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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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Hirsch
Gerhard (alias: André Gorz). 2007-09-24

84

Born 1923-02-00. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Suicide

Pen name: Michel Bosquet.
In the 1960s, Gorz was a theorist of workers' self-management. Later, he was also concerned with political ecology. His central theme was work: liberation from work, just distribution of work, alienated work, etc. He was also one of the advocates of a Guaranteed basic income.
Gorz committed suicide with his wife Dorine in his home in Vosnon (Aube) and was found dead on the 24th of September 2007. Dorine, 83, was suffering of a long illness. In 2006, Gorz had published "Lettre à D. Histoire d'un amour". There, he wrote:
«Tu viens juste d'avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans (...). Tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Récemment, je suis retombé amoureux de toi une nouvelle fois et je porte de nouveau en moi un vide débordant que ne comble que ton corps serré contre le mien.»

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Mangel
Marcel (alias: Marcel Marceau). 2007-09-22

84

Born 1923-03-22. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

In 1995, vocalist, dancer, choreographer and mime Michael Jackson and Marceau conceived a concert for HBO, but the project was never completed.

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Ghostley
Alice. 2007-09-21

81

Born 1926-08-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Ghostley's role of Esmerelda was created after the passing of Marion Lorne in May 1968, who portrayed the lovable, forgetful Aunt Clara. Rather than replace the character, Bewitched producers opted to create a new, befuddled character with Esmerelda. Interestingly, Lorne and Ghostley appeared side-by-side in The Graduate as partygoers Miss DeWitte and Mrs. Singleman the year before Lorne's passing.

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Simon
Maia. 2007-09-19

67

Born 1939-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

She was the grand-daughter of Michel Simon.
She was Mme Chalamand, mistress of Simon in "Nous irons tous au Paradis".
She suffered of cancer, and the pain she had been enduring was unbearable. She could not bear to see her body irreversibly and awfully damaged, either. Then, she went in Swiss, where euthanasia is legal, and took Penthotal that was prescribed to her.
In an interview, she stated that she decided to put a end to his life in dignity. This interview was recorded just before she committed this medicamental suicide.

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Deschamps
Jean. 2007-09-17

87

Born 1920-06-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Rigney
James Oliver (alias: Robert Jordan). 2007-09-16

58

Born 1948-10-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:orphan disease

He was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reily.
On March 23, 2006, Jordan disclosed in a statement that he had been diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, and that with treatment, his median life expectancy was four years, though he said he intended to beat the statistics. He later posted on his Dragonmount blog to encourage his fans not to worry about him and that he intended to have a long and fully creative life, working for another 30 years.
He began chemotherapy treatment at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in early April 2006. Jordan was enrolled in a study using the drug Revlimid just approved for multiple myeloma but not yet tested on primary amyloidosis.

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McRae
Colin. 2007-09-15

39

Born 1968-08-05. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident

Mr McRae, 39, his son Johnny, friend Ben Porcelli, 6, and Graeme Duncan, 37, died following a helicopter crash in Lanarkshire on Saturday.
Jim McRae said it was "unbelievable" that his son and grandson's lives had been taken "so prematurely".
"It is unbelievable that Colin and Johnny's lives have been taken so prematurely and in such a tragic manner. Colin was a great son, a loving husband to Alison and a fantastic father to Johnny and his big sister Hollie.
Johnny was a great wee guy, spending every spare minute with his dad, and even at this early stage it looked like he had the potential to carry on the family dynasty."
He said the family's thoughts were "very much" with the families of Ben and Mr Duncan.
"Ben was a great buddy of Johnny's and they had always spent a lot of time together both in and out of school," he added.
In a statement, Ben's father Mark and mother Karen, said:
"We are absolutely devastated with the loss of our son Ben following this terrible accident. He was a charming, fun-loving and caring wee boy - the best boy in the world who enjoyed great times with his wee pal Johnny. It is just so tragic that their lives have been cut so short."
Ch Supt Tim Love from Strathclyde Police said the crash was not survivable and it was very difficult to tell the aircraft had been a helicopter.
Nicky Grist, his co-driver since 1997, said:
"Colin was always regarded as being a bit of a risk-taker in cars, but when it came to flying a helicopter he was a totally different man. The one thing he always told me, he said 'You don't mess about with a helicopter. They are bigger and better than I am and you have to drive them as such."
Mr McRae moved to the principality of Monaco in 1995, partly through his friendship with David Coulthard.
But as his family grew up, he spent more time back at his home in Lanarkshire. He and his wife Alison bought the 17th century Jerviswood House.

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Martin
Jacques. 2007-09-14

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Born 1933-06-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

At the end of his active career, he suffered from a creative drought, becoming increasingly pompous and self-infatuated, repeating ad nauseam the same unfunny jokes he always used since the beginning of his career (For instance : the works of Schubert and Schumann have all been written by the same composer whose name was Schubermann). He suffered of a stroke in 1998.

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Vansteelant
Benny. 2007-09-14

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Born 1976-11-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a Belgian duathlete.
On September 8, Vansteelant was hit by a car during training. He suffered a broken leg, facial injuries, a torn spleen and damage to lungs and heart. In the days after the accident, Vansteelant was on the better hand, getting close to leaving the intensive care section of the hospital in Roeselare on September 13. But one day later, Vansteelant suffered a cardiac arrest. Even though Vansteelant received CPR in time, he died in the early morning.

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Day
Bobby (alias: Bobby Byrd). 2007-09-12

73

Born 1934-08-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

Best known as James Brown's longtime sideman and co-vocalist on songs such as Licking Stick - Licking Stick, Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine and Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved.

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Mayfield
Sarah Jane (alias: Jane Wyman). 2007-09-10

90

Born 1917-01-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

She appeared in "You're in the Army Now", in which she and Regis Toomey had the longest screen kiss in cinema history - 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). The two were married (her second or third marriage, and his first) on January 26, 1940, and divorced on June 28, 1948. She and Reagan had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941 - 2001), Michael Reagan (adopted, born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely June 26, 1947 and died the following day).
Following her divorce from Reagan, Wyman married bandleader Frederick Karger on November 1, 1952, and they divorced in December 1955. They later remarried on March 11, 1961, and divorced a second time in 1965. Wyman never remarried, and after her conversion to Roman Catholicism, both she and her best friend Loretta Young obtained special indults from their bishop to receive communion despite being divorced.
Jane Wyman lived in seclusion for a number of years because of declining health. She was rarely seen in public, with the exception of attending the funerals of her daughter, Maureen Reagan, and her close friend Loretta Young. She also attended Ronald Reagan's funeral in 2004.
She had suffered from arthritis and diabetes, for long time.

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Bizot
Jean-François. 2007-09-08

63

Born 1944-08-19. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer

Co-founder of "Actuel" with Michel-Antoine Burnier, Patrick Rambaud, Bernard Kouchner, Jean-Pierre Lentin.
Founder of radios (Nova)

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Pavarotti
Luciano. 2007-09-06

71

Born 1935-10-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2006 and required emergency surgery to remove the tumor. Shortly after surgery he was reported to be "recovering well."
On Thursday, August 9, 2007, he was hospitalized for observation in his hometown of Modena, in Northern Italy, hospital officials there said. On August 21, it was announced that he was being treated on the cancer ward, given tests related to his pancreatic cancer and would not be released for another few days.
On September 5, 2007, Italy's AGI news agency reported that Luciano Pavarotti's health has deteriorated and the 71-year-old singer was in a "very serious condition". He was reported to be in and out of consciousness multiple times, suffering kidney failure. He died in the early morning of the 6th of September.

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Nikolaidis
Nikos. 2007-09-05

67

Born 1939-10-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

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Jaffré
Philippe. 2007-09-05

62

Born 1945-03-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer

CEO of Elf-Aquitaine (1993-2000).

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Eberto
Gustavo. 2007-09-03

24

Born 1983-08-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer

He was an Argentine soccer goalkeeper, lately of the Club Atlético Boca Juniors. He played for the Argentine U-20 team in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Eberto died of testicular cancer.

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de Vilallonga
José Luis. 2007-08-30

87

Born 1920-01-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Jackson
Michael. 2007-08-30

65

Born 1942-03-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other

It was revealed in December 2006 that Michael Jackson "is and has been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's Disease."
Michael Jackson became famous in beer circles in 1977 when his book, The World Guide To Beer, was published. This was later translated into more than ten languages and is still considered to be one of the most fundamental books on the subject.

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Schlienger
Cedric. 2007-08-30

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Born 1980-05-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart

He was a volley-ball player doing his training with his Chaumont Volley-Ball 52's mates. He suddenly collapsed, and could not be reanimated.

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de Villalonga y Cabeza de Vaca
José Luis. 2007-08-30

87

Born 1920-01-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was an author, aristocrat and actor who co-starred with Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. When the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936, de Villalonga was at a French school, but his father ordered him back to Spain to fight on the side of General Franco. His father was an enthusiastic supporter of Franco, and at age 16 de Villalonga was a serving member of a Nationalist execution platoon. Villalonga was married three times, to British aristocrat Essylt-Priscilla Scott-Ellis (b. 1916 d. 1983) (married 1945, divorced 1972), Syliane Stella Morell (married 1974, divorced 1995), and since 1999 to journalist Begoña Aranguren. A spendthrift, he soon disposed of much of his first wife's inheritance and property. His frequent affairs, including a relationship with the French actress Michèle Girardon, while still legally married to Priscilla Scott-Ellis, took their toll on both women, as de Villalonga readily admitted. Girardon eventually committed suicide in 1975 after de Villalonga ended their relationship to marry Syliane Stella Morell. Though courts twice found him liable for alimony to his first wife Priscilla Scott-Ellis, de Villalonga never paid the judgment, an act which reduced her to poverty for the remainder of her life. His third wife Begona Aranguren also became disenchanted with de Villalonga, and the couple separated in 2002. Aranguren wrote a scathing portrayal of the aging socialite and their marriage in 2004.

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Messmer
Pierre. 2007-08-29

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Born 1916-03-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Coincidentally, he died at the military hospital of le Val de Grâce, exactly at the same time and same location of Raymond Barre's funerals.

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Puerta
Antonio. 2007-08-28

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Born 1984-11-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart

On 25 August 2007, Puerta collapsed and lost consciousness during Sevilla's first match of the 2007-08 La Liga season at their home stadium Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán against Getafe due to a heart attack. He was seen crouching and then subsequently collapsing upon moving back to his team's goal, after only 28 minutes of the game had passed.
After recovering and being substituted, Puerta collapsed once again in the changing room. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance, where he received cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Doctors reported that his condition had deteriorated since arriving at hospital, and he eventually passed away at the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Sevilla. Doctor Francisco Murillo reported that Puerta had suffered multiple organ failure and irreversible brain damage as a result of multiple prolonged cardiac arrests due to an incurable, hereditary heart disease known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
Puerta's premature death from heart problems is similar to those of Marc-Vivien Foe and Miklos Feher.

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Sunny
Jean. 2007-08-27

77

Born 1930-08-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer

Stuntman. Specialist of driving cars on 2 wheels.
(stuntman on "drôles de zèbres")

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Barre
Raymond. 2007-08-25

83

Born 1924-04-12. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Kidney failure

On several occasions, Raymond Barre made remarks that were interpreted as antisemitic, or at least supportive of antisemitism. In 1980, when he was Prime minister, a bombing was attempted against a synagogue in the rue Copernic in Paris; however the bomb detonated in the street when the Jews attending shabbat were inside the synagogue, and not when they were out; as a result only some non-Jewish bystanders were killed. Raymond Barre then famously denounced:
"A hateful attack which wanted to strike at the Jews who were in that synagogue, and which [instead] struck innocent French people who were crossing the street."
A controversy erupted because Raymond Barre's sentence seemed to imply that the Jews inside the synagogue were guilty of something, or were not French.
On February 5, 2005, Raymond Barre declared about Bruno Gollnisch, one of the leaders of the controversial Front National party
"Gollnisch is a likeable person, he gets sometimes carried away by outrageous speech, but he's a good person."
His parents separated when he was 4-year old. This was the last time he saw his father. Though his father died in 1975, in Paris, Raymond Barre had never seen him again.

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Chmielnik
Jacek. 2007-08-22

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Born 1953-01-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident

He was a polish actor, who died electrocuted. He had played in Vabank
Vabank is a Polish film from 1981; the first film directed by Juliusz Machulski.
The film, sometimes referred to as Polish The Sting, tells the story of a conman, legendary Kwinto. He considered himself an honorable thief - but after being framed for bank robbery by an accomplice, named Kramer, he was sentenced for six years. Further, upon leaving the jail he learns that that person murdered his musician friend - and is now a bank president. Kramer, always ruthless, hires an assassin to kill him. Kwinto, on the other hand, from the beginning sets his goal on getting even. Meanwhile, a pair of young conman hearing that famous Kwinto is free try to get him into their team. Kwinto, employing a retired pro and the two young admirers, plans to do one last job to get even with Kramer...
A sequel, Vabank II, was filmed in 1984

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Aigle
Caroline. 2007-08-21

32

Born 1974-09-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer

At the end of her studies, Caroline Aigle chose, in 1997, to serve in the French Air Force. On 28 May 1999, she became the first woman to receive the Air Force's coveted fighter pilot wings. She was assigned to the Mirage 2000-5 in the escadron 2/2 Côte-d'Or in 2000, and was promoted to the rank of Commandant d'escadrille (Wing Commander) in 2005. By the time of her sudden death three weeks before her 33rd birthday (the cancer had been diagnosed only a month earlier), she had accumulated a total of 1600 hours of flight time.

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Bampton
Rose. 2007-08-21

99

Born 1907-11-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Bampton was noted for her three-octave range.

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Griffin
Eddie. 2007-08-17

25

Born 1982-05-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was 25.
Eddie Griffin was killed when his SUV struck a freight train. Medical examiners in Harris County, Texas, required dental records to identify Griffin.
"Basketball was never an issue with him," said former Timberwolves head coach Dwane Casey. "He needed more life lessons, and, unfortunately, he was never able to reach his potential."
Griffin's career was marred by alcohol problems which resulted in a series of league suspensions and court dates, many of them handled by Hollingsworth.
"He had a problem with alcohol and I think that was a medication for him," Hollingsworth said. "And I think that led to a lot of issues."
Griffin was charged Nov. 20, 2003, with felonious aggravated assault with a deadly weapon plus assault causing bodily injury.
The charges stemmed from an Oct. 25 incident in which Griffin allegedly slapped girlfriend Joann Romero three times and fired a pistol in her direction as she departed his home in southwest Houston, when he played for the Rockets.
Griffin was suspended three games by the NBA and was later treated at the Betty Ford Center for alcohol abuse.
Last season with the Timberwolves, he was suspended for five games in January after violating the league's anti-drug program.
"Everybody tried to help him from the top to the bottom of the organization," Casey said. "He just could not get it straight.
On March 30, 2006, Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.
Several of the 911 callers that night said Griffin was drunk. One witness said Griffin told him he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard of his Cadillac Escalade SUV when he struck a Chevy Suburban parked on University Avenue Southeas.

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Roach
Maxwell (alias: Max Roach). 2007-08-16

83

Born 1924-01-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Two children, son Daryl and daughter Maxine, were born from his first marriage with Mildred Roach. In 1954 he met singer Barbara Jai (Johnson) and had another son, Raoul Jordu. He continued to play as a freelance while studying composition at the Manhattan School of Music. He graduated in 1952. During the period 1962–1970, Roach was married to the singer Abbey Lincoln, who had performed on several of Roach's albums. Twin daughters, Ayodele and Dara Rasheeda, were later born to Roach and his third wife, Janus Adams Roach. Long involved in jazz education, in 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In the early 2000s, Roach became less active from the onset of hydrocephalus-related complications.

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Blewett III
John. 2007-08-16

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Born 1973-11-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a NASCAR race driver injured in a crash on lap 107 with his brother Jimmy Blewett in the New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Thompson International Speedway on August 16, 2007. Blewett III was later pronounced dead at Hubbard Regional Hospital in Webster, MA.

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