In the year 1904, the first large scale bodybuilding competition takes place at Madison Square Garden (Jan 16), a surprise Japanese naval attack in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War (Feb 8), the United States pays $10 million to gain control of the Panama Canal (Feb 23), the Mormons end  officially the practice of polygamy (Apr 6), FIFA is established (May 21), the Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty (Sep 7), the first underground line of the New York City Subway opens (Oct 27), the first successful caterpillar track is made (Nov 24), in New York City, the first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born: 1904-0101 1904-0103 Jeane Dixon* astrologer - Medford, WI USA (1997/93) 1904-0110 1904-0118 Cary Grant* (b Leach) British-American actor/to U.S. at 16 - Horfield, Bristol, England (1986/82) 1904-0123 Winnifred Van Tongerloo* (b Quick) British-American mother of five/Titanic survivor - Plymouth, England (2002/98) 1904-0126 Ancel Keys* nutritional scientist - Colorado Springs, CO USA (2004/100) 1904-0126 Irja Kuusla* actress/ mother of Matti Kuusla - Karstula, GD of Finland (1988/84) 1904-0131 1904-0201 1904-0210 John Farrow* film director/producer/father of Mia Farrow - Sydney, NSW Australia (1963/58) 1904-0214 Hertta Kuusinen* communist politician - Luhanka, Finland (1974/70) 1904-0219 Olive Byrne* credited as an inspiration for the comic book character Wonder Woman - Steuben County, NY USA (1985/81) 1904-0220 Aleksei Kosygin* politician - St.Petersburg, Russian Empire (1980/76) 1904-0225 Rita Webb* actress - Willesden, Middlesex, England (1981/77) 1904-0229 Jimmy Dorsey* musician/composer/big band leader - Shenandoah, PA USA (1957/53) 1904-0301 Glenn Miller* band leader - Clarinda, IA USA (1944/40) 1904-0302 Henry Dreyfuss* industrial designer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1972/68) 1904-0307 John Alan Maxwell* painter/illustrator - Roanoke, VA USA (1984/80) 1904-0315 George Brent* Irish-American actor - Ballinasloe, Ireland (1979/75) 1904-0321 Forrest Mars Sr.* businessman/Mars Inc. - Wadena, MN USA (1999/95) 1904-0326 Joseph Campbell* mythologist - White Plains, NY USA (1987/83) 1904-0331 1904-0401 1904-0403 Sally Rand* burlesque dancer/actress - Elkton, MO USA (1979/75) 1904-0408 John Hicks* economist/N - Warwick, England (1989/85) 1904-0414 John Gielgud* actor - South Kensington, London, England (2000/96) 1904-0422 Robert Oppenheimer* physicist - New York, NY USA (1967/62) 1904-0506 Harry Martinson* author/poet/N - Jämshög, Sweden (1978/73) 1904-0508 Fredie Blom* South African supercentenarian/ longevity claimant - Adelaide, Cape Colony (2020/116) 1904-0511 Salvador Dali* artist - Figueres, Catalonia, Spain (1989/84) 1904-0517 Jean Gabin* (b Moncorgé) actor - Paris, France (1976/72) 1904-0524 Sefton Delmer* British journalist/propagandist for the British government during WW2/of Australian heritage - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1979/75) 1904-0531 1904-0601 1904-0602 Johnny Weismuller* Austrian-American swimmer/OG/ actor - Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (1984/79) 1904-0604 Raymond Rouleau* actor/ film director - Brusssels, Belgium (1981/77) 1904-0614 Kempton Bunton* bus driver/took Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery, as a protest - Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1976/71) 1904-0617 Ralph Bellamy* actor -  Chicago, IL USA (1991/87) 1904-0620 1904-0626 Peter Lorre* (b Löwenstein) actor - Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary (1964/59) 1904-0630 1904-0712 Pablo Neruda* author/N - Parral, Chile (1973/69) 1904-0728 Pavel Cherenkov* physicist/N - Voronezh Oblast, Russian Empire (1990/85) 1904-0801 1904-0803 Lauri Virtanen* long-distance runner/OB - Salo, Finland (1982/77) 1904-0804 Helen Kane* singer - The Bronx, NY USA (1966/62) 1904-0808 Elsa Turakainen* actress - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1992/87) 1904-0810 1904-0821 Count Basie* musician - Red Bank, NJ USA (1984/79) 1904-0822 Deng Xiaoping* politician - Guang’an, Sichuan, Chinese Empire (1997/92) 1904-0823 Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt* American socialite - Lucerne, Switzerland (1965/60) 1904-0828 Eliot Slater* psychiatrist/brother-in-law of Boris Pasternak - Plumstead, London, England (1983/78) 1904-0831 1904-0905 Antoine Hajje* lawyer/to France at age 21/executed as an International Red Aid member in WW2 - Larnaca, Cyprus (1941/37) 1904-0913 Gladys George* actress - Patten, ME USA (1954/50) 1904-0913 Alberta Williams King* civil rights activist/mother of MLK Jr.- Atlanta, GA USA (1974/69) 1904-0919 Martta Martikainen-Ypyä* (b Martikainen) architect - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1992/88) 1904-0920 1904-0922 Lessie Brown* supercentenarian - Georgia, OH USA (2019/114) 1904-1001 1904-1002 Graham Greene* novelist - Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England (1991/86) 1904-1003 Charles J. Pedersen* American organic chemist/N - Busan, Korea (1989/85) 1904-1004 Philip Van Zandt* Dutch-American actor/to the U.S. as infant - Amsterdam, Netherlands (1958/53) 1904-1020 Marian Nixon* (b Marja Nissinen) actress/of Finnish descent - Superior, WI USA (1983/78) 1904-1021 Herman Treial* Estonian defector to Finland with alliance to the German army - Tartu, Estonia (1951/46) 1904-1031 1904-1101 Laura La Plante* silent film actress - St. Louis, MO USA (1996/91) 1904-1110 1904-1111 J. H. C. Whitehead* British mathematician - Madras, India (1960/55) 1904-1113 Edith Wall* artist/ active in Australia - Christchurch, New Zealand (2012/107) 1904-1114 Dick Powell* singer/ actor/ producer - Mountain View, AR USA (1963/58) 1904-1120 Irja Nissinen* actress/ singer/mother of Ritva Valkama - Hämekoski, GD of Finland (1978/73) 1904-1122 Louis Néel* physicist/N - Lyon, France (2000/95) 1904-1123 Siiri Hakoniemi** (b Kivistö) married to Arvo Matti Hakoniemi (brother of Elsa, see below) - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1985/80) 1904-1124 Lillian Copeland* (b Drossin) athlete (discus/OG) - New York City, NY USA (1964/59) 1904-1125 Elsa Amanda Ala-Ranta** (b Hakoniemi) married to Yrjö Johannes Ala-Ranta - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1985/80) 1904-1125 Toni Ortelli* alpinist/conductor/ composer - Schio, Italy (2000/95) 1904-1128 Nancy Freeman-Mitford* novelist/ biographer/journalist - London, England (1973/68) 1904-1130 1904-1203 Roberto Marinho* publisher/ businessman/media mogul - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2003/98) 1904-1210 Antonín Josef Novotný* politician/P - Letňany, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (1975/70) 1904-1218 George Stevens* film director /screenwriter/producer - Oakland, CA USA (1975/70) 1904-1225 Gerhard Herzberg* German-Canadian physicist/chemist/N - Hamburg, Imperial Germany (1999/94) 1904-1227 Linwood G. Dunn* cinematographer/special effects artist - Brooklyn, NY USA (1998/93) 1904-0 1904-0 1904-0 Updated 2025-0423 Helsinki Search for another year here