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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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Gérome
Raymond. 2002-02-03

81

Born 1920-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Heart attack.

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Langmann
Julien (alias: Julien Rassam). 2002-02-03

33

Born 1968-06-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a French actor, son of Claude Berri. Rassam is his mother's lastname.
In 2000, he fell from the third floor of the hotel Raphael in Paris.
He was left paraplegic, and commited suicide a couple of years after his accident.

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Poniatowski
Michel. 2002-01-15

79

Born 1922-05-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Poniatowski approved in September 1983 the merger of the electoral list RPR-UDF with the far-right National Front (FN) party, headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen, during the partial municipal election of Dreux.
French quote: « Le danger fasciste en France ne vient pas de la droite, il vient de la gauche, dont c'est la vocation d'esprit et de méthode. Il faut donc voter contre les fascistes de gauche. »

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Malakian
Achot (alias: Henri Verneuil). 2002-01-11

81

Born 1920-10-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Etiemble
René. 2002-01-07

92

Born 1909-01-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

After the killing of Camus and Gallimard in a road accident, Etiemble made investigations. He said he'd got the evidence that the car Facel Vega was a true coffin on wheels

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Heineken
Alfred Henry. 2002-01-03

78

Born 1923-11-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Freddy Heineken was a major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

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Heckart
Anna Eileen. 2001-12-31

82

Born 1919-03-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Heckart died of lung cancer at her home in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 82.

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Hubschmid
Paul. 2001-12-31

84

Born 1917-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Paul Hubschmid was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens of films and television series between 1938 and 1991. Many of these were German and International productions.

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Mayol
Jacques. 2001-12-22

74

Born 1927-04-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

Mayol committed suicide by hanging himself in Elba, Italy, at the age of 74. His ashes were spread over the Tuscany coast.

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Dubois-Dumée
Jean-Pierre. 2001-12-20

83

Born 1918-02-12. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

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Silly
François (alias: Gilbert Bécaud). 2001-12-18

74

Born 1927-10-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

In 2001 he died, aged 74, on his houseboat on the Seine and was interred in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
In 2003 Sophie Daumier was interred in the adjacent tomb.

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Mule
Marcel. 2001-12-18

100

Born 1901-06-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

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Fior
Claude. 2001-12-16

46

Born 1955-07-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a motorcycle racer who turned into building his own bikes. He crashed in the fog, while piloting his plane from Paris to Nogaro. He contributed to the design of the Renault Spider.

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Santelli
Claude. 2001-12-15

78

Born 1923-06-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident

He died 3 months after an accident in Alexis Gruss' circus. An Elephant seized him with her trunk and hurled him to the floor.

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Richard
jean. 2001-12-12

80

Born 1921-04-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Reagan
Maureen (alias: Maureen Revell). 2001-12-08

60

Born 1941-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

She was the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.
She died in Sacramento, California, from melanoma.

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Blake
Peter James. 2001-12-06

53

Born 1948-10-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder

he was a New Zealand yachtsman who led his country to two successive America’s Cup victories. He previously won the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989, and the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 by setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza. Blake was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 for services to yachting, and received an honorary doctorate in 2000 from AUT University.
Pirates shot and killed Blake while he was on an environmental exploration trip in South America, monitoring global warming and pollution for the United Nations. The two-month expedition was anchored off Macapá, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon delta, waiting to clear customs after a trip up the Amazon river. At around 9 pm a group of six to eight armed, masked robbers wearing balaclavas and crash helmets boarded the Seamaster. As one of the robbers held a gun to the head of a crewmember, Blake sprang from the cabin wielding a rifle used to ward off polar bears. He shot one of the assailants in the hand before the rifle malfunctioned; he was then fatally shot in the back by assailant Ricardo Colares Tavares. The boarders injured two other crew members with knives, and the remaining seven were unhurt.
The only booty the attackers seized from Seamaster was a 15 hp outboard motor and some watches from the crew. Authorities eventually captured the pirates and sentenced them to an average of 32 years in prison each; Tavares, the man who fired the fatal shots, received a sentence of 36 years 9 months.
Prior to the attack, the yacht's crew had been very careful when travelling up the river and back down again; they always had crew members on watch. Only upon return to 'civilisation' did they relax their guard.

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Scipion
Robert. 2001-12-03

81

Born 1921-00-00. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Best remembered as a French crossword puzzle author. He once met with Hemingway who said to him : "I am not Hannibal".

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Chabrol
Jean-Pierre. 2001-12-01

76

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

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Harrison
George. 2001-11-29

58

Born 1943-02-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

Oral cancer

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Astafiev
Victor. 2001-11-29

78

Born 1924-00-00. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Mitchum
John. 2001-11-29

82

Born 1919-09-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

John Mitchum was an American actor from the 1940s to the 1970s in film and television. Early in his career, he was credited as Jack Mitchum. Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ann Harriet Mitchum (née Gunderson) and James Thomas Mitchum, who was killed in a railyard accident seven months before he was born. He was the younger brother of Julie Mitchum and Robert Mitchum. He served in the United States Army, 361st Harbor Craft Company, in Florida and Hawaii. Mitchum died after complications of three strokes.

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Grandel
Michel (alias: Frédéric Grendel). 2001-11-25

77

Born 1924-06-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Coudurier
Jean-Pierre. 2001-11-23

76

Born 1925-06-15. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

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Karoli
Michael. 2001-11-17

53

Born 1948-04-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can. Michael Karoli was born and grew up in Straubing, Bavaria, moving to St. Gallen, Switzerland by the time he finished school. He learned to play the guitar, violin and cello as a child, and played in numerous jazz and dance bands. In 1966, he met and befriended Holger Czukay, who was his guitar teacher for a while. After he graduated he began studies of the law until leaving in 1968 to form Can with Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, and David Johnson. His main role was that of the guitarist, with occasional uncredited violin performances, and later also providing vocals. He was a constant member of the band, playing with it between 1968 and its break-up in 1979. He also joined the band for its three reunions, in 1986, 1991, and 1999. Karoli died from an undisclosed form of cancer in 2001 in Essen, Germany, aged 53. Karoli's sister, Constanze Karoli, and then-girlfriend Eveline Grunwald are the models on the cover of Roxy Music's 1974 album Country Life.

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Flanagan
Thomas Lee (alias: Tommy Flanagan). 2001-11-16

71

Born 1930-03-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease

Thomas Lee Flanagan (16 March 1930–16 November 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald. He played on a number of critically acclaimed recordings, such as John Coltrane's Giant Steps, Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus , The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper's Straight Life. He died on November 16, 2001, of an arterial aneurysm.

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Sutton
Johanne. 2001-11-11

34

Born 1966-12-01. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder

She was a French radio reporter and journalist. Graduating from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in 1990, she began working for Radio France International in 1991.
Sutton, along with fellow French journalist Pierre Billaud and German journalist Volker Handloik, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack. According to Reyberotte Billaud and Sutton jumped off the tank.

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Billaud
Pierre. 2001-11-11

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Born 1970-05-21. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder

He was a French radio reporter and journalist. He started his career on Radio France then then joined Radio Tele Luxembourg as international reporter.
Billaud, along with fellow French journalist Johanne Sutton and German journalist Volker Handloik, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack. According to Reyberotte Billaud and Sutton jumped off the tank.

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Beregovoy
Gilberte. 2001-11-05

81

Born 1920-02-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Pierre Bérégovoy's widow.

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Cavagnoud
Régine. 2001-10-31

31

Born 1970-06-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

On 29 October 2001, Cavagnoud collided with German ski coach Markus Anwander during ski training in Pitztal, Austria and sustained severe brain injuries as a result of the collision. She was evacuated by helicopter to Innsbruck's university hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries two days later. Her death was the first fatality involving a World Cup skier since Austria's Ulrike Maier death in 1994. She was buried in her native village of La Clusaz in the French Alps.

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