The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

* 1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

* 1917 – Ken Downing, English racing driver ( d. 2004 )

The 2000 and 2004 mayoral elections were both won by Ken Livingstone, who had been the final leader of the GLC.

* 1915 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer ( d. 2004 )

* Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire by Ken Auletta ( W. W. Norton, 2004 ) ISBN 0-393-05168-4

** Ken Caminiti, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* Bloom, Ken and Vlastnik, Frank ( 2004 ).

* Forensic Materials Engineering: Case Studies by Peter Rhys Lewis, Colin Gagg, Ken Reynolds, CRC Press ( 2004 ).

In 2005, filmmaker Ken Burns produced a 2-part documentary about Johnson's life, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward.

* Ferriter, Amy ; Serbesoff-King, Kristina ; Bodle, Mike ; Goodyear, Carole ; Doren, Bob ; Langeland, Ken ( 2004 ).

The event became a short-lived media sensation, and a book by Ken Silverstein called The Radioactive Boy Scout was written about the incident and published in 2004.

* Ken Ludwig: Leading Ladies ( 2004 )

* Goffman, Ken ( 2004 ), Counterculture through the ages Villard Books ISBN 0-375-50758-2

Ken Norton is a 1989 inductee of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, a 1992 inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, a 2004 inductee into the United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame, and a 2008 inductee into the WBC Hall of Fame.

In February, 2004, Mattel announced a split for Ken and Barbie, with Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, saying that Barbie and Ken " feel it's time to spend some quality time – apart ... Like other celebrity couples, their Hollywood romance has come to an end ", though Arons indicated that the duo would " remain friends ".

In 2004, Saito Mitsumasa directed a 9-episode mini-series starring Matsudaira Ken, who also starred in a 1999 49-episode TV series of the Chūshingura entitled Genroku Ryoran.

He was the official Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and 2004, losing in both races to Ken Livingstone.

* Gelder, Ken ( 2004 ).

## Ken Dryden ( July 20, 2004 )

With Desperate Dan's revamp when the Dandy got a facelift in September 2004, both were drawn in the same style ( as opposed to the ' old ' Desperate Dan where Ken drew things more detailed ).

Ken Iverson died of a stroke on October 19, 2004 at the age of 83.