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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1937-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Francette Vernillat was a French actress. She was often a voice actor for characters playing young boys.
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Born 1939-03-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Dorothy Catherine Fontana was an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek franchise and several Western television series. After a short period working for Samuel A. Peeples as a secretary, she moved to work for Del Reisman, a producer on The Lieutenant, whose creator was Gene Roddenberry. Though The Lieutenant was soon cancelled, Roddenberry began working on Star Trek, and Fontana was appointed as the series' story editor, but left after the second season to pursue freelance work. She later worked with Roddenberry again on Genesis II and then as story editor and associate producer on Star Trek: The Animated Series. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she worked on Logan's Run, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Roddenberry hired her to work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but, while she was given an associate producer credit, the experience soured their relationship and resulted in a claim put to the Writers Guild of America. She later wrote an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and an episode of the Star Trek fan-made series Star Trek: New Voyages. She was awarded the Morgan Cox Award in 2002 by the Writers Guild of America and twice named to the American Screenwriters Association's hall of fame. Fontana married cinematographer Dennis Skotak. She died aged 80, following a short illness.
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Born 1956-01-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Andrew McArthur Smith, known professionally as Greedy Smith, was an Australian vocalist, keyboardist, harmonicist and songwriter with Australian pop/new wave band Mental As Anything. Smith wrote many of their hit songs including "Live it Up" which peaked at No. 2 on the Australian singles chart. Smith had a solo music career, had worked with other bands and was also an artist and television personality. He was given the nickname "Greedy" after eating 15 pieces of chicken on stage one night.
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Born 1930-01-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Paula Tilbrook was an English actress who played Betty Eagleton in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1994 to 2015. In April 2015, it was announced that Tilbrook would be retiring from acting and her final scenes as Betty aired on 25 May. She had played the role of Betty for 21 years. She briefly reprised her role in Emmerdale on Christmas Day 2015, when Betty appeared via Skype to speak to the villagers. On 1 January 2016, she made an appearance on The Big Quiz 2016 Corrie V Emmerdale appearing in a scene with actor Mark Charnock who played Marlon Dingle). Tilbrook died on 1 December 2019 at age 89, but her death was not announced by her family until July 2020.
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Born 1936-10-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Shelley Morrison (born Rachel Mitrani, also known as Rachel Domínguez) was an American theater and television actress. Morrison was known for her role as maid Rosario Salazar in the NBC comedy Will & Grace, which she played from 1999 to 2006. She was also a regular performer on the sitcom The Flying Nun, playing Sister Sixto, a nun known mostly for mangling the English language, and she had a recurring role in the soap opera General Hospital in 1982.
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Born 1930-09-10. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
René Rebuffat was a French historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Africa. He conducted archaeological excavations at Thamusida in Morocco, Bu-Njem Gholaia in Libya, and in the Sebou basin in Morocco. He also worked on archaeological sites of Aléria and Jublains.
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Born 1944-04-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Pierre-Alain baron De Smedt became the new president of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB) in 2011, succeeding Thomas Leysen. Until then he was vice-president of the same organization. De Smedt was a commercial engineer and graduated in economic and financial sciences from the ULB. From 2006 to 2011, De Smedt was also chairman of Febiac, the umbrella organization within the car industry and organizer of the Brussels Motor Show. Previously, he was IT Director at Solvay and Director at Bosch Belgium, as well as Managing Director at Volkswagen. As operations director at Renault, he was number two, under former Renault chairman Louis Schweitzer. He was also chairman of Autolatina, a Brazilian joint venture between Volkswagen and the American Ford. He also held directorships at Belgacom, the Antwerp car importer Alcopa, Avis and the National Portfolio Company. He was chairman of the board at Deceuninck, producer of PVC window profiles.
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Born 1929-01-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jean Douchet was a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinema with members of the future French New Wave.
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Born 1936-04-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Raymond Poulidor, nicknamed "Pou-Pou" (pronounced [pu pu]), was a French professional racing cyclist, who rode for Mercier his entire career. His career was distinguished, despite coinciding with two great riders - Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. This underdog position may have been the reason Poulidor was a favourite of the public. He was known as "The Eternal Second", because he never won the Tour de France despite finishing in second place three times, and in third place five times (including his final Tour at the age of 40). Despite his consistency, he never once wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in 14 Tours, of which he completed 12. He did win one Grand Tour, the 1964 Vuelta a España.
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Born 1961-03-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:AIDS
Gilles Bertin was a French musician and singer, and a member of the punk band Camera Silens from 1981 to 1986. Born in Paris, Bertin moved to Bordeaux with his parents as a teenager. In Bordeaux, he founded the punk band Camera Silens as a bassist and a singer. The band enjoyed significant success in the French punk rock scene. After he became a drug addict and tested HIV positive, he fell into delinquency. On 27 April 1988, Bertin participated in a robbery on the Toulouse department of Brink's along with a dozen other robbers, after two years of preparation. The group stole 11,571,316 francs, despite never firing a shot. To this day, most of the loot has never been found. After police launched "Operation Sangria", all participants of the robbery were arrested within two years, except for Bertin. He fled to Spain, and then later, Portugal while running a record shop dedicated to alternative rock. In 1995, Bertin fell ill with AIDS, but survived thanks to tritherapy. In 2000, he returned to Barcelona and worked in a bar owned by his family while living under several identities. On 26 November 2016, Bertin returned to France to face justice. His trial began on 6 June 2018, and he faced 20 years imprisonment. However, Bertin was only sentenced to five years with suspension, after the prosecution cited "good conduct." In February 2019, Bertin published an autobiography, titled Trente ans de cavale, ma vie de punk with the publisher Éditions Robert Laffont. Gilles Bertin succumbed to AIDS after spending several weeks in a coma. He was 58.
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Born 1947-04-18. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Dominique Farran was a French radio host and journalist.
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Born 1939-10-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Marie Laforêt (born Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach) was a French singer and actress, particularly well known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, and acquired Swiss citizenship. Marie Laforêt died in Genolier (Suisse), a small town in the Nyon district near Geneva, for reasons unknown to the public. The ceremony took place in Paris, church Saint-Eustache, on 24 November; followed by the burial in the family crypt at the Cemetery Père-Lachaise (division 49). She was 80.
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Born 1925-01-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Theodor Wonja Michael was a German child actor, journalist and public servant, as well as a prominent speaker on living as an Afro-German and a prisoner in Nazi forced labor camps during Nazi Germany.
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Born 1952-07-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Jean-Michel Martial was a French actor.
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Born 1925-03-13. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
John Torrence Tate Jr. was an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2010.
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Born 1962-04-05. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University. Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary. She was one of the central figures in the 2018 controversies resulting in the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature that year and the following restructuring of the academy.
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Born 1936-09-23. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Eugène Saccomano was a French radio journalist and non-fiction author. He died after being hospitalized in hospital Foch.
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Born 1927-12-19. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
André Gaillard was a French humorist and actor. In the 60's, together with Teddy Vrignault, he formed the duo Les Frères ennemis.
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Born 1922-12-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor and director. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1957. In many films he worked with director Claude Lelouch. He was a close friend of Jean-Paul Belmondo for over 60 years. Gérard was of Armenian origin.
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Born 1937-06-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Colette Castel was born on June 29, 1937 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972), Au théâtre ce soir (1966) and Le retour du grand blond (1974). She was married to José Artur. She died on September 17, 2019 in Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Dordogne, France.
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Born 1932-08-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Henry Howland Crapo was an American-Canadian mathematician who worked in algebraic combinatorics. Over the course of his career, he held positions at several universities and research institutes in Canada and France. He is noted for his work in matroid theory and lattice theory.
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Born 1996-09-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Anthoine Hubert was a French professional racing driver. He was the 2018 GP3 Series champion. He died, at the age of 22, following an accident during the feature race of the 2019 Spa-Francorchamps Formula 2 round at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. On 31 August 2019, Hubert was critically injured when he was involved in a serious crash on the second lap of the feature race of the 2019 Spa-Francorchamps FIA Formula 2 round. As the second lap began, Trident driver Giuliano Alesi lost control of his car as he climbed the Raidillon curve due to a puncture he had received earlier, causing his car to spin and hit the left wall of the circuit, tearing off his rear wing and spreading debris onto the track. As another Trident driver, Ralph Boschung reached the crest of Raidillon, he slowed down and moved towards the run-off area to avoid Alesi's damaged car and the field of debris. Hubert, who was following Boschung's slowing car closely, moved right as well, clipping Boschung's right rear wheel with his front wing. Hubert's car crashed into the tyre barrier on the right side of the track at an acute angle and was deflected sideways into the path of Charouz driver Juan Manuel Correa, who struck the left side of Hubert's car. Correa's speed was estimated to be between 250 and 270 km/h (155-167 mph) in the moments before the impact. The impact produced 70G deceleration. Both cars were torn apart by the force of the accident. Hubert and Correa were transported to the circuit's medical centre following the accident where Hubert died from his injuries. Correa was airlifted to Liège where he underwent surgery for fractures in both his legs and a minor spinal injury and was reported to be in a stable condition, having never lost consciousness after the impact, but one week later was placed in an induced coma. Alesi, the third driver in the accident, was unhurt. As a result of the accident the feature race was not completed and the sprint race was cancelled out of respect.
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Born 1932-12-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Nancy Holloway (née Brown) was an American jazz, pop and soul singer and actress who was popular during the 1960s in France, where she continued to perform and live. In later life she became an active supporter of AIDS charities. She retired from performing in 2008, and died in Paris in 2019, aged 86.
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Born 1940-02-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Peter Henry Fonda was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s. Fonda was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999). Fonda died from respiratory failure caused by lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, at the age of 79.
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Born 1929-07-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Mocky, pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He died from complications of a fall.
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Born 1944-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Claude Bouttier was a French actor and professional boxer. During his boxing career, which spanned from 1965 to 1974, he won 64 out of 72 bouts, 43 of them by knockout. In June 1971 he won the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title, and in 1972 and 1973 unsuccessfully contested the WBC and WBA titles against Carlos Monzon. He lost the EBU title to Kevin Finnegan in May 1974. Bouttier started his film career by playing himself in TV series, while still boxing. His later roles involved proper acting, such as Philippe Rouget in Les Uns et les Autres. Since 1984, he worked as a sports commentator for Canal+.
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Born 1952-07-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Ian Gibbons was an English keyboardist, most notable for playing with The Kinks. Gibbons died at home at the age of 67 from bladder cancer.
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Born 1947-10-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Anders Peter Ravn was a Danish computer scientist. Anders P. Ravn was born in 1947 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of Niels and Henny (Sønder) Ravn. He arrived in Denmark in 1948. Ravn received a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Copenhagen in 1973 and a Doctor of Technology (Dr.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark in 1995. Ravn specialized in research into formal methods, especially for embedded systems and hybrid systems. In particular, he worked with Zhou Chaochen and Tony Hoare on the development of Duration Calculus for real-time systems.
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Born 1933-05-16. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Danièle Heymann was a French journalist and film critic. She was the former head of the Culture Department at Le Monde, a film critic for Marianne and L'Express, and was a participant in the show Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter. She was a recipient of the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Officer of the National Order of Merit. Danièle Heymann was born in Paris. She was the daughter of filmmaker Claude Heymann, and was the second wife of singer Jean Bertola. Her first salaried job was at the Cinémathèque Française. After starting at France-Soir, she was quickly dismissed because of a very negative review of a film with Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault. She was a cinema critic at L'Express and Marianne, and head of the Culture Department at Le Monde. From 1989 to 2019, she served as a cinema columnist on the radio show Le Masque et la Plume. She was a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1987. From 1977 to 2006 she directed L'Année du cinéma, which she wrote alone or with Pierre Murat or Alain Lacombe. Heymann was a friend of Michèle Morgan and Françoise Arnoul during her youth. She died in Paris 15eme.
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Born 1953-06-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Jonathan Paul Clegg, OBE, OIS, was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African peoples. His band Juluka began as a duo with Sipho Mchunu, and was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man. The pair performed and recorded, later with an expanded lineup. In 1986 Clegg founded the band Savuka, and also recorded as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc (French: [lə zulu blɑ̃], for "The White Zulu"), he was an important figure in South African popular music and one of the most prominent white figures in the resistance to apartheid, becoming for a period the subject of investigation by the Security Branch of the South African Police. His songs mixed English with Zulu lyrics, and also combined idioms of traditional African music with those of modern Western styles. Johnny Clegg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, which ultimately led to his death on 16 July 2019. He died in his Johannesburg home surrounded by loved ones and was laid to rest the following day in Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg.