2004 in History (Part 3)

Events in History

Deaths 201 - 236 of 236

Nov 30 Pierre Berton, Canadian author, dies of heart failure at 84

Dec 1 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
Dec 2 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
Dec 3 Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
Dec 6 Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
Dec 7 Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
Dec 9 David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
Dec 13 David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
Dec 15 Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
Dec 16 Peter Coker, English painter, dies at 78
Dec 16 Agnes Martin, Canadian-American abstract painter dies aged 92
Dec 17 Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
Dec 18 Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
Dec 19 Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
Dec 21 Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
Dec 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politiican, Prime Minister of India (1991-96), dies at 83
Dec 23 Anne Truitt, American artist dies aged 83
Dec 23 Peter Beazley, British politician (C) (European Parliament), dies at 82
Dec 25 Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
Dec 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928)
Dec 26 Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (b. 1945)
Dec 26 Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959)
Dec 26 Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)

Dec 28 Susan Sontag, American writer, dies from Myelodysplastic syndrome at 71

Dec 29 Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
Dec 31 Gerard Debreu, French-born economist, Bank of Sweden Prize laureate (b. 1921)