Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 - 1909 - 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 1 - Barry Goldwater, American politician
- January 3 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer
- January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician
- January 8 - Willy Millowitsch[?], actor (+ 1999)
- January 15 - Gene Krupa, drummer (+ 1973)
- January 16 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (+ 1984)
- January 22 - U Thant[?], 3rd United Nations Secretary General (+ 1974)
- January 22 - Ann Sothern[?], actress (+ 2001)
- February 3 - Simone Weil, philosopher (+ 1943)
- February 9 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (+ 1994)
- February 9 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (+ 195)
- February 11 - Joseph Mankiewicz[?]
- February 11 - Max Baer[?] (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor
- February 15 - Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish football player
- February 15 - Miep Gies[?], Anne Frank friend, biographer
- February 24 - August Derleth, American writer
- March 1 - David Niven, actor (+ 1983)
- March 2 - Mel Ott[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- March 4 - Harry Helmsley[?], real estate entrepreneur (+ 1997)
- March 19 - Louis Hayward[?], actor (+ 1985)
- March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, author (+ 1983)
- March 27 - Golo Mann[?], historian and publicist (+ 1994)
- April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish/American mathematician
- April 30 - Juliana of the Netherlands
- May 7 - Edwin H. Land, inventor and founder of Polaroid
- May 10 - Mother Maybelle Carter[?], country musician
- May 15 - James Mason, British actor
- May 19 - Bruce Bennett[?], actor
- May 30 - Benny Goodman, American jazz musician
- June 20 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
- July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist
- July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author
- August 25 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (+ 1993)
- September 14 - Peter Scott, British painter
- September 21 - Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanian politician
- September 28 - Al Capp, American cartoonist
- October 28 - Francis Bacon, British painter
- November 18 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter
- November 24 - Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician
- Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian
- Giulio Racah, Italian mathematician and physicist
- Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan president
Deaths:
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