Events in the year 1904 in Germany.
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- Schaumburg–Lippe – George, Prince of Schaumburg–Lippe
- Schwarzburg–Rudolstadt – Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg–Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg–Sondershausen – Karl Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg–Sondershausen
- Principality of Lippe – Alexander, Prince of Lippe (with Ernest II, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld to 26 September, and then Leopold, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld, as regents)
- Reuss Elder Line – Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz (with Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line as regent)
- Reuss Younger Line – Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line
- Waldeck and Pyrmont – Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
- September – Stationery manufacturer Herlitz established in Berlin.
- Accumulatoren–Fabrik AFA establishes its battery making subsidiary VARTA in Hagen.
- 2 January – Walter Heitler, physicist
- 8 January – Karl Brandt, Nazi physician
- 9 January – Wilhelm Groth, physical chemist
- 29 January – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (died 1976)[6]
- 18 February – Otto Rahn, medievalist and SS officer (died 1939)[7]
- 22 February – Ernst Jakob Henne, racing driver (died 2005)[8]
- 28 February – Alfred Bohrmann, astronomer
- 5 March – Karl Rahner, theologian
- 7 March – Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the RSHA (died 1942)[9]
- 7 March – Kurt Weitzmann, art historian[10]
- 10 March – Adalbert Schneider, Navy officer
- 11 March – Albrecht von Hagen, Resistance fighter
- 12 March – Adolf Arndt, politician
- 21 March – Karl Leonhard, psychiatrist
- 24 March – Hans Ertel, natural scientist
- 26 March – Hermann Schroeder, composer
- 6 April – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (died 1988)[11]
- 12 April – Paul Dahlke, actor
- 15 April – Valentin Krempl, bobsledder
- 17 April – Franz Reuß, Luftwaffe general
- 27 April – Fritz Weitzel, SS officer
- 28 April – Elisabeth Schumacher, Resistance fighter
- 4 May – Josef Pieper, philosopher
- 8 May – Franz Schreiber, SS officer
- 9 May – Reinhard Schwarz–Schilling, composer
- 23 May – Johannes Flintrop, critic of Nazism
- 7 June – Werner Gruner, German weapons designer (died 1995)
- 14 June – Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and Resistance fighter (died 2007)
- 20 June – Heinrich von Brentano, politician (died 1964)[12]
- 9 July – Ernst Küppers, swimmer
- 14 July – Hans von Herwarth, diplomat
- 15 July – Rudolf Arnheim, film theorist
- 2 August – Werner Seelenbinder, wrestler and communist
- 9 August – Hasso von Boehmer, Army officer
- 10 August – Karl Helling, chess master
- 16 August – Klaus von Pape, Nazi 'martyr'
- 24 August – Ludwig Schmidseder, composer and pianist
- 29 August – Werner Forssmann, physician and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate
- 30 August – Friedrich von Mellenthin, Army general
- 1 September – Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilung leader
- 8 September – Karl Hessenberg, mathematician
- 14 September – Walter Meyer, rower
- 3 October – Ernst–Günther Schenck, SS officer
- 21 October – Basilea Schlink, founder and leader of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary
- 23 October – Maximilien de Furstenberg, Roman Catholic cardinal
- 12 November – Edmund Veesenmayer, Nazi politician
- 13 November – Günter Reimann, communist activist
- 13 November – Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, jurist and Resistance fighter
- 26 November – Bernhard Krüger, SS officer
- 11 December – Felix Nussbaum, surrealist painter
- 17 December – Josef–Franz Eckinger, Army officer
- 30 December – Edith Schultze–Westrum, actress
- Date unknown – Heinz Kloss, linguist
- Date unknown – Wolfgang Stresemann, orchestra leader
- 4 January – Friedrich Jolly, neurologist
- 5 January – Karl Alfred von Zittel, palaeontologist
- 6 January – Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck, electrical engineer
- 10 January – Christian August Friedrich Garcke, botanist
- 20 January – Albert von Maybach, railway manager
- 24 January – Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, nobleman
- 24 February – Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Prussian general
- 5 March – Alfred von Waldersee, Field Marshal
- 22 March – Karl Moritz Schumann, botanist
- 1 April – Otto von Böhtlingk, Indologist
- 6 May – Franz von Lenbach, painter
- 21 May – Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg, nobleman
- 24 May – Duchess Maria Isabella of Württemberg, noblewoman
- 30 May – Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg–Strelitz, nobleman
- 5 July – Franz Martin Hilgendorf, zoologist
- 4 August – Christoph von Sigwart, philosopher
- 5 August – Karl Weigert, pathologist
- 9 August – Friedrich Ratzel, geographer
- 26 August – Franz Riegel, internist
- 3 September – Heinrich Koebner, dermatologist
- 18 September – Herbert von Bismarck, politician
- 26 September – Ernest II, Count of Lippe–Biesterfeld, nobleman, regent of the Principality of Lippe
- 8 October – Clemens Winkler, chemist who discovered germanium
- 15 October – George, King of Saxony
- 29 October – Emil Schlagintweit, scholar of Tibetan Buddhism
- 10 November – Alphons Stübel, geologist and vulcanologist
- 19 November – Hans von Hopfen, writer
- 2 December – Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern–Sigmaringen, nobleman
- 20 December – Alexandrine of Baden (1820–1904), noblewoman
- 25 December – Guido Bodländer, chemist
- Date unknown
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