About the day » Saturday June 4, 1904Calender converter

• Aart van der Veen, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agnes Justine Laurens, Ternate
• Albert Hepkes Gjaltema, Opende gem Grootegast († 1985)
• Alexander Huizinga, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Jan Veening, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1969)
• ALFONS DIERCKX, Antwerpen
• achille constant SAUVAGE, Pâturages (Belgium) Hainaut († 1938)
• Adriana Hermina Ringenaldus, Doorn († 1971)
• * Cornelia Jacoba Scharleman, Gouda († 1979)
• Abraham Hendrik de Vries, 's-Gravenhage († 1963)

• Antonia van Frankenhuijzen (53), Utrecht
• Anna Catharina Wilhelmina Maria Frencken (43), Asten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Berg (65), Bodegraven
• Aaltjen Groot Hulze (74), Harfsen
• Albert Boekema (92), Uitwellingerga, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Ates Rienstra (71), Whitinsville, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Martens (72), Rijsbergen
• Abraham Martens (72), Rijsbergen, Nederland
• "Marie Ernestine" Josephine Adolphine Henrietta Theresa Elisabeth Alexandrina von Hannover (54), Gmunden, Autriche
• Alberdina Gerrit-Jans van Aken (78), Haarlem

• 1903 » Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor († 1988)
• 1904 » Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist († 1992)
• 1907 » Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician († 1944)
• 1907 » Patience Strong, English poet and journalist († 1990)
• 1907 » Rosalind Russell, American actress († 1976)
• 1910 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft († 1999)
• 1912 » Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter († 1993)
• 1915 » Modibo Keïta, Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali († 1977)
• 1915 » Nils Kihlberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director († 1965)
• 1915 » Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer († 2006)

• 1872 » Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Dutch historian, jurist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1798)
• 1875 » Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (b. 1804)
• 1876 » Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830)
• 1922 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Margaret Murray Washington, American Academic (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and coach (b. 1853)
• 1928 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• 1929 » Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (b. 1881)
• 1931 » Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (b. 1853/54)
• 1933 » Ahmet Haşim, Turkish poet and author (b. 1884)

• 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 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
• February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
• 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.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

The temperature on June 4, 1904 was between 8.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.