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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1925-12-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco. He was the company's president up until 2002, where he took a ceremonial role in its management. Following the formation of Bandai Namco Holdings, Nakamura would retain an honorary position in the video game division, Bandai Namco Entertainment.
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Born 1955-02-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
He was a Puerto Rican-American actor and voice actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1987 film RoboCop. Other film roles include Quigley in Blank Check (1994), Harbinger in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Shan Yu in Mulan (1998), Eduardo Ruiz in Traffic (2000) and Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3 (2013). Ferrer's notable television roles include FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017), Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan (2001–2007), Tarakudo on Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2005) and NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles (2012–2017). Ferrer died at his Santa Monica home of throat cancer at the age of 61.
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Born 1965-12-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a Belgian comics artist and cartoonist best known for his work on Peyo's The Smurfs and Benoît Brisefer (known in Dutch as Steven Sterk). Pascal Garray died in Liège, Belgium at the age of 51. Prior to his death, Garray had completed work on his last comic for The Smurfs, "The Smurfs and the Purple Bean" (Les Schtroumpfs et les haricots Mauves), which was scheduled to be released in September 2017.
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Born 1934-03-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. During the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon. As he re-entered the Apollo Lunar Module after Harrison Schmitt on their third and final lunar excursion, he was the last person to walk on the Moon. Cernan died in a hospital in Houston on January 16, 2017, at the age of 82.
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Born 1927-02-17. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
Paul Lombard, was a French lawyer.
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Born 1930-03-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a British photographer and filmmaker who married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Snowdon was married twice. He was married first to Princess Margaret (1960 to 1978), and second to Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg (1978 to 2000). Lord Snowdon died peacefully at his home in Kensington
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Born 1928-01-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation. He also wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III. After the success of The Exorcist, Blatty reworked Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane! (1960) into a new novel titled The Ninth Configuration, published in 1978. Two years later, Blatty adapted the novel into a film of the same title and won Best Screenplay at the 38th Golden Globe Awards. Some of his other notable works are the novels Elsewhere (2009), Dimiter (2010) and Crazy (2010). Blatty died of multiple myeloma at a hospital in Bethesda, five days after his 89th birthday.
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Born 1931-11-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American rockabilly and swing musician. The last surviving member of Buddy Holly's "touring" Crickets for the 1959 Winter Dance Party, Tommy Allsup died at 85 years old in a hospital in Springfield, Missouri after complications from hernia surgery.
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Born 1924-03-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French author, senior judge and Government Minister. Adviser to the Supreme Court from 1974, he was promoted to Attorney General at the Cour de Cassation in 1984. He became Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice in Michel Rocard's first and second governments (12 May 1988 to 1 October 1990). He famously committed a verbal blunder in the National Assembly during a 1990 debate, stating: "In 1989, out of 52 escapees, we've recaptured 53."
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Born 1935-01-06. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French-born American psychotherapist and writer who wrote extensively about transactional analysis (TA). His writings focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and interpersonal power plays. In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present and is gaining recent recognition worldwide. He was also considered the originator of the theory called Stroke Economy.
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Born 1924-12-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Portuguese politician, who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th President of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first Secretary-General of the Socialist Party, from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. He had been admitted to the hospital on 13 December, and although his condition at first showed slight signs of improvement, he lapsed into a coma on 26 December from which he never recovered.
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Born 1938-08-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American film and television actress. York never married. She once said, "Like Cinderella, I always wanted to marry the handsome prince...but they don't make glass slippers in size ten!" She died in Van Nuys, California from cancer, aged 78.
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Born 1918-10-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a French soprano, particularly associated with the French repertory, especially Marguerite, Thais and Salomé (Massenet). She was born in Toulouse. Following her career in France and other European centres, she was a teacher and "perceptive observer of the French operatic scene". She was married to French baritone Roger Bourdin in May 1944, with whom she had two daughters, one of whom is Françoise Bourdin.
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Born 1936-06-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
French trainer for Federation Française d'Athlétisme.
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Born 1924-08-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French orchestral and opera conductor.
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Born 1956-06-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was a French Trade unionist, and leader of the French trade union CFDT (French Democratic Confederation of Labour or Confédération française démocratique du travail).
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Born 1933-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an alpine ski racer from France. An Olympic gold medalist, he was born in Le Bardo, Tunisia. His wife Edith and youngest son Patrick were among the members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult who committed suicide in 1994. He married his second wife Christiane in 1999; she died of a heart attack in 2012. After a stroke, Vuarnet died at age 83 in 2017 at Sallanches, Haute-Savoie.
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Born 1944-09-04. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was a British economist, senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. A student of James Meade, Atkinson virtually single-handedly established the modern British field of inequality and poverty studies. He worked on inequality and poverty for over four decades. Atkinson died from multiple myeloma in Oxford, England, aged 72.
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Born 1932-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff AfterMASH from 1983 to 1985. According to his son John Christopher, the 84-year-old actor died as the result of small-cell carcinoma. He had been diagnosed with cancer about 18 months earlier, according to his New York-based agent, Robert Malcolm.
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Born 1934-02-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Pierre Barouh was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film. Barouh died in the Hôpital Cochin in Paris from a heart attack at the age of 82.
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Born 1956-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
She was an American actress, writer, and comedian. Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008). Fisher was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series 30 Rock and Catastrophe. She was posthumously made a Disney Legend in 2017, and in 2018 she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Fisher was on a commercial flight on December 23, 2016, from London to Los Angeles when she suffered a medical emergency around fifteen minutes before the aircraft landed. A passenger seated near Fisher reported that she had stopped breathing; another passenger performed CPR on Fisher until paramedics arrived at the scene. Emergency services in Los Angeles were contacted when the flight crew reported a passenger unresponsive prior to landing. Fisher was taken by ambulance to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she was placed on a ventilator. In a June 16, 2017, news release, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said that the exact cause of death could not be determined, but sleep apnea and the buildup of fatty tissue on the walls of arteries were among the contributing factors. A full report from June 19, 2017, stated that Fisher had cocaine in her system, as well as traces of heroin, other opiates, and MDMA. The report also stated that the investigation was unable to determine when she had taken the drugs, and whether they contributed to her death. Her daughter Billie Lourd stated that Fisher "battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life [and] ultimately died of it. She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases... I know my Mom, she'd want her death to encourage people to be open about their struggles."
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Born 1927-03-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television productions since 1952. Gensac is the oldest nominee to date in the category César Award for Best Supporting Actress, nominated in 2015 for her role as Marthe in the film Lulu femme nue. Claude Gensac was married twice: from 1952 to 1954 with the actor Pierre Mondy and from 1958 to 1977 with Henri Chemin, a racer and PR Manager of Ford France with whom she had a son. She died in her sleep.
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Born 1963-06-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
He was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He achieved seven number one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. He was widely known for his success in the 1980s and 1990s, including Wham! singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas" and solo singles such as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith". In March 2017, a senior coroner in Oxfordshire attributed Michael's death to dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and a fatty liver.
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Born 1948-10-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an English musician, best known as a singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist with rock band Status Quo. Parfitt began his career in the early 1960s, playing in pubs and holiday camps. He joined Status Quo in 1967 when they were looking for an additional singer. He wrote songs for the band and remained with them for 49 years. He occasionally guested with other bands, and recorded an unreleased solo album in 1985. In 2016, Parfitt temporarily retired from touring with the band due to ill health, and died in December of that year. His only solo album, Over and Out, was released posthumously in 2018. Following a heart attack, Parfitt had a quadruple heart bypass in 1997 at the age of 48, when he was told by doctors that he could die "at any time" unless he changed his lifestyle of drugs, smoking and heavy drinking. At the height of the band's fame, Parfitt and his long-time Status Quo partner Francis Rossi were notorious for drinking and drug use, with Parfitt claiming to have been spending up to £1,000 a week on cocaine, and up to £500 a week on vodka. In his later life, following several health issues, Parfitt led a more sober life, stating in a 2014 interview that he had not smoked cannabis for 27 years and had not used cocaine for 10 years. He had a throat cancer scare in December 2005.[29] He suffered a heart attack in December 2011 and underwent surgery on the following day.[30] On 1 August 2014, while on a European tour with Status Quo, Parfitt was hospitalised in Pula, Croatia, forcing the cancellation of six shows on the tour. He had suffered a heart attack while on his tour bus after performing a concert in Austria, and had a stent inserted. He later told the Daily Mail he was pleased to have suffered another heart attack as it had forced him to stop smoking and drinking after 50 years. On 14 June 2016, after playing with the band in Antalya, Turkey, he suffered another heart attack and was hospitalised again. His management described his condition as serious. Parfitt was clinically dead for several minutes, resulting in mild cognitive impairments. The band announced that their ongoing tour would continue with Freddie Edwards, son of bassist John "Rhino" Edwards, as a temporary replacement. On 22 June it was announced that Parfitt had been flown home to the UK and was described as "comfortable" in hospital in London, where he was undergoing more tests. He had a defibrillator fitted into his chest. In September 2016 it was announced that he would not be well enough to tour in the autumn, and he did not intend to tour with the band for the foreseeable future. Parfitt died in a Marbella hospital from sepsis, after being admitted on Thursday evening, 22 December, following an infection of a pre-existing shoulder injury.
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Born 1980-02-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French professional basketball player who played 23 times for the men's French national basketball team between 2007 and 2008. He died from a traffic accident.
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Born 1920-02-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She is considered to have been one of the great French actresses of the 20th century. Morgan was the inaugural winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1992, she was given an honorary César Award for her contributions to French cinema.
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Born 1917-02-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Her sisters were actresses Eva and Magda Gabor. Outside her acting career, Gabor was known for her extravagant Hollywood lifestyle, her glamorous personality, and her many marriages. In total, Gabor had nine husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders. She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman—not just a man with muscles."
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Born 1912-08-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a French singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s before her career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II.
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Born 1920-02-03. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, described in Emergency Medicine in 1974. He also invented the Micro Trach portable oxygen system for ambulatory patients and the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, or "flutter valve", which drains blood and air out of the chest cavity. A statement from his family said Heimlich died at The Christ Hospital after complications from a heart attack in his home in Hyde Park, Cincinnati.