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Events
Politics and world events
See also: List of UN Security Council Resolutions (2004)
January
- January 1 : Joseph Deiss becomes Federal President of Switzerland .
- January 1st: Ireland takes over the presidency of the European Council from Italy .
- January 1: Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer becomes NATO Secretary General.
- January 14th : Óscar Berger Perdomo becomes President of Guatemala .
- January 15. bis 21st January : 4th World Social Forum in Mumbai ( India )
- January 16 : Foreign Ministers Joschka Fischer ( Germany ), Dominique de Villepin ( France ) and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz ( Poland ) meet as part of the Weimar Triangle.
- January 20 : Macedonia passes a law to found a state university in Tetovo, where the majority of Albanians live .
- January 21 : The Foreign Office finances two justice development projects of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ( Heidelberg ) in Afghanistan .
- January 24 : Dismissal of the chairman of the Federal Employment Agency Florian Gerster after a vote of no confidence
- January 25 : Georgia : Mikheil Saakashvili becomes president.
February
- February 1 : The Convention for the Protection of Albatrosses and Petrels ( ACAP ) comes into force.
- February 2 : Brunei : Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden triggers a foreign policy crisis in his homeland by praising the sultan
- February 5 : Latvia : Prime Minister Einars Repše resigns
- February 6 : Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declares his resignation from the SPD party leadership in favor of Franz Müntefering
- February 8 : Referendums in Switzerland, including the construction of a second tunnel through the Gotthard in central Switzerland is clearly rejected
- February 9 : In an interview with NBC , US President George W. Bush admits for the first time that doubts about intelligence reports on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are justified. The Iraq war was necessary despite this questionable justification .
- February 10th : France : The National Assembly passes the so-called Laicism Act . It prohibits the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols during class
- February 12 : A series of day breaks on the Siegener Rosterberg begins, the mountain damage is known nationwide under the title “ Siegener Loch ”.
- February 13 : President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso meets at the invitation of German President Johannes Rau in Germany a
- February 20 : Parliamentary elections in Iran , many liberal candidates were excluded, the turnout fell to around 50 percent
- February 24 : The Rotterdam Convention enters into force. It regulates the handling of hazardous chemicals, taking into account health and environmental protection.
- February 26 : President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia dies in a plane crash
- February 28 : In Taiwan, more than a million participants form a human chain from north to south as part of the 228 hand-in-hand rally .
- February 29th : Citizenship elections in Hamburg , the CDU receives an absolute majority, Ole von Beust remains First Mayor
March
- 1 March : International peacekeepers found in Haiti a
- March 2nd : Queen Beatrix opens the new embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin
- March 7th : State elections in Carinthia and Salzburg , municipal council elections in Tyrol
- March 9 : Latvia : Indulis Emsis becomes new Prime Minister
- March 10 : Greece : Kostas Karamanlis becomes Prime Minister
- March 11 : Spain : Terrorist attacks on March 11, 2004 in Madrid (191 dead, 2051 injured)
- March 14 : Vladimir Putin is confirmed in office as President of Russia
- March 14: Mikhail Jefimowitsch Fradkov becomes head of the government in Russia
- March 14th : General elections in Spain
- March 17 : renewed unrest in Kosovo , 19 dead
- March 18 : In Ottawa finds EU - Canada summit held
- March 22nd : Macedonia applies for membership in NATO and the EU
- March 23 : Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visits Warsaw , Poland
- March 27 : Local elections in Nigeria
- March 28 : Presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau
- March 29 : Bulgaria , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Romania , Slovakia and Slovenia to become a member of NATO .
- March 29: Ireland becomes the world's first state-issued smoking ban . It applies to all workplaces including pubs and restaurants.
- March 30th : Kerstin Müller , Minister of State in the Foreign Office, meets Afghan Women's Minister Habiba Sorabi for a meeting in the Foreign Office
- March 30th: Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for an exchange of ideas
April
- April 3 : Around 500,000 people demonstrate in Berlin, Cologne and Stuttgart against the reform course of the German federal government
- April 3 and April 17 : Presidential election in Slovakia
- April 5 : The Federal Foreign Office supports the Mine Search Dog Center (MDC) in Afghanistan with 1.9 million euros
- April 14th : General election in South Africa
- April 15 : The Netherlands : Official visit by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Rotterdam and The Hague
- April 17th : Ivan Gašparovič becomes the new President of Slovakia
- April 17th: José Luis Zapatero becomes Prime Minister of Spain
- April 19 : Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer travels to Afghanistan
- April 22nd : Foundation of a Goethe Institute in Ljubljana , Slovenia
- April 25 : Parliamentary and local elections in Equatorial Guinea
- APRIL 25: Heinz Fischer is in the election for President in Austria elected
- April 26th : The German Air Force receives the first Eurofighters
- April 26th: Poison gas attack in Jordan foiled, 80,000 people could have died
- April 27th : Thabo Mbeki is sworn in as President of South Africa
- April 28 : Branko Crvenkovski becomes President of Macedonia
- April 29 : Government reshuffle in Mali
- April 30 : The scandal surrounding the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in the Baghdad US military prison Abu Ghraib becomes public
May
- May 1st : The European Union is enlarged by ten members: Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Poland , Slovakia , Slovenia , the Czech Republic , Hungary and the Republic of Cyprus (see EU enlargement 2004 )
- May 1st: EU law applies to investments in Poland with immediate effect
- May 2nd : Flag Day in Poland is introduced
- May 2nd: Parliamentary and presidential elections in Panama
- May 7 : Surya Bahadur Thapa occurs as Prime Minister of Nepal back
- May 7: Constitutional amendments in Turkey to adapt to the EU
- May 17 : The Stockholm Convention enters into force
- May 22nd : Manmohan Singh becomes Prime Minister of India
- May 23 : Horst Köhler is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly in the first ballot . Result: Horst Köhler 604 votes, Gesine Schwan 589 votes
- May 29 : Estonia becomes a full member of NATO
June
- June 1 : In Iraq , the Transitional Council nominates the future President Ghazi al-Yawar . Prime Minister-designate Iyad Allawi introduces the 26 members of his cabinet, which the US will hand over to power on June 30th
- June 1st: Lic. Elías Antonio Saca González becomes President of El Salvador
- June 6 : 60th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy . For the first time, Gerhard Schröder, a German Chancellor, takes part in the commemorations in Normandy (see D-Day )
- June 8. bis 10. June : G8 summits in Sea Iceland ( Georgia ), United States
- June 9 : The Federal Constitutional Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the law on shop from
- June 13 : European Parliament elections
- June 13: State election in Thuringia
- June 21 : Fifth Baltic Sea Summit in Estonia
- June 22nd : In Nauru , President René Harris is deposed on a vote of no confidence and replaced by Ludwig Scotty .
- June 22: Chechen terrorists kill 90 people in their rebel attack on Ingushetia with rockets and grenade launchers on state facilities. Among them are the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Health of the Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia .
- June 24 : Germany . Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer meets the Prime Minister of Armenia , Andranik Markarjan
- June 25th : Inauguration of the new naval base in Taranto
- June 28 : In Iraq , power is transferred from the coalition interim administration to the Iraqi interim government .
- June 29 : The European Council agrees on the Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso as the new President of the European Commission .
July
- July 1 : The new German President Horst Köhler takes office .
- July 1: The Iraqi ex-dictator Saddam Hussein is charged.
- July 4th : Almost three years after the attacks of September 11th, the foundation stone for the 541 meter high One World Trade Center (formerly Freedom Tower), the centerpiece of the new World Trade Center , is laid on July 4th at Ground Zero in New York . placed. Actual construction did not start until 2006 .
- July 8 : Inauguration of the Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer .
- July 9 : Paul Klebnikov , editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition , is shot dead by strangers in Moscow .
- July 15 : Inaugural visit of the new German Federal President Horst Köhler to Poland, followed by a visit to France .
- July 17th : Following the resignation of José Manuel Barroso , who becomes the new President of the European Commission , Pedro Santana Lopes becomes the new Portuguese Prime Minister.
- July 29 : In Italy, conscription will be abolished on July 1, 2005. The Chamber of Deputies in Rome passed a corresponding law .
August
- August 1st : 60th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising : Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is the first German Chancellor to take part in the celebrations as a guest of honor
- August 2 : In Germany, the special tax on alcopops comes into force, which increases the price of standard 275 milliliter bottles by 85 cents (plus VAT) and is intended to make drinks less attractive for young people
- August 9 : In Germany, especially in East Germany, around 50,000 people demonstrate against the Hartz IV laws
- August 15th Hereditary Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein takes over the business of his father Hans-Adam II.
- August 16 : In Germany, especially in East Germany, around 85,000 people demonstrate against the Hartz IV laws
- August 16: President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela wins the referendum on his impeachment. About 58% of voters vote for him (turnout about 95%)
- August 19 : Again almost 10,000 people demonstrate in Erfurt and Brandenburg against the Hartz IV laws
- 23 August : At least 70,000 people demonstrate against the Hartz IV laws at the Monday demonstrations
- August 29 : About 300,000 people demonstrate in New York City against the policies of President George W. Bush
- AUGUST 29: Sharif al-Misri is a leading member of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in Qetta ( Pakistan arrested) along with an alleged accomplice
- August 30 : At the Monday demonstrations, at least 70,000 people again demonstrated against the Hartz IV laws
September
- September 1 : Chechen armed terrorists occupy a school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan and take around 1,200 people hostage.
- September 3 : The Russian special forces storm the school and free the hostages, around 340 people are killed (see Beslan hostage-taking ).
- September 5 : In the state elections in Saarland , the SPD is the only loser with almost 14 percentage points to 30.8%. The voter turnout drops from 69% (1999) to 56% (2004)
- September 6th : In Germany, especially in East Germany, tens of thousands (ARD: 50,000, ZDF / RTL: significantly fewer than the previous week, Sat.1 / n-tv: 75,000) demonstrate against the Hartz IV laws
- September 12 : Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem against the proposed evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip
- September 13 : In Germany, especially in East Germany, tens of thousands demonstrate against the Hartz IV laws , albeit significantly fewer than in the previous week
- September 19 : In the state elections in Brandenburg , the SPD and CDU lose more than 7%, the PDS wins 5% and the DVU is again represented in the state parliament
- September 19: In the state elections in Saxony , the CDU loses almost 16%, the SPD slips below the 10% mark and the NPD gets a little more than 9%. Also, Green and FDP in the state parliament
- September 19: In the state elections in Vorarlberg , the ÖVP wins an absolute majority
- September 20 : The presidential elections in Indonesia (the count was not completed until the beginning of October) are won by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono , who replaces the previous President Megawati Sukarnoputri
- September 20: The Pascal trial opens in Saarbrücken .
October
- October 2 : Around 50,000 people demonstrate against the Hartz IV laws in Berlin
- October 2 : Around 200,000 people protest in Amsterdam against the austerity plans of the Christian-liberal government
- October 3 : In parliamentary elections in Slovenia , the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party under Janez Janša emerges as the winner, the previously ruling left-wing liberal Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia loses over 13%
- October 6 : The United States acknowledge that the Iraq weapons of mass destruction, one of the reasons for the Iraq war, were found
- October 9 : The presidential elections in Afghanistan are fraught with irregularities. The incumbent President Hamid Karzai is later declared the winner with 55.4% of the vote
- October 12 : The Caliph of Cologne , Metin Kaplan , is deported from Germany to Turkey and arrested there immediately
- October 17 : Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka is confirmed for a third term in a controversial referendum
- October 19 : Soe Win becomes Prime Minister in Myanmar
- 23 October : A good week before the presidential election in Ukraine , tens of thousands of opposition supporters demonstrated in Kiev for a free and fair vote
- October 24 : The Serbs in Kosovo boycott the parliamentary elections. The winner with 45% is the liberal-conservative Democratic League of Kosovo party .
- October 27 : EU Commission President-designate José Manuel Barroso has the vote on the EU Commission in the EU Parliament postponed in order to avoid losing the vote. As a result, the two Commissioners Rocco Buttiglione ( Italy ) and Ingrīda Ūdre ( Latvia ) will be replaced by Franco Frattini (Italy) and Andris Piebalgs (Latvia)
- October 31st : The presidential elections in Ukraine are irregular. The candidate Viktor Yanukovych , favored by the previous President Leonid Kuchma , got 40 % of the vote, Viktor Yushchenko 39% of the vote, so there will be a runoff election
November
- November 2 : Presidential elections in the USA : George W. Bush is re-elected president for four years with a sovereign majority against his opponent John F. Kerry
- November 10th : The politician Georg Milbradt ( CDU ) was only re-elected Prime Minister in Saxony at the second attempt. He only got 62 out of 65 votes in the CDU / SPD coalition. The candidate Uwe Leichsenring the NPD received 14 votes, two more than the NPD has seats in parliament
- November 11th : Yasser Arafat dies around 3:30 a.m., his body is brought to Cairo , where the funeral service takes place the following day. He is then buried in Ramallah under chaotic circumstances
- November 15 : Greece's accession to the euro is based on fake deficit figures since 1997. The Italian numbers are later questioned. The statistical office of the EU , Eurostat , is falling into the twilight again
- November 17 : The Federal Cabinet decides to send two Transall aircraft with around 200 soldiers to support the transport of OAU soldiers to the Darfur region in Sudan
- November 18 : In the second attempt, the new EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso receives a majority in the EU Parliament for his changed commission
- November 19 : The United Nations Security Council issued a resolution calling for an early solution to the Sudan conflict and vaguely threatening sanctions
- November 20 : There are allegations of mistreatment in the case of hostage-taking by the Bundeswehr . In the following weeks, further ill-treatment in various barracks became known
- November 21 : After the runoff election in the presidential elections in Ukraine , Viktor Yanukovych is declared the winner, the OSCE doubts the election victory, the opposition speaks of electoral fraud . Beginning of nationwide mass protests ("Orange Revolution")
- November 21: Approx. After a call by Muslim associations in Cologne, 25,000 people demonstrated against Islamist terror and violence.
- November 21: In Namibia , Hifikepunye Pohamba ( SWAPO ) is elected as the new president with 76%, replacing Sam Nujoma . His party, SWAPO, got around 75% of the parliamentary seats
- November 25 : The IAEA deliberates on the Iranian nuclear program. The US believes that Iran wants to develop a nuclear bomb. Iran asserts that it is only planning peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
- November 28 : In Romania the President and Parliament are elected. Adrian Năstase (Social Democrats) and Traian Băsescu (Alliance for Justice and Truth) will run for the runoff election . The opposition speaks of electoral fraud. The OSCE also has concerns about the course of the election.
- November 30th : The Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes resigns, but initially remains in office.
- November: The authorities of Papua New Guinea start evacuating 9,000 people from the island of Manam , as they are threatened with famine due to weeks of volcanic activity (ash rain)
December
- December 1 : Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government coalition in Israel breaks up because the representatives of his largest coalition partner have voted against the 2005 budget.
- December 3 : The Bundestag decides to send up to 200 soldiers to support the African Union in Darfur .
- December 5 : An earthquake with an epicenter in the Waldkirch district shakes the entire southwestern German area. Despite a strength of 5.4 on the Richter scale , there was only minor damage to property.
- December 10 : The Austrian Interior Minister Ernst Strasser resigns.
- December 11th : The election of the Legislative Yuan , d. H. of the Legislative Assembly in the Republic of China on Taiwan does not result in any significant change in the majority structure.
- December 14 : The Viaduc de Millau is inaugurated in the south of France. With its pillar “P2” at 343 meters, it is the tallest bridge in the world.
- December 22nd : Liese Prokop is sworn in as Austrian Interior Minister.
- December 22nd: CDU Secretary General Laurenz Meyer resigns after allegations of false information about the salary payments of his former employer RWE .
- December 26 : In the re-election for the presidential elections in Ukraine , the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko prevails over Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who is on leave, with 51.99% to 44.19% of the votes cast.
- December 31 : The Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education is dissolved by a decision of the cabinet under Prime Minister Christian Wulff .
Terrorist attacks and wars
- January 29 : In a terrorist attack on bus number 19 in Jerusalem ( Israel ) die eleven Israelis. 50 people are injured. The assassin was a 24-year-old Palestinian from Bethlehem and a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
- February 22 : Eight people died in a suicide bombing on bus number 14A in Jerusalem, Israel. Over 60 are wounded. The Palestinian assassin was a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and came from Bethlehem
- March 11 : Serious terrorist attack in Madrid , 191 dead, 1,500 injured
- March 22 : The Israeli army kills Hamas leader Ahmad Sheikh Yasin
- April 28 : Terrorist attack in the diplomatic quarter of Damascus , killing four
- April 28: In the conflict in southern Thailand , the army storms the Krue-Se mosque in Pattani after fighting between security forces and suspected separatist rebels . Five security forces and 106 suspected insurgents die.
- June 2 : Five employees of the aid organization Doctors Without Borders are murdered in an ambush in Afghanistan
- July 11 : A suicide bomber blows himself up at a bus stop in Tel Aviv, Israel. One Israeli is killed and 33 injured
- July 28 : A car bomb exploded in Bakuba, Iraq, killing 68 people and injuring around 40
- August 2 : Bomb attacks on five Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul in Iraq kill eleven people and injure around 50
- August 15 : Hutu rebels attacked a UN refugee camp in Gatumba ( Burundi ), killing 189 people and injuring around 70
- August 24 : As a result of a Chechen terrorist attack, two aircraft with 89 people on board crash almost simultaneously in Russia
- August 30 : At least 39 people are killed and around 130 injured in an attack by a Chechen suicide bomber in the north of Moscow near a subway station
- August 31 : Two suicide bombers kill 16 people in Beersheba, Israel. Over 100 Israelis are injured when the Palestinians blow themselves up within minutes. Target of the attack: city buses number 6 and number 12
- August 31: Twelve Nepalese hostages are murdered in Iraq by Islamist extremists from the Ansar el Sunna group
- September 4 : A car bomb explodes in front of a police school in Kirkuk , northern Iraq , killing 15 people and injuring another 20
- September 6 : A car bomb explosion in northern Iraq kills seven American soldiers and three Iraqis
- September 7 : 1,000 American soldiers have died since the beginning of the Iraq war. The far higher number of Iraqis killed is unknown
- September 9 : A bomb attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta kills 11 people
- September 14 : At least 47 people are killed and 114 injured in a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Baghdad
- September 14: Twelve police officers are ambushed and killed in Baquba
- September 16 : American air strikes near Fallujah kill up to 60 Iraqis
- September 25 : Nine soldiers are killed by (presumably) Taliban fighters in several attacks in southern Afghanistan
- September 30 : In three car bomb attacks in Baghdad, more than 42 people (mostly children) die and 139 are injured
- October 1 : 31 people die and more than 45 are injured in a suicide attack on the Zainabia mosque in Sialkot / Pakistan
- October 2 : On the 135th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, there are several bomb attacks in northeastern India (Dimapur in the state of Nagaland and Kokrajhar in the state of Assam) with at least 44 dead and 93 injured
- October 2: At least 100 people are killed and more than 100 injured in an offensive by American troops and Iraqi national guards in Samarra
- October 3 : More than 50 people are killed in an offensive by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip , which the Israeli army has launched after rocket attacks by Hamas
- October 4 : More than 30 people died and more than 100 were injured in three bombings in Baghdad and Mosul and American air strikes in Fallujah
- October 7th : 17 people die in Iraq in an offensive by the US armed forces and Iraqi security forces and a series of attacks. Seven people died in an attack in Diwaniyya
- October 7th: In the suicide attacks in Taba and Ra's Schaitan ( Moon Island Village ) on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt 32 people are killed and more than 150 injured
- October 7: At least 39 people are killed and more than 80 injured in a suicide attack in the city of Multan , Pakistan
- October 8 : 11 people are killed in a US Air Force bombing in Fallujah
- October 18 : At least six people are killed and 27 injured in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad
- October 23 : 49 police recruits are murdered in northern Iraq. Over the weekend, around 100 people die in attacks and bombings
- October 25 : As part of the conflict in southern Thailand , police break up a demonstration by Muslims in Tak Bai . She uses firearms and tear gas. 86 protesters are shot, suffocated or crushed while being transported to a prison camp. Others are seriously injured.
- November 2 : Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh is stabbed and shot dead by an Islamic extremist on the street in Amsterdam . As a result, several mosques and Islamic schools in the Netherlands are set on fire
- November 6 : Ivory Coast government soldiers kill nine French soldiers in an attack. The government had previously also broken the peace agreement with the rebels
- November 6: At least 30 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks on police stations in the Iraqi city of Samarra
- November 7th : At least 50 people are killed in attacks and attacks by insurgents in Iraq over the entire weekend
- November 8 : The US military launches Operation Phantom Fury to combat the resistance in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah
- November 12th : A video becomes known in which an American soldier shoots an injured, unarmed prisoner in Fallujah. The United Nations , Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch complain about human rights violations and violations of the Geneva Conventions by both parties to the conflict
- November 14 : The offensive by American and Iraqi troops in Fallujah is said to be over. Balance: Approx. 25 dead soldiers, approx. 1,000 insurgents killed and an unknown number of civilian victims. However, the fighting continues
- November 16 : A video becomes known that shows the murder of the kidnapped Care boss Margaret Hassan by unknown perpetrators. Even the Islamic terrorist group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had demanded their release
- November 18 : Israeli soldiers accidentally shoot three Egyptian border guards near Rafah on the border with Egypt. The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apologizes for this
- November 24 : In Israel, radio communications between an Israeli commander and his soldiers in the Gaza Strip are made public. The soldiers shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in a restricted area near Rafah on October 5
- November 27 : Three German soldiers are slightly injured in an attack in Kunduz (Afghanistan)
- December 3 : ETA detonates bombs at five petrol stations in the Madrid area. Five people suffer minor injuries
- December 4 : Two car bombs explode in Baghdad and a suicide attack in Mosul kills at least 15 people and injures around 60
- December 24 Muslim extremists grenade two people and injure forty in Kashmir
- December 25 A gas tank truck explosion kills nine people and injures 14 in western Baghdad
economy
- February 4th : Mark Zuckerberg starts the company Facebook as a student at Harvard University as a platform for contact between fellow students .
- February 13 : The German company Rheinmetall in Düsseldorf sells communications electronics subsidiary Hirschmann GmbH .
- March 3 : The world's biggest brewer InBev is created from the merger of companies Interbrew and AmBev .
- March 8th : According to a ruling by the Federal Court of Justice , there is no obligation to pay for undetected dialers
- April: The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Synthélabo takes over the Franco-German competitor Aventis
- April 23 : In the Lorraine City Creutzwald closes the last remaining coal-powered mine in France.
- April 25 : The associations Ring Deutscher Makler (RDM) and Verband Deutscher Makler (VDM) merge to form the real estate association IVD .
- June 16 : The American media group Viacom takes over the majority of VIVA Media , including the production company Brainpool .
- July 1 : The Lanxess company is founded from a spin-off of the chemicals division and parts of the polymer division of Bayer AG .
- July 2 : The German company Aixtron in Aachen takes over the California- based company Genus for 117.7 million euros.
- July 22nd : Media companies BMG and Sony Music merge
- October 5 : The board of Karstadt -Quelle announces that 5,500 jobs are to be cut in order to reorganize the group. After negotiations with the ver.di union and the works council, this reduction should take place in a socially acceptable manner
- October 14 : General Motors announces that 12,000 jobs in Europe, 10,000 of them in Germany, are to be cut. As a result, workers at the Opel plant in Bochum went on strike for six days
- October 16 : The Swiss unions GBI and SMUV merge to form the large union Unia
- November 17th : In the United States, it is announced that trading companies Kmart and Sears, Roebuck & Company intend to merge to form Sears Holdings Corporation .
- December 31 : In Lithuania , 21 years after the start of operations ordered by the Moscow Politburo, the first block of the Ignalina nuclear power plant is shut down. The European Union bears most of the decommissioning costs .
- Establishment of the company NBC Universal by merging the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the entertainment business from Vivendi Universal
science and technology
- January 4 : Landing of the Mars landing unit of the space probe Spirit on the surface of Mars
- January 25 : Landing of the Mars landing unit of the Opportunity spacecraft on the surface of Mars
- February 4 : Start of scheduled non-stop flights with the Airbus A340 from Singapore to Los Angeles and back
- February 11th : After landing on the surface of Mars in December 2003, despite many attempts, it was not possible to establish contact with the Beagle 2 landing unit . The ESA therefore declares the probe lost.
- March 4 : ESA starts the Rosetta mission to explore Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko .
- March 7th : Demolition of the largest office tower in Europe, the Sparkasse tower " Langer Oskar " in Hagen
- March 22nd : CenpacNet gives up its satellite connection and reduces its bandwidth .
- March 27th : NASA sets a new speed record for air-breathing engines with the X-43A .
- April 6th : First attempt in Germany with genetically modified wheat
- April 19 : Partial solar eclipse (southern Africa )
- April 20 : Launch of the Gravity Probe B satellite mission
- June 8th : The first transit of Venus (passage of the sun) since 1882 can be observed in Central Europe from 7:20 a.m. to 1:23 p.m. CEST
- June 21 : SpaceShipOne is the first privately built aircraft to reach a height of 100 kilometers and thus space . Michael Melvill becomes the first civilian astronaut
- July 1 : The Cassini space probe enters orbit around the planet Saturn
- July 4th : Alexanderson Day : The longwave station Grimeton broadcasts at 10:30, 12:30 and 14:30 CEST
- August 3 : The NASA - space probe MESSENGER is part of the Discovery Program started. Your flight is aimed at exploring the planet Mercury in the inner solar system .
- August 11 : The British government agency HFEA has approved the Newcastle Center for Life's application to clone human embryos for research purposes.
- September 8 : The US space probe Genesis , which collected solar wind particles for three years in space , crashes because of a parachute that does not open.
The brown dwarf 2M1207 with the exoplanet 2M1207 b (bottom left)
- September 14th : 2M1207 b , the first directly visible exoplanet is discovered.
- September 18 : The results of radiocarbon dating of skeletal remains of several people from the Mesolithic period discovered in a cave near Hagen are announced.
- September 21 : In Dubai , construction work begins on a new skyscraper , which will be named Burj Khalifa after completion .
- September 23 : NASA extends the Mars rover project with restrictions for a further six months.
- September 25 : The Marburg association AMSAT Germany plans a private research flight to Mars until 2009.
- September 29 : SpaceShipOne's first Ansari X Prize flight
- October 4 : SpaceShipOne's second Ansari X Prize flight , Scaled Composites wins the Ansari X Prize
- October 5th : In Germany the warmest October 5th in 125 years is measured at 27.25 ° C
- October 14 : Partial solar eclipse (Northeast Asia , North Pacific )
- October 15 : On the Mount Graham takes in Arizona , the Large Binocular Telescope on the operation. It could sense candlelight 2.5 million km away.
- October 28 : Publication on Homo floresiensis
- November 16 : NASA sets another new speed record ( Mach 9.8) for air-breathing engines with the X-43A
- December 27th : Gamma ray burst from the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1806–1820. Largest radiation peak ever measured by mankind
- Start of the America's Space Prize
Culture
- Genoa and Lille are the European Capitals of Culture of the year
- International Dalí Year 2004
- Year of Technology , after 2003 was the year of chemistry
- February 20 to September 19 : The MoMA in Berlin
- April 24th : The first publicly accessible scout museum opens in Lahnstein
- May 5 : "Boy with a Pipe" by Pablo Picasso at Sotheby's for a record amount of 104,168,000 US dollars auctioned
- May 24th A fire rages in the Saatchi Gallery and destroys many works of art. The damage is 50 million pounds sterling appreciated
- August: International Forum of Cultures in Barcelona
- September 2nd : During a fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar / Thuringia , thousands of books are damaged by fire, smoke and extinguishing water on the night of September 3rd. The library contains German original literature from the period 1750 and 1850 as well as numerous special collections
- September 12 : Klaus Schenck founds the school newspaper Financial T ('a) ime in Tauberbischofsheim
- September 21 : The National Museum of the American Indian opens in Washington, DC
- September: Bernd Eichinger and Constantin Film show the last twelve days of the German Empire in Der Untergang
- October 23 : Opening of the Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, which houses the Frieder Burda Collection. The newly constructed building was designed by architect Richard Meier designed
- December 1 : The artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude begin the installation of “ The Gates ” in New York's Central Park.
- December 7th : The Teatro alla Scala in Milan reopens with Antonio Salieri's opera L'Europa riconosciuta .
- December 31 : The Taipei 101 skyscraper is inaugurated.
- December: Istanbul Modern opens
- The first art hatch for the anonymous return of stolen works of art is installed in Vienna .
- First award of the Pater Wolfgang Seibel Prize for young journalists
- First award of the Zeck cabaret prize .
- The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is exhibited in the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin
- The Highlight Towers are completed.
music
- Ruslana wins on May 15 in Istanbul with the song Wild Dances for Ukraine the 49th edition of the Euro Vision Song Contest .
- May 18th bis 23. May : 5th European Youth Choir Festival (EJCF) in Basel .
- July 21 : The first rock and pop museum in Europe opens in Gronau , Westphalia .
- Green Day bring their ninth album American Idiot to the music market on September 21st . They also celebrated a comeback with it.
- Sido publishes his debut album Maske and sells well over 100,000 copies.
- The techno band Scooter releases Mind the Gap .
- The band Slipknot released their album Vol. 3 Sublimal Verses .
- The Nu Metal group Linkin Park is also releasing their second album Meteora .
See also: 2004 number one hits in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , Mexico , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Sweden , the Switzerland , Singapore , Spain , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .
See also: Category: Music 2004
society
- May 14th : Royal wedding in Denmark between Crown Prince Frederik and the Australian Mary Donaldson
- May 22nd : Royal wedding in Spain between Crown Prince Felipe and the former TV presenter Letizia Ortiz
- June 22nd On the fourth "Social Day" organized by Schüler Helfen Leben , 220,000 schoolchildren in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Berlin swap their school desk for a paid job and donate over 3.5 million euros for charitable purposes.
- August 22nd : During an armed robbery, masked perpetrators steal the two paintings The Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch from the Munch Museum in Oslo , while at the same time an attack on a money transporter takes place elsewhere in Oslo, in the course of which a police officer is shot. The perpetrators were caught in 2006, but the paintings are badly damaged.
- September 8 : The Crown Prince of Brunei , Muhtadee Billah, marries his 17-year-old bride Sarah Salleh in the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan
religion
- November 27 : Pope John Paul II hands over the remains of the Archbishop of Constantinople and preacher John Chrysostom , who had been kept in St. Peter's Basilica since 1204, to the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, who died in 407 .
Sports
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German soccer champions : men: Werder Bremen , women: 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
- On the 32nd matchday of the Bundesliga , Werder Bremen won the German championship prematurely with a 3-1 away win against Bayern Munich . Three weeks later, the team also wins the DFB Cup against Alemannia Aachen 3-2.
- DFB Cup winners : men: Werder Bremen , women: 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
- February 1st : The men's national team of the German Handball Federation beats host Slovenia 30:25 (16:10) in the final of the EURO 2004 and is the new European champion. In Ljubljana the selection of national coach Heiner Brand , who had already stood in the finals of the EM 2002 and 2003 World Cup, was crowned . After the 1978 World Cup (Federal Republic) and the 1980 Olympic victory (GDR), winning the European Championship is the first title for the German men.
- February 14th : Boxing fight of the year: Luan Krasniqi from Kosovo defeats Sinan Şamil Sam (Turkey) in Stuttgart , Germany and becomes European heavyweight champion for the second time (Krasniqi boxes under the German flag).
- May 4th : FC Schalke 04 turns 100 years old.
- May 19 : In the Nya Ullevi Stadium ( Gothenburg ), FC Valencia defeated Olympique Marseille 2-0 and won the UEFA Cup .
- May 26th : FC Porto secured this year's UEFA Champions League title with a 3-0 win over AS Monaco in the AufSchalke Arena in Gelsenkirchen .
- June 12 : The twelfth European Football Championship 2004 in Portugal opens with the host team's game against Greece (1: 2). The Silver Goal Rule applies for the first and only time .
- 4th July : Greece under coach Otto Rehhagel becomes European champions for the first time with a 1-0 win against Portugal .
- Formula 1 : Michael Schumacher wins his seventh world title.
- July 25th Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for the sixth time .
- August 13. bis 29. August : The XXVIII. Summer Olympics are held in Athens , Greece .
- September 14 : Canada wins the World Cup of Hockey with a 3-2 draw against Finland .
- September 23. bis 26. September : Agility World Championship in Montichiari, Italy .
- October 9 : Football German Bowl in Braunschweig : The Berlin Adler win the German championship in the German Football League with 10: 7 against the Braunschweig Lions .
- The Nuremberg Marathon takes place for the first time.
- December 17th : In the newly built Krefeld multipurpose hall, the KönigPALAST, a DEL game takes place for the first time ( Krefeld penguins against the polar bears Berlin ).
Weather
The annual mean temperature in Central Europe was about 0.5 ° above the long-term average, which made large parts of the population aware of the consequences of anthropogenic climate change for the first time . The average duration of sunshine also increased by around 100 hours per year (to around 1,550 hours), but this is currently not viewed as a longer-term effect. The precipitation , however, remained within the normal range.
- March 24th : Cyclone Catarina is developing in the South Atlantic and is moving west towards the Brazilian coast. It is developing into one of the rare storms with hurricane speed there .
Disasters
- 3 January : An Egyptian passenger aircraft in the airline Flash Airlines of type Boeing 737 crashes with 148 people aboard in the Red Sea . The cause of the crash is likely a problem during the startup phase.
- February 24th : A severe earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale kills 600 people in Morocco . The epicenter was in the Strait of Gibraltar
- March 7th : In cyclone Gafilo the ferry MV Samson sinks on the crossing from the Comoros to Madagascar and over 100 people drown.
- April 22 : In the Ryongchon train accident in North Korea, an explosion of a train loaded with ammonium nitrate kills over 160 people, injures around 1,300 and destroys around 40 percent of the city.
- July 18 : Heavy monsoons with flooding in India , Bangladesh , Nepal and the People's Republic of China . Around 800–1000 dead, millions homeless
- August 1 : A fire in the Ycuá Bolaños shopping center in Asunción , Paraguay kills around 350 people and injures around 200 people.
- August 13 : Hurricane Charley devastates Florida. With a total damage of 14 billion US dollars, it will be one of the most damaging cyclones in the United States.
- September 8th : Severe storms since September 2nd in the province of Sichuan and the metropolis of Chongqing in the People's Republic of China cause at least 172 deaths due to floods and landslides
- September 19 : Hurricane "Jeanne" sweeps over Haiti. In the days that followed, more than 1,500 people died there
- October 20 : About 150 workers die in a mining accident in the Daping coal mine in Henan Province in the People's Republic of China
- November 3rd : NP Johnsen's fireworks factory explodes in Seest, a suburb of Kolding . One firefighter died, 85 people were injured and around 2,000 people were evacuated. More than 300 houses were damaged beyond repair.
- November 23 : According to a WHO report , there are more than 39 million people worldwide with AIDS . The infection rate has increased dramatically in the past two years, especially among women
- November 28 : 165 workers die in a mine accident near Tongchuan ( People's Republic of China )
- December 2 : Typhoon Nanmadol races across the Philippines . Approx. 1,000 dead
- December 26th : An earthquake in the Indian Ocean with an epicenter near Sumatra and a magnitude 9.1 on the Richter scale causes a tidal wave up to ten meters high ( tsunami ), the coastal areas in large parts of India , Sri Lanka , Thailand , Malaysia and especially Indonesia devastated. About 230,000 people are killed. The quake is by far the strongest of a whole series of quakes over a length of over 1,000 kilometers along the border of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates
- December 30 : A fire broke out in the overcrowded República Cromañón discotheque in Buenos Aires , leaving 194 dead and around 700 injured.
Others
- August 5th : The first three of 42 graves are opened in the Allgäu . This marked the beginning of the largest exhumation campaign in the Federal Republic of Germany after the war. The police and public prosecutor in Kempten want to use it to clear up a series of deaths in the Sonthofen hospital. A nurse had confessed to having killed patients by injections
- December 11th : Probably the most expensive pirate station is excavated at the German-Dutch border . The system, which was set up exactly on the border, transmits with an output of 10 kilowatts from a 100 meter high transmission mast
Born
- January 10 : Kaitlyn Maher , American singer
- January 21 : Ingrid Alexandra of Norway , Princess of Norway
- February 9th : Antoni Kowalski , Polish snooker player
- February 19 : Millie Bobby Brown , British actress
- March 13th : Cori Gauff , American tennis player
- April 17th : Kyla Drew Simmons , American actress
- June 2nd : Jenny Richardson , British actress
- June 15 : Sterling Jerins , American actress
- June 23 : Mana Ashida , actress and singer
- July 16 : Amiah Miller , American actress and model
- August 11 : Mia Hays , American actress and model
- August 19 : Siena Agudong , American actress
- October 12 : Darci Lynne Farmer , American ventriloquist and singer, 2017 America's Got Talent winner
- October 19 : Abilass Jeyarajah , Sri Lankan child separated from his parents in the 2004 flood disaster
- November 8th : Anton Kazakov , Ukrainian snooker player
- November 15th : Vincent Keymer , German chess grandmaster, youngest grandmaster in German chess history
- November 20 : Youssoufa Moukoko , German soccer player
Date unknown
- Aaron Kissiov , young German actor
Died
This is a list of the most eminent people who passed away in 2004. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 2004 .
January
- January 1 : Vitín Avilés , Puerto Rican singer (* 1930 )
- January 1 : David Scott-Barrett , British officer (* 1922 )
- January 6th : Max Adenauer , German politician (* 1910 )
- January 7th : Karl Bock , German pediatric cardiologist (* 1922 )
- January 9 : Norberto Bobbio , Italian legal philosopher and journalist (* 1909 )
- January 14 : Uta Hagen , German actress (* 1919 )
- January 17th : Czesław Niemen , Polish rock singer (* 1939 )
- January 23 : Helmut Newton , German photographer (* 1920 )
- January 25 : Miklós Fehér , Hungarian football player (* 1979 )
- January 27 : Jack Paar , American presenter (* 1918 )
- January 27 : James Pataki , Canadian violinist and violist of Hungarian origin (* 1925 )
- January 28 : Mel Pritchard , British musician (* 1948 )
- January 29th : OW Fischer , Austrian actor (* 1915 )
- January 29th : Fiete Reder , German handball player and coach (* 1922 )
- January 29th : Roy Woods , American car racing driver and racing team owner (* 1940 )
- January 30 : Malachi Favors , American jazz bassist (* 1937 )
- January 31 : Hansjürg Steinlin , Swiss forest scientist (* 1921 )
February
- February 2 : Hans Jakob Schudel , Swiss chess official and chess player (* 1915 )
- February 4th : Jacques Français , French violin maker and expert (* 1923 )
- February 6 : Claus Hinrich Casdorff , German radio and television journalist (* 1925 )
- February 7th : Rolf Pohle , German terrorist of the RAF (* 1942 )
- February 7th : Norman Thelwell , British cartoonist (born 1923 )
- February 8 : Arne Eggebrecht , German Egyptologist (* 1935 )
- February 8 : Nicholas Goldschmidt , Canadian conductor, music teacher, pianist and singer (* 1908 )
- February 9 : Gerhard Riedmann , Austrian actor (* 1925 )
- February 14 : Marco Pantani , Italian cyclist and Tour de France winner (* 1970 )
- February 11 : Alberto Blancafort , Spanish conductor and composer (* 1928 )
- February 15 : Abbie Neal , American country musician (* 1918 )
- February 19 : Joachim Leitert , German motorcycle racer (* 1931 )
- February 20 : Ana Ariel , Brazilian actress (* 1930 )
- February 23 : Vijay Anand , Indian film director (* 1934 )
- February 23 : Carl Anderson , American singer and actor (* 1945 )
- February 23 : Bob Marshall , Australian billiards world champion, politician and businessman (* 1910 )
- February 24th : Virtú Maragno , Argentine composer (* 1928 )
- February 24 : Alfred Orda , Polish opera singer (* 1915 )
- February 26 : Boris Trajkovski , Macedonian politician (* 1956 )
- February 29 : Lev Jakowlewitsch Abramow , Russian chess player and referee (* 1911 )
- February 29 : Danny Ortiz , Guatemalan football player (* 1976 )
- February 29 : Witold Rudziński , Polish composer (* 1913 )
Peter Ustinov († March 28)
March
- March 3 : Cecily Adams , American actress and director (* 1958 )
- March 4th : John McGeoch , Scottish guitarist (* 1955 )
- March 5 : Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy , Ecuadorian lawyer and politician (* 1919 )
- March 6 : Rudolf am Bach , Swiss pianist and music teacher (* 1919 )
- March 6 : Eugene Kash , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1912 )
- March 8 : Abu Abbas , Palestinian politician (* 1948 )
- March 8 : Jan Lichardus , German prehistorian (* 1939 )
- March 13 : Franz Cardinal König , Archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985 (* 1905 )
- March 17 : Bernie Scherer , American football player (born 1913 )
- March 18 : Erna Spoorenberg , Dutch soprano (* 1926 )
- March 19 : Josef Stingl , German politician, President of the Federal Labor Office (* 1919 )
- March 20 : Juliana von Oranien-Nassau , Queen of the Netherlands (* 1909 )
- March 21 : Johnny Bristol , American singer, producer and songwriter (born 1939 )
- March 22 : Ahmad Yasin , Hamas founder (* 1936 )
- March 22nd : Gerhardt Preuschen , German agricultural scientist (* 1908 )
- March 23 : Lorand Fenyves , American violinist and music teacher of Hungarian-Jewish origin (* 1918 )
- March 28 : Robert Merle , French writer (* 1908 )
- March 28 : Sir Peter Ustinov , British director, actor and writer (* 1921 )
- March 31 : Luigi Agustoni , Swiss theologian, church musician and professor (* 1917 )
April
- April 1 : Karl Born , German seaman, pilot and cinema operator (* 1910 )
- April 2 : Erich Ahlers , German horticultural director (* 1909 )
- April 2 : John Hadji Argyris , Greek civil engineer (* 1913 )
- April 4 : Georges Auclair , French journalist and writer (* 1920 )
- April 11th : Megumu Sagisawa , Japanese writer (* 1968 )
- April 15 : Maury Schleicher , American football player (* 1937 )
- April 17 : Abd al-Aziz ar-Rantisi , Hamas leader (* 1947 )
- April 18 : Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara , Fijian politician (* 1920 )
- April 19 : Norris McWhirter , British publisher (* 1925 )
- April 21 : Fritz Arlt , German functionary (* 1912 )
- April 24 : Estée Lauder , American founder of the international cosmetics empire (* 1906 )
- April 27 : Gleason L. Archer , American scholar and Old Testament scholar (* 1916 )
May
Marika Rökk , 1940
- May 3 : Ken Downing , British racing car driver (* 1917 )
- May 9 : Akhmad Kadyrov , Chechen President (* 1951 )
- May 12 : John LaPorta , American jazz clarinetist (* 1920 )
- May 13 : Kjell Bækkelund , Norwegian pianist (* 1930 )
- May 13 : Muhammad Nawaz , Pakistani javelin thrower (* 1924 )
- May 16 : Marika Rökk , Hungarian singer and actress (* 1913 )
- May 17 : Peggie Sampson , Canadian cellist, gambist and music teacher (* 1912 )
- May 19 : Elvio Romero , Paraguayan poet (* 1926 )
- May 27th : Umberto Agnelli , Italian entrepreneur. (* 1934 )
- May 27 : Gerhard Ammann , Austrian politician (* 1936 )
- May 27 : Werner Tübke , German painter and graphic artist (* 1929 )
- May 28 : Jerzy Klempel , Polish handball player (* 1953 )
- May 29 : Ivica Šerfezi , Yugoslavian pop singer (* 1935 )
June
- June 2 : Jonathan D. Kramer , American composer, musicologist and teacher (* 1942 )
- June 3 : Thomas Forsberg , Swedish musician and front man of the metal band Bathory (* 1966 )
- June 4 : Hermann Argelander , German internist and psychoanalyst (* 1920 )
Ronald Reagan († June 5)
- June 5 : Ronald Reagan , American politician, President (* 1911 )
- June 7 : Roger Matton , Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist (* 1929 )
- June 9 : Roosevelt Brown , American football player (born 1932 )
Ray Charles († June 10)
- June 10 : Ray Charles , American soul musician (* 1930 )
- June 13 : Jennifer Nitsch , German actress (* 1966 )
- June 16 : Thanom Kittikachorn , former Prime Minister of Thailand (* 1911 )
- June 17 : Siegfried Künkele , German lawyer and botanist (* 1931 )
- June 20 : Hanns Cibulka , German writer and poet (* 1920 )
- June 26 : Ott Arder , Estonian poet, children's book author and translator (* 1950 )
- June 26 : Adolf Emile Cohen , Dutch historian (* 1913 )
- June 26 : Heinrich Franke , German politician (* 1928 )
- June 27 : Erik Blumenthal , German psychologist, graphologist and psychotherapist (* 1914 )
- June 27 : Carlos Botto Vallarino , Chilean composer and music teacher (* 1923 )
- June 27 : Fausto Romitelli , Italian composer (* 1963 )
- June 28 : Hisashi Nozawa , Japanese writer (* 1960 )
July
Marlon Brando , 1948
- July 1 : Marlon Brando , American actor (* 1924 )
- July 1 : Edward Joseph Hoffman , American scientist (* 1942 )
- July 5 : Rodger Ward , American racing car driver (* 1921 )
- July 6th : Keiko Atori , Japanese manga artist and illustrator (* 1969 )
- July 6th : Thomas Klestil , Austrian Federal President (* 1932 )
- July 10 : Hans-Jürgen Fuhrhop , German CDU politician (* 1915 )
- July 10 : Inge Meysel , German actress (* 1910 )
- July 13 : Enriquillo Sánchez Mulet , Dominican writer, journalist and university lecturer (* 1947 )
- July 16 : Billy Mo , swing and jazz musician (* 1923 )
- July 16 : George Busbee , American politician (* 1927 )
- July 21 : Jerry Goldsmith , American film music composer (* 1929 )
- July 22nd : Sacha Distel , French chansonnier, guitarist and composer (* 1933 )
- July 22nd : Bodo Hauser , German journalist and moderator (* 1946 )
- July 23 : Josef Rickenbacher , Swiss sculptor (* 1925 )
- July 28 : Francis Crick , British physicist and biochemist (* 1916 )
- July 30 : Jan Hanuš , Czech composer (* 1915 )
August
- August 2 : Agustín Pérez Pardella , Argentine writer (* 1928 )
- August 5 : Uri Adelman , Israeli writer, musician and composer (* 1958 )
- August 6 : Rick James , American funk musician (* 1948 )
- August 8 : Willibald Hilf , German broadcast director (* 1931 )
- August 8 : Annemarie Marks-Rocke , German actress, drama teacher and radio play speaker (* 1901 )
- August 8 : Fay Wray , American actress (* 1907 )
- August 11 : Wolfgang J. Mommsen , German historian (* 1930 )
- August 13 : Julia Child , American cook (* 1912 )
- August 16 : Ivan Hlinka , Czech ice hockey player and coach (* 1950 )
- August 16 : John Unnerud , Norwegian rally driver (* 1930 )
- August 17th : Gérard Souzay , French singer (* 1918 )
- August 17th : Arrigo Wittler , German painter (* 1918 )
- August 19 : George Gibson , American football player (born 1905 )
- August 19 : Günter Rexrodt , German politician and Minister of Economic Affairs (FDP) (* 1941 )
- August 26 : Laura Branigan , American pop singer (* 1952 )
- August 27 : Julio Tahier , Argentine author and director (* 1906 )
- August 29 : Leonardus Benyamin Moerdani , Indonesian Defense Minister and Army Chief (* 1932 )
- August 29 : Suehiro Tanemura , Japanese Germanist, translator and literary critic (* 1933 )
- August 30th : Fred Whipple , American astronomer (* 1906 )
- August 31 : Adelmo Melecci , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher (* 1899 )
September
- September 2 : Kieth Engen , American opera singer (* 1925 )
- September 3 : Hugo Staudinger , German historian and scientific theorist (* 1921 )
- September 4 : Aquilino Boyd , Panamanian diplomat and politician (* 1921 )
- September 4 : Moe Norman , Canadian professional golfer (* 1929 )
- September 9 : Ernie Ball , American musician and manufacturer of strings for musical instruments (born 1930 )
- September 10 : Brockman Adams , American politician (* 1927 )
- September 12 : Ahmed Dini Ahmed , Djiboutian politician (* 1932 )
- September 12 : Jack Turner , American racing car driver (* 1920 )
- September 13 : Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist and co-inventor of the first birth control pill (* 1925 )
- September 13 : Weldon Rogers , American country and rockabilly musician and producer (* 1927 )
- September 14 : Ove Sprogøe , Danish actor (* 1919 )
- September 17 : John Ralph Armellino , American soldier and politician (* 1921 )
- September 19 : Mary Frances Penick , American pop and country singer (* 1931 )
- September 20 : Brian Clough , English football coach (* 1935 )
- September 22nd : Paul de Roubaix , Belgian film director and producer (* 1914 )
- September 23 : Johann Scherz , Austrian carom player and world champion (* 1932 )
- September 24 : Raúl Iglesias , Cuban pianist and music teacher (* 1933 )
- September 26 : Jürgen Oelschläger , German motorcycle racer (* 1969 )
- September 28 : Liviu Comes , Romanian composer (* 1918 )
- September 29th : Richard Sainct , French motorcycle racer (* 1970 )
October
- October 3 : Janet Leigh , American actress ("Psycho"), (* 1927 )
- October 3 : Miriam Solovieff , American violinist and music teacher (* 1921 )
- October 4 : Michael Grant , English classical philologist and ancient historian (* 1914 )
- October 10 : Kelsey Jones , Canadian composer, harpsichordist, pianist, organist, conductor and music teacher (* 1922 )
- October 10 : Christopher Reeve , American actor (* 1952 )
- October 11 : Reinhard Hesse , German journalist and speechwriter (* 1956 )
- October 17 : Celio González , Cuban singer (* 1924 )
- October 19 : Kenneth E. Iverson , Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (* 1920 )
- October 21 : Flor Roffé de Estévez , Venezuelan music teacher and composer (* 1921 )
- October 23 : Christian Büttrich , German Germanist and librarian (* 1935 )
- October 25 : Brigitte Adler , German politician (* 1944 )
- October 27 : Claude Helffer , French pianist (* 1922 )
- October 28 : Gertrud Burgsthaler-Schuster , Austrian opera singer (* 1916 )
- October 28 : Maximos Salloum , Lebanese Archbishop (* 1920 )
- October 29 : Washington Castro , Argentine composer and conductor (* 1909 )
- 29 October : Alice Duchess of Gloucester , English princess and oldest member of a royal family worldwide (* 1901 )
- October 30 : Billy Jim Layton , American composer (born 1924 )
November
- November 1 : Mark Ledford , American jazz musician (* 1960 )
- November 2 : Theo van Gogh , Dutch filmmaker and satirist (* 1957 )
- November 3 : Joe Bushkin , American jazz pianist (* 1916 )
- November 6th : Augusto Aristizábal Ospina , Colombian bishop (* 1928 )
- November 7th : Yamashiro Tomoe , Japanese writer (* 1912 )
- November 9 : Stieg Larsson , Swedish writer (* 1954 )
- November 9 : Eiji Morioka , Japanese boxer (* 1946 )
- November 11 : Yasser Arafat , Palestinian President (* 1929 )
- November 13 : Domingo Cura , Argentine percussionist (* 1929 )
- November 14 : Rainer Probst German painter, educator and school politician (* 1941 )
- November 15 : Elmer Lee Andersen , American politician (* 1909 )
- November 15 : Jürgen Schmidt , German actor (* 1938 )
- November 16 : Otis Dudley Duncan , American sociologist (* 1921 )
- November 19 : John Robert Vane , British biochemist (born 1927 )
- November 24th : Hugo Dudli , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1930 )
- November 25th : František Smetana , Czech cellist and music teacher (* 1914 )
- November 26 : Abdul-Qader Arnaout , Syrian scholar of Islam (* 1928 )
- November 26th : Hans Schaffner , Swiss politician (* 1908 )
- November 28 : Sergio Castelletti , Italian football player and coach (* 1937 )
- November 29 : John Drew Barrymore , American actor (born 1932 )
- November 29 : Ugo Ferrante , Italian football player (* 1945 )
- November 30th : Blanche Moerschel , American composer, organist, pianist and music teacher (* 1915 )
December
- December 1 : Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands , Dutch prince of German origin (* 1911 )
- December 4 : Willy Eichberger , Austrian-American film and theater actor (* 1902 )
- December 5 : Albert E. Kaiser , Swiss conductor and music teacher (* 1920 )
- December 6th : Jack Nethercutt , American entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1913 )
- December 8 : Dimebag Darrell , American guitarist for the band Pantera (* 1966 )
- December 8 : Johnny Lockett , British motorcycle and car racer (* 1915 )
- December 9th : Andrea Absolonová , Czech high diver (* 1976 )
- December 12th : Herbert Dreilich , German rock musician, singer of the group Karat (* 1942 )
- December 14 : Carsten Peter Thiede , German historian and papyrologist (* 1952 )
- December 16 : Martha Carson , American country gospel musician (* 1921 )
- December 16 : Agnes Martin , American abstract expressionist painter (* 1912 )
- December 18 : Gernot Duda , German actor and voice actor (* 1928 )
- December 19 : Horst Raspe , German actor and voice actor (* 1925 )
- December 21 : Roland Ploeger , German composer (* 1928 )
- December 23 : Rainer Bertram , German director, actor, singer (* 1932 )
- December 23 : John Duarte , English composer, guitarist, music teacher and critic (* 1919 )
- December 23 : Milt Minter , American racing driver (* 1933 )
- December 23 : PV Narasimha Rao , Prime Minister of India (* 1921 )
- December 23 : Anne Truitt , American sculptor of minimalism (* 1921 )
- December 26th : Mieszko A. Talarczyk , Swedish musician (* 1974 )
- December 27 : Heorhij Kirpa , Ukrainian politician (* 1946 )
- December 28 : Jerry Orbach , American actor (* 1935 )
- December 28 : Susan Sontag , American writer (* 1933 )
- December 29 : Julius Axelrod , American pharmacologist and neurochemist (* 1912 )
- December 30th : Salvatore Asta , Italian Archbishop and Vatican diplomat (* 1915 )
- December 30th : Artie Shaw , American jazz musician (* 1910 )
- December 30th : Muriel Stafford , Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher (* 1906 )
- December 31 : Raúl Matas , Chilean journalist and presenter (* 1921 )
Exact date unknown
- March: Illo Schieder , German pop singer (* 1922 )
- Early autumn: Barbara Antkowiak , German Slavist, literary translator and editor (* 1933 )
- Ludmilla Ymeri , Albanian cellist and music teacher of Czech origin (* 1924 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : David Gross , David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
- Chemistry : Aaron Ciechanover , Avram Hershko, and Irwin Rose
- Medicine : Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck
- Literature : Elfriede Jelinek
- Peace : Wangari Muta Maathai
- Economics : Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott
See also
Web links
Commons : 2004 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikinews: 2004 - in the newsIndividual evidence
- ^ Short report of the FAZ , December 31, 2004.
- ↑ Madagascar storm death toll rises . BBC, March 10, 2004, accessed October 29, 2018.