Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2004

Boryslav Mykolayovych Brondukov was a Ukrainian film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.

Othman Slimani was a Moroccan economist and banker.

Andi Mohammad Jusuf Amir, more commonly known as "M. Jusuf", was an Indonesian military General and a witness to the signing of the Supersemar document transferring power from President Sukarno to General Suharto.

Julius W. Harris was an American actor who appeared in more than 70 movies and numerous television series in a career that spanned four decades. Harris is best known for his roles in 1970s films such as Live and Let Die and the blaxploitation films Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem.

Olivier Guichard was a French politician. He was born in Néac and joined the French Army in 1944 and served until the end of World War II, during which, he earned the Médaille militaire and the Croix de guerre. At the end of his life he also was a grand officer of the Légion d'honneur.

Ursula Lillig (1938–2004) was a German film and television actress.

Shosei Koda was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq on 29 October 2004, by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, while touring the country. He was the first Japanese person beheaded in Iraq.

Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia Agnelli and of Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli.

Lt. Col. Masataka Ida was a young Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Affairs Section of the Japanese Ministry of War, at the end of World War II. He had been stationed on Formosa (Taiwan), but was ordered back to Tokyo early in 1945. Along with Major Kenji Hatanaka and a few others, he was one of the chief conspirators in a plot to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki; they wished to see the institution of martial law under War Minister Korechika Anami. The plan changed, however, into a plot, engineered by Major Kenji Hatanaka, to seize the Imperial Palace and prevent the broadcast of the Emperor's surrender speech. Lt. Col. Ida took part in this plot only briefly, trying to talk Hatanaka out of it by the end. Not many know about his attempted 'coup', which, although it failed, came dangerously close to lengthening the war, and altering the face of modern history.

Ábdel Aziz ar-Rantisi fue el cofundador, junto con el jeque Ahmed Yasín, de la organización Armada palestina Hamás. Doctor y padre de seis hijos, fue abatido por el ejército de Israel en un ataque con misiles en el que murieron también sus escoltas, a la vez que decenas de civiles resultaban heridos.