Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2004

Antoine Schnapper was a French art historian on art of the 17th and the 18th century. A student of André Chastel, he organised many retrospectives on artists of that period, notably one at the Louvre in 1989 on Jacques-Louis David to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution. He taught at the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Charles W. Sweeney fue un oficial de la Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pilotó el avión bombardero Bockscar llevando la bomba atómica Fat Man, detonada en la ciudad japonesa de Nagasaki el 9 de agosto de 1945.

Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky was a Soviet and Russian composer. Author of more than 200 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991), 17 operettas and musical comedies, 58 soundtracks, and 52 scores for theater productions.

Bagong Kussudiardja was an Indonesian artist, contemporary dance choreographer and painter. Bagong’s career kicked off after Indonesia’s independence in 1945. As a dance choreographer, Bagong has choreographed more than 200 dances. Bagong perfected his skills by studying Japanese and Indian dances. In 1957 and 1958, Bagong trained under the well-known dance choreographer Martha Graham, known for her boundary-breaking techniques. Bagong then combined the modern moves with traditional Indonesian dances. After his training, he founded Pusat Latihan Tari Bagong Kussudiardja in 1958, followed by Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja in 1978.

John William Cummings, también conocido por su nombre artístico Johnny Ramone, fue cofundador y único guitarrista de la banda de punk rock Ramones, desde su formación en 1974 hasta su concierto final en 1996. En 2011 fue considerado con el puesto Nº28 en Lista de los 100 guitarristas más grandes de todos los tiempos.

Major Muhammad Husein Mutahar was the founder of Paskibraka, a youth organization in Indonesia which has the main task for raising and lowering the heirloom national flag of Indonesia in ceremonies commemorating the independence day of Indonesia. Mutahar was also an Indonesian music composer, especially for national anthems and children's songs. As a composer, he was better known as H. Mutahar as his abbreviation name. In addition, as a diplomat Mutahar was once believed to be the Indonesian ambassador to the Vatican in 1969 to 1973.

Jamil al-Assad was a younger brother of the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, and the uncle of present Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. He served in the Parliament of Syria, called the majlis ash-sha'b from 1971 until his death. He was also commander of a minor militia.

Lawrence S. Ting was a Taiwanese decorated soldier and a pioneer businessman who became one of the largest foreign investors in Vietnam. As founder of Phu My Hung Corporation and Saigon South Urban Development Project, Lawrence Ting was instrumental in the southward expansion of Ho Chi Minh City. Today the neighborhood created by Ting has become “a new sustainable, inclusive, knowledge-based urban center.” Ting received the Ho Chi Minh City Medal of Honor in 1993, and Certificates of Merit of the Government of Vietnam from the Prime Minister in 1997 and 2001. In the 2013 Harvard Business Review article The Big Idea, Building Sustainable Cities, John Macomber of Harvard Business School chose Phu My Hung's Saigon South Development Project started by Lawrence Ting as one of the leading sustainable urban development examples in the world. “Phu My Hung was promoted by industrialists who took a long-term ‘build and hold’ approach and had an infrastructure-first master plan...The Model of Phu My Hung, where thoughtful, long-term oriented, private-sector actors help the world create efficient water, power, and transit solutions, can-and must-be replicated.” Ting received posthumously the Friendship Medal of Vietnam from President Nguyen Minh Triet in December 2007. Lawrence S. Ting School in Ho Chi Minh City, a private non-profit junior high and senior high school is named after him. In 2010, the school became the first Microsoft Pathfinder School in Vietnam. In 2020, Taipei American School names its middle school Lawrence S. Ting Middle School in honor of Ting.

Francis Patrick "Pat" Roach fue un actor inglés y luchador.

Amparo Ramos Correa fue una bailarina popular colombiana famosa por ser una celebridad de la Feria de Cali y como bailarina de varios músicos latinos populares. Ella fue apodada "Amparo Arrebato" por su manera fuerte y furiosa de bailar capaz de despertar sentimientos fuertes tanto en bailarines como en los espectadores.