About the day » Sunday August 7, 1904Calender converter

• Aaltje Jansen, Wageningen,Gemeente Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• de Boer, Rottevalle (Achtkarspelen) († 1904)
• Allegonda Petronella Jaspers, Borkel en Schaft († 1905)
• Adriana de REGT, Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1979)
• Adriana Alberdina Maria Philippus, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Jacobus Antonius van de Veerdonk, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1974)
• Adriana Wouts, Mulheim aan de Rurh (Dui)
• Adrianus Jacobus Webbe, Velsen († 1967)
• van Kranenburg, Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1904)
• Aukje Schots, Gaasterland

• Cornelia Johanna Huijgens (0), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hensema (26), Oude Pekela (Groningen)
• Adriana van Ast (68), Rotterdam
• * Pieter van Aalen (51), Rotterdam
• Adriaan Cornelis Quartel (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland (NLD)
• Aartje Boslooper (0), Moordrecht
• Antonius Johannes Dekker (0), Utrecht
• Adrianus de Munk (71), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Derk Boland (0), Meppel
• Amondus Costenoble (76), Handzame,West-Vlaanderen,België

• 1890 » Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist († 1964)
• 1901 » Ann Harding, American actress and singer († 1981)
• 1903 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist († 1972)
• 1904 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1907 » Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1910 » Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader († 1965)
• 1911 » István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician († 1979)
• 1911 » Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1913 » George Van Eps, American guitarist († 1998)
• 1916 » Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer († 2008)

• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)

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 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
• 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.
• May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
• October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
• November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

The temperature on August 7, 1904 was between 12.3 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.