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) |
| 1905 | Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966) |
| 1904 | Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981) |
| 1904 | Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964) |
| 1904 | Simone Beck, French chef and author (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian and politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 1966) |
| 1905 | Margery Sharp, English author and educator (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | C. B. Colby, American author (d. 1977) |
| 1904 | Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1978) |
| 1905 | Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981) |
| 1904 | George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1975) |
| 1904 | Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer (d. 1950) |
| 1904 | Jean Hélion, French painter (d. 1987) |
| 1904 | Marie-Anne Desmarest, French author (d. 1973) |
| 1904 | Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948) |
| 1904 | Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003) |
| 1905 | Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist and theorist (d. 1960) |
| 1904 | Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971) |
| 1904 | George Brent, Irish-American actor (d. 1979) |
| 1904 | Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1995) |
| 1904 | Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976) |
| 1904 | Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1957) |
| 1904 | Denny Shute, American golfer (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993) |
| 1904 | René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (d. 1983) |
| 1904 | José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960) |
| 1904 | Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (d. 1998) |