Famous People Who Died in 2004

• Adair, Red

  Oil well firefighting legend

• Arafat, Yasser

  Head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1969-2004

• Beene, Geoffrey

  Designer of LBJ's daughter's wedding dress

• Brando, Marlon

  Don Corleone in The Godfather

• Cartier-Bresson, Henri

  French photojournalism pioneer who snapped the liberation of Paris

• Charles, Ray

  The singer of "Georgia On My Mind"

• Child, Julia

  The popular chef who wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking

• Cooper, Gordon

  Mercury 7 astronaut and pilot of Gemini 5

• Crick, Francis

  Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

• Dangerfield, Rodney

  The comedian who said "I don't get no respect"

• Derrida, Jacques

  French philosopher whose deconstructionist books included 'Writing and Difference'

• Gray, Spalding

  Creator of Swimming to Cambodia and other monologues

• Holm, Eleanor

  The Olympic swimmer kicked off the 1936 American team for partying

• James, Rick

  Funky singer of "Super Freak"

• Keeshan, Bob

  TV's Captain Kangaroo

• Larsson, Stieg

  The author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

• Leigh, Janet

  The sexy star of Hitchcock's Psycho

• Paar, Jack

  The Tonight Show host before Johnny Carson

• Peel, John

  Influential British DJ from BBC's Radio 1

• Randall, Tony

  Felix Unger on the TV series The Odd Couple

• Reagan, Ronald

  40th President of the United States, 1981-89

• Reeve, Christopher

  The Superman star who later was paralyzed

• Shaw, Artie

  The clarinet-playing big band leader who recorded Begin the Beguine

• Tillman, Pat

  The NFL-playing soldier killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan

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