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Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89. July 1 – Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate (died 1998) [48] July 15 – Dorothy Fields, librettist (died 1974) [49]
1904–2010: 106: American actress and dance instructor; last surviving Ziegfeld girl [268] Roger Tréville: 1902–2005: 102: French actor [269] Mabel Trunnelle: 1879–1981: 101: American actress [270] Morton Tubor: 1917–2019: 102: American film and sound editor [271] Franca Valeri: 1920–2020: 100: Italian actress [272] Ninette de Valois ...
1904 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the ...
Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
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The 1904 St. Louis Olympics medal, auctioned for $545,371, bears the inscription “Olympiad, 1904” and shows a victorious athlete holding a wreath on the front.
1904–2004: 100: New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method [51] Ray Crist: 1900–2005: 105: American chemist [52] Kathleen Curtis: 1892−1994: 102: New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand [53] Max Day: 1915–2017: 101: Australian ecologist [54] Sukh Dev: 1923–2024: ...
January 9 – Estampes by Claude Debussy, receives its initial performance at the Societe Nationale de Musique in Paris.; January 13 – Béla Bartók's symphonic poem Kossuth is premiered in Budapest, becoming his first major work to be performed.