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2004 is a year in the 21st century. It is a leap year.
[edit] Events
See:List of events in 2004
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 - Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer
- January 5 - Tug McGraw, major league pitcher, father of Tim McGraw
- January 6 - Charles Dumas, American high jumper
- January 7 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress
- January 10 - Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (born 1941)
- January 13 - Doctor Harold Shipman, the United Kingdom's most prolific serial killer (by suicide)
- January 16 - Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician
- January 19 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer
- January 20 - Guinn Smith, American athlete
- January 23 - Bob Keeshan, famous as Captain Kangaroo
- January 24 - Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian football player
- January 27 - Jack Paar, television show host
- January 28 - Rikki Fulton, a Scottish comedian and actor
- January 28 - Elroy Hirsch, football player
- January 29 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer
- January 29 - Mary Margaret Kaye, British writer
- January 29 - Joe Viterelli, American actor.
- January 31 - Eleanor Holm - American swimmer
- February 1 - Bob Stokoe, F.A. Cup winning footballer and manager
- February 2 - Alan Bullock, British historian
- February 13 - Dr. Robert Bruce, cardiologist, inventor of treadmill stress testing for CHD
- February 13 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, President of Chechnya
- February 14 - Marco Pantani, Italian bicyclist and Giro d'Italia and Tour de France winner
- February 15 - Jan Miner, American actress
- February 17 - José López Portillo, former president of Mexico
- February 23 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala
- February 26 - Shankarrao Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- February 26 - Boris Trajkovski, president of Macedonia
- March 2 - Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
- March 7 - Nicolae Cajal, member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
- March 9 - Abu Abbas, terrorist
- March 15 - Sir John Pople, Nobel Prize winning Chemist
- March 18 - Harrison McCain, A Canadian billionaire
- March 20 - Juliana of the Netherlands, Queen
- March 21 - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas founder
- March 23 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician
- March 28 - Sir Peter Ustinov, Actor
- March 28 - Robert Merle, novelist
- March 29 - Alistair Cooke, television and radio broadcaster
- March 30 - Michael King, popular New Zealand historian (born 1945)
- April 4 - George Bamberger, former major league manager and player, aged 80
- April 8 - Bruce Edwards, longtime caddy for golfer Tom Watson, aged 49
- April 23 - Pat Tillman, American football player (born 1976)
- April 24 - Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (born 1906)
- April 30 - Kioumars Saberi Foumani, aka Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist, (born 1941)
- May 9 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president
- May 9 - Alan King, American comedian
- June 5 - Ronald Reagan, US President
[edit] New books
- Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror - Richard A. Clarke
- Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
- Author, Author - David Lodge
- The Big Why - Michael Winter
- The Body of Jonah Boyd - David Leavitt
- Conspiracy Files - David Southwell
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Confession - Olen Steinhauer
- The Confusion - Neal Stephenson (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle)
- The Dark Tower - Stephen King
- The Dust Diaries - Owen Sheers
- Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
- Edenborn - Nick Sagan
- Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
- Eragon - Christopher Paolini
- Escaping the Giant Wave - Peg Kehret
- Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
- Gregor the Overlander - Suzanne Collins
- The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
- The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper
- Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde
- How to Ruin Your Financial Life - Ben Stein
- In the Place of Last Things - Michael Helm
- The Inner Circle - T. C. Boyle
- The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
- My Name Is Legion - A. N. Wilson
- Origins of the Crash - Roger Lowenstein
- Past Mortem - Ben Elton
- The Pentagon's New Map - Thomas P.M. Barnett
- A Planet for the President - Alistair Beaton
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- The Rocklopedia Fakebandica - T. Mike Childs
- Runaway - Alice Munro
- Sahara Special - Esmé Raji Codell
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
- Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
- Song of Susannah - Stephen King
- Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories - Chuck Palahniuk
- The System of the World - Neal Stephenson (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)
- Ten Men - Alexandra Gray
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - David Michaels
- When My Name Was Keoke - Linda Sue Park
- A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
[edit] Films Released
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Mean Girls
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- Suspect Zero
- The Stepford Wives
- Team America: World Police
- Twisted
[edit] References