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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Jacques. 2006-11-07

82

Born 1924-02-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

As the 1960s unfolded, Servan-Schreiber found himself in the position of a rich press lord, a political editorialist always chasing after new ideas. His trenchant analysis drew some of the first minds of his generation to him. Growing more and more disenchanted with De Gaulle's policies, he was no longer willing to settle for an observer's role.

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Degrenne
Guy. 2006-11-07

81

Born 1925-08-03. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Best known as a manufacturer of forks and knifes.

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Frank
Bernard. 2006-11-03

77

Born 1929-10-11. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Douady
Adrien. 2006-11-02

71

Born 1935-09-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident

Drowned

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Styron
William. 2006-11-01

81

Born 1925-06-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia

Styron's influence deepened and his readership expanded with the publication of Darkness Visible. This memoir was a description of the author's devastating descent into depression, the "despair beyond despair". By examining an illness that affects millions but is still widely misunderstood, Styron offered an intimate and very personal portrait of the agony of this ordeal, revealing the anguish of a mind "desperate unto death".
"The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained."
"My father's words had left me jaded and depressed."

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Aumont
Christina (alias: Tina Aumont). 2006-10-28

60

Born 1946-02-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other

In 2000 she retired from film work. She suffered a pulmonary embolism and died in Port-Vendres, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.

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Auerbach
Arnold Jacob (alias: Red). 2006-10-28

89

Born 1917-09-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American professional basketball coach and executive. He served as a head coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and, most notably, the Boston Celtics. As a coach, Auerbach set NBA records with 938 wins and nine championships. After his coaching retirement in 1966, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death. As general manager and team president of the Celtics, he won an additional seven NBA titles for a grand total of 16 in a span of 29 years and making him one of the most successful team officials in the history of North American professional sports.

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Altantuyaa
Shaariibuugiin. 2006-10-19

28

Born 1978-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

She was a murder victim who was either murdered by C-4 explosives or was somehow killed first and her remains destroyed with C-4 in October 2006 in a deserted area in Shah Alam, Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur.
She was allegedly introduced to Abdul Razak Baginda, a defense analyst from the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre think-tank, at an international diamond convention in Hong Kong by Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak, and had a relationship with him. She reportedly had worked as Abdul Razak’s translator on a deal he was brokering for the Malaysian government to buy submarines from France. The pair seem to have travelled to Paris together for the submarine deal. The two quickly became romantically involved. Altantuya, nicknamed Tuya by her friends, proved to be a useful assistant, helping Baginda translate from Russian to English. Amy, Altantuya’s best friend said that at the end of March 2005 the couple was in Paris, where they met with Najib Razak. She mentioned that a picture was taken which showed the three in a Parisian private club. “Tuya showed me the pix. She said that one of the men was her boyfriend, Abdul Razak Baginda, and the other the “big boss”, Najib Razak. I asked her if they were brothers because of the names, but she said no, and that Najib Razak was the ‘prime minister’”.
In October 2006, the French newspaper Liberation claimed that Altantuya was informed that the commission paid by Armaris, a Spanish company involved in Malaysia’s acquisition of three submarines for one billion euros (RM4.7 billion), had been deposited in a bank account in Malaysia. The commission of 114 million euros was allegedly paid into the account of Perimekar, a company Razak controlled. Altantuya then allegedly flew to Kuala Lumpur with her cousin to demand her share of the commission, which was to have been US$500,000.
When she went missing on 19 October 2006, her cousin lodged a police report and sought help from the Mongolian embassy in Bangkok. Altantuya, by her own admission in the last letter she wrote before her murder, had been blackmailing Razak.
The Malaysian police found fragments of bone, later verified as hers, in forested land near the Subang Dam in Puncak Alam, Shah Alam. Police investigation of her remains revealed that she was shot twice before C-4 explosives were used on her remains, although there has been later suggestion that the C-4 explosives may have killed her. When her remains were found their identity could only be confirmed with DNA testing. The provenance of the C-4 remains unclear.

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Emilfork
Daniel. 2006-10-17

82

Born 1924-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile.
Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994).
Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French were extremely striking and unique.

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Huerta
Baldemar (alias: Freddy Fender). 2006-10-14

69

Born 1937-06-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

He took Fender from the headstock of his guitar, and Freddy because the alliteration sounded good to him.

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Pontecorvo
Gillo. 2006-10-12

86

Born 1919-11-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart

He was nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1969 and in that same year won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, both for The Battle of Algiers.
he died from congestive heart failure in Rome

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Huillet
Daniele. 2006-10-09

70

Born 1936-05-01. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer

Jean-Marie Straub met Danièle Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in Paris' cinephile community at the time, and was a friend of Francois Truffaut. They made their first film, an 18-minute short called Manchorka-Muff in 1963; it was based on a story by Heinrich Böll. Their next film, the 55-minute Not Reconciled, was also a Böll adaptation. They did not make a full-length feature until 1968's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, after which they made films at a fairly even rate, completing a feature every 2-3 years. In 1968, they also made a short film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his theatre troupe called The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp. During their career, they adapted two Arnold Schoenberg operas, as well as Franz Kafka's first novel, Amerika.
Though they were never married, the two lived together for most of their lives. They had no children.

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Politkovskaya
Anna. 2006-10-07

48

Born 1958-08-30. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder

Politkovskaya was found shot dead on Saturday, 7 October 2006 in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow. Police said a Makarov pistol and four shell casings were found beside her body. Early reports indicated a contract killing, as she was shot four times, once in the head, but if so it was unclear who ordered the killing.

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Halmos
Paul Richard. 2006-10-02

90

Born 1916-03-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Paul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and statistician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor. He has been described as one of The Martians.

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Stewart
Thomas. 2006-09-24

78

Born 1928-08-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack

Thomas Stewart died of a heart attack while playing golf near his home in Rockville, Maryland.
He was an American bass-baritone who specialized in Wagnerian roles.

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Boulitreau
Bernard (alias: Bernar). 2006-09-21

49

Born 1957-01-09. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Unknown

Attention Chien Léchant, Fluide Glacial - Audie (1997) ;
Vu à la Télé, Charlie Hebdo (1999) ;
Le zapping de Bernar : Chroniques télé parues dans Charlie Hebdo, Éditions Hoëbeke (2005).
Bernar est mort, les peoples unanimes : "Il ne dessinera plus nos sales gueules"

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Minisini
Jean. 2006-09-21

83

Born 1923-03-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Jean Minisini was a French actor. Before entering the world of cinema, Jean Minisini was a wrestler and stuntman. Official stand-in of the American actor Burt Lancaster, he worked in Hollywood. He is however well known to film fans for his role as henchman of Fantômas in the film by André Hunebelle (1964). Faithful stuntman of Claude Carliez and François Nadal's team, we see him fighting alongside Yvan Chiffre against Jean Marais and robbing a casino with Louis de Funès, Yvan Chiffre, Dominique Zardi and Henri Attal. He played a mobster named Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Le Majordome by Jean Delannoy in 1964. He played, in Le Corniaud (1964), a P.J. inspector alongside Eric Vasberg, Marius Gaidon and Jack Ary. He also played the role of "Mathieu la valise" in Un flic by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1972.

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Schuiten
Roy. 2006-09-19

55

Born 1950-12-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Other

He died of a bleeding stomach.

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Stratton
Dorothy. 2006-09-17

107

Born 1899-03-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

She was the director of the SPARS, the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve during World War II.

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Hargitay
Miklos (alias: Mickey Hargitay). 2006-09-14

77

Born 1929-01-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)

After winning Mr. Universe, he joined Mae West's muscleman revue at New York's The Latin Quarter, where he met Jayne Mansfield.
Multiple myeloma (also known as MM, myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, or as Kahler's disease after Otto Kahler) is a type of cancer of plasma cells which are immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies. Its prognosis, despite therapy, is generally poor, and treatment may involve chemotherapy and stem cell transplant. It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological malignancies.

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Fallaci
Oriana. 2006-09-14

77

Born 1929-06-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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François
Marc. 2006-09-12

46

Born 1960-04-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a Theatre actor and director. He often talked of suicide.

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Brach
Gérard. 2006-09-09

79

Born 1927-07-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Belvaux
Remy. 2006-09-04

38

Born 1967-11-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a Belgian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He was the brother of Lucas Belvaux, also an actor and film director, and of Bruno Belvaux, theater director.
In 1992, he was with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde director, producer and actor of the feature film Man Bites Dog.
In 1998 he was one of the four participants who creampied Bill Gates, along with Noël Godin.

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Irwin
Stephen (alias: The crocodile hunter). 2006-09-04

44

Born 1962-02-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident

Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine while snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the stingrays. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.
The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police. After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger by automatically flexing the serrated spine on its tail (which can measure up to 25 cm or about 10 inches in length) in an upward motion.
Ironically, the stingray was not the creature being filmed. It was deemed "not dangerous enough" to be featured in the documentary.

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Claustre
Françoise. 2006-09-03

69

Born 1937-02-08. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer

She was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Mrs. Claustre's husband, Pierre.
Pierre and Françoise Claustre were released in Tripoli, on 1 February 1977.

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Gautier
Nathalie. 2006-09-01

54

Born 1951-09-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer

French Deputy in 2002 (PS).

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Ford
Glenn. 2006-08-30

90

Born 1916-05-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

Ford's only child, Peter Ford (born 1945), also became an actor before giving up on his acting career around 1975; he later became a successful business contractor.
Ford became estranged from his son and stated that he would leave his estate to Pauli Kiernan, his 39-year-old nurse and companion. While Peter contended Ms. Kiernan was manipulating his father, the elder Ford refused to accept his explanation and said "What Peter has done to me is cruel and wicked. He just wants my money. I want my nurse Pauli to get the money. I know who's been good and kind to me in these last years of my life."
Several years later, however, Ford reconciled with his son who subsequently moved into Ford's Beverly Hills mansion along with his wife Lynda and their three children. However, unlike his son, Ford never reconciled with any of his wives.

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Mahfouz
Naguib. 2006-08-30

94

Born 1911-12-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Schwartz
Melvin. 2006-08-28

73

Born 1932-11-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

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