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

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

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

In 2004, following an air strikes on French peacekeepers by Ivorian forces, the French military destroyed all aircraft in the Air Force of Côte d ' Ivoire.

On 6 November 2004, at least one Ivorian Sukhoi Su-25 bomber attacked a French peacekeeping position in the rebel town of Bouaké at 1 pm, killing nine French soldiers and wounding 31.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.

* 1918 – Gérard Souzay, French baritone ( d. 2004 )

* Associate member parties may include parties that do not have MEPs ( e. g., French Trotskyist parties which did not get elected in the 2004 European elections ), are from states that are not part of the European Union, or do not wish to be full members.

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs ( CFPF ) per US $ 1 – 95. 89 ( 2005 ), 96. 04 ( 2004 ), 105. 66 ( 2003 ), 126. 71 ( 2002 ), 133. 26 ( 2001 ), 117. 67 ( January 2000 ), 111. 93 ( 1999 ), 107. 25 ( 1998 ), 106. 11 ( 1997 ), 93. 00 ( 1996 ), 90. 75 ( 1995 ); note-linked at the exact official rate of 0. 055 French francs to one Pacifique franc.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

In June 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture, with the advisement of a federal district judge from Beaumont, Texas, classified batter-coated French fries as a vegetable under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

* 1917 – Odette Laure, French actress and singer ( d. 2004 )

On February 29, 2004, a coup d ' état ousted the popularly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, allegedly with the assistance of the French and United States governments ; U. S. and French soldiers were on the ground in Haiti at the time, recently arrived ( See controversy ).

The French Economy in the Twentieth Century ( 2004 ) excerpt and text search

* 1922 – Claude Helffer, French pianist ( d. 2004 )

* 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2004 )

* 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, French officials decided to build a satellite museum on the site of an abandoned coal pit in the former mining town of Lens to relieve the crowded Paris Louvre, increase total museum visits, and improve the industrial north's economy.

* 1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand ( d. 2004 )

Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006.

2004 — Prime Minister Robert Woonton visits China ; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao grants $ 16 million in development aid.

On January 6, 2004, Prime Minister Pierre Charles, who had been suffering from heart problems since 2003, died.

On 6 May 2004, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first Turkish leader to visit Greece in fifty years.

The government of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior was elected in March 2004 in a free and fair election round, but was replaced by the government of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes which took office already in November 2005.

Yvon Neptune was appointed Prime Minister on March 4, 2002, but following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, he was replaced by an interim Prime Minister, Gérard Latortue.

On 22 May 2004, Manmohan Singh was appointed the Prime Minister of India following the victory of the INC & the left front in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.

* IKEA was refused planning permission for a future store in the United Kingdom in 2004 ( to be based in Stockport, near Manchester ) by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

* 1911 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland ( b. 1930 )

* Officier de la Légion d ' Honneur, given by Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin in June 2004.

On 2 December 2004, Aigars Kalvītis became the new Prime Minister and thus head of the government.

On October 20, 2004, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned ; the next day former Prime Minister and loyal supporter of Syria Omar Karami was appointed Prime Minister.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

* 1923 – Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, Prime Minister of Jamaica ( d. 2004 )

* 1920 – Kamisese Mara, Fijian statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji ( d. 2004 )

A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.

* Herubel, Jean-Pierre V. M. " Historiography's Horizon and Imperative: Febvrian Annales Legacy and Library History as Cultural History ," Libraries & Culture, Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 293 – 312 in Project Muse

On 30 March 2004 Jean-Pierre Raffarin tendered the resignation of his government to president Jacques Chirac, who immediately re-appointed him prime minister, with the delegation to form a new government.

* Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Sax, Mule & Co, H & D, Paris, 2004 ISBN 2-914266-03-0

Jean-Pierre Vigier ( January 16, 1920, ParisMay 4, 2004, Paris ) earned his Ph. D. in Mathematics from University of Geneva in 1946 and in 1948 was appointed assistant to Louis de Broglie, a position he held until the latter's retirement in 1962.

On 28 March 2004, she was elected ( with more than 55 %) president of the region Poitou-Charentes, notably defeating Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's protégée, Élisabeth Morin, in his home region.

On 31 March 2004, Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government announced a reshuffle because of the massive losses in the French regional elections.

Barnier served as a European Commissioner for regional policy in the Prodi Commission from 1999 until 31 March 2004 having been made the Foreign Minister of France in the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin.

* Jean-Pierre Mouchon: " Un duo inédit de Frances Alda et Enrico Caruso: Parle-moi de ma mère ( Georges Bizet, Carmen, acte I )" in " Étude " n ° 26, avril-mai-juin 2004, Association internationale de chant lyrique TITTA RUFFO.

* Faye, Jean-Pierre ( 2004 ).

He served as the foreign minister of that country under the transitional government following his appointment to that post on July 23, 2004, by vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was allowed to appoint the foreign minister.

* L ' épreuve totalitaire ( essay by Jean-Pierre Montier ), Delpire, France, 2004

Despite his 16 February 2004, conviction, he was, on 31 March, appointed Minister of Culture and communication in the third cabinet of prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and was kept at this position on 2 June 2005, for the government of Dominique de Villepin.

* 2004 ( for 1994 ): Implementation of the Typed Call-by-Value lambda-calculus using a Stack of Regions, Mads Tofte and Jean-Pierre Talpin

Facing discontentment, the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin delayed all discussion of the project in 2004.

Mouscron had financial problems during the 2004 – 05 season and so the president and mayor of Mouscron Jean-Pierre Detremmerie left the club and was replaced by Edward Van Daele.

Jean-Pierre Bonenfant identified as a clerk and sales representative in 2004.

* Jean-Pierre Changeux ( for 2004 ),

A film, Le Silence de la mer, based on the book and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, was released in 1947, with a further version directed by Pierre Boutron released in 2004.

Ticky Holgado ( 24 June 1944 ; Toulouse – 22 January 2004 ; Paris ), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

* Un long dimanche de fiançailles ( A very long engagement ) ( 2004 ), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel