List of Famous people who died in 2004

Nicolas Mosar was a Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and diplomat.

Raymond Marcellin was a French politician.

Eliza "Virginia" Capers was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun.

Micheline Charest was a British-born Canadian television producer and founder and former co-chairman of CINAR. In 1997, Charest was ranked 19th in The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most powerful women in the entertainment industry.

José Manuel Bastos Fialho Gouveia was a Portuguese television entertainment pioneer and former radio host, having hosted Portugal's first television talk show.

Andrew Bruce Boa was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types. Boa's most recognizable film role is in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as General Rieekan. On television, his most notable role is probably as the brash and rude American guest, Mr. Harry Hamilton, in the "Waldorf Salad" episode of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.

Elois Jenssen was an American film and television costume designer. She earned Academy Awards nominations for design work in the Cecil B. DeMille production Samson and Delilah (1949) and for her work on the Walt Disney Studios film Tron (1982).

Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian (Ge'ez) at EPHE. He was the author of a body of work, including the book Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam.

Necdet Mahfi Ayral was a well-known Turkish stage and cinema actor, as well as theatre director. While alive, he held the record for being the oldest Turkish actor who was still active. He is father of actress and well-known voice-over artist Jeyan Ayral Tözüm.