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Chalhoub Michel Demitri (b. 1932-04-10 / d. 2015-07-10) alias Omar Sharif
He was an Egyptian actor. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in both British and American productions. His films included Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Funny Girl (1968). He was nominated for an Academy Award. He won three Golden Globe Awards and a César Award. Sharif had a triple heart bypass in 1992 and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. Until his bypass, Sharif smoked 100 cigarettes a day. He quit smoking after the operation. In May 2015 it was reported that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. His son Tarek Sharif said that his father was becoming confused when remembering some of the biggest films of his career; he would mix up the names of his best-known films, Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, often forgetting where they were filmed.
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Born 1952-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
Michel Blanc was a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. He also appeared in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire.
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Born 1929-04-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Marcel Amont (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl amɔ̃]; born Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar Miramon [maʁsɛl ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ baltazaʁ miʁamɔ̃]) was a French singer and actor of the 1960s and 1970s. Amont also recorded in Occitan and promoted Bearn culture from the 1950s. He was a singer of great artistic career, being one of the most popular in France, and the most prolific of the French language with many years of career. He sold 300 million albums, recorded 30 albums, 79 singles 126 ep's, 11 compilations and about 1,000 songs in different languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, German, Irish and Spanish). He is famous for having performed songs by composers such as Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré and Georges Moustaki. Inspired by American pop and jazz in the style of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Andy Williams. He recorded international hits such as "Bleu, blanc, blond", "L'amour ça fait passer le temps", "Ballade pour l'espagnol", "Le plus beau tango du monde" and "Cathy, fais-moi danser". His famous song entitled "Un Mexicain" reached number 1 on the charts in France. He also made films and was director of soundtracks.
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Born 1961-07-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Andrew John Leonard Fletcher, also known as Fletch, was an English keyboard player, DJ, and founding member of the electronic band Depeche Mode. In 2020, he and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fletcher was married to Gráinne Fletcher (née Mullan) for almost 30 years. The couple had two children. While Depeche Mode were touring with the band Blancmange in the early 1980s, Fletcher was renowned for his skill at chess. Neil Arthur of Blancmange has mentioned in interviews "never winning a game of chess with Andy Fletcher!" During the 1990s, Fletcher owned a restaurant called Gascogne located on Blenheim Terrace in St. John's Wood, London. He made a series of bad investments in the mid-1990s that led to a number of financial settlements involving Lloyd's of London and Daniel Miller. Writing about the 1993 Devotional Tour, Glyn Brown of The Independent said: "... an epic 180-show affair, became the definition of hell. Depeche Mode – down to Gore, Gahan and Andrew Fletcher – were barely on speaking terms, using separate limos and dressing rooms. The smack-blasted vocalist required cortisone shots just to perform, borderline alcoholic Gore suffered two stress-induced seizures, and Andrew Fletcher's deepening depression resulted, in the summer of 1994, in a full nervous breakdown."
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Born 1936-02-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Claude Giraud was a French actor. He gained fame in TV series as hero Morgan/Jacques de Saint-Hermine in the adventure series Les Compagnons de Jéhu by Michel Drach adapted from the eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas. Bernard Toublanc-Michel engaged him in 1967 for the role of d'Aulnay in Adolphe ou l'âge tendre. The TV series Les rois maudits, where he played the role of Sir Roger Mortimer, was another huge success. In 1973, he played the fictional Arab revolutionary leader Mohamed Larbi Slimane, who poses as Rabbi Zeiligman in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob with Louis de Funès. In the TV movie Mamie Rose (1976) he played Claude Jade's husband Régis, whose marriage is saved by an au-pair granny played by Gisèle Casadesus.
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Born 1994-06-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Mottet was born in the French department Haute Savoie. She was the daughter of cyclist Charly Mottet, one of the best French road cyclists of his era. Mottet studied “Sciences et Technologies des Activités Physique et Sportives” (STAPS) and earned a master of science at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc During the women's junior road race she heavily crashed. She got medical help, and her father was with her as he was an UCI-official at the race. She suffered major injuries to her nose; complications arose and she would never fully recover.
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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.
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Born 1927-06-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Dominique Blanchar (born Dominique Marie Thérèse Blanchard) was a stage, television, and film actress from France. She won two Molière Awards in her career. Dominique Blanchar was born in Paris, the daughter of actors Pierre Blanchar and Marthe Vinot. Blanchar was married to the Belgian actor Jean Servais, until his death in 1976.
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Born 1935-07-01. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Bernard Papillaud was a French billionaire businessman. Papillaud owned 51% of the Alma Group, which sells mineral water under the brandnames of Cristaline, MontBlanc, Saint-Yorre, Rozana, Chateldon and Vichy Célestins. In 2008, he sold the other 49% to the Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical for US$1.2 billion. According to Forbes, he was worth an estimated US$1.31 billion as of 2016. He was the 67th richest person in France (2016). In April 2016, Papillaud's name was mentioned in the Panama Papers through a power-of-attorney for Krewitt, a company based in the British Virgin Islands. In September 2016, the New York Times reported that Pierre Papillaud demanded that the town of Weed, California give up its only water source so that Papillaud's bottle water company could have more water to sell as Cristaline.
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Born 1917-00-00. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Lillet (French pronunciation: French pronunciation: [li.lɛ]), classed as an aromatised wine within EU law, is a French wine-based aperitif from Podensac. It is a blend of 85% Bordeaux region wines (Semillon for the Blanc and for the Rosé, Merlot for the Rouge) and 15% macerated liqueurs, mostly citrus liqueurs (peels of sweet oranges from Spain and Morocco and peels of bitter green oranges from Haiti). The mix is then stirred in oak vats until blended. During the aging process, Lillet is handled as a Bordeaux wine (undergoing fining, racking, filtering etc.). In the original Kina Lillet formulation (so named with respect to its status as a quinquina), quinine liqueur made of cinchona bark from Peru was included among its ingredients. "Lillet" belongs to a family of aperitifs known as tonic wines because of the addition of quinine liqueur. In 1962, Pierre Lillet, grandson of Raymond, keen to capitalize on America's growing taste for red wine, created Lillet Rouge for the American market. • 1953: in the first Ian Fleming James Bond novel Casino Royale, James Bond invents and orders a Kina Lillet martini, which he named the "Vesper" after his love interest in the story: "A dry martini," he said. "One. In a deep champagne goblet." "Oui, Monsieur." "Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?" "Certainly, monsieur." The barman seemed pleased with the idea. • 1981: “Lillet” is the preferred drink of serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the series of books written by Thomas Harris. • 2006 and 2008: The Vesper was again prepared for James Bond in the remake of Casino Royale and its follow up Quantum of Solace.
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Born 1922-01-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French filmmaker and producer. Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco. After completing his studies in political sciences, he started his career by producing Les lavandières du Portugal in 1958, a film of Pierre Gaspard-Huit. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous. At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market. He died in Chiclana de la Frontera.
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Born 1954-11-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Also known as "Caballo Blanco", he was an American ultrarunner from Boulder, Colorado, who gained fame as a central character in Christopher McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run. The book chronicles his time in Mexico's Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara Indians, who taught him a new and better way to run so he could avoid the normal injuries that beset long distance runners. He was said to be "a legend" in the ultra marathon community. He was thought to be "indestructible" and a "pillar of the running community." On March 27, 2012, True disappeared after heading out for a run in the Gila Wilderness, part of the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico. He departed from the Wilderness Lodge in Gila, left his dog, took a water bottle and said he was going for a 12 miles (19 km) run. It was assumed that he was heading north towards the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. His body was found around 6 p.m. on March 31, 2012. Cause of death is unknown at this point. The local sheriff said there were "no obvious signs of trauma". The mountain rescue effort involved three aircraft and at least nine search and rescue teams. His remains were expected to be removed by horseback, and because of difficult terrain and remote location, that was not expected to be completed until April 1. True was to attend the memorial for his mother Mary Louise Hickman on Sunday, April 1, 2012
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Born 1918-07-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
« La Dame Blanche de Saint-Germain-des-Prés » She was Michel Vaucaire's wife, the song writer of "non je ne regrette rien"
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Born 1911-05-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik. In a 2005 article, Slobodan Adzic wrote that Lilienthal was still active, in good health, driving his car, and writing articles for chess magazines. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living grandmaster, and the last surviving person from the original group of grandmasters awarded the title by FIDE in 1950.
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Born 1941-01-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a Boer-Afrikaner and former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) during the apartheid era in South Africa. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he became known for threatening civil war to maintain white rule in South Africa. After the country's transition to non-racial democracy, he revised his stance and urged his followers to push for independence in an independent Afrikaner Volkstaat. Terre'Blanche continued to lead the organisation until his death.
Terre'Blanche spent 3 years in prison for assaulting a black petrol station worker and the attempted murder of a black security guard in 1996.
Terre'Blanche, who had lived in relative obscurity since the collapse of his organisation, was murdered on his farm Villana, just outside of Ventersdorp. He was reportedly beaten to death with pipes and pangas (machetes) while napping by two black males aged 21 and 15, allegedly over "a wage dispute". Terre'Blanche's body was found on the bed with facial and head injuries.
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Born 1978-01-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
She was a French snowboarder and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Ruby was killed after a climbing accident on Mont Blanc when the top climber, Gilles Monchard, of five roped climbers fell into a crevasse, pulling Ruby and French climber Simon Ouest to their deaths.
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Born 1947-12-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
Martin Circus
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Born 1923-11-15. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a radio animator with Coluche, Francis Blanche, among others.
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Born 1926-07-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Born in El Jadida and educated in Casablanca, Chraïbi went to Paris in 1946 to study chemistry before turning to literature and journalism. His first novel, The Simple Past, was published in 1954.
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Born 1915-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1917-02-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
"Je vous ai apporté des boudins blancs"
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Born 1942-04-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
"la vieille fille"
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Born 1907-09-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was born in Quain (Saône-et-Loire).
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Born 1916-09-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology. His wife was American mathematician Dorothy Maharam. His first paper dealt with squaring the square, he proved the Erdős–Stone theorem with Paul Erdős and is credited with the discovery of the first flexagon, a trihexaflexagon while he was a student at Princeton University in the USA in 1939. The Stone's metrization theorem has been named after him, and he was a member of a group of mathematicians who published pseudonymously as Blanche Descartes. He is not to be confused with American mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone.
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Born 1943-12-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He died in his sleep in the same town he was born.
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Born 1938-08-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Ibrahim Seck is a French comedian and humorist of Senegalese origin born on August 28, 1938 in Thies (then in French West Africa, now in Senegal) and died in the same city. At the end of his career, Ibrahim Seck was unfortunately employed in the cinema in caricatured compositions like Benny Luke who plays the servant Jacob in the trilogy of "La cage aux folles". Then, the beginnings of Eric Blanc suggest that the French cinema will give consistent roles to black actors but inappropriate comments against Henry Chapier at a ceremony of the Cesars put an end to his career. It was not until the careers of Isaach de Bankolé in "Black Mic Mac", Mouss Diouf in the series "Julie Lescaut" or Omar Sy with the triumph of "Intouchables" that these "visible minorities" were represented to their true value. Ibrahim Seck died on August 20, 1997 in complete anonymity, in his native land of Thies in Senegal.
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Born 1906-08-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Founder of Publicis.
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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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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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Born 1956-11-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:encephalitis
Leuco-encephalite. Toute affection cérébrale caractérisée anatomiquement par des lésions inflammatoires prédominant au niveau de la substance blanche des hémisphères cérébraux, et dont l'origine est exogène (par opposition à la leucodystrophie, dans laquelle le processus est d'origine endogène).
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Born 1908-05-30. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
On January 24, 1961, Blanc was involved in a near-fatal auto accident on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Hit head-on, Blanc suffered a triple skull fracture that left him in a coma for three weeks, along with fractures of both legs and the pelvis.
Blanc's will stated his desire to have the inscription on his gravestone read, "THAT'S ALL FOLKS", considered by some to be one of the most famous epitaphs in the world.