List of Famous people who died in 2004

Carlos Alberto Lacoste was an Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician who briefly served as interim President of Argentina.

Adolph Verschueren was a Belgian cyclist. As a road cyclist, he won the Tour of Flanders in 1942 and the sixth stage of Tour de Suisse in 1949.

Jozef Lenárt was a Slovak politician who was Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1963 to 1968.

Yukihiko Ikeda was a Japanese bureaucrat and the Liberal Democratic Party politician who served as foreign minister. He was in office from 11 January 1996 to 11 September 1997. Ikeda was known to be "Mr. No" in the political life.

Charles Michael Bent was an English composer of chess endgame studies. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 27 November 1919 and died on 28 December 2004. Bent was the most prolific English endgame composer and one of the top ten in the world. He published as many as 848 studies, winning seven first prizes and 72 honours in international competitions.

Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the seminal Canadian-American folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

Boris Trajkovski was a Macedonian politician who served as the President of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004.

Dario Di Palma was an Italian film cinematographer.