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{{short description|Month of 1904}}
{{Events by month|1904}}
{{calendar|year=1904|month=July}}

[[File:THEODOR HERZL'S FUNERAL IN VIENNA, 7.7.1904. הלוויתו של חוזה המדינה תיאודור הרצל בווינה - 1904.7.7D443-019.jpg|400px|thumb|July 7, 1904: Funeral of [[Theodor Herzl]] in [[Vienna]]]]

The following events occurred in '''July 1904''':

==[[July 1]], 1904 (Friday)==
* In [[Leverkusen]], Germany, employees of the [[paint factories formerly known as Friedrich Bayer and Co.]] founded the ''Turn- und Spielverein der Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. in Leverkusen'' sports club, the predecessor of the [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]] [[association football]] club.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bayer04.de/en-us/news/bayer04/120-years-of-bayer-04-leverkusen-timeline |title=120 years of Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Timeline |publisher=[[Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH]] |year=2024 |language=en |access-date=2 July 2024}}</ref>
* Captain G. H. Metcalf, a [[professional diver]] from [[Philadelphia]], drowned after his [[diving helmet]] became displaced while working on deepening the channel of the [[Delaware River]] off [[Chester, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040703.2.70&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH BENEATH THE WAVES IS THE FATE OF A DIVER Unfortunate Man Gives Alarm Signal, but Dies Before Helpers Pull Him to Surface. |volume=XCVI |issue=33 |date=3 July 1904 |at=Page 26, column 6 |newspaper=[[San Francisco Call]] |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]]}}</ref>
* The [[1904 Summer Olympics]], the third Modern Olympic Games, opened in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], [[United States]], as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase Exposition]]. [[David R. Francis]], President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, officially opened the Games.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/editions/3 |title=1904 Summer Olympics |website=[[Olympedia]] |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Mary Calderone]] (born Mary Steichen), American physician, public health advocate; in [[New York City]] (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&q=Francesca+Calderone-Steichen&pg=PA99 |last=More |first=Ellen S. |title=CALDERONE, Mary Steichen |dictionary=[[Notable American Women, 1607–1950|Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century]] |editor1-last=Ware |editor1-first=Susan |editor1-link=Susan Ware |editor2-last=Braukman |editor2-first=Stacy |location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], and [[London]], [[England]] |publisher=[[The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press]] |year=2004 |pages=99–101 |isbn=0-674-01488-X |access-date=15 November 2022 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
** [[Gordon Gunson]], English [[Association football|footballer]]; in [[Chester]], [[England]] (d. 1991)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/646 |title=PLAYERS - GORDON GUNSON |publisher=LFCHistory.net |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Renato Vernizzi]], Italian painter; in [[Parma]], [[Italy]] (d. 1972)<ref>{{cite web |title=Renato Vernizzi |url=https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/432775 |website=[[Netherlands Institute for Art History]] |language=en |date=29 July 2021 |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Enrique Dupuy de Lôme]], 52, Spanish ambassador to the United States, died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040703.2.28&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH ENDS THE LABORS OF DE LOME |volume=XCVI |issue=33 |date=3 July 1904 |at=Page 24, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040705.2.75&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Remains of De Lome Buried. |volume=XCVI |issue=35 |date=5 July 1904 |at=Page 7, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=18 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
** [[George Frederic Watts]], 87, British [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] painter and sculptor, died of [[bronchitis]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19040702.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- |title=Celebrated English Painter Dead |newspaper=[[The Press Democrat]] |location=[[Santa Rosa, California]] |volume=XXX |issue=155 |date=2 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 4 |access-date=26 November 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040702.2.35&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH DEPRIVES WORLD OF ART OF GREAT MASTER At Age of Eighty-Seven George Frederick Watts, English Painter, Lays Aside Brush That for More Than Sixty Years Has Won Him Honors |volume=XCVI |issue=32 |date=2 July 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Watts, George Frederick|volume=28|page=420}}</ref>

==[[July 2]], 1904 (Saturday)==
* The [[1904 Tour de France]] began in [[Paris]].<ref name="MduC">{{cite web |url=http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1904.php |title=2ème Tour de France 1904 |trans-title=2nd Tour de France 1904 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709115354/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf_1903_1939/tdf1904.php |archive-date=9 July 2009 |publisher=memoire-du-cyclisme.net |language=fr |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[René Lacoste]], French [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] tennis player and businessman; in Paris, [[France]] (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22 |title=René Lacoste |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 November 2022}}</ref>
** [[Erik Lundin]], Swedish [[chess]] master; in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=20617 |title=The chess games of Erik Lundin |website=[[chessgames.com]] |publisher=[[Chessgames Services LLC]] |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2022}}
** [[František Plánička]], Czech footballer; in [[Prague]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (d. 1996)<ref>{{NFT player|20130|František Plánička|access-date=26 November 2022}}</ref>
** [[Frank Southall]] (born William Frank Southall), English Olympic [[racing cyclist]]; in [[Wandsworth]], England (d. 1964)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/16651 |title=Frank Southall |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Carl Weinrich]], American [[organist]]; in [[Paterson, New Jersey]] (d. 1991)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX5068531 |title=Weinrich, Carl 1904-1991 |website=Catálogo BNE |language=es |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Eugénie Joubert]], 28, French [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and blessed, died of [[tuberculosis]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spirituality.ucanews.com/2014/07/02/blessed-eugenia-eugenie-joubert-2/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119055350/http://spirituality.ucanews.com/2014/07/02/blessed-eugenia-eugenie-joubert-2/ |archive-date=19 November 2016 |title=Blessed Eugenia (Eugénie) Joubert |website=UCAN Spirituality |publisher=ucanews.com |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 3]], 1904 (Sunday)==
* About 24 people died when fire consumed the engine and first three coaches of a [[Wabash Railroad]] train that struck a freight train in [[Litchfield, Illinois]]. Many of the train's passengers were delegates on their way to the [[1904 Democratic National Convention]] in St. Louis.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040704.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LIMITED TRAIN IS DITCHED Fire Adds to the Horror of a Wreck. More Than a Score of Wabash Passengers Lost. Many Delegates to the Democratic Convention in the Coaches. |volume=XCVI |issue=34 |date=4 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 4; page 3, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040705.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MOURNFUL DAY AT LITCHFIELD Holiday is Spent by Citizens in Giving Succor to Victims of Wreck of Flier |volume=XCVI |issue=35 |date=5 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=18 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="Arlington 98">{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=[[Arlington, Texas]] |page=98 |access-date=29 December 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040710.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CORONER WOULD ADD THREE TO THE LIST OF DEAD Official Believes Entire Connell Family Was Killed in the Wreck at Litchfield. |volume=XCVI |issue=40 |date=10 July 1904 |at=Page 23, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* Canadian [[circus]] performer and giant [[Édouard Beaupré]], 23, collapsed and died of a [[pulmonary haemorrhage]] due to tuberculosis during a show at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.<ref name="Beaupré">{{cite dictionary |first=Andre |last=Lalonde |title=BEAUPRÉ, ÉDOUARD |dictionary=[[Dictionary of Canadian Biography]] |volume=13 |publisher=[[University of Toronto]]/[[Université Laval]] |year=1994 |access-date=30 December 2022 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/beaupre_edouard_13E.html}}</ref>
* '''Born:''' [[Otto Gotsche]], German political activist and writer; in Wolferode/[[Eisleben]], [[Province of Saxony]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]], Germany (d. 1985)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Gotsche, Otto |encyclopedia=Munzinger Online/Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv |publisher=[[Munzinger-Archiv]] |url=http://www.munzinger.de/document/00000010753 |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Theodor Herzl]], 44, Austrian founder of [[Zionism]], died of [[pneumonia]] due to cardiac [[Sclerosis (medicine)|sclerosis]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/07/04/archives/dr-theodor-herzl-dead-founder-of-the-zionist-movement-was-born-in.html |title=DR. THEODOR HERZL DEAD.; Founder of the Zionist Movement Was Born in Budapest in 1860. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 July 1904 |page=5 |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040704.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ZIONIST LEADER DIES. Dr. Herzl, Founder of Movement, Passes Away at Vienna. |volume=XCVI |issue=34 |date=4 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_herzl.htm |title=Theodor Herzl |last=Isseroff |first=Ami |department=Zionism and Israel - Biographies |publisher=Zionism-Israel Information Center |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Zandberg">{{cite news |last=Zandberg |first=Esther |title=Would Herzl Roll Over in His Grave? |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2013-07-26/ty-article/.premium/would-herzl-roll-over-in-his-grave/0000017f-e7c1-d62c-a1ff-fffba1120000 |date=26 July 2013 |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Jewish Light">{{cite news |title=This week in Israeli history: July 1–7 |author=Center for Israel Education |newspaper=[[St. Louis Jewish Light]] |department=Lifestyles |date=1 July 2021 |url=https://stljewishlight.org/lifestyles/this-week-in-israeli-history-july-1-7/ |access-date=17 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[John Bell Hatcher]], 42, American [[paleontologist]], died of [[typhoid fever]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dingus |first=Lowell |title=King of the Dinosaur Hunters: the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology |date=2018 |publisher=Pegasus Books |isbn=9781681778655 |pages=3, 390–391}}</ref>
** [[John O'Meara (politician)|John O'Meara]], 47–48, [[New Zealand Liberal Party]] [[New Zealand Parliament|Member of Parliament]], died from an obstruction of blood on the brain which caused him to crash his bicycle.<ref>{{cite news |title=SUDDEN DEATH OF A POLITICIAN. THE MEMBER FOR PAHIATUA. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19040705.2.31 |newspaper=[[The Press]] |volume=LXI |issue=11937 |date=5 July 1904 |page=8 |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=[[Papers Past]]}}</ref>

==[[July 4]], 1904 (Monday)==
* [[Piero Ginori Conti]] tested the world's first [[geothermal power]] generator at the [[Larderello]] dry steam field in Italy.<ref>{{cite book |first=J.F. |last=Luhr |title=Earth |date=2003 |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |page=205 |isbn=1-4053-0018-3}}</ref> It was a small generator that lit four light bulbs.<ref>{{Cite book |first1=G.N. |last1=Tiwari |first2=M.K. |last2=Ghosal |title=Renewable Energy Resources: Basic Principles and Applications |publisher=Alpha Science International Ltd. |date=2005 |isbn=1-84265-125-0}}</ref>
* [[Tom Kiely]] of Ireland won the [[Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's all-around|men's all-around championship]] at the Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, with American [[Sport of athletics|athletes]] [[Adam Gunn]] and [[Truxton Hare]] in second and third place.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040705.2.26&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=KIELY, THE IRISH ATHLETE, IS ALL-AROUND CHAMPION Wins the High Honor in the Stadium at St. Louis in Sharp Competition. |volume=XCVI |issue=35 |date=5 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=18 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Kiely |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69218 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=18 December 2022}}</ref>
* John Ericsen, an 11-year-old boy from [[Butte, Montana]], went missing. He would be found dead on July 8 under a pile of coal in a bin near the [[North Pacific Coast Railroad|North Pacific]] roundhouse.<ref>{{cite news |at=Page 5, column 6 |newspaper=[[The Minneapolis Journal]] |location=[[Minneapolis]], Minnesota |date=8 July 1904 |title=Crushed Under Tons of Coal. |quote=John Ericsen, the 11-year-old son of a sectionman in the employ of the Northern Pacific, who has been missing since the Fourth of July, met with a tragic and unusual death, his crushed and mangled body being found today beneath a mass of coal in a bin near the Northern Pacific roundhouse. |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045366/1904-07-08/ed-1/?dl=page&q=%22unusual+death%22&sp=1 |access-date=7 August 2024 |via=[[Chronicling America]]}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Irène Aïtoff]], French pianist and [[vocal coach]]; in [[Saint-Cast-le-Guildo]], [[Côtes-du-Nord]], France (d. 2006)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13951117d |title=Notice de personne "Aïtoff, Irène (1904-2006)" |trans-title=Person notice "Aïtoff, Irène (1904-2006)" |publisher=[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] |language=fr |date=12 March 2021 |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Angela Baddeley]] (born Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley), English actress; in [[West Ham]], [[Essex]], England (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/angela-baddeley-30619 |title=Angela Baddeley - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=[[Internet Broadway Database]] |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Rens Vis]], Dutch Olympic footballer; in the [[Netherlands]] (d. 1993)<ref>{{cite web |title=Rens Vis |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/701320.html |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Bódog Czorda]], 75, Hungarian politician<ref>{{cite dictionary |title=Czorda Bódog |url=http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/ABC02469/03000.htm |dictionary=Hungarian Biographical Lexicon 1000-1990 |language=hu |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** Sir [[William Henry Rattigan]], [[King's Counsel|KC]], 61, British [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]], was killed in a traffic collision.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040705.2.74&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Member of Parliament Killed. |volume=XCVI |issue=35 |date=5 July 1904 |at=Page 7, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=18 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Rattigan, William Henry|short=x}}</ref>

==[[July 5]], 1904 (Tuesday)==
* In [[Scooba, Mississippi]], Albert Rea, an African American man, was [[lynched]] for the alleged attempted rape of an 18-year-old woman.<ref name="Arlington 101">{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=101 |access-date=29 December 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}</ref>
* Lightning sparked a major fire in [[Charlestown, Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], which destroyed a [[grain elevator]] and three freight houses of the [[Boston and Maine Railroad]], caused three deaths by drowning and resulted in over $1,000,000 in damage. The fatalities were sailors from the [[Allan Line]] steamship ''Austria'', the crew of which jumped overboard when the fire spread to their vessel.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040706.2.33&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=BLAZE DRIVES MEN INTO BAY Sailors of Burning Vessel Leap Overboard While Ship Is Being Towed to Safety THREE MAY BE DROWNED Fire Starts on Charlestown Wharf and Destroys Property Valued at $1,000,000 |volume=XCVI |issue=36 |date=6 July 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=18 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Ernst Mayr]], German-born biologist and author; in [[Kempten]], [[Bavaria]], Germany (d. 2005)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bock |first=Walter J. |date=1 December 2006 |title=Ernst Walter Mayr. 5 July 1904 — 3 February 2005 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc.]] |volume=52 |pages=167–187 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2006.0013 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0013 |publisher=[[The Royal Society]] |s2cid=70809804 |issn=1748-8494 |access-date=4 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Harold Acton]], British writer, scholar, and aesthete; at [[Villa La Pietra]], near [[Florence]], Italy (d. 1994)<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Sir Harold Acton |last=Pryce-Jones |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Pryce-Jones |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-harold-acton-1397017.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |department=People |date=28 February 1994 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Antonio Busini]], Italian professional footballer and coach; in [[Padua]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] (d. 1975)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=2971 |title=Antonio Busini, international footballer |website=eu-football.info |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref> (some sources give date of birth as January 5, 1904)<ref>{{NFT player|28014|Antonio Busini|access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Eugenia Clinchard]], American child actress; in [[Alameda County]], [[California]] (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite book |last=Kiehn |first=David |title=Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company |year=2003 |isbn=978-09729-2265-4 |publisher=Farewell Books |location=[[Berkeley, California]] |page=258}}</ref>
** [[Michael McLaverty]], Irish novelist and short story writer; in Magheross (near [[Carrickmacross]]), [[County Monaghan]], Ireland (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite dictionary |chapter-url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/mclaverty-michael-a5733 |chapter=McLaverty, Michael |last=Ó Ciardha |first=Éamonn |author-link=Éamonn Ó Ciardha |doi=10.3318/dib.005733.v1 |date=October 2009 |dictionary=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]] |access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Stanford Robinson]], English [[Conducting|conductor]] and [[composer]]; in [[Leeds]], England (d. 1984)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb140160262 |title=Notice de personne "Robinson, Stanford (1904-1984)" |trans-title=Person notice "Robinson, Stanford (1904-1984)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=27 January 2004 |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Franz Runge]], Austrian footballer; in [[Klosterneuburg]], [[Austria]] (d. 1975)<ref>{{NFT player|43300|Franz Runge|access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Milburn Stone]], American actor; in [[Burrton, Kansas]] (d. 1980)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/milburn-stone-61244 |title=Milburn Stone - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Franz Syberg]], Danish composer; in [[Kerteminde]], [[Funen]], [[Denmark]] (d. 1955)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14838661h |title=Notice de personne "Syberg, Franz (1904-1955)" |trans-title=Person notice "Syberg, Franz (1904-1955)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=21 April 2015 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Joseph Evans (politician)|Joseph Evans]], 67, British-born Australian politician<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/Pages/former-member-details.aspx?pk=710 |title=Mr Joseph George EVANS (1837 - 1904) |website=[[Parliament of New South Wales]] |department=Former Members |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref>
** [[Franz Martin Hilgendorf]], 64, German zoologist and paleontologist, died of a gastric illness.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olMgmIYuMPYC&pg=PA389 |last=Yajima |first=M. |chapter=Franz Hilgendorf (1839 – 1904): introducer of evolutionary theory to Japan around 1873 |editor-last=Wyse Jackson |editor-first=Patrick N. |title=Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel |publisher=[[The Geological Society of London]] |series=Special Publications |volume=287 |pages=389–393 |doi=10.1144/SP287.28 |year=2007 |access-date=23 January 2023 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
** [[Amelia Robertson Hill]], 83, Scottish artist and sculptor<ref>{{Cite ODNB|last=de Montfort|first=Patricia|title=Hill [née Paton], Amelia Robertson|date=2004-09-23|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47294|pages=ref:odnb/47294|editor-last=Matthew|editor-first=H. C. G.|place=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/47294|access-date=2021-09-24|editor2-last=Harrison|editor2-first=B.}}</ref>

==[[July 6]], 1904 (Wednesday)==
* [[British expedition to Tibet|British troops in Tibet]] stormed the [[Gyantse Dzong]]. [[British Indian Army]] officer [[John Duncan Grant]] would receive the [[Victoria Cross]] for his actions during the assault.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27758|page=574|date=24 January 1905}}</ref>
[[File:Opening session, Democratic National Convention, 1904, St. Louis, Mo LCCN2007663554.jpg|thumb|right|Opening session of the Democratic National Convention]]
* The 1904 Democratic National Convention opened in the Coliseum of the [[St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall]] in St. Louis, Missouri.<ref>{{cite news |title=Democratic Convention Meets, Makes a Great Demonstration Over the Name of Cleveland, Hears Williams' Speech and Adjourns Until Tomorrow BIG DEMONSTRATION FOR CLEVELAND Mention of His Name Starts Wild Enthusiasm at Democratic Convention Williams Threatened to Quit Speech Before Quiet Could be Restored INTEREST AT HIGH PITCH Dense Crowd Surrounded Convention Hall Early Elaborate Arrangements Made for the Comfort of Delegates and Visitors–Description of the Convention Hall and Decorations. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21366905/democratic-national-convention-opens-in/ |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[The Lincoln Star]] |location=[[Lincoln, Nebraska]] |date=6 July 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3; page 5 |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* In [[Clinton, Oklahoma|Clinton]], [[Oklahoma Territory]], a [[waterspout]] killed two women and three children.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040708.2.8.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=STORM BRINGS DEATH TO FIVE Two Women and Three Children Are Killed by Waterspout in the Middle West |volume=XCVI |issue=38 |date=8 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:''' [[Erik Wickberg]], General of [[The Salvation Army]]; in [[Gävle]], Sweden (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.se/~m1384/htmle/ewcarere.html |title=Curriculum vitae of Erk Wickberg |last=Wickberg |first=Sven |date=1998-05-06 |access-date=16 December 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=December 2022}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of birth.}}
* '''Died:'''
** [[Joseph Horace Lewis]], 79, [[Confederate States Army]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Kentucky]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040707.2.109.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Death of General Joseph H. Lewis. |volume=XCVI |issue=37 |date=7 July 1904 |at=Page 15, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000289 |title=LEWIS, Joseph Horace 1824 – 1904 |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |access-date=19 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Abai Qunanbaiuly]], 58, Kazakh poet<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://bigenc.ru/literature/text/660097 |title=АБА́Й КУНАНБА́ЕВ |trans-title=ABAI KUNANBAEV |encyclopedia=[[Great Russian Encyclopedia]] |language=ru |access-date=16 December 2022 |archive-date=12 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812122544/https://bigenc.ru/literature/text/660097 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Kandathil Varghese Mappillai]], 46–47, Indian [[journalist]], [[translator]] and publisher, editor of ''[[Malayala Manorama]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.keraladirectory.net/news/ |title=Kerala News Directory - Kerala Web Directory |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208193451/http://www.keraladirectory.net/news/ |archive-date=8 December 2014 |publisher=KeralaDirectory.Net |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref>

==[[July 7]], 1904 (Thursday)==
* Large crowds of Jews from many countries attended Theodor Herzl's funeral in [[Vienna]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://forward.com/opinion/4043/searching-for-the-next-herzl/ |last=Fein |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Fein |title=Searching for the Next Herzl |newspaper=[[The Forward]] |department=Opinion |date=24 December 2004 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref> 6000 people followed the hearse to Herzl's burial at the cemetery in [[Döbling]]. Herzl would be reinterred in 1949 on the hill in [[West Jerusalem]] now known as [[Mount Herzl]].<ref name="Zandberg"/><ref name="Jewish Light"/>
* In France, the government of [[Émile Combes]] ratified the [[:fr:Loi du 7 juillet 1904|law of 7 July 1904]], prohibiting religious congregations from teaching and strengthening the secularization of education.<ref name="Tauran">{{cite web |url=https://arras.catholique.fr/page-10313-tauran.html |last=Tauran |first=Jean-Louis |author-link=Jean-Louis Tauran |title=Mgr Tauran |date=23 November 2004 |publisher=[[Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras|Diocèse d'Arras]] |language=fr |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
* Melissa Tiemann of [[Los Angeles]], California, sustained fatal injuries when she fell from a streetcar and struck the back of her head on the ground, driving the teeth of an aluminum comb she was wearing into her skull.<ref>{{cite news |title=AGED LOS ANGELES WOMAN KILLED IN STRANGE WAY Falls From Street Car and Teeth of Heavy Comb Are Driven Into Skull. |newspaper=San Francisco Call |volume=XCVI |issue=38 |date=8 July 1904 |at=Page 7, column 5 |access-date=23 January 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040708.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Nick Connor]], American politician; in [[Gadsden, Alabama]] (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/floridahandbook100morr/page/394/mode/2up |title=The Florida Handbook, 1965-1966 |last=Morris |first=Allen |author-link=Allen Morris (historian) |year=1965 |location=[[Tallahassee]], [[Florida]] |publisher=The Peninsular Publishing Company |page=394 |lccn=49-53676 |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/12/09/former-florida-senate-president-dies/ |title=Former Florida Senate president dies |last1=Basse |first1=Craig |last2=DeWitt |first2=Dan |newspaper=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |date=9 December 1995 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa]], Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed; in [[Ixtlán del Río]], [[Nayarit]], [[Mexico]] (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/95649 |title=Beata María Inés Teresa del Santissimo Sacramento (Manuela di Gesù Arias Espinosa) |website=Santi e Beati |date=1 June 2012 |language=it |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Adolph Friedländer]], 53, German lithographer<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16533732r |title=Notice de personne "Friedländer, Adolph (1851-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Friedländer, Adolph (1851-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=29 August 2011 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of death.}}
** [[Charles Page Thomas Moore]], 73, American lawyer and judge<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mydailyregister.com/view/full_story/6961884/article-May-Moore-Mound-marker-sign-erected |last=Huffman |first=Delyssa |title=May Moore Mound marker sign erected |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714142240/http://www.mydailyregister.com/view/full_story/6961884/article-May-Moore-Mound-marker-sign-erected |archive-date=14 July 2011 |newspaper=[[Point Pleasant Register]] |location=[[Point Pleasant, West Virginia]] |date=April 2010 |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 8]], 1904 (Friday)==
* '''Born:'''
** [[Vladimir Belokurov]], Russian and Soviet actor and pedagogue; in Nizhny Uslon, [[Sviyazhsky Uyezd]], [[Kazan Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]] (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/392/bio/ |title=Белоку́ров Влади́мир Вячесла́вович (Vladimir Belokurov) |website=kino-teatr.ru |date=29 November 2020 |language=ru |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p245472 |title=Vladimir Belokurov {{!}} Movies and Filmography |publisher=[[AllMovie]], Netaktion LLC |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Henri Cartan]], French [[mathematician]]; in [[Nancy, France]] (d. 2008)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cartan_Henri/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson |title=Henri Cartan (1904 - 2008) - Biography |work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|MacTutor History of Mathematics]] |date= |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]], [[Scotland]] |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Bill Challis]], American [[jazz]] arranger; in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]] (d. 1994)<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Times Leader]] |url=https://www.timesleader.com/archive/852101/local-music-arranger-had-big-influence-on-big-band-era-wilkes-barres-bill-challis-who-died-tuesday-at-age-90-created-innovative-musical-arrangements-for-some-of-the-most-famous-big-bands-in |title=Local Music Arranger Had Big Influence On Big Band Era Wilkes-barre's [''sic''] Bill Challis, Who Died Tuesday At Age 90, Created Innovative Musical Arrangements For Some Of The Most Famous Big Bands In The United States |last=Butkiewicz |first=Joe |date=6 October 1994 |access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16134190t |title=Notice de personne "Challis, Bill (1904-1994)" |trans-title=Person notice "Challis, Bill (1904-1994)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=15 September 2009 |access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Roger Motz]], Belgian [[mining engineer]] and politician; in [[Schaerbeek]], [[Belgium]] (d. 1964)<ref>{{cite web |title=MOTZ, Roger |url=http://www.mr.be/PDF/biomotz.pdf |publisher=Centre Jean Gol |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928025743/http://www.mr.be/PDF/biomotz.pdf |archive-date=28 September 2007 |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Joseph Blanc]], 58, French painter<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb153740583 |title=Notice de personne "Blanc, Joseph (1846-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Blanc, Joseph (1846-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=6 August 2010 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 9]], 1904 (Saturday)==
* [[OGC Nice]] was founded as the ''Gymnaste Club de Nice'' in [[Nice]], France.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ogcnice.com/fr/club/histoire/du-gcn-bleu-et-noir-a-logc-nice.html |title=Du GCN Bleu et Noir à l'OGC Nice |trans-title=From GCN Blue and Black to OGC Nice |website=[[OGC Nice]] |department=Historique |language=fr |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
* [[Pitcher]] [[Hiram Williamson (pitcher)|Hiram Williamson]] of the [[Providence, Cecil County, Maryland|Providence, Maryland]], baseball team was struck in the head by a pitch while at bat in a game at [[Cherry Hill, Cecil County, Maryland|Cherry Hill, Maryland]]. He would die of his injuries on July 11 at the age of 23.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040712.2.118.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=BALLPLAYER SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES ON FIELD Hiram Williamson Hit by Sphere and Dies in Presence of His Young Bride. |volume=XCVI |issue=42 |date=12 July 1904 |at=Page 10, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=12 July 1904 |title=Bridegroom Player Killed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19537792/the-baltimore-sun/ |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |via=Newspapers.com |location=[[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]] |access-date=17 January 2023}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Carlota Jaramillo]] (born María Isabel Carlota Jaramillo), Ecuadorian ''[[pasillo]]'' singer; in [[Calacalí]], [[Pichincha Province]], [[Ecuador]] (d. 1987, cerebral trauma after fall)<ref>{{cite news |title=Carlota Jaramillo, la reina del pasillo ecuatoriano |trans-title=Carlota Jaramillo, the queen of Ecuadorian pasillo |newspaper=[[El Universo]] |date=6 July 2004 |url=https://www.eluniverso.com/2004/07/06/0001/259/842B2FF452B343E7822F178144E03ABE.html |department=Música |language=es |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Heinz Jost]], German [[SS]] official and [[Holocaust]] perpetrator; in [[Homberg (Efze)|Homberg]]-Holzhausen, [[German Empire]] (d. 1964)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olokaustos.org/bionazi/leaders/jost.htm |title=Heinz Jost |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813204505/http://www.olokaustos.org/bionazi/leaders/jost.htm |archive-date=13 August 2009 |language=it |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Ernst Küppers]], German Olympic [[backstroke]] swimmer; in [[Viersen]], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/47862 |title=Ernst Küppers |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Hideo Oguni]], Japanese [[screenwriter]]; in [[Hachinohe]],{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} [[Aomori Prefecture]] (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb141254923 |title=Notice de personne "Oguni, Hideo (1904-1996)" |trans-title=Person notice "Oguni, Hideo (1904-1996)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=4 November 2021 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Otto Wahl]], German Olympic [[cross-country skier]]; in [[Zella-Mehlis]], [[Thuringia]], Germany (d. 1935, [[brain disease]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/98771 |title=Otto Wahl |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Robert Whitney]], American composer and conductor; in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Tyne and Wear]], England (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13960121m |title=Notice de personne "Whitney, Robert (1904-1986)" |trans-title=Person notice "Whitney, Robert (1904-1986)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=28 July 2006 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Bersan]], 21–22, American [[Thoroughbred]] Champion [[Horse racing|racehorse]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The American Stud Book |year=1906 |publisher=[[The Jockey Club]]}}</ref>

==[[July 10]], 1904 (Sunday)==
* The 1904 Democratic National Convention adjourned at 1:30&nbsp;a.m., having nominated Judge [[Alton B. Parker]] of [[New York (state)|New York]] for [[President of the United States]] and [[Henry Gassaway Davis]] of [[West Virginia]] for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21368116/1904-democratic-convention-in-st-louis/ |title=JUDGE PARKER AND H. G. DAVIS NOMINATED Chosen By Democrats For President and Vice President. PARKER SPRUNG A SURPRISE In a Telegram New Yorker Refused to Straddle On the Currency Question, and After Vigorous Debate the Convention Sends Him a Message Saying His Attitude Is Acceptable. |newspaper=Mount Carmel Item |location=[[Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania]] |date=11 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 1 |access-date=17 December 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
* In [[Houston, Mississippi]], Jesse Tucker, an African American man, was lynched before daybreak for an alleged assault on a white woman the previous night. The same morning, the [[coroner's jury]] delivered their verdict on Tucker's death while standing on the railroad bridge from which his body hung: "We, the jury, find that the deceased, Jesse Tucker, came to his death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040711.2.25&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NEGRO EXPIRES AT ROPE'S END White Residents of a Mississippi Town Avenge an Attack Upon a Woman |volume=XCVI |issue=41 |date=11 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="Arlington 104">{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=104 |access-date=29 December 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}</ref>
* Sixteen residents of [[Hoboken]], [[Jersey City]] and [[New York City]] were killed, and about 50 injured, when [[Wanaque–Midvale station#1904 crash|a passenger train collided with their excursion train]] in [[Wanaque, New Jersey|Midvale, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040711.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SEVENTEEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK Excursionists Meet Death in New Jersey. Passenger Train Crashes Into a Special on the Erie Road. Disaster Said to Have Been Due to Haste of Tower Operator in Lowering Signal |volume=XCVI |issue=41 |date=11 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040712.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FOURTEEN ADULTS AND TWO CHILDREN DIE IN WRECK Official List of New Jersey Railroad Disaster Reduces Number of Dead by One. |volume=XCVI |issue=42 |date=12 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Haim Ben-Asher]] (born Haim Finkel), Israeli politician; in [[Odessa]], [[Russia]] (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/296 |title=Chaim Ben-Asher |website=[[The Knesset]] |department=All Past and Present MKs |publisher=[[The State of Israel]] |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Jules Herremans]], Belgian Olympic [[javelin throw]]er (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jules Herremans |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/65213 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Iša Krejčí]], Czech [[Neoclassicism (music)|neoclassical]] composer, conductor and [[dramaturge]]; in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148342367 |title=Notice de personne "Krejčí, Iša (1904-1968)" |trans-title=Person notice "Krejčí, Iša (1904-1968)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=12 December 2006 |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Tom Tippett]], English footballer; in [[Gateshead]], Tyne and Wear, England (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=640&united=Tommy_Tippett |title=Tommy Tippett |website=westhamstats.info |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2022}}
* '''Died:''' [[José Toral y Velázquez]], 71, [[Spanish Army]] general<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040711.2.19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=GENERAL TORAL IS DEAD. Spaniard Who Commanded at Santiago Dies in Asylum for Insane. |volume=XCVI |issue=41 |date=11 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=19 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>

==[[July 11]], 1904 (Monday)==
* The inaugural [[Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race]] began at [[Mount Washington]], [[New Hampshire]], and would conclude on July 12.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040712.2.118.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=HILL CLIMBING RECORD IS BROKEN FIVE TIMES F. E. Stanley Drives Motor Car Up a Steep Grade in Sensational Time. |volume=XCVI |issue=42 |date=12 July 1904 |at=Page 10, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040713.2.129.12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=STANLEY AGAIN BREAKS HILL CLIMBING RECORD Daring Motorist Makes Wonderful Time While Ascending Grade of Mount Washington. |volume=XCVI |issue=43 |date=13 July 1904 |at=Page 10, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.climbtotheclouds.com/history.html |website=The Climb to the Clouds Vintage Hillclimb at the Mt. Washington Auto Road at the base of Mt. Washington, Pinkham Notch New Hampshire |title=History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216073259/http://www.climbtotheclouds.com/history.html |archive-date=16 December 2007 |access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Helmut Grunsky]], German mathematician; in [[Aalen]], [[Kingdom of Württemberg]], Germany (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grunsky/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |title=Helmut Grunsky (1904 - 1986) - Biography |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |date=September 2001 |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Leland John Haworth]], American [[particle physicist]]; in [[Flint, Michigan]] (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/haworth-leland.pdf |last1=Goldhaber |first1=Maurice |author1-link=Maurice Goldhaber |last2=Tape |first2=Gerald F. |author2-link=Gerald F. Tape |title=Leland John Haworth 1904—1979: A Biographical Memoir |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences]] |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]] |year=1985 |pages=355–382 |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Frederic Dan Huntington]], 85, American clergyman, bishop of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Central New York]]. Huntington's son, George P. Huntington, a professor of [[Hebrew]], died of [[slow fever]] on the same day.<ref name="Huntington">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040712.2.63&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NOTED BISHOP AND SON DIE ON SAME DAY |volume=XCVI |issue=42 |date=12 July 1904 |at=Page 5, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>

==[[July 12]], 1904 (Tuesday)==
* [[John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland|John Sinclair]], a British Member of Parliament, married Lady [[Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland|Marjorie Gordon]] in [[London]]. [[Randall Davidson]], the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], officiated at the wedding ceremony.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040713.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WEDS EARL'S DAUGHTER Archbishop of Canterbury Unites in Marriage John Sinclair and Lady Marjorie Gordon. |volume=XCVI |issue=43 |date=13 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens ([[Mark Twain]]) and his daughters arrived in New York City with the body of Clemens' wife, [[Olivia Langdon Clemens]], who had died in Italy on June 5.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040713.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CLEMENS AND DAUGHTERS ARRIVE IN NEW YORK Author Bring [''sic''] With Him the Remains of Wife, Who Died Recently in Italy. |volume=XCVI |issue=43 |date=13 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Pablo Neruda]], Chilean poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate; in [[Parral, Chile]] (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pablo Neruda – Facts |website=[[NobelPrize.org]] |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=4 December 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1971/neruda/facts/}}</ref>
** [[Pinhas Lavon]], Israeli politician; in [[Kopychyntsi]], [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria]], Austria-Hungary (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-personal-details/468 |title=Pinhas Lavon |website=The Knesset |department=All Past and Present MKs |publisher=The State of Israel |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Edward Max Nicholson]], English [[ornithologist]] and environmentalist; in [[Kilternan]], Ireland (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/28/guardianobituaries.highereducation |last=Boote |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Boote |title=Obituary: Max Nicholson |department=Higher education |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=28 April 2003 |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Boris Rohdendorf]], Soviet [[entomologist]] and curator (d. 1977)<ref>{{cite web |title=Родендорф, Борис Борисович (12.07.1904-21.11.1977) |trans-title=Rohdendorf, Boris Borisovich (12.07.1904-21.11.1977) |url=http://palaeoentomolog.ru/Personnel/rohdendorf_r.html |website=palaeoentomolog.ru |language=ru |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Samuel M. Jones]], 57, Welsh-born [[Mayor of Toledo]], [[Ohio]], died of a [[lung abscess]] caused by [[asthma]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040713.2.34&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH'S CALL SOUNDED FOR MAYOR JONES |volume=XCVI |issue=43 |date=13 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
** [[Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten]], 74, Dutch artist<ref>{{cite web |title=Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/46670 |website=Netherlands Institute for Art History |date=28 November 2022 |language=en |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 13]], 1904 (Wednesday)==
* [[Jockey]] George Green fractured his skull in a fall on the track at [[Brighton Beach]], [[Brooklyn]]. He would die of his injuries on July 17.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040718.2.64&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Jockey Succumbs to Injuries. |volume=XCVI |issue=48 |date=18 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=21 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* The [[National Association of Colored Women]] met for its second session in a church in downtown St. Louis. The meeting had been scheduled to take place on the World's Fair grounds but was moved in accordance with a resolution introduced by [[Margaret Murray Washington]], who objected to discrimination against African Americans by exposition officials.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040714.2.34&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=COLORED WOMEN WILL NOT MEET AT THE FAIR Mrs. Booker T. Washington Objects Because of Discrimination of Exposition Officials. |volume=XCVI |issue=44 |date=14 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* Twenty-two people returning to [[Chicago]] from a Sunday school picnic were killed when their passenger train collided with a freight train on the [[Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad]] between [[Chicago Heights, Illinois|Chicago Heights]] and [[Glenwood, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040714.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SCORES DEAD OR INJURED Picnic Train Collides With a Freight. Twenty-Two Perish and Many Are Maimed. Coaches Crowded by Chicago Church Excursionists Demolished. |volume=XCVI |issue=44 |date=14 July 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Jim Burrows (soldier)|Jim Burrows]], New Zealand teacher, sportsman, administrator, and military leader; in [[Prebbleton]], [[New Zealand]] (d. 1991)<ref>{{cite dictionary |first=Gordon |last=Ogilvie |author-link=Gordon Ogilvie |title=Burrows, James Thomas |dictionary=[[Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]] |year=2000 |via=[[Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand]] |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5b52/burrows-james-thomas |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Luigi Capuano]], Italian [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]]; in [[Naples]], Italy (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14653461t |title=Notice de personne "Capuano, Luigi (1904-1979)" |trans-title=Person notice "Capuano, Luigi (1904-1979)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=10 November 2020 |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Robert Minton (bobsleigh)|Robert Minton]], American Olympic [[Bobsleigh|bobsledder]] and [[stockbroker]]; in [[Lawrence, Nassau County, New York]] (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/95475 |title=Bob Minton |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Lemuel Moss]], 74, American [[theologian]], president of [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040714.2.68&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Eminent Clergyman Dies. |volume=XCVI |issue=44 |date=14 July 1904 |at=Page 5, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>

==[[July 14]], 1904 (Thursday)==
* The funeral and burial of Olivia Langdon Clemens took place in [[Elmira, New York]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Funeral of Mrs. Clemens Is Held. |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* [[Michigan Wolverines men's track and field|University of Michigan]] athlete [[Ralph Rose]] set an unofficial world record of {{Convert|190|ft|0.5|in}} in the [[hammer throw]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.92.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ROSE BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD AT PRACTICE Healdsburg Giant Throws the Sixteen-Pound Hammer More Than 190 Feet. |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 10, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Richard Clarkson]], British [[aeronautical engineer]]; in London, England (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-richard-clarkson-1313795.html |last=Ramsden |first=J. M. |title=Obituary: Richard Clarkson |newspaper=The Independent |department=Obituaries |date=9 December 1996 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[František Donth]], Czechoslovak Olympic [[cross-country skier]] and [[lumberjack]]; in [[Rokytnice nad Jizerou]], Austria-Hungary (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite book |first=František |last=Kolář |title=Encyklopedie olympioniků. Čeští a českoslovenští sportovci na olympijských hrách |publisher=Euromedia Group |location=[[Prague]] |year=2021 |page=380 |language=cs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/85264 |title=Franz Donth |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Hans Bernd Gisevius]], German [[diplomat]] and [[intelligence officer]], covert opponent of [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]]; in [[Arnsberg]], [[Province of Westphalia]], Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.gdw-berlin.de/vertiefung/biografien/personenverzeichnis/biografie/view-bio/hans-bernd-gisevius/ |title=HANS BERND GISEVIUS |dictionary=[[Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand]] |language=de |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Hans von Herwarth]], German diplomat and author; in [[Berlin]], Germany (d. 1999)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12019445w |title=Notice de personne "Herwarth, Hans von (1904-1999)" |trans-title=Person notice "Herwarth, Hans von (1904-1999)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=16 July 2021 |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Zita Johann]] (born Elisabeth Johann), Austrian-American actress; in [[Deutschbentschek]] (near [[Temesvar]]), Austria-Hungary (d. 1993)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5a7cc79 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108140414/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5a7cc79 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 8, 2016 |title=Zita Johann |department=Films, TV and people |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Louis Rapkine]], French [[biologist]]; in Tikhinichi, [[Belarus]], Russian Empire (d. 1948, [[lung cancer]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis Rapkine (1904-1948) |website=[[Institut Pasteur]] |url=http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/archives/rap0.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525205206/http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/archives/rap0.html |archive-date=25 May 2011 |language=fr |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Nadia Reisenberg]], Lithuanian-born American [[pianist]] and music educator; in [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]] (d. 1983)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Feinberg |first=Harriet |title=Nadia Reisenberg |encyclopedia=Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women |date=23 June 2021 |publisher=[[Jewish Women's Archive]] |access-date=26 December 2022 |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/reisenberg-nadia}}</ref>
** [[Josef Straka (rower, born 1904)|Josef Straka]], Czechoslovak Olympic [[rower]]; in [[Mělník]], Austria-Hungary (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite web |title=Josef Straka, Sr. |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/40077 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Paul Kruger]], 78, South African military and political figure, 3rd [[President of South Africa]], died of senile pneumonia due to sclosis of the arteries.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040714.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LATE HEAD OF THE BOER REPUBLIC PASSES AWAY IN HIS HAVEN IN SWITZERLAND Close of Patriot's Remarkable Career Marks the End of an Epoch in South African History. |volume=XCVI |issue=44 |date=14 July 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7; page 3, columns 5-6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=BOERS MOURN CHIEF'S DEATH Flags on All Government Buildings in Pretoria Are Placed at Half-Mast SORROW OF BURGHERS Memorial Services Will Be Held in Dutch Churches Throughout the Transvaal |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.27.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH GRIEVES FRANCE. Passing of the Boer Patriarch Arouses Widespread Regret. |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
* {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040715.2.27.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LAST HOURS OF KRUGER. Unconscious for Three Days Before Death Gave Relief. |volume=XCVI |issue=45 |date=15 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="Arlington 108">{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=108 |access-date=29 December 2022 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}</ref>

==[[July 15]], 1904 (Friday)==
* '''Born:'''
** [[Rudolf Arnheim]], German-born author, film theorist and perceptual psychologist; in Berlin, Germany (d. 2007)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11889169r |title=Notice de personne "Arnheim, Rudolf (1904-2007)" |trans-title=Person notice "Arnheim, Rudolf (1904-2007)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=24 February 2014 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Dorothy Fields]], American librettist; in [[Allenhurst, New Jersey]] (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dorothyfields.org/biog1.htm |title=Biography : Early Years |website=The Dorothy Fields Website |publisher=Jon Aldous |year=2006 |access-date=15 December 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Katharine Kuh]] (born Katharine Woolf), American art historian; in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]] (d. 1994)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb136262768 |title=Notice de personne "Kuh, Katharine (1904-1994)" |trans-title=Person notice "Kuh, Katharine (1904-1994)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=25 July 2012 |access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Mogubai Kurdikar]], [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani classical]] vocalist; in [[Curdi]], [[Goa]] (d. 2001)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2001/feb/11mogu.htm |title=Veteran singer Mogubai Kurdikar passes away at 96 |website=[[rediff.com]] |department=News |date=11 February 2001 |access-date=27 January 2023}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Anton Chekhov]], 44, Russian writer, died of tuberculosis.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040717.2.26.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIA LOSES NOTED AUTHOR. Czar's Empire Mourns the Death of Antoin Checkoff. |volume=XCVI |issue=47 |date=17 July 1904 |at=Page 24, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://authorscalendar.info/tsehov.htm |title=Anton Chekhov |last=Liukkonen |first=Petri |website=Authors' Calendar |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 16]], 1904 (Saturday)==
* In the early morning, laborer Thomas Snowden discovered the body of [[Frederick Kent Loomis]] washed up at Thurleston Sands, Bigbury Bay, [[Kingsbridge]], [[Devon]].<ref name="Loomis 6">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040717.2.55&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MYSTERY OF LOOMIS IS ENDED Body of American Is Found at Warren Point Near Plymouth. |volume=XCVI |issue=47 |date=17 July 1904 |at=Page 29, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="Loomis 3">{{cite journal |url=http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=3591&termRef=Kent%20Loomis |title=Kent Loomis - Unsolved Murder 1904 - Thurleston Sands, Bigbury Bay, Kingsbridge, Devon |journal=Unsolvedmurders.co.uk |date=16 July 1904 |volume=3591 |issue=1904 |access-date=24 December 2022 |last1=Murders |first1=Unsolved }}</ref> Loomis had disappeared from the liner ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'' on the eve of its arrival in [[Plymouth, England]] on June 20.<ref name="Loomis 6"/><ref name="Loomis 3"/><ref name="Loomis 1">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040628.2.12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- |title=GIVE UP ALL HOPE Loomis Now Thought to Be Dead Belief That He Fell Off the Steamer Report That Body Was Washed Ashore His Brother Has No Confirmation of the Story, but the Gloomiest View is Taken by All |volume=XXXI |issue=273 |date=28 June 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> The body had an abrasion under the right ear. There were no important papers on the body.<ref name="Loomis 6"/><ref name="Loomis 3"/>
[[File:ChappaquaCyclonedamage.jpg|thumb|right|July 17, 1904: Damage from the Chappaqua tornado]]
* The [[1904 Chappaqua tornado]] struck northern [[Westchester County, New York]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040719.2.90.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=TORNADO DEVASTATES QUAKER SETTLEMENT Many People Injured in Windstorm of Terrific Violence Which Sweeps Over Chappaqua, N. Y. |volume=XCVI |issue=49 |date=19 July 1904 |at=Page 7, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westchesterarchives.com/HT/muni/newCastle/tornado.htm |title=Images of the Chappaqua Tornado, July 16, 1904 |website=Historical Treasures of Westchester County |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519081808/http://www.westchesterarchives.com/HT/muni/newCastle/tornado.htm |archive-date=19 May 2007 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref> killing two people and injuring six.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}
* In [[Valparaíso]], [[Chile]], a storm caused extensive damage and drowned seven women in their homes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040719.2.45&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SEVEN WOMEN LOSE THEIR LIVES IN CLOUDBURST Hundreds of Buildings Are Inundated at Valparaiso Through Phenomenal Downpour of Water. |volume=XCVI |issue=49 |date=19 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Goffredo Petrassi]], Italian composer and conductor; in [[Zagarolo]], Italy (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/05/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 |last=Waterhouse |first=John CG |title=Goffredo Petrassi |department=Obituary |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 March 2003 |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Geraldine Knight Scott]] (born Geraldine Knight), pioneering American woman landscape architect; in [[Wallace, Idaho]] (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4p300654/admin/ |title=Geraldine Knight Scott Collection, 1914-1988 |website=[[Online Archive of California]] |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of birth.}}
** [[Leo Joseph Suenens]], Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, [[Archbishop of Brussels-Mechelen]]; in [[Ixelles]], Belgium (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsuenens.html |title=Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens |website=[[Catholic-Hierarchy]] |publisher=David M. Cheney |date=9 October 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 17]], 1904 (Sunday)==
* '''Born:'''
** [[Clyde Smith (American football)|Clyde Smith]], [[National Football League]] [[Center (gridiron football)|center]] and [[college football]] coach; in [[Steelville, Missouri]] (d. 1982)<ref>{{cite news |title=Clyde Smith |department=Deaths and funerals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61997726/the-vincennes-sun-commercial/ |newspaper=[[Vincennes Sun-Commercial]] |date=31 December 1982 |at=Page 6, column 1 |access-date=28 December 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitCl21.htm |title=Clyde Smith Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |publisher=[[Sports Reference LLC]] |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Wilhelm Marr]], 84, German agitator and journalist, popularizer of the term "[[antisemitism]]"<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=Puschner |first=Uwe |title=Marr, Wilhelm |dictionary=[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] |volume=16 |year=1990 |pages=247–249 |edition=online version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd119024888.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Alfred Moore (engineer)|Alfred Moore]], 78, English [[civil engineer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alfred_Moore |title=Alfred Moore |work=[[Grace's Guide To British Industrial History]] |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Charles Morgan (Surrey cricketer)|Charles Morgan]], 65, English [[cricket]]er<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/charles-morgan-17672 |title=Charles Morgan profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |website=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |publisher=[[ESPN Sports Media Ltd.]] |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Isaac Roberts]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], 75, Welsh astronomer<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56168b/f371.chemindefer |journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society]] |title=Obituary Notices of Fellow Deceased |volume=75 |pages=356–363 |date=1904–1905}} [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsroya16britgoog]</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10328895r |title=Notice de personne "Roberts, Isaac (1829-1904)" |trans-title=Person notice "Roberts, Isaac (1829-1904)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=20 November 2018 |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 18]], 1904 (Monday)==
* The [[Inquests in England and Wales|inquest]] into the death of Frederick Kent Loomis was held in the village of Thurleston, [[Devonshire]].<ref name="Loomis 7">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040719.2.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LOOMIS IS KILLED BY A BLOW WHILE ON LINER'S DECK Non-Committal Verdict Is Rendered by Coroner's Jury. |volume=XCVI |issue=49 |date=19 July 1904 |at=Page 1, columns 2-3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> Doctors concluded that Loomis had received an antemortem blow to the head sufficient to cause death before entering the water.<ref name="Loomis 3"/><ref name="Loomis 7"/> The verdict of the [[coroner's jury]] read, "Found dead, washed up by the sea in Bigbury Bay, Devonshire." In advising the verdict, Coroner Dr. Sidney Hacker stated that there was no evidence that the blow to Loomis' head was the result of foul play.<ref name="Loomis 7"/>
* In [[Longville, California]], a fire destroyed the Miller Hotel, killing two children on an upper floor, who were believed to have set the fire.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040719.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH IN HOTEL Fatal Fire Occurs in Longville, the Summer Resort in Humbug Valley. |volume=XCVI |issue=49 |date=19 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* E. C. Hutchinson and J. S. Hutchinson made the [[first ascent]] of [[Mount Humphreys]], located in the [[Sierra Nevada]] in [[California]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/climbers_guide/mount_humphreys.html |chapter=Mount Humphreys Region |title=A Climber's Guide to the High Sierra |editor-last=Voge |editor-first=Hervey H. |year=1954 |access-date=19 December 2022 |via=Yosemite Online}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Vittorio Metz]], Italian screenwriter and film director; in [[Rome]], Italy (d. 1984)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mymovies.it/persone/vittorio-metz/56064/ |title=VITTORIO METZ |publisher=[[MYmovies.it]] |language=it |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Stella Skopal]], Croatian Jewish sculptor; in [[Zagreb]], [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]], Austria-Hungary (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 |title=Marina Baričević: Stella Skopal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607182840/http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 |archive-date=7 June 2017 |author=ULUPUH |date=16 June 2009 |language=hr |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month, day or place of birth.}}
** [[Fuji Yahiro]], Japanese screenwriter; in [[Fukuoka Prefecture]], Japan (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%85%AB%E5%B0%8B%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%8C-1116918 |title=八尋不二（読み）やひろ ふじ |trans-title=Fuji Yahiro |website=[[Kotobank]] |publisher=DIGITALIO, Inc. |language=ja |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
** [[Arne Yven]], Norwegian footballer; in [[Sarpsborg]], [[Norway]] (d. 1970)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/arne-yven/ |title=Arne Yven |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 19]], 1904 (Tuesday)==
* In St. Louis, lightning struck the Mexican pavilion at the World's Fair, causing $3000 in damage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040719.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LIGHTNING STRIKES FAIR BUILDING AT ST. LOUIS Mexican Pavilion Is Damaged to Extent of $3000 and Inmates Are Panic-Stricken. |volume=XCVI |issue=50 |date=20 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* In [[Susanville, California]], a fire destroyed the Humphrey Hotel, killing two children who were asleep on the second floor.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040720.2.37&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=TWO YOUNG CHILDREN ARE BURNED TO DEATH Hotel at Susanville Is Destroyed by Fire and Little Ones Perish in the Flames. |volume=XCVI |issue=50 |date=20 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[William Alexander Smith (boxer)|William Alexander Smith]], South African Olympic and world champion [[bantamweight]] [[Boxing|boxer]]; in [[Johannesburg]], [[South Africa]] (d. 1955, [[heart attack]]) (some sources give date of birth as August 5, 1905, and place of birth as [[Krugersdorp]], South Africa)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/7998 |title=Willie Smith |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Mark Koenig]], American [[Major League Baseball]] [[shortstop]]; in [[San Francisco]], California (d. 1993, [[cancer]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/koenima01.shtml |title=Mark Koenig Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/obituaries/mark-koenig-88-played-shortstop-for-1927-yanks.html |title=Mark Koenig, 88; Played Shortstop For 1927 Yanks |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=The Associated Press |date=25 April 1993 |at=Section 1, Page 52 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Vera Schmiterlöw]], Swedish actress; in [[Varberg]], [[Halland County]], Sweden (d. 1987)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/person/vera-schmiterlow_f303a3a8e0dcf2eee03053d50b375fcc |title=Vera Schmiterlöw |website=[[filmportal.de]] |department=People |language=en |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Herbert Campbell]], 59, English actor, died of a [[brain haemorrhage]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbert Campbell |last=Patient |first=Alan |publisher=London Remembers |department=People |access-date=16 December 2022 |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/herbert-campbell}}</ref>

==[[July 20]], 1904 (Wednesday)==
* '''Born:'''
** [[René Couzinet]], French aeronautics engineer and aircraft manufacturer; in [[Saint-Martin-des-Noyers]], [[Vendée]], France (d. 1956, murder-suicide)<ref>{{cite web |title=René Couzinet from glory to decline |last=Caloyanni |first=Emmanuel |translator-last=Leveillard |translator-first=Mike |url=http://aerostories.free.fr/constructeurs/couzinet/page3.html |publisher=Aérostories |year=2001 |language=en |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12047756h |title=Notice de personne "Couzinet, René (1904-1956)" |trans-title=Person notice "Couzinet, René (1904-1956)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=21 April 2009 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Molly Keane]] (born Mary Nesta Skrine), Irish novelist and playwright; in [[Newbridge, County Kildare]], Ireland (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite web |title=MOLLY KEANE |url=http://www.virago.co.uk/author_results.asp?TAG=&CID=&PGE=&LANG=EN&ref=e2007030614553308&SF1=data&ST1=profile |publisher=[[Virago Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230325/http://www.virago.co.uk/author_results.asp?TAG=&CID=&PGE=&LANG=EN&ref=e2007030614553308&SF1=data&ST1=profile |archive-date=11 October 2007 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119095294 |title=Notice de personne "Keane, Molly (1904-1996)" |trans-title=Person notice "Keane, Molly (1904-1996)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=19 December 2007 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[John R. McBride]], 71, American lawyer and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from [[Oregon]], died of a brain hemorrhage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040721.2.119.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Judge McBride Dies Suddenly. |volume=XCVI |issue=51 |date=21 July 1904 |at=Page 11, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000301 |title=MCBRIDE, John Rogers 1832 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[William G. Thompson]], 61, [[Union Army]] officer, lawyer and politician, [[Mayor of Detroit]], died of injuries from a pedestrian accident.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040722.2.142&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=THE DAY'S DEAD. |volume=XCVI |issue=52 |date=22 July 1904 |at=Page 14, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6vhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35 |title=The Government of The City of Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan: 1701 to 1907, Historical and Biographical, Illustrated |location=[[Detroit]], [[Michigan]] |year=1907 |pages=35–36 |isbn=9780598455529 |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==[[July 21]], 1904 (Thursday)==
[[File:Louis Rigolly Car 1904.jpg|thumb|right|Rigolly in record-setting car]]
* French driver [[Louis Rigolly]] set a new world [[land speed record]] of {{Convert|103.56|mph}} (the first time the record exceeded {{Convert|100|mph}}), driving a [[Gobron-Brillié]] racing car in [[Ostend]], Belgium.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.racingcampbells.com/content/world.land.speed.record.asp |title=World Land Speed Records |publisher=RacingCampbells.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070831073900/http://www.racingcampbells.com/content/world.land.speed.record.asp |archive-date=31 August 2007 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1904: Gobron-Brillie driven by Louis Rigolly |department=World Land Speed Record |publisher=Unique Cars & Parts |url=https://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/world_land_speed_record_10 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
* In New York City, a [[grand larceny]] charge against boxer [[Bob Fitzsimmons]] for stealing a lion cub from a [[Coney Island]] animal show was dismissed. One of the show's managers had told Fitzsimmons he could have the lion as a joke. Fitzsimmons returned the lion to the show.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040722.2.119.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=FITZ GIVES BACK LION AND IS NOT PROSECUTED Prizefighter Is the Victim of a Good Joke, Says Menagerie Man. |volume=XCVI |issue=52 |date=22 July 1904 |at=Page 10, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* The [[armored cruiser]] [[USS South Dakota (ACR-9)|USS ''South Dakota'' (ACR-9)]] was launched from the [[Union Iron Works]] in San Francisco, sponsored by Grace Mae Herreid, daughter of [[Charles N. Herreid]], the [[Governor of South Dakota]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040721.2.73&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LAUNCHING OF ARMORED CRUISER SOUTH DAKOTA OCCURS TO-NIGHT Distinguished Citizens From the State After Which New War Vessel Is Named Will Participate in the Ceremony at the Union Iron Works Where the Fighting Machine Is Now Cradled |volume=XCVI |issue=51 |date=21 July 1904 |at=Page 5, columns 3-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=22 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040722.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=CRUISER SOUTH DAKOTA WEDS THE SEA WITH EVERY OMEN OF FUTURE SUCCESS Sister Fighting Machine to the California Glides Down the Ways in Majesty and Strength and Is Christened by the Daughter of Governor of State From Which She Takes Her Name |volume=XCVI |issue=52 |date=22 July 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 3-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |dictionary=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/south-dakota-i--armored--cruiser-no--9--1902-1930.html |title=South Dakota I (Armored Cruiser No. 9) |last=Evans |first=Mark L. |publisher=[[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |date=10 January 2018 |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Mario Agosti]], Italian javelin thrower and footballer; in [[Udine]], Italy (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.dizionariobiograficodeifriulani.it/agosti-mario/ |last=Gaspardo |first=Maria Luisa |title=AGOSTI MARIO (1904-1992) |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico dei Friulani |publisher=Istituto Pio Paschini per la storia della Chiesa in Friuli |year=2016 |language=it |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Fernand Fayolle]], French racing cyclist; in [[La Motte-d'Aveillans]], [[Rhône-Alpes]], France (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=27929 |title=Fernand Fayolle |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223011130/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=27929 |archive-date=23 February 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Jean-Marie Gantois]], French Roman Catholic priest and [[Flemish nationalist]]; in [[Watten, Nord]], France (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=Demedts |first=A. |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/nbwv/#source=5&page=182&view=imagePane |title=GANTOIS, Jean-Marie |pages=350–361 |dictionary=[[Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek]] |publisher=[[Koninklijke Academiën van België]] |location=[[Brussels]] |year=1972 |language=nl |access-date=30 December 2022 |via=[[Huygens Instituut]]}}</ref>
** [[James Gentle]], American [[soccer]] player, Olympic [[field hockey]] player, [[golfer]] and [[United States Army]] [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]]; in [[Dorchester, Massachusetts]] (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/20396 |title=Jimmy Gentle |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Wilhelm Harster]], German officer and Holocaust perpetrator; in [[Kelheim]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], German Empire (d. 1991)<ref>{{cite web |title=SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Dr. jur. Wilhelm Harster |url=http://www.specialcamp11.co.uk/SS-Gruppenfuhrer_und_Generalleutnant_der_Polizei_Dr_jur_Wilhelm_Harster.htm |website=ISLAND FARM SPECIAL CAMP 11 THE GERMAN OFFICERS HELD IN BRIDGEND 1946 - 1948 |department=SOME OF THE PRISONERS HELD AT SPECIAL CAMP 11 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Henry Johansen]], Norwegian Olympic and professional footballer; in [[Kristiania]], Norway (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26828 |title=Henry Johansen |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Louis Meyer]], American [[International Motorsports Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] race car driver; in [[Manhattan]], New York City (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/inductees/louis-meyer/ |title=Louis Meyer |website=[[International Motorsports Hall of Fame]] |department=Inductees |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 22]], 1904 (Friday)==
* Six people were injured in a [[Roller coaster|scenic railway]] accident at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040723.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SIX PERSONS INJURED AT WORLD'S EXPOSITION Serious Accident Caused by the Carelessness of a Scenic Railway Gripman. |volume=XCVI |issue=53 |date=23 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* In [[Bakersfield, California]], Superior Judge Mahon sentenced James Cowan, who had been convicted of [[Manslaughter (United States law)|manslaughter]] for the March 11 lynching of James Cummings in [[Mojave, California]], to eight years at [[Folsom State Prison]]. The jury which convicted Cowan recommended him to the mercy of the court. Judge Mahon expressed the opinion that the jury did not have the right to make such a recommendation and said that, without it, he would have sentenced Cowan to death.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040313.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LYNCHERS TAKE LIFE OF NEGRO Mob at Mojave Kills Prisoner After Tarring Him. Wrath of Citizens Leads to a Tragedy in a Southern Town. Mystery Surrounds the Details of the Tragic Death of Colored Man Charged With Crime. |volume=95 |issue=104 |date=13 March 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=28 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040314.2.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=LYNCHERS ARE TO BE PROSECUTED Warrants Are Issued for Arrest of Suspects. Coroner Investigates the Murder of Prisoner Cummings. Evidence at Inquest Tends to Show That Unfortunate Negro Was Innocent of Crime Charged. |volume=95 |issue=105 |date=14 March 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=28 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040723.2.44&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=EIGHT YEARS FOR LYNCHER James Cowan, Who Shot the Negro Cummings at Mojave, Sent to Penitentiary COMMENTS ON VERDICT Judge in Passing Sentence Says Jury Had No Right to Ask Mercy for Prisoner |volume=XCVI |issue=53 |date=23 July 1904 |at=Page 4, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Donald O. Hebb]], Canadian [[psychologist]]; in [[Chester, Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]] (d. 1985)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Milner |first1=Peter M. |author1-link=Peter Milner |last2=Milner |first2=Brenda Atkinson |author2-link=Brenda Milner |date=1 November 1996 |title=Donald Olding Hebb, 22 July 1904 - 20 August 1985 |journal=Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. |volume=42 |pages=193–204 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1996.0012 |pmid=11619332 |publisher=The Royal Society |issn=1748-8494 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1996.0012 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Peter Igelhoff]] (born Rudolf August Ordnung), Austrian pianist and light music and [[film composer]]; in Vienna, Austria (d. 1978)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14763864b |title=Notice de personne "Igelhoff, Peter (1904-1978)" |trans-title=Person notice "Igelhoff, Peter (1904-1978)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=15 September 2006 |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Marjorie White]] (born Marjorie Ann Guthrie), Canadian-born stage and film actress; in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], Canada (d. 1935, injuries from traffic collision)<ref>{{cite web |department=Memorable Manitobans |title=Marjorie Ann Guthrie [Marjorie White] (1904-1935) |last=Cassidy |first=Christian |publisher=[[Manitoba Historical Society]] |date=25 February 2018 |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/guthrie_ma.shtml |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Wilson Barrett]], 58, English actor and playwright, died of [[heart failure]] after an operation for cancer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040723.2.124.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=DEATH OF WILSON BARRETT. Actor Succumbs to the Effects of an Operation for Cancer. |volume=XCVI |issue=53 |date=23 July 1904 |at=Page 14, column 5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Barrett, Wilson|volume=3|page=434}}</ref>
** [[Charles Seaforth Stewart]], 81, [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]], died from an accidental fall.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040724.2.44&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RETIRED ARMY VETERAN DIES FROM INJURY |volume=XCVI |issue=54 |date=24 July 1904 |at=Page 24, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>

==[[July 23]], 1904 (Saturday)==
* The French [[man-of-war]] ''[[French ship Mars|Mars]]'', being used as an accommodation [[Hulk (ship type)|hulk]] for 200 [[Marines#France|marines]] in [[Toulon]] harbor, sank due to rats gnawing holes in its [[Float (nautical)|floats]]. All aboard evacuated before the ship sank.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040724.2.83&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RATS SCUTTLE ANCIENT WOODEN WAR VESSEL Two Hundred Marines Stationed Aboard French Hulk Mars Narrowly Escape Drowning. |volume=XCVI |issue=54 |date=24 July 1904 |at=Page 28, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* Engineer [[David Roberts (engineer)|David Roberts]] of [[Richard Hornsby & Sons]] of [[Grantham]] in England [[patent]]ed a [[continuous track]] [[tractor]].<ref>British Patent No. 16,345. {{cite book |first=Peter |last=Robinson |title=Lincoln's Excavators: The Ruston years 1875–1930 |year=2003 |location=[[Nynehead]] |publisher=Roundoak |isbn=1-871565-42-1}}</ref>
* '''Born:''' [[Georges Hugon]], French composer; in Paris, France (d. 1980)<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9yKBAAAQBAJ&dq=Georges+Hugon+1980&pg=PT1958 |last=Pâris |first=Alain |author-link=Alain Pâris |title=HUGON GEORGES (1904-1980) |dictionary=Dictionnaire des Musiciens |series=Les Dictionnaires |page=1958 |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Universalis]] |language=fr |year=2019 |isbn=9782852291409 |access-date=26 December 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Rodolfo Amando Philippi]], 95, German–born Chilean paleontologist and zoologist, died of pneumonia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040726.2.100.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Famous Naturalist Dead. |volume=XCVI |issue=56 |date=26 July 1904 |at=Page 9, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="Kabat & Coan">{{cite journal |url=https://fundacionphilippi.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the_life_and_work_of_r.a._philippi.pdf |last1=Kabat |first1=Alan R. |last2=Coan |first2=Eugene V. |title=The Life and Work of Rudolph Amandus Philippi (1808–1904) |journal=[[Malacologia]] |year=2017 |volume=60 |issue=1−2 |pages=12−13 |doi=10.4002/040.060.0103 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[John Douglas (Queensland politician)|John Douglas]] {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CMG}}, 76, British-born Australian politician<ref>{{cite dictionary |first=R. B. |last=Joyce |title=Douglas, John (1828–1904) |dictionary=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |publisher=[[National Centre of Biography]], [[Australian National University]] |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/douglas-john-3430/text5221 |year=1972 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Isaías Gamboa]], 31, Colombian poet<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX1278377 |title=Gamboa, Isaías (1872-1904) |website=Catálogo BNE |language=es |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
** Sir [[John Simon (pathologist)|John Simon]] {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|FRS|FRCS}}, 87, English [[pathologist]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/07/24/archives/death-of-sir-john-simon-the-pioneer-of-the-modern-system-of-the.html |title=DEATH OF SIR JOHN SIMON.; The Pioneer of the Modern System of the Sanitation of Cities. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 July 1904 |page=5 |access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040724.2.47.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Famous London Surgeon Dies. |volume=XCVI |issue=54 |date=24 July 1904 |at=Page 24, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>

==[[July 24]], 1904 (Sunday)==
* The 1904 Tour de France ended at the [[Parc des Princes#Original stadium (1897–1932)|Parc des Princes]] in Paris, with French cyclist [[Maurice Garin]] apparently defending his 1903 title. On November 30, the [[Union Vélocipédique Française]] would disqualify the first four finishers, awarding the victory to French cyclist [[Henri Cornet]]. 19 years old at the time of the race, Cornet remains the Tour de France's youngest winner.<ref name="MduC"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wielercentrum.com/tourdefrance/achtergronden/tourwinnaars/1904--Henri-Cornet-764.html |title=1904: Henri Cornet |publisher=www.wielercentrum.com |year=2010 |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323021047/http://www.wielercentrum.com/tourdefrance/achtergronden/tourwinnaars/1904--Henri-Cornet-764.html |archive-date=23 March 2012 |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
* [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Roman Catholic)|St Patrick's Cathedral]] in [[Armagh]], Ireland, was solemnly consecrated and reopened after the completion of its interior adornment, planned and overseen by Cardinal [[Michael Logue]]. Cardinal [[Vincenzo Vannutelli]] represented [[Pope Pius X]] at the ceremony.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040717.2.172.33&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=IRISH CATHEDRAL READY TO BE SOLEMNLY BLESSED Priests From All Over World Will Attend Consecration of $2,500,000 Edifice in Armagh. |volume=XCVI |issue=47 |date=17 July 1904 |at=Page 20, column 7 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=20 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040725.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=MANY ATTEND REOPENING OF ARMAGH CATHEDRAL Sacred Edifice in Use Again After Having Been Closed for Term of Four Years. |volume=XCVI |issue=55 |date=25 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.armagharchdiocese.org/history-cathedral/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225122808/https://www.armagharchdiocese.org/history-cathedral/ |archive-date=25 December 2019 |url-status=live |title=History of the Cathedral |publisher=[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh|Archdiocese of Armagh]] |access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref>
* The body of paleontologist and zoologist Rodolfo Amando Philippi lay in state in the grand hall of the [[University of Chile]], viewed by 10,000 people.<ref name="Kabat & Coan"/>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Leo Arnaud]], French American film composer; in [[Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or]], [[Lyon]], [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]], France (d. 1991)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13929520q |title=Notice de personne "Arnaud, Léo (1904-1991)" |trans-title=Person notice "Arnaud, Léo (1904-1991)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=26 July 2016 |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Willi Boltze]], German Olympic [[long-distance runner]]; in [[Hamburg]], Germany (d. 1937, [[suicide]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70169 |title=Willi Boltze |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Delmer Daves]], American screenwriter, film director and [[film producer]]; in San Francisco, California (d. 1977)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13940368d |title=Notice de personne "Daves, Delmer (1904-1977)" |trans-title=Person notice "Daves, Delmer (1904-1977)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=9 September 2021 |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Anton Dolin (ballet dancer)|Anton Dolin]] (born Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay), English ballet dancer and [[choreographer]]; in [[Slinfold]], [[West Sussex]], England (d. 1983)<ref>{{Cite ODNB|first=Beryl|last=Grey|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31040|title=Dolin, Sir Anton [real name Sydney Francis Patrick Chippindall Healey Kay]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb122732386 |title=Notice de personne "Dolin, Anton (1904-1983)" |trans-title=Person notice "Dolin, Anton (1904-1983)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=3 June 2014 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Miotero Geninetti]], Italian World War II [[Italian resistance movement|partisan]]; in [[Grenoble]], France (d. 1945, shot)<ref>{{cite book |first=Gino |last=Gallo |title=Rivalta e la Resistenza |trans-title=Rivalry and the Resistance |year=2016 |language=it}}</ref>
** [[Harry Hasso]], Swedish actor, [[cinematographer]] and film director; in [[Frankenthal]], Germany (d. 1984)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/Item/?type=person&itemid=59847 |title=Harry Hasso |work=[[Swedish Film Database]] |date=24 July 1904 |publisher=[[Swedish Film Institute]] |language=en |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Nikolai Kuznetsov (admiral)|Nikolai Kuznetsov]], Soviet admiral; in [[Medvedki, Arkhangelsk Oblast|Medvedki]], [[Velikoustyuzhsky Uyezd]], [[Vologda Governorate]], Russian Empire (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16675061w |title=Notice de personne "Kouznetsov, Nikolaï Guerassimovitch (1904-1974)" |trans-title=Person notice "Kouznetsov, Nikolaï Guerassimovitch (1904-1974)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=4 April 2013 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Laura Bon]], 78, Italian stage actress, died of [[heart disease]].<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/laura-bon_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |last=Sallusti |first=Sisto |title=BON, Laura |dictionary=[[Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani]] |volume=11 |year=1969 |publisher=[[Treccani]] |language=it |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref>
** [[George Moore (Medal of Honor)|George Moore]], 66–67, [[Union Navy]] sailor, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient, died of [[lung congestion]].<ref>{{cite news |title=George J. Moore |newspaper=[[Trenton Evening Times]] |date=25 July 1904}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give cause of death or year of birth.}}
** [[Charles Robert Wilson]], 41, English academic and historian<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Wilson, Charles Robert|volume=3}}</ref>

==[[July 25]], 1904 (Monday)==
* In [[Santiago]], Chile, 30,000 people observed the funeral procession of paleontologist Rodolfo Amando Philippi, which included the entire [[Ministries of Chile|cabinet]] and [[National Congress of Chile|National Congress]]. According to researchers Alan R. Kabat and Eugene V. Coan, "It is safe to say that no other zoologist or paleontologist had such a large turnout at his funeral," with the possible exception of [[Alexander von Humboldt]] in 1859.<ref name="Kabat & Coan"/>
* Inventor Louis N. Filion demonstrated a [[rigid airship]] behind the field of the Shamrock Lacrosse Club in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. This was the first flight of an airship in Canada.<ref>{{cite web |title=In 1902, was the secret of steering dirigible balloons held by Quebecer Louis N. Filion? That is for me to know and you to find out |last=Fortier |first=Rénald |url=https://ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articles/in-1902-was-the-secret-of-steering-dirigible-balloons-held-by-quebecer-louis-n |date=31 July 2022 |publisher=[[Ingenium]] |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Tore Edman]], Swedish [[ski jumper]]; in [[Arvika]], Sweden (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=JP&competitorid=15123 |title=EDMAN T. - Athlete Information |publisher=[[International Ski Federation|FIS]] |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month, day or place of birth or year of death.}}
** [[Ernest Hilgard]], American psychologist; in [[Belleville, Illinois]] (d. 2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/54588.html |title=E. R. Hilgard |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |department=Member Directory |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[Kate Lee (English singer)|Kate Lee]] (born Catharine Anna Spooner), 45, English singer and folksong collector, died of cancer.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=70669|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-70669/version/1|title=Lee [''née'' Spooner], Catharine Anna [Kate] (1859–1904), singer and folk-song collector|last=Bearman|first=C. J.|date=2006|language=en|access-date=2020-03-05}}</ref>
** [[Jim Valentine]], 37, English [[rugby union]] and [[rugby league]] player, was killed by a lightning strike.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/the-northerner/2012/jul/27/archive-1904-james-valentine-rugby-death |title=From the archive, 27 July 1904: Famous rugby player struck by lightning |newspaper=The Guardian |department=Rugby union |date=27 July 2012 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 26]], 1904 (Tuesday)==
* [[Colorado Governor]] [[James Hamilton Peabody]] issued a proclamation terminating [[martial law]] in [[Teller County, Colorado|Teller County]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040727.2.27&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PEABODY ENDS SOLDIER RULE Governor Issues Proclamation Terminating Martial Law in Teller County CITIZENS COMPLAINING People Declare That They Fear the Return of Deported Men to Cripple Creek |volume=XCVI |issue=57 |date=27 July 1904 |at=Page 3, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Edwin Albert Link]], American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment; in [[Huntington, Indiana]] (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.binghamton.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/linkcoll_m4.html |title=Edwin Albert Link - A Chronological Biography |access-date=4 December 2022 |publisher=[[Binghamton University|Binghamton University Libraries]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317171714/http://library.binghamton.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/linkcoll_m4.html |archive-date=17 March 2012}}</ref>
** [[Leigh Jason]], American film director and screenwriter; in New York City (d. 1979)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14108580p |title=Notice de personne "Jason, Leigh (1904-1979)" |trans-title=Person notice "Jason, Leigh (1904-1979)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=24 July 2007 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Bjarne Larsen]], Norwegian footballer (d. 1972)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/bjarne-larsen/ |title=Bjarne Larsen |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Marino Ortolani]], Italian [[pediatrician]]; in [[Altedo]], [[Malalbergo]], [[Province of Bologna]], Italy (d. 1983)<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marino-ortolani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |last=Farnetani |first=Italo |title=ORTOLANI, Marino |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=79 |year=2013 |publisher=Treccani |language=it |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Luis Vidales]], Colombian poet; in [[Calarcá]], [[Quindío Department]], [[Colombia]] (d. 1990)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12773994g |title=Notice de personne "Vidales, Luis (1904-1990)" |trans-title=Person notice "Vidales, Luis (1904-1990)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=3 October 2019 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:'''
** [[John Rogers (sculptor)|John Rogers]], 74, American sculptor, died of creeping paralysis.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040728.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Rogers, the Sculptor, Dead. |volume=XCVI |issue=58 |date=28 July 1904 |at=Page 7, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=25 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/americanartannu00artsgoog |title=American Art Annual |volume=5 |chapter=Obituaries |publisher=MacMillan Company |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanartannu00artsgoog/page/n141 123] |access-date=25 December 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
** [[Henry Clay Taylor]], 59, [[United States Navy]] [[Rear admiral (United States)|rear admiral]], died of [[peritonitis]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040727.2.59&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=REAR ADMIRAL TAYLOR GOES TO FINAL REST |volume=XCVI |issue=57 |date=27 July 1904 |at=Page 5, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |title=Taylor I (Destroyer No. 94) |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/taylor-i.html |dictionary=[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]] |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 27]], 1904 (Wednesday)==
* '''Born:'''
** [[Kenneth Bainbridge]], American physicist; in [[Cooperstown, New York]] (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pound |first=Robert V. |author-link=Robert Pound |title=Obituary: Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge |journal=[[Physics Today]] |date=January 1997 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=80–82 |doi=10.1063/1.881651 |bibcode=1997PhT....50a..80P |doi-access= |access-date=}}</ref>
** [[Arthur Christiansen]], British journalist and editor; in [[Wallasey]], [[Cheshire]], England (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite dictionary |first=Edward |last=Pickering |author-link=Edward Pickering (journalist) |title=Christiansen, Arthur Robin (1904-1963) |dictionary=[[The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |editor1-first=H.C.G. |editor1-last=Matthew |editor1-link=Colin Matthew |editor2-first=Brian |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-link=Brian Harrison (historian) |location=[[Oxford]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |volume=11 |page=527}}</ref>
** [[Oskar R. Lange]], Polish [[economist]] and diplomat; in [[Tomaszów Mazowiecki]], [[Congress Poland]] (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11910955t |title=Notice de personne "Lange, Oskar (1904-1965)" |trans-title=Person notice "Lange, Oskar (1904-1965)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=15 March 2021 |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Lyudmila Rudenko]], Soviet chess player, [[women's world chess champion]]; in [[Lubny]], [[Poltava Governorate]], Russian Empire (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Kiona N. |title=Friday's Google Doodle Honors Chess Champion Lyudmila Rudenko |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/07/26/fridays-google-doodle-honors-chess-champion-lyudmila-rudenko/?sh=122a42d95c6b |magazine=[[Forbes]] |department=Science |date=July 2018 |access-date=27 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/lyudmila-rudenko |title=Lyudmila Rudenko |date=23 March 2017 |publisher=[[World Chess Hall of Fame]] |access-date=27 December 2022}} This source gives Rudenko's year of death incorrectly as 1996.</ref>
** [[Omer Taverne]], Belgian professional [[road bicycle racer]]; in Waudrez, [[Binche]], [[Hainaut Province]], Belgium (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=7116 |title=Omer Taverne |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=28 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228065850/http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=7116 |archive-date=28 December 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[John Francis Holme]], 36, American newspaper artist and book printer, died of tuberculosis.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/07/28/archives/john-francis-holme.html |title=John Francis Holme. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 July 1904 |page=7 |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=American Art Annual 1905-1906 |volume=5 |editor-last=Levy |editor-first=Florence N. |editor-link=Florence Nightingale Levy |location=[[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[American Art Annual]] |year=1905 |page=121 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanartannu00artsgoog/page/121/mode/2up |access-date=16 December 2022 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

==[[July 28]], 1904 (Thursday)==
[[File:The assassination of Vyacheslav von Plehve, Le Patriote Illustré.jpg|thumb|right|Assassination of Vyacheslav von Plehve]]
* [[Igor Sazonov]], a member of the [[SR Combat Organization]], the terrorist branch of the [[Socialist Revolutionary Party]], assassinated [[Vyacheslav von Plehve]], [[Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire|Minister of the Interior of Russia]], in [[Saint Petersburg]]. As von Plehve drove to the railway station to report to [[Nicholas II of Russia|Czar Nicholas II]] at the [[Peterhof Palace]], Sazonov threw a bomb under von Plehve's carriage, completely destroying it and killing or injuring over 20 people.<ref name="von Plehve 1">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040728.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ASSASSIN DYNAMITES VON PLEHWE Russian Minister of Interior Is Slain in St. Petersburg. Bomb Is Thrown Under His Carriage on Way to Railway Station. Body of the Statesman Is Terribly Mangled by the Explosion of Deadly Missile |volume=XCVI |issue=58 |date=28 July 1904 |at=Page 1, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="von Plehve 2">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040729.2.12.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Russian Minister of Justice Attacked While Carrying News of Assassination to the Czar. |volume=XCVI |issue=59 |date=29 July 1904 |at=Page 2, columns 1-2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref name="von Plehve 3">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Plehve, Viatscheslaf Konstantinovich|volume=21|page=835}}</ref>
* [[Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)|Empress Alexandra]] was not informed of von Plehve's assassination due to the imminence of her childbirth.<ref name="von Plehve 2"/> She would give birth to [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia]], on August 12.<ref>{{cite news |title=RUSSIA JOYFUL OVER BIRTH OF CZAREVITCH; Church Bells Ring and Thanksgiving Services Are Held. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 August 1904 |at=Page 7, columns 5-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/13/archives/russia-joyful-over-birth-of-czarevitch-church-bells-ring-and.html |access-date=2 August 2023}}</ref>
* On hearing of von Plehve's assassination, [[Pope Pius X]] reportedly threw his hands in the air and exclaimed, "How awful. Let us hope that worse events than war are not impending in Russia."<ref name="von Plehve 4">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040729.2.12.1.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=NEWS SHOCKS THE POPE. Pius X Hopes Worse Events Than War Are Not Impending. |volume=XCVI |issue=59 |date=29 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[Pavel Cherenkov]], Soviet physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate; in [[Novaya Chigla]], [[Russia]] (d. 1990)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pavel A. Cherenkov – Facts |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2022 |access-date=4 December 2022 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1958/cerenkov/facts/}}</ref>
** [[Elyesa Bazna]], World War II [[secret agent]] for [[Nazi Germany]]; in [[Pristina]], [[Kosovo vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (d. 1970, [[kidney disease]])<ref>{{cite magazine |editor-last=Luce |editor-first=Henry Robinson |editor-link=Henry Luce |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xknAQAAIAAJ |year=1971 |publisher=[[Time Inc.]] |page=xcvi |title=Died. Elyesa Bazna |access-date=27 December 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gnEWm4kC844C&pg=PA69 |last=Adams |first=Jefferson |title=CICERO AFFAIR |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence |series=Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence |volume=11 |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]], [[Toronto]], [[Plymouth]], [[UK]] |publisher=[[The Scarecrow Press, Inc.]] |year=2009 |pages=69–70 |isbn=978-0-8108-6320-0 |access-date=27 December 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
** [[Piero Toscani]], Italian Olympic champion [[middleweight]] boxer; in [[Milan]], [[Province of Milan]], Italy (d. 1940)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/4184 |title=Piero Toscani |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Dexter Horton]], 78, American banker, died of heart failure.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040729.2.54&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Sudden Death of Financier. |volume=XCVI |issue=59 |date=29 July 1904 |at=Page 5, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>

==[[July 29]], 1904 (Friday)==
* The [[1. FC Normannia Gmünd]] association football club was founded in [[Schwäbisch Gmünd|Gmünd]], Germany, by the merger of the ''Alemannia'' and ''Fortuna'' clubs.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fc-normannia.de/club/historie/ |title=Historie |publisher=[[1.FC Normannia Gmünd]] |language=de |access-date=22 January 2023}}</ref>
* The United Russian Revolutionists held a mass meeting at the [[Cooper Union]] in New York City to celebrate Vyacheslav von Plehve's death. 5000 people were in attendance.<ref name="von Plehve 5">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040730.2.25&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Assassination Is Approved. |volume=XCVI |issue=60 |date=30 July 1904 |at=Page 2, column 1 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=24 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
** [[Ricardo Balbín]], Argentine lawyer and politician; in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]] (d. 1981)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elhistoriador.com.ar/biografias/b/balbin.php |last=Pigna |first=Felipe |author-link=Felipe Pigna |title=Ricardo Balbín |website=El Historiador |department=Biografías |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128221706/http://www.elhistoriador.com.ar/biografias/b/balbin.php |archive-date=28 November 2011 |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Chen Boda]], [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communist]] journalist, professor and political theorist; in [[Hui'an County]], [[Fujian]], [[Qing dynasty|Qing China]] (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Chen Boda |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |date=18 September 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chen-Boda |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2022|reason=Source does not give month and day of birth.}}
** [[Clara Horton]], American silent film actress; in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=Katchmer |first=George A. |title=Horton, Clara |dictionary=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Clara+Horton%22+actress&pg=PA168 |location=[[Jefferson, North Carolina]] |publisher=[[McFarland & Company, Inc.]] |year=2009 |orig-year=First published 2002 |pages=168–169 |isbn=978-0-7864-4693-3 |access-date=30 December 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
** [[J. R. D. Tata]], Indian aviator and businessman; in Paris, France (d. 1993, [[kidney infection]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/jrd117 |title=JRD Tata: 117th Birth Anniversary |publisher=[[Tata Sons Private Limited]] |department=About Us |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 30]], 1904 (Saturday)==
* France severed diplomatic relations with the [[Holy See]] following the Vatican's sanctioning of two French bishops.<ref name="Tauran"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040731.2.9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=BREAKS RELATIONS WITH THE VATICAN France Precipitates the Rupture. Text of Note Causing the Break. |volume=XCVI |issue=61 |date=31 July 1904 |at=Page 21, columns 2-3 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=23 January 2023 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Fk2AQAAMAAJ&q=French+bishops+freemason+nordez+1904&pg=PA171 |title=BREAK BETWEEN FRANCE AND ROME |magazine=[[Public Opinion (magazine)|Public Opinion]] |volume=XXXVII |issue=6 |date=11 August 1904 |page=171 |access-date=23 January 2023 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Coppa |first=Frank J |author-link=Frank J. Coppa |title=The Modern Papacy, 1798–1995 |year=1999 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=9781317894889 |chapter-url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Modern-Papacy-1798-1995/Coppa/p/book/9780582096301 |access-date=2 August 2016 |chapter=Chapter 7 Papal intransigence and infallibility in an age of liberalism and nationalism |quote=On 30 July 1904 the French terminated diplomatic relations with the Vatican.}}</ref>
* '''Died:''' [[Richard A. Harrison]], 80, English-born member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Ohio]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000274 |title=HARRISON, Richard Almgill 1824 – 1904 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>

==[[July 31]], 1904 (Sunday)==
* A lion attacked [[animal tamer]] Captain Jack Bonavita, causing injuries that would lead to the amputation of his left arm. According to conflicting historical accounts, the incident occurred either at the [[Moulin Rouge]] in Paris or on [[Coney Island]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bonavita Out of Danger. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 August 1904 |page=7 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/08/archives/bonavita-out-of-danger.html |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/captain-jack-bonavita |last=Margaritoff |first=Marco |title=The Story Of Captain Jack Bonavita, The Fearless One-Armed Lion Tamer |editor-last=Silverman |editor-first=Leah |website=All That's Interesting |date=4 May 2021 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
* '''Born:'''
** [[John Carberry]], American Roman Catholic prelate, [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis|Archbishop of St. Louis]]; in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcarberry.html |title=John Joseph Cardinal Carberry |website=Catholic-Hierarchy |publisher=David M. Cheney |date=27 October 2022 |access-date=30 December 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=December 2022}}</ref>
** [[Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek]], British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician; in [[Glamorgan]], Wales (d. 1985)<ref>{{cite book |first1=R. |last1=McHenry |first2=Daphne |last2=Daume |first3=J.E. |last3=Davis |title=Britannica book of the year: 1986 |url=https://archive.org/details/1986britannicabo00daum |url-access=registration |date=April 1986 |publisher=[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] |isbn=978-0-85229-437-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/1986britannicabo00daum/page/127 127] |access-date=24 January 2023 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
** [[Brett Halliday]] (pseudonym for Davis Dresser), American [[Mystery fiction|mystery]] and [[Western (genre)|Western]] writer; in [[Chicago]], Illinois (d. 1977)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb115767945 |title=Notice de personne "Halliday, Brett (1904-1977)" |trans-title=Person notice "Halliday, Brett (1904-1977)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=10 December 2010 |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?20071 |title=Summary Bibliography: Brett Halliday |website=[[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]] |publisher=Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2022}}
** [[Tex Palmer]] (born Luther W. Palmer), American actor; in [[Xenia, Ohio]] (d. 1982)<ref>{{cite news |title=Luther W. 'Tex' Palmer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87636847/death-and-funeral-notice-for-luther-w/ |newspaper=[[The Santa Clarita Valley Signal|The Signal]] |location=[[Santa Clarita, California]] |date=9 April 1982 |page=10 |access-date=5 December 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Citation does not give date of birth.|date=December 2023}}
* '''Died:'''
** [[Fyodor Eduardovich Keller]], 53, [[Imperial Russian Army]] general, was killed in action.<ref>{{cite news |title=RUSSIANS IN FLIGHT, STAKELBERG CUT OFF; Vital Position Reported Captured by Japanese. THE ARMY IN DIRE PERIL Russians in Four-Day Battle Attacked on Three Sides. LIEUT. GEN. KELLER KILLED Bulk of Czar's Troops Escaping to Mukden -- Mikado Lands Another Force at Yin-Kow -- Apprehension in St. Petersburg. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/02/archives/russians-in-flight-stakelberg-cut-off-vital-position-reported.html |date=2 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 7 |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=HOW KELLER MET HIS DEATH.; Was Watching Fight Under Heavy Fire, Kuropatkin Reports. |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/08/02/archives/how-keller-met-his-death-was-watching-fight-under-heavy-fire.html |date=2 August 1904 |at=Page 2, column 2 |access-date=10 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040802.2.24&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=JAPANESE REPELLED IN FIRST TWO DAYS' FIGHTING; LIEUTENANT GENERAL KELLER AMONG RUSSIAN DEAD |volume=XCVI |issue=63 |date=2 August 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 1-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040802.2.24.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Gallant Slav Commander Is Mortally Wounded by Fragment of a Burst Shell. |volume=XCVI |issue=63 |date=2 August 1904 |at=Page 3, columns 3-4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} This source gives Keller's day of death as July 29.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040807.2.11.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=GALLANT KELLER'S DEATH. Reckless Daring of the General Sends Him to His Doom. |volume=XCVI |issue=68 |date=7 August 1904 |at=Page 22, columns 5-6 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 April 2024 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref>
** [[Marcus H. Barnum]], 70, American lawyer, businessman and politician, member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7793929/marcus-h-barnum-1834-1904/ |title=EX-ASSEMBLYMAN OF WISCONSIN IS DEAD Former Editor Mark H. Barnum Died at Wausau Yesterday.—Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon. |newspaper=[[The Green Bay Gazette]] |location=[[Green Bay, Wisconsin]] |date=1 August 1904 |at=Page 1, column 5 |access-date=25 December 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

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