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 | George Brent, Irish-American actor (d. 1979) |
| 1904 | István Horthy, Hungarian fighter pilot and deputy regent (d. 1942) |
| 1904 | Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (d. 1972) |
| 1904 | George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1961) |
| 1904 | Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988) |
| 1904 | Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician and academic (d. 1960) |
| 1904 | Denny Shute, American golfer (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Jose de Rivera, American soldier and sculptor (d. 1985) |
| 1904 | Roland Wilson, Australian economist and statistician (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989) |
| 1904 | Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (d. 2005) |
| 1904 | John Snagge, English journalist (d. 1996) |
| 1905 | Jack London, English sprinter and pianist (d. 1966) |
| 1904 | Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968) |
| 1904 | Sally Rand, American dancer (d. 1979) |
| 1904 | Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996) |
| 1905 | Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 1905 | Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 1987) |
| 1904 | Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (d. 2008) |
| 1904 | Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973) |
| 1904 | August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (d. 1966) |
| 1904 | Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Harvey Penick, American golfer and coach (d. 1995) |
| 1905 | Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 1904 | Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 1904 | Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) |
| 1905 | Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, educator, and critic (d. 1950) |
| 1904 | Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1974) |