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Young Robert George (b. 1907-02-22 / d. 1998-07-21)
Despite the fact that he portrayed happy, well-adjusted characters, Young suffered from depression and alcoholism, which contributed to his suicide attempt in 1991. Afterwards he spoke candidly about his problems in an effort to encourage people to seek help with their own. The Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health, an affiliate of Trinity Regional Health System, located in Rock Island, Illinois, is a comprehensive community mental health center. It is named after Young for his work with passage of the 708 Illinois Tax Referendum.
Young died at his home in Westlake Village, California at 91 from respiratory failure. He was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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Born 1936-08-27. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Labro was a French author, journalist, and film director. He worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1, and Antenne 2. He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986. Labro died in Paris at the age of 88, from cancer.
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Born 1958-09-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Frank Darcel was a French writer, musician and music producer. He was a leading French rock guitarist during the 1980s with the band Marquis de Sade and with his collaboration with Étienne Daho. Darcel was also Breton nationalist activist and member of the Breton Party. He ran for municipal elections in Rennes on an autonomist list. Frank Darcel fell from a cliff in Ribadeo in northwestern Spain. After the suicide of Philippe Pascal, charismatic leader of Marquis de Sade, it is now its co-founder, who disappears at the age of 65. It is not sure it is a suicide, but more likely it is one.
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Born 1947-06-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Gérard Collomb was a French politician who served as Mayor of Lyon from 2001 to 2017 and again from 2018 until 2020. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM) since he left the Socialist Party (PS) in 2017, he was Minister of the Interior in the first and second government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 to 2018. Disagreements with President Emmanuel Macron led Collomb to resign and return as Mayor of Lyon. He was a councillor for both the City of Lyon and Lyon Metropolis from 2020 until his death in 2023. Gérard Collomb died at the age of 76, after a battle with stomach cancer.[
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Born 1948-08-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Jean-Louis Georgelin was a French Army General who was Chief of the Defence Staff ("Chef d'état-major des armées", CEMA) between 4 October 2006 and 25 February 2010. From 9 June 2010 until 2016 he served as Great Chancellor of the French national order, the Légion d'honneur. On April 17, 2019, in the wake of the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris and with a view to rebuilding the cathedral, he was appointed by the Council of Ministers to head a special representative mission "to oversee the progress of the procedures and work that will be undertaken ". During an exchange at the National Assembly on November 13, 2019, he declared that he had asked Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of historic monuments, "to shut the fuck up" (sic), while Villeneuve had on several occasions publicly stated his wish to rebuild the spire identically in compliance with the French Heritage Code and France's international commitments, and in accordance with the Venice Charter. His comments caused "astonishment", including at the Ministry of Culture. Jean-Louis Georgelin died while hiking in the commune of Bordes-Uchentein, Ariège. His body was found the next day by the high-mountain gendarmerie platoon on the slopes of Mont Valier.
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Born 1951-02-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Pozzo di Borgo was a Corsican French businessman who was the director of Pommery and the owner of an inherited historic hôtel particulier in Paris used as a function hall. Philippe di Borgo became a quadriplegic in 1993 following a paragliding accident. Because of his disability, he attempted to commit suicide by wrapping an oxygen tube around his neck. The story of Philippe and his Algerian attendant, Abdel Sellou, was told in a 2003 documentary, A la vie, à la mort. Their story was also adapted in the biographical movies The Intouchables (2011), and the Indian, Argentine, and American re-makes, respectively, Oopiri (2016), (Spanish article) Inseparables (2016), and The Upside (2017). These movies were based on his 2001 memoir, A Second Wind.
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Born 1936-11-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Sollers (French: [sɔˈlɛʁs]; born Philippe Joyaux) was a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the avant garde literary journal Tel Quel (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982. Sollers then created the journal L'Infini, published first by Denoel, then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor. Sollers was at the heart of the period of intellectual fervour in the Paris of the 1960s and 1970s. He contributed to the publication of critics and thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, and Roland Barthes. Some of them were later described in his novel Femmes (1983), alongside other figures of French intellectualism active before and after May 1968. His writings and approach to language were examined and praised by French critic Roland Barthes in his book Writer Sollers. In 1990, following a televised disagreement between Canadian novelist Denise Bombardier and the French writer Gabriel Matzneff over Matzneff's "recently published memoir, about his sexual conquests of very young women", a few days later, on the television channel France 3, Sollers referred to Bombardier as "a bitch".
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Born 1955-06-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Streiff was a French racing driver. He participated in 55 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 21 October 1984. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 11 championship points. A pre-season testing crash at the Jacarepaguá circuit in Rio de Janeiro in 1989 with AGS left him a quadriplegic and thus using a wheelchair, with the quality of the care he received in the aftermath having been called into question, even if the accident itself was so serious the roll-bar broke on impact. Streiff organised the Masters Karting Paris Bercy. In early 1994, Streiff made a bid to purchase Ligier in partnership with Hughes de Chaunac. The bid had the support of the similarly Renault-powered Williams F1 team, who intended to turn Ligier into a 'junior' team. The bid was unsuccessful. Belgian Luc Costermans, who had broken the World blind road speed record in late 2008, dedicated his record to Streiff.
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Born 1949-08-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jose Luccioni was a French actor and artistic director. Primarily active in dubbing, he was notably the French voice of Al Pacino from 1985 to 2021. He also directed dubbing in numerous films, television series, and telefilms. José was the son of baritone Jacques Luccioni, who himself was the son of tenor José Luccioni (1903–1978). His mother was actress Micheline Luccioni. His daughter, Olivia, is also an actress and artistic director.
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Born 1941-01-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Georges Claisse essentially divides his career between France and Germany. He has performed nearly 30 plays, made around 25 films for theaters, and had lead roles in dozens of TV movies and series. After small roles in is Paris Burning? and The Night of the Generals, Michel Deville offered him his first major film role in 1969 with the role of Stéphane in The Bear and the Doll. This followed in the 1970s, among others, We will no longer go to the woods, Raphaël or the Debauché, Let go ... this is a waltz, Les grands moneys. From the 1970s, Claisse was also frequently seen in German film and television productions. In the 1990s, he played alongside Nathalie Baye in The voice, alongside Marie-Christine Barrault in Les Maitresses de mon mari and in the role of the lost husband of Claude Jade, who returned after twenty years, in Porté dispart de Jacques Richard. From 1998, Georges Claisse was in the German television series T.E.A.M. Berlin as Georg Paulsen. In addition to German, he is fluent in English and Italian, allowing him to tour in several co-productions. Sportsman, skier and climber, he has shot numerous mountain films and series such as La Mort d´un Guide, Le Miroir 2000 and Le Fils du Ciel. His last role in front of the camera is that of Marshal Philippe Pétain in the TV movie Laval, the collaborator of Laurent Heynemann broadcast in November 2021.
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Born 2001-09-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Jason Dupasquier was a Swiss motorcycle rider who competed in the Moto3 class in the motorcycle world championship until his death at the 2021 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix. He was the son of Motocross rider Philippe Dupasquier.
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Born 1925-06-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Jaccottet was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. In 2014, Philippe Jaccottet became the fifteenth living author to be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
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Born 1948-02-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Philippe de Châteleux de Villeneuve-Bargemont de Duras was a French singer and song writer.
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Born 1951-03-27. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Marielle de Sarnez was a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who represented the Paris 11th in the National Assembly. She served as Minister for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from May to June 2017. She died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, following an acute leukemia, at the age of 69.
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Born 1930-09-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Clair was a French actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and popular humorist. Along with fellow French directors Max Pécas and Richard Balducci, his name is synonymous with the golden age of camp and low comedy in French cinema.
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Born 1944-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Claude Bouttier was a French actor and professional boxer. During his boxing career, which spanned from 1965 to 1974, he won 64 out of 72 bouts, 43 of them by knockout. In June 1971 he won the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title, and in 1972 and 1973 unsuccessfully contested the WBC and WBA titles against Carlos Monzon. He lost the EBU title to Kevin Finnegan in May 1974. Bouttier started his film career by playing himself in TV series, while still boxing. His later roles involved proper acting, such as Philippe Rouget in Les Uns et les Autres. Since 1984, he worked as a sports commentator for Canal+.
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Born 1927-02-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy was a French fashion designer who founded the house of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn and clothing for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970. His partner was Philippe Venet.
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Born 1944-02-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Yves Afonso was a French actor. He was born in Saulieu in the Côte-d'Or département. Since his uncredited debut in the movie Masculin, féminin in 1966, he had many roles, both in movies and on television. He normally plays supporting roles, and may have been best known for his role as Inspector Bricard in L'Horloger de Saint-Paul, and the black comedy Week End, where he played Tom Thumb.
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Born 1943-06-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. In February 2018 his two oldest children, David and Laura, announced that they were contesting his will, which left his entire estate to his last wife Laeticia and their two adopted children. The will was drafted in California, and their lawyers contend that it violates French laws which prevent children from being disinherited.
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Born 1953-03-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a French criminal, cause célèbre and the subject of public and judicial controversy. He was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Philippe Bertrand in January 1976. The trial began on 18 January 1977 and he was defended by Robert Bocquillon and Robert Badinter. A contentious issue in the trial was the validity of capital punishment in France; Badinter, a fervent supporter of its abolition, would ultimately convince the jury not to execute his client. This case is said to have had an influence in leading to the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981. Henry was instead sentenced to life imprisonment and was paroled in 2001; however, he returned to prison two years later after having been caught trying to smuggle drugs into France.
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Born 1933-11-15. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
She was a French anthropologist, ethnologist, and feminist. She was the successor of Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France (Chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies from 1982 to 1998, now emeritus professor). Her work dealt mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest (both theories based on the notion of exchange of women). In addition to Lévi-Strauss, she was also influenced by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. She was replaced by Philippe Descola, who is the current holder of the chair of anthropology at the Collège. She died the day of her birthday in the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.
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Born 1928-12-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor. In 1969, in L'Armée des ombres, he was responsible for the prison camp where Lino Ventura, alias Philippe Gerbier, was imprisoned. For television, he played Flambart, the police officer who chased Eugène François Vidocq relentlessly, played by Bernard Noël in the TV series Vidocq in 1967.
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Born 1936-03-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French director, producer, and stunt coordinator. He is the father of Philippe Chiffre, Romain Chiffre and the grand father of César Chiffre.
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Born 1933-04-20. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film critic, essayist, diarist, director, and producer who realized numerous documentaries. He was also active on the radio. Occasionally, he was also a screenwriter or an actor.
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Born 1927-03-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French journalist and politician. Born in Corsica, he was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He started his career as a journalist, and he was expelled from Charles de Gaulle's Rally of the French People over his support for French Algeria. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1967 to 1978, and from 1982 to 1993, representing Paris. He served as the mayor of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris from 1983 to 1995. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1995 to 2004, representing Paris. Dominati had two sons, Laurent Dominati and Philippe Dominati, both of whom served in the National Assembly. He was a personal friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen's, who became one of his sons's godfather. He also had a daughter, Isabelle Miller, who is an author. Dominati retired in Corsica where he died.
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Born 1941-11-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Murder
Known by the pen-name Honoré, he was a French cartoonist. He died on January 7, 2015, during the January 2015 shooting attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office. Honoré was a staff cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo.
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Born 1973-02-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a French professional road racing cyclist. In 2004, Philippe Gaumont quit professional cycling and later ran a café in Amiens. Gaumont was well known for having confessed to extensive doping and explaining a lot of the tricks of the trade. Gaumont gave a series of interviews, and wrote a book, Prisonnier du dopage ("Prisoner of doping") in which he explained doping methods, masking methods, the use of drug cocktails such as the pot belge for training and for recreation, and how the need to make money makes racers dope themselves. In April 2013 he suffered a major heart attack and was reported to be in a coma. On 13 May 2013, several news sources reported his death, but according to La Voix du Nord he remained in an artificial coma, though had suffered brain death.
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Born 1963-06-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French rally driver. Bugalski died from injuries sustained when he fell out of a tree at his home in Vichy.
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Born 1921-07-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Unknown
Always elusive about his past and known to refuse interviews and not allow photographs to be taken of him, his place of birth is highly disputed. Some sources and Marker himself claim that he was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Other sources say he was born in Belleville, Paris, and others, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The 1949 edition of Le Cœur Net specifies his birthday as July 22. Film critic David Thomson has stated: "Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct. I have since concluded that Belleville is correct- but that does not spoil the spiritual truth of Ulan Bator." When asked about his secretive nature, Marker has said "My films are enough for them (the audience)." Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée (The Pier) in 1962. It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying pace, with limited narration and sound effects. In the film, a survivor of a futuristic third World War is obsessed with a distant and disconnected memories of a pier at the Orly Airport, the image of a mysterious woman, and a man's death. Scientists experimenting in time travel select the man choose him for their studies, and the man travels back in time to contact the mysterious woman, and discovers that the man's death at the Orly Airport was his own. Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future. La Jetée was the inspiration for Mamoru Oshii's 1987 debut live action feature The Red Spectacles (and, later for, parts of Oshii's 2001 film Avalon as well) and also inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995). « Chris Marker, c'est un peu le plus célèbre des cinéastes inconnus. » — Philippe Dubois, "Introduction", dans Théorème no 6 : Recherches sur Chris Marker, 2006, p. 6, repris par Marker dans son générique de début de Leila Attacks!, transposé en anglais sous la forme « Christ Marker, the best known author of unknown movies ».
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Born 1939-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
A good friend of Stéphane Collaro
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Born 1955-11-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
he was a French rugby player.