List of Famous people who died in 2004

Madeleine Robinson was a French actress. She was born to a French mother and Czech father near Paris. She was orphaned at the age of 14, and worked to support herself and her two younger brothers, but enjoyed watching plays. She then studied under Charles Dullin. Her first lead role was in Forty Little Mothers (1936). During the Occupation of France, she had a prominent role in Love Story and Lumière d'été, and The Bellman (1945). Because she had acted during the Occupation, Robinson found it difficult to get work afterwards, but again came to prominence in Une si jolie petite plage (1949). Madeleine Robinson won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1959 for her role in À double tour. In 2001, she was awarded a Molière d'honneur for her contribution to the field.

Thea Altaras was a Croatian-German architect who was known by her research and publications on Jewish monuments in Hesse, Germany.

Eleanor G. Holm was an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. She is best known for having been expelled from the 1936 Summer Olympics team after she was allegedly found intoxicated after attending a cocktail party on the transatlantic ship taking the team to Germany. She went on to have a high-profile celebrity career as a socialite and interior designer, and co-starred in a Hollywood Tarzan movie --- Tarzan's Revenge. She appeared in that film with Glenn Morris, another Olympian.

Carl Melles was an Austrian orchestral conductor of Hungarian descent.

Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.

John Stewart Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, PC was a British judge and law lord.