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 | Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (d. 1980) |
| 1904 | Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993) |
| 1904 | Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver (d. 1948) |
| 1904 | K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic (d. 2011) |
| 1905 | Nihal Atsız, Turkish author, poet, and philosopher (d. 1975) |
| 1904 | Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (d. 1981) |
| 1904 | Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter (d. 2009) |
| 1904 | Clifford Bricker, Canadian long-distance runner (d. 1980) |
| 1904 | Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005) |
| 1904 | Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and journalist (d. 1997) |
| 1904 | Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (d. 2010) |
| 1904 | George Brent, Irish-American actor (d. 1979) |
| 1904 | A. J. Liebling, American journalist and author (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1957) |
| 1904 | Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian and author (d. 1993) |
| 1905 | Erich Borchmeyer, German sprinter (d. 2000) |
| 1904 | Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1983) |
| 1904 | Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist (d. 1967) |
| 1904 | George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (d. 1968) |
| 1904 | Hans Hartung, German-French painter (d. 1989) |
| 1905 | Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (d. 1997) |
| 1904 | Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic (d. 1967) |
| 1904 | Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003) |
| 1904 | Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) |