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Chalhoub Michel Demitri (b. 1932-04-10 / d. 2015-07-10) alias Omar Sharif
He was an Egyptian actor. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in both British and American productions. His films included Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Funny Girl (1968). He was nominated for an Academy Award. He won three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award. Sharif had a triple heart bypass in 1992 and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. Until his bypass, Sharif smoked 100 cigarettes a day. He quit smoking after the operation. In May 2015 it was reported that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. His son Tarek Sharif said that his father was becoming confused when remembering some of the biggest films of his career; he would mix up the names of his best-known films, Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, often forgetting where they were filmed.
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Born 1952-04-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
The bassist was found dead on July 27, 2001 in a Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida hotel room; he was 49 years old. Wilkeson had apparently been suffering from chronic liver and lung disease, the cause of death was deemed 'from natural causes.' Wilkeson's death also put the group in a strange position, since an agreement with Ronnie Van Zant's widow stated that at least three of Skynyrd's longtime members would have to be in attendance for it to be able to tour and issue albums under the name 'Lynyrd Skynyrd.' The group continued on anyway, with replacement bassist Ean Evans taking Wilkeson's longtime spot. However the reactions to Evans different style of playing has been mixed although he took informal lessons from Wilkeson.
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Born 1923-12-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Accident
He died in 2001 by an accidental fall.
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Born 1925-09-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Vice President of papeteries Bolloré from 1952 to 1974.
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Born 1921-12-16. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Toni Pagot was an Italian comics artist and animator. Born Antonio Pagotto in Milan, in collaboration with his elder brother Nino, Pagot started his career in the fields of comics, animation and advertising. After the Second World War, the two brothers created with The Dynamite Brothers, the first Italian feature-length animated film and the first Italian film in Technicolor. In 1963, the Pagot brothers created their main successful character, the black chick Calimero. In the 1970s, Pagot turned to work as a comic artist for Il Corriere dei Piccoli, Il Giornalino and Il Corriere dei Ragazzi. He was also co-creator and director of the animated series Grisù.
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Born 1933-03-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Kohl was found dead aged 68 in her Ludwigshafen home. She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills, after years of suffering from what was claimed to be a very rare and painful photo allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years.
Kohl is known for her collection of German-style cooking recipes published as Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions) which was published in 1996.
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Born 1924-06-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1925-02-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Jack Lemmon died of "carcinomatosis and metastatic cancer of bladder to colon".
He had been fighting the disease, very privately, for two years before losing the battle.
Lemmon was born in an elevator in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, where his father, John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., was the president of a doughnut company. His mother was Mildred Burgess Noel.
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Born 1931-12-17. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Unknown
Anne Barrère's father, whose husband is Robert Namias.
Anne Barrère is a personal advisor of Bernadette Chirac.
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Born 1917-08-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He fell ill just before a tour of Europe in 2001 and died soon afterwards at the age of 83.
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Born 1904-03-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
René Dumont started his career as a promoter of the use of chemical fertizers and mechanisation. He wrote articles, quoting Nazi agriculture as a model, in "La Terre Française" (Pétainist weekly journal), favoring agricultural corporatism. However, he was one of the first to denounce damages from the green revolution ("Révolution Verte") and to fight agricultural productivism.
He ran for Presidency in 1974 as the first ecologist candidate, and won 1.32 % of the votes.
Dumont is considered to be the forefather of the French Green Party.
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Born 1909-02-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
French cinematographer.
Alekan died from leukemia in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France.
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Born 1970-03-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Princess Leila Pahlavi, born in Tehran, Iran, was the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his third wife, Farah Pahlavi. Leila was found dead in her room in the Leonard Hotel in London by her doctor. She was found to have more than five times the lethal dose of quinalbarbitone, a barbiturate, which is used to treat insomnia, in her system, along with a nonlethal amount of cocaine. She was found in bed, her body emaciated by years of anorexia and bulimia. According to a report on her death, which included information from an autopsy conducted by the Westminster Coroner's Court, she stole the quinalbarbitone from her doctor's desk during an appointment and was addicted to the drug, typically taking 40 pills at once, rather than the prescribed two.
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Born 1952-06-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer best known for her work in French music. She was the younger sister of Taj Mahal. Between 1990 and 1996 she was in the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones alongside singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and Welsh–French guitarist Michael Jones. Two days after her 49th birthday, Fredericks died of a heart attack in Dakar, Senegal. At the request of the French Minister of Culture, Fredericks was buried in Montmartre Cemetery. On June 18, a funeral service was held for her at Eglise Notre-Dame de Clignancourt, the church that stands across from her apartment in the 18th district.
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Born 1915-04-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Primary cause: throat cancer
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Born 1946-03-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Tony Ashton was an English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist.
Tony Ashton died from cancer at his home. He was 55. Shortly before he sent this message:
Dear everyone,
Thanks for all the messages and enquiries -
recent tests show the cancer has spread
and I've decided to refuse further treatment and come home.
So - thanks to all, have a drink for me - cheers and bollox...
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Born 1937-11-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Formula One driver from Italy who raced for the March, Surtees and Alfa Romeo teams. His nickname was "The Monza Gorilla".
He died at Lesmo, near Milan, of a heart attack at the age of 63 while gardening at his home. He reportedly collapsed while mowing the lawn.
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Born 1928-09-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a photographer for the Cuban newspaper Revolución in 1960 when he produced on March 5, 1960 the iconic image of Che Guevara that became a worldwide symbol of revolution and rebellion. He never received any royalties for the image, although in 2000 he sued Smirnoff over the use of the image in advertisement.
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Born 1914-03-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
1973 : La Nuit américaine by François Truffaut : Bertrand
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Born 1923-07-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist, famous for a series of novels set in French Indochina in the mid-20th century, where he resided and travelled for several years. Several of these novels are collected in a series named La Nuit Indochinoise ("The Indochina Night") and include several best sellers, such as Tu récolteras la tempête.
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Born 1919-08-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French cinematographer. He is most famous for his work with Alain Resnais, especially for the two films Hiroshima mon amour, L'année dernière à Marienbad and Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books).
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Born 1921-05-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Roger Boussinot, alias Emmanuel Le Lauraguais and Roger Mijema, was a Historian an movie critic. He was also abriter and a film director., born in Tunis. He wrote Les Guichets du Louvre, based on his own experience and culpability.
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Born 1939-04-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Miller was the father of actors Jason Patric (by first wife Linda Gleason, daughter of Jackie Gleason) and Joshua John Miller (by second wife Susan Bernard).
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Born 1922-01-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
One of a very few people to work with Albert R. Broccoli *after* working on a "renegade" James Bond film (in this case, Casino Royale (1967). With few exceptions, anyone involved in such productions was spurned by Eon Productions.
He died of Alzheimer's disease.
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Born 1956-12-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was killed testing an Audi R8 sports car when he suffered a high-speed tire failure at the Lausitzring in eastern Germany. Alboreto's car spun out of control and overturned on a straight section of the circuit. The accident came during preparations for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was held in June
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Born 1925-07-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
The modern French author and critic Roger Laporte has conducted a lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing and produced a body of work on the borderline between literature and philosophy.
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Born 1967-11-23. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an independant journalist and photographer. He had been kidnapped in tchetchenia and kept as an hostage from 10 October, 1999 through 6 June, 2000. He wrote his autobiography before commiting suicide.