List of Famous people who died in 2004

Ignatius "Iggie" Wolfington was an American actor. He was the youngest member of the prominent Wolfington family of Philadelphia, operators of a carriage business early in the 20th century and brother of the founder of Wolfington Body Company in Exton, Pennsylvania. He married Lynn Wood, an actress, in 1972.

Seymour Geisser was an American statistician noted for emphasizing predictive inference. In his book Predictive Inference: An Introduction, he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts to inference about things that do not exist, following the work of Bruno de Finetti. He also pioneered the theory of cross-validation.

Jeannie Ebner (1918–2004) was an Austrian writer.

Jean Dondelinger was a Luxembourgian diplomat and civil servant. He served as Luxembourg's European Commissioner, as well as holding positions in the domestic civil service and the diplomatic service.

Opilio Rossi was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Frederick James Karlin was an American composer of more than 130 scores for feature films and television movies. He also was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical, rock, and medieval music.

Thomas Gold, was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in 1948 proposed the now mostly abandoned "steady state" hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics.