List of Famous people who died in 2004

David Mervyn Blow was an influential British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules. This has been extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry.

David Raksin was an American composer who was noted for his work in film and television. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music."

Josef Stingl was a German politician who served as the longstanding president of the Bundesanstalt für Arbeit from 1968 to 1984. By that time he had already established himself as a national politician as a member of the CDU and, after he relocated to Munich, the CSU). From 1953 to 1968, he served as a member of the Bundestag. There, he took a particular interest in pensions and labour law.

Alexander Randolph was a Bohemian-American designer of board games and writer. Randolph's game creations include TwixT, Breakthru, Inkognito, Raj, Ricochet Robot, and Enchanted Forest.

Gilbert John Mellé was an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.