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July 09, 2025

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Garreaud Jean-François (b. 1946-04-01 / d. 2020-07-09)

Jean-François Garreaud was a French actor. His best-known role is that of Jean Dabin in Violette Nozičre, released in 1978. Garreaud married actress Virginie Ogouz, with whom he had two children. He died in Saint-Jory-de-Chalais on 9 July 2020 at the age of 74.

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Frank Evans. 2018-06-24

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Born 1929-05-15. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

Frank Evans Heart was an American computer engineer influential in computer networking. After nearly 15 years working for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Heart worked for Bolt, Beranek and Newman from 1966 to 1994, during which he led a team that designed the first routing computer for the ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet. Frank Heart died of melanoma at age 89 in a retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Don Glen (alias: Captain Beefheart). 2010-12-17

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Born 1941-01-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other


Van Vliet met Frank Zappa when they were both teenagers and shared an interest in rhythm and blues and Chicago blues. Zappa and Van Vliet began collaborating on pop song parodies and a movie script called Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People, the first appearance of the Beefheart name.

The cause of death was named as complications from multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms.

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