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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1918-12-21. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
As Simon Wiesenthal publicly stated, there was no evidence found by the committee that Waldheim took part in any war crimes. Rather Waldheim's offence has been to lie about his military record.
The International Committee in February 1988 concluded on Waldheim's possibilities to do something about the crimes he knew that were going on in Yugoslavia and Greece:
In favour of Waldheim is, that he only had very minor possibilities to act against the injustices happening. Actions against these, depending on which level the resistance occured, were of very different importance. For a young member of the staff, who did not have any military authority on the army group level, the practical possibilities for resistance were very limited and with a high probability would not have led to any actual results. Resistance would have been limited to a formal protest or on the refusal to serve any longer in the army, which would have seemed to be a courageous act, however would have not led to any practical achievement.
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Born 1924-10-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Gold medal team foil olympic games 1952.
Silver medal team foil olympic games 1956
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Born 1975-07-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French bobsledder who competed from 1991 to 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with Great Britain) at Nagano in 1998.
At the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Hostache won a gold in the four-man event and a bronze in the two-man event.
Prior to being a bobsledder, Hostache also competed as an athlete in the shot put and discus throw events.
Hostache died of Ewing's sarcoma, a form of cancer in 2007 after fighting the disease for eight years.
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Born 1922-10-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
First creole actor at la Comédie française (1967).
French voice of Darth Vador, Grosminet, Yul Brynner...
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Born 1932-10-24. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Unknown
Nobel Prize in 1991. Invented "superglue".
Played a role in "les palmes de M. Schultz" by Pinoteau. Was one of the two coachmen (the other is G. Charpak)
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Born 1923-03-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put men in space. He was the only man to fly in all of America's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo). He logged a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space.
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Born 1983-05-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Through a friend, in mid-June of 2004, Lemarchal was contacted by the producers of Star Academy in Paris who had wanted one more male singer for the show. Eventually, by the end of the show's run, Lemarchal had been announced the winner.
Grégory was born and raised in Chambéry, as the first child of mother Laurence and father Pierre Lemarchal, with a sister Leslie. At twenty months of age, he was diagnosed with the hereditary disease cystic fibrosis
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Born 1938-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Belgian actor and director
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Born 1927-03-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
In 1970, Rostropovich sheltered Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who otherwise had nowhere else to go, in his own home. His friendship with Solzhenitsyn and his support for dissidents led to official disgrace in the early 1970s. As a result, Rostropovich was restricted from foreign touring, as was his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, and he was sent on a recital tour of small towns in Siberia.
Rostropovich left the Soviet Union in 1974 with his wife and children and settled in the United States. He was banned from several musical ensembles in his homeland, and his Soviet citizenship was revoked in 1978 because of his public opposition to the Soviet Union's restriction of cultural freedom.
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Born 1931-02-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1932-10-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1984-01-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1970-08-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
French diver.
On 30 October 2004, he extended his own world record to 171 meters in the no limits free-diving category.
He died during a training session in Villefranche-sur-Mer when his equipment failed and he did not reach the surface in time
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Born 1925-05-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
With a strong sense of himself, Browne was determined not to accept stereotyped and demeaning roles that had routinely been offered to black actors, and he resisted emulating fellow actors.
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Born 1926-07-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Born in El Jadida and educated in Casablanca, Chraïbi went to Paris in 1946 to study chemistry before turning to literature and journalism. His first novel, The Simple Past, was published in 1954.
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Born 1924-12-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it.
During his youth, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He began medical training and, during an internship at a hospital, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, which was successfully removed; a plate was installed in his head, and he dropped out of medical training after nine months and a subsequent operation to replace the plate.
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Born 1917-12-22. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Stroke
Freddie Francis achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers and Glory. As a director, he has cult status on account of his association with the British horror studios Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s. His son Kevin Francis became a film producer.
He died at age 89 as the result of the lingering effects of a stroke
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Born 1903-12-04. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
In 1960, Marshall designed the famous droop nose for Concorde.
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Born 1927-08-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Cool Hand Luke (1967), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984).
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Born 1923-05-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.
In the early 1970s, Stéphane was the lover of the American writer and critic Susan Sontag.
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Born 1921-02-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
She began life as Elizabeth June Thornburg, a daughter of railroad foreman Percy E. Thornburg (1896-1939) and his wife, the former Mabel Lum (1901-1967). Her father abandoned the family for another woman and they did not hear from or see him again until they received a telegram, in 1939, informing them of his death from suicide.
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Born 1929-07-20. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer
He was Satrap at the Collège de 'Pataphysique until his death. He died on March 6, 2007 at the age of 77 after a long illness.
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Born 1928-06-24. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Yvan Delporte was a Belgian comics writer, and was editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine between 1955 and 1968 during a period considered by many the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics. He is credited with several creative contributions, among these his collaborations with Peyo on The Smurfs and André Franquin with the creation of Gaston Lagaffe and the co-authorship of Idées noires.