* 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 )

German brand Smart offered a kei version of its Fortwo called the Smart K in Japan from 2001 to 2004 with specially developed rear fenders reduced tire dimensions and track width to conform to kei car standards, however it suffered from poor sales and was the worst-selling kei car of its time.

For 2004, XM Satellite Radio, second-row bucket seats, and a tire pressure monitoring system were made standard on all Escalades except the EXT.

The year's unofficial winners were Greg and " Kalbas " in a 2004 Mercedes CLK-DTM, who edged out a week-old Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren because a tire was destroyed just short of the finish line.

One of his sons, Michael Pratt, was among those convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to six months in jail on April 27, 2006 for his role in the tire slashing of 25 Republican get-out-the-vote vans the night before the presidential election on November 2, 2004.

Safety upgrades for 2004 included a roll-sensing feature for the side curtain airbags, a tire pressure monitoring system, and an optional rear backup camera system.

( Prior to 2004 the spare tire was accessible from inside the vehicle where the third row seating would subsequently be located ; beginning in 2004 the spare tire is accessible from underneath the vehicle.

Also standard for 2004 was a tire pressure monitor.

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

* Cessna 680 – twin-engined mid-sized business jet produced since 2004.

Eastons had a good business supplying rams for water supply purposes to large country houses, and also to farms and village communities, and a number of their installations still survived as of 2004.

" A general lack of education and experience about business is a significant challenge to prospective entrepreneurs ," was the report on Native American entrepreneurship by the Northwest Area Foundation in 2004.

Private domestic air carriers began to win business at the expense of Nigeria Airways, the former government-owned national airline which was declared bankrupt in 2004.

In June 2004 SGI sold the business, later renamed to Alias Systems Corporation, to the private equity investment firm Accel-KKR for $ 57. 1 million.

In April 2004, SGI announced the sale of its Alias software business for approximately $ 57 million.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

In 2004 Numan took control of his own business affairs again, launching the label Mortal Records and releasing a series of live DVDs.

* 2002 – Shell Oil Company begins converting its Texaco stations to the Shell brand, a process expected to be complete by June 2004, " the largest retail re-branding initiative in American business history.

On the commentary soundtrack to the 2004 DVD release of Star Wars, writer and director George Lucas describes R2-D2 as " the main driving force of the movie ... what you say in the movie business is the MacGuffin ... the object of everybody's search ".

Intel Xeon processors dominated the multiprocessor market for business PCs and were the only x86 option until the release of AMD's Opteron range of processors in 2004.

The university's second business school was launched on this campus in 2004.

( An undergraduate business program focusing on technology and entrepreneurship was launched in Fall 2004 and was for a while administratively separate from the Stuart School.

In 2004 the PMC business was boosted, because the US and Coalition governments hired them for security in Iraq.

In 2004, Bydgoszcz launched an Industrial and Technology Park of 283 hectares, an attractive place for doing business as companies which relocate there receive tax breaks, 24 hour security, access to large plots of land and to the media, the railway line Chorzów Batory – Tczew ( passenger, coal ), the DK5 and DK10 national roads, and future freeways S10 and S5.

However a 2004 National Audit Organization report noted that the business case was unproved ; conditions at the site of the Variable Speed Limits trial were not stable before or during the trial, and the study was deemed neither properly controlled nor reliable.

On June 11, 2004, the WBC announced it would enter Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation ( i. e., business closing and total asset sell-off ) proceedings, effectively ending its existence.

Beginning operation in 2004, SCB-TV has been providing Henry, Lamar and Butts counties with local news, business information and entertainment.

In 2004, The Edge ( a business newspaper ) estimated that APs were worth approximately RM 35, 000 each.

The closure of the Longview Bank in 2004 left Webber's Auto Body ( 1981 ) as the longest lasting remaining business in the village in 2009.

There were 9 fatalities during a F3 tornado on April 20, 2004, which heavily damaged the downtown business district.

In February 2004, a fire broke out in the downtown business district and destroyed several of the historic buildings and antique shops for which Rossville has been known.

Today, Groenlo is known primarily for its beer brewery Grolsch ( literal meaning: " from Grol "), which was in business since 1615, but has been closed in 2004 when it moved to Boekelo.

Located on Grove circle in Sellersville, and founded in 2004 by Josh Laincz, it continues to be a successful local small business.