About the day » Tuesday June 21, 1904Calender converter

• Alvaro de Oliveria Andrade, São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aldert Schaaphok, Groningen
• Alouisius Jan Nijhuis, De Lutte (Losser) († 1976)
• Scherpen, Nieuw Schoonebeek (NL) († 1904)
• SCHOONE, Bennebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1904)
• Alice Johanna Maria Elisabeth Louise VAN DE LISDONK, Goirle, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Verschoor, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna SINT NICOLAAS, 's-Gravendeel
• Dubbeldam († 1968)
• Adam Confurius, Rotterdam († 1980)

• Arie Stam (34), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• CORNELIS SPIJKER (72), AMSTERDAM
• Bürmann (0), Segberg, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• SCHOONE (0), Bennebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Smael (65), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie STAM (34), Egmond aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Ariensz Stam (34), Egmond aan Zee-Noorderstraat
• Hermannes Wilhelmus Jansonius (84), Leermens ('t Zandt)
• August Dittmar (63), Darmstadt
• Arie Kindt (72), Overschie

• 1896 » Charles Momsen, American admiral, invented the Momsen lung († 1967)
• 1898 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author († 1964)
• 1899 » Pavel Haas, Czech composer († 1944)
• 1903 » Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist, painter and illustrator († 2003)
• 1903 » Hermann Engelhard, German runner and coach († 1984)
• 1905 » Jacques Goddet, French journalist († 2000)
• 1905 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author († 1980)
• 1908 » William Frankena, American philosopher and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet and author († 1971)
• 1911 » Irving Fein, American producer and manager († 2012)

• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1881)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
• January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
• February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
• February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
• April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.

The temperature on June 21, 1904 was between 6.1 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.