Famous people born in 1904

The best-known people born in 1904, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Salvador Dalí
Spanish artist (1904–1989)
May 11 · d. 1989
Photo: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964., Public domain
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
July 12 · d. 1973
Photo: Unknown ( Mondadori Publishers ), Public domain
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
August 22 · d. 1997
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
April 22 · d. 1967
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
July 14 · d. 1991
Photo: Israel Press and Photo Agency (I.P.P.A.) photographer, CC BY 4.0
Graham Greene
British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
October 2 · d. 1991
Photo: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 84697 : Adományozó/Donor: Magyar Hírek folyóirat. archive copy at the Wayback Mac, CC BY-SA 3.0
Umm Kulthum
Egyptian singer and actress (1886–1975)
May 4 · d. 1975
Photo: Production company, Public domain
Cary Grant
British-American actor (1904–1986)
January 18 · d. 1986
Photo: Grant,_Cary_(Suspicion)_01.jpg : RKO publicity photographer. derivative work: Crisco 1492, Public domain
B.F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
March 20 · d. 1990
Photo: Silly rabbit, CC BY 3.0
Jean Gabin
French actor and singer (1904–1976)
May 17 · d. 1976
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), published in Grazia magazine, Public domain
Harry Martinson
Swedish writer (1904–1978)
May 6 · d. 1978
Photo: Gunnar Herbert Lundh, Public domain
Dr. Seuss
American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
March 2 · d. 1991
Photo: Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer, Public domain
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)
April 6 · d. 1988
Photo: Lothar Schaack, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Pavel Cherenkov
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
July 28 · d. 1990
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Prime Minister of India (1964-1966)
October 2 · d. 1966
Louis Néel
French physicist (1904-2000)
November 22 · d. 2000
Photo: Farabola, Public domain
Umberto II of Italy
lieutenant of the Kingdom of Italy and last king of Italy
September 15 · d. 1983
Photo: Tanner (Capt), War Office official photographer, Public domain
Alejo Carpanter
Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904–1980)
December 26 · d. 1980
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Johnny Weissmuller
American swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)
June 2 · d. 1984
Photo: MGM studio, Public domain
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)
September 29 · d. 1936
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Ralph Bunche
diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904–1971)
August 7 · d. 1971
Photo: U.S. Information Agency., CC BY-SA 2.0
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
March 4 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown, dedicated to Bettmann Archive, Public domain
Joseph Campbell
American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904–1987)
March 26 · d. 1987
Photo: Joan Halifax, CC BY 2.0
Glenn Miller
American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944)
March 1 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Wendell Meredith Stanley
American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
August 16 · d. 1971
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)
February 16 · d. 2005
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin
Soviet statesman, public officer, cabinet officer
February 21 · d. 1980
Photo: United Press International ; processing by Roman Kubanskiy, Public domain
John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989)
April 8 · d. 1989
Photo: Unknown (Associated Press), Public domain
Ernst Mayr
German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)
July 5 · d. 2005
Photo: University of Konstanz, CC BY 2.5
Greer Garson
British-American actress (1904-1996)
September 29 · d. 1996

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (1904-1982)
January 3 · Anna May Wong, Chinese American actress (1905-1961)
January 14 · Cecil Beaton, British photographer, designer, socialite, writer (1904–1980)
January 22 · George Balanchine, American choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904–1983)
January 22 · Arkady Gaidar, Soviet children's writer (1904–1941)
January 26 · Seán MacBride, Irish politician and human rights activist (1904-1988)

February

February 2 · Valery Chkalov, Soviet aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union (1904-1938)
February 3 · Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (1904–1975)
February 11 · Lucile Randon, French Catholic sister and supercentenarian (1904–2023)
February 17 · Hans Morgenthau, American political scientist (1904–1980)
February 23 · William L. Shirer, American journalist (1904–1993)
February 29 · Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and choreographer (1904–1986)

March

March 4 · Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician
March 5 · Karl Rahner, German Catholic theologian (1904–1984)
March 6 · José Antonio Aguirre, Basque association football player and politician (1904–1960)
March 17 · Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei, Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, jurist and mystic
March 26 · Emilio Fernández, Mexican film director and actor (1904-1986)
March 26 · Attilio Ferraris, Italian footballer (1904-1947)

April

April 13 · Yves Congar, Dominican priest and cardinal (1904–1995)
April 14 · John Gielgud, British actor and theatre director (1904-2000)
April 15 · Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter (1904–1948)
April 22 · María Zambrano, Spanish philosopher (1904–1991)
April 24 · Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)
April 27 · Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)

May

May 9 · Gregory Bateson, English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
May 14 · Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
May 20 · Margery Allingham, English writer of detective fiction, editor (1904–1966)
May 21 · Fats Waller, American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)
May 21 · Robert Montgomery, American actor (1904-1981)
May 29 · Gregg Toland, American cinematographer (1904–1948)

June

June 2 · František Plánička, Czech association football player (1904-1996)
June 10 · Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and writer (1904-1955)
June 14 · Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer (1904-1971)
June 17 · Ralph Bellamy, American actor (1904–1991)
June 20 · Heinrich von Brentano, German politician and lawyer (1904-1964)
June 26 · Peter Lorre, Hungarian and American actor (1904–1964)

July

July 2 · René Lacoste, French tennis player
July 8 · Henri Cartan, French mathematician (1904–2008)
July 22 · Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuroscientist (1904–1985)
July 24 · Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Soviet admiral (1904–1974)
July 27 · Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player (1904-1986)
July 29 · JRD Tata, French‑born Indian industrialist (1904–1993)

August

August 3 · Clifford D. Simak, American writer, journalist (1904–1988)
August 3 · Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (1904–1983)
August 4 · Witold Gombrowicz, Polish writer (1904–1969)
August 21 · Count Basie, American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984)
August 26 · Christopher Isherwood, British-American novelist (1904-1986)
August 29 · Werner Forssmann, German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904-1979)

September

September 4 · Christian-Jaque, French film director (1904-1994)
September 10 · Juan José Arévalo, Guatemalan politician (1904–1990)
September 13 · Gladys George, American actress (1904–1954)
September 17 · Frederick Ashton, British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)
September 17 · Edgar G. Ulmer, American film director, set designer (1904-1972)
September 27 · Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian writer (1904-1981)

October

October 1 · Vladimir Horowitz, Russian/Ukrainian and American pianist (1903-1989)
October 1 · Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
October 3 · Charles J. Pedersen, American organic chemist
October 9 · Mykola Bazhan, Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure (1904–1983)
October 12 · Ding Ling, Chinese writer (1904-1986)
October 22 · Constance Bennett, American actress (1904–1965)

November

November 14 · Dick Powell, American actor (1904-1963)
November 16 · Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (1904-1996)
November 21 · Coleman Hawkins, American jazz saxophonist (1904–1969)
November 25 · Ba Jin, Chinese novelist and anarchist activist (1904-2005)
November 28 · Nancy Mitford, British writer
November 29 · Héctor Castro, Uruguayan footballer (1904-1960)

December

December 6 · Ève Curie, writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)
December 10 · Antonín Novotný, Czech politician (1904-1975)
December 18 · George Stevens, American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904–1975)
December 20 · Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author of Jewish ancestry
December 25 · Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999)
December 30 · Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, conductor (music), pianist, music teacher

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