2004

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2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2004th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 4th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2000s decade.

Clockwise from top-left: Facebook, originally called TheFacebook, is launched by Mark Zuckerberg; the 2004 transit of Venus, the first such occurrence since 1882; NASA lands the Opportunity Rover on Mars; the 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens; Al-Qaeda bombs multiple trains in Madrid, killing 193 people; the European Union adds 10 new member-states; 333 people are killed in the Beslan school siege, carried out by Chechen terrorists; a massive megathrust earthquake off the coast of Sumatra and the resultant tsunami kill over 227,000 people—one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

2004 by topic:

Arts

Animation (Anime) – Architecture – Comics – Film (Horror, Science fiction) – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video games

Politics and government

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Biotechnology – Computing – Palaeontology – Quantum computing and communication – Senescence research – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight – Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

Birding/Ornithology – Climate change – Weather

Transportation

Aviation – Rail transport – Transportation technology

Sports

American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Antigua and Barbuda – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Belize – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Brunei – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Congo – D.R. Congo – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Djibouti – Dominica – Dominican Republic – East Timor – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Eritrea – Estonia – Ethiopia – Eswatini – Equatorial Guinea – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – The Gambia – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Grenada – Guatemala – Guinea – Guinea-Bissau – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Jamaica – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kiribati – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Liechtenstein – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Maldives – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mauritius – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Monaco – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Lucia – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Samoa – San Marino – São Tomé and Príncipe – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Sierra Leone – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – Somaliland – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Suriname – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Trinidad and Tobago – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Vatican City – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

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2004 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2004 MMIV
Ab urbe condita	2757
Armenian calendar	1453 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6754
Baháʼí calendar	160–161
Balinese saka calendar	1925–1926
Bengali calendar	1411
Berber calendar	2954
British Regnal year	52 Eliz. 2 – 53 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2548
Burmese calendar	1366
Byzantine calendar	7512–7513
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 4700 or 4640     — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4701 or 4641
Coptic calendar	1720–1721
Discordian calendar	3170
Ethiopian calendar	1996–1997
Hebrew calendar	5764–5765
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2060–2061
- Shaka Samvat	1925–1926
- Kali Yuga	5104–5105
Holocene calendar	12004
Igbo calendar	1004–1005
Iranian calendar	1382–1383
Islamic calendar	1424–1425
Japanese calendar	Heisei 16 (平成１６年)
Javanese calendar	1936–1937
Juche calendar	93
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4337
Minguo calendar	ROC 93 民國93年
Nanakshahi calendar	536
Thai solar calendar	2547
Tibetan calendar	阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 2130 or 1749 or 977     — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 2131 or 1750 or 978
Unix time	1072915200 – 1104537599

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2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations,^[1] and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).^[2]

Events

January

• January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history at the time.^[3]
• January 4 – NASA's MER-A (Spirit) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars.^[4]
• January 6 – Construction on the tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa begins in Dubai UAE
• January 8 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, at the time the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by its namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.^[5]
• January 25 – NASA's MER-B (Opportunity) spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars.^[6]
• January 26 – The MyDoom virus is first identified.^[7]
• January 28 – The animated series Winx Club premieres on the Italian television channel Rai 2.

February

• February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard University students.^[8]
• February 26 – Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[9]
• February 29 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is overthrown in a coup d'état.^[10]

March

• March 2 – A series of bombings occur in Karbala, Iraq, killing over 140 Shia Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura.^[11]
• March 7 – The 2004 Greek legislative election is held to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament and the New Democracy party, led by Kostas Karamanlis, won 165 out of 300 seats, ending over 11 years of rule by the PASOK party.^[12]
• March 11 – Al-Qaeda bombings on Cercanías trains in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.^[13][14]
• March 14 – The PSOE wins the election in Spain; José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is elected Prime Minister of Spain, replacing José María Aznar.^[15]
• March 28 – Hurricane Catarina, the first ever recorded South Atlantic tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Santa Catarina, Brazil.^[16]
• March 29 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are admitted to NATO, the largest expansion of the organization.^[17]

April

• April 8 – The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups, in order to put a pause on the War in Darfur.
• April 17 – Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.^[18]
• April 24 – Referendums on the Annan Plan for Cyprus, which proposes to reunite the island, take place in both the Greek-controlled and the Turkish-controlled parts. Although the Turkish Cypriots vote in favour, the Greek Cypriots reject the proposal.^[19]

May

• May 1 – The European Union expands by 10 new member states: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.^[20]
• May 9 – A stadium bombing in Grozny, Chechenya, Russia kills ten people, including regional governor Akhmad Kadyrov.^[21]
• May 12–15 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 takes place in Istanbul, Turkey, and is won by Ukrainian entrant Ruslana with the song "Wild Dances".^[22]

June

• June 1 – A United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti begins, the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
• June 4 – Marvin Heemeyer destroys thirteen buildings with a heavily modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado; the total damage amount overall was estimated at the time of the incident was about $7 million USD.
• June 8 – 2004 transit of Venus.^[23]
• June 12–July 4 – Portugal hosts the UEFA Euro 2004 football tournament, which is won by Greece.
• June 21 – In Mojave, California, United States, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.^[24]
• June 28 – The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), transfers sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government.^[25]
• June 30 – Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

July

• July 1 – The unpiloted Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.^[26]
• July 11 – The Russian Federation stops recognizing Soviet Union passports as legal identification.^[27]

August

• August 1 – A fire in the "Ycua Bolaños-Botánico" supermarket in Asunción, Paraguay kills around 400 people.^[28]
• August 3 – NASA's unpiloted MESSENGER spacecraft is launched, with its primary mission being the study of Mercury.^[29]
• August 12 – Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as the third Prime Minister of Singapore.^[30]
• August 13–29 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.^[31]
• August 22 – Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.^[32]
• August 24 – After departing Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303, a Tupolev Tu-134, explodes over Russia's Tula Oblast and crashes, killing all 43 people on board; minutes later, Siberia Airlines Flight 1047, a Tupolev Tu-154 departing the same airport, explodes over Rostov Oblast and crashes, killing all 46 on board. The Government of Russia declares the explosions to have been caused by female Chechen suicide bombers.
• August 29 – Michael Schumacher won his 7th and last World Championship with Scuderia Ferrari in F1

September

• September 1 – Beslan school siege: Chechen rebels take 1,128 people, mostly children, hostage at a school in Beslan, Russia. The crisis ends when Russian security forces storm the building, resulting in more than 330 people being killed.^[33]
• September 9 – A car bomb of the Jemaah Islamiyah explodes at the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 9 people.^[34]
• September – At Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, 3-year-old Denise Pipitone is declared missing; the case is reopened in 2021.

October

• October 8 – Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people and injuring 171, mostly Israeli tourists.^[35]
• October 9 – 2004 Australian federal election: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Mark Latham.^[36]
• October 19 – A team of explorers reach the bottom of Krubera Cave, the world's deepest cave, with a depth of 2,080 meters (6,824 feet).^[37]
• October 20 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is sworn in as the 6th President of Indonesia, becoming the first directly elected president in Indonesia.^[38]
• October 27 – The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the sixth time after completing a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. It was their first championship since 1918.
• October 29 – European heads of state sign in Rome the Treaty and Final Act, establishing the first European Constitution.^[39]

November

• November 2 – 2004 United States presidential election: George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States, defeating his Democratic challenger John Kerry.
• November 5 – The Incredibles is released in the US.
• November 13 – The European Space Agency probe SMART-1 arrives at the Moon, becoming the first European satellite to fly to the Moon and orbit it.^[40]
• November 16 – NASA's hypersonic Scramjet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph (Mach 9.6) in an unpiloted experimental flight.^[41][42][43]
• November 22 – The Orange Revolution begins, following a disputed presidential election in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych won against Viktor Yushchenko amid accusations of electoral fraud. A revote results in Yushchenko being declared the winner.^[44]

December

• December 14 – The world's tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct over the Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is officially opened.^[45]
• December 21 – Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city of Mosul, killing 22 people.^[46]
• December 26 – The 9.1–9.3 M_w  Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Somalia, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, killing over 200,000 people.^[47]
• December 27 – Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT Earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux of high-energetic gamma radiation measured so far.^[48]
• December 30 – A fire in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.^[49]
• December 31 – Taipei 101, at the time the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 feet (510 m), officially opens.^[50]

Date unknown

• Metrocable (Medellín) Line K opens, the first modern urban transit cable car.^[51]

Births

• January 6 – Roméo Lavia, Belgian footballer^[52]
• January 7 – Sofia Wylie, American actress and dancer^[53]
• January 15 – Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter^[54]
• January 21 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway^[55]
• January 28 – Shafali Verma, Indian woman cricketer^[56]
• February 19 – Millie Bobby Brown, English actress and producer^[57]
• March 13 – Coco Gauff, American tennis player^[58]
• March 28 – Anna Shcherbakova, Russian figure skater^[59]
• April 9 – TommyInnit, English YouTuber and Twitch streamer
• May 1 – Charli D'Amelio, American dancer and social media personality^[60]
• May 3 – Mel Maia, Brazilian actress^[61]
• May 17 – Victoria Lee, American mixed martial artist (d. 2022)^[62]
• May 22 – Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress^[63]
• June 4 – Mackenzie Ziegler, American singer, dancer and actress^[64]
• August 5 – Gavi, Spanish footballer^[65]
• August 31 – Jang Wonyoung, South Korean singer and model (IVE)^[66]
• September 18 – Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Uzbek chess grandmaster^[67]
• October 3 – Noah Schnapp, Canadian-American actor^[68]
• October 6 – Bronny James, American basketball player^[69]
• October 10 – Zain Al Rafeea, Syrian-born actor^[70]
• October 12 – Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist^[71]
• November 20 – Youssoufa Moukoko, German footballer^[72]

Deaths

Further information: Category:2004 deaths

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2004

 

Kalevi Sorsa

 

Ann Miller

• January 4 – Joan Aiken, English writer (b. 1924)^[73]
• January 5 – Charles Dumas, American Olympic high jumper (b. 1937)^[74]
• January 6 – Pierre Charles, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)^[75]
• January 7 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)^[76]
• January 9 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)^[77]
• January 13 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)^[78]
• January 14 – Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)^[79]
• January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician, 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)^[80]
• January 17 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1939)^[81]
• January 18 – Galina Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (b. 1935)^[82]
• January 22 – Ann Miller, American dancer and actress (b. 1923)^[83]
• January 23 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)^[84]
• January 24 – Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)^[85]
• January 25
  • Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)^[86]
  • Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)^[87]
• January 30 – Suraiya, Indian actress and playback singer (b. 1929)^[88]

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2004

 

José López Portillo

• February 8 – Cem Karaca, Turkish rock musician (b. 1945)^[89]
• February 11 – Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (b. 1925)^[90]
• February 14 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)^[91]
• February 17 – José López Portillo, 51st President of Mexico (b. 1920)^[92]
• February 21 – John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)^[93]
• February 24 – John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)^[94]
• February 26 – Boris Trajkovski, 2nd president of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)^[95]
• February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)^[96]
• February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)^[97]
• February 29 – Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)^[98]

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2004

 

Juliana of the Netherlands

• March 2 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)^[99]
• March 4 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)^[100]
• March 5 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 31st President of Ecuador (b. 1919)^[101]
• March 7 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1939)^[102]
• March 8 – Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)^[103]
• March 15 – John Pople, English chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)^[104][105]
• March 18 – Abdujalil Samadov, 4th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1949)^{[citation needed]}
• March 20 – Juliana, Queen regnant of the Netherlands (b. 1909)^[106]
• March 22 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1937)^[107]
• March 26 – Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)^[108]
• March 29 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (b. 1921)^[109]
• March 30 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1908)^[110]

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2004

 

John Maynard Smith

• April 1 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1945)^[111]
• April 9 – Jiří Weiss, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright (b. 1913)^[112]
• April 10 – Jacek Kaczmarski, Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author (b. 1957)^[113]
• April 17 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Palestinian Hamas leader (b. 1947)^[114]
• April 18 – Kamisese Mara, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd president of Fiji (b. 1920)^[115]
• April 19 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)^[116]
• April 24 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)^[117]
• April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (b. 1929)^[118]
• April 26 – Hubert Selby Jr., American writer (b. 1928)^[119]

May

Main article: Deaths in May 2004

 

Tony Randall

• May 9 – Brenda Fassie, South African singer, songwriter, dancer and activist (b. 1964)^[120]
• May 14 – Anna Lee, British-born American actress (b. 1913)^[121]
• May 16 – Marika Rökk, Egyptian-born Austrian singer, dancer and actress (b. 1913)^[122]
• May 17
  • Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)^[123]
  • Ezzedine Salim, 45th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1943)^[124]
• May 18 – Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)^[125]
• May 22 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)^[126]

June

Main article: Deaths in June 2004

 

Ronald Reagan

• June 2
  • Dom Moraes, Indian poet and writer (b. 1938)^[127]
  • Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Ethiopian general, defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia (b. c. 1935)^[128]
• June 3 – Quorthon, Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (b. 1966)^[129]
• June 5 – Ronald Reagan, American politician and actor, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)^[130]
• June 10
  • Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930)^[131]
  • Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, interim Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)^[132]
• June 16 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai military general, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)^[133]
• June 17 – Jacek Kuroń, Polish reformer and politician (b. 1934)^[134]
• June 22 – Thomas Gold, American astrophysicist (b. 1920)^[135]
• June 26 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli songwriter (b. 1931)^[136]

July

Main article: Deaths in July 2004

 

Marlon Brando

 

Zenkō Suzuki

• July 1 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)^[137]
• July 2 – Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1919)^[138]
• July 5
  • Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)^[139]
  • Rodger Ward, American aviator and racing driver (b. 1921)^[140]
• July 6 – Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)^[141]
• July 10
  • Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)^[142]
  • Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 108th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1930)^[143]
• July 13 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)^[144]
• July 16 – Charles Sweeney, American WWII pilot (b. 1919)^[145]
• July 19 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)^[146]
• July 20 – Antonio Gades, Spanish flamenco dancer and choreographer (b. 1936)^[147]
• July 21
  • Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)^[148]
  • Edward B. Lewis, American Nobel geneticist (b. 1918)^[149]
• July 22 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)^[150]
• July 28 – Francis Crick, English Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1916)^[151]
• July 31 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)^[152]

August

Main article: Deaths in August 2004

 

Czesław Miłosz

• August 1 – Philip Abelson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913)^[153]
• August 3 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)^[154]
• August 6 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)^[155]
• August 8 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)^[156]
• August 12 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English Nobel electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1919)^[157]
• August 13 – Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912)^[158]
• August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish Nobel Prize-winning writer (b. 1911)^[159]
• August 15 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1916)^[160]
• August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)^[161]
• August 24 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)^[162]
• August 26 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1952)^[163][164]
• August 30 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)^[165]

September

Main article: Deaths in September 2004

 

Brian Clough

• September 8 – Frank Thomas, American animator and pianist (b. 1912)^[166]
• September 11 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)^[167]
• September 13 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925)^[168]
• September 15
  • Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (b. 1948)^[169]
  • Daouda Malam Wanké, 6th President of Niger (b. 1946)^[170]
• September 18
  • Russ Meyer, American director and photographer (b. 1922)^[171]
  • Klara Rumyanova, Soviet and Russian actress and singer (b. 1929)^[172]
• September 20
  • Brian Clough, British football manager (b. 1935)^[173]
  • Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut, the second human to orbit the Earth (b. 1935)^[174]
• September 22 – Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)^[175]
• September 23 – Bryce DeWitt, American theoretical physicist (b. 1923)^[176]
• September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)^[177]

October

Main article: Deaths in October 2004

 

Janet Leigh

• October 1 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)^[178]
• October 3 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)^[179]
• October 4 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)^[180]
• October 5
  • Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921)^[181]
  • Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born Nobel physicist (b. 1916)^[182]
• October 8 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (b. 1930)^[183]
• October 10 – Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (b. 1952)^[184]
• October 11 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)^[185]
• October 25 – John Peel, British radio disc jockey (b. 1939)^[186]
• October 29 – Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (b. 1901)^[187]

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2004

 

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

 

Yasser Arafat

 

Ancel Keys

• November 2
  • Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957)^[188]
  • Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st president of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)^[189]
• November 7 – Howard Keel, American singer and actor (b. 1919)^[190]
• November 9
  • Iris Chang, American journalist (b. 1968)^[191]
  • Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and TV personality (b. 1947)^[192]
  • Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)^[193]
• November 11 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Nobel leader (b. 1929)^[194]
• November 13 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)^[195]
• November 17
  • Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish Olympic wrestler (b. 1970)^[196]
  • Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)^[197]
• November 19 – John Vane, British pharmacologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1927)^[198]
• November 20 – Ancel Keys, American physiologist (b. 1904)^[199]
• November 23 – Rafael Eitan, Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (b. 1929)^[200]
• November 24 – Arthur Hailey, British-Canadian novelist (b. 1920)^[201]
• November 26 – Philippe de Broca, French film director (b. 1933)^[202]

December

Main article: Deaths in December 2004

 

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

• December 1 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince consort of the Netherlands (b. 1911)^[203]
• December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (b. 1966)^[204]
• December 14 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor (b. 1939)^[205]
• December 19
  • Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1912)^[206]
  • Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)^[207]
• December 23 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)^[208]
• December 28
  • Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b. 1935)^[209]
  • Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933)^[210]
• December 29 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)^[211]
• December 30 – Artie Shaw, American musician, bandleader and writer (b. 1910)^[212]
• December 31
  • Gérard Debreu, French-born economist and Nobel laureate (b. 1921)^[213]
  • Balkrishan Singh, Indian Olympic hockey player and coach (b.1933)^[214]

Nobel Prizes

 

• Chemistry – Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
• Economics – Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott
• Literature – Elfriede Jelinek
• Peace – Wangari Maathai
• Physics – David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
• Physiology or Medicine – Linda B. Buck, Richard Axel

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