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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 1939-08-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was an American film director, writer, producer, and actor known for his work on horror films, particularly slasher films. He was best known for creating the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise featuring the Freddy Krueger character, directed the first installment and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and also co-wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors with Bruce Wagner. Craven also directed the entire Scream series featuring Ghostface. Some of his other films include The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn, Cursed, Red Eye and My Soul to Take. Craven died of brain cancer at his home in Los Angeles.
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Born 1978-07-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a British professional open-wheel racing driver. Just before his death, he was competing part-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 25 Honda for Andretti Autosport. Earlier, he competed in the Champ Car series from 2004 to 2007, scoring four wins. He also competed in Formula One in the 2003 season with Minardi and Jaguar and was the winner of the 2001 International Formula 3000 championship. He was also a winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. To date, he is the tallest person to have raced in Formula One. On 23 August 2015, Wilson suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident at the Pocono Raceway, which caused his death the following day. This was the first death in IndyCar since 2011, when Dan Wheldon died in a crash during the IZOD IndyCar World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The day after Wilson's death, his younger brother Stefan indicated that Wilson saved six lives by donating his organs.
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Born 1930-07-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French rugby player, racing driver and later a Formula One team owner.
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Born 1923-05-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French politician, a former mayor of Vittel.
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Born 1954-04-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Roderick George "Roddy" Toombs, better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, was a Canadian professional wrestler, film actor and podcast host. In professional wrestling, he was known for his work with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Although he was Canadian, because of his Scottish heritage he was billed as coming from Glasgow and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nicknames "Rowdy" and "Hot Rod" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity, and quick wit. Industry veteran Ric Flair hailed Piper as "the most gifted entertainer in the history of professional wrestling". Piper acted in dozens of films and TV shows, including the lead role in 1988's They Live and a recurring role in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Piper died in his sleep after a heart attack, at the age of 61, in his home in Hollywood, California.
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Born 1942-09-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a British jazz pianist born in Manchester; he occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesiser. On 17 July 2015, he had a heart attack during a concert of the trio Stéphane Kerecki at the Jazz Flavours festival. He was quickly transported in serious condition at University Hospital of Angers. His wife revealed on July 19 that her husband died the day after the concert.
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Born 1936-02-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr., known professionally as Alex Rocco, was an American actor. Often cast as a villain, he is best known for his portrayal of Moe Greene in The Godfather and his Primetime Emmy Award-winning role in The Famous Teddy Z. He did a significant amount of voice-over work later in his career, and was known for his gravelly voice.
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Born 1989-08-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French motor racing driver who drove for Marussia F1 in the FIA Formula One World Championship. On lap 43 of the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, which was held on Sunday, 5 October, under intermittent heavy rainfall caused by the approaching Typhoon Phanfone, Bianchi lost control of his car and veered right towards the run-off area on the outside of the Dunlop Curve (known as "turn seven") of the Suzuka Circuit. He collided with the rear of a tractor crane tending to the removal of Adrian Sutil's Sauber after Sutil had spun out of control and crashed in the same area a lap before. Subsequent media reports said to be based on information obtained from FIA documents claimed that the speed of impact was recorded at 212 km/h (132 mph)[ and that the impact generated 92 g (900 m/s2). Spectators' video footage and photographs of the accident revealed that the left side of Bianchi's Marussia car was extensively damaged and the roll bar destroyed as it slid under the tractor crane. The impact was such that the tractor crane was partially jolted off the ground causing Sutil's Sauber, which was suspended in the air by the crane, to fall back to the ground. The race was stopped and Lewis Hamilton was declared the winner. a medical update, confirmed that the injury suffered was a diffuse axonal injury and that Bianchi was in a critical but stable condition. He was taken out of his artificial coma in November 2014 and began breathing unaided, making his relocation to France for admission at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (fr) (CHU), possible. There Bianchi remained unconscious and in a critical condition but more accessible to his family for their daily vigil. On 13 July 2015 (4 days before his death), Bianchi's father publicly conceded becoming "less optimistic" as a consequence of no significant progress and the lapse of time since the accident.
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Born 1938-06-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
(June 23, 1938 – July 16, 2016), known professionally as Alan Vega, was an American vocalist and visual artist, primarily known for his work with the electronic protopunk duo Suicide. Vega died in his sleep at the age of 78.
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Born 1924-11-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Thébault was a French actor. He has dubbed for or been the voice artist for: Robert Conrad Steve McQueen Patrick McGoohan Bill Cosby Roy Scheider Lucky Luke (before Antoine de Caunes) Jeremy Brett, from Sherlock Holmes for Granada One of the voice overs in Amélie.
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Born 1932-04-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Egyptian actor. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in both British and American productions. His films included Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Funny Girl (1968). He was nominated for an Academy Award. He won three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award. Sharif had a triple heart bypass in 1992 and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. Until his bypass, Sharif smoked 100 cigarettes a day. He quit smoking after the operation. In May 2015 it was reported that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. His son Tarek Sharif said that his father was becoming confused when remembering some of the biggest films of his career; he would mix up the names of his best-known films, Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, often forgetting where they were filmed.
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Born 1958-05-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French fashion designer and entrepreneur, living in the United States. In 2010, his fortune was estimated at 250 million dollars.
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Born 1917-02-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Moroccan-French racing driver. He was born in Paris, France, but raced under the Moroccan flag, the only driver to do so in F1 history. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix, driving a privately run Formula 2 Cooper. He finished 14th, five laps behind the winner, scoring no championship points. He was classified third in the F2 class. He was the oldest living World Championship driver from the death of Paul Pietsch in May 2012 until his own death in July 2015.
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Born 1909-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport (German for "children's transport"). His work went unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years, until 1988 when he was invited to the BBC television programme That's Life!, where he was reunited with several of the children he had saved. The British press celebrated him and dubbed him the "British Schindler." In 2003, Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to humanity, in saving Jewish children from Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia". On 28 October 2014, he was awarded the highest honour of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion (1st class), by Czech President Miloš Zeman. He died in 2015 at the age of 106 in his sleep.
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Born 1941-05-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French jazz musician. His primary instrument is the Hammond organ. As a vocalist, he was a member of Les Double Six of Paris from 1961 through 1963. He has worked with Kenny Clarke, René Thomas, and Jean-Luc Ponty. In 1971 he was a member of the Stan Getz quartet (with René Thomas and Bernard Lubat) that recorded the celebrated Getz album Dynasty. In duet, he has recorded with pianist Michel Petrucciani (1994) and accordionist Richard Galliano (2002). His more recent recordings—for example, Sentimental Feeling and Récit proche—combine jazz with rock and world music. In 1964, he was awarded the Prix Django Reinhardt.
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Born 1927-04-18. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1947-06-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
He had been Director of Canal+ for many years.
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Born 1922-02-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Known professionally as Patrick Macnee, he was an English-American actor. He was best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers.
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Born 1953-08-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements. Horner collaborated multiple times with directors Jean-Jacques Annaud, Mel Gibson, Walter Hill, Ron Howard, and Joe Johnston. Horner composed music for over 100 films, and won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. Horner was killed at the age of 61 when his Embraer EMB 312 Tucano turboprop aircraft crashed into the Los Padres National Forest in southern California. He was the sole occupant of the aircraft. Though the pilot was not immediately identified, Horner's attorney said, "We know it's his plane, and we know we haven't heard from him." Variety later confirmed Horner's death. His assistant wrote on her Facebook page, "We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent who died doing what he loved.
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Born 1941-11-28. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
Laura Antonelli was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance."
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Born 1970-11-04. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Together with JL Melenchon, he founded the French party le parti de gauche.
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Born 1925-06-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.
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Born 1973-10-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Director, filmmaker, publicist and musician Vladimír Mičúch was born in Žilina in 1973. He originally graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Žilina and became an engineer. At the time, he also played in the rock bands Strange States and Charms' Children. After school he started working as a surveyor, but after about a month he left his job because, according to him, it did not fill him. He founded the civic association Truc sphérique, then the cultural center Stanica. He also became the founder and co-creator of the English-Slovak picture magazine Panic Button, which was published once a year. He began making short feature films through the millennium, namely Another Young Man (2002), Euthanasia (2002) and Wolves and Foxes.(2008). Every year he applied to the Prague FAMU - they did not take him for the third time in 2008, when he was thirty-five. At the school, he went to the studio of director Věra Chytilová, whose films he admired, and then to the teacher and filmmaker Jasmina Blaževič. He then appeared under the female pseudonym La Aramisova, which he gave himself out of a mere recession. Mičúch mostly made intuitive, unfettered, plot-inconsistent short feature films, in which women played the main roles. He applied to FAMU with the film Wolves and Foxes, an image of an independent, free-spirited girl. For a 12-minute film I Like Nora (2009) about a love triangle, he won the Best Feature Film Award at the Rio de Janeiro Short Film Festival a year later. His 23-minute film Cagey Tigers (2011) about the relationship of two girlfriends to one man was again selected for the student section (Cinéfondation) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Finally, the fourth, 32-minute film What We Did Before We Went Together for Cocoa (2014). ), for which he was nominated for the Czech Lion, was officially selected for the festival in Angers, France. He also worked on a screenplay for the feature film Children from the East , which won Best Screenplay at the 10th Crossroads Co-Production Forum Agora Awards in Thessaloniki, Greece, and was selected for the second round at the Sundance Script Lab. Unfortunately, the film itself will no longer be shot… Vladimír Mičúch died in Žilina as a result of an epileptic seizure at the age of only forty-one. He left behind his girlfriend Belo Bielka and his little daughter Lajka.
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Born 1933-05-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.
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Born 1930-03-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album. Coleman's timbre was easily recognized: his keening, crying sound drew heavily on blues music. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant) in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.
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Born 1937-02-01. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Best known for his radio series about gardening.
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Born 1924-08-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French screenwriter and actor. He wrote 25 films between 1960 and 1995. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the 1980 film Mon oncle d'Amérique. He was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris.
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Born 1922-05-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was a British actor, singer and author. Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005).
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Born 1933-06-27. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was the owner of the German company Brandstätter Group. The company was founded by Andreas Brandstätter in 1876. Brandstätter joined the family firm in 1954. His "support" of the inventor Hans Beck allowed the company to begin production on what became the popular toy Playmobil, prototypes of which had been developed by Beck at the company. The 1973 oil crisis necessitated the creation of a toy whose production required little solid plastic.
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Born 1928-06-13. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
He was an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. After 1970, Nash's condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980's. Nash's struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography A Beautiful Mind as well as a feature film starring Russell Crowe. Nash and his wife Alicia were killed in an automobile accident on the New Jersey Turnpike near Monroe Township. The driver of the taxi they were riding in lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle and struck a guard rail; the couple, who were not wearing their seatbelts, were thrown out of the car.