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March 29, 2024

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Rosolino
Frank. 1978-11-26

52

Born 1926-08-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

Frank Rosolino was an American jazz trombonist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in a family that included brothers Russell and Gasper, Rosolino studied the guitar with his father starting at age 9. Frank took up the trombone at age 14, and graduated from Miller High School, while playing in the Cass Tech Symphony Orchestra, a fine music program that also produced Donald Byrd. Following service in the U.S. Army's 86th Division during World War II, he played with the big bands of Bob Chester, Glen Gray, Tony Pastor, Herbie Fields, and Gene Krupa. He became famous during a stint in the most popular of Stan Kenton's progressive big bands, (1952-1954), and settled in Los Angeles, where he worked with everybody in the business. Frank's third wife, and the mother of their two sons, committed suicide in February 1972 in Los Angeles, California, and he was overheard telling his girlfriend that her suicide forced him to contemplate his own death. He died in 1978 in Van Nuys, California, committing suicide after shooting both sons, Justin, 9, and Jason, 7, his only children. Jason survived, blinded, and was adopted by his mother's cousin, Claudia Eien, and her husband Gary. Frank Rosolino also had a daughter: his oldest child, Felecia Rosolino. After his death, she moved to New Zealand, where her real mother lived. She is not mentioned in many biographies of Frank Rosolino. Frank also had another daughter named Parris Rosolino that was born to Leslie Ann Bashore in 1963. She currently resides in Washington State and is actively working on prosecuting the women that confessed to her that she shot Frank and her two brothers Justin and Jason. So may be it was also a murder ? The International Trombone Association established its first award for jazz trombone in Frank's memory, and he continues to be remembered as one of the greatest jazz trombone players of all time.

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Beebe
Ford . 1978-11-26

90

Born 1888-11-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

He was a screenwriter and director. He was the son of Oscar and Mary (née Ingalsbe) Beebe. He entered the film business as a writer in 1916 (as far as is known) and over the next 60 years wrote and/or directed almost 200 films, his final project being a low-budget adventure film he directed in Alaska, Joniko and the Kush Ta Ta, in 1975. He specialized in "B" pictures--mostly westerns--and action serials, working on the "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" serials for Universal Pictures. He even worked as an assistant director on the Walt Disney animated film Pinocchio (1940) and directed (uncredited) the "Pastoral Symphony" segment of Disney's classic Fantasia. He had a reputation as a journeyman director who got his films made on time and under budget, which endeared him to producers and kept him steadiy employed over the years. He is sometimes credited with an I. or L. as his middle initial.

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Tristano
Leonard Joseph (alias: Lennie Tristano). 1978-11-18

59

Born 1919-03-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown

Leonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. Tristano was born in Chicago into an Italian immigrant family from Aversa. He was blind from infancy and studied piano and music theory from pre-teen years, graduating from his home town's American Conservatory of Music in 1943. Tristano's interest in jazz inspired a move to New York City in 1946. His advanced grasp of harmony pushed his music beyond even the complexities of the contemporary bebop movement, though Tristano was always explicit about acknowledging his enormous debt to Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. He performed in the Cool jazz, bebop, post bop and Avant-garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous originality and dazzling work as an improviser have long been appreciated by knowledgable jazz fans; in addition, his work as a jazz educator meant that he has exerted a substantial indirect influence on jazz, through figures such as Lee Konitz and Bill Evans.

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Colas
Alain. 1978-11-16

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Born 1943-09-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident

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Dauphin
Claude. 1978-11-16

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Born 1903-08-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other

Jean Nohain's brother.
Intestinal occlusion... Cancer ?

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Barr
Byron Elsworth (alias: Gig Young ). 1978-10-19

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Born 1913-11-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

Gig Young (born Byron Elsworth Barr) was an American actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). On October 19, 1978, three weeks after his marriage to Schmidt, the couple were found dead in their Manhattan apartment. Police surmised that Young shot his wife and then himself. A motive for the murder–suicide was never discovered. Police said there was a diary opened to September 27 with "we got married today" written on it. The couple appear to have died around 2:30 pm, and their bodies were found five hours later. Young was at one time under the care of the psychologist and psychotherapist Eugene Landy, who later had his professional California medical license revoked amidst accusations of ethical violations and misconduct with patients.

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Rockwell
Willard Frederick. 1978-10-16

90

Born 1888-03-31. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. was an American engineer businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company. He created and directed a number of major corporations with a wide range of products for the automobile and aviation and related industries. By the 1970s he was a leading figure in American defense industries. "If it moves, we probably made something on it," was his boast. Rockwell became interested in aviation after the war, and produced a wide variety of engine parts, as well as a small executive aircraft. Expanding beyond transportation, his companies made meters for the gas and water industries. He also made power tools, valves, taxi meters, and parking meters. For example, the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Company was a conglomerate, comprising many companies that manufactured items ranging from water meters to ball bearings. The company became a major player in the space race of the 1960s. In 1967 Rockwell-Standard merged with North American Aviation, becoming North American-Rockwell, and Rockwell stepped down as chairman. It was renamed Rockwell International in 1973 and became the prime contractor on the Space Shuttle. Sales reached $6.3 billion in 1979, ranking it number 11 in defense contracts, in addition to its major presence in commercial aircraft, electronics, automotive components. Rockwell came from a Yankee family and married Clara Thayer, a descendant of John Alden who arrived aboard the Mayflower in 1620. The couple had five children, Kay, Janet, Willard Jr., Eleanor, and Betty. He was a Baptist and Republican. He brought his son Willard Frederick "Al" Rockwell, Jr. (1914-1992) into the network of family businesses in 1947. Rockwell Jr. became a senior executive for several of them before taking over in the mid-1960s, leading work on the NASA Apollo and Space Shuttle programs until his 1989 retirement. Willard Sr. also brought his brother Walter F. Rockwell (1899-1973) into the family business, making him president of Timken-Detroit Axle 1933 to 1953, as well as other roles.

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Brel
Jacques. 1978-10-09

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Born 1929-04-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

Buried on Hiva-Oa island.

La mort m'attend comme une vieille fille
Au rendez-vous de la faucille
Pour mieux cueillir le temps qui passe
La mort m'attend comme une princesse
A l'enterrement de ma jeunesse
Pour mieux pleurer le temps qui passe
La mort m'attend comme Carabosse
A l'incendie de nos noces
Pour mieux rire du temps qui passe

Mais qu'y a-t-il derrière la porte
Et qui m'attend déjà
Ange ou démon qu'importe
Au devant de la porte il y a toi

La mort attend sous l'oreiller
Que j'oublie de me réveiller
Pour mieux glacer le temps qui passe
La mort attend que mes amis
Me viennent voir en pleine nuit
Pour mieux se dire que le temps passe
La mort m'attend dans tes mains claires
Qui devront fermer mes paupières
Pour mieux quitter le temps qui passe

Mais qu'y a-t-il derrière la porte
Et qui m'attend déjà
Ange ou démon qu'importe
Au devant de la porte il y a toi

La mort m'attend aux dernières feuilles
De l'arbre qui fera mon cercueil
Pour mieux clouer le temps qui passe
La mort m'attend dans les lilas
Qu'un fossoyeur lancera sur moi
Pour mieux fleurir le temps qui passe
La mort m'attend dans un grand lit
Tendu aux toiles de l'oubli
Pour mieux fermer le temps qui passe

Mais qu'y a-t-il derrière la porte
Et qui m'attend déjà
Ange ou démon qu'importe
Au devant de la porte il y a toi

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Messerschmidt
Willhelm. 1978-09-17

80

Born 1898-06-26. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

Following World War II, Messerschmitt was tried by a denazification court for using slave labor, and in 1948 was convicted of being a "fellow traveller". After two years in prison, he was released and resumed his position as head of his company. Since Germany was forbidden to manufacture aircraft until 1955, he turned his company to manufacturing prefabricated buildings, sewing machines, and small cars - most notably the Messerschmitt Kabinenroller. Exporting his talents, he designed the Hispano HA200 jet trainer for Hispano Aviacion in Spain in 1952 before eventually being allowed to return to aircraft manufacturing in Germany to licence-produce the Fiat G91 and then Lockheed F-104 Starfighter for the West German Luftwaffe.

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Markov
Georgi. 1978-09-11

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Born 1929-03-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

After moving to the West, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, the US-funded Radio Free Europe, and Germany's Deutsche Welle. He criticised the Bulgarian communist regime many times on radio. It is speculated that, as a result of this, the Bulgarian government decided to dispose of him—and asked the KGB for help.
Markov walked across Waterloo Bridge, which crosses the River Thames, and was waiting at a bus stop on the other side, when he was jabbed in the thigh by a man holding an umbrella. The man apologized and walked away. Markov would later tell doctors that the man had spoken in a foreign accent. The event is recalled as the Umbrella Murder.
Markov recalled feeling a stinging pain from where he had been hit by the umbrella tip. When he arrived at work at the BBC World Service offices he noticed a small red pimple had formed and the pain from being jabbed had not gone away. He told at least one of his colleagues at the BBC about this incident. That evening he developed a high fever and was admitted to hospital where he died three days later.

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Peterson
Bengt Ronnie. 1978-09-11

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Born 1944-02-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

At the start of the race, the race starter threw the green light before the field was ready to start. Several cars in the middle of the field got a jump on those at the front, and the result was an accordion effect of the cars as they approached the chicane, bunching the cars tightly together. James Hunt collided with Peterson, with Riccardo Patrese, Vittorio Brambilla, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Patrick Depailler, Didier Pironi, Derek Daly, Clay Regazzoni and Brett Lunger all involved in the ensuing melee.
Peterson's Lotus went into the barriers hard and caught fire. He was trapped, but Hunt, Regazzoni and Depailler managed to free him from the wreck before he received more than minor burns. He was dragged free and laid in the middle of the track fully conscious, his severe leg injuries obvious to all. Hunt later said he stopped Peterson from looking at his legs to spare him further distress.
At the time there was more concern for Brambilla , who was hit on the head by a flying wheel and was slumped comatose in his car (he later recovered and drove on in F1 until 1980). Peterson's life was not seen to be in any danger. The injured drivers were taken to hospital in Milan and the race was restarted after the track was cleaned up.
At the hospital, Peterson's X-rays showed he had 7 fractures in one leg and 3 in the other. After discussion with Ronnie himself, the surgeons decided to operate to stabilize the bones. Unfortunately, during the night, bone marrow went into Peterson's bloodstream through the fractures, forming fat globules on his major organs including lungs, liver, and brain. By morning he was in full renal failure and was declared dead a few hours later. The cause of death was given as fat embolism. Somebody reported that Peterson's death should be ascribed to bloodloss happened during the attempt to remove this embolism.
Peterson's life would most likely have been saved had he received medical attention immediately after his accident. In violation of safety requirements, track officials waited more than 20 minutes before dispatching medical help to the scene.
Teammate and close friend Andretti clinched the championship at the race. "It was so unfair to have a tragedy connected with probably what should have been the happiest day of my career," Andretti said. "I couldn't celebrate, but also, I knew that trophy would be with me forever. And I knew also that Ronnie would have been happy for me."

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Warner
Jack. 1978-09-09

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Born 1892-08-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

By the end of 1973, those closest to Warner became aware of signs that he was becoming disoriented. Shortly after losing his way in the building that housed his own office, Warner retired. In 1974, the former studio chief suffered a stroke that left him blind and enfeebled. During the next several years, he gradually lost the ability to speak and became unresponsive to friends and relatives. Finally, on August 13, 1978, Warner was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Hospital, where he died of a heart inflammation.

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Moon
Keith. 1978-09-07

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Born 1946-08-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

Keith Moon's final night out was as a guest of Paul McCartney at the preview of the film The Buddy Holly Story on 7 September 1978. After dining with Paul and Linda McCartney, Moon and his girlfriend, Annette Walter-Lax, left the party early and returned to a flat on loan from Harry Nilsson in Curzon Place, London. He died at the age of 32, having overdosed on Clomethiazole, a medication taken as part of a program to wean him off alcohol. When the police investigated the cause of his death they determined that there were about 32 pills in his system. Some of the pills were undissolved.
Moon died a couple of weeks after the release of the last Who album he appeared on, Who Are You. All four band members are shown on the album cover, with Moon seated on a chair back-to-front in order to hide all the weight he had gained in the previous three years, as discussed in Tony Fletcher's book "Dear Boy". Ironically, the chair was labeled "Not to be taken away".

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Zygalski
Henryk. 1978-08-30

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Born 1908-07-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. In late 1938, in response to growing complexities in German encryption procedures, Zygalski designed the "perforated sheets," also known as "Zygalski sheets," a manual device for finding Enigma settings. This scheme, like the earlier "card catalog," was independent of the number of connections being used in the Enigma's plugboard, or commutator. After the war he remained in exile in the United Kingdom and worked, until his retirement, as a lecturer in mathematical statistics at the University of Surrey. During this period he was prevented by the Official Secrets Act from speaking of his achievements in cryptology. He died at Liss and was cremated and his ashes taken to London.

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Shaw
Robert. 1978-08-28

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Born 1927-08-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

When Robert was 12, his father died (apparently due to alcoholism, he would have committed suicide).
Shaw's best-known film performances include a turn as the dangerous enemy secret agent Red Grant in the James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963); the relentless panzer officer Colonel Hessler in Battle of the Bulge (1965); a young Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (1966); Lord Randolph Churchill, in Young Winston (1972); the ruthless mobster Doyle Lonnegan in The Sting (1973); the tightly wound, but coolly efficient heist mastermind/former mercenary soldier Bernard Ryder aka "Mr. Blue" in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), and the bombastic, shark-obsessed fisherman Quint in Jaws (1975).

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Boyer
Charles. 1978-08-26

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Born 1899-08-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

His son, Michael killed himself in the sixties.
his wife, Pat Paterson, died from a cancer two days before he commited his own suicide. They are buried together in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California

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Paterson
Pat. 1978-08-24

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Born 1910-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Her son, Michael killed himself in the sixties.
her husband, Charles Boyer, commited suicide two days after her death. They are buried together in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California

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Prima
Louis. 1978-08-24

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Born 1910-12-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown

Louis Prima and Keely Smith were very much the model for Sonny & Cher.
In 1967 Prima's distinctive voice and jazzy delivery landed him a role in Walt Disney's animated feature The Jungle Book, as the raucous orangutan King Louie. He performed the hit song "I Wanna Be Like You" on the soundtrack, leading to the recording of two albums with Phil Harris: The Jungle Book and More Jungle Book, on Disneyland Records. He can also be heard on the soundtrack of another cartoon feature, The Man Called Flintstone.
In 1975, following headaches and episodes of memory loss, Louis Prima sought medical attention, and found out he had a brain tumor. He went into a coma following surgery to remove the tumor. He never recovered, and died three years later, having been moved back to New Orleans. He was buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans; his gray marble crypt is topped by a figure of Gabriel, the trumpeter-angel. The inscription on the crypt's door quote the lyrics from one of his hits: "When the end comes, I know, they'll all say 'just a gigolo' as life goes on without me. Lovingly, your little family..."

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Crane
Robert Edward. 1978-06-28

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Born 1928-07-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder

He was an American disc jockey and Emmy Award-nominated actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his violent and unsolved death.
During the run of Hogan's Heroes, sitcom costar Richard Dawson introduced Crane to John Carpenter, an electronics expert who sold VCRs. Crane was a photography enthusiast.
Carpenter supplied early versions of video technology, and he'd often participate in group sex with the women that Crane would meet.
On a late night in 1978, Crane allegedly called Carpenter to tell him that their friendship was over. The following day, Crane was discovered violently bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never found (but was believed to be a camera tripod) at the Winfield Place Apartments in Scottsdale, Arizona. Crane had been appearing in Scottsdale in a production of a play titled Beginner's Luck at the Windmill Dinner Theatre.
According to an episode of A&E's Cold Case Files, police officers who arrived at the scene of the crime noted that Carpenter called the apartment several times and didn't seem surprised that the police were there. This immediately raised suspicion, and the car Carpenter had rented the previous day was impounded by the police. In it several blood smears were found that matched Crane's blood type. At that time DNA testing didn't exist to confirm if it was Crane's or not. Due to a lack of sufficient evidence, the district attorney declined to file charges and the case went cold.
In 1992, fourteen years after the murder, the case was reopened. An attempt to test the blood found in the car Carpenter rented failed to produce any result due to improper preservation of the evidence. The detective in charge instead hoped a picture of what appeared to be a piece of subcutaneous tissue (brain tissue) found in the rental car (which had been lost since the original investigation) would incriminate Carpenter. He was arrested and indicted. During Carpenter's trial in 1994, the prosecution showed a videotape of Crane and Carpenter engaging in sex with the same woman to demonstrate their close relationship. However, Carpenter was acquitted on a lack of convincing evidence. Both the murder and the motive remain officially unsolved. Carpenter maintained his innocence until his death on September 4, 1998.

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Borderie
Bernard. 1978-05-28

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Born 1924-06-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Moro
Aldo. 1978-05-09

61

Born 1916-09-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

He was kidnapped on March 16, 1978, by the Red Brigades (BR), who killed Moro after 54 days of captivity.

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Curiel
Henri. 1978-05-04

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Born 1914-09-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

He was a left-wing political activist. Born in Egypt, Curiel led the communist Democratic Movement for National Liberation until he was expelled from the country in 1950. Settling in France, Curiel aided the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale and other national liberation causes. In 1978 Curiel was assassinated in Paris; his killer has never been identified. A far-right group claimed responsibility, but the case is still unsolved.

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Khachaturian
Aram. 1978-05-01

74

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

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Delteil
Joseph. 1978-04-12

84

Born 1894-04-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Brugnon
Jacques. 1978-03-20

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Born 1895-05-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

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Julia
Gaston. 1978-03-19

85

Born 1893-02-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Julia was born in the Algerian town of Sidi Bel Abbes, at the time under French rule. In his youth, he had an interest in mathematics and music. His studies were interrupted at the age of 20, when France got involved in World War I and he was called to serve in the army. In one attack on a cold, stormy night he suffered a severe injury, losing his nose. After many unsuccessful operations to remedy the situation, he resigned himself to wearing a leather strap around the area where his nose was for the rest of his life.
Julia gained attention for his mathematical work after the war when a 199-page article he wrote was featured in the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, a French mathematics journal. The article, which he published in 1918 at the age of 25, titled "Mémoire sur l'itération des fonctions rationnelles" described the iteration of a rational function. The article gained immense popularity among mathematicians and the general population as a whole, and so led to Julia's later receiving of the Grand Prix de l'Académie des Sciences. Despite his fame, his works were all forgotten until the day Benoît Mandelbrot mentioned them in his works, after which he received some national attention.
Julias's curves:
* f(z)=z²+C

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Cazale
John. 1978-03-12

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Born 1935-08-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Despite being diagnosed with bone cancer, Cazale continued to work, his final appearance being with his then fiancée Meryl Streep in The Deer Hunter. When distributor Universal Studios learned of Cazale's illness, they were reluctant to insure him, but Streep and director Michael Cimino went to bat for him and won out. Cazale did not live to see the release of the film, and thus never learned that every feature in which he starred had received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. No other actor with multiple films to his credit has such a distinction.

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Francois
Claude. 1978-03-11

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Born 1939-02-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident

His last hit was out of neon (son dernier tube était au neon) 1968 : 14 mars : malaise pendant un concert à Marseille, 17 mai : accident de voiture. Son nez est fracturé et les pommettes éclatées. 1973 : un fan l'agresse lors d'un concert. 1975 : Il est une victime collatérale d'un attentat de l'IRA dans son hôtel à Londres. 1977 : En juin, il se fait tirer dessus

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Damien
Marie-Louise (alias: Damia). 1978-01-30

89

Born 1889-12-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

"Un souvenir" revived in "La maman et la putain" and "La fleur du mal".

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Poulot
Georges (alias: Georges Perros). 1978-01-24

54

Born 1923-08-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)

He was a French writer. He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1973.

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