About the day » Friday July 8, 1904Calender converter

• Smith, Kendal, Semarang
• Alida Margaretha van Velthoven, Loosduinen, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Plender, Doornspijk († 1904)
• Antonius Johannes Sprokkereef, Arnhem
• Antje HIELKEMA, Baflo Groningen Netherlands
• Aaltje Cornelia van der Molen, 's Gravenhage
• Anna Maria Gommers, Zundert († 1976)
• Anna Maria MEYS, Hunsel,,PAYS BAS († 1985)
• Adriana Kompier, Leiden
• Abraham Rozenbeek, Assendelft NH NL

• Alberta Verhagen (40), Dinther
• Aaltje Jozina Boot (0), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Orij (0), Castricum
• Beatrix Bruggen (70), Veldwezelt, Lanaken (B)
• Benjamin Spanjaard (85)
• Albertus Petrus Franciscus Reeders (41)
• Adrianus Orij- (0), Castricum, Nederland
• Aagje Sier (49), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Maaskant (14), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Orij (0), Castricum

• 1900 » George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author († 1959)
• 1904 » Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic († 2008)
• 1905 » Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director († 1997)
• 1906 » Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place († 2005)
• 1907 » George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan († 1995)
• 1908 » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor († 1975)
• 1908 » Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States († 1979)
• 1908 » V. K. R. Varadaraja Rao, Indian economist, politician, professor and educator († 1991)
• 1909 » Alan Brown, English soldier († 1971)
• 1909 » Ike Petersen, American football back († 1995)

• 1873 » Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
• 1887 » Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1905 » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1913 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
• 1917 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
• 1930 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
• 1934 » Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
• 1939 » Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)

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 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
• February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
• June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

The temperature on July 8, 1904 was between 11.7 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.