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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1947-07-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
French voice of John Voight in "Heat".
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Born 1953-02-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He met Marushka Detmers in 1991, and had a daughter with her.
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Born 1962-11-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Dédé Fortin was a founding member, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990. In 2000 Fortin was said to have been saddened by the break-up of a relationship. He committed suicide at his apartment by the Japanese ritual of seppuku, a kind of disembowelment. A friend found him in a pool of blood. Four days afterwards, fans left flowers and messages in his memory at his building on Rachel Street, in the Plateau neighborhood of Montreal. Others criticized his act; one writer in Le Devoir said that he was "not a hero." The day before, the Colocs manager Raymond Paquin had received a poem by Fortin. He published it posthumously in La Presse. In part the poem read: Condemned by doubt, immobile and timorous; I am like my people, indecisive and a dreamer; I speak to whomever wants to hear of my fictive country, my heart full of vertigo and consumed by fear. Several years later, the remaining members of the band adapted it as a song, which they released in 2009.