1904 births

Spanish artist (1904–1989)

Chilean poet and politician (1904–1973)

Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)

British-American actor (1904–1986)

American behaviorist (1904–1990)

French actor and singer (1904–1976)

Swedish writer (1904–1978)

German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)

Soviet physicist (1904-1990)

Chancellor of West Germany (1966–1969)

American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)

Prime Minister of India (1964-1966)

French physicist (1904-2000)

Cuban-French writer and musicologist (1904–1980)

lieutenant of the Kingdom of Italy and last king of Italy

American swimmer, water polo player, and actor (1904–1984)

Ukrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)

diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904–1971)

Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)

American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944)

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)

Soviet politician (1904-1980)

American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)

American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904–1987)

British economist (1904-1989)

German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)

British-American actress (1904-1996)

Polish writer (1904–1969)

British actor and theatre director (1904-2000)

American political scientist (1904–1980)

German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999)

German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904-1979)

American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984)

American writer, journalist (1904–1988)

Hungarian and American actor (1904–1964)

Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)

Irish politician and human rights activist (1904-1988)

American organic chemist

first President of Nigeria (1904-1996)

Last Russian tsesarevich and heir apparent of the Russian Empire (1904–1918)

Mexican actress (1904–1983)

Soviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)

American choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904–1983)

Czech politician (1904-1975)

English-American novelist (1904-1986)

American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (1904–1975)

British dancer and choreographer (1904–1988)

Spanish admiral and politician

French Catholic sister and supercentenarian (1904–2023)

English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)

Chinese novelist and anarchist activist (1904-2005)

French mathematician (1904–2008)

writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie (1904–2007)

Austrian-born British nuclear physicist

German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904–1948)

Uruguayan footballer (1904-1960)

American jazz pianist and composer (1904–1943)

Soviet aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union (1904-1938)