About the day » Thursday December 29, 1904Calender converter

• Agnes SWIENTY, Bottrop (Dld)
• Adriana de Koning, Willeskop (Montfoort), Utrecht, Nederland († 1905)
• * Jantje Verploeg, Deil († 1941)
• Adrianus Pieter Gouwentak, Leiden († 1966)
• Adriana Antonia Boots, De Rijp, Graft-De Rijp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Aaltje Visser, Groningen
• Aarnoud Willemse, Aagtekerke, Walcheren, NL
• Aaltje Bakker, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Aaltje Nieland, Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alida Maria Wilbrink, 's-Gravenhage

• Caroline Wilhelmine Alexandrine Barones Mulert (84), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL
• Kerkhove (0), Serooskerke (W)
• Agatha Johanna Boermeester (79), Utrecht
• Arie Buitenkant (60), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Koldewijn (81), Hengforden (Olst)
• Anko (Sjoerds) Veenstra (0), Surhústerfean, Fryslân, Nederlân
• Arie Cornelis de Bruin (5), IJsselstein, IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Caroline Wilhelmina Baroness Mulert (84)
• Albert Jacobs (56), Bierum, Spijk
• Adriana Brouwer (80), Woerden, Utrecht, NL

• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)
• 1899 » Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing († 1992)
• 1902 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1957)
• 1903 » Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter († 1962)
• 1904 » Kuvempu, Indian author and poet († 1994)
• 1908 » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author († 1993)
• 1908 » Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author († 1992)
• 1910 » Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1911 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy († 1988)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

• 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 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
• 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 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 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.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on December 29, 1904 was between 1.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.