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 | Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1969) |
| 1904 | Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Greer Garson, English-American actress (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 1904 | Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974) |
| 1904 | Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Simone Beck, French chef and author (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1983) |
| 1904 | Edwin Albert Link, American industrialist and entrepreneur, invented the flight simulator (d. 1981) |
| 1904 | Jose de Rivera, American soldier and sculptor (d. 1985) |
| 1904 | Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (d. 1973) |
| 1904 | Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (d. 1984) |
| 1904 | Frank Amyot, Canadian sprint canoeist (d. 1962) |
| 1904 | J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (d. 1988) |
| 1904 | Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist (d. 2010) |
| 1904 | Denny Shute, American golfer (d. 1974) |
| 1905 | Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) |
| 1904 | J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1967) |
| 1904 | Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1963) |
| 1904 | Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996) |
| 1904 | Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (d. 1977) |
| 1904 | Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect (d. 1988) |
| 1904 | Robert Whitney, American conductor and composer (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | Quintin McMillan, South African cricketer (d. 1938) |
| 1905 | Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961) |
| 1904 | Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004) |
| 1904 | Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (d. 1950) |
| 1904 | Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) |
| 1904 | Anna Neagle, English actress, singer, and producer (d. 1986) |
| 1904 | René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt (d. 1996) |