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 | Clyfford Still, American painter and educator (d. 1980) |
| 1904 | Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (d. 1981) |
| 1904 | Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (d. 1963) |
| 1905 | Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966) |
| 1904 | Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Roland Wilson, Australian economist and statistician (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | Denny Shute, American golfer (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Quintin McMillan, South African cricketer (d. 1938) |
| 1904 | Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician and academic (d. 1960) |
| 1905 | Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (d. 1997) |
| 1904 | Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer (d. 1964) |
| 1904 | Louis Duffus, Australian-South African cricketer and journalist (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 1904 | Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (d. 1973) |
| 1904 | Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (d. 1980) |
| 1904 | Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969) |
| 1904 | Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic (d. 1967) |
| 1905 | Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (d. 1960) |
| 1904 | Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic (d. 1987) |
| 1904 | James T. Farrell, American author and poet (d. 1979) |
| 1904 | David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1987) |
| 1904 | Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1980) |