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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 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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Born 1938-05-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. In 2013, Darc underwent further open heart surgery, and during 2016 she suffered several hemorrhages. She died in Paris in a coma at the age of 79
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Born 1910-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Born 1910 probably sept or oct... Lionel Jospin's mother Euthanasia. 'Ninety-two years - it is time to leave before deteriorations set in,' she wrote on the day of her death to members of an association called the Right to Die with Dignity, of which she was a member. 'I am leaving this life calmly. Even so, I am very sad to leave my family, big and small, and my friends: [but] isn't that in the order of things? 'My husband and children have filled my life. I am not a believer in the strict sense of the term, but I often say and repeat: thank you, thank you for the magnificence of this world. I would really like a little later on to lift a corner of the veil to see if mankind has become wiser, if it has given up destroying itself. 'I adore flowers. My husband and children have seen to it that they always accompanied me - from the little bouquets of marigolds at the start of my marriage to the magnificent roses, hortensias and orchids which my children offer me now. They have given me a mirror of life: budding, blooming, fading, over periods of different lengths, faithful to themselves, an image of all life.'
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Born 1906-09-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use a single name for the stage. Fluent in English, she spent two years in the United States, first in New York City where she performed on Broadway, then in Hollywood, where she appeared in films. In 1931, she appeared in L'aviateur with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Buster se marie with Buster Keaton. Meanwhile in France, contemporary stars Maurice Chevalier, Jean Sablon, and Charles Trenet (who credited Mireille with introducing "swing" to France), charted hits with her compositions, launching her songwriting career.
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Born 1892-08-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Emmanuel Berl was a French journalist, historian and essayist. He was born at Le Vésinet in the modern département of Yvelines, and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. In 1937 he married the singer, composer and film actress Mireille Hartuch; she had nicknamed him "Théodore" (which is what appears on their tomb). Berl was the cousin of Lisette de Brinon.
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Born 1896-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Completely destitute at the end of his life, he was also hemiplegic.
He was taken care of by the association "La roue tourne" and sent to a retirement home for the homeless. When he died, the association managed to prevent him to go to the potter's field.
His tomb is next to Mireille Balin's, who died in misery as well.
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Born 1909-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Mireille Balin was one the most glamorous and best loved actresses of pre-war French cinema.
She starred in several films and became the idol of the Paris High Society where she met the love of her life, Birl Desbok, an officer in the Wehrmacht. In the summer of 1944, as Paris was about to be liberated, she and Desbok fled Paris and tried to reach the Italian border but on September 28th, 1944 they were arrested by the FFI in Beausoleil (near Nice). Separated from Desbok, who was probably executed (she never knew what really happened to him), she was beaten and raped before being taken to Nice prison. She was soon transferred to Fresnes prison (near Paris) where she stayed until her release on bail on 3rd January 1945. She was forbidden to work for a year but once this restriction lifted, she went back to the studios to appear in what proved to be her last film 'Dernière chevauchée, La (1948)' , her frail constitution prevented her from appearing in any other films.
She died in 1968, forgotten and broke.
She died at the hopital Beaujon, from multiple illnesses: alcohol, typhus...