List of Famous people who died in 1904

John Kenelm Digby Wingfield Digby was an English landowner and Conservative member of parliament. His name is often given as Wingfield-Digby, but the family does not use the hyphen.

Vittorio Meano was an Italian architect born in Susa, Italy, near Turin.

John Heywood Johnstone DL JP (1850-1904) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Horsham from 1893 to 1904.

Wilhelm Ferdinand Pauwels was a Belgian history painter who lived and worked in Germany.

Julian Russell Sturgis was a British-American novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist.

Victor Leydet (1861–1904) was a French genre painter.

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822–1904) was an American connoisseur and dealer in art. He was born in New York City where he studied wood and copper engraving and was extensively employed by leading publishers. He began business as a dealer in art in 1865. In 1867 Mr. Avery was appointed commissioner in charge of the American art department of the Exposition Universelle in Paris. He was a founding, and for a long time, trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a life member of important scientific, artistic and educational associations. He founded the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University in memory of his son Henry Ogden Avery, an architect of note, who died in 1890. In 1900 he donated his collection of 17,775 etchings and lithographs to the New York Public Library.

Sir John Simon was an English pathologist, surgeon and public health officer. He was the first Chief Medical Officer for Her Majesty's Government from 1855–1876.