About the day » Friday July 22, 1904Calender converter

• Albertus Martinus Bouter
• Adrianus Theodorus Bruggeling, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alyda Constantia Wijns, Merksem († 1993)
• Alyda Constantia WIJNS, Antwerpen,2000,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1993)
• Aaltje Bakker, Hengelo
• Amalia Margaretha DE LEVIE, Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Amalia Margaretha de Levie, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Laurentius Groen, Harenkarspel
• Alice Boon, Denderhoutem († 1982)
• Amy Huyser, Zeeland, Ottawa, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1989)

• Antonius Kouters (91), Standdaarbuiten
• Anna de Beer (79), Nieuwe Pekela
• Aleida Hendrika ten Cate (0), Twekkelo {OV}
• Arie de Kruif (65), Barwoutswaarder
• Anthonia Adriana Gardien (0), Rijswijk
• Annetje Lof (61), Holysloot
• van Vlaanderen (0), Echteld
• * Adriana Huberta (1) Verleun (0), Vreeswijk, Utrecht, NL
• Arnoldus Johannes Tromp (1), Hatert, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella van Pelt (0), Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1893 » Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach († 1978)
• 1893 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author († 1990)
• 1895 » León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat († 1976)
• 1898 » Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1943)
• 1899 » Sobhuza II of Swaziland († 1982)
• 1908 » Amy Vanderbilt, American author († 1974)
• 1909 » Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver († 2000)
• 1909 » Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress († 2014)
• 1910 » Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist
• 1913 » Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader († 1995)

• 1902 » Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
• 1903 » Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1810)
• 1904 » Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
• 1906 » William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
• 1908 » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
• 1920 » William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
• 1922 » Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)

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.
• February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
• May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
• June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on July 22, 1904 was between 10.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.