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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
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Born 1954-12-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Jack Sonni was an American writer, musician, and marketing executive, best known as "the other guitarist" in Dire Straits during the band's Brothers in Arms era.
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Born 1973-01-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Eléonore Faucher was a French film director and screenwriter. She is best known for directing the film A Common Thread.
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Born 2001-07-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Tijl De Decker was a Belgian racing cyclist. He was the younger brother of cyclist Alfdan De Decker. He died at Antwerp University Hospital from injuries as a result of a training accident in which he collided with the rear of a car in Lier near Antwerp two days earlier. He was 22
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Born 1987-05-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Windham Lawrence Rotunda was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in WWE from 2010 to 2021, and then again from 2022 until his death in 2023, where he performed under the ring name Bray Wyatt. Rotunda died of a heart attack on August 24, 2023, at the age of 36. His death was announced by WWE chief content officer Triple H on X. Prior to his death, Rotunda had been dealing with an undisclosed illness since February, which was reportedly life-threatening. According to reports just days before his death, he had been making positive progress towards recovery. Shortly after his death, it was revealed that the illness was COVID-19, which had exacerbated a pre-existing heart condition. Following Triple H's announcement, several of Rotunda's peers paid tribute to him on social media. Promotions such as All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Impact Wrestling, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) issued statements on his death and legacy. WWE plans to donate all of the net proceeds from Rotunda's merchandise sales to his family. The August 25, 2023, episode of SmackDown honored Rotunda and Terry Funk, who had died the day prior, by airing tributes and behind-the-scenes footage.
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Born 1947-03-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Claude Nallet was a French sprinter that competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 400 m hurdles and reached the final in the relay. He won two gold and two silver medals in these events at the European championships of 1969 to 1974. Nallet retired after finishing sixth in the 400 m hurdles at the 1978 European Athletics Championships. He was married to French Olympic gymnast Chantal Seggiaro.
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Born 1953-06-16. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Daniel Cohen was a prominent French economist, a co-founder and professor at the Paris School of Economics, as well as a senior advisor to the bank Lazard. Cohen was born in Tunis, Tunisia and died in Paris from a blood disease, at the age of 70.
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Born 1948-08-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Jean-Louis Georgelin was a French Army General who was Chief of the Defence Staff ("Chef d'état-major des armées", CEMA) between 4 October 2006 and 25 February 2010. From 9 June 2010 until 2016 he served as Great Chancellor of the French national order, the Légion d'honneur. On April 17, 2019, in the wake of the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris and with a view to rebuilding the cathedral, he was appointed by the Council of Ministers to head a special representative mission "to oversee the progress of the procedures and work that will be undertaken ". During an exchange at the National Assembly on November 13, 2019, he declared that he had asked Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of historic monuments, "to shut the fuck up" (sic), while Villeneuve had on several occasions publicly stated his wish to rebuild the spire identically in compliance with the French Heritage Code and France's international commitments, and in accordance with the Venice Charter. His comments caused "astonishment", including at the Ministry of Culture. Jean-Louis Georgelin died while hiking in the commune of Bordes-Uchentein, Ariège. His body was found the next day by the high-mountain gendarmerie platoon on the slopes of Mont Valier.
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Born 1931-07-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Louis Mexandeau was a French politician. He served as Minister of the Postal Services from 1981 to 1986 under François Mitterrand, and as Secretary for Veteran Affairs from 1991 to 1993.
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Born 1976-09-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Mirko Giansanti was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Born in Terni, the son of the motorcycle racer Fosco, Giansanti made his Grand Prix motorcycle racing debut in 1996, as a wild card with the Pileri team. His best year was in 1998 when he finished on the podium four times and finished in sixth place in the 125cc world championship. During his Grand Prix career he achieved a total of 12 podiums. Following his 2005 Grand Prix retirement, in 2008 Giansanti resumed activity, competing in the Supersport World Championship for three seasons. In 2016 he co-founded with Filippo Conti the Giansanti Racing Team, with which he competed in the Supersport World Championship, winning a title in 2015 with Lucas Mahias, and in the Superbike World Championship.
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Born 1939-11-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Mark Margolis (/mɑːrˈɡoʊlɪs/) was an American actor. An actor since he was a teenager, late in his career, he became most known for portraying Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. His performance in Breaking Bad was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2012. He regularly performed in the films of director Darren Aronofsky, appearing in all but two of his films, and starring in Aronofsky's first film, Pi (1998). He was also known for playing Alberto "The Shadow" in Scarface and Antonio Nappa in Oz. Coincidentally, Krysten Ritter – Jesse's apartment manager and girlfriend, who is a recovering addict - wears also the last name “Margolis”.
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Born 1931-03-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Peyroles was a French writer and journalist. In 1980, he created the TV series Julien Fontanes, magistrat with Jean Cosmos.
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Born 1932-08-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Geneviève Suzanne Marie-Thérèse Mulmann, known professionally as Geneviève de Fontenay (French pronunciation: [ʒənvjɛv də fɔ̃tnɛ]), was a French businesswoman who served as the president of the Miss France Committee from 1981 until 2007. After leaving her position with Miss France, Fontenay created the beauty pageant Miss Prestige National in 2010, and served as its president until her retirement in 2016. On 2 August 2023, Fontenay's son announced that she had died in her sleep of cardiac arrest on the night of 1 August, at her Saint-Cloud home. She was 90. She had been growing weak in the time prior to her death, and spent her last moments with her brother and granddaughter.
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Born 1998-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Conor Angus Cloud Hickey was an American actor best known for his portrayal of Fezco in the HBO drama series Euphoria (2019–2022). He also had small roles in the independent films North Hollywood (2021) and The Line (2023), and appeared in music videos by Noah Cyrus, Juice Wrld, Becky G, and Karol G. Cloud died at his family's house in Oakland, California, at age 25. The Oakland Fire Department were summoned for a medical emergency and declared Cloud "already deceased" on arrival. He had been mourning the death of his father, whose funeral he had attended in Ireland a week earlier.
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Born 1964-11-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Sophie Fillières was a French film director and screenwriter who wrote for more than fifteen film and television productions from 1991 on. Fillières died from a long illness, at the age of 58.
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Born 1927-03-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Martin Walser (German: [ˈmaʁ.tiːn ˈvalˌzɐ]) was a German writer, especially known as a novelist. He began his career as journalist for Süddeutscher Rundfunk, where he wrote and directed audio plays, and travelled to England, France, Italy, Czechoslavakia and Poland as part of the job. He was part of Group 47 from 1953. Walser is regarded, along with Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, and Siegfried Lenz, as one of Germany's most influential postwar authors. Walser died in Nussdorf at age 96.
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Born 1966-12-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinead Marie Bernadette O'Connor), known professionally as Sinéad O'Connor, was an Irish singer, songwriter and political activist. Her debut studio album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, was her biggest success, selling more than seven million copies worldwide. Its lead single, "Nothing Compares 2 U", was named the year's top world single at the Billboard Music Awards. O'Connor had chart success with Am I Not Your Girl? (1992) and Universal Mother (1994), both certified gold in the UK, Faith and Courage (2000) certified gold in Australia, and Throw Down Your Arms (2005) went gold in Ireland. Her career included songs for films, collaborations with many other artists and appearances at charity fundraising concerts. O'Connor's 2021 memoir, Rememberings, was a bestseller. On 26 July 2023, O'Connor was found unresponsive at her flat in Herne Hill, South London, and later confirmed dead at the age of 56. Her family issued a statement later the same day, without indicating the cause of her death. The following day, the Metropolitan Police reported that O'Connor's death was not being treated as suspicious. On 28 July, the coroner in London said that the date of her death was still unknown.
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Born 1926-08-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bennett was named an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold more than 50 million records worldwide and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Born 1950-09-23. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Alexandre Adler was a French historian, journalist and expert of contemporary geopolitics, the former USSR, and the Middle East. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur (2002). A Maoist in his youth and then a member of the Communist Party (PCF), he shifted to the right at the end of the 1970s and has since become close to US neoconservatives, as did his wife Blandine Kriegel (daughter of the communist Resistant Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont). Adler was the counsellor of Roger Cukiermann, chairman of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF, Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France). Adler was one of the rare French intellectuals to defend George W. Bush's candidacy against Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election. He has qualified the altermondialist movement as an "enemy of freedom," and supported both the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. His positions have sometimes led to polemics, such as his qualification of France Inter radio journalist Daniel Mermet as a "Brejnevian journalist," head of Politis newspaper Bernard Langlois as a "repugnant journalist" (journaliste répugnant) and Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins Sans Frontières France as a "Jewish traitor" because of his criticisms of Israel and the US' policies.
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Born 1946-12-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Jane Mallory Birkin OBE was a British and French actress and singer. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in French cinema. In 2002, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and underwent rounds of treatment. Birkin often spent time with her grandchildren. Her daughter, Kate Barry, died in December 2013 after falling from a fourth floor apartment in Paris. On 6 September 2021, it was reported that Birkin was doing well after having a stroke. On 16 July 2023, Birkin was found dead at home in Paris. She was 76. No cause of death was given. The premier of the documentary Jane by Charlotte, about Birkin's relationship with her daughter Charlotte, on 8 July 2021, was one of her last public appearances.
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Born 1929-04-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French writer. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979 but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019. He saw himself as a French writer and insisted his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores. Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the communist regime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also a nominee for other awards. Kundera was awarded the 1985 Jerusalem Prize, in 1987 the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 2000 Herder Prize. In 2021, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia. Kundera died after a prolonged illness, in Paris, at the age of 94.
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Born 1941-01-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Denise Bombardier CM CQ (French pronunciation: [dəniz bɔ̃baʁdje]) was a Canadian journalist, essayist, novelist and media personality who worked for the French-language television network Radio-Canada for over 30 years. Bombardier was a defender of the international Francophonie and has often been invited by Bernard Pivot to discuss the psyche of the French and the situation of the French language in France. In 1990, during a television confrontation on a French book programme "Apostrophes", Bombardier said of the writer Gabriel Matzneff: "Some older men like to attract little children with sweets. Mr Matzneff does it with his reputation." Bombardier added, "How did they do afterward, these young girls?" At the time, she was insulted in the press by Josyane Savigneau. But, in January 2020, writer and editor Vanessa Springora "publishes a book, Le Consentement, a memoir of having been sexually abused by Matzneff between the ages of 14 and 16, when he was more than three times her age. It sparks an international furore, and Matzneff, driven from Paris, takes refuge on the Italian Riviera. The Paris prosecutor’s office opens an investigation after an "analysis" of the book. In 2019, Bombardier wrote the column "The Decline of the Whites." She started by noting the demographic fact that in many US cities, whites are already in the minority, and she stated that by 2050, in such countries as Canada, New Zealand and the US, whites could become a minority group.
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Born 1922-10-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Léon Gautier was a French soldier during the Second World War. He was France's last surviving veteran of D-Day.
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Born 1949-12-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Christian Dalger was a French professional footballer who played as a forward. He made six international caps for France, scoring two goals. During his career he played for clubs including SC Toulon (1962–1971) and AS Monaco (1971–1980), with whom he won the French title in 1978. He was a member of the France national team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. After his professional career he became a football manager.
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Born 1927-07-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Claude Sarraute was a French writer and journalist and columnist for Le Monde. She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show Les Grosses Têtes between 1984–1995 and from 2014 until her death. She was the daughter of lawyer and novelist Nathalie Sarraute, and lawyer Raymond Sarraute. Her first marriage, with American journalist Stanley Karnow (1925–2013), lasted from 1948 to 1955. She remarried in 1957 to doctor Christophe Tzara (1927–2018), son of Swedish artist Greta Knutson and Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara. They had two sons, Laurent and Martin, and divorced in 1966. In 1967, she was married to Jean-François Revel (1924–2006), philosopher, writer and member of the Académie Française from 1998 on. They had two children, a daughter Véronique (born 1968) and a son Nicolas Revel (born 1966), the former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Jean Castex.
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Born 1962-03-31. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
Richard Stockton Rush III was an American businessman, best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of deep-sea exploration company OceanGate. On June 18, 2023, he was killed along with four others aboard OceanGate's submersible Titan, which imploded during an attempt to visit the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.
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Born 1946-03-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Paul-Henri Nargeolet (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɑ̃ʁi naʁʒɔlɛ]) was a French deep sea explorer and Titanic expert. Known as "Mr. Titanic", Nargeolet was one of five people who died aboard the submersible Titan when it imploded underwater on 18 June 2023 close to the wreck of the Titanic.
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Born 1964-06-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
George Hamish Livingston Harding was a British businessman, pilot, explorer, adventurer and space tourist based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was the founder of Action Group and was chairman of Action Aviation, an international aircraft brokerage company with headquarters in Dubai, UAE. As an adventurer, he was a member of The Explorers Club who visited the South Pole several times, descended into the Mariana Trench, broke a Guinness World Record for circumnavigation of the Earth, and travelled into space. Between 9 and 11 July 2019, Harding was mission director and crew pilot for the flight mission One More Orbit, which set a world speed record for the fastest circumnavigation of Earth by aircraft over both geographic poles. Harding died with four others inside a submersible that imploded in the North Atlantic Ocean while en route to view the wreck of the Titanic on 18 June 2023.
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Born 1975-02-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
Shahzada Dawood was a Pakistani and British businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, died alongside three others when the Titan submersible imploded during a tourist expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic on 18 June 2023.
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Born 1933-07-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He was known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. McCarthy died at his home in Santa Fe at the age of 89. Stephen King said McCarthy was "maybe the greatest American novelist of my time ... He was full of years and created a fine body of work, but I still mourn his passing."
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Born 1936-09-29. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Silvio Berlusconi (/ˌbɛərlʊˈskoʊni/ BAIR-luu-SKOH-nee; Italian: [ˈsilvjo berluˈskoːni]) was an Italian media tycoon, politician, and billionaire who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013; a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 to his death in 2023, and previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001. With a net worth of US$6.8 billion as of June 2023, Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death. The state funeral of Berlusconi was held on 14 June 2023.