Famous People Born in 1904

Salvador Dalí

Spanish Surrealist painter famous for The Persistence of Memory, with its melting clocks, and for his flamboyant moustache

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

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Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet and diplomat of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and Canto General, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Pablo Neruda ( nə-ROO-də; Spanish:; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Deng Xiaoping

Chinese Communist leader who opened China to markets and foreign investment from 1978, setting off its economic boom

Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 1989.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

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Graham Greene

English novelist of Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American, and writer of The Third Man

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

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Cary Grant

Debonair leading man of Hollywood’s Golden Age

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was a British-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

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B.F. Skinner

Psychologist and behaviorist known for his work on operant conditioning

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.

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Harry Martinson

Nobel Prize-winning Swedish author and poet

Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy.

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