2004 in Italy

Events during the year 2004 in Italy.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 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.

Film

 * 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)

Deaths



 * 3 April – Gabriella Ferri, singer (b. 1942).
 * 27 May – Umberto Agnelli, industrialist, head of Fiat (b. 1934).
 * 4 June –
 * Nino Manfredi, actor (b. 1921).
 * 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).
 * 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).
 * 16 November – Massimo Freccia, Italian-American conductor (b. 1906).
 * 14 December – Agostino Straulino, sailor (b. 1914).
 * 19 December – Renata Tebaldi, opera singer (b. 1922).