* 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.

In 2004, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens to be the site of the new building, called Le Louvre-Lens.

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.

The leader since 3 April 2004 is Göran Hägglund.

In 2004, the famous Alf Svensson stepped down in favor of his long designated successor Göran Hägglund.

In 2004, he left the position as party leader and was succeeded by Göran Hägglund, but stayed in parliament.

On October 21, 2004, Göran Persson announced a restructuring of his government, in which Ringholm was moved from the Ministry of Finance to become Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Policy Coordination and Minister for Sport.

The Prime Minister's intentions instead became public on October 21, 2004, when Göran Persson announced a restructuring of his government in which Pär Nuder was to take over as Minister of Finance after Bosse Ringholm.

He was Minister for Democracy, Metropolitan Affairs, Integration and Gender Equality in the Ministry of Justice in the Cabinet of Göran Persson ( 2004 – 2006 ).

* United-Where is the Fire ( This video was made to raise funds to help the victims of 2004 tsunami disaster ; the DVD features an All Star band of Scandinavian musicians, consisting of Göran Edman as one of the main singers, Mikkey Dee on the drums, Tommy Denander, Kee Marcello, John Levén, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Nilsson, Jim Jidhed, Geir Rönning, Mattias Eklund, Thomas Vikstrom, Peter Tätgren, Stefan Andersson, Mats Levén and many others.

He was Minister for Education in the cabinet of Göran Persson from 2004 to 2006 and was replaced by Jan Björklund of the Liberal People's Party following the defeat of the Social Democrats in the 2006 election.

* Göran Therborn, ( 2004 ): Between Sex and Power, Family in the World, 1900 – 2000, Routledge Press ( see pp. 144 – 45 ).

* Persson, E., Rivano-Fischer, M., Eklund, M., Persson, E., Rivano-Fischer, M., & Eklund, M. ( 2004 ).

In 2004 Persson and Steen purchased the 190 hectare agricultural property Övre Torp by Lake Båven in Södermanland.

During Sweden's presidency of the EU in the first half of 2001, Persson with assistance from foreign minister Anna Lindh presided over the organization and contributed towards the enlargement which took place in 2004.

PTV3 live in Germany 2004: Alice Genese, G. P-Orridge, Markus Persson

Bergstrom competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Johanna Persson.

In December 2004, Gutiérrez unconstitutionally dissolved and appointed new judges to the Supreme Court.

He was also the first Scots Makar ( the official national poet ), appointed by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004.

David W. Leebron was appointed President in 2004 and succeeded Malcom Gillis who served since 1993.

In 2004 he was appointed as a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and associated with the Oxford Internet Institute, where he was a visiting fellow from 2004 through 2006.

In 2004, the new Andres Center for Business and Education was built, and Alan G. Walker was appointed the 20th president of the University.

In September 2004, Thomas V. Chema was appointed as the 21st president of Hiram College.

In 2001 Eastwood was appointed to the California State Park and Recreation Commission by Governor Davis, then reappointed in 2004 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Eastwood to the California Film Commission in April 2004.

Governor of Miranda from 2004 to 2008, he lost the 2008 election to Henrique Capriles Radonski, and was subsequently appointed Public Works & Housing Minister.

Takenaka was appointed as a Postal Reform Minister in 2004 for the privatization of Japan Post, operator of the country's Postal Savings system.

Since 2004, the Scottish Parliament has appointed an official Scots Makar, from the Makars of the various cities.

On 16 February 2004, Professor Edwin Morgan was appointed to both the Edinburgh post and the national role.

Popular anger at shortages in Conakry was entwined with anti-government protests, strikes, and violence over the rule of President Lansana Conté and the successive prime ministers, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Eugène Camara, appointed to fill the post after the resignation of Prime Minister François Lonseny Fall in April 2004.

The Court has had three Chief Justices to date, Elizabeth Evatt AC, Alastair Nicholson and Diana Bryant QC ( Formerly Chief Federal Magistrate, appointed to current role in 2004 The Deputy Chief Justice is John Faulks ( appointed as a Judge in 1994 and to his current position in 2004 ).

On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juárez, with Sally Field, Eve Ensler, and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city.

The country's first female cabinet minister was appointed in 2004 when Dr. Nada Haffadh became Minister of Health, while the quasi-governmental women's group, the Supreme Council for Women has been training female candidates to take part in the 2006 general election.

In an article in the December 2004 edition of the magazine Royalty Digest: A Journal of Record Peter de Malama wrote that his cousin, Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama, an officer in the Imperial Russian Cavalry, met Tatiana when he was wounded in 1914 and a romance later developed between Tatiana and the young man when he was appointed an equerry to the court of the Tsar at Tsarskoye Selo.