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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 [267] Roger Tréville: 1902–2005: 102: French actor [268] Mabel Trunnelle: 1879–1981: 101: American actress [269] Morton Tubor: 1917–2019: 102: American film and sound editor [270] Franca Valeri: 1920–2020: 100: Italian actress [271] Ninette de Valois ...
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.
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: ...
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 ...
Chekhov died on 15 July 1904 at the age of 44 after a long fight with tuberculosis, the same disease that killed his brother. [ 103 ] Chekhov's death has become one of "the great set pieces of literary history" [ 104 ] —retold, embroidered, and fictionalized many times since, notably in the 1987 short story "Errand" by Raymond Carver .
Indian journalist (The Navhind Times and Goa Today), independence activist and writer [122] Mildred Shapley Matthews: 1915–2016: 101: American book editor and writer, best known for her astronomy books [123] [124] Lorna McDonald: 1916–2017: 100: Australian author and historian [125] Joe Medicine Crow: 1913–2016: 102: American Crow ...
The Vulcan statue is today a prominent feature of the Vulcan Park and Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, where it was originally cast. [64] Natural History exhibit at the 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis. The Smithsonian Institution coordinated the US government exhibits. It featured a blue whale, the first full-cast of a blue whale ever created. [65]