List of Famous people who died in 2004

John Carl West, Sr. was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 109th governor of South Carolina from 1971 to 1975. From 1977 to 1981, he was the United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Robert Knight Morgan was a colonel and a Command Pilot in the United States Air Force from Asheville, North Carolina. During World War II, while a captain in the United States Army Air Forces, Morgan was a bomber pilot with the 8th Air Force in the European theater and the aircraft commander of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress, Memphis Belle, flying 25 missions. After completing his European tour, Morgan flew another 26 combat missions in the B-29 Superfortress against Japan in the Pacific Theater.

Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D. in Economics by Harvard University in 1975.

Koken Nosaka was a Japanese politician. He was first elected to the Diet of Japan in 1972, representing a district in southern Tottori Prefecture. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served as construction minister and chief cabinet secretary under Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. Liberal Democratic Party politician Yōhei Kōno described Nosaka as "the main player" in forming the LDP-SDP coalition governments of the mid-1990s.

Bruno Cesari was an Italian art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Last Emperor.

Bruce Arnold Dunbar Stocker was an English-born academic. He was Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University from 1966 to 1987.

Bob Overton Evans, also known as "Boe" Evans, was a computer pioneer and corporate executive at IBM. He led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry.