List of Famous people who died in 2004

Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde was a Comorian politician.

Charles F. Wheeler was an American cinematographer.

Juan Carlos Aramburu was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1975 to 1990, and was named to the College of Cardinals by Pope Paul VI in 1976.

Bruno Bettinelli was an Italian composer and teacher.

Dietz-Otto Edzard was a German scholar of the Ancient Near East and grammarian of the Sumerian language.

Hermann Hogeback was a German bomber pilot during the Nazi era. He flew more than 100 operational sorties during the Spanish Civil War and 500 during World War II and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. Hogeback's last service position was commander of the 6th Bomber Wing.

Ezzedine Salim,, also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed, was an Iraqi politician, author, educator, Islamist theorist and one of the leading members of the Iraqi Dawaa Movement between 1980 and 2004. He served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2004.