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, 83, New Zealander Protestant missionary
[September 3], 1904 (Saturday)
- Died:
- *James Archer RSA, 81, Scottish artist
- *Heinrich Koebner, 65, German dermatologist
[September 4], 1904 (Sunday)
- Died: William McCallin, 62, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890, died of dropsy.
[September 5], 1904 (Monday)
[September 6], 1904 (Tuesday)
[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
[September 8], 1904 (Thursday)
[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
[September 10], 1904 (Saturday)
[September 11], 1904 (Sunday)
[September 12], 1904 (Monday)
- Born: Lou Moore, American race car driver and team owner; in Hinton, Oklahoma Territory
[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
- Died: Surgeon-General James Jameson, 67, British Army surgeon
[September 14], 1904 (Wednesday)
- Born:
- *Frank Amyot, Canadian Olympic champion sprint canoeist; in Thornhill, Ontario
- *Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister; in Breslau
[September 15], 1904 (Thursday)
- Born: Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy; in Racconigi, Piedmont
[September 16], 1904 (Friday)
[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 18], 1904 (Sunday)
- Died: Herbert von Bismarck, 54, German politician
[September 19], 1904 (Monday)
- Born: Elvia Allman, American actress; in Enochville, North Carolina
[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 21], 1904 (Wednesday)
[September 22], 1904 (Thursday)
- Born: Lessie Brown, former oldest living American; in Georgia
- 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 25], 1904 (Sunday)
[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
- Died:
- *Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 62
- *Lafcadio Hearn, 54, Greek-Irish Japanese author
[September 27], 1904 (Tuesday)
- Died: David G. Colson, 43, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky
[September 28], 1904 (Wednesday)
[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
- *Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer; in Kowel
[September 30], 1904 (Friday)