# September 1904
## 1904

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The following events occurred in September 1904:

## September 1, 1904 (Thursday)

* Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opened in London with a Western League fixture versus Plymouth Argyle.

## September 2, 1904 (Friday)

* John Voss sailed the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westward around the world.
* Died:
** James Brady, 29, American criminal, died of tuberculosis.
** Elizabeth Colenso (born Elizabeth Fairburn), 83, New Zealander Protestant missionary

## September 3, 1904 (Saturday)

* Died:
** James Archer RSA, 81, Scottish artist
** Heinrich Koebner, 65, German-born Israeli dermatologist

## September 4, 1904 (Sunday)

* Died: William McCallin, 62, 34th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1887 to 1890, died of dropsy.

## September 5, 1904 (Monday)

* Died: Herbert von Bismarck, 54, German politician

## September 7, 1904 (Wednesday)

* As a result of the British expedition to Tibet, the Dalai Lama signed the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
* Horace Maples, an African-American man who had been accused of murder, was lynched by a mob of approximately 2,000 people in Huntsville, Alabama.
* Born: Daniel Prenn, Russian-born German, Polish, and British tennis player; in Vilna, Russian Empire (d. 1991)

## September 9, 1904 (Friday)

* A total solar eclipse was visible from northern Chile.
* Born: Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player; in Basti Daneshmandan, Jalandhar, Punjab Province (British India) (d. 2005)

## September 12, 1904 (Monday)

* Born: Lou Moore, American race car driver, team owner; in Hinton, Oklahoma Territory (d. 1956, brain hemorrhage)

## September 13, 1904 (Tuesday)

* Born:
** Gladys George, American stage and screen actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Valiant Is the Word for Carrie; in Patten, Maine (d. 1954)
** Alberta Williams King (born Alberta Christine Williams), American civil rights activist, wife of Martin Luther King Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr.; in Atlanta (assassinated 1974)
* Died: Surgeon-General James Jameson CB, 67, British Army surgeon

## September 14, 1904 (Wednesday)

* Born:
** Frank Amyot, Canadian Olympic champion sprint canoeist; in Thornhill, Ontario (d. 1962, cancer)
** Richard Mohaupt, German composer, Kapellmeister; in Breslau (d. 1957)

## September 15, 1904 (Thursday)

* Born: Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy; in Racconigi, Piedmont (d. 1983)

## September 17, 1904 (Saturday)

* An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease was published in the United States.
* Died: Kartini, 25, Indonesian national heroine, women's rights activist, died from complications of childbirth.

## September 19, 1904 (Monday)

* Born: Elvia Allman, American actress; in Enochville, North Carolina (d. 1992)

## September 20, 1904 (Tuesday)

* Died:
** R. W. H. T. Hudson, 28, British mathematician, died in a mountaineering accident.
** José Maria de Yermo y Parres, 52, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and saint, died of a stomach ulcer.

## September 22, 1904 (Thursday)

* Born: Lessie Brown, former oldest living American; in Georgia (d. 2019)
* Died: Louis Massebieau, 64, French historian and Protestant theologian

## September 23, 1904 (Friday)

* Died:
** George Adams, 65, Australian businessman
** Émile Gallé, 58, French artist

## September 24, 1904 (Saturday)

* Near New Market, Tennessee, two Southern Railway passenger trains traveling at great speed collided head on, killing between 56 and 113 passengers and crew and injuring 106.
* Died:
** Niels Ryberg Finsen, 43, Icelandic/Faroese/Danish physician and scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903
** Gustav Frank, 71, German-born Austrian Protestant theologian
** Caleb C. Harris, 68, American farmer and physician, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, died after surgery for peritonitis.

## September 26, 1904 (Monday)

* New Zealand dolphin Pelorus Jack was individually protected by Order in Council under the Sea Fisheries Act.
* Born: Constantin Doncea, Romanian communist activist and politician; in Cocu, Argeș (d. 1973)
* Died:
** Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 62
** Lafcadio Hearn (aka Yakumo Koizumi), 54, Greek-Irish Japanese author

## September 27, 1904 (Tuesday)

* Died: David G. Colson, 43, American politician, U.S. Representative from Kentucky

## September 29, 1904 (Thursday)

* Born:
** Greer Garson, English-American actress, 7-time Academy Award nominee, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Mrs. Miniver; in Manor Park, County Borough of East Ham, Essex (d. 1996)
** Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer; in Kowel (d. 1965)