September 1904

The following events occurred in September 1904:

September 1, 1904 (Thursday)

 * Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opened in London with a Western League fixture versus Plymouth Argyle.

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.
 * Died:
 * James Brady, 29, American criminal, died of tuberculosis.
 * Elizabeth Colenso (born Elizabeth Fairburn), 83, New Zealander Protestant missionary

September 3, 1904 (Saturday)

 * Died:
 * James Archer RSA, 81, Scottish artist
 * Heinrich Koebner, 65, German-born Israeli dermatologist

September 4, 1904 (Sunday)

 * Died: William McCallin, 62, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890, died of dropsy.

September 5, 1904 (Monday)

 * Died: Herbert von Bismarck, 54, German politician

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.
 * 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.
 * Born: Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player; in Vilna, Russian Empire (d. 1991)

September 9, 1904 (Friday)

 * A total solar eclipse was visible from northern Chile.
 * Born: Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player; in Basti Daneshmandan, Jalandhar, Punjab Province (British India) (d. 2005)

September 12, 1904 (Monday)

 * Born: Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner; in Hinton, Oklahoma Territory (d. 1956, brain hemorrhage)

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)
 * Alberta Williams King (born Alberta Christine Williams), American civil rights activist, wife of Martin Luther King Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr.; in Atlanta (assassinated 1974)
 * Died: Surgeon-General James Jameson, 67, British Army surgeon

September 14, 1904 (Wednesday)

 * Born:
 * Frank Amyot, Canadian Olympic champion sprint canoeist; in Thornhill, Ontario (d. 1962, cancer)
 * Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister; in Breslau (d. 1957)

September 15, 1904 (Thursday)

 * Born: Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy; in Racconigi, Piedmont (d. 1983)

September 17, 1904 (Saturday)

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

September 19, 1904 (Monday)

 * Born: Elvia Allman, American actress; in Enochville, North Carolina (d. 1992)

September 20, 1904 (Tuesday)

 * Died:
 * R. W. H. T. Hudson, 28, British mathematician, died in a mountaineering accident.
 * José Maria de Yermo y Parres, 52, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint, died of a stomach ulcer.

September 22, 1904 (Thursday)

 * Born: Lessie Brown, former oldest living American; in Georgia (d. 2019)
 * Died: Louis Massebieau, 64, French historian and Protestant theologian

September 23, 1904 (Friday)

 * Died:
 * George Adams, 65, Australian businessman
 * Émile Gallé, 58, French artist

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.
 * Died:
 * Niels Ryberg Finsen, 43, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903
 * Gustav Frank, 71, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian
 * Caleb C. Harris, 68, American farmer and physician, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, died after surgery for peritonitis.

September 26, 1904 (Monday)

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

September 27, 1904 (Tuesday)

 * Died: David G. Colson, 43, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky

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)
 * Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer; in Kowel (d. 1965)