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Baire René-Louis (b. 1874-01-21 / d. 1932-07-05)
René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variable réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Since he was young, Baire always had "delicate" health. He had developed problems with his esophagus before he attended school and he would occasionally experience severe attacks of agoraphobia. From time to time, his health would prevent him from working or studying. The bad spells became more frequent, immobilizing him for long periods of time. Over time, he had developed a kind of psychological disorder that made him unable to undertake work that required long periods of concentration. At times this would make his ability to research mathematics impossible. Between 1909 and 1914 this problem continually plagued him and his teaching duties became more and more difficult. He was given a leave of absence from the University of Dijon due to all these breakdowns. He retired from Dijon in 1925 and spent his last years living in multiple hotels that he could afford with his meager pension.
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Born 1937-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Guy Marchand was a French actor, musician, and singer. He was best known for his role as the fictional private detective Nestor Burma and as the singer of the song "Destinée".
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Born 1911-11-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Robert Marchand was a French centenarian cyclist. He is the holder of the world record for cycling 100 km and for the distance cycled in one hour, both in the over 100 to 105 years old age category and for the distance cycled in one hour in the over 105 years old age category.
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Born 1932-05-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Andrew Coburn was an American writer from Exeter, New Hampshire. A New York Times best-selling novelist, short-story author, essayist and newspaper reporter and columnist, Coburn was the author of 13 novels which have been translated into over 14 languages throughout the world. He was married to Bernadine Casey Coburn, a former journalist and publicist now teaching writing at a women's jail, with whom he has one son and four daughters. They lived in Andover, Massachusetts. Three of his novels have been adapted into films. Off Duty (1980) was adapted into the French film Un dimanche de flic by director Michel Vianey. Sweetheart (1985) was adapted into the French film, Toutes peines confondues (1992). The film was distributed worldwide including Germany under the title Sweetheart, and in Italy under the title Marbel. Although first released over two decades ago, Sweetheart remains a popular cult film to this day. Widow's Walk (1994) was adapted into the French classic, Noyade interdite (1997), starring Guy Marchand, for which he was nominated France's national film award, the César Award.
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Born 1960-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Accident
During the night of March 27-28, 1996, seven monks of the Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of Atlas, near the village of Tibhirine in Algeria, were abducted by a radical faction of the GIA (Groupe Islamique Armée). On May 23, the GIA announced that the monks had been executed on May 21, 1996. Their remains were identified and their funeral Mass was celebrated in the Catholic Cathedral of Algiers on Sunday, June 2. They were buried in the cemetery of their monastery at Tibhirine on June 4, 1996.
The men executed were Dom Christian de Chergé, Brother Luc Dochier, Father Christophe Lebreton, Brother Michel Fleury, Father Bruno Lemarchand, Father Célestin Ringeard, and Brother Paul Favre-Miville.
Didier Contant was making investigations about that killing, when he died dubiously in an unexplained fall of a building in Paris.