Deaths in April 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 2004

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  • Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist, kidney failure.
  • Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Col. Aaron Bank, 101, Dies; Was 'Father of Special Forces' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/business/col-aaron-bank-101-dies-was-father-of-special-forces.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 April 2004 |page=C 15}}
  • Rıza Doğan, 73, Turkish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Rıza Doğan |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/60313 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Enrique Grau - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6n61rjf |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Yannis Kyrastas, 51, Greek football player and football manager, sepsis.
  • Ichirō Nakatani, 73, Japanese actor and seiyū.
  • Sándor Reisenbüchler, 69, Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sándor Reisenbüchler |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb171484632 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mykola Rudenko - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6mb4k9f |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Jacques Seiler, 76, French actor and theatre director, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacques Seiler |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14225974q |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
  • Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law), kidney failure.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/business/carrie-snodgress-57-dies-starred-as-mad-housewife.html|author=The Associated Press|author-link=The Associated Press|title=Carrie Snodgress, 57, Dies; Starred as 'Mad Housewife'|work=The New York Times|date=April 10, 2004|access-date=February 17, 2019}}
  • Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader, heart attack.

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  • Ioannis Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
  • Alan Levy, 72, American author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alan Levy |url=https://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12380575w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Takashi Shirôzu, 86, Japanese entomologist.
  • Chaïbia Talal, 75, Moroccan painter, heart attack.
  • John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.{{cite news |author1=Anna Kisselgoff |author-link1=Anna Kisselgoff |title=John Taras, Choreographer, Is Dead at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/arts/john-taras-choreographer-is-dead-at-84.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=5 April 2004 |page=B 7}}

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  • John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.{{cite news |last1=Roth |first1=Andrew |title=Lord Diamond |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/06/guardianobituaries.obituaries |access-date=20 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=6 Apr 2004}}
  • Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer, suicide.
  • Eduard Linkers, 91, Austrian actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eduard Linkers - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/3e46b953412f454683e347eec4d83faa |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=de |date=}}
  • Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire.{{cite web |title=Nagaraja Rao profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/nagaraja-rao-31949 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy).{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-07-me-rock7-story.html|title=Phillip Rock, 76; Hollywood-Born Novelist, Screenwriter Wrote 'Passing Bells' Saga|work=Los Angeles Times|date=April 7, 2004|access-date=February 7, 2019}}

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  • Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician, homicide.
  • George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player and manager, cancer.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=George Bamberger, 80, Pitching Coach, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/business/george-bamberger-80-pitching-coach-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=7 April 2004 |page=C 15}}
  • Nikita Bogoslovsky, 90, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, and writer.
  • Danuta Czech, 82, Polish Holocaust historian.
  • Sukhen Das, 65, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Bengali cinema.
  • Gébé, 74, French cartoonist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - BLONDEAUX Georges Marcel Eugene |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/CHdiyRjTxeBX |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ralph Kemplen - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/3d0e7ba620754f14bca2f57a64debe79 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=de |date=}}
  • Pierre Koenig, 78, American architect and academic.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pierre Koenig - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6b285ms |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Boris Levitan, 89, Russian mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Boris Levitan |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12946662g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • James J. Martin, 87, American historian and Holocaust denier.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=James J. Martin - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6t18pzg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (normal hill and large hill ski jumping at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Bogdan Norčič |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/95888 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Albéric Schotte, 84, Belgian road racing cyclist.{{cite web |title=Briek Schotte |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/168838 |website=procyclingstats.com |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alwyn Williams - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6wf96f3 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Ron Williams, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ron Williams Stats - Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/williro01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Austin Willis - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/65136 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Isaac Carrasco, 75, Chilean football player.
  • Fernand Goyvaerts, 65, Belgian football player, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Fernand Goyvaerts |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/fernand-goyvaerts/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Ralph Landau, 87, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur.
  • Larry McGrew, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Larry McGrew Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Larry+McGrew |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Pompeo Posar, 83, American Playboy magazine staff photographer.
  • Sławomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom).{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/may/05/guardianobituaries|last=Adams|first=John B.|title=Slavomir Rawicz|work=The Guardian|date=May 4, 2004|access-date=February 6, 2019}}
  • Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.
  • Heiner Zieschang, 67, German mathematician.

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  • Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Jesse McKinley |author-link1=Jesse McKinley |title=Victor Argo, 69; Played Heavies In Scorsese Films |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/arts/victor-argo-69-played-heavies-in-scorsese-films.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=9 April 2004 |page=B 8}}
  • Wolfgang Mattheuer, 77, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart failure.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wolfgang Mattheuer |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12134077s |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Marian McCargo, 72, American actress and champion tennis player, pancreatic cancer.
  • Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer and guru.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Kelucharan Mohapatra |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kelucharan-Mohapatra |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/with-warmth-and-comic-genius-she-was-marked-early-on-for-the-stage-1.1307702|title=With warmth and comic genius, she was marked early on for the stage|work=The Irish Times|date=April 10, 2004|access-date=February 5, 2019}}
  • Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/09/guardianobituaries.horseracing|last=Robinson|first=Nick|title=Robert Sangster|work=The Guardian|date=April 8, 2004|access-date=February 9, 2019}}
  • Peter Urban, 69, American martial artist.

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  • Shafic Abboud, 77, Lebanese painter.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Shafic Abboud |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15118263m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Herb Andress, 69, Austrian film and television actor, bladder cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Herb Andress - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/e9c07f2fe58f44d383d7afc1525a03b0 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=de |date=}}
  • Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Adrian Beers |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14154239g |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist, stomach cancer.{{cite news |last1=Associated Press |title=Chief Bey, 91, Jazz Drummer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/business/chief-bey-91-jazz-drummer.html |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=13 April 2004}}
  • Enda Colleran, 61, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
  • Ruth Tabrah, 83, American writer and ordained Buddhist minister.

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  • Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, and politician, pulmonary embolism.
  • Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.{{cite news |author1=Richard Goldstein |author-link1=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) |title=Harry Babbitt, 90, Singer Prominent in Big Band Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/arts/harry-babbitt-90-singer-prominent-in-big-band-era.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=26 April 2004 |page=B 6}}
  • Donna Michelle, 58, American model, actress, and photographer, heart attack.
  • Chance Phelps, 19, American private first class.
  • Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics: gold medal, bronze medal).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Julius Sang |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72841 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Jiří Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.{{cite news |author1=Lily Koppel |title=Jiri Weiss, 91, Czech Director Who Shaped Postwar Cinema |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/nyregion/jiri-weiss-91-czech-director-who-shaped-postwar-cinema.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=6 June 2004 |page=1 48}}

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  • Paul-Louis Boutié, 93, French art director.
  • Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Bertil Göransson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/39885 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity, laryngeal cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacek Kaczmarski |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12013280d |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian, leukemia.
  • Roland Rainer, 93, Austrian architect.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Roland Rainer |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12525420n |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Sakıp Sabancı, 71, Turkish businessman, kidney cancer.{{cite news |author1= |title=Sakip Sabanci, 71, Businessman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/business/sakip-sabanci-71-businessman.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=13 April 2004 |page=C 15}}
  • Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (men's football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Odd Wang Sørensen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26852 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
  • Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.{{cite news |author1=Frank Litsky |author-link1=Frank Litsky |title=Hy Gotkin, 81, Guard in 40's For St. John's N.I.T. Winners |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/15/sports/hy-gotkin-81-guard-in-40-s-for-st-john-s-nit-winners.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=15 April 2004 |page=C 15}}
  • Paul Hamburger, 83, British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Paul Hamburger |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14184951w |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Mamadou Aliou Kéïta, 52, Guinean football player, cardiac arrest.

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  • Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director, stroke.
  • Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom, men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Robert Richardson |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/96829 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/f3ce1cc3|last=Marlett|first=Jeffrey|title=Frank Seward|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=February 3, 2019}}
  • Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Juanito Valderrama - DB~e |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/40161/juan-manuel-valderrama-blanca |website=dbe.rah.es |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=es |date=}}
  • Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Wesley Wehr - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6sq9dxp |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George W. Whitehead - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6jd5643 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Ritchie Cordell, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, pancreatic cancer.
  • Dadamaino, 73, Italian visual artist and painter.
  • Hilda Fenemore, 89, English actress.
  • David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Fowler - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gx5m52 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-American chemical engineer and scientist.{{cite journal|last1=Guttman|first1=András|title=Obituary: Professor Csaba Horváth (1930–2004)|journal=Electrophoresis|volume=25|issue=1819|year=2004|pages=3067–3068|issn=0173-0835|doi=10.1002/elps.200490037}}
  • Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.{{cite news |title=Blue Peter's Caron Keating dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3625457.stm |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=BBC News |date=14 April 2004}}
  • Aarne Saarinen, 90, Finnish politician and a trade union leader.

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  • Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications following plastic surgery.{{cite news |title=Micheline Charest, 51; Firm She Co-Founded Won Emmys Before Scandal Led to Losses |author=Times Staff and Wire Reports |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-16-me-charest16-story.html |newspaper= The Los Angeles Times|date=16 April 2004 |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Antonio Cobas, 52, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle designer and mechanic, cancer.
  • Erik Kuld Jensen, 78, Danish football player.
  • Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/robinp.html |title=Robin John Popplestone |work=University of Edinburgh School of Informatics |access-date=February 5, 2019}}
  • Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/ill-show-you-how-an-italian-dies-hero-hostage-20040416-gdiqve.html |title='I'll show you how an Italian dies': hero hostage |journal=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=April 16, 2004 |access-date=July 13, 2021}}

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  • Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist, heart attack.
  • María Denis, 87, Argentine-Italian film actress.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=María Denis |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16559793t |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Phyllis Dillon, 59, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Phyllis Dillon |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13972756m |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre director, composer and producer.
  • Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist, accidental death.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Mitsuteru Yokoyama |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb144893780 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}

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  • Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.{{cite web |url=http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=27481 |title=ABU HAFS AL-URDANI: THE QUIET MUJAHID |publisher=North Caucasus Analysis Volume: 6 Issue: 5 |date=1 February 2005 |access-date=11 July 2011 |archive-date=December 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224213911/http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=27481 |url-status=dead }}
  • Carlos Castaño, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
  • Nour El-Dali, 75, Egyptian football player.{{cite web |title=Olympedia - Nour El-Dali |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/1005796 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
  • Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Harry Mayerovitch - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6dc5frg |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Jan Szczepański, 90, Polish sociologist and politician.

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  • Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader, targeted killing by Israel.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb160155552 |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer.
  • Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag (1998–2004).{{Cite web |title=Hartnagel Anke |url=http://webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2007/0206/mdb/mdb15/bio/H/hartnan0.html |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=webarchiv.bundestag.de}}
  • Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
  • Joe Kennedy, Jr., 80, American jazz violinist.{{cite news |author1= |title=Joe Kennedy Jr., 80, Violinist and Teacher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/nyregion/joe-kennedy-jr-80-violinist-and-teacher.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=20 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=9 May 2004 |page=1 34}}
  • Jim Ligon, 60, American basketball player.{{cite web |title=Goose Ligon Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more – Basketball-Reference.com |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/ligongo01.html |website=basketball-reference.com |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Earl Miner, 77, American professor at Princeton University.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Earl Miner - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6737c5g |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress, plane crash.
  • Bobby Wawak, 64, American NASCAR race driver.

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  • David Clarke, 95, American Broadway and motion picture actor.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=David Clarke - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/35483 |website=ibdb.com |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Tzila Dagan, 57, Israeli singer-songwriter, cancer.[https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2904158,00.html הזמרת צילה דגן הלכה לעולמה] (in Hebrew)
  • Gürdal Duyar, 68, Turkish sculptor.
  • Brice Hunter, 29, American gridiron football player, shot.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Brice Hunter Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Brice+Hunter |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, prime minister and president, stroke.{{cite news |last1=Aglionby |first1=John |title=Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/23/guardianobituaries.johnaglionby |access-date=20 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=23 April 2004}}
  • Koken Nosaka, 79, Japanese politician.
  • Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.{{cite news |title=Frances Rafferty |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frances-rafferty-38425.html |access-date=20 April 2024 |work=The Independent |date=4 May 2004}}
  • Werner Schumacher, 82, German actor.

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  • Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer, stroke.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123364/|title=Tim Burstall|website=IMDb|access-date=December 13, 2017}}
  • Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's, heart attack.{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2004/04/19/news/fortune500/mcdonalds_ceo/|title=McDonald's CEO Cantalupo dies suddenly; Bell succeeds - Apr. 19, 2004|website=money.cnn.com|access-date=2019-03-14}}
  • George Hardwick, 84, English football player, manager and coach.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=George Hardwick |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/george-hardwick/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, 60, Ukrainian football player.
  • Philip Locke, 76, British actor.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba2507d51|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722012736/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba2507d51|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-22|title=Philip Locke|work=BFI|access-date=22 August 2021}}
  • Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Norris McWhirter |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11913837b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
  • Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).{{cite news|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/f0c0b0ef|last=Drier|first=Peter|title=Sam Nahem|work=Society for American Baseball Research|access-date=February 3, 2019}}
  • Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Ronnie Simpson |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25281 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist, lung cancer.{{cite news |author1=Carol Kaesuk Yoon |title=J. Maynard Smith, 84, Dies; Saw Darwinism as Game Theory |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/world/j-maynard-smith-84-dies-saw-darwinism-as-game-theory.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=29 April 2004 |page=C 15}}
  • Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor, cancer.

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  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 47, French musician, actress, writer and painter, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Lizzy Mercier Descloux |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13897409q |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Komal Kothari, 75, Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
  • Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.{{cite news |last1=Toner |first1=Robin |title=Mary McGrory, 85, Longtime Washington Columnist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/us/mary-mcgrory-85-longtime-washington-columnist-dies.html |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=23 April 2004}}
  • Abdullah Shah, 59, Afghan serial killer, executed.
  • Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist (men's tandem cycling and men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Al Stiller |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/16707 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Saleem Akhtar, 73, Pakistani cricket player.{{cite web |title=Saleem Akhtar profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/saleem-akhtar-42977 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Franco Delli Colli, 75, Italian film cinematographer, pulmonary embolism.
  • Art Devlin, 81, American ski jumper, brain cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Art Devlin |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/85185 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Jason Dunham, 22, American marine, used his body to shield others from a grenade explosion, killed in action.
  • Sami Hadawi, 100, Palestinian scholar and author.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sami Hadawi - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6pk3g18 |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Pat Tillman, 27, American gridiron football player (Arizona Cardinals) and Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Pat Tillman |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pat-Tillman |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Manuel Alcalde, 47, Spanish Olympic race walker.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Manuel Alcalde |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67150 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Marie-Émile Boismard, 87, French biblical scholar.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Marie-Émile Boismard |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11892588n |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Saúl Ongaro, 87, Argentine football player.
  • Peter S. Prescott, 68, American author and book critic, liver disease.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Peter Prescott, 68, Author And Newsweek Book Critic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/us/peter-prescott-68-author-and-newsweek-book-critic.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=24 April 2004 |page=A 15}}
  • Ross Rutledge, 41, Canadian field hockey player and Olympian, cancer.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Ross Rutledge |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18323 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Nathan Bruckenthal, 24, United States coast guardsman, killed in action.
  • Betty Clay, 87, British scouter, daughter of Robert Baden-Powell.
  • José Giovanni, 80, French writer and film maker, cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=José Giovanni - filmportal.de |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/50ffd797327142d2bcaca888369b6776 |website=filmportal.de |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=de |date=}}
  • Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor, heart attack.
  • Lia Laats, 78, Estonian stage and film actress.
  • Estée Lauder, 97, American businesswoman, cosmetics products pioneer, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Frauendatenbank fembio.org |url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/frauendatenbank?fem_id=17053 |website=fembio.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=de |date=}}
  • Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer.{{cite web |title=Willie Watson profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/willie-watson-22340 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Des Warren, 66, British trade unionist.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/may/01/guardianobituaries.politics|access-date=22 August 2021|title=Des Warren|first=Kevin|last=Maguire|work=The Guardian|date=1 May 2004}}

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  • Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr., 89, American politician, pneumonia.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6w1344t |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Dooland Buultjens, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.{{cite web |title=Dooland Buultjens profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/dooland-buultjens-48357 |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 April 2024}}
  • Thom Gunn, 74, British poet.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Thom Gunn |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thom-Gunn |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Eddie Hopkinson, 68, English football goalkeeper.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Eddie Hopkinson |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/eddie-hopkinson/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Shota Kveliashvili, 66, Georgian sports shooter and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Shota Kveliashvili |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/44524 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Carl Melles, 77, Austrian orchestral conductor.
  • Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, 76, Japanese politician.
  • Albert Paulsen, 78, Ecuadorian-American actor.
  • Jacques Rouxel, 73, French film animator.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jacques Rouxel |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14048027h |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Sid Watson, 71, American football player and ice hockey coach, heart attack.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Sid Watson Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/search/search.fcgi?search=Sid+Watson |website=pro-football-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Claude Williams, 96, American jazz musician.{{cite news |author1=Douglas Martin |title=Claude (Fiddler) Williams, 96, Jazz Violinist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/business/claude-fiddler-williams-96-jazz-violinist.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=27 April 2004 |page=C 19}}

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  • Kurt Dossin, 91, German field handball player and Olympic champion.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Kurt Dossin |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/32063 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Rangel Gerovski, 45, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Rangel Gerovski |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/57398 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Paul Hasule, 44, Ugandan football player.{{cite web |last1=KYOBE |first1=HARUNAH |title=Paul Hasule the "V8" Will Never Be Forgotten |url=https://kawowo.com/2022/04/26/harunah-kyobe-paul-hasule-the-v8-will-never-be-forgotten/ |website=kawowo.com |access-date=20 April 2024 |date=26 April 2022}}
  • Robert Clark Jones, 87, American physicist.
  • Lee Loevinger, 91, American jurist and lawyer, complications of heart disease.{{cite news |author1=John Files |title=Lee Loevinger, 91, Kennedy-Era Antitrust Chief |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/us/lee-loevinger-91-kennedy-era-antitrust-chief.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=8 May 2004 |page=A 15}}
  • Gunther E. Rothenberg, 80, German-American historian.
  • Hubert Selby Jr., 75, American writer, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn", pulmonary embolism.{{cite news |author1=Anthony Depalma |title=Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75; Wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/business/hubert-selby-jr-dies-at-75-wrote-last-exit-to-brooklyn.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=27 April 2004 |page=C 19}}
  • Hasse Thomsén, 62, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic medalist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Hasse Thomsén |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/8189 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}

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  • Patrick Berhault, 46, French rock climber and mountaineer, climbing accident.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Patrick Berhault |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12721987p |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Jeremy Black, 52, British assyriologist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jeremy Black |url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12464718b |website=data.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=20 April 2024 |language=fr |date=}}
  • Jean Devaivre, 91, French film director and screenwriter.
  • Elizabeth Fisher, 93, Canadian Olympic figure skater.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Olympedia – Elizabeth Fisher |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/81067 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • Floyd Giebell, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).{{cite news|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/giebefl01.shtml|title=Floyd Giebell|work=Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=February 3, 2019}}
  • Buford John Schramm, 65, American businessman and aviator, founder of RotorWay, helicopter crash.
  • Kifle Wodajo, 67, Ethiopian politician and diplomat.

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  • Gaetano Badalamenti, 80, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, heart attack.
  • Alexander Bovin, 73, Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Alexander Bovin - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6f04ksq |website=snaccooperative.org |publisher= |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, 88, British diplomat and aristocrat.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Peter |title=Lord Henniker |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/may/04/guardianobituaries.obituaries |access-date=20 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=4 May 2004}}
  • Nick Joaquin, 86, Filipino writer and national artist.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Nick Joaquin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nick-Joaquin |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=20 April 2024 |language= |date=}}
  • David S. Sheridan, 95, American inventor of disposable plastic endotracheal tube.{{cite news |author1= |title=David S. Sheridan -- Inventor, 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/nyregion/david-s-sheridan-inventor-95.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=8 May 2004 |page=A 15}}
  • Sid Smith, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/s/smithsi01.html Sid Smith, Sports-Reference / Hockey-Reference.com]. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  • Stig Synnergren, 89, Swedish Army officer.

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