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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

January 2004

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February 2004

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March 2004

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April 2004

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May 2004

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June 2004

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July 2004

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August 2004

1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher.
3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer.
3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician.
3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer.
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.
4 Hunter Hancock, 88, R&B and rock DJ.
5 James Alford, 90, British athlete.
6 Rick James, 56, funk singer.
7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster.
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress.
8 Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer.
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter.
8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate.
8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
9 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author.
9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra.
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer.
10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.
10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics.
11 Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.
12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan.
12 Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
12 George Yardley, 75, National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.
13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine.
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
13 Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer.
14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995.
14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming.
16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist.
16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach.
16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" United States-born B-movie actress.
16 George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer.
16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered.
17 Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven.
18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.
20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.
22 Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach.
22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident.
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun.
22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.
23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
23 Hank Borowy, 88, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher.
23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys department store.
23 Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile 1971-1990.
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida.
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
24 Bob Price, 76, American politician.
25 Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995. (Papal condolence message)
25 Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer.
26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer.
26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
27 Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured).
27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois.
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films).
27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
28 Robert Lewin, 84, producer and screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer.
28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German.
30 Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
30 Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic.
30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer.
30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.
31 Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.

September 2004

1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria.
1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC.
1 Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure.
1 Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records.
1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.
2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke).
2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former National Hockey League and World Hockey Association defenseman, throat cancer.
2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker.
2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist.
2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist.
3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident.
4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation.
4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former Major League Baseball; first black player to sign with the Chicago White Sox, and first Baltimore Orioles to bat over .300 in the 20th century.
4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of Emergency Medical Services and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack.
4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia.
5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide.
5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer.
5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race.
5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor.
6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe).
7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer.
7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic.
7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke.
7 Kirk Fordice, 70, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia.
7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist.
8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist.
8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator.
8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France.
8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News.
9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker.
9 Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player.
10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician.
10 Leonard Birchall, 89, Canadian Air Force officer.
10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor.
10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash.
11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer.
11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack.
11 David Mann, 64, American graphic artist.
11 Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash.
12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect.
12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78).
12 John Buller, 77, British composer.
12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen.
13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early National Football League player with the Detroit Lions.
14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor.
14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge.
15 Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.
15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger.
15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer.
16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician.
16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls.
16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet.
17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome.
18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar.
18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker.
18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer.
18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress.
19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder.
19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist.
19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer.
19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians.
19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish.
20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager.
20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.
21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer.
22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man.
23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate.
23 Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British World War II flying ace.
23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer.
23 Nigel Nicolson, 89, British politician.
23 Billy Reay, 86, former National Hockey League player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks.
23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program.
23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern.
24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident.
24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist.
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, information technology pioneer.
25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach.
26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida.
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb.
27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group.
28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia.
28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in Englis.
28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey.
29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM.
29 David Jackson, 49, New Zealand boxer.
29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident.
29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash.
29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer.
30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!.
30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor.
30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer.
30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former National Football League Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase.
30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician.