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Bombard Alain (b. 1924-10-27 / d. 2005-07-19)
Bombard's claim was tested and contested by Hannes Lindemann, a German physician, canoeist and sailing pioneer. Lindemann wanted to repeat Bombard's trip in order to gain a better understanding of living on salt water and fish, but found that he needed fresh water (from rain) most days. Lindemann later claimed that Bombard had actually taken along fresh water and consumed it on the ocean, and that he had also been secretly provided further supplies during his voyage. Lindemann's own observations about reactions to scarce fresh water supplies became the basis for the World Health Organisation's navigation recommendations.
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Born 1921-04-19. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Michel Klein was a Romanian-born French veterinarian. He was known for his veterinary work on zoo animals, as well as for his television awareness programs in favor of animal rights around the world. He appeared on programs such as Club Dorothée, 30 millions d'amis, Télématin, and Terre attention danger
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Born 1952-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
Michel Blanc was a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. He also appeared in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire.
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Born 1922-08-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Micheline Presle (French pronunciation: [miʃlin pʁɛːl]; born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne) was a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting her career in 1937, she starred or appeared in over 150 films appearing first in productions in her native France and also in Hollywood during the era of Classical Hollywood Cinema, before returning again to Europe, especially French films from the mid-1960s until 2014.
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Born 1936-06-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Michel Jazy was a French middle-distance runner and long-distance runner. He won the 1500 metres silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics, as well as two golds (in 1962 and 1966) and one silver (in 1966) at the European Championships. He set nine world records in the mile (once), 2000 metres (twice) and 3000 metres (twice), the two miles (twice) and the 4×1500 metres relay (twice).
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Born 1945-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Michel Cordes was a French actor, author, and stage director. He died from suicide by gunshot.
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Born 1931-04-13. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Deville was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies, La Lectrice (The Reader) was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently (2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the U.S. His 1980 film Le Voyage en douce was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film Death in a French Garden was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. A clip from his 1968 film Benjamin is included in Robert Bresson’s Une Femme Douce (1969). Deville died at the age of 91.
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Born 1925-11-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Bouquet was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
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Born 1932-08-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Le Royer was a French actor, known for his roles in La Fayette, Nutty, Naughty Chateau, and Her Harem.
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Born 1952-11-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Michel Tubiana was a French lawyer. He chaired the League of Human Rights from 2000 to 2005. He became a lawyer in 1974. He defended Klaus Croissant, the gang's lawyer in Baader, and intervened in the Papon trial, but his income were mainly coming from business law. On June 12, 2000, Michel Tubiana succeeded Henri Leclerc as President of the League of Human Rights (LDH). He remains in office until June 2005, the end of his mandate.
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Born 1941-05-17. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Jean-Michel Dubernard was a medical doctor specializing in transplant surgery who served as a Deputy in the French National Assembly. Dr. Dubernard was most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on 23 September 1998, the first successful double hand transplant shortly thereafter (but not announced until 14 January 2004), and assisting Prof. Bernard Devauchelle in performing the first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire on 27 November 2005. Dubernard was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
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Born 1942-04-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Michel Paul Fourniret was a French serial killer who confessed to killing twelve people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003. Fourniret died at the age of 79 after being admitted into the hospital with respiratory problems.
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Born 1930-11-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Robin was a French film, stage, and television actor. A sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1996, he also appeared in 120 films from 1966 to 2018.
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Born 1925-12-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors. Piccoli died from complications of a stroke.
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Born 1941-07-08. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Michel Charasse was a member of the French Senate. He represented the Puy-de-Dôme department, and was a member of the Socialist Party. On 24 February 2010 French president Nicolas Sarkozy nominated him as a member of the Constitutional Council.
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Born 1931-06-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Michel Georges Alfred Catty, known as Michou, was a French singer, drag artist and owner of Chez Michou in Montmartre. He was born in Amiens. A local celebrity, he appeared in a cameo as himself in the 1973 film La bonne année directed by Claude Lelouch. In 1973 he also played the part of Beauchamp in the TV series Molière pour rire et pour pleurer, directed by Marcel Camus. He was the subject of Jean Luret's documentary L'intrigant destin d’un Transformiste. In the 1980s, he was regularly invited on French TV. He was made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2005.
80
Born 1939-01-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Michel Verhoeve was a French footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1952-07-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Jean-Michel Martial was a French actor.
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Born 1942-09-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Michel Sitjar was an international rugby union player for France and played club rugby for Agen. He also tried rugby league for a year in XIII Catalan after brutally stopping his career at 28. Sitjar played as a flanker and won three Brennus Shields with the Sporting Union Agenais (1962, 1965 and 1966). In 2008 he published his first collection of poems (Rugby & Poésie), followed by the second one Rugby & Poésie, deuxième mi-temps two years later. He was obsessed by death. He killed himself at his home in Lamagistère.
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Born 1930-09-01. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Michel Serres was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works are notable for discussing subjects like death, angels and time. They are also noted for incorporating prose and multifaceted perspectives. Serres had a unique approach to translating his works from accounts rather than from authoritative singular translations.
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Born 1932-02-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
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Born 1947-10-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Henri Louis Michel was a French football player and coach. He played as a midfielder for Nantes and the France national team, and later went on to coach various clubs and national teams all over the world. He coached France at the 1986 World Cup, where they reached the semi-final, eventually managing a third–place finish; he also helped the Olympic squad win a gold medal in the 1984 edition of the tournament.
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Born 1938-06-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Michel Raynaud was a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He was a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University. He was married to Michèle Raynaud who also worked with Grothendieck. In 1983 he published a proof of the Manin–Mumford conjecture. In 1970 Raynaud was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. In 1987 he received the Prize Ampère from the French Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he received the Cole Prize, together with David Harbater, for his solution of the Abhyankar conjecture. He practiced skiing (especially in Val-d'Isère), tennis, and rock climbing (in Fontainebleau).
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Born 1936-01-01. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician. He was the son of Pierre Mendès France.
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Born 1920-06-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Michelle Vian, née Michèle Léglise, was a French translator and poetess. She was Boris Vian's wife. She had inspired the character of Chloé in L'Écume des jours. Then she has been close to Sartre.
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Born 1920-04-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French conservative politician. He served in many government posts under Jacques Chirac, Raymond Barre and Michel Rocard, and was Mayor of Saint-Étienne from 1965 to 1977.
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Born 1952-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a retired judge who presided over one of France's most infamous unsolved murders : The Gregory affair. He has been found dead in is apartment.. Jean-Michel Lambert, 65, was found by emergency services with his head in a plastic bag at his home near Le Mans late on Tuesday. "There was no trace of violence...(and) no trace of a break-in," said the Le Mans prosecutor in a statement. The suicide is a new twist in the case that has haunted the country for three decades. Lambert has always been thinking that the mother was guilty. « [...] Ce énième « rebondissement » est infâme. Il repose sur une construction intellectuelle fondée en partie sur un logiciel [allusion au logiciel Anacrim]. La machine à broyer s’est mise en marche pour détruire ou abîmer la vie de plusieurs innocents, pour répondre au désir de revanche de quelques esprits blessés dans leur orgueil ou dans l’honneur de leur corps. Certains de mes confrères ont emboîté le pas avec une mauvaise foi abominable. [...] Car, dès novembre 1984, j’ai pu démontrer que si Murielle Bolle n’était pas dans le car de ramassage scolaire, ce n’était pas le mardi 16 octobre mais le mardi 23 octobre, semaine où elle est rentrée chez elle à cause de la grippe. Les preuves sont au dossier (registre du collège et surtout témoignage du chauffeur de car, Monsieur Galmiche, que j’ai piégé après la remise d’un certificat médical, je crois par la mère de Murielle Bolle, et les auditions d’autres collégiennes qui avaient parfois des repères précis mais qui se sont pourtant trompées d’une semaine). [...] Les événements depuis juin dernier sont voués normalement à l’échec. Et pour cause… Pour ne pas perdre la face, on cherchera alors un bouc émissaire. Autant dire qu’il est tout trouvé… Je refuse de jouer ce rôle. Si j’ai parfois failli, j’ai cependant la conscience parfaitement tranquille quant aux décisions que j’ai été amené à prendre. » — Jean-Michel Lambert
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Born 1979-09-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian road bicycle racer, who rode professionally from 2002 until his death in 2017 for the Acqua e Sapone–Cantina Tollo, Domina Vacanze–Elitron, Würth, Acqua & Sapone–Caffè Mokambo, Androni Giocattoli, Lampre–Merida and Astana teams. He was declared the winner of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after the disqualification of Alberto Contador. Other major results of his career were the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2011 Volta a Catalunya and the 2011 Giro del Trentino stage races. Scarponi died after being hit by a van while riding his bicycle, close to his home in Filottrano.
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Born 1935-01-06. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French-born American psychotherapist and writer who wrote extensively about transactional analysis (TA). His writings focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and interpersonal power plays. In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present and is gaining recent recognition worldwide. He was also considered the originator of the theory called Stroke Economy.
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Born 1936-02-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French amateur track cyclist. He won gold medals in the individual sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1956–1958 world championships, finishing second in 1959 and 1961. Original, he raised - according to Gaignard - a crocodile in his bathtub, and he had a living owl in his apartment
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Born 1946-05-03. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French press illustrator, son of Jacques Faizant.