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Events from the year2004 in the United States.

• President:George W. Bush (R-Texas)
• Vice President:Dick Cheney (R-Wyoming)
• Chief Justice:William Rehnquist (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)
• Senate Majority Leader:Bill Frist (R-Tennessee)
• Congress:108th

• January 4 –NASA'sMER-A (Spirit) lands onMars at 04:35 UTC.
• January 11
  • ThePhiladelphia Eagles defeat theGreen Bay Packers in the Divisional Round of the2003–04 NFL playoffs atLincoln Financial Field inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, known as "4th and 26".^[1]
  • Drake & Josh premieres onNickelodeon.
• January 19
  • U.S. SenatorJohn Kerry (D-MA) wins theIowa Democratic caucus. FormerVermont GovernorHoward Dean's concession speech ends with alively but controversial scream.
  • British children's television seriesBoohbah (made byRagdoll Productions who also madeTeletubbies) begins its first ever television premiere in the U.S. onPBS KIDS.^[2]
• January 20 –State of the Union Address.
• January 24 –NASA'sMER-B (Opportunity) lands onMars at 05:05 UTC.
• January 25 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsRoyal Rumble pay-per-view event from theWachovia Center inPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania.
• January 28 – At a hearing of the9/11 Commission, it is revealed that, in theSeptember 11 attacks, terrorists usedMace, a brand oftear gas orpepper spray, in overpowering the flight crew ofAmerican Airlines Flight 11.

• February 1 – TheNew England Patriots winSuper Bowl XXXVIII by defeating theCarolina Panthers 32–29 atReliant Stadium inHouston. Thehalftime show becomes one of the mostcontroversial events in television history, asJanet Jackson's breast is exposed to an audience of 143.6 million viewers.^[3]
• February 3 – TheCIA admits that there was no imminent threat fromweapons of mass destruction before the2003 invasion of Iraq.
• February 4 –Mark Zuckerberg launches "TheFacebook", later renamed toFacebook, a social networking website forHarvard University students.^[4]
• February 9 –Disappearance of Maura Murray: A 21-year-old nursing student disappears this evening after a car crash onRoute 112 nearWoodsville, New Hampshire, inHaverhill. Her whereabouts remain unknown.^[5]
• February 12 –Same sex marriage in the United States: TheCity and County of San Francisco beginsissuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act ofcivil disobedience.
• February 14 –Jetix is introduced onToon Disney andABC Family, making it the first trade-name to be introduced as an anime-based block.
• February 15 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsNo Way Out pay-per-view event from theCow Palace inDaly City, California.
• February 26 – The United States lifts a ban on travel toLibya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
• February 29 – The76th Academy Awards, hosted byBilly Crystal, are held at theKodak Theatre inHollywood, California, withPeter Jackson'sThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King winning a record-tying 11 Oscars (tied with 1959'sBen-Hur and 1997'sTitanic), includingBest Picture andBest Director. The film also breaks the record tied by 1958'sGigi and 1987'sThe Last Emperor for the largest sweep for a single film in Oscar history. The telecast garners nearly 43.6 million viewers, making it the most-watched broadcast since 2000.

• March 2
  • NASA announces that theMars roverMER-B (Opportunity) has confirmed that its landing area was once drenched in water.
  • John Kerry effectively clinches the2004 Democratic Party presidential nomination by winning nine out of 10 "Super Tuesday" primaries and caucuses.
• March 12 –Marcus Wesson is arrested inFresno, California, after killing nine family members. Wesson had built a cult around his family and had molested and "married" several of his daughters. He was sentenced to death in 2005.
• March 14 –World Wrestling Entertainment holdsWrestleMania XX atMadison Square Garden inNew York City, New York.
• March 31 – Four Americanprivate military contractors working forBlackwater USA are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed inFallujah,Iraq.

• April 2 –Walt Disney Pictures' 45th feature film,Home on the Range, is released to mixed reviews and middling box office numbers. It is the studio's last traditionally-animated film until 2009'sThe Princess and the Frog (not counting the animation in the 2007 movieEnchanted).
• April 22 –Pat Tillman, a formerNFL player who enlisted in theUS Army, is killed byfriendly fire in easternAfghanistan. The U.S. military does not reveal this to the public until weeks later, after initially saying he was killed by enemy combatants.
• April 28 –Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse is revealed on the television show60 Minutes II.
• April 29 – The lastOldsmobile rolls off of the assembly line.

• May – Emergence of cicadaBrood X (Brood 10) begins in the eastern United States.
• May 4 – AWNBC helicopter crashes in theFlatbush neighborhood ofBrooklyn, New York. This event is covered by rival stationWABC-TV.
• May 6 – The final episode ofFriends airs onNBC, drawing an estimated 66 million viewers inNorth America. Advertisers pay $2 million for 30 second ads.
• May 8 – Would-be "Saudi Princess" Antoinette Millard surfaces inNew York City, claiming that muggers had stolen jewels worth of $262,000 from her (she later proves to be animpostor).
• May 12 – An American civilian contractor in Iraq,Nick Berg, is shown being decapitated by a group allegedly linked toal-Qaeda on an Internet-distributed video. They state it is retaliation for the abuse atAbu Ghraib prison.
• May 13 – The final episode ofFrasier airs onNBC. The episode was viewed by 33.7 million people, being the 11th most-watched series finale and the 7th most watched from NBC.^[6]
• May 14 –Lynn Turner is convicted of the 1995 murder of her husband Glenn Turner by poisoning him with anti-freeze. She is also accused of the murder of her second husband, Randy Thompson.^[7]
• May 16 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsJudgment Day pay-per-view event from theStaples Center inLos Angeles,California.
• May 17 –Massachusetts legalizessame-sex marriage in compliance with a ruling from the state'sSupreme Court ruling in the case ofGoodridge v. Department of Public Health.
• May 26
  • Fantasia Barrino wins season 3 ofAmerican Idol.
  • Terry Nichols is convicted by anOklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995Oklahoma City bombing.
• May 29 – Dedication of theNational World War II Memorial takes place inWashington, D.C.

• June 3 –Director of Central IntelligenceGeorge Tenet tenders his resignation, citing "personal reasons".John E. McLaughlin,CIA Deputy Director, becomes the acting director until a permanent director is chosen and confirmed by Congress.
• June 4 –Marvin Heemeyer destroys many local buildings and vehicles with a modified bulldozer inGranby, Colorado. He takes away his life after the rampage.
• June 5 –Ronald Reagan, the 40thpresident of the United States,dies at his home inBel-Air,California, at the age of 93. A six-daystate funeral follows after his death.
• June 8–9 – TheG8 Summit takes place onSea Island, inGeorgia, United States.
• June 11
  • The national funeral service for Ronald Reagan is held at theNational Cathedral inWashington, D.C.
  • Terry Nichols is spared the death penalty by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995Oklahoma City bombing, exactly three years after his co-defendant,Timothy McVeigh, was executed for his role in the bombing.
• June 13 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsBad Blood pay-per-view event from theNationwide Arena inColumbus, Ohio.
• June 15 – TheDetroit Pistons defeat theLos Angeles Lakers in the2004 NBA Finals in five games to win their third NBA championship.
• June 16 – The9/11 Commission issues an initial report of its findings.
• June 21 – InMojave, California,SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately fundedspaceplane to achievespaceflight.
• June 27 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsThe Great American Bash pay-per-view event from theNorfolk Scope inNorfolk, Virginia.
• June 28
  • The U.S.-ledcoalition occupying Iraq transferssovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.
  • Union Pacific andBurlington Northern Santa Fe trains collide in a rural area outside ofSan Antonio,Texas; 40 cars are derailed, including onechlorine car. Three people die, another 50 people are hospitalized because of exposure to the gas.
• June 30 –Spider-Man 2 is released in theaters.

• July 4 – A symboliccornerstone is laid for the re-construction ofOne World Trade Center inNew York City.^[8]
• July 11 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsVengeance pay-per-view event from theHartford Civic Center inHartford, Connecticut.
• July 25 –Lance Armstrong wins a record 6th consecutiveTour de France cycling title.
• July 26–29 – TheDemocratic National Convention inBoston, Massachusetts, nominatesJohn Kerry for U.S. president andJohn Edwards for vice president. Future PresidentBarack Obama delivers the keynote address.
• July 31 – "The Last Dispatch" concert is played as a reunion concert with the bandDispatch on the Hatch Shell inBoston; 110,000 people attend, making it the single largest gathering in independentmusic industry history.

• August 3
  • TheStatue of Liberty reopens after security improvements.
  • NASA'sMESSENGER is launched (it was captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011).
• August 12 –New Jersey GovernorJames McGreevey announces that he is "agay American" and will resign effectiveNovember 15, 2004.
• August 13 –Hurricane Charley kills 27 people inFlorida, after killing four inCuba and one inJamaica. Charley makes landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida as aCategory 4 hurricane. Charley is the most intense hurricane to strike the United States sinceHurricane Andrew in 1992.
• August 13–29 – TheUnited States compete at theSummer Olympics inAthens,Greece, and win 36 gold, 39 silver, and 27 bronze medals.
• August 19 –Google becomes a publicly traded company viainitial public offering.
• August 29 – Around 200,000 protesters demonstrate inNew York City againstPresidentGeorge W. Bush and his government, ahead of theRepublican National Convention.
• August 30–September 2 – U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush and Vice PresidentDick Cheney are re-nominated at theRepublican National Convention inNew York City.
• August –Shadowville Productions business is founded in Brooklyn, New York.^[9]

• September 3 –Hurricane Frances makes landfall inFlorida. After killing two people in theBahamas, Hurricane Frances kills 10 people inFlorida, two inGeorgia and one inSouth Carolina.
• September 4 –Thomas & Friends comes toPBS KIDS as a stand-alone program withMichael Brandon taking over as the narrator.
• September 8 – In the"Rathergate" affair, the firstInternet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed byCBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970s appear instead to have been produced using modernword processing systems.
• September 12 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsUnforgiven pay-per-view event from theRose Garden inPortland, Oregon.
• September 13 – The U.S.Federal Assault Weapons Ban expires.
• September 16 –Hurricane Ivan strikesGulf Shores,Alabama, as a Category 3 storm, killing 25 inAlabama andFlorida, becoming the third-costliest hurricane in American history at the time.
• September 23
  • Tropical Storm Ivan, having come around and re-formed in theGulf of Mexico, makes its final landfall nearCameron, Louisiana, to little effect. In total, the storm kills 92 people.
  • Mount St. Helens becomesactive again.
• September 24 –Major League Baseball announces that theMontreal Expos will move to Washington, D.C., in 2005.
• September 25 –Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall nearPort Saint Lucie, Florida, near the locationHurricane Frances hit two weeks earlier. Jeanne kills over 3,030, mostly inHaiti.
• September 28 – A redesigned$50 bill is released, containing many of the same security features as its recently released $20 counterpart.
• September 29 – InMojave, California, the firstAnsari X-Prize flight takes place ofSpaceShipOne, which is competing with a number of spacecraft (including Canada'sDa Vinci Project, claimed to be its closest rival) and goes on to win the prize on October 4.
• September 30 – Firstdebate of the2004 United States presidential election.

• October 3 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsNo Mercy pay-per-view event from theContinental Airlines Arena inEast Rutherford, New Jersey.
• October 5 –Vice presidential debate between candidatesDick Cheney andJohn Edwards.
• October 8 –Second presidential debate.
• October 11 –PBS Kids debuts a programming block targeted at children aged 6–10 entitledPBS Kids Go!, with new showsMaya & Miguel and anArthur spinoff,Postcards from Buster, debuting on this day withCyberchase andArthur moving to PBS Kids Go! from PBS Kids.
• October 13 –Third presidential debate.
• October 16 – TheNew York Yankees defeat theBoston Red Sox by a score of 19–8 in Game 3 ofMajor League Baseball'sAmerican League Championship Series. The game, which pushes the Yankees to a 3–0 series lead, sets a record for longest nine-inning major league game. The Red Sox, however, rally to win the series in seven games.
• October 18 –Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling foundsFandom, Inc.
• October 19 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsTaboo Tuesday pay-per-view event from theBradley Center inMilwaukee,Wisconsin.
• October 20
  • Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes inMissouri, killing 13 people and injuring two.
  • TheBoston Red Sox defeat theNew York Yankees in Game 7 of theALCS to advance to the World Series after beingdown 3–0 in the series.
• October 25 –Martin Luther King Jr. andCoretta Scott King receive theCongressional Gold Medal.
• October 27 – TheBoston Red Sox defeat theSt. Louis Cardinals in four games to win theWorld Series for the first time since1918, breaking theCurse of the Bambino.
• October 29 –A videotape ofOsama bin Laden speaking airs on Arabic television, in which he threatens terrorist attacks on the United States and tauntsPresidentGeorge W. Bush over theSeptember 11 terrorist attacks.

• November 2
  • The2004 United States presidential election is held. The United States re-electsGeorge W. Bush of theRepublican Party to a second term asPresident of the United States, defeatingJohn Kerry.
  • 11 American states bangay marriage.
• November 5 –Pixar Animation Studios' sixth feature film,The Incredibles, is released in theaters.
• November 7 –Second Battle of Fallujah:U.S. Forces launch a major assault on theIraqi town ofFallujah, in an effort to rid the area of insurgents before the Iraqi elections in January.
• November 14
  • World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsSurvivor Series pay-per-view event from theGund Arena inCleveland,Ohio.
  • United States Secretary of StateColin Powell submits his resignation. He is replaced byCondoleezza Rice after her confirmation by theUnited States Congress.
• November 16 –NASA'shypersonicScramjet breaks a record by reaching avelocity of about 7,000 mph in an unmanned experimental flight. It obtains aspeed ofMach 9.6, almost 10 times thespeed of sound.
• November 19
  • Nickelodeon'sThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, based on thecartoon of the same name is released, earning $9,559,752 on its opening day, and then $85,417,988 on the weekend alone only behindNational Treasure.
  • The NBA'sIndiana Pacers andDetroit Pistons engage in abrawl that involves fans and players after the game is called with 45.9 seconds left in the game. The incident gets (then) PacerRon Artest suspended for the remainder of the season.^[10]
• November 21
  • TheNintendo DS is released in the United States.
• November 30
  • John Green and Charlie Haddad, who were involved in the Pacers-Pistons brawl on November 19, are banned from attending Pistons home games for life.
  • Ken Jennings loses to Nancy Zerg, ending his 74-game winning streak onJeopardy!.

• December 2 –Brian Williams replacesTom Brokaw as weeknight anchor forNBC Nightly News.
• December 3 – TheColombian government extraditesGilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, one of the most powerful drug dealers in the world, arrested in 1995 and 2003, to the United States.
• December 6 – Terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate inJeddah,Saudi Arabia, killing several people.
• December 8
  • The biggest ChinesePC producerLenovo announces its plan to purchaseIBM's global PC business, making it the world's third largest PC producer afterDell andHewlett-Packard.
  • FormerPantera guitarist"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott is murdered on stage by gunman Nathan Gale inColumbus, Ohio. Gale kills three others before being shot dead by police.
• December 12 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsArmageddon pay-per-view event from theGwinnett Center inDuluth, Georgia.
• December 16 – Twenty-three-year-old pregnant womanBobbie Jo Stinnett is found murdered in her home inSkidmore, Missouri. Her unborn baby has been cut out of her womb and is missing.^[11]
• December 21 – Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city ofMosul, killing 22 people.
• December 23 –Second Battle of Fallujah: US-UK-Iraqi forces defeat the remainingIraqi insurgents inFallujah.
• December 26
  • Thirty-fiveAmericans are among thevictims of the2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in across the region ofSouth andSoutheast Asia. There were fatalities in 14 countries, includingIndia,Sri Lanka, andThailand.
  • U.S. President George W. Bush issues a statement expressing his condolences to those who lost loved ones during thetsunami.^[12]
• December 29 – U.S. President George W. Bush speaks out publicly about the deaths caused by the9.1 magnitudeearthquake and tsunami inIndian Ocean and answers questions at thePrairie Chapel Ranch.^[13]
• December 31
  • U.S. President George W. Bush announces his committing of $350 million tosupport relief efforts for the "disaster around the Indian Ocean".^[14]
  • Simón Trinidad, high-profileFARC leader, is extradited to the United States.

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
• Iraq War (2003–2011)

• "55% of adult internet users havebroadband at home or work."^[15]

• January 7
  • Cody Baker, soccer player
  • Sofia Wylie, actress and dancer
• January 10
  • Kaitlyn Maher, singer and actress
  • Bryce Wettstein, skateboarder
• January 13 –Jack Brunault, actor
• January 14 –Paul Ji, pianist
• January 15
  • Grace VanderWaal, singer and songwriter
• January 22
  • Tyler Armstrong, mountain climber
  • Leo Torres, soccer player
• January 25 –Rohan Chand, actor
• January 26
  • Evy Leibfarth,slalom canoeist
  • Robby Novak, media personality
• January 27 –Rohan Chand, actor
• January 28
  • Emoni Bates, basketball player
  • Dior Johnson, basketball player

• February 1 –Ashley Gerasimovich, actress
• February 3 –Gia Pergolini,Paralympic swimmer
• February 8 – Max Andrews, soccer player
• February 10 –CJ Fodrey, soccer player
• February 12 –Lauren Lee,taekwondo practitioner
• February 13 –Yekeson Subah, soccer player
• February 14 –Austin Brummett, soccer player
• February 17 –Amari Bailey, basketball player
• February 18 –Kylie Rogers, actress
• February 25 –Britton Fischer, soccer player
• February 26 – TheHanselman sextuplets, notable multiple birth
• February 27 –Owen Walz, soccer player
• February 29 –Lydia Jacoby, swimmer

• March 1 –Izabella Alvarez, actress
• March 3 –Chris Brady, soccer player
• March 4 –Efrain Morales, soccer player
• March 7 –Ciena Alipio, gymnast
• March 8 –Wyatt Borso, soccer player
• March 9
  • John Cortez, soccer player
• March 12 –Audrey Shin, figure skater
• March 13
  • Ozzie Cisneros, soccer player
  • Coco Gauff, tennis player^[16]
• March 20 –Christopher Jaime, soccer player
• March 21 –Forrest Wheeler, actor
• March 23 –Asher Hong, artistic gymnast
• March 25 –Jenna Hutchins, long-distance runner
• March 27 –Quinn Sullivan, soccer player

• April 7 –Brandan Craig, soccer player
• April 15 –Christian Torres, soccer player
• April 23 –Fred Richard, artistic gymnast
• April 26 –Kobi Henry, soccer player
• April 28
  • Noah Allen, soccer player
  • Tony Leone, soccer player

• May 1 –Charli D'Amelio, social media personality
• May 2 –Anastasia Pagonis,Paralympic swimmer
• May 3 –Nare Avetian, soccer player
• May 5
  • Jenna Davis, actress
  • Olivia Greaves, gymnast
• May 13 –Oliver Bell, actor
• May 15 –Gabriel Slonina, soccer player
• May 16 –Salvador Ramos, mass murderer (d.2022)
• May 17 –Victoria Lee, mixed martial artist (d.2023)
• May 21 –Jeff Dewsnup, soccer player
• May 22 –Peyton Elizabeth Lee, actress^[17]
• May 27 –Allan Rodriguez, soccer player

• June 1 –Ixhelt González,wheelchair basketball player
• June 4
  • Sammy Smith, stock car racing driver
  • Mackenzie Ziegler, singer, dancer, and actress
• June 8 –Francesca Capaldi, actress
• June 10 –Gayle, singer
• June 15 –Sterling Jerins, actress
• June 23 –Ashley Sessa, indoor and field hockey player
• June 25 –Madison Reyes, actress and singer
• June 26 –Mikey Williams, basketball player
• June 30 –Claire Curzan, swimmer^[18]

• July 1
  • Daniela Avanzini, singer and dancer
  • Jackson Hopkins, soccer player
• July 2 –Caitlin Carmichael, actress
• July 14 –Brighton Zeuner, skateboarder

• August 1 –Neveah Gallegos, murder victim (d.2007)
• August 2 –Marlowe Peyton, actress
• August 5 –Albert Tsai, actor
• August 14 –Marsai Martin, actress
• August 15 –Thomas Williams, soccer player
• August 19 –Siena Agudong, actress
• August 20 –Alexa Pano, golfer
• August 28 –Lilly Lippeatt, gymnast
• August 30 –Juan Alvarez, soccer player

• September 1 –Iam Tongi, singer^[19]
• September 2 –Reece Gold, racing driver
• September 5 –Robin Montgomery, tennis player
• September 10
  • Gabriel Bateman, actor^[20]
  • Oona Brown, ice dancer
• September 23 –Anthony Gonzalez, actor
• September 28 –Mikaila Ulmer, entrepreneur

• October 3 –Noah Schnapp, actor^[21]
• October 5 –Reese Brantmeier, tennis player
• October 6 –Bronny James, basketball player and son ofLeBron James
• October 9 –Katarina Wolfkostin, ice dancer
• October 12 –Darci Lynne, ventriloquist, singer, and actress
• October 15 –Marilena Kitromilis, figure skater
• October 17 –Javier Mariona, soccer player
• October 18 –Erik Dueñas, soccer player
• October 26 –Pearse O'Brien, soccer player
• October 30 –Elisha Henig, actor

• November 1 –Jayden Bartels, social media personality
• November 4 –Isabella Robusto, race car driver
• November 7 –Alyssa Thompson, soccer player
• November 9 –Ian Mai, soccer player
• November 10 –Bryce Wettstein, skateboarder
• November 11 –Oakes Fegley, actor^[22]
• November 19 –Darren Yapi, soccer player
• November 27 –Jet Jurgensmeyer, actor^[23]

• December 2 –Ilia Malinin, figure skater
• December 5 –Jules LeBlanc, internet personality and actress
• December 8 –Billie Starkz, pro wrestler^[24]
• December 13
  • Aiden Flowers, actor
  • Matt Ox, rapper
• December 18 –Isabella Crovetti, child actress (Shimmer and Shine,Vampirina)
• December 20 –Rafael Jauregui, soccer player
• December 22
  • Bryce Gheisar, actor
  • Caleb Wiley, soccer player
• December 24 –Cherish Perrywinkle, murder victim (d.2013)
• December 28 –Miles Brown, actor, dancer and rapper
• December 30 –Owen Wolff, Filipino footballer

• January 1 –Elma Lewis, arts educator (b.1921)
• January 2 –Lynn Cartwright, actress (b.1927)
• January 3 –David Lipschultz, journalist (b.1970)
• January 5 –Tug McGraw, baseball player (b.1944)
• January 6 –Francesco Scavullo, photographer (b.1921)
• January 8 –John A. Gambling, radio host (b.1930)
• January 9 –Yinka Dare, basketball player (b.1972)^[25]
• c. January 11 –Spalding Gray, actor and screenwriter (b.1941)^[26]
• January 12 –Randy VanWarmer, singer-songwriter (b.1955)
• January 13
  • Phillip Crosby, American singer (b.1934)
  • Mike Goliat, American baseball player (b.1921)
• January 14
  • Uta Hagen, American actress (b.1919)
  • Ron O'Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b.1937)
• January 17
  • Carlton Sickles, American lawyer and politician (b.1921)
  • Ray Stark, American film producer (b.1915)
  • Noble Willingham, American actor (b.1931)
• January 19 –Harry E. Claiborne, lawyer and judge (b.1917)
• January 22 –Ann Miller, American dancer and actress (b.1923)
• January 23 –Bob Keeshan, actor, clown and television producer (b.1927)
• January 27 –Jack Paar, comedian and television host (b.1918)
• January 28
  • Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Naval Officer (b.1927)
  • Joe Viterelli, American actor (b.1937)
• January 29 –Ed Sciaky, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey. (b.1948)
• January 30 –Scott Walker, professional boxer (b.1969)

• February 3
  • Jason Raize, actor and activist (b.1975)
  • Cornelius Bumpus, jazz musician (b.1945)
• February 4 –Johnny Leartice Robinson, murderer (b.1952)
• February 5 –Thomas Hinman Moorer, navy admiral (b.1912)
• February 10 –Paul Ilyinsky, politician (b.1928)
• February 11 –Tony Pope, voice actor (b.1947)
• February 13 –Ted Tappe, baseball player (b.1931)
• February 15 –Jan Miner, actress (b.1917)
• February 16 –Doris Troy, singer (b.1937)
• February 23 –Carl Anderson, singer and actor (b.1945)
• February 22 –Andy Seminick, baseball player, coach and manager (b.1920)
• February 24
  • Ernest Burke, baseball player (b.1924)
  • John Randolph, actor (b.1915)
• February 27 –Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b.1910)
• February 28 –Daniel J. Boorstin, historian and Librarian of Congress (b.1914)

• March 2
  • Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b.1916)^[27]
  • Marge Schott, American Major League Baseball owner (b.1928)
• March 3 –Cecily Adams, American actress (b.1958)
• March 6
  • Frances Dee, American actress (b.1909)
  • Hercules, American professional wrestler (b.1956)
• March 7 –Paul Winfield, American actor (b.1939)
• March 8
  • Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality and publisher (b.1926)
  • Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b.1954)
• March 11 –Philip Arthur Fisher, American stock investor (b.1907)
• March 16 –Brian Bianchini, American model (b.1978)
• March 17 –J. J. Jackson, radio and television personality (b.1941)
• March 18 –Gene Bearden, American baseball player (b.1920)
• March 21 –Robert Snyder, American documentary filmmaker (b.1916)
• March 25 –Jan Berry, American musician (b.1941)
• March 26
  • J. Edward Roush, American politician (b.1920)
  • Jan Sterling, American actress (b.1921)
• March 27 –Adán Sánchez, American singer (b.1984)
• March 28 –Art James, American game-show host (b.1929)
• March 30 -Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist (b.1908)

• April 1
  • Aaron Bank, colonel, founded theUS Army Special Forces (b.1902)
  • Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b.1945)
• April 2 –Harold A. Fidler, American Associate Director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (b.1910)
• April 4 –George Bamberger, American baseball player and manager (b.1923)
• April 9 –Harry Babbitt, American singer (b.1913)
• April 11 –Hy Gotkin, American basketball player (b.1922)
• April 16 –Wilmot N. Hess, American physicist (b.1926)
• April 19 –Jim Cantalupo, American businessman (b.1943)
• April 20 –Al Stiller, American cyclist (b.1923)
• April 22
  • Jason Dunham, American marine (b.1981)
  • Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier killed in action, died inSperah,Afghanistan (b.1976)
• April 24 –Estée Lauder, businesswoman (b.1906)
• April 26 –Hubert Selby, Jr., American writer (b.1928)

• May 1 –Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (b.1919)
• May 2 –Moe Burtschy, American baseball player (b.1922)
• May 6
  • Virginia Capers, American actress (b.1925)
  • Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist (b.1923)^[28]
• May 7 –Nicholas Berg, American businessman (b.1978)^[29]
• May 9 –Alan King, American comedian and actor (b.1927)
• May 12 –Alexander Skutch, American naturalist and writer (b.1904)
• May 14
  • Charlotte Benkner, American supercentenarian (b.1889)
  • Anna Lee, British actress (b.1913)
• May 15 –William H. Hinton, American farmer and writer (b.1919)
• May 16
  • June Taylor, American choreographer (b.1917)
  • Billy Stone, American football player (b.1925)
• May 17 –Tony Randall, American actor, comedian, producer, and director (b.1920)
• May 18 –Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b.1927)
• May 19 –Jack Eckerd, American businessman (b.1913)
• May 21 –Gene Wood, American television personality (b.1925)
• May 22 –Richard Biggs, American actor (b.1960)
• May 23 –Trudy Marshall, American actress (b.1920)
• May 28 –Irene Manning, American actress and singer (b.1912)
• May 29 –Archibald Cox, 31st United States Solicitor General from 1961 till 1965. (b.1912)

• June 1 –William Manchester, American historian (b.1922)^[30]
• June 2 –Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (b.1909)
• June 3 –Morris Schappes, American educator, writer, political activist, historian, and magazine editor (b.1907)
• June 4 –Steve Lacy, American jazz soprano saxophonist (b.1934)
• June 5 –Ronald Reagan, American politician and actor, 40th president of the United States (b.1911)^[31]
• June 6 –Riley Fox, American murder victim (b.2001)
• June 7
  • Joseph L. Doob, American mathematician (b.1910)
  • Donald Trumbull, Americanspecial effects artist (b.1909)
• June 9 –Rosey Brown, American football player (b.1932)
• June 10 –Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b.1930)^[32]
• June 13
  • Dorothy Lavinia Brown, American surgeon, legislator, and teacher (b.1914)
  • Danny Dark, American voice announcer (b.1938)
  • Dick Durrance, American alpine ski racer (b.1914)
• June 16 –Herman Goldstine, American mathematician and computer scientist (b.1913)
• June 22
  • Bob Bemer, American computer scientist (b.1920)
  • Thomas Gold, Austrian-born American astrophysicist (b.1920)
  • Mattie Stepanek, American poet (b.1990)
• June 27 –George Patton IV, U.S. Army General (b.1923)
• June 30 –Chris Alcaide, American actor (b.1922)

• 

  July 1 –Marlon Brando, American actor (b.1924)
• July 5 –Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b.1921)
• July 6
  • Eric Douglas, American actor (b.1958)
  • Ignatius J. Galantin, United States Navy admiral (b.1910)
  • Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b.1946)
• July 7 –Jeff Smith, American chef and cookbook author (b.1939)
• July 8 –Albert Francis Capone, son ofAl Capone (b.1918)
• July 9
  • Rudy LaRusso, American basketball player (b.1937)
  • Isabel Sanford, American actress (b.1917)
• July 16 –Charles Sweeney, American WWII pilot (b.1919)
• July 21
  • Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b.1929)
  • Edward B. Lewis, American Nobel geneticist (b.1918)
• July 28
  • Jackson Beck, American actor (b.1912)
  • Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist (b.1916)
  • Eugene Roche, American actor (b.1928)
• July 31 –Virginia Grey, American actress (b.1917)

• August 1
  • Philip Abelson, American Nobel physicist (b.1913)
  • Alex Scott, notable victim and philanthropist (b.1996)
• August 6 –Rick James, American musician (b.1948)
• August 7 –Red Adair, American oil well firefighter (b.1915)
• August 8 –Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b.1907)
• August 13 –Julia Child, American chef, author and television host (b.1912)
• August 17 –Clyde Roberts, American college football player (b.1909)
• August 18 –Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b.1922)
• August 24 –Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist (b.1926)
• August 26 –Laura Branigan, American singer (b.1952)
• August 27
  • Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b.1946)
  • Susan Peretz, American actress (b.1940)
• August 30 –Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b.1906)

• September 2
  • Bob O. Evans, IBM computer scientist. (b.1927)
  • Vonda Phelps, American child actress (b.1915)
• September 5 –Steve Wayne, American actor (b.1920)
• September 11 –Fred Ebb, American musician (b.1928)
• September 15 –Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (b.1948)
• September 16 –Izora Armstead, American singer-songwriter (b.1942)
• September 18
  • Russ Meyer, American director and photographer (b.1922)
  • Marvin Mitchelson, American lawyer (b.1928)
• September 19 –Skeeter Davis, American country music singer-songwriter (b.1931)
• September 22 –Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler (b.1963)
• September 28 –Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b.1924)

• October 1 –Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923)
• October 3 –Janet Leigh, American actress (b.1927)
• October 4 –Gordon Cooper, aeronautical engineer, test pilot and astronaut (b.1927)
• October 5 –Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b.1921)
• October 10 –Christopher Reeve, American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, writer and activist (b.1952)
• October 16 –Pierre Salinger, American politician, and television journalist, died inCavaillon,France (b.1925)
• October 17 –Julius Harris, American actor (b.1923)
• October 23 –Robert Merrill, American opera singer and actor (b.1917)
• October 26 –Helen Elsie Austin, American attorney (b.1908)
• October 29 –Vaughn Meader, American comedian, musician, and impressionist (b.1936)

• November 1 –Mac Dre, rapper (b.1970)
• November 7 –Howard Keel, actor and singer (b.1919)
• November 9
  • Iris Chang, journalist (b.1968)
  • Ed Kemmer, actor (b.1921)
• November 13
  • Thomas M. Foglietta, lawyer and politician,United States Ambassador to Italy (b.1928)
  • Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper (b.1968)
• November 18 –Robert Bacher, physicist (b.1905)
• November 19 –Jesse Koochin, notable euthanasia victim (b.1998)
• November 20 –Ancel Keys, nutritionist (b.1904)
• November 29 –John Drew Barrymore, actor (b.1932)

• December 4 –Ron Williamson, American baseball player wrongly convicted of rape and murder (b.1953)^[33]
• December 8 –Darrell Lance Abbott, American musician, songwriter and murder victim (b.1966)
• December 18 –Srully Blotnick, American author and journalist (b.1941)
• December 19 –Herbert C. Brown, English-born Nobel chemist (b.1912)
• December 24 –Johnny Oates, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b.1946)
• December 26 –Reggie White, American football player (b.1961)
• December 28
  • Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b.1935)
  • Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b.1933)
• December 29 –Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1912)
• December 30 –Artie Shaw, American musician (b.1910)

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