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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 1982-11-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Tennis player.
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Born 1922-05-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Obelix' voice in many Asterix movies.
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Born 1923-10-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Ashamed by Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine.
In 1998, shortly after he was elected President of the National Rifle Association, Heston had a hip replacement. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998. Following a course of radiation treatment, the cancer went into remission. In August 2002, Heston publicly announced he was diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. In July 2003, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House from President George W. Bush. In March 2005, various newspapers reported family and friends were apparently shocked by the progression of his illness, and he was sometimes unable to get out of bed. In August 2005, a rumor circulated Heston was hospitalized at a Los Angeles hospital with pneumonia, but this was never confirmed by the family. In April 2006, various news sources reported Heston's illness was at an advanced stage and his family were worried he might not survive the year.
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Born 1983-10-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
After colliding with a concrete wall along the side of the pitch during a game against HNK Cibalia on Saturday, March 29, 2008, Čustić suffered severe head injuries. Despite undergoing surgery, Čustić died after a believed infection, and after 5 days in a coma.
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Born 1911-12-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jules Dassin had two children from his marriage to Beatrice Launer: Joe Dassin (1938 - 1980), a popular French singer until his death, and actress Julie Dassin.
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Born 1942-09-27. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was a photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields. He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
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Born 1973-09-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
In 1998 he was detained for one year for having been found positive in the Tour of Switzerland and the Tour of Poland. In 2002 he was disqualified but, this time for three years, for having been found positive with Nandrolon. During this period Fois falls into depression and start taking psychotropic drugs, returning to the general public on September 9, 2007 when he was arrested for having broken in the office of the newspaper Il Giorno to steal two old laptop computers. He was then sentenced to 100 days of imprisonment, commuted in a penalty of 4 thousand euros.
He was back to the races on February 14, 2008 in the Giro della Provincia di Grosseto, but his revival was abruptly interrupted: Fois was found dead inside his home.
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Born 1921-04-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
After the war he established a successful French automobile magazine called Auto journal. He was a founding member of the Fédération Française du Sport Automobile, a French national motorsport organization, in 1950, and in 1961 became the first president of the International Karting Commission of the FIA. He was elected president of the FFSA in 1973 and president of the FIA's International Sporting Commission in 1978. He was instrumental in transforming the International Sporting Commission into the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) in 1979.
Balestre was heavily involved in what is colloquially called the FISA-FOCA war, a political battle over finances and control of the Formula One World Championships between 1980 and 1982. Balestre and his opponent, Bernie Ecclestone, settled the dispute after Enzo Ferrari brokered a compromise. Balestre signed the first Concorde Agreement, under which FOCA was granted the commercial rights to Formula One while the FIA retained control of all sporting and technical regulations.
Balestre maintained the presidency of the FFSA until the end of 1996.
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Born 1914-12-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Although Widmark's last film was a thriller, True Colors in 1991, he continued to appear on TV in the occasional documentary.
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Born 1925-09-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
John Emil List was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, List killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, then disappeared; he had planned the murders so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone suspected that anything was amiss. List died of complications from pneumonia at age 82, while in prison custody at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey. In reporting his death, the New Jersey Star-Ledger referred to him as "The Boogeyman of Westfield."
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Born 1922-01-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He declined the offer of a knighthood on three occasions, but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a Companion of Honour in 2001.
Scofield died at the age of 86 at a hospital near his home in Sussex, England from leukemia.
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Born 1917-12-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name.
On 26 May 2000 he was made a Knight Bachelor for his Services to Literature at a ceremony in Colombo. The investiture of the award had been delayed, at Clarke's request, since 1998 because of an accusation, by the British tabloid The Sunday Mirror, of paedophilia, was found to be baseless by Sri Lankan police and retracted by the paper soon after.
Clarke died in Sri Lanka at 1:30am local time (UTC+5:30), after suffering from breathing problems according to Rohan de Silva, one of his aides.
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Born 1929-04-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
Claus suffered from Alzheimer's disease and requested his life to be terminated through euthanasia in the Middelheim Ziekenhuis in Antwerp on March 19, 2008.
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Born 1955-01-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
Chantal Sébire was a retired 52-year-old French teacher living in Plombières-lès-Dijon nearby Dijon in France, who suffered from esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare and incurable form of cancer. It is so rare that in the past 20 years there have been only 200 reported cases. In Ms Sébire's case the disease left her severely facially disfigured and partially disabled. She first gained recognition in Feburary 2008 when she made a public appeal to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to allow her to die through euthanasia. On March 17, 2008, she lost her appeal to die in a French court. On March 19, 2008, she was found dead in her home.
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Born 1954-01-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Operation
Minghella died of a haemorrhage in Charing Cross Hospital, London, following an operation the previous week to remove cancer of the tonsils and neck.
In 1996, he won the Academy Award for Directing for The English Patient. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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Born 1956-02-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
On his first mission, Low was a crew member on STS-32 which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 9, 1990. On board the Orbiter Columbia the crew successfully deployed the Syncom IV-F5 communications satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) using the RMS. They also operated a variety of middeck materials and life sciences experiments, as well as the IMAX camera. Following 173 orbits of the Earth in 261 hours, Columbia returned to a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on January 20, 1990. Low next served as the flight engineer aboard the Orbiter Atlantis on STS-43. The nine-day mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 2, 1991. During the flight, crew members deployed the fifth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-E), in addition to conducting 32 physical, material, and life science experiments, mostly relating to the Extended Duration Orbiter and Space Station Freedom. After 142 orbits of the Earth in 213 hours, the mission concluded with a landing on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on August 11, 1991. On STS-57, Low served as payload commander aboard the Orbiter Endeavour, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 21, 1993. The primary objective of this flight was the retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier satellite (EURECA) using the RMS. Additionally, this mission featured the first flight of Spacehab, a commercially-provided middeck augmentation module for the conduct of microgravity experiments. Spacehab carried 22 individual flight experiments in materials and life sciences research. During the mission Low, along with crew mate Peter J.K. Wisoff, conducted a 5-hour, 50-minute spacewalk during which the EURECA communications antennas were manually positioned for latching, and various extravehicular activity (EVA) tools and techniques were evaluated for use on future missions. Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 1, 1993, after 155 orbits of the Earth in 239 hours.
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Born 1897-12-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Last poilu.
Ponticelli was born "Làzzaro" in Alseno, Piacenza, Italy. In 1907, when he was nine years old, he moved to France, and more than six years later, in 1914, he joined the French Foreign Legion at age 16. Ponticelli saw action against Germany, and was wounded shortly after his entering of service in 1914. He was discharged from the French Foreign Legion, and later joined the Italian Army in 1915. Ponticelli was wounded again versus the Austrians in Tyrol. Hit in the head by artillery, he miraculously survived.
During the 1930s, he founded a piping and metal work company with his brothers called "Ponticelli Frères" ("Ponticelli Brothers"), which became wealthy and still exists today and is well-known in his field.
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Born 1941-04-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sister of actress Francine Bergé, who was her partner in "Les Abysses", directed by Nico Papatakis.
Le Zèbre (1992) (Madame Mourleau)
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Born 1922-02-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer
was a British Conservative Party politician who, during his political career, held several Cabinet positions.
He was born at Penpergwm Lodge, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, and was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge. During World War II he served in North Africa and Italy as a Captain in the 9th Lancers and he was awarded the Military Cross.
He was a managing director and landowner, and became a councillor on Herefordshire County Council.
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Born 1938-07-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973.
He was in semi-retirement, having almost suffered a heart attack after receiving incorrect medication to prevent further strokes after those on April 1 and May 4, 2004. He was diagnosed with an inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm. Even while his health failed, gaming remained very much a part of his life. Gygax was still active in the gaming community and had active Q & A forums on gaming websites such as Dragonsfoot and EN World.
“I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.”
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Born 1966-03-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Healey died of cancer at St. Joseph's Health Centre in his home town of Toronto; he was 41. His death came a month before the release of his new album, Mess of Blues, which will be his first rock album in 8 years.
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Born 1942-03-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
French swimmer. Bone cancer.
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Born 1931-07-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a German singer of Russian ancestry with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers.
Being well in his 70s in a recent Australian tour Ivan still performed 12 shows in 14 days.
He died of heart and circulatory failure.
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Born 1980-07-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Cooper began his racing career in 1998 driving Holden HQ sedans. Leading the 2005 Commodore Cup championship for most of the year, Cooper finished fourth at the final round at Eastern Creek Raceway. In 2006, Cooper was crowned V8 Utes Rookie of the Year. He competed in three rounds of the 2007 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, with a top 15 finish at Queensland Raceway.
Cooper suffered severe head and internal injuries after crashing his Holden VZ Commodore into a guard rail at over 200 kph during the Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series race at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide on 23 February 2008.
He died two days later. A registered organ donor, Cooper's heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas and liver have been donated to seven people, including a six-year-old child.
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Born 1936-09-01. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
When he was 16, he became knowed, after hiding in a cupboard to listen to the deliberations of the Goncourt jury. In 1983, he made it again, this time as boss of "le Meilleur", which published the integrality of 90 minutes of deliberations recorded with a directional microphone.
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Born 1980-08-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He graduated from the university in 2006, and had been enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since the spring of 2007. He was 27 when he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing five and wounding sixteen other people on the NIU campus.
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In 2006, Kazmierczak, with two other graduate students and under the lead authorship of a sociology professor, had co-authored an academic paper entitled, "Self-injury in Correctional Settings: 'Pathology' of Prisons or of Prisoners?"; it was published in the academic journal Criminology & Public Policy.
Kazmierczak died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. ABC News reports that his behavior seemed to become more erratic in the weeks leading up to the shooting, and that it is believed he stopped taking medication beforehand. His girlfriend, Jessica Baty, confirmed that Kazmierczak had stopped taking an antidepressant three weeks before the shooting, but denied that his behavior had become erratic. Since the shooting, authorities have intercepted a number of packages he sent to her, which included such items as a gun holster and bullets, a textbook on serial killers for her class, the book The Antichrist by Nietzsche, and a final note written for her. The shooting was baffling to those who knew him, as he appeared outgoing and never appeared to have social problems. This has also confused investigators, who have not found a suicide note.