2004 in Politics - Deaths

Deaths

(Very partial list of politicians who died in 2004)

  • January 6 - Dominica prime minister Pierre Charles dies of heart problems.
  • January 15 - Maaruf al-Dawalibi, former Prime Minister of Syria.
  • January 16 - Kalevi Sorsa, former Prime Minister of Finland.
  • February 11 - Jozef Lenárt, former Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.
  • February 24 - Indian politician Sikander Bakht, governor of Kerala state, dies of an illness.
  • February 26 - Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash.
  • February 29 - Sir Harold Bernard St. John, former Prime Minister of Barbados.
  • March 1 - Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, former Prime Minister of Comoros.
  • March 5 - Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, former President of Ecuador.
  • March 20 - Juliana of the Netherlands, former Queen of the Netherlands.
  • April 9 - Sein Lwin, former President of Myanmar.
  • April 18 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, former President of Fiji.
  • May 9 - Russian-backed Chechnyan president Akhmad Kadyrov is assassinated.
  • May 17 - Iraq Interim Governing Council president Ezzedine Salim is assassinated.
  • June 2 - Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, former acting President of Ethiopia.
  • June 5 - Former US President Ronald Reagan dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.
  • June 10 - Xenophon Zolotas, former Prime Minister of Greece.
  • June 16 - Thanom Kittikachor, former Prime minister of Thailand.
  • June 24 - Carlos Alberto Lacoste, former acting President of Argentina.
  • June 25 - L.F. Ramdat Misier, former acting President of Suriname.
  • Jule 5 - Hugh Lawson Shearer, former prime minister of Jamaica.
  • July 6 - Austrian president Thomas Klestil dies of a heart attack just two days before he was to retire.
  • July 10 - Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo, former Prime Minister of Portugal.
  • July 19 - Zenko Suzuki, former Prime Minister of Japan.
  • September 12 - Ahmed Dini Ahmed, former Prime Minister of Djibouti.
  • September 23 - Winston Cinac, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
  • November 11 - Former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat dies from a mysterious illness, aged 75.
  • November 18 - Alfred Maseng, former President of Vanuatu.
  • November 26 - Hans Schaffner, former President of Switzerland.
  • December 23 - P.V. Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India.

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