September 1904

Month of 1904

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The following events occurred in September 1904:

• Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opened in London with a Western League fixture versus Plymouth Argyle.^[1]

September 2, 1904 (Friday)

• John Voss sailed the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westward around the world.^[2]
• Died:
  • James Brady, 29, American criminal, died of tuberculosis.^[3]
  • Elizabeth Colenso (born Elizabeth Fairburn), 83, New Zealander Protestant missionary^{[citation needed]}

September 3, 1904 (Saturday)

• Died:
  • James Archer RSA, 81, Scottish artist^[4]
  • Heinrich Koebner, 65, German dermatologist^[5]

September 4, 1904 (Sunday)

• Died: William McCallin, 62, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890, died of dropsy.^{[citation needed]}

September 5, 1904 (Monday)

September 6, 1904 (Tuesday)

September 7, 1904 (Wednesday)

• As a result of the British expedition to Tibet, the Dalai Lama signed the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.^{[citation needed]}
• Horace Maples, an African-American man who had been accused of murder, was lynched by a mob of approximately 2,000 people in Huntsville, Alabama.^[6]
• Born: Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player; in Vilna, Russian Empire (d. 1991)^[7]

September 8, 1904 (Thursday)

September 9, 1904 (Friday)

• A total solar eclipse was visible from northern Chile.^[8][9][10]
• Born: Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player; in Basti Daneshmandan, Jalandhar, Punjab Province (British India) (d. 2005)^[11]

September 10, 1904 (Saturday)

September 11, 1904 (Sunday)

September 12, 1904 (Monday)

• Born: Lou Moore, American race car driver and team owner; in Hinton, Oklahoma Territory (d. 1956, brain hemorrhage)^[12]

September 13, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Born: Gladys George, American stage and screen actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie; in Patten, Maine (d. 1954)^[13]
• Died: Surgeon-General James Jameson CB, 67, British Army surgeon^[14]

September 14, 1904 (Wednesday)

• Born:
  • Frank Amyot, Canadian Olympic champion sprint canoeist; in Thornhill, Ontario (d. 1962, cancer)^[15]
  • Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister; in Breslau (d. 1957)^{[citation needed]}

September 15, 1904 (Thursday)

• Born: Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy; in Racconigi, Piedmont (d. 1983)^{[citation needed]}

September 16, 1904 (Friday)

September 17, 1904 (Saturday)

• An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease was published in the United States.^[16]
• Died: Kartini, 25, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist, died from complications of childbirth.^[17]

September 18, 1904 (Sunday)

• Died: Herbert von Bismarck, 54, German politician^[18]

September 19, 1904 (Monday)

• Born: Elvia Allman, American actress; in Enochville, North Carolina (d. 1992)^{[citation needed]}

September 20, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Died:
  • R. W. H. T. Hudson, 28, British mathematician, died in a mountaineering accident.^{[19][20][better source needed]}
  • José Maria de Yermo y Parres, 52, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint, died of a stomach ulcer.^{[citation needed]}

September 21, 1904 (Wednesday)

September 22, 1904 (Thursday)

• Born: Lessie Brown, former oldest living American; in Georgia (d. 2019)^{[citation needed]}
• Died: Louis Massebieau, 64, French historian and Protestant theologian^{[citation needed]}

September 23, 1904 (Friday)

• Died:
  • George Adams, 65, Australian businessman^{[citation needed]}
  • Émile Gallé, 58, French artist^{[citation needed]}

September 24, 1904 (Saturday)

• Near New Market, Tennessee, two Southern Railway passenger trains traveling at great speed collided head on, killing between 56 and 113 passengers and crew and injuring 106.^[21][22][23]
• Died:
  • Niels Ryberg Finsen, 43, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903^[24]
  • Gustav Frank, 71, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian^[25]
  • Caleb C. Harris, 68, American farmer and physician, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, died after surgery for peritonitis.^[26][27]

September 25, 1904 (Sunday)

September 26, 1904 (Monday)

• New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack was individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act.^[28]
• Born: Constantin Doncea, Romanian communist activist and politician; in Cocu, Argeș (d. 1973)^{[citation needed]}
• Died:
  • Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 62^{[citation needed]}
  • Lafcadio Hearn (aka Yakumo Koizumi), 54, Greek-Irish Japanese author^{[citation needed]}

September 27, 1904 (Tuesday)

• Died: David G. Colson, 43, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky^[29]

September 28, 1904 (Wednesday)

September 29, 1904 (Thursday)

• Born:
  • Greer Garson, English-American actress, 7-time Academy Award nominee, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mrs. Miniver; in Manor Park, County Borough of East Ham, Essex (d. 1996)^[30]
  • Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer; in Kowel (d. 1965)^{[31][unreliable source?]}

September 30, 1904 (Friday)

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References

1. ↑ Brentford Football Club Official Matchday Magazine versus AFC Bournemouth. Newbury: Dunwoody Sports Marketing. 4 September 2004. p. 6.
2. ↑ Voss, John (1941) [First published 1913]. The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. p. 260. Retrieved 23 April 2025 – via Internet Archive.
3. ↑ "Death of Yakey Yake, Tough. He Was The Leader Of A Cherry Hill Gang. Hunted Out of New York by the Police, He Took Refuge in Jersey City - He Had His Good Points and Never Councelled Violence in Robbery - His Cooperage". The Sun. New York City. 4 September 1904.
4. ↑ "James Archer, RSA (1823-1904)". Victorian Art History. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
5. ↑ "Heinrich Köbner". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
6. ↑ "ALABAMA MOB HANGS NEGRO.; Burns Jail to Get at Him -- Vote Taken Before Hanging". The New York Times. 8 September 1904. Page 1, column 2. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
7. ↑ "Daniel Prenn". International Tennis Federation. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
8. ↑ Campbell, W. W. (1904). "The Total Eclipse of September 9, 1904". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 16 (99): 266–267. JSTOR 40668448.
9. ↑ Campbell, W. W. (1904). "The Total Eclipse of September 9, 1904". Science. 20 (519): 812–813. doi:10.1126/science.20.519.812.a. JSTOR 1630227. PMID 17730470.
10. ↑ Espenak, F. (12 July 2004). "Total Solar Eclipse of 1904 Sep 09". NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
11. ↑ "Feroze Khan". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
12. ↑ "Lou Moore". champcarstats.com. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
13. ↑ "Gladys George - Broadway Cast & Staff". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
14. ↑ "Surgeon General James Jameson, CB". Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 90 (6): 219–220. June 1948. doi:10.1136/jramc-90-06-01. S2CID 220145711. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
15. ↑ "Frank Amyot". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
16. ↑ Cabot, Richard C. (1904). "The relation of alcohol to arteriosclerosis". Journal of the American Medical Association. 43 (12): 774–775. doi:10.1001/jama.1904.92500120002a. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
17. ↑ Biography.com Editors (21 April 2020) [Originally published 2 April 2014]. "Raden Adjeng Kartini Biography". Biography.com. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
18. ↑ Notice de personne "Bismarck, Herbert von (1849-1904)" [Person notice "Bismarck, Herbert von (1849-1904)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
19. ↑ F. S. M. (October 1904). "Hudson RWHT". Obituary. The Mathematical Gazette. 3 (47). Mathematical Association: 73–75. doi:10.1017/S0025557200241454. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via Cambridge University Press.
20. ↑ Notice de personne "Hudson, Ronald William Henry Turnbull (1876-....)" [Person notice "Hudson, Ronald William Henry Turnbull (1876-....)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 21 January 1994. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
21. ↑ "OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF WRECK". The Rutherfordton Tribune. Rutherfordton, North Carolina. 29 September 1904. Page 2, column 5. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
22. ↑ Testerman, George M. (1 June 2009). "Disaster Management at the 1904 New Market, Tennessee Train Wreck: Role of a Surgeon". Southern Medical Journal. 102 (6). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: 645–648. doi:10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31819ea068. PMID 19434046. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via Medscape.
23. ↑ "History of the New Market Train Wreck". Archived from the original on 8 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
24. ↑ "Niels Ryberg Finsen – Facts". NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB. 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
25. ↑ "Frank, Gustav Wilhelm (1832-1904), Evangelischer Theologe" [Frank, Gustav Wilhelm (1832-1904), Protestant theologian]. Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (in German). Vol. 1. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1956. p. 343. ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. {{cite encyclopedia}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
26. ↑ "Biographical Sketch of Caleb C. Harris". Wisconsin Blue Book 1895. 1895. p. 693.
27. ↑ "Dr C. C. Harris Dead". Waukesha Freeman. 29 September 1904. p. 1.
28. ↑ Alpers, Antony Francis George (1966). "PELORUS JACK". In McLintock, A. H. (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 12 June 2024 – via Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
29. ↑ "COLSON, David Grant 1861 – 1904". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
30. ↑ "Greer Garson - Broadway Cast & Staff". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
31. ↑ "Michal Waszynski". IMDb. Archived from the original on 25 December 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2023.