Events from the year 1904 in the United States.
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- October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University, is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune.
- October 1 – Phi Delta Epsilon, the international medical fraternity, is founded by Aaron Brown and eight of his friends at Cornell University Medical College.
- October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, the co-ed Professional Business fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University.
- October 10 – The opera The Sho-Gun, authored by George Ade and Gustav Luders and produced by Henry W. Savage, premieres at Wallack's Theatre in New York City, New York.
- October 15 – Theta Tau, the Professional Engineering Fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- October 17 – Amadeo Giannini founds the Bank of Italy in San Francisco, predecessor of the Bank of America.
- October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American Gabriel A. O'Reilly.
- October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
- November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1904: Republican incumbent Theodore Roosevelt defeats Democrat Alton B. Parker.
- November 23 – The Olympic Games end.[20]
- November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company.
- December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
- December 30 – The East Boston Tunnel opens, for streetcars.
- December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
- January 5 – Jeane Dixon, astrologer (died 1997)[22][23]
- January 10 – Ray Bolger, actor, singer and dancer, best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (died 1987)[24]
- January 19 – Leo Soileau, Cajun musician (died 1980)[25]
- January 21 – Edris Rice-Wray Carson, medical researcher (died 1990)[26]
- January 26 – Ancel Keys, nutritionist (died 2004)[27]
- February 3 – Pretty Boy Floyd, bank robber (shot 1934)[28]
- February 16 – George F. Kennan, political adviser (died 2005)[29]
- March 1
- March 2 – Dr. Seuss, children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991)[32]
- March 20
- March 23 (possible year) – Joan Crawford, actress (died 1977)[35][36][37]
- March 26 – Joseph Campbell, author on mythology (died 1987)[38]
- April 12 – Glen H. Taylor, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1951 (died 1984)[39]
- April 18 – Pigmeat Markham, African American entertainer (died 1981)[40]
- April 20 – Bob Bartlett, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1968 (died 1968)[41]
- April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (died 1967)[42]
- May 17 – John J. Williams, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1947 to 1970 (died 1988)[43]
- May 21
- June 2 – Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer and actor (Tarzan) (died 1984)[46]
- June 3 – Charles R. Drew, African American physician, pioneer in blood transfusion (died 1950)[47]
- June 24 – Phil Harris, bandleader and comic actor (died 1995)"Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies at 89". Los Angeles Times. August 13, 1995. Retrieved July 27, 2022.
Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89.
- July 1 – Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate (died 1998)[48]
- July 15 – Dorothy Fields, librettist (died 1974)[49]
- August 16 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (died 1971)
- August 17 – Mary Cain, newspaper editor and politician (died 1984)
- August 21 – Count Basie, African American jazz bandleader (died 1984)
- September 12 – Lou Moore, race car driver and team owner (died 1956)
- October 3 – Charles J. Pedersen, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 (died 1989)
- November 1 – Laura La Plante, silent film actress (died 1996)
- November 17 – Isamu Noguchi, sculptor (died 1988)
- November 25 – Lillian Copeland, Olympic field athlete (died 1964)
- December 7 – Clarence Nash, voice actor (died 1985)
- December 18 – George Stevens, film director (died 1975)
- December 25 – Flemmie Pansy Kittrell, nutritionist (died 1980)
- December 30 – David M. Shoup, general (died 1983)
- Full date unknown
- January 2 – James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War (born 1821)[51][52][53]
- January 6 – Julia Anna Orum, educator, lecturer, and author (born 1843[54]
- January 9 – John Brown Gordon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1873 to 1880 and from 1891 to 1897 (born 1832)[55][56][57]
- January 20 – Maria Louisa Bustill, schoolteacher, mother of Paul Robeson (born 1853)
- February 9 – Mary Abbott, golfer (born 1857)[58]
- February 15 – Mark Hanna, U.S. Senator from Ohio (born 1837)[59][60][61]
- March 17 – William Elbridge Sewell, naval officer and Governor of Guam (born 1851)[62][63]
- June 5 – Olivia Langdon Clemens, editor (born 1845)[64][65][66][67][68]
- June 28 – Dan Emmett, founder of the Virginia Minstrels (born 1815)[69]
- July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor, admiral (born 1845)[70][71]
- August 16 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, author of dime fiction (born 1843)
- August 22 – Kate Chopin, fiction writer (born 1850)
- October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, classicist and poet (born 1874)
- December 21 – George L. Shoup, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (born 1836)
- Little Joe Monahan, transgender rancher (born 1850)
"Canal Treaty Ratified". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 148. 24 February 1904. Page 6, column 1. Retrieved 13 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
"600 PERSONS ARE CREMATED OR DROWNED DURING BURNING OF CROWDED EXCURSION STEAMER NEAR NEW YORK CITY. DEAD AWUFL [sic] SCENE ON BURNING STEAMER Decks Packed to Fullest Capacity Youth Who Lost His Mother and Brother Describes Horror MANY SWEPT INTO WATER BY CRUSH". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 1, columns 1-7. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "500 Bodies Recovered; Burned Hull Is Still Choked With Victims Many of Those Who Jumped Into Swirling Waters to Escape Flames Swept to Graves in Long Island Sound". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 1, columns 3-6; page 2, column 3. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "BODIES OF 485 VICTIMS AT MORGUE Tugs Arriving Hourly With Grewsome Cargoes 106 Bodies Are on One Vessel CHILDREN LASHED TO CAMP STOOLS". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 1, column 7. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "Officers Stay at Posts During Disaster". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "Crazed Mothers Hurl Their Burning Children Overboard". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 3-4. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "Hundreds Jump to Death in Whirlpool During Awful Panic". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 2, columns 4-7. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
Kleinfield, N. R. (2 September 2007). "As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2022. Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning and sinking of the steamer 'General Slocum,' the deadliest New York disaster until Sept. 11, 2001.
Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of international games. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 473. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.
Bret, David (2006). Joan Crawford: Hollywood Martyr. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780786732364. Retrieved 16 January 2022 – via Google Books. She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur, most likely on 23 March 1904 (though she always maintained it was 1908, when birth certificates became state mandatory, and also the year of arch-rival Bette Davis's birth) in San Antonio, Texas...
"Biography". Johnny Weissmuller. Retrieved 27 July 2022.