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July 15, 2025

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Soltan Petru (b. 1931-06-29 / d. 2016-07-15)

He was a Moldovan mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Petru Soltan was a member of the Mathematical Society of Moldova. Petru Soltan served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1994) and is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

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Soisson
Jean-Pierre. 2024-02-27

89

Born 1934-11-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Pierre Soisson (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ swasɔ̃]) was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was a deputy in the National Assembly of France for the first district of Yonne for several terms between 1968 and 2012; mayor of Auxerre from 1971 to 1998; President of the Regional Council of Burgundy (1992–1993 and 1998–2004); and national minister of youth, labour, public administration and agriculture.

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Elkabbach
Jean-Pierre. 2023-10-03

86

Born 1937-09-29. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach was a French journalist.

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Miramon
Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar (alias: Marcel Amont ). 2023-03-08

93

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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Jabouille
Jean-Pierre Alain. 2023-02-02

80

Born 1942-10-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Pierre Alain Jabouille was a French racing driver. He raced in 55 Formula One Grands Prix, collecting two wins during the first years of Renault's turbocharged programme in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Jabouille also raced the 24 Hours of Le Mans from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, driving for Alpine, Matra, Sauber, and Peugeot and collecting four 3rd overall finishes in 1973, 1974, 1992, and 1993. Jabouille was one of the last of a breed of Formula One drivers who were also engineers.

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Famechon
Jean-Pierre. 2022-08-04

77

Born 1945-03-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Pierre Famechon AM was an Australian featherweight boxer. Famechon was the 2003 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Moderns category and was the third to be elevated to Legend status in 2012.

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Pernaut
Jean-Pierre. 2022-03-02

71

Born 1950-04-08. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

Jean-Pierre Pernaut was a French news reader and broadcaster. He is widely known simply by his initials, JPP.

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Adams
Jean-Pierre. 2021-09-06

73

Born 1948-03-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation

Jean-Pierre Adams was a French professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was capped 22 times for France in the 1970s, and at club level, he played Division 1 football for Nîmes, Nice and Paris Saint-Germain. From March 1982 until his death in September 2021, he was in a coma as a result of mistakes made during a hospital operation. In the mid-1990s, when a court of law adjudicated on the case, both the anaesthetist and trainee were given one-month suspended sentences and were fined $815. His wife continued to tend to his needs, refusing to consider euthanasia.

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Canovas
Francine (alias: Nathalie Delon). 2021-01-21

79

Born 1941-08-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Francine Canovas, stage name Nathalie Delon, was a French actress and film director. On 13 August 1964, Nathalie married in the Loir-et-Cher to the actor Alain Delon, with whom she was expecting a child. At 21, she had met him at a nightclub with his fiancée actress Romy Schneider. The actor, at the height of his career at 29, was under media scrutiny following five years of stormy public drama with Schneider. After the wedding, attended by the mayor and two witnesses and kept secret until after they left the country, the couple boarded the SS France at Le Havre for a honeymoon to the United States. They then went directly to Hollywood because Alain Delon had a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), but it was soon terminated by the American company. Their son, Anthony Delon, was born the following month at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.[3] The Delons lived in the United States for a year before returning to Paris. In 1967, Nathalie became a film actress, starring opposite her husband in the film Le Samouraï by Jean-Pierre Melville, which became a hit.[3] On 14 February 1969, they divorced after four and a half years of marriage, when Alain Delon got involved with Mireille Darc on the set of Jeff by Jean Herman.

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Bacri
Jean-Pierre. 2021-01-18

69

Born 1951-05-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Jean-Pierre Bacri was a French actor and screenwriter who frequently worked in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui. One of his earliest film appearances was Subway.

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Cauchy
Daniel. 2020-05-07

90

Born 1930-03-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID

He was a French film actor and producer. He was known for his role in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 crime film Bob le flambeur. His son Didier Cauchy also became an actor.

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Mokiejewski
Jean-Paul Adam (alias: Jean-Pierre Mocky). 2019-08-08

90

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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Bénichou
Maurice Moïse. 2019-06-14

76

Born 1943-01-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Maurice Bénichou was a French actor. His best known roles include three collaborations with director Michael Haneke (Code inconnu, Le Temps du Loup, and Caché), and a part in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie. He has also played in Peter Brook's 1989 film version of The Mahabharata.

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Sarre
Georges. 2019-01-31

83

Born 1935-11-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Georges Sarre was a French politician and leader of the Citizen and Republican Movement. Sarre was an early supporter of Jean-Pierre Chevènement and François Mitterrand within the new Socialist Party (PS), which he joined at the famous Epinay Congress in 1971. He was the Socialist top candidate in the 1977 Paris municipal election but lost the election by a handful of votes to Jacques Chirac.

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Kahane
Jean-Pierre. 2017-06-21

90

Born 1926-12-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a French mathematician with contributions to harmonic analysis. Kahane was also known for his lifelong activism as part of the French Communist Party.

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Leroux
Jean-Pierre (alias: Jean-Pierre Jorris). 2017-02-21

91

Born 1925-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Pierre Jorris was a French theatre actor.

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Neveu
Jacques Jean-Pierre. 2016-05-17

83

Born 1932-11-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a Belgian (and then French) mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics.

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Coffe
Jean-Pierre. 2016-03-28

78

Born 1938-03-24. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

He was a French radio and television presenter, food critic, and author. Jean-Pierre Coffe was a private individual, however he has declared his bisexuality publicly, notably in 2011 during an interview with MFM Radio and in 2013 during France 2's programme La parenthèse inattendue. Married three times to women, Jean-Pierre Coffe lived his final years with a man, whom he declared himself ready to marry in 2013. Jean-Pierre Coffe had a son who died shortly after birth and a step-daughter who died aged 35.

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Bagot
Jean-Pierre. 2016-03-15

72

Born 1943-10-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French actor.

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Le Poulain
Corinne. 2015-02-10

66

Born 1948-05-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

She was a French actress. Niece of actor Jean Le Poulain, she seduced Jean Marais on-screen in the film La Provocation (1969). She was famous as Sally in TV-series Sam & Sally. She was s great success during the 1970s with based-on-novel-TV-series Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. She made a comeback as Claude Jades lesbian love Gloria in Jean-Pierre Mocky's Bonsoir. From 2005, she played in TV-series Plus belle la vie.

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Beltoise
Jean-Pierre. 2015-01-05

77

Born 1937-04-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke

French car racer and initially a motorbike racer. Tragedy struck in Giunti's first drive in 1971 whilst racing in the 1000 km Buenos Aires race, when Giunti's Ferrari 312PB prototype ploughed into the back of the Matra 660 of Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who was pushing the car along the track after it had run out of fuel. The impact and the subsequent fire gave the popular Italian no chance of survival.

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Boulanger
Daniel. 2014-10-27

92

Born 1922-01-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and has been a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983 until his death. He was born in Compiègne, Oise. As an actor in a small role Boulanger is famous as the neighbor of Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffauts Bed and Board. When Léaud throws down Claude Jade's coat and purse the stairs, Claude Jade crossing Boulanger and his wife (Silvana Blasi). Boulanger and Blasi help her get into the coat. Here Jade and Léaud are playing a copy of Boulanger and his wife, who says now to Boulanger: "You see, dear. They're truly in love, now." He also played one of the men that Jeanne Moreau was chasing in La Mariée était en noir. He was Delvaux, the shooter.

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Porel
Jacqueline. 2012-04-29

93

Born 1918-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012) was a French stage and film actress. She was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in French-speaking markets. She dubbed Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn et Lana Turner. She was married to the actor Gérard Landry. She is the mother of 4 children : Jean-Marie Périer (né en 1940), with chanteur Henri Salvador (1917-2008) filmmakerJean-Pierre Périer (1943-1966) and journalist Anne-Marie Périer(née in 1945) actor Marc Porel (1949-1983)

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Chapel
Jean-Pierre. 2010-09-27

75

Born 1935-08-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

He commented the images of the first step on the moon for French TV.

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Angremy
Jean-Pierre (alias: Pierre-Jean Rémy). 2010-04-28

73

Born 1937-03-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Une ville immortelle.

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Treiber
Jean-Pierre. 2010-02-20

46

Born 1963-04-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

He was suspected of the murder of Géraldine Giraud and Katia Lherbier. He committed suicide by hanging in his cell in Fleury-Merogis, 3 months before the beginning of his trial.

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Bizot
Jean-François. 2007-09-08

63

Born 1944-08-19. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer

Co-founder of "Actuel" with Michel-Antoine Burnier, Patrick Rambaud, Bernard Kouchner, Jean-Pierre Lentin.
Founder of radios (Nova)

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Crochon
Jean-Pierre (alias: Jean-Pierre Cassel). 2007-04-19

74

Born 1932-10-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

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de Rothschild
Nicole (alias: Nicole Stéphane). 2007-03-13

83

Born 1923-05-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

She was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.
In the early 1970s, Stéphane was the lover of the American writer and critic Susan Sontag.

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Vernant
Jean-Pierre. 2007-01-09

93

Born 1914-01-04. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age

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Minisini
Jean. 2006-09-21

83

Born 1923-03-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Jean Minisini was a French actor. Before entering the world of cinema, Jean Minisini was a wrestler and stuntman. Official stand-in of the American actor Burt Lancaster, he worked in Hollywood. He is however well known to film fans for his role as henchman of Fantômas in the film by André Hunebelle (1964). Faithful stuntman of Claude Carliez and François Nadal's team, we see him fighting alongside Yvan Chiffre against Jean Marais and robbing a casino with Louis de Funès, Yvan Chiffre, Dominique Zardi and Henri Attal. He played a mobster named Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Le Majordome by Jean Delannoy in 1964. He played, in Le Corniaud (1964), a P.J. inspector alongside Eric Vasberg, Marius Gaidon and Jack Ary. He also played the role of "Mathieu la valise" in Un flic by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1972.

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