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Born in 1904

973 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Georg Werner

    swimmer

    1904–2002 · aged 98

    April 8 · 1904

    No external source identified

  2. Alston Wise

    ice hockey player

    1904–1984 · aged 79

    October 29 · 1904

    No external source identified

  3. Roger Plaxton

    ice hockey player

    1904–1963 · aged 59

    February 6 · 1904

    No external source identified

  4. Carlos de Cárdenas

    sailor

    1904–1994 · aged 90

    January 2 · 1904

    No external source identified

  5. Renzo Minoli

    fencer

    1904–1965 · aged 60

    May 6 · 1904

    Source: BnF authorities

  6. Cyril Stiles

    rower

    1904–1985 · aged 80

    October 10 · 1904

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  7. Jan Mertens

    sport cyclist

    1904–1964 · aged 60

    March 2 · 1904

    Source: BnF authorities

  8. Boris Rohdendorf

    biologist, entomologist

    1904–1977 · aged 73

    July 12 · 1904

    No external source identified

  9. Ernst Jakob Henne

    racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer

    1904–2005 · aged 101

    February 22 · 1904

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  10. Georges Paillard

    sport cyclist

    1904–1998 · aged 94

    February 12 · 1904

    Source: GeneaStar

  11. Horst Hoeck

    rower

    1904–1969 · aged 64

    May 19 · 1904

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  12. Helge Liljebjörn

    association football player, association football coach

    1904–1952 · aged 47

    August 16 · 1904

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  13. Robert Minton

    bobsledder

    1904–1974 · aged 70

    July 13 · 1904

    No external source identified

  14. Lars Thörn

    skipper

    1904–1990 · aged 86

    September 26 · 1904

    No external source identified

  15. Feliks Żukowski

    television actor, actor

    1904–1976 · aged 71

    May 30 · 1904

    No external source identified

  16. Nils Johansson

    ice hockey player, bandy player

    1904–1936 · aged 32

    October 3 · 1904

    Source: sok.se

  17. Leon Birkholc*

    rower

    Date disputed

    April 16 · 1904

    Source: Polish Olympic Committee

  18. František Wende

    Nordic combined skier, ski jumper

    1904–1968

    June 3 · 1904

    Source: BnF authorities

  19. Aatos Jaskari

    athlete, amateur wrestler

    1904–1962 · aged 57

    April 26 · 1904

    No external source identified

  20. Leonard O'Brien

    field hockey player

    1904–1939 · aged 35

    January 20 · 1904

    No external source identified

  21. Dimiter Angelov

    teacher, writer

    1904–1977 · aged 73

    September 27 · 1904

    No external source identified

  22. Ernest Bayer

    rower

    1904–1997 · aged 92

    September 27 · 1904

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  23. Kurt Sucksdorff

    ice hockey player

    1904–1960 · aged 55

    May 10 · 1904

    No external source identified

  24. Francisco Garza

    association football player

    1904–1965 · aged 61

    March 14 · 1904

    Source: FBref

  25. Gösta Persson

    swimmer

    1904–1991 · aged 87

    January 8 · 1904

    No external source identified

  26. Edith Pickles

    artistic gymnast

    1904–1984 · aged 79

    May 10 · 1904

    Source: olympedia.org

  27. Harry Werner Storz

    sprinter, athletics competitor

    1904–1982 · aged 78

    March 3 · 1904

    Source: munzinger.de

  28. Ludwig Geyer

    sport cyclist

    1904–1992 · aged 87

    August 18 · 1904

    No external source identified

  29. Valentin Krempl

    bobsledder

    1904–1945 · aged 41

    April 15 · 1904

    No external source identified

  30. Henryk Budziński*

    rower, technician

    Date disputed

    November 28 · 1904

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  31. Frederick Wolters

    field hockey player

    1904–1990 · aged 86

    June 14 · 1904

    No external source identified

  32. Johann Blank

    swimmer, water polo player

    1904–1983 · aged 78

    April 17 · 1904

    No external source identified

  33. Torsten Lord

    sailor

    1904–1970 · aged 65

    March 2 · 1904

    No external source identified

  34. Cesare Rossi

    rower

    1904–1952 · aged 48

    November 10 · 1904

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  35. Herbert Müller

    field hockey player

    1904–1966 · aged 62

    August 2 · 1904

    No external source identified

  36. William Wallace

    rower

    1904–1967 · aged 63

    April 12 · 1904

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  37. Jaakko Friman

    speed skater

    1904–1987 · aged 83

    January 13 · 1904

    No external source identified

  38. Jean Lesieur

    sailor

    1904–1943 · aged 38

    November 8 · 1904

    No external source identified

  39. Andrea Viviano

    association football coach, association football player

    1904–1962

    June 22 · 1904

    No external source identified

  40. Theodor Thomsen

    skipper

    1904–1982 · aged 78

    March 20 · 1904

    No external source identified

  41. Ettore Rivolta

    racewalker

    1904–1977 · aged 73

    September 3 · 1904

    No external source identified

  42. Joseph Beecken

    boxer

    Born 1904

    April 11 · 1904

    No external source identified

  43. Charles Sheaffer

    field hockey player

    1904–1989 · aged 84

    December 6 · 1904

    No external source identified

  44. Bruno Bianchi

    sailor

    1904–1988 · aged 84

    May 2 · 1904

    No external source identified

  45. Gilda de Abreu

    film producer, screenwriter

    1904–1979 · aged 74

    September 23 · 1904

    Source: Archives de Paris

  46. Robert Hunter*

    rower

    Date disputed

    April 27 · 1904

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  47. Joseph Meng Ziwen

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1904–2007 · aged 102

    March 19 · 1904

    Source: Catholic-Hierarchy.org

  48. Paul van de Rovaart

    field hockey player

    1904–1995 · aged 91

    January 24 · 1904

    No external source identified

  49. Omer Taverne

    sport cyclist

    1904–1988 · aged 83

    July 27 · 1904

    Source: Cycling Archives

  50. Eva Olliwier

    competitive diver

    1904–1955 · aged 51

    January 13 · 1904

    Source: Swedish church birth records

  51. Albert De Roocker

    fencer

    1904–1989 · aged 85

    January 25 · 1904

    No external source identified

  52. Gerrit Jannink

    field hockey player

    1904–1975 · aged 70

    December 1 · 1904

    No external source identified

  53. Guido De Felip

    coxswain

    1904–1968 · aged 64

    September 21 · 1904

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  54. Martta Martikainen-Ypyä

    architect

    1904–1992 · aged 88

    September 19 · 1904

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  55. Gino Sopracordevole

    coxswain

    1904–1995 · aged 90

    September 24 · 1904

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  56. Gustave Marinius Heiss

    fencer

    1904–1982 · aged 77

    November 4 · 1904

    No external source identified

  57. Amos Deacon

    field hockey player

    1904–1982 · aged 78

    May 28 · 1904

    No external source identified

  58. Renato Bracci

    rower

    1904–1975 · aged 70

    September 8 · 1904

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  59. Yevgeny Bokarev

    esperantologist, university teacher

    1904–1971 · aged 67

    February 25 · 1904

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  60. Edoardo Severgnini

    sport cyclist

    1904–1969 · aged 64

    May 13 · 1904

    No external source identified

  61. Francisco Núñez Olivera

    1904–2018 · aged 113

    December 13 · 1904

    Source: thelocal.es

  62. Charles Rogers

    director, actor

    1904–1999 · aged 94

    August 13 · 1904

    Source: Find a Grave

  63. Francisca Celsa dos Santos

    supercentenarian

    1904–2021 · aged 116

    October 21 · 1904

    Source: grg.org

  64. Vasily Zhuravlyov

    screenwriter, film director

    1904–1987 · aged 83

    August 2 · 1904

    No external source identified

  65. Larysa Alieksandroŭskaja

    director, opera director

    1904–1980 · aged 76

    February 15 · 1904

    No external source identified

  66. Casimiro Morcillo González

    Catholic bishop, politician

    1904–1971 · aged 67

    January 26 · 1904

    Source: congreso.es

  67. Aleksandr Zguridi

    opinion journalist, television presenter

    1904–1998 · aged 94

    February 23 · 1904

    Source: BnF authorities

  68. Jiří Frejka

    teacher, architect

    1904–1952 · aged 48

    April 6 · 1904

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  69. Artur Malawski

    music educator, composer

    1904–1957 · aged 53

    July 4 · 1904

    Source: BnF authorities

  70. Mario A. Ferrero

    astronomer

    1904–1965

    1904

    No external source identified

  71. Lieŭ Holub

    screenwriter, drama teacher

    1904–1994 · aged 89

    September 29 · 1904

    Source: BnF authorities

  72. Andrzej Kuśniewicz

    poet, diplomat

    1904–1993 · aged 88

    November 30 · 1904

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  73. Arif Nihat Asya

    teacher, poet

    1904–1975 · aged 70

    February 7 · 1904

    No external source identified

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