About the day » Thursday October 20, 1904Calender converter

• Alfred Charles Lobry, Villers-Saint-Christophe, 02 Aisne, Picardie, France
• Albertus Hendrikus Johannes van Londen, Didam (Montferland) († 1905)
• Adriana Johanna Bastiaansen, Ginneken en Bavel († 1988)
• albertus timmers, zuid-eschmarke, gemeente enschede, overijssel, nederland
• Americo Massini († 1963)
• Adriana Cornelia Klijn, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1972)
• Aartje Beekhuis, Epe († 1968)
• Anna SCHAAP, Minnesota († 1994)
• Adriana Johanna Berg van den, Schiedam († 1953)
• Adrianus Klaris, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1908)

• Cornelia Brand (83), Rucphen
• Arend MENZO (0), Avereest
• Cornelis van AERT (30), Zundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Coleta Truyens (61), Molenstede, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgie
• Aloisius Obyn (55), Staden West Vlaanderen België
• Carolina Augusta Xavier de Novaes (69), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Clifford Jewel West (1)
• Cornelis Jans Stam (65), Belt, Wanneperveen
• Cornelis Maas (0)
• Antonie Kelderman (24), Hees, Gelderland, NL

• 1900 » Ismail al-Azhari, Sudanese politician, 3rd President of Sudan († 1969)
• 1900 » Wayne Morse, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician († 1974)
• 1901 » Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer († 1993)
• 1901 » Frank Churchill, American film composer († 1942)
• 1904 » Anna Neagle, English actress, singer, and producer († 1986)
• 1904 » Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist († 2006)
• 1904 » Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan († 1986)
• 1907 » Arlene Francis, American actress and television personality († 2001)
• 1908 » Stuart Hamblen, American singer-songwriter, actor, and radio show host († 1989)
• 1909 » Carla Laemmle, American actress and photographer († 2014)

• 1880 » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1802)
• 1883 » George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (b. 1797)
• 1890 » Richard Francis Burton, English-Italian geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
• 1894 » James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (b. 1818)
• 1900 » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
• 1908 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia (b. 1853)
• 1910 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
• 1926 » Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Jack Peddie, Scottish footballer (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)

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 8 » Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
• October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

The temperature on October 20, 1904 was between 7.7 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.