About the day » Monday August 1, 1904Calender converter

• Maria Sophia van Rijn, Stompwijk († 1982)
• Adrianus Manschot, Lexmond († 1989)
• Angelina Steurs, Betekom, Vlaams-Brabant, België († 1904)
• Aaltje SLANGE, Beets (Opsterland, Friesland, The Netherlands) († 2004)
• Abraham Cevering, Rotterdam († 1904)
• Wolffvoets, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Elisabeth Louise Houthuijsen, amsterdam, Nederland († 1993)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Francina Sanders, Helmond († 1986)
• Alma Osterloo, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa († 1991)
• Anna Schoenmakers, Groesbeek, Nederland († 1982)

• Aaltje van der Meer (20), Wateren,diever, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Wester (0), Obdam
• Anna Catharina Ilsbroeks (68), Alken, België
• Anna Maria Hupkens (27), Maastricht
• Albert RAS (0), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Antonius Rievers, Gennep
• Arnoldus Van Rhijn (0), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Hendriks Kaspers (46), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Jansen (51), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Alida Oudshoorn (73), Wassenaar (Zuid-Holland)

• 1898 » Morris Stoloff, American composer and musical director († 1980)
• 1899 » Raymond Mays, English race car driver and businessman († 1980)
• 1900 » Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player († 1965)
• 1901 » Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer († 1925)
• 1903 » Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic († 1995)
• 1905 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, American-Canadian astronomer and academic († 1993)
• 1907 » Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer († 1977)
• 1910 » Gerda Taro, German war photographer († 1937)
• 1910 » James Henry Govier, English painter and illustrator († 1974)
• 1910 » Walter Scharf, American pianist and composer († 2003)

• 1869 » Peter Julian Eymard, French Priest and Founder Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (b. 1811)
• 1903 » Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
• 1911 » Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1911 » Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
• 1918 » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
• 1921 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1922 » Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)

• 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 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
• August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
• August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
• 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 August 1, 1904 was between 13.9 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.