About the day » Tuesday August 9, 1904Calender converter

• Andrew J. Gabbard, Jackson Co., Kentucky,United States († 1987)
• (Stillborn) KOENS, Emmen Drenthe Netherlands († 1904)
• Aafje Visser, Egmond aan Zee
• Aarnoud Louwerse, Ritthem, Zeeland, NL († 1916)
• Adriana Maria Duran, den Haag
• Anna Margaretha Winifred Ferreira, Humansdorp, Cape Province (SA)
• Antje Kamp, Oldemarkt († 1959)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Selten, Mill, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1924)
• Annie Myrtis Barbour, Newtown, Newfoundland († 1982)
• Antje Kamp *, Oldemarkt († 1959)

• Antonius DENISSEN (55), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Anna-Mathilde VERBUECKEN (44), Putte(Nl)
• Alphons Louis Maria Bünnemeijer (4), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries de Boer (23), Haarlem
• anna ANDEBERRILA (67), strijen
• Antonius Denissen (55), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Adrianus Schenkeveld (0), Delft
• Arie KRANENDONK (0), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schuck (0), Heerde
• Atje Gerbens Rozema (72), Dantumadeel

• 1899 » P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress († 1996)
• 1901 » Charles Farrell, American actor and singer († 1990)
• 1902 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Russian general and politician († 1984)
• 1902 » Zino Francescatti, French violinist († 1991)
• 1905 » Leo Genn, British actor and barrister († 1978)
• 1909 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat († 1944)
• 1909 » Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Indian scholar, author, and academic († 1992)
• 1909 » Willa Beatrice Player, American educator, first Black woman college president († 2003)
• 1911 » Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer († 2001)
• 1911 » William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate († 1996)

• 1886 » Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (b. 1868)
• 1919 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer and educator (b. 1857)
• 1920 » Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (b. 1845)
• 1932 » John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)

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.
• 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.
• April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
• June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
• December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.

The temperature on August 9, 1904 was between 6.6 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.