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Deaths in May 2004

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3580200 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

May 2004

1

Ejler Bille, 94, Danish artist.

Paul Carbutt, 53, English cyclist and Olympian (1976).

Vladimir Chernyshov, 52, Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion (1976, 1980).

Shimon Even, 68, Israeli computer science researcher.

Ram Prakash Gupta, 80, Indian politician.

Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double), heart attack.

László Karácson, 85, Hungarian army officer and Olympic modern pentathlete (1948).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Deaths in May 2004” as wikimedia list article. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1976, 1980, 1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Deaths, Wikimedia and list can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia list article. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3580200. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1976, 1980 and 1948.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in May 2004” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.