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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 1879-02-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Goncourt in 1930 for Malaisie.
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Born 1896-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Completely destitute at the end of his life, he was also hemiplegic.
He was taken care of by the association "La roue tourne" and sent to a retirement home for the homeless. When he died, the association managed to prevent him to go to the potter's field.
His tomb is next to Mireille Balin's, who died in misery as well.
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Born 1899-12-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Suffering from severe arthritis and bouts of memory loss, which affected his work in The Italian Job, Coward retired from the theatre. He was knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in March 1973 of heart failure at the age of 73.
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Born 1885-06-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He ivented the expression "Drôle de guerre" to name WWII.
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Born 1900-08-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He died alone in 1973, seven weeks after his wife's death.
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Born 1906-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a French middle-distance runner. He became a running star as the sport enjoyed a huge resurgence at the start of the Great Depression, fueled in large part by newsreel coverage. But his career was abruptly cut short when he was banned for life from track for payments he received for several races.
A few days before his birth, his father died on the docks, crushed by wooden blocks, as he was trying to rescue collegues of him.
2 weeks after his birth, his mother died while saving him from their burning house.
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Born 1903-09-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bourvil's cousin.
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Born 1893-12-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1948-04-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died in a plane crash at Athens Airport in an incident that has fueled many conspiracy theories. He was buried on his father's private paradise, the Greek Ionian island of Skorpios. Approximately two years later, Aristotle Onassis died too, and was buried beside Alexander. Many people have said or written that Alexander's death was the end for Aristotle, in terms of his desire to go on living, that he died in all but fact along with Alexander.
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Born 1908-08-27. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
Johnson died from a third heart attack at his ranch, at age 64. His health was ruined by years of heavy smoking and stress, and the former President had severe heart disease. He was found in his bed, reaching for his phone.
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Born 1884-05-08. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Pneumonia
On December 5, 1972, he was admitted to Kansas City's Research Hospital and Medical Center with lung congestion from pneumonia. He subsequently developed multiple organ failure and died.
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Born 1888-11-10. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
A hallmark of his was to get an aeroplane into service very rapidly; then began an often interminable process of improving the shortcomings of the "quick and dirty" initial design. To his competitors among the Soviet aircraft design community, he was known above all as politically astute; a shrewd and unforgiving rival.
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Born 1888-10-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Two years after the death of Lloyd George's wife Margaret, Stevenson married Lloyd George on 23 October 1943 despite the disapproval of Lloyd George's children from his first marriage. Less than 18 months later, Lloyd George died.
Frances Stevenson, now the Dowager Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor, lived at Churt for the rest of her life, devoting her time to her family, charitable activities, perpetuating the memory of Lloyd George and writing. Her memoirs The Years That Are Past was published in 1967, and her diary of her life with Lloyd George was published in 1971.
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Born 1933-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
In 1971, convicts Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems took a nurse and a prison guard hostage, then murdered them. They were captured. Bontems, whose defence counsels included Robert Badinter, contended that the murder was Buffet's idea, while Buffet affirmed that he now desired death. Both were sentenced to death by the "assises" court in June 1972 and were guillotined.
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Born 1936-09-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Beheaded with Claude Buffet for the murder of two hostages in Clairvaux.
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Born 1886-06-07. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Henri Marie Coandă (Romanian pronunciation: [ɑ̃ˈri ˈko̯andə]) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
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Born 1901-06-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Heart attack while making the 56th episode « Un gros pépin dans le chasselas ». Claude Loursais and Claude-Jean Bonnardot decided to introduce a new judge to finish their film.
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Born 1889-05-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914.
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Born 1886-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Leo Gratten Carroll was an English actor. He was best known for his roles in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest, and in three television series, Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. He is name checked in the song Science Fiction/Double Feature from The Rocky Horror Show with the line "I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel". In 1972, Carroll died in Hollywood of cancer-induced pneumonia. He is interred at the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Born 1896-04-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
De Montherlant published Le solstice de Juin in 1941 -- an essay in which he expressed his admiration for the German army and claimed that France was justly defeated and conquered in World War II.
Montherlant mostly hid his pederastic tendencies during his lifetime. In 1912, he had been expelled from the prestigious Sainte-Croix de Neuilly school for a relationship with a younger pupil. His novel Les garçons (1969) and his correspondence with Roger Peyrefitte (author of Les amitiés particulières (1943), also about homosexual relationships between boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school), are the main testaments to this side of his character.
Between 1960 and 1972, Montherlant was a member of the Académie française. According to Peyrefitte, he was beaten up by some youths which caused a serious injury to his eye. He was going blind on account of that and he committed suicide in 1972.
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Born 1899-04-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a renowned 20th-century French pianist. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus. He was also a composer.
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Born 1883-07-19. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an important Austrian-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon who served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations.
He died from heart failure at the age of eighty-nine, after a period of poor health. Max Fleischer was an artist, a writer, and an inventor of some 20 patents for motion picture production processes. On the day of his death Max Fleischer was cited as a great pioneer who invented an industry, and was named by Time magazine as the "Dean of Animated Cartoons."
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Born 1939-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
Was the coach of the Israeli international wrestling team In the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, Palestinian members of Black September illegally entered the Munich Olympic Village and broke into the coaches' apartment of the Israeli Olympic team. (It is unclear whether Weinberg was actually in the apartment already or was captured as he was entering it) Realizing the gravity of the situation, Weinberg got into a scuffle with the intruders, one of whom shot the wrestling coach through his cheek. The wounded Weinberg was taken by the terrorists to help find more Israelis. Keeping a clear head, Weinberg led the terrorists past Apartment 2, which housed the slimly-built fencers, shooters and track athletes, and instead took them to Apartment 3, which housed Israel's weightlifters and wrestlers. (Weinberg might have thought that the stronger men might have a better chance of fighting off the intruders) Taken by surprise, the six athletes of Apartment 3 were captured by the terrorists. As the hostages were being marched back to the coaches' apartment, Weinberg once more attacked the intruders, knocking one of them unconscious and allowing one of his wrestlers, Gad Tsobari, to escape via an underground parking garage. The terrorists fatally riddled Weinberg with machine-gun fire, then tossed his nude and bloodied body out into the street in order to demonstrate their resolve. Weinberg had become the first victim of the Munich massacre.
Weinberg's son Guri, an Israeli actor, portrayed his father in the 2005 movie Munich.
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Born 1940-12-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
was a Libyan-born, Arab weightlifter with the Israeli team.
In the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, Arab terrorists broke into the Israeli quarters of the Olympic Village. After seizing the coaches in the first apartment and wounding wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg in the face, the terrorists forced Weinberg to lead them to other potential hostages in another apartment. There, they seized six wrestlers and weightlifters, including Romano. As the athletes were being led back to the coaches' apartment, Weinberg attacked the terrorists, which allowed wrestler Gad Tsobari to escape but resulted in Weinberg's death by gunfire. Once inside the apartment, Romano, who had fought in the Six-Day War, also attacked the intruders, slashing terrorist Afif Ahmed Hamid in the face with a paring knife and grabbing his AK-47 away from him before being shot to death by another terrorist. Romano's bloodied corpse was left at the feet of his teammates all day as a warning.
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Born 1905-03-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
She is best known for her interpretation of the song Lili Marleen in 1939, which became tremendously popular on both sides during the second World War.
Nazi officials did not like the sad song about parted lovers, and Joseph Goebbels prohibited its being played on the radio. Lale was not allowed to perform publicly for nine months, not simply because of the song but also because of her friendship with Rolf Liebermann, who was Jewish, as well as with other Jewish artists she had met in Zurich. In desperation, Lale unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide.
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Born 1905-12-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
he was known as an alcoholic.
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Born 1885-08-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1922-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Lapointe was also a mathematician, and developed the bi-bi-binary system (also known as bibi system) in 1971.