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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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Orowitz
Eugene (alias: Michael landon). 1991-07-01

54

Born 1936-10-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Charles Ingalls.

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Greene
Gladys Georgianna (alias: Jean Arthur). 1991-06-19

91

Born 1900-10-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

She was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains, arguably, the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress.
The screwball comedy is a subgenre of the comedy film genre. It has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres. It first gained prominence in 1934 with It Happened One Night, and, although many film scholars would agree that its classic period ended sometime in the early 1940s, elements of the genre have persisted, or have been paid homage to, in contemporary film.

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Allen
Ronald John. 1991-06-18

60

Born 1930-12-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Ronald John Allen was an English character actor who became a soap opera star. For many years, Allen had a relationship with Brian Hankins, who also appeared in Crossroads. They lived together for many years, until Hankins died in 1978. Allen was also very close friends with his co-star and on-screen wife, Sue Lloyd. The two became a couple, and made their relationship public when the British media started to intrude into their private lives. When Allen learned that he had terminal cancer, he and Lloyd married. He died three months later, at the age of 60. Sue Lloyd died of cancer in 2011.

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Bruller
Jean (alias: Vercors). 1991-06-11

89

Born 1902-02-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.

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Arrau
Claudio. 1991-06-09

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Born 1903-02-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

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Blondin
Antoine. 1991-06-07

69

Born 1922-04-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Gayetsky
Stanley (alias: Stan Getz). 1991-06-06

64

Born 1927-02-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (liver)

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Prieur
Alain. 1991-06-04

41

Born 1949-07-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Alain Prieur was a French cascadeur. On October 10, 1986, in Burkina Faso, he jumped from a plane at an altitude of 4,000 m without a parachute. Two of his teammates (including Patrick de Gayardon) brought him the parachute in progress. Alain Prieur installed and opened it before the limit. It was a world first. He repeated the jump in May 1987 over Gap airport. It was while repeating this almost identical stunt, which he had named "Zero Risk", (passing from one glider to another, one below the other, without a parachute) that he fell and killed himself. His colleagues brought him the parachute, but there were problems installing it. In fact, only one of the two carabiners could be installed and locked, and when it came to opening it snapped. He is buried in the Forcalquier cemetery.

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Kempff
Wilhelm. 1991-05-23

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Born 1895-11-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

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Lefèvre
René Paul Louis. 1991-05-23

93

Born 1898-03-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French actor and writer. Throughout his career, he worked with several notable directors, like Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, and René Clair. Filmography 1977 : Un oursin dans la poche de Pascal Thomas 1976 : Le Corps de mon ennemi de Henri Verneuil: Pierre Leclercq 1967 : Un homme de trop de Constantin Costa Gavras : Colonel Guers 1966 : Angélique et le Roy de Bernard Borderie : Colbert 1963 : La Foire aux cancres de Louis Daquin 1963 : Un gosse de la butte de Maurice Delbez 1962 : Le Doulos de Jean-Pierre Melville : Gilbert Varnove 1962 : Comme un poisson dans l'eau de André Michel : M. Dumesnil 1962 : Une blonde comme ça de Jean Jabely : Doc 1959 : Rue des prairies de Denys de La Patellière - Uniquement d'après son roman 1959 : Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon de Jacqueline Audry : Le comte Antoine d'Éon 1958 : Douze heures d'horloge de Geza Radvanyi 1958 : Le Gorille vous salue bien de Bernard Borderie : Commissaire Blavet 1958 : La Liberté surveillée de Vladimír Vlček et Henri Aisner : Benoît 1958 : Sois belle et tais-toi de Marc Allégret : Monsieur Raphael 1958 : C'est la faute d'Adam de Jacqueline Audry : Norbert de Cazaubon 1957 : Celui qui doit mourir de Jules Dassin : Yannakos 1957 : La Garçonne de Jacqueline Audry : Professeur Vignabos 1955 : La Lumière d'en face de Georges Lacombe 1954 : Bel-Ami de Louis Daquin 1952 : Fille dangereuse - (Bufere) de Guido Brignone 1952 : Seuls au monde de René Chanas : François Hermenault 1952 : Trois femmes de André Michel : M. Cachelin (segment "L'Héritage") 1950 : Un sourire dans la tempête de René Chanas - Uniquement dialoguiste 1950 : Sous le ciel de Paris de Julien Duvivier - Uniquement dialoguiste 1949 : L'Escadron blanc de René Chanas 1949 : Le Point du jour de Louis Daquin : Dubard ...

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Gandhi
Rajiv. 1991-05-21

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Born 1944-08-20. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Murder

Rajiv Gandhi remained the Congressional leader till the elections in 1991. He was assassinated while campaigning, by a female LTTE suicide bomber Thenmuli Rajaratnam. His Italian-born widow Sonia Gandhi became the leader of the Congress party in 1998, and led the party to victory in the 2004 elections. His son Rahul Gandhi is a member of parliament.

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Fanon
Maurice. 1991-04-30

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Born 1929-12-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown

L'écharpe

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Siegel
Donald. 1991-04-20

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Born 1912-10-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer

He has a cameo role as a bartender in Eastwood's Play Misty For Me, and, as the director of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, appears as a "pod" taxi driver in Philip Kaufman's remake.

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Lean
David. 1991-04-16

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Born 1908-03-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

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Ohlin
Per Yngve (alias: Dead). 1991-04-08

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Born 1969-01-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

Per Yngve Ohlin, better known by his stage name Dead and nickname Pelle, was a Swedish metal musician, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem from 1988 until his death in 1991. Prior to Mayhem, he also performed as vocalist in the Swedish death metal band Morbid. Dead was a popular figure of the Norwegian black metal scene, and his legacy remains prominent in the genre to this day. Roadrunner Records ranked him No. 48 out of 50 of The Greatest Metal Front-Men of All Time. Dead was known for his morbid personality and obsession with death, which was a direct inspiration for his stage name. He hoarded dead birds, wore shirts with funeral announcements printed on them, and wore corpse paint—being one of the first in black metal to do so by some accounts. Acquaintances and peers described Ohlin as difficult to befriend or understand. Already intensely introverted and depressed, Dead's personality and demeanor would only become more withdrawn leading up to his death, a progression marked by such patterns as harming himself offstage among friends and isolating himself for long periods in his bedroom. Dead committed suicide in April 1991 at the age of 22. Controversially, an image from the aftermath was used as the cover of the bootleg live album The Dawn of the Black Hearts. On 8 April 1991, while left alone in the house, Dead used a hunting knife to slit his wrists and throat, and afterward, shot himself in the forehead with a shotgun. He left a brief suicide note which started by saying, "Excuse the blood...". His body was found by Euronymous, who had to climb through an open window as the doors were locked and there were no other keys to the house. Instead of calling the police immediately, he visited a nearby shop to purchase a disposable camera with which he photographed the body; after re-arranging some items for his pictures, he proceeded to call emergency services. Dead's suicide caused a rift between Euronymous and some of his friends, who were disgusted by his attitude towards Dead before the suicide, and his behavior about Dead's death afterwards. Necrobutcher ended his friendship with Euronymous and left Mayhem. Manheim later speculated that Euronymous had willfully left Dead alone in the house so that he would have a chance to kill himself. Dead's suicide was said to cause "a change in mentality" in the black metal scene and was the first in a string of infamous events carried out by its members.

Excuse the blood, but I have slit my wrists and neck. It was the intention that I would die in the woods so that it would take a few days before I was possibly found. I belong in the woods and have always done so. No one will understand the reason for this anyway. To give some semblance of an explanation I'm not a human, this is just a dream and soon I will wake. It was too cold and the blood kept clotting, plus my new knife is too dull. If I don't succeed dying to the knife I will blow all the shit out of my skull. Yet I do not know. I left all my lyrics by "Let the good times roll"—plus the rest of the money. Whoever finds it gets the fucking thing. As a last salutation may I present "Life Eternal". Do whatever you want with the fucking thing. / Pelle. I didn't come up with this now, but seventeen years ago. — Dead's suicide note (translated to English from Swedish)

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Frisch
Max. 1991-04-04

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Born 1911-05-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Greene
Graham. 1991-04-03

86

Born 1904-10-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

In 1966, Greene moved to Antibes, to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known since 1959, a relationship that endured until his death. In 1981 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, awarded to writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society. One of his final works, the pamphlet J'Accuse — The Dark Side of Nice (1982), concerns a legal matter embroiling him and his extended family in Nice. He declared that organized crime flourished in Nice, because the city's upper levels of civic government had protected judicial and police corruption; the accusation provoked a libel lawsuit he lost. Yet, in 1994, he was vindicated — after death — when the former mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin, was imprisoned upon conviction for corruption and associated crimes.

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Graham
Martha. 1991-04-01

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Born 1894-05-11. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Pneumonia

She was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. Graham choreographed until her death in New York City from pneumonia.

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Monfort
Silvia. 1991-03-30

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Born 1923-06-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

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Prat
Jean. 1991-03-27

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Born 1927-02-25. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide

Jean Prat was a French television director, born in Milan (Italy) and died in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine). After studying at the IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques), Jean Prat joined national television in 1952. He was assistant to Claude Barma and René Lucot before being appointed director in 1953. From 1955 to 1968 he was the regular director of Lectures pour tous, the programme of Pierre Dumayet, Pierre Desgraupes and Max-Pol Fouchet. At the same time, he directed 17 dramas in the series En votre âme et conscience, as well as several plays (Goldoni, Chekhov). Jean Prat hanged himself on 27 March 1991. The reason for his suicide was what he himself called the wreckage of television at the time. "He died, said Yvan Audouard, to see television dying under his impotent gaze of the longest and cruellest of diseases: mediocrity."

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Andrieu
René. 1991-03-26

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Born 1920-03-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Redactor in chief at "l'humanité".

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Lefebvre
Marcel. 1991-03-25

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Born 1905-11-29. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age

Better known as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, He was a French Roman Catholic bishop. Following a career as a missionary in Africa with the Holy Ghost Fathers, he took the lead in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council.

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Fender
Clarence (alias: Leo Fender). 1991-03-21

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Born 1909-08-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other

He was an American luthier who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company.
He died from complications of Parkinson's disease.

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Ginsburg
Lucien (alias: Serge Gainsbourg). 1991-03-02

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Born 1928-04-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Jagger
Dean. 1991-02-05

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Born 1903-11-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart

there was a controversy when he refused to work with director Joseph Losey on the film 'X the unknown' because Losey was on the Hollywood blacklist. Losey was removed from the project after a few days shooting and replaced with Les Norman.

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Seigner
Louis. 1991-01-20

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Born 1903-06-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Luke
Keye. 1991-01-12

86

Born 1904-06-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was Master Po in the film series Kung Fu.

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Cruzan
Nancy. 1990-12-26

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Born 1957-07-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident

On January 11, 1983, she lost control of her old car that had no seat belts, was thrown from it and landed face down in a water-filled ditch. Paramedics found her with no vital signs, but they resuscitated her. After a couple weeks of remaining dormant within a coma, she was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Surgeons inserted a feeding tube for her long-term care. Her husband and parents waited for a more substantial recovery, but eventually, after four years, accepted that there was no hope. In 1987 her parents asked to have Cruzan's feeding tube removed, but the hospital demanded a court order to that effect.
Cruzan's feeding tube was taken out in December 1990. 15 members of Operation Rescue, including a nurse, appeared at the hospital to re-insert the feeding tube, but they were arrested. Cruzan died 11 days later. Her father committed suicide in 1996 and her mother died in 1999.

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Gripari
Pierre. 1990-12-23

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Born 1925-01-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Operation

Gripari was openly gay and often wrote on gay themes, but his work often borders on the surreal and includes several parodies of litterary genres.

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Chenal
Pierre. 1990-12-23

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Born 1904-12-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

His true name was Pierre Cohen. But in those trouble days it were worth hold another name.

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