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)