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See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events during the year 2004 in Italy.

• President: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
• Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi

• March 6 - Sanremo: Marco Masini wins with the Flying Man at the 54th edition of the Italian Song Festival.
• March 20 - second world day against the war; millions of people take to the streets all over the world, hundreds of thousands in Rome.
• April 13 - in Iraq four Italians were kidnapped. They are Maurizio Agliana, Umberto Cupertino, Fabrizio Quattrocchi and Salvatore Stefio. Quattrocchi l was killed, and the other three were freed after 56 days.
• 8 June - the three Italian hostages and a Pole are released in Iraq during a targeted action.
• 1 September - in the Mazara del Vallo area, a 3 years old girl named Denise Pipitone disappears while playing in the street. the issue will be closed to be reopened in 2021.
• 1–11 September – 61st Venice International Film Festival
• November 25 - the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi grants pardon to Graziano Mesina, known as "Grazianeddu", former red primrose of Sardinian banditry.
• December 7 - after three years of restructuring, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan reopens with the opera L'Europarecognata by Antonio Salieri.
• December 16 - the Italian Creative Commons Licenses are presented in Turin.

• Tre metri sopra il cielo (March 12, 2004)
• Tu la conosci Claudia? (December 16, 2004)
• Christmas in Love (December 17, 2004)
• Volevo solo dormirle addosso (October 15, 2004)
• L'odore del sangue (April 2, 2004)
• Certi bambini (May 14, 2004)
• Che ne sarà di noi (March 5, 2004)
• Non ti muovere (March 12, 2004)
• Agata e la tempesta (February 27, 2004)
• L'amore è eterno finché dura (February 20, 2004)
• Mi piace lavorare (Mobbing) (February 13, 2004)
• La spettatrice (May 7, 2004)
• Dopo mezzanotte (April 23, 2004)
• La rivincita di Natale (January 23, 2004)
• Le chiavi di casa (September 10, 2004)
• Stai con me (June 25, 2004)
• Le conseguenze dell'amore (September 24, 2004)

• 3 April – Gabriella Ferri, singer (b. 1942).^[1]
• 27 May – Umberto Agnelli, industrialist, head of Fiat (b. 1934).^[2]
• 4 June –

• Nino Manfredi, actor (b. 1921).^[3]
• Anthony Steffen, film actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)

• 28 July – Tiziano Terzani, journalist (b. 1938).
• 31 July – Laura Betti, actress (b. 1927).
• 22 August – Reginaldo Polloni, rower (b. 1916).^[4]
• 23 August – Francesco Minerva, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1904).
• 26 August – Enzo Baldoni, journalist (b. 1948).
• 28 August – Silvana Jachino, actress (b. 1916).
• 12 November – Lelio Marino, Italian-born American entrepreneur (born c. 1935).^[5]
• 16 November – Massimo Freccia, Italian-American conductor (b. 1906).^[6]
• 14 December – Agostino Straulino, sailor (b. 1914).^[7]
• 19 December – Renata Tebaldi, opera singer (b. 1922).^[8]