* 1939 – John Peel, English radio host and producer ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Micheline Charest, French-Canadian television producer ( b. 1953 )

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

New York City impresario Steve Sylvester and producer Sal Abbetiello launched Stevie Sly's Freestyle Party show at the Manhattan live music venue Coda on April 1, 2004.

* 1915 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director ( d. 2004 )

* 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer ( McFadden & Whitehead ) ( d. 2004 )

* 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment ( d. 2004 )

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

* 1922 – Russ Meyer, American film director and producer ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Terry Melcher, American record producer ; son of Doris Day ( b. 1942 )

Official estimates indicate that Turkmenistan is still the second largest gas producer in the CIS, after Russia, and a 2004 official estimate places reserves at about 23 trillion m³.

* January 26 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer ( d. 2004 )

** Russ Meyer, American film director and producer ( d. 2004 )

In 2004, Viola began work on a new production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and executive producer Kira Perov.

On 28 August 2004, Besson married film producer Virginie Silla.

In 2004, Straczynski was approached by Paramount Studios to become a producer of the Star Trek: Enterprise series.

He has also branched out as a record producer, having produced such albums as The Mission's album Children, The Datsuns ' second album Outta Sight, Outta Mind ( 2004 ) and Uncle Earl's Waterloo, Tenneesee album of Old-time music, released in March, 2007 on Rounder Records.

He was presented with an award at the Air Force Association's 57th Annual Air Force Anniversary Dinner in Washington, D. C. on September 14, 2004 because of his role as star and executive producer of Stargate SG-1, a series which has portrayed the Air Force in a positive light since it first premiered.

Burnett was absent from the day-to-day operations from 2000 to 2004, and was replaced by Barbara Gaines and Maria Pope, both of whom continue to serve as executive producers, with Gaines currently acting as on-air producer.

Erlandson continued to work as a producer and session musician, eventually forming the experimental group RRIICCEE with controversial artist, Vincent Gallo and Love began a solo career, releasing her debut, America's Sweetheart in 2004.

Barry Navidi, producer of the 2004 film The Merchant of Venice, was reported to be working on a script for a Hollywood film about the Munich air crash.

Duff's mother, Susan Colleen ( née Cobb ) is a homemaker and film producer ( co-executive producer of A Cinderella Story ( 2004 ) and producer of The Perfect Man ( 2005 ) and Material Girls ( 2006 ), as well as the manager of her sister Hilary ).

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

* Peter Batchelor, Kees Kingma, Guy Lamb, Demilitarisation and Peace-building in Southern Africa: The role of the military in state formation and nation-building, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004

Henry had Mary sign secret documents, illegal in Scottish law, that would ensure Valois rule in Scotland even if she died without an heir ( Guy 2004: 91 ).

* Guy, John, My Heart is my Own, London, Fourth Estate, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84115-752-8.

* 1982: Blues Alive VHS ( re-released on DVD in 2004 as Jammin ' With the Blues Greats ), a concert filmed in June 1982 at New Jersey's Capitol Theater with a lineup of Mayall, Mick Taylor, John McVie, and Colin Allen, and guests Etta James, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, and Albert King

" Queer Eye For The Shy Guy " ( 2004 ): a straight man is made over to attend a speed dating party.

The Oblongs is the fourth series to be revived as a result of Adult Swim ; other series include Family Guy, Futurama, and Home Movies before its ultimate cancellation in 2004.

From 2000 to 2004, during the second period of its participation in the Belgian federal government and under Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, the VLD allegedly lost most of its ideological appeal.

Then-current VLD prime minister Guy Verhofstadt was rejected as a candidate for the presidency of the European Commission in June 2004.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

( 2004 ), " Peterotica " from the Family Guy ( 2006 ), SpongeBob SquarePants ( 2007 ), The Big Bang Theory ( 2009 ).

In the 1969 war film Battle of Britain, the Robert Shaw character ' Squadron Leader Skipper ' was explicitly based on Malan, as recounted by director Guy Hamilton in the documentary ' A Film for the Few ', which was included with the 2004 Special Edition DVD release.

* Wiles, Gary J .; Johnson, Nathan C .; de Cruz, Justine B .; Dutson, Guy ; Camacho, Vicente A .; Kepler, Angela Kay ; Vice, Daniel S .; Garrett, Kimball L .; Kessler, Curt C. & Pratt, H. Douglas ( 2004 ): New and Noteworthy Bird Records for Micronesia, 1986 – 2003.

* Guy, John ( 2004 ).

Early in 2004, Rodgers joined Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox ( Hendrix's Cry of Love ), Buddy Guy, Joe Satriani, Kid Rock's Kenny Olson, Alice in Chain's Jerry Cantrell, Double Trouble, Indigenous, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and blues legend Hubert Sumlin ( Howlin ' Wolf and Muddy Waters ) and performed three sold-out shows in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco as " Experience Hendrix ".

Wilson has appeared in ten films with Stiller ( a long-time friend ) to date: The Cable Guy ( 1996 ), Permanent Midnight ( 1998 ), Meet the Parents ( 2000 ), Zoolander ( 2001 ), The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ), Starsky & Hutch ( 2004 ), Meet the Fockers ( 2004 ), Night at the Museum ( 2006 ), and the sequels Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian ( 2009 ) and Little Fockers ( 2010 ).

The first of the three ferries, named for Guy V. Molinari, a former member of the United States House of Representatives for Staten Island's district and later a Borough President of Staten Island, arrived on schedule, September 27, 2004, and entered service in 2005.

The show also featured makeovers of members of the Boston Red Sox following their 2004 World Series victory, several holiday specials and in the final season, a " Mister Straight Guy " pageant featuring subjects from across the show's history.

Australia's take on the show, Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, premiered on Network Ten in February 2005 but was cancelled after three episodes ; a Spanish version named El equipo G aired on Antena 3 for only a few weeks ; the German equivalent, RTL 2's Schwul macht cool (" Gay makes you cool ") was canceled after six episodes ; Queer, Cinq Experts dans le Vent was shown in France on TF1 for eight episodes in 2004 ; and Esquadrão G, a Portuguese version of the show, was cancelled in Portugal after the end of the first season.

The soundtrack for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was released February 10, 2004, in the US.

A tie-in book titled Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab 5's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better and Living Better was published in 2004 by Clarkson Potter / Publishers, an imprint of Random House.