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2004
From Encyclopedia Jr, free information reference for Kids
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
It has been designated the:
See the world in 2004 for a description of the state of the world in this year.
See also Encyclopedia Jr's almanac of events for this year.
Events
- March 2
- March 10 - Five British men are released from detention at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. After they land at RAF Brize Norton, 4 of them are immediately arrested for questioning.
- March 11 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 190 people.
- March 12 - Following the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid, millions of protesters take to the streets of Spanish cities against terrorism.
- March 14
- March 15 - The new Spanish government announces that it will withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops in Iraq.
- March 17 - A pogrom-like organized violence breaks out over 2 days in Kosovo. Nineteen people are killed, 139 Serbian homes burned, schools and businesses vandalized, and over 30 Orthodox monasteries and churches burned and destroyed.
- March 19 - The UN launches a corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.
- March 20 - President Chen Shui-bian wins the Taiwanese presidential election by 0.2% of the vote. The day before, he and Vice President Annette Lu were 'shot'. Lien Chan refuses to concede and demands a recount. A controversial 'peace referendum' opposed by the People's Republic of China is invalidated.
- March 21
- March 22
- March 25 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, in return for the dismantling of Libya's WMD programme in December 2003 - the first time a major western leader has visited the nation in several decades.
- March 28
- March 29
- March 31 - Four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA are killed, and their bodies mutilated, after being ambushed in Fallujah, Iraq.
- April 1 - The Faroese Prime Minister's Office announces that from then on the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister's Office will use a new version of the Faroese Coat of Arms. The colours were inspired from the Merkið (flag) and yellow/gold was added. The new Coat of Arms depicts a Ram on a blue shield ready to defend. It can be used by the Government Ministries and by Faroese embassies, but some still use older versions of the Coat of Arms.
Rich Fields, announcer of The Price Is Right
- April 4 - Rich Fields becomes the new permanent announcer on CBS's The Price Is Right.
- April 5 - Queen Elizabeth II begins a state visit to France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale.
- April 8 - Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and 2 rebel groups.
- April 9 - Nick and Mary Yankovic, the parents of "Weird Al" Yankovic, die of carbon monoxide poisoning in their Fallbrook, California home.
- April 16 - India defeats Pakistan in their first cricket tour in 14 years.
- April 17 - Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing the Gaza leader of Hamas, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi.
- April 20 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents; 22 detainees are killed and 92 wounded. [1]
- April 21 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed an Israeli nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s, is released from prison in Israel after serving 18 years for treason.
- April 22
- Two trains carrying explosives and fuel collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing 161 people, injuring 1,300 and destroying thousands of homes.
- The last coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
- April 24 - Referenda on a United Nations plan, which proposes to re-unite the island of Cyprus, take place in both the Republic of Cyprus controlled and the Turkish controlled parts. Although the Turkish Cypriots vote in favour, the Greek Cypriots reject the proposal.
- April 28 - Abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is revealed on the television show 60 Minutes II.
- April 29 - The last Oldsmobile rolls off of the assembly line.
- May 1 - The largest expansion to date of the European Union takes place, extending the Union by 10 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.
- May 4 - A WNBC helicopter crashes in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. This event is covered by rival station WABC-TV.
- May 6 - The final episode of Friends airs on NBC, drawing an estimated 52 million viewers in North America.
- May 8 - Would-be "Saudi Princess" "Antoinette Millard" surfaces in New York City claiming that muggers had stolen jewels worth of $262,000 from her (she later proves to be an impostor).
- May 9
- May 10 - The 2004 Philippine presidential and legislative elections take place; incumbent president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is re-elected.
- May 12 - An American civilian contractor in Iraq, Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by a group allegedly linked to al-Qaida on a web-distributed video.
- May 13 - In India, the Congress Party wins a surprise victory in the elections to the Lok Sabha.
- May 14 - Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, marries Australian Mary Donaldson in Copenhagen.
- June 1 - Twelve-year-old Satomi Mitarai, a Japanese schoolgirl attending Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Japan is murdered. Her killer, an 11-year-old classmate identified by Japanese authorities as "Girl A", becomes the basis for the Nevada-tan Internet phenomenon.
- June 3
- June 4 - Marvin Heemeyer destroys many local buildings with a home-made tank in Granby, Colorado.
- June 5 - Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93 in Bel-Air, California.
- June 6
- June 7 - Tampa Bay Lightning defeat Calgary Flames in 2004 Stanley Cup Finals.
- June 8
- June 11
- June 12 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand, causing serious damage but no injuries.
Imprisoned Saddam Hussein
- June 15 - The Detroit Pistons upset the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers to win the 2004 NBA Finals, 4 games to 1.
- June 16 - The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (or "9/11 Commission") issues an initial report of its findings.
- June 21 - In Mojave, California, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately-funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- June 28
- June 30 - Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- August 1
- A supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, kills about 400 and leaves over 100 missing.
- A bomb attack occurs in front of Prague's Casino Royal.
- August 2 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany.
- August 3 - The Statue of Liberty reopens after security improvements.
- August 4 - Gibraltar celebrates 300 years of British rule.
- August 6 - A United Nations report blaming the government of Sudan for crimes against humanity in Darfur is released.
- August 9 - Footballer Lee Hughes, 28, is sentenced to 6 years in prison and banned from driving for 10 years after being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. Hughes also has his contract terminated by his employers West Bromwich Albion.
- August 12
- August 13
- August 16 - Severe flooding occurs in the village of Boscastle in Cornwall.
- August 18 - In Dublin, Ireland, the Dublin Port Tunnel excavation works are completed and the final tunnel boring machine breakthrough ceremony takes place.
- August 20 - Elbegdorj Tsakhia, the peaceful democratic revolutionary leader of Mongolia, becomes Prime Minister of Mongolia for the second time.
- August 21 - A series of blasts rocks an opposition party rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people.
- August 22 - Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
- August 24 - Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.
- August 29
- August 30 - September 2 - U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are renominated at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
- August 31
- Two suicide attacks on buses in Beer Sheva, Israel, kill at least 16 people and injure at least 60. Hamas claims responsibility for the attacks.
- A woman commits a suicide attack near a subway station in northern Moscow, Russia, killing at least 10 people and injuring at least 50. Authorities hold Chechen rebels responsible.
- September - The Great Laxey Mine Railway of the Isle of Man is re-opened.
- September 1 - Chechen terrorists take between 1,000 and 1,500 people hostage, mostly children, in a school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia. The hostage-takers demand the release of Chechen terrorists imprisoned in neighbouring Ingushetia and the independence of Chechnya from Russia.
- September 2 - The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 1559, calling for the removal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. This measure is largely aimed at Syrian troops.
- September 3
- September 4 - Hurricane Ivan forms.
- September 7
- September 8 - In the "Rathergate" affair, the first Internet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed by CBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970s appear instead to have been produced using modern word processing systems.
- September 9 - A bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, kills 11 and injures up to 100 people.
- September 13 - The U.S. Assault Weapons Ban expires.
- September 15
- September 16 - Hurricane Ivan strikes Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 3 storm, killing 25 in Alabama and Florida, becoming the 3rd costliest hurricane in American history (currently the 4th following the destruction of 2005's Hurricane Katrina).
- September 17
- September 23
- September 25 - Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall near Hutchinson Island, FL. In all, Jeanne will kill over 3,000, mostly in Haiti.
- September 29 - In Mojave, California, the first Ansari X-Prize flight takes place of SpaceShipOne, which is competing with a number of spacecraft (including Canada's Da Vinci Project, claimed to be its closest rival) and will go on to win the prize on October 4th.
Titan shown in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. Photo captured by the Cassini spacecraft
Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! in 2004. He was the longest champion in history.
- November 1 - A 16-year-old Palestinian Muslim blows himself up in an outdoor market in Tel Aviv, killing 3 Israelis.
- November 2 - U.S. presidential election: U.S. President George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry. Republicans make gains in the House and Senate.
- November 2
- November 6
- November 7 - U.S. forces launch a major assault on the Iraqi town of Fallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January.
- November 9 - The Irish High Court rules that Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan can sue the Revenue Commissioner to have their Vancouver, British Columbia Same-sex marriage recognized for tax purposes.
- November 11 - Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority, dies in a Paris hospital.
- November 12 - In Redwood City, California, a jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of the murder of his wife Laci, and unborn son Connor.
- November 13 - After 6 days of intense battles, the Iraqi town of Fallujah is fully occupied by U.S. forces.
- November 14 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell submits his resignation. He is replaced by Condoleezza Rice after her confirmation by the United States Congress.
- November 16
- November 17-November 21 - The APEC Summit is held in Santiago, Chile.
- November 21 - In the final round of presidential election in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych is declared the winner. International election observers express severe criticism, and large crowds gather in a protest rally in Kiev. Twelve days later, the Supreme Court annuls the result, and a new poll is scheduled.
- November 23 - Alex Ferguson takes charge of his 1000th game as manager of Manchester United.
- November 25 - The Indian political party Congress Jananayaka Peravai merges into the Indian National Congress.
- November 26 - A group of Iraqi political leaders, primarily from Sunni and Kurdish parties, advocate a 6-month delay in popular elections scheduled for January 2005.
- November 28
- An explosion occurs in a coal mine in China. The death toll is expected to exceed 150.
- Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile, promises economic compensation to 28,000 torture victims of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.
- A male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria at the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it can breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- November 30 - Ken Jennings' 75-game reign as Jeopardy! champion ends, as Nancy Zerg defeats him. His final wins total over $2.5 million.
- December 14 - The world's tallest bridge, the Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is opened by President Jacques Chirac.
- December 15 - Albanian terrorists take a bus and its passengers hostage in Athens, Greece and demand 1 million euros in ransom money.
- December 16
- December 21 - Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city of Mosul, killing 22 people.
- December 22 - Armed robbers in Northern Ireland steal over £22 million from the headquarters of the Northern Bank. Unionist politicians and the PSNI blame the PIRA, and stall the peace process.
- December 25 - An historic and unprecedented snowfall occurs over portions of southern Texas during the early morning hours. Daily totals include 1.5" at Brownsville, Texas, 3.5" at McAllen, Texas, 4.4" at Corpus Christi, Texas, and 12.1" at Victoria, Texas.
A village near the coast of Sumatra lies in ruins after the December 26 tsunami.
- December 26
- One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits southeastern Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Burma and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.
- The re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election takes place. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko is declared the victor.
- December 28 - The Ukrainian transport minister, Heorhiy Kyrpa, is found shot dead, in a suspected suicide.
- December 30 - A fire in a Buenos Aires night club (República Cromagnon) kills 194 people during a rock concert.
- December 31
List of Events by Month
2006: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2005: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2004: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2003: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2002: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2001: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2000: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
1999: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
1998: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
1997: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Births
Deaths
For more deaths, see: Deaths in 2004
January
- January 2 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
- January 4 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
- January 6 - Tug McGraw, baseball player (b. 1944)
- January 6 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
- January 11 - Mairtín Crawford, Irish poet (b. 1967)
- January 12 - Randy Van Warmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
- January 14 - Uta Hagen, German actress (b. 1919)
- January 17 - Ronald Anthony, African American Ministerial Leader & Bishop (b. 1945)
- January 22 - Ann Miller, American dancer and actress (b. 1923)
- January 22 - Jack Tunney, Canadian wrestling promoter (b. 1935)
- January 27 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
- January 29 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
February
March
- March 2 - Cormac McAnallen, Irish footballer (b. 1980)
- March 2 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1918)
- March 2 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (b. 1928)
- March 4 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
- March 4 - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer, artist, and photographer (b. 1953)
- March 5 - Priscilla Paris, American singer (b. 1953)
- March 7 - Paul Winfield, American actor (heart attack) (b. 1941)
- March 8 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
- March 8 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
- March 15 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
- March 20 - Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
- March 22 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas
- March 26 - Jan Berry, American singer (b. 1941)
- March 26 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
- March 29 - Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (b. 1921)
- March 30 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
April
May
- May 9 - Alan King, American actor (b. 1927)
- May 14 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
- May 17 - Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
- May 17 - Ezzedine Salim, President of the Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943)
- May 22 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
- May 22 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
- May 25 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
- May 28 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
- May 28 - Bob Couture, Canadian musician (b. 1940)
- May 29 - Archibald Cox, American Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
- May 29 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
June
- June 5 - Ronald Reagan, President of the United States (b. 1911)
- June 5 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
- June 10 - Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930)
- June 11 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
- June 11 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
- June 13 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
- June 16 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
- June 20 - Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950)
- June 21 - Ron Ashman, former footballer and football manager (b. 1926)
- June 22 - Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b. 1990)
- June 26 - Naomi Shemer, Israeli songwriter (b. 1931)
- June 27 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
- June 27 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
July
- July 1 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
- July 1 - Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
- July 2 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
- July 4 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
- July 5 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
- July 5 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
- July 6 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
- July 9 - Isabel Sanford, Harlem actress (b. 1917)
- July 12 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
- July 13 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
- July 19 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
- July 21 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
- July 28 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
- July 28 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
August
- August 1 - Philip Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- August 3 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
- August 6 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
- August 8 - Fay Wray, Canadian actress (b. 1907)
- August 12 - Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1919)
- August 13 - Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912)
- August 14 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- August 15 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
- August 17 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
- August 18 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
- August 18 - Charlie Waller, American singer and guitarist (b. 1935)
- August 24 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
- August 26 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
- August 27 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (b. 1946)
- August 30 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
September
- September 1 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
- September 10 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
- September 11 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949)
- September 13 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925)
- September 15 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (cancer) (b. 1948)
- September 18 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
- September 19 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born (b. 1919)
- September 19 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
- September 19 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist
- September 22 - Ray Traylor, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
- September 24 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
October
- October 1 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
- October 3 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
- October 3 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
- October 4 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (b. 1927)
- October 5 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921)
- October 5 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
- October 8 - Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (b. 1930)
- October 8 - James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
- October 10 - Ken Caminiti, baseball player (heart attack) (b. 1963)
- October 10 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (b. 1952)
- October 16 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
- October 20 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
- October 23 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
- October 24 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and owner (b. 1980)
- October 25 - John Peel, British radio disc jockey (b. 1939)
- October 28 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
- October 29 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923)
- October 29 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (b. 1916)
- October 30 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
November
- November 1 - Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
- November 2 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957)
- November 2 - H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan-al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
- November 7 - Howard Keel, American singer and actor (b.1919)
- November 7 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (b.1929)
- November 11 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
- November 13 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
- November 14 - Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
- November 15 - John Morgan, British-born comedian
- November 19 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
- November 23 - Rafael Eitan, Israeli politician (b. 1929)
- November 29 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1932)
- November 29 - Bernard Robinson, English footballer (b. 1911)
December
- December 1 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
- December 2 - Alicia Markova, English ballerina (b. 1910)
- December 2 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
- December 5 - Seymour Ginsburg, American computer scientist (b. 1928)
- December 7 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
- December 8 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (murdered) (b. 1966)
- December 18 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
- December 19 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
- December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
- December 20 - Son Seals, American guitarist (b. 1942)
- December 23 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
- December 24 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1926)
- December 26 - Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
- December 27 - Hank Garland, American guitarist (b. 1930)
- December 28 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
- December 28 - Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933)
- December 29 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
- December 30 - Artie Shaw, American musician (b. 1910)
- December 31 - Gerard Debreu, French-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
Nobel prizes
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