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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1955-06-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Pierre Blaise was discovered by Louis Malle who gave him the leading role in his 1974 film Lacombe Lucien. Pierre Blaise spurned a cinema career to return to wood cutting in rural France, but only a year after the film, he was killed in an accident in his R8 Gordini, a moment after having left a night club.
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Born 1906-09-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
In later life, Shostakovich suffered from chronic ill health, but he resisted giving up cigarettes and vodka. From 1958 he suffered from a debilitating condition which particularly affected his right hand, eventually forcing him to give up piano playing.
Shostakovich died of lung cancer.
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Born 1933-10-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Mildred Delores Loving (July 22, 1939 – May 2, 2008) and her husband Richard Perry Loving (October 29, 1933 – June 29, 1975) were plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967). Their life and marriage has been the subject of several songs and three movies, including the 2016 film Loving. On June 29, 1975, a drunk driver struck the Lovings's car in Caroline County, Virginia. Richard was killed in the accident, at age 41; Mildred lost her right eye.
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Born 1895-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
embolie pulmonaire
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Born 1893-07-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Germaine Kerjean (1893–1975) was a French stage and film actress. She spent a decade with the Comédie-Française. In films she frequently played character roles.
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Born 1947-02-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Très affecté psychologiquement par le cambriolage de son appartement, il fait une première tentative de suicide le 21 novembre 1974 en se jetant du 5e étage de l'hôtel de la Paix, à Genève. Par chance, il est bloqué aux rambardes du 3e étage : il en est quitte pour un nouveau traumatisme crânien et deux fractures des jambes.
Le vendredi 25 avril 1975 à 11 h du matin, Mike Brant se suicide du 6e étage de l'immeuble situé au 6 de la rue Erlanger à Paris à l'âge de 28 ans. Plusieurs thèses ont été mises en avant pour expliquer sa mort prématurée. Certains ont parlé de sa difficulté de plus en plus pesante d'assumer son succès, tandis que d'autres ont défendu la version du traumatisme psychologique qui touche les enfants de déportés. Parmi les autres versions qui firent également les gros titres des magazines à sensation : un implication dans un trafic d'œuvres d'art, une obscure histoire d'espionnage avec le Mossad
buried in Haifa, Israel.
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Born 1908-01-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
William Henry Hartnell was an English actor. While Hartnell made numerous stage and television appearances and acted in over 75 British films, he is best remembered today as the First Doctor in BBC Television's Doctor Who, which he played from 1963 to 1966. He was also well known for his roles as Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character of the first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant in 1958, and as Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the sitcom The Army Game from 1957 to 1961. Hartnell's health had worsened during the early 1970s and, in December 1974, he was admitted to hospital permanently. In early 1975, he suffered a series of strokes, brought on by cerebrovascular disease, and he died in his sleep of heart failure.
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Born 1898-05-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
In 1974, he was elected member of the Académie Française, but he died suddenly the night before his acceptance ceremony.
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Born 1897-08-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
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Born 1906-06-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
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Born 1912-12-19. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Operation
He prepares his personal exhibition scheduled for the spring of 1976 in Paris. But at the end of March, his bad health calls for hospitalization and for surgery. He dies a few days later. He is buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Born 1938-08-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
suicide by overdose of sleeping pills.
Probably best remembered for her role in the John Wayne comedy adventure Hatari! (1962).
But she also appears in "sous le signe du lion"
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Born 1906-01-20. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Onassis married Athina Livanos, daughter of shipping magnate Stavros Livanos, on December 28, 1946; their son, Alexander (April 30, 1948 – January 23, 1973), and daughter Christina (December 11, 1950 – November 19, 1988), were both born in New York City. After their divorce, Athina married her late sister's widower (and Onassis's arch shipping rival) Stavros Niarchos.
Despite the fact they were both married, Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas embarked on a notorious affair. Maria Callas gave birth to their child, a boy, who died hours later on March 30, 1960. Onassis ended his relationship with Callas to marry Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on October 20, 1968. It was said that Kennedy insisted on marriage rather than an affair so as to avoid upsetting her children. That Callas was really the love of his life is suggested by the short lived happiness he experienced with Kennedy (he tried to end the marriage early but was unable to without committing an egregious offense, according to Greek law at the time), and by the many times he tried to see Callas while married to Kennedy. He flew to Paris to see Callas after the death of his son Alexander in an airplane crash. Callas responded, "If only our son had lived," referring to the child they are believed to have had together in 1960. Onassis never recovered from the death of his son.
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Born 1917-06-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
She died of pneumonia-related complications of her brain cancer, having survived considerably longer than doctors had originally predicted.
Some theorize that Hayward’s cancer was a result of having been exposed to fallout during the filming of The Conqueror (1956)
However, the number of cases of cancer detected (91) and the number of deaths from cancer (46) in the cast and crew (220) are in line with the average lifetime risk of cancer in whites (around 40%) and the average lifetime risk of dying of cancer for whites (around 20%), as published by the National Cancer Institute SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2001.
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Born 1940-08-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
James Anthony Sullivan (August 13, 1940 – disappeared March 6, 1975) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who released two albums before he disappeared without a trace in New Mexico. Sullivan left Los Angeles on March 4, 1975, to drive to Nashville alone in his Volkswagen Beetle. The next day, after being cautioned by a highway patrol officer regarding his driving, he checked into the La Mesa Motel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Later reports suggest he did not sleep there, and left his key inside the room, and that he bought vodka at the town store. He was seen the following day about 26 miles (42 km) away, at a remote ranch owned by the Gennitti family. His car was later found abandoned at the ranch, and he was reportedly last seen walking away from it. The car contained Sullivan's money, papers, guitar, clothes, and a box of his unsold records. He was never seen again, and reports have variously attributed his disappearance to being murdered, becoming disoriented and lost, or, particularly in the light of the title of his first album, alien abduction. Search parties failed to find any trace of him. A decomposed body resembling Sullivan was later found in a remote area several miles away, but was determined not to be his.
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Born 1893-08-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
Né à Dehli, de petite taille, et d'un caractère paisible, c'était un nain doux.
"La mort, avait-il dit, c'est un manque de savoir-vivre."
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Born 1904-12-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Umm Kulthum (Egyptian Arabic: Om Kalsoum; the name is spelled variously using the Roman alphabet as Om Koultoum, Om Kalthoum, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom, Omme Kolsoum, and others. In Turkish she is known as Ümmü Gülsüm. Born Fatma Ibrahim el-Beltagi).
In 1967, Umm Kulthum was diagnosed with a severe case of nephritis. She gave her last concert at the Palace of the Nile in 1973. Tests at that time indicated that her illness was incurable. She moved to the United States, where she benefited for some time from the advanced medical technology, but in 1975, upon re-entering her home country, she required hospitalisation due to declining health. Umm Kulthum died in a Cairo hospital.
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Born 1904-12-10. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Antonín Josef Novotný was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968. In 1971, during the period of normalization (Czechoslovakia) , he was reelected to the Central Committee. However, his political influence was minimal and he was too ill to be a strong force in the Gustáv Husák administration.
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Born 1897-04-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
He lived together with the French actress and singer Yvonne Printemps. He died of respiratory problems at the age of seventy-seven at Neuilly-sur-Seine and is interred there side by side with Yvonne in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery.
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Born 1882-03-25. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. His natural father's family name was Nakamura, but Kyusaku was adopted by the Ogino family in 1901. Ogino studied infertility and developed a method to estimate the fertile period of the menstrual cycle based on the length of a woman's past cycles. This knowledge could be used by couples seeking pregnancy to time intercourse so as to maximize the chances of conception. In 1930, John Smulders, Roman Catholic physician from the Netherlands, used this discovery to create a method for avoiding pregnancy. Smulders published his work with the Dutch Roman Catholic medical association, and this was the official Rhythm Method promoted over the next several decades. Babies born despite the use of this method are known as "Ogino babies"
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Born 1894-12-16. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Samuel William Théodore Monod was a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography. He was born in Condé-sur-Noireau in Calvados, where his father was a minister, and educated at the Corneille school in Rouen. In 1914 he published his humorous cartoons in L'Humanité, Floréal and La Guerre Sociale and became editor of Le Mot, the review produced by Paul Iribe. Most of his cartoons were signed Sam Monod or Esmono. Monod adopted a number of aliases before settling on Maximilien Vox. After getting married he went to Paris to learn typography, and in 1926 was awarded the Prix Blumenthal, worth 20,000 Francs, for a series of 24 book covers. During the Second World War he worked as a department head for the Ministry of Information, whilst at the same time continuing his editorial activities. In 1942 he founded The Union Bibliophile de France, which published artworks. After the war he concentrated on typography and created in 1949 the professional magazine Characters, which he edited until 1964. He created the VOX-ATypI classification of type characters. In 1952 he moved to Lurs to live in a house he called Monodière and founded the Rencontres internationales de Lure. He died there and is buried in Lure. He had married Eliane Poulain in 1917 and had five sons.
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Born 1879-11-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
"I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life," Monfreid declared a few days before dying.
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Born 1909-01-22. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in September 1961.
"U" is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to "Mister." "Thant" was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, a reference to his home town of Pantanaw.
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Born 1948-06-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Nick Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Best known for the sombre pieces composed on his primary instrument, the guitar, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition; he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years. At some time during the night of 24/25 November 1974, Nick Drake died at home in Far Leys from an overdose of amitriptyline, a type of antidepressant. He had gone to bed early the night before, after spending the afternoon visiting a friend. His mother claimed that, around dawn, he left his room for the kitchen. His family was used to hearing him do this many times before but, during this instance, he did not make a sound. They presumed that he was eating a bowl of cereal. He returned to his room a short while later, and took some pills "to help him sleep". Drake was accustomed to keeping his own hours; he frequently had difficulty sleeping, and would often stay up through the night playing and listening to music, then sleeping late into the following morning. Recalling the events of that night, his mother later stated: "I never used to disturb him at all. But it was about 12 o’clock, and I went in, because really it seemed it was time he got up. And he was lying across the bed. The first thing I saw was his long, long legs." There was no suicide note.
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Born 1908-09-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
For around ten years, Oistrakh played the 1702 Conte di Fontana Stradivarius that he traded for the 1715 Ex Marsick Stradivarius in June 1966.
Oistrakh suffered a heart attack as early as 1964. He survived and continued to work at a furious pace. He had already become one of the principal cultural ambassadors for the Soviet Union to the West in live concerts and recordings. After conducting a cycle of Brahms with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he died of another heart attack in Amsterdam.