About the day » Sunday October 23, 1904Calender converter

• Aldegonda Wilhelmina Maria Sorée, Venlo († 1993)
• Aafje Blom, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• ? ? († 1977)
• Alex BRAUN, Ixelles, 21009, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Aagje de Deugd, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Aafje Blom, Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1976)
• Agatha Cornelia Zaal, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana MOELIKER, Rilland, Zeeland, Nederland († 2000)
• Aldegona Wilhelmina Maria Sorée, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1993)
• Alle Roelof Alberts, Groningen, Nederland († 1979)

• Anna Josepha Baggen (74), Geleen
• Aaltje Luiten Dracht (78), Haskerland
• Alma Bergmann (19), Barmen, Noordrijn-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Arjen Tietes Bruinsma (68), Makkum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Lintermans (0), Asten
• Abraham Benjamin Cilliers (78)
• Bernard Hendrik Middeldorp (63), Hummelo &, Keppel
• Antonia Bosch (60), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Lambertus Hersmus (34), Tilburg
• Arnoldus Jacobs (42), Neerbosch

• 1899 » Bernt Balchen, Norwegian aviator († 1973)
• 1900 » Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer († 1958)
• 1902 » Luther Evans, American political scientist and politician († 1981)
• 1902 » Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian engineer († 1982)
• 1904 » Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach († 1995)
• 1905 » Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1905 » Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer († 2003)
• 1905 » Yen Chia-kan, Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China († 1993)
• 1908 » František Douda, Czech shot putter († 1990)
• 1908 » Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)

• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
• 1935 » Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883)

• 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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• 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.
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

The temperature on October 23, 1904 was between 11.3 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.