at 43
Sep 26 John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
Sep 26 Lafcadio Hearn, American author (Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan), dies at 54
Sep 30 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, dies of tuberculosis at 33
Oct 1 William Harcourt, British Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 76
Oct 4 Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (invented Beyer Process to produce aluminium), dies at 57

Oct 4 Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
Oct 8 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist and general, dies at 62
Oct 12 Charles Dowd, American principal who was the 1st to propose standardized time zones (for America's railways), struck and killed by a train at 79
Oct 13 Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
Oct 17 Nikolai Amani, Russian composer, dies at 32
Oct 20 Henry Hiles, English organist and composer, dies at 77
Oct 21 Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer of North Africa, dies in a flash flood at 27
Oct 25 Teresa Milanollo, Italian composer, dies at 77
Nov 3 Gaston Serpette, French composer, dies at 57
Nov 4 Jack Brown, English cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99), dies at 35
Nov 18 Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, dies at 58
Nov 22 Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
Nov 30 Aldine Silliman Kieffer, American composer, dies at 64
Dec 21 George L. Shoup, American politician, Senator and 1st Governor of Idaho (1890), dies at 68
Dec 24 Julien Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument), dies at 55
Dec 25 Vilhelm Svedbom, Swedish composer, dies at 61

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