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 | Marge, American cartoonist (d. 1993) |
| 1904 | Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (d. 1981) |
| 1904 | José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960) |
| 1904 | Lou Moore, American race car driver (d. 1956) |
| 1904 | Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Simone Beck, French chef and author (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Norah Lofts, English author (d. 1983) |
| 1904 | Roland Wilson, Australian economist and statistician (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (d. 1972) |
| 1904 | Lester Dent, American journalist and author (d. 1959) |
| 1904 | Greer Garson, English-American actress (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1987) |
| 1904 | René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (d. 1983) |
| 1905 | Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Joseph Campbell, American mythologist and author (d. 1987) |
| 1904 | Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955) |
| 1904 | Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (d. 1998) |
| 1904 | Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004) |
| 1904 | Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (d. 2003) |
| 1905 | Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Clarence Nash, American voice actor and singer (d. 1985) |
| 1904 | George Klein, Canadian inventor, invented the motorized wheelchair (d. 1992) |
| 1904 | Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Robert Whitney, American conductor and composer (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (d. 1980) |
| 1904 | A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (d. 1977) |
| 1904 | Chaim Gross, Austrian-American sculptor and educator (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995) |