September 1904

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]

• 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]}

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

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

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• 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]

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• 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]

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

• 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]

• 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]}

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

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• 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]

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

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

• 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]}

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

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

• 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]

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• 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]}

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

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• 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?]}

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