List of Famous people who died in 2004

Mary-Ellis Bunim was an American television producer and co-creator of MTV's The Real World and Road Rules.

László Filep was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in history of mathematics. His Ph.D. advisors at the University of Debrecen were Barna Szénássy and Lajos Tamássy.

Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem was a Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop. He served as the twenty-eighth Bishop of Gent between 1964 and 1991: it was an unusually long incumbency.

Robert Charles Heaton was an English musician best known as the drummer in the English rock band New Model Army (NMA). Besides being the drummer for the band, Heaton was also responsible for much of the band's songwriting, contributing particularly heavily towards the musical content of the album Thunder and Consolation. He was probably the first person to play a synchronous drum and harmonica solo, doing so in the song 'Shot 18' on the No Rest for The Wicked tour.