According to Chinese Astrology, 1904 is the Year of the Dragon and it is the Wood element. Based on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, those born in 1904 are Dragons. The Chinese Dragon year repeats every 12 years. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, those born between 16 February 1904 and 3 February 1905 are considered born in the Chinese year 1904 and are a Dragon sign. In addition, each Dragon year is also represented by 5 elements in Chinese astrology that express character and behavior. Therefore, each year it is referred to with a different zodiac animal name and a different element name, and this repeats only once in 60 years. 1904 is also known as the Year of the Wood Dragon. Each zodiac sign is also associated with a negative/positive expression according to the Yin Yang philosophy. The year 1904 is Yang (+) according to the Chinese calendar.
When is the Chinese Year of the Dragon?
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1904 | Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995) |
| 1904 | K. L. Saigal, Indian singer and actor (d. 1947) |
| 1904 | Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (d. 1973) |
| 1904 | George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (d. 1968) |
| 1905 | Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Louis Duffus, Australian-South African cricketer and journalist (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (d. 1976) |
| 1904 | Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player (d. 1976) |
| 1904 | Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000) |
| 1904 | Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer and farmer (d. 1985) |
| 1904 | August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965) |
| 1904 | Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (d. 2003) |
| 1904 | Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942) |
| 1904 | John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (d. 1982) |
| 1904 | Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1957) |
| 1904 | Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter (d. 2009) |
| 1904 | Masao Koga, Japanese composer and guitarist (d. 1978) |
| 1904 | John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992) |
| 1904 | Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (d. 1972) |
| 1904 | Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (d. 1971) |
| 1904 | Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter (d. 2001) |
| 1904 | Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995) |