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March 29, 2024

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Ventura Raymond (b. 1908-04-16 / d. 1979-03-29) alias Ray Ventura

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Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar. 2015-11-10

96

Born 1918-12-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

He was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1974 to 1982.

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Vidal
Laurent. 2015-11-10

31

Born 1984-02-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack

He was a French professional triathlete, three time French Champion (2009, 2011 and 2012) and two time Olympian. In Beijing 2008 he placed 36th while he took the 5th place in London 2012. Vidal was one of the most consistent performers in the International Triathlon Union Circuit, consistently improving years after years. Laurent Vidal spent his life between Sète, France and Christchurch, New Zealand, the hometown of his fiancée Andrea Hewitt. Vidal had a bachelor's degree in Sports Management. In April 2014 Vidal suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest whilst swimming in Sète, which led to his being placed in an induced coma. As a result, he was forced to retire from competition and focus on his role coaching Hewitt.

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White
Andrew. 2015-11-09

85

Born 1930-07-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke

He was a Scottish drummer, primarily a session musician. He is best known for replacing Ringo Starr on drums on the Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do". White was featured on the American 7" single release of the song, which also appeared on the band's debut British album, Please Please Me. He also played on "P.S. I Love You", which was the B-side of "Love Me Do". White died after a stroke in Caldwell, New Jersey.

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Hoh
Edward. 2015-11-07

71

Born 1944-10-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He was an American rock drummer who was active in the 1960s. Although primarily a studio session and touring drummer, Hoh exhibited a degree of originality and showmanship that set him apart and several of his contributions have been singled out for acknowledgment by music critics. Often uncredited and unknown to audiences, he played the drums on several well-known rock songs and albums, including those by Donovan and the Monkees. He also performed at the seminal 1967 Monterey Pop Festival as a member of the Mamas and the Papas touring band.

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Gy
Pierre Maurice. 2015-11-05

91

Born 1924-07-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was a chemist and statistician. Born in Paris, France, to Felix and Clemence, Gy graduated in chemical engineering from ESPCI ParisTech in 1946. Gy received doctorates in physics (1960) and mathematics (1975) from the University of Nancy but has always worked outside the academic mainstream, publishing 9 books and over 175 paper. He will remain one of the founding fathers of sampling science.

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Girard
René Noël Théophile. 2015-11-04

91

Born 1923-12-25. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age

He was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many academic domains. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature on his work and his influence on disciplines such as literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy.

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Kato
Haruko. 2015-11-02

92

Born 1922-11-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

She was a Japanese actress.

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Shell
Donald. 2015-11-02

91

Born 1924-03-01. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was an American computer scientist who designed the Shell sort sorting algorithm. He acquired his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1959, and published the shell sort algorithm in the Communications of the ACM in July that same year. Shellsort, also known as Shell sort or Shell's method, is an in-place comparison sort. It can be seen as either a generalization of sorting by exchange (bubble sort) or sorting by insertion (insertion sort). The method starts by sorting pairs of elements far apart from each other, then progressively reducing the gap between elements to be compared. By starting with far apart elements, it can move some out-of-place elements into position faster than a simple nearest neighbor exchange.

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Desruelles
Ronald. 2015-11-01

60

Born 1955-02-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a Belgian athlete. He started as a long jumper, and achieved a personal best of 8.08 in 1979, a national record that stood for 17 years. He then concentrated on the short sprints, and won numerous medals in 60 metres. With 6.57 seconds in 1986 he was ranked third on the indoor top performers list that season. He lost a gold medal at the 1980 European Indoor Championships, however, because of a doping offense. Desruelles won the Belgian 100 metres championships 7 times. He also won the 200 in 1985. In the 1986 European championships in Stuttgart he reached the 100 m semi-final. Desruelles was born in Antwerp. His brother Patrick Desruelles competed in the men's pole vault. Ronald was found dead in a hotel in Thailand on 1 November 2015.

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Freddie Dalton. 2015-11-01

73

Born 1942-08-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Freddie Dalton Thompson was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor and radio personality. Thompson, a Republican, served in the United States Senate representing Tennessee from 1994 to 2003, and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2008. Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson appeared in a number of movies and television shows including The Hunt for Red October, Die Hard 2, In the Line of Fire, and Cape Fear, as well as in commercials. He frequently portrayed governmental authority figures and military men. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch. Thompson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), a form of cancer, in 2004. In 2007, Thompson stated, "I have had no illness from it, or even any symptoms. My life expectancy should not be affected. I am in remission, and it is very treatable with drugs if treatment is needed in the future—and with no debilitating side effects." Reportedly indolent, Thompson's NHL was the lowest of three grades of NHL, and was the rare nodal marginal zone lymphoma. It accounts for only 1–3% of all cases. On the morning of November 1, 2015, Thompson died at the age of 73 from a recurrence of lymphoma. His funeral was held on November 6, 2015, in Nashville, Tennessee, with U.S. Senators John McCain and Lamar Alexander in attendance. He was interred at Mimosa Cemetery in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, that same day.

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Charles Herbert (alias: Charles Herbert). 2015-10-31

66

Born 1948-12-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

Known as Charles Herbert, he was an American child actor of the 1950s and 1960s. Before reaching his teens, Herbert was renowned by a generation of moviegoers for an on-screen broody, mature style and wit that enabled him to go one-on-one with some of the biggest names in the industry, and his appearances in a handful of films in the sci-fi/horror genre garnered him an immortality there. In six years he appeared in twenty Hollywood features. Herbert supported his family from the age of five and went from being one of the most-desired and highest-paid child actors of his time to one of the multitude of performers Hollywood "discarded" upon reaching maturity. His situation and the lifetime of damage it created for him only recently came to light Unable to transition into adult roles, Herbert's personal life went downhill as well. With no formal education or training to do anything else and with no career earnings saved, he led a reckless, wanderlust life and turned to drugs.

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FitzSimons
Maureen (alias: Maureen O'Hara ). 2015-10-24

95

Born 1920-08-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

She was an American and Irish actress and singer. She was a famous redhead who was known for playing fiercely passionate, but sensible heroines, often in westerns and adventure films. On numerous occasions, she worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. O'Hara was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Girard
Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée (alias: Danièle Delorme). 2015-10-17

89

Born 1926-10-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

She acted in the first of her more than sixty films in 1942 using her birth name but then adopted the stage name Delorme. She is best remembered for her starring role in the 1948 original French production of Gigi and in the 1950s Minne, both of which were based on novels by Colette.

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Hunt
David. 2015-10-11

55

Born 1960-05-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart

He was an English racing driver and younger brother of 1976 Formula One world champion James Hunt. Hunt started racing at 15 and moved up to Formula Ford in 1981. He competed in the British Formula Three Championship for five seasons from 1983 to 1987 against the likes of Ayrton Senna, Martin Donnelly, Martin Brundle and Damon Hill. He raced in the International Formula 3000 championship in 1988 and in the same year tested for the Benetton Formula 1 team. He then quit racing. At the end of 1994 he sold his multi-level marketing business, selling water filters, and purchased the bankrupt Lotus team to try to save it, but had no success. He continued to work on getting Lotus back into the top echelons of motor sport until 2009, when he sold the rights to the Lotus name to the Litespeed Formula 3 team. Litespeed applied to compete in the 2010 Formula One season but was refused entry. However, a Lotus entry backed by the Malaysian government was later given an entry for 2010 after the selection process was re-opened following the announcement that BMW Sauber would withdraw from the sport at the conclusion of the 2009 season. The team was called Lotus Racing. In the summer of 2010, 1Malaysia which ran an F1 team as Lotus Racing under licence from Lotus Cars bought Team Lotus Ventures Ltd from David Hunt. After this 1Malaysia would run its team as Team Lotus from 2011 onwards.

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Dropsy
Dominique. 2015-10-07

63

Born 1951-12-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (blood)

He was a French footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played 596 Ligue 1 matches during 17 seasons, which stood as a record for several years, and won three national championships during his career, two with Bordeaux. Dropsy represented France at the 1978 World Cup. After suffering an aneurysm in 2005, medical exams revealed Dropsy had been struck with leukemia in March 2011. After recovering initially the following year, the 63-year-old died in Bordeaux on 7 October 2015.

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Akerman
Chantal. 2015-10-05

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Born 1950-06-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide

She was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which was dubbed a "masterpiece" by The New York Times. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist filmmaking and avant-garde cinema has been substantial. According to Akerman's sister, she had been hospitalized for depression and then returned home to Paris ten days before her death.

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Mankell
Henning Georg. 2015-10-05

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Born 1948-02-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television. In January 2014, Mankell announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and throat cancer. In May 2014, he reported that treatments had worked well and he was getting better. Three weeks before his death he wrote about what happens to people's identity when they are stricken by a serious illness.

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Barsacq
Yves. 2015-10-04

84

Born 1931-06-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 150 films. He is the son of the French-Russian production designer Léon Barsacq and the nephew of the French theatre director André Barsacq.

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Narasimhan
Raghavan. 2015-10-03

78

Born 1937-08-31. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Narasimhan (August 31, 1937 – October 3, 2015) was an Indian mathematician at the University of Chicago who worked on real and complex manifolds and who solved the Levi problem for complex manifolds

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Brodin
Jacques. 2015-10-01

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Born 1946-12-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

He was a French fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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Forsberg
Charles Alton. 2015-09-24

71

Born 1944-05-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He developed two data transmission protocols popular for uploading and downloading files from dial-up bulletin board systems in the 1990s. He received a Dvorak Award for Excellence in Telecommunications in 1992 for developing ZMODEM. He was also the project engineer on the Tektronix 4010-series graphics terminals.

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Lipkin
Harry Jeannot. 2015-09-16

94

Born 1921-06-16. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. He is a recipient of the prestigious Wigner Medal

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Béhart-Hasson
Guy (alias: Guy Béart). 2015-09-16

85

Born 1930-07-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack

He was a French singer and songwriter. Béart was born Guy Béhart-Hasson (originally spelled Béhar-Hassan) in Cairo, Egypt to Lebanese Jewish parents.

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Zhang
Xu. 2015-09-12

101

Born 1913-11-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was a Chinese telecommunications engineer and academic who taught for more than five decades at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He was the first professor in China to teach radio communications and played a major role in the development of fiber-optic communication in the country. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

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Frutiger
Adrian Johann. 2015-09-10

87

Born 1928-05-24. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

He was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital typesetting eras. Until his death, he lived in Bremgarten bei Bern. Frutiger's most famous designs, Univers, Frutiger and Avenir, are landmark sans-serif families spanning the three main genres of sans-serif typefaces: neogrotesque, humanist and geometric. Univers was notable for being one of the first sans-serif faces to form a consistent but wide-ranging family, across a range of widths and weights. Frutiger described creating sans-serif types as his "main life's work," partially due to the difficulty in designing them compared to serif fonts.

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Damiens
Bastien. 2015-09-06

20

Born 1995-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a French slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2011 until his death in 2015. He was born in Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais. Damiens won gold in the K1 team event at the 2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Augsburg. Damiens died at the age of 20 after falling from the fifth floor of a building

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Masae
Aida (alias: Setsuko Hara). 2015-09-05

95

Born 1920-06-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia

She was a Japanese actress. In the West, she is best known for her performances in Yasujirō Ozu's films Late Spring (1949) and Tokyo Story (1953), although she had already appeared in 67 films before working with Ozu. After more than half a century of seclusion, Hara died of pneumonia at a hospital in Kanagawa prefecture, at the age of 95.

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Joly
Sylvie. 2015-09-04

80

Born 1934-10-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

She was a French actress and comedian. She was best known for her roles in the films Going Places (1974) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). Joly was born in Paris. She had two daughters, Mathilde Vitry and Stéphane Joly. In October 2010, she revealed she had Parkinson's disease. Joly died from a heart attack on 4 September 2015 in Paris.

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Jones
Dean Carroll. 2015-09-01

84

Born 1931-01-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was an American actor. Jones was best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977 such as The Love Bug (1968). Jones also originated the role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim's Company. Jones died on September 1, 2015, at the age of 84, of Parkinson's disease.

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Sacks
Oliver Wolf. 2015-08-30

82

Born 1933-07-09. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Cancer

He was an English neurologist and author, famous for writing best-selling case histories of his patients' disorders, with some of his books adapted for film and stage. His 1973 book Awakenings, an autobiographical account of his efforts to help people with encephalitis lethargica regain proper neurological function, was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name in 1990 starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. He and his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain were the subject of "Musical Minds", an episode of the PBS series Nova. In 2008 Sacks was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to literature. Sacks underwent radiation therapy in 2006 for an uveal melanoma in his right eye. He discussed his loss of stereoscopic vision, caused by the treatment, in a 2010 article, then expanded on it in his book The Mind's Eye later that year. In January 2015, metastases from the ocular tumour were discovered in his liver and brain. Sacks announced this development in a February New York Times op-ed piece and estimated his remaining time in "months". He expressed his intent to "live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can". He added: "I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.

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