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Farina Sergio (b. 1926-09-08 / d. 2012-07-03) alias Sergio Pininfarina
He was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the driver, but ahead of the rear wheels. The resulting Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale was presented at the Paris Motor Show in October, although it would be another two years before the cars were offered for sale. After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company. In 2006 Sergio and his son Andrea, who died in 2008 were named Honorary Chairmen of Pininfarina,
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Born 1935-11-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, and singer. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and became an international sex symbol. He is regarded as one of the most well-known figures of the French cultural landscape. His style, looks, and roles, which made him an international icon, earned him enduring popularity.
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Born 1932-06-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID
Maurice Barrier was a French actor and singer. Barrier was married to the actress Hélène Manesse. The pair resided in Montréal, France from 1962 until Maurice's death on 12 April 2020 in Montbard at the age of 87 due to COVID-19.
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Born 1932-04-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Maurice Bidermann, real name Maurice Zylberberg, was a French industrialist in the textile business, descended from Polish Jews. He was a Knight of the French National Order of Merit in 1991. Bidermann was sentenced to three years in prison, two suspended and fined one million euros for the leaders of "abuse of corporate assets, the misuse of corporate assets to expense Elf, presenting false accounts "and" spreading false information "on the consolidated statements of Bidermann group" in 1992.
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Born 1926-01-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bernard Lavalette was a French film and television actor. He died only a few weeks after Jeanon, his wife's death.
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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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Born 1921-09-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Conway Maurice Berners-Lee was an English mathematician and computer scientist who worked as a member of the team that developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial stored program electronic computer. He was born in Birmingham in 1921 and was the father of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Professor Mike Berners-Lee, researcher into climate change.
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Born 1939-01-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Tony Bullimore, nicknamed The British Bulldog, was a British businessman and international yachtsman. He is known especially for being rescued on 10 January 1997 during a sailing race after he had been presumed dead. Bullimore died of a rare form of stomach cancer.
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Born 1953-01-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Maurice Reedus Jr., better known as the Sax Man, was an American saxophone player and street performer based in Cleveland, Ohio. For more than 17 years, Reedus played an alto saxophone outside Playhouse Square and Cleveland sporting events. A documentary about his life and career, The Sax Man, directed by Joe Siebert, premiered at the 2014 Cleveland International Film Festival.
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Born 1937-12-21. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French computer scientist. His research in computer science spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an honorary doctorate (Ph.D.) called Nivat one of the fathers of theoretical computer science. He was a Professor at the University Paris Diderot until 2001.
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Born 1929-06-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Maurice Vanderschueren, better known as Maurice Vander was a French jazz keyboardist. Vander worked in the 1950s with Don Byas, Django Reinhardt, Bobby Jaspar, Jimmy Raney, Stephane Grappelli, Chet Baker, and Kenny Clarke. He won the Prix Django Reinhardt in 1962. In the 1960s he was a session musician for Roger Guerin, Pierre Gossez, and Boulou Ferré, and played with Claude Nougaro and Ivan Jullien. He played with Baker again in the late 1970s and with Johnny Griffin; his later work included performing and recording with Clarke, Richie Cole, Art Farmer, and Benny Powell. Vander is the adoptive father of Christian Vander (musician).
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Born 1936-12-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
He was an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for starring in the late 1960s TV western Lancer. On September 27, 1973, Stacy was taking Claire Cox for a ride on his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills when a drunken driver struck them. As results of the accident, she died and Stacy lost his left arm and leg. Stacy's ex-wife, actress and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 celebrity gala to raise money for his expenses. The gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 ($0.6 million today) for his expenses. In 1976, he won a $1.9 million lawsuit ($8.5 million today) against the bar that had served the drunk driver. In November 1995, Stacy pleaded no contest to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl. On December 7, 1995, he failed to appear for sentencing in Ventura County Superior Court and was arrested the next day in a Honolulu, Hawaii, hospital after having fled California. He attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff. After recovering, Stacy waived extradition and returned to California. On March 5, 1996, he received a six-year prison sentence. The prosecutor in the case initially said she believed Stacy might have been eligible for probation for the molestation, but his post-arrest behavior, coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls, led her to seek a prison sentence. He served his sentence at the California Institution for Men at Chino. Stacy died of anaphylactic shock in Ventura, California, after being administered an antibiotic injection at the office of Dr. Cedric Emery. He was 79 years old. Stacy is portrayed by Timothy Olyphant in the 2019 Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Born 1928-12-31. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French political cartoonist. His work is noted for its anti-capitalism, anti-clericalism, anti-colonialism and anarchism.
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Born 1922-10-14. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Les Jeux de 20h
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Born 1941-12-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and arranger. He was the founder and leader of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. White served as the band's main songwriter, record producer and co-lead singer with Philip Bailey. White died in his sleep from the effects of Parkinson's disease at his home in Los Angeles, California. He was 74 years old. His brother Verdine posted the following on Facebook: My brother, hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his sleep. While the world has lost another great musician and legend, our family asks that our privacy is respected as we start what will be a very difficult and life-changing transition in our lives. Thank you for your prayers and well-wishes. Yours Truly, Verdine White
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Born 1924-07-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a chemist and statistician. Born in Paris, France, to Felix and Clemence, Gy graduated in chemical engineering from ESPCI ParisTech in 1946. Gy received doctorates in physics (1960) and mathematics (1975) from the University of Nancy but has always worked outside the academic mainstream, publishing 9 books and over 175 paper. He will remain one of the founding fathers of sampling science.
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Born 1911-05-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer and editor. He was born in Paris. One of his well-known works, translated into several languages, is the Histoire du surréalisme (The History of Surrealism).
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Born 1923-10-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor. He played Marius in "les bronzés font du ski".
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Born 1928-06-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Sendak was not a fan of ebooks, stating, "Fuck them is what I say, I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead, I won’t give a shit!"
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Born 1933-05-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field. One of André's students, Guy Touvron wrote a biography on him entitled Maurice André: Une trompette pour la renommée (Maurice André: A Trumpet for Fame), which was published in 2003.
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Born 1923-02-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrète and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.
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Born 1932-08-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
The voice of Saturnin the duck (and the song of Colargol was also sung by him)
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Born 1913-06-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge. He received a number of distinctions: he was a knight bachelor, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1951, he developed the concept of microprogramming from the realisation that the Central Processing Unit of a computer could be controlled by a miniature, highly specialised computer program in high-speed ROM. This concept greatly simplified CPU development. Microprogramming was first described at the Manchester University Computer Inaugural Conference in 1951, then published in expanded form in IEEE Spectrum in 1955. This concept was implemented for the first time in EDSAC 2, which also used multiple identical "bit slices" to simplify design. Interchangeable, replaceable tube assemblies were used for each bit of the processor. This was extremely advanced for the time.
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Born 1911-05-31. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was a French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources."
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Born 1920-03-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
A key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.
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Born 1913-11-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was the French Prefect of Police, or police chief, of the city of Paris during the May 1968 general strikes and student uprisings. He is credited with avoiding an escalation of violence and bloodshed during May 1968 unrest.
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Born 1918-04-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Les rois maudits.
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Born 1924-09-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He essentially composed for the film industry.
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Born 1921-09-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a journalist at RTL for 36 years commenting horse races. His son Jérôme took over his father and had the same job at RTL. He died on February 17, 2017.
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Born 1983-04-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
He was an American football free safety who played for the NFL's Washington Redskins franchise.
On November 26, 2007, at 1:45 a.m. EST, Taylor was shot in the upper leg by an armed intruder at his Palmetto Bay, Florida home, where he had been recuperating from a football injury. He was mortally wounded in his femoral artery. His long-time girlfriend Jackie Garcia, niece of actor Andy Garcia, hid under the bedding with their 18-month-old daughter, also named Jackie. Garcia then called 911 from her cell phone.
Taylor was airlifted to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he underwent surgery. He emerged from surgery about 12:30 p.m. He had lost a significant amount of blood and remained unconscious and in a coma. His doctors speculated that he may have suffered brain damage due to the blood loss, and an unnamed Redskins source reported that Taylor's heart stopped twice during the emergency surgery.
On November 27 at 3:30 a.m., Taylor died at the hospital. The news was released to the media by Richard Sharpstein, a family friend, who learned the news from Taylor's father around 5:30 a.m, and by Taylor's agent, Drew Rosenhaus.
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Born 1927-01-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Heart and kidney failure.
He was a French choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger.