About the day » Thursday February 4, 1904Calender converter

• Agatha Geertruida Schaareman, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Adrianus Petrus Sprangers, Waalwijk († 1904)
• Adriana Cornelia Goossens, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1904)
• Aantje de Jong, Meerkerk († 1981)
• Nijman, Aalten, NL († 1904)
• Pullen, Veghel († 1904)
• Albert Florent Joseph Broks, amsterdam, Nederland († 1988)
• Aafje Maria Mul, Winkel, Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna VERHOEVEN, Ridderkerk († 1993)
• Alphonsus Nicolaas van Gessel, Alphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)

• Anna Maria Tillemans (68), Weert
• Aagtje Eijk (76), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van Angeren (0), IJsselstein
• Anna Josephina van den Berg (40), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Martina Sillevis (84), Culemborg
• Adriana Petronella Kiel (22), Amsterdam
• Anna Catherina Maria Keijzer (61)
• Anthonius Bents (60), Zwammerdam
• Anna Catharina Koevoets (2), Etten-Leur
• Barendregt (0), 's-Gravendeel

• 1900 » Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1902 » Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer († 1974)
• 1902 » Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales († 2003)
• 1903 » Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic († 2014)
• 1904 » MacKinlay Kantor, American author and screenwriter († 1977)
• 1905 » Hylda Baker, English comedian, actress and music hall performer († 1986)
• 1906 » Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto († 1997)
• 1906 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian († 1945)
• 1906 » Letitia Dunbar-Harrison, Irish librarian († 1994)
• 1908 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic († 1937)

• 1891 » Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (b. 1841)
• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)

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.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
• 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".
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
• 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 February 4, 1904 was between 3.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.