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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860, the third of six children to a family of a grocer, in Taganrog, Russia, a southern seaport and resort on the Azov Sea. His father, a 3rd-rank Member of the Merchant's Guild, was a religious fanatic and a tyrant who used his children as slaves. Young Chekhov was a part-time assistant in his father's business and also a singer in a church choir. At age 15, he was abandoned by his bankrupt father and lived alone for 3 years while finishing the Classical Gymnazium in Taganrog. Chekhov obtained a scholarship at the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, from which he graduated in 1884 as a Medical Doctor. He practiced general medicine for about ten years.
While a student, Chekhov published numerous short stories and humorous sketches under a pseudonym. He reserved his real name for serious medical publications, saying "medicine is my wife; literature - a mistress." While a doctor, he kept writing and had success with his first books, and his first play "Ivanov." He gradually decreased his medical practice in favor of writing. Chekhov created his own style based on objectivity, brevity, originality, and compassion. It was different from the mainstream Russian literature's scrupulous analytical depiction of "heroes." Chekhov used a delicate fabric of hints, subtle nuances in dialogs, and precise details. He described his original style as an "objective manner of writing." He avoided stereotyping and instructive political messages in favor of cool comic irony. Praised by writers Lev Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, he was awarded the Pushkin Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1888.
In 1890, Chekhov made a lengthy journey to Siberia and to the remote prison-island of Sakhalin. There, he surveyed thousands of convicts and conducted research for a dissertation about the life of prisoners. His research grew bigger than a dissertation, and in 1894, he published a detailed social-analytical essay on the Russian penitentiary system in Siberia and the Far East, titled "Island of Sakhalin." Chekhov's valuable research was later used and quoted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his "Gulag Archipelago." In 1897-1899, Chekhov returned to his medical practice in order to stop the epidemic of cholera.
Chekhov developed special relationship with Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater. He emerged as a mature playwright who influenced the modern theater. In the plays "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," "Seagull," and "Cherry Orchard," he mastered the use of understatement, anticlimax, and implied emotion. The leading actress of the Moscow Art Theater, Olga Knipper-Chekhova, became his wife. In 1898, Chekhov moved to his Mediterranean-style home at the Black Sea resort of Yalta in the Crimea. There he was visited by writers Lev Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, and artists Konstantin Korovin and Isaac Levitan.- Music Department
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Antonin Dvorak was a son of butcher, but he did not follow his father's trade. While assisting his father part-time, he studied music, and graduated from the Prague Organ School in 1859. He also was an accomplished violinist and violist, and joined the Bohemian Theatre Orchestra, which was under the baton of Bedrich Smetana in 1860s. For financial reasons he quit the orchestra and focused on composing and teaching. He fell in love with one of his students, but she married another guy. Her sister was available, so Dvorak married the sister, Anna, in 1873, and they had nine children.
Dvorak's early compositions were influenced by Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms, and with their promotion his music became performed in European capitals and received international acclaim. His performances in 1880s of Slavonic Dances, the Sixth Symphony and the Stabat Mater were a success in England, and Dvorak received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge. He made a successful concert tour in Russia in 1890, and became a professor at the Prauge Conservatory. In 1892 he received an invitation to America from Jeaunnette Thurber, the founder of he National Conservatory of Music in New York City. Dvorak was the Director of the National Conservatory in New York for three years (1892-95), where he also taught composition and carried on his cross-cultural studies.
Dvorak broadened his experiences through studying the music of the Native Americans and African Americans, many of whom became his students and friends. Dvorak was inspired by the originality of indigenous American music and culture, as well as by the spirituals and by the singing of his African American students. Dvorac incorporated his new ideas, blended with his Bohemian roots, into his well-known Symphony No.9 in E minor "From the New World". He worked on this symphony for most of the spring and summer of 1893, and made it's glorious premiere in Carnegie Hall in December, 1893. In America he also wrote the remarkable Cello Concerto and two string quartets, including the Quartet in F ("The American"). Dvorak was doing very well in New York financially, but his heart was in Prague and he left America for his Czech Motherland. He had a big family with his wife and nine children in Prague. He became the Director of the Prague Conservatory in 1901 and kept the position until his death in 1904.- Director
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Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames, England, to John and Susanna Muggeridge. At the age of 20 he immigrated to the United States as a bookseller, first to New York City, then to San Francisco. In 1860, he planned a return trip to Europe, but suffered serious head injuries en route in a stagecoach crash in Texas. He spent the next few years recuperating in Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography, learned the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He returned to San Francisco in 1867, a man with a markedly changed personality. In 1868, he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, and began selling popular stereographs of his work. His great breakthrough came in 1872 when he was hired by wealthy American businessman and former California governor Leland Stanford, who later founded Stanford University. Stanford was interested in whether horses lifted all legs off the ground at once during trotting, and Muybridge was engaged to take photographs to settle the point. Although the experiment proved inconclusive at the time, Muybridge was re-engaged for further photographic studies in 1878. Using a battery of 12 cameras set side by side and a specially marked fence along the racetrack to pinpoint the horse's precise movements, Muybridge effectively created the first true study of motion. By January 1880 he invented zoopraxiscope to project his famous chronophotographic pictures in motion and thus prove that these were authentic. The projector used glass disks onto which Muybridge had an unidentified artist paint the sequences as silhouettes. Later, his more-detailed images were hand-coloured and marketed commercially. A device he developed was later regarded as an early movie projector, and the process was an intermediate stage toward motion pictures or cinematography. From 1883 to 1886, he entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion. In his later years, Muybridge gave many public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences, travelling frequently in England and Europe to publicise his work in cities such as London and Paris. He also edited and published compilations of his work (some of which are still in print today), which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography. He retired to his native England permanently in 1894. In 1904, the year of his death, the Kingston Museum opened in his hometown, and continues to house a substantial collection of his works in a dedicated gallery.- At the age of 6, Lafcadio Hearn, who had been born in Leucos in the Greek Ionian Islands to a Greek mother and an Irish father, was made a ward of his Irish great-aunt, who packed him off to Jesuit boarding schools in France and Britain. At the age of 16, he was sent to the US, where he worked as a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He translated French literature into English and began to develop his own taste, which was for the foreign, the exotic, and--sometimes--the macabre. Hearn's life changed radically when he traveled to Japan in 1890. He fell in love with the place and then with Setsu Koizumi, the daughter of a samurai family whose husband had deserted her and left her penniless. They were married in 1891. Hearn enthusiastically became a Japanese citizen, took the name Yakumo Koizumi, and acquired a teaching position at Imperial University, which he held until 1903. His interpretations of things Japanese--customs, geography, folk tales and literature--were internationally translated, widely admired, and adapted into films such as Kwaidan (1964); any of his works are still in print today. His loyalty and love for his adopted country was unflagging throughout his life. He died at the age of 54.
- Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, the president of the 19th century Transvaal Republic in what is now South Africa, was born on October 10, 1825 into a family of Prussian descent at Bulhoek in the Steynsburg district of what is now South Africa, at his grandfather's farm. Krüger, who was affectionately called "Oom Paul" (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") by his people, was fated to become a prominent leader of the Boer resistance that eventually was defeated by the might of the British military during the second Boer War. As a symbol of resistance to the British Empire, he was the subject of an autobiographical film released by Nazi Germany in 1941.
They young Paul Krüger grew up on the farm Vaalbank, where his formal education was extremely limited. His real education was had as a frontiersman on the veld, a lifestyle that seasoned him for the hard road of rebellion that lay in his future. What is now South Africa was founded as the Cape Colony by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. The British occupied the Cape Colony in 1795 and assumed official control of it in 1806, when The Netherlands lost sovereignty during the Napoleonic Wars.
Cape Colony became the Cape Province. In 1836, Paul Krüger's father, Casper,became part of the "Great Trek" of Boers that had began two years earlier as they sought to flee British laws. The Boers, who spoke a dialect of Dutch known as "Afrikaans", were resistant to the British Empire's Anglicisation policies, as well as its laws on slavery (the UK had abolished slavery in the early 19th century). They also were disgusted by what they saw as the indifference of British authorities to the border wars they waged with indigenous peoples on the eastern frontier of the Province.
In the 1830s and 1840s, approximately 12,000 Boers moved eastward into the interior to settle in the future Natal, Orange Free State and Transvaal Provinces to escape British authority. Krüger's father Casper later decided to settle in the district now known as Rustenburg. A veteran of the Great Trek, Paul had fought in three battles by the time he was 13. When he was 16 years old, Krüger choose a farm for himself at the foot of the Magaliesberg, where he settled in 1841. The following year he married Maria du Plessis, and the young couple accompanied his father to live in the Eastern Transvaal for a while. After the family had returned to Rustenburg, Krüger's wife and infant son died, likely from malaria (some sources say she died in childbirth). Krüger then married his dead wife's niece, Gezina du Plessis, who was his constant and devoted companion until her death in 1901. Altogether, Gezina Krüger gave birth to nine sons and seven daughters, though some perished in infancy as was common before antiseptic midwifery in the 20th Century.
In time, Paul Krüger emerged as a leader due to this prowess on the battlefield. Starting as a field cornet in the commandos, he eventually became Commandant-General of the South African Republic. He also distinguished himself as a diplomat and politician, being appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad, the republican parliament that drew up a constitution. In 1873, Krüger resigned as Commandant-General, retiring to his farm, Boekenhoutfontein. However, in 1874 he was elected to the Executive Council and shortly after that became Vice-President of the Transvaal. Following the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Krüger became the leader of the resistance movement. That same year, he visited the UK for the first time as leader of a deputation. In 1878, he was part of a second deputation.
The First Boer War (the "War of Independence" to Afrikaaners) started in 1880. Paul Krüger was elected President of the Transvaal on December 30, 1880. After defeating the British forces at the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881, Krüger was instrumental in negotiating the restoration of Transvaal's independence under official British overlordship (meaning the UK would provide for the Republic's defense and foreign policy). However, at the London conference of 1884, Kruger succeeded in regaining the independence of the Republic. Unfortunately for the Afrikaaners in the Transvaal, gold was discovered in the Witwatersrand and a destabilizing Gold Rush was on, bringing in large numbers of foreigners (called "Uitlanders" or "Ourlanders" in Afrikaans. The Gold Rush eventually set in motion the dynamics that led to the fall of the Republic as the British Imperialists (whose subjects made up most of the Uitlanders) began to covet the Transvaal anew. Denial of rights to the Uitlanders by the Republic gave the British Empire an excuse to act.
During the New Year's weekend of December 29, 1895 to January 2, 1896), Leander Starr Jameson, the British Administrator of Southern Rhodesia, launched a raid on the Republic of the Transvaal with his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen. The raid was launched with the authority of the premier of the Capetown Province, Cecil Rhodes, and with the covert approval of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's government. Jameson intended his raid to trigger an uprising by British expatriate workers in the Republic, but it failed. Relations between Britain and The Transvaal Republic deteriorated further.
The United Kingdom became upset when rumors circulated after the failed raid that the German Kaiser had offered protection to the Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, something which would have upset the balance of power in Africa and in Europe. In 1898, Om Krüger -- who had met with the Kaiser and his Chancellor Otto von Bismark during a European trip -- was elected President for the fourth (and last) time. The British responded by gathering troops on the borders of the Boer republics. Fearing imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies on the day after Krüger's 74th birthday, a strike which ignited the second Boer War.
The last session of the Transvaal legislature, the Volksraad, began on May 7, 1900, as a British Army commanded by Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts (Lord Roberts), bore down on Pretoria, the capital. President Krüger left Pretoria on the 29th of May and was able to remain in the country until October, when he left South Africa on the Dutch warship De Gelderland, which had been sent by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands to evacuate him. As his wife Gezina was too ill to travel, she remained behind, dying in their homeland on July 20, 1901.
In exile, Krüger first lived in Marseille, France, then in The Netherlands, and then finally in Clarens, Switzerland, where he died on 14 July 1904. His body was returned to South African and on December 16, 1904, he was buried in the Church Street cemetery in Pretoria.
Krüger became the subject of one of 'Joseph Goebbels'' lavish propaganda films, 1941's "Ohm Kruger". The wily old rebel was played by Oscar winning German actor Emil Jannings, who as "Uncle Kruger", was looking back on his life and struggles against the British Empire, which Nazi Germany was then struggling against. (Ironically, Hitler himself was an admirer of the British Empire, in theory.) Jannings appearance in the film, which distorted many facts to make the British seem far more villainous than they had behaved during the real second Boer War, was used against him after the war, as proof of his pro-Nazi leanings. Jennigs had to undergo de-Nazification, and never made another feature film after 1945. - Kate Chopin was born on 8 February 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was a writer, known for American Playhouse (1980), Grand Isle (1991) and The End of August (1981). She was married to Oscar Chopin. She died on 22 August 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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Daniel Decatur Emmett (October 29, 1815 - June 28, 1904) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the black-face minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels. He is most remembered as the composer of the song "Dixie". Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, then a frontier region.- Director
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Étienne-Jules Marey was a French scientist, physiologist, and chronophotagrapher. Marley started out by studying blood circulation in the human body. He then shifted to analyzing heart beats, respiration, muscles, and movement of the body. In 1869, Marey constructed a very delicate artificial insect to show how an insect flies and to demonstrate the figure-8 shape it produced during movement of its wings. Then he became fascinated by movements of air and started to study bigger flying animals, like birds. He adopted and further developed animated photography into a separate field of chronophotography in the 1880s. Marey's chronophotographic gun was made in 1882, this instrument was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second, with all the frames recorded on the same picture. Using these pictures he studied horses, birds, dogs, sheep, donkeys, elephants, fish, microscopic creatures, molluscs, insects, reptiles, etc. Some call it Marey's "animated zoo". Marey also conducted the famous study about cats always landing on their feet. He conducted very similar studies with a chicken and a dog and found that they could do almost the same. In 1890 he published a substantial volume entitled Le Vol des Oiseaux (The Flight of Birds), richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and diagrams. He also created stunningly precise sculptures of various flying birds. Marey also made movies. They were at a high speed (60 images per second) and of excellent image quality. His research on how to capture and display moving images helped the emerging field of cinematography. Towards the end of his life he returned to studying the movement of quite abstract forms, like a falling ball. His last great work was the observation and photography of smoke trails. Also, in 1901 he was able to build a smoke machine with 58 smoke trails. It became one of the first aerodynamic wind tunnels. Marey died on May 15th, 1904.- Welsh explorer and travel writer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands (he may have been illegitimate). His father died when he was 2; his mother, a butcher's daughter, went into service in London and then married, and did not want him. Stanley's paternal grandfather, a prosperous farmer, refused to care for him. For a while his mother's brothers boarded him out, then they stopped paying for him and he was taken, at 6, to the workhouse at St. Asaph, where he remained until 1856, when he was 15. The schoolmaster there was a savage brute, afterward adjudged insane, and the boy's life was one long series of torture, in the midst of which somehow he gained an elementary education. At last he beat his tormentor, and ran away.
For a while, a cousin at Brynford employed him as a pupil teacher in a National School, and after school he studied languages and mathematics. For several years, he went from one town and one poor and unwelcoming relative after another, working odd jobs. In 1859 he went to sea as a cabin boy, without pay, on a boat going to New Orleans. A kind-hearted cotton broker, Henry Stanley, picked him up, starving, on the street, cared for him and adopted him. The boy took his benefactor's name. The next year Stanley sent him to his farm in Arkansas, to take charge of the store there. Then he died suddenly, without having made any provision for his adopted son. Young Stanley found himself stranded, and the Civil War had begun. Though his sympathies were with the Union, he enlisted as a Confederate, was taken prisoner at Shiloh, and was released from Camp Douglas, Chicago, by re-enlisting on the other side (a very discreditable, though fairly common at the time, action, which he never entirely lived down). His turncoat tactics proved unnecessary; he contracted dysentery, was discharged from the army and, sick and penniless, worked his way from Harper's Ferry, Virginia, back to Wales. Once more his relatives threw him out, and he became a sailor.
In 1864 he enlisted in the United States Navy as a ship's writer. With this experience he became a wandering news correspondent in the western United States. He made and saved money, and in 1866 was able to travel to Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) with a friend. The next year a Missouri newspaper sent him to report on General Winfield Hancock's Indian expedition. In 1868 he joined the staff of the New York Herald, which sent him to Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia) to report on the war there. The rest of Stanley's life belongs to Africa, where he felt he had a "mission". In 1869 James Gordon Bennett Jr., the publisher of the New York Herald, decided to send a reporter to Africa in search for David Livingstone, who was last heard of six years previously. On November 24, 1871, Stanley reached Ujiji (on the shores of Lake Tanganyika) and found Livingstone, weak from illness and barely alive. Despite his condition, Livingstone refused to return to England with Stanley, and died 17 months later.
For the Herald he also covered the Ashanti War in 1873. He made three more African explorations, in Equatorial Africa from 1874 to 1877, in the Congo (for King Leopold II of Belgium) from 1878 to 1884 and in the Sudan from 1885 to 1888. In 15 years, without an army, as a private civilian, he added about 2,000,000 square miles for the British Empire, and he cannot be held responsible for the horrendous atrocities later committed by the Belgians during their ownership and exploitation of the Congo Free State. The controversies arising from the Livingstone expedition gradually died down, though they (and his quick and harsh temper) retarded any bestowal of honors on him. In the 1890s he made a lecture tour in the United States and Australasia. He abandoned his American citizenship, was re-naturalized in England and from 1895-1900 was a member of Parliament. In 1897 he made his last journey, to South Africa, just before the Boer War. He was finally knighted in 1899. He suffered a stroke four years later, and died the following spring. - Actor
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Dan Leno was born on 20 December 1860 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Limehouse Golem (2016), Contrasts (1967) and Bluebeard (1902). He was married to Sarah Lydia Reynolds (actress). He died on 31 October 1904 in London, England, UK.- Mabel Tolkien was born in January 1870 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK. She was married to Arthur Tolkien. She died on 14 November 1904 in Rednal, West Midlands, England, UK.
- Wilson Barrett was born on 18 February 1846 in Essex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Sign of the Cross (1932), Hoodman Blind (1913) and A Man of Sorrow (1916). He was married to Caroline Heath and Caroline Heath (actress). He died on 22 July 1904 in London, England, UK.
- John B. Gordon was born on 6 February 1832. He died on 9 January 1904 in Miami, Florida, USA.
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William Pittenger was born on 31 January 1840 in Knoxville, Ohio, USA. He was a writer. He died on 24 April 1904.- Gallé grew up in middle-class circumstances as the son of a ceramics and crystal dealer. After finishing school with a high school diploma, he studied philosophy, zoology, botany and mineralogy in Weimar from 1862. Emile Gallé stayed in Germany until 1866. Through his studies of mineralogy he came into contact with glass production. He then learned the art of glassblowing. He then visited London, where, among other things, he represented his father's company at the "Art de France" exhibition. He returns to Nancy via Paris. Gallé began to work with experiments and new glassblowing techniques. He developed new forms of representation, particularly in artistic decorations. These included marbling, reflections and bubble formation as well as melting of gold and silver foil.
In 1874, Emile Gallé took over management of his father's business. In 1875 he married the pastor's daughter Henriette Grimm. He then opened the studio "La Garenne" in Nancy. In 1878 he took part in the World Exhibition in Paris. Here his work was awarded four gold medals. After successful years, the studio was significantly expanded in 1883 to include workshops for glass, ceramics and wood products. At the Paris exhibition "La Pierre, la Terre, le Verre" he was again awarded gold. In 1885 he traveled to Berlin to study the collection of Chinese glass art at the Museum of Decorative Arts. In addition to his workshop in Nancy, Emile Gallé opened his first shop in Paris in 1885. Frankfurt followed in 1887 and London in 1889. Meanwhile, Emile Gallé became one of the most famous glass artists in Europe.
By the end of the 1880s he employed more than 300 people. In 1889 he was appointed officer of the French Legion of Honor. In 1900 he was awarded two Grand Prix and a gold medal at the World Exhibition. He was also appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor. In 1901 he founded the glass art school "Ecole de Nancy" with his brothers Augustin and Antonin Daum as well as René Lalique and Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, of which he became the first rector. In 1893 he took part again in the World's Fair in Chicago. In 1901 Gallé showed his works in Dresden and in 1902 in Turin. Gallé left the art world with crucial innovations in glass processing that had a profound influence on future glassblowing artists.
Emile Gallé died of leukemia in Nancy on September 23, 1904. - Writer
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Lawrence Hope was born on 9 April 1865 in Stoke Bishop, Bristol, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Tolkien (2019), The Indian Love Lyrics (1923) and Less Than the Dust (1916). He died on 4 October 1904 in Teynampet, Chennai Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.- Born in Lambeth, London. Hughly Popular comedian in Music Hall theatre and Pantomime theatre from 1868 became known as the greatest Pantomime 'Dame' artist of all time, often teamed as the over-weight stooge on stage and screen to the legendary Music Hall star Dan Leno. made his debut film in Herbert Campbell as Little Bobby in 1899 followed by a number of films with Dan Leno in The Rat in 1900 and Dan Leno and Herbert Campbell Edit 'The Sun' in 1902.
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Clement Scott was born on 6 October 1841 in London, England, UK. Clement was a writer, known for Father Goose (1964), Poppies (1914) and Hawaiian Eye (1959). Clement was married to Georgina Isabella Busson du Maurier and Constance Margarite Brandon. Clement died on 25 June 1904 in London, England, UK.- Mór Jókai was born on 18 February 1825 in Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Komarno, Slovakia]. He was a writer, known for The Gypsy Baron (1927), Der Zigeunerbaron (1975) and Souboj s Bohem (1921). He was married to Bella Nagy and Róza Laborfalvi. He died on 5 May 1904 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].
- George Francis Train was born on 24 March 1829 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Wilhelmina Wilkinson Davis. He died on 5 January 1904 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Per Sivle was born on 6 April 1857 in Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. He was a writer, known for Shelley (2016) and Berre ein hund (1975). He died on 16 September 1904 in Norway.- Marcus Hanna was born on 24 September 1837 in New Lisbon [now Lisbon], Ohio, USA. He died on 15 February 1904 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Emil Rosenow was born on 9 March 1871 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a writer, known for Kater Lampe (1936), Kater Lampe (1961) and Kater Lampe (1967). He was married to Maria Anna Ludwig. He died on 7 February 1904 in Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany.
- Edward Marshall was born on 31 March 1869 in Enfield Center, New Hampshire, USA. He was a writer, known for The Gay Retreat (1927) and The Old Flute Player (1914). He was married to Judith Berolde. He died on 26 February 1904 in London, England, UK.
- Ethel Golding was born in February 1881 in New York, New York, USA. She died on 1 March 1904 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Prince George was born on 26 March 1819 in Kingdom of Hanover [now Hanover, Germany]. He was married to Sarah Fairbrother. He died on 17 March 1904 in London, England, UK.
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George A. Minor was born on 7 December 1845 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. George A. died on 30 January 1904 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.- Alfred von Waldersee was born on 8 October 1832 in Potsdam, Germany. He died on 5 March 1904 in Berlin, Germany.
- Justus van Maurik was born on 16 August 1846 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was a writer, known for Krates (1913). He died on 18 November 1904.
- Gustav Esmann was born on 17 August 1860 in Denmark. He was a writer, known for Alexander den Store (1917), Kära släkten (1933) and Højt spil (1913). He died on 4 September 1904 in Denmark.
- Leslie Stephen was born on 28 November 1832 in Kensington Gore, London, England, UK. He was married to Harriet Marian Thackeray and Julia Prinsep Jackson. He died on 22 February 1904 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Harvey Logan was born in 1867 in Richland Township, Iowa, USA. He died on 9 June 1904 in Parachute, Colorado, USA.
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Paul Delmet was born on 17 June 1862 in Paris, France. Paul is known for French Cancan (1955), Full Moon in Paris (1984) and The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957). Paul died on 24 October 1904 in Paris, France.- Prince Heinrich of Prussia was born on 9 January 1900 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire. He died on 26 February 1904 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire.
- Frantisek Ferdinand Samberk was born on 21 April 1838 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Jedenácté prikázání (1925), Podskalák (1929) and Jedenácté prikázání (1935). He died on 25 December 1904 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].
- Arthur Lloyd was born on 14 May 1839 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Arthur was married to Katty King. Arthur died on 20 July 1904 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Isabelle Eberhardt was born on 17 February 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a writer, known for Eden miseria (1988). She was married to Slimane Ehnni. She died on 21 October 1904 in Äin-Sefra, Algeria.
- Charles Morton was born on 15 August 1819 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He died on 18 October 1904 in London, England, UK.
- Mykhailo Starytsky was born on 14 December 1840 in Klishchyntsi, Zolotonosha, Poltava, Ukraine. He was a writer, known for Za dvoma zaytsiamy (1961), Marusia (1938) and Tsyganka Aza (1987). He died on 27 April 1904 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Jean-Léon Gérôme was born on 11 May 1824 in Vesoul, France. Jean-Léon was a writer, known for The Slave Market (1900). Jean-Léon died on 10 January 1904 in Paris, France.
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Vincenzo Russo was born on 18 March 1876 in Naples, Italy. Vincenzo is known for Nine (2009), Lazzarella (1957) and Return to Me (2000). Vincenzo died on 11 June 1904 in Naples, Italy.- Semseddin Sami Frasher, one of the important names of Albanian and Turkish Literature, is a translator, writer and journalist who has made great studies on Turkish Language and grammar. He is also the owner of the title of "first Turkish novelist". He was born on 1 June 1850 in the Albanian village of Frasher. He died in his home in Erenköy on July 1, 1904. He was buried next to his first wife in Erenköy Sahrayicedid Cemetery. In 1968, at the request of his family, his bones were transferred to the family cemetery on the 23rd island of Feriköy Cemetery.
- Karl Emil Franzos was born on 25 October 1848 in Tschortkiw, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Chortkiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for The President (1919), Judith Trachtenberg (1920) and A Daughter of Her People (1933). He was married to Ottilie Benedikt. He died on 28 January 1904 in Berlin, Germany.
- Niels R. Finsen was born on 15 December 1860 in Tórshavn, Færøerne, Denmark. He died on 24 September 1904 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Jovan Jovanovic-Zmaj was born on 24 November 1833 in Újvidék/Novi Sad, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Vojvodina, Serbia]. He was a writer, known for TV teatar (1956), Neven (1974) and Bozicna pesma (1995). He died on 14 June 1904 in Sremska Kamenica, Austria-Hungary [now Serbia].
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George Frederic Watts was born on 23 February 1817 in London, England, UK. George Frederic is known for Hope (1922). George Frederic died on 1 June 1904 in Compton, Surrey, England, UK.- Asa S. Bushnell was born on 16 September 1834 in Rome, New York, USA. He was married to Ellen Ludlow. He died on 15 January 1904 in the USA.