* 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.

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

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

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

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

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

* 1912 – Julia Child, American chef and author ( d. 2004 )

* 1928 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1978 – Nick Berg, American businessman ( d. 2004 )

* 1980 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver ( d. 2004 )

* 1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress ( d. 2004 )

* 1917 – Isabel Sanford, American actress ( d. 2004 )

* 1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer ( d. 2004 )

* 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist ( d. 2004 )

* 1984 – Adán Sánchez, American singer ( d. 2004 )

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* 1940 – Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer ( d. 2004 )

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

* 2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist ( b. 1918 )

* 2004 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies ( b. 1906 )

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

A 2004 case study concluded that the proper use of screenshots can significantly support a user ’ s “ developing a mental model of the program ” and help in “ identifying and locating window elements and objects .” This research concluded that screen shots allowed users to “ learn more, make fewer mistakes, and learn in a shorter time frame ,” which can certainly assist in increasing the time frame for full implementation of a CRM system with limited technical or human support.

In 2004, Botanical Society of America's Plant Science Bulletin disputed Dr. Temple's research as flawed which published evidence as to why the dodo's extinction did not directly cause the increasing disappearance of young trees including suggestion that tortoises would have been more likely to disperse the seeds than dodo hence discrediting Temple's view as to the dodo and the tree's sole survival relationship.

In 2003 and 2004, The Scientist magazine placed Dalhousie among the top five places in the world, outside the United States, for postdoctoral work and conducting scientific research.

The second generation of the network, named GÉANT2, began in September 2004 and continued until 2009, focusing on the construction of an advanced, hybrid research network infrastructure.

A 2004 review of research examining the EEG laboratory work in this area concludes:

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

* organized a second multi-national research expedition ( known as Expedition Two ) in the Australian outback in 2004

In a November 2004 cover article, Fortune magazine called him " The Man Who Changed Medicine " for his positive influence on medical research.

Beginning in 2004, she favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party's position, and urged President George W. Bush to support federally funded embryonic stem cell research in the hope that this science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

Dalbar Inc., a market research company, found that during the 20 years from 1984 to 2004, the average stock fund investor earned returns of only 3. 7 % per year, while the S & P 500 returned 13. 2 %.

* Semiconductor material ( date first used ): the metalloids germanium ( 1947 ) and silicon ( 1954 )— in amorphous, polycrystalline and monocrystalline form ; the compounds gallium arsenide ( 1966 ) and silicon carbide ( 1997 ), the alloy silicon-germanium ( 1989 ), the allotrope of carbon graphene ( research ongoing since 2004 ), etc .— see Semiconductor material

In 2004 marine archaeologists rediscovered a wreck, called the " Black Rock Ship ", that subsequent research has suggested may be that of the Trouvadore.

He returned to Darwin in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2011 to continue his nurseryfish research.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, for 2004 The University of Tulsa's freshman class ranked 9th nationally among research universities in the number of National Merit Scholars per capita .< ref >

Between 2004 and 2009, the university's research revenue increased by 77 per cent: the highest increase among Canadian comprehensive universities.

Murphy Student Centre ( 2002 ), MacLauchlan Arena ( 2004 ), Bill and Denise Andrew Hall residence facility ( 2006 ), expansions to the Atlantic Veterinary College ( 2007 and 2009 ), Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre ( 2007 ), a research and development laboratory which is home to the National Research Council of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and other partners, and Don and Marion McDougall Hall ( 2008 ).

His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award ( 1984 ) and Boyd McCandless Award ( 1986 ) from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award ( 1993 ) from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize ( 2004 ) from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize ( 2010 ) from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

By the late 1990s new research building on Mack's insights was beginning to mature, and after 2004, the U. S. military began once again to seriously consider the problems associated with asymmetric warfare.

for NASA overall, the substantial realignment in research priorities that followed the announcement of the Vision for Space Exploration in 2004 has led to a significant number of layoffs at Ames.

He was one of the recipients of the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, presented by President George W. Bush for his contributions to research on the problem of making decisions using imperfect information and his research on bearing risk.

* " Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre ," college research paper by Joseph Chapel, 2004

* Association Takh-Przewalski horse conservation organization, reintroduced the species to Mongolia in 2004 and 2005 and continues research and conservation on the Mongolian steppe.