page_title: 1904
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1904 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: Sharkey Bonano &amp; band on stage in New Orleans, 1950. Published caption: SHARKEY BONANO. The man at the mike plays the cleanest Dixieland trumpet style in New Orleans. Others pictured: Santo Pecora, trombone; Monk Hazel, drums; dancer Isaac "Pork Chops" Mason; clarinetist Lester Bouchon. Notes: Probably photographed on Bourbon Street, French Quarter. Dancer "Pork Chop" was part of dance duo "Pork Chop &amp; Kidney Stew" who danced in the streets busking for tips; Sharkey regularly invited them into the club and up on stage with him during the evening show and the the three would perform a comic dance together. Lester Bouchon also played saxophone.
context_page_description: 1904 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1904, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet general (d. 1945)
  April 3 – Sally Rand, American dancer, actress (d. 1979)
  April 4 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian author, educator (d. 1999)
  April 6
  William Challee, American actor (d. 1989)
  Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1988)
  April 8 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
  April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
  April 10 – Nino Pavese, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 1979)
  April 13 – Elwood Richard Quesada, American air force general (d. 1993)
  April 14 – John Gielgud, English actor (d. 2000)
  April 15 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born painter (d. 1948)
  April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
  April 22 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
  April 24 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (d. 1997)
  April 26
  Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
  Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
  April 27
  Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (d. 1972)
  Syd Nathan, American record producer, music industry executive and founder of King Records (d. 1968)
  April 29 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer, actor (d. 1989)
caption: Sharkey Bonano
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