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Westergaard Kurt (b. 1935-07-13 / d. 2021-07-14)
Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard) was a Danish cartoonist famous for creating the controversial cartoon of a terrorist, although not the Islamic prophet Muhammad as it is often claimed, wearing a bomb in his turban. This cartoon was the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which met with strong reactions from Muslims worldwide who condemned the act, including Western countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he was under constant police protection
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Born 1931-05-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Louis Rayer, known by his stage name Pierre Vernier, was a French actor. He repeatedly worked with Claude Chabrol, Henri Verneuil and Claude Lelouch, Georges Lautner and Jacques Deray.
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Born 1934-11-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Soisson (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ swasɔ̃]) was a French politician of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was a deputy in the National Assembly of France for the first district of Yonne for several terms between 1968 and 2012; mayor of Auxerre from 1971 to 1998; President of the Regional Council of Burgundy (1992–1993 and 1998–2004); and national minister of youth, labour, public administration and agriculture.
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Born 1937-09-29. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach was a French journalist.
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Born 1929-04-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Marcel Amont (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl amɔ̃]; born Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar Miramon [maʁsɛl ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ baltazaʁ miʁamɔ̃]) was a French singer and actor of the 1960s and 1970s. Amont also recorded in Occitan and promoted Bearn culture from the 1950s. He was a singer of great artistic career, being one of the most popular in France, and the most prolific of the French language with many years of career. He sold 300 million albums, recorded 30 albums, 79 singles 126 ep's, 11 compilations and about 1,000 songs in different languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, German, Irish and Spanish). He is famous for having performed songs by composers such as Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré and Georges Moustaki. Inspired by American pop and jazz in the style of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Andy Williams. He recorded international hits such as "Bleu, blanc, blond", "L'amour ça fait passer le temps", "Ballade pour l'espagnol", "Le plus beau tango du monde" and "Cathy, fais-moi danser". His famous song entitled "Un Mexicain" reached number 1 on the charts in France. He also made films and was director of soundtracks.
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Born 1942-10-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Alain Jabouille was a French racing driver. He raced in 55 Formula One Grands Prix, collecting two wins during the first years of Renault's turbocharged programme in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Jabouille also raced the 24 Hours of Le Mans from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, driving for Alpine, Matra, Sauber, and Peugeot and collecting four 3rd overall finishes in 1973, 1974, 1992, and 1993. Jabouille was one of the last of a breed of Formula One drivers who were also engineers.
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Born 1931-07-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Dominique Lapierre was a French author.
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Born 1919-12-24. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Soulages was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, François Hollande described him as "the world's greatest living artist." Soulages is known as "the painter of black," owing to his interest in the colour "both as a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens a mental field all its own." He saw light as a work material; striations of the black surface of his paintings enable him to reflect light, allowing the black to come out of darkness and into brightness, thus becoming a luminous colour.
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Born 1945-03-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Pierre Famechon AM was an Australian featherweight boxer. Famechon was the 2003 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame Moderns category and was the third to be elevated to Legend status in 2012.
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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 1950-04-08. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Jean-Pierre Pernaut was a French news reader and broadcaster. He is widely known simply by his initials, JPP.
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Born 1938-09-23. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Claude Mézières was a French bandes dessinées artist and illustrator. Born in Paris and raised in Saint-Mandé, he was introduced to drawing by his older brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis. Educated at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, he worked upon graduation as an illustrator for books and magazines as well as in advertising. A lifelong interest in the Wild West led him to travel to the United States in 1965 in search of adventure as a cowboy, an experience that would prove influential on his later work. Returning to France, Mézières teamed up with his childhood friend, Pierre Christin, to create Valérian and Laureline, the popular, long-running science fiction comics series for which he is best known and which has proved to be influential to many science fiction and fantasy films, including Star Wars. Mézières contributed as a conceptual designer on several motion picture projects, most notably the 1997 Luc Besson film, The Fifth Element, as well as continuing to work as an illustrator for newspapers, magazines and in advertising. He also taught courses on the production of comics at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis. Mézières received international recognition through a number of prestigious awards, most notably the 1984 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême.
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Born 1920-01-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Guy de la Motte-Bouloumié was not always Guy de la Motte-Bouloumié. More precisely, he wasn't always called like this. On Christmas Eve 1920, he was indeed born Guy Maigre de la Motte, into a noble family from Dauphiné; the Bouloumié line being originating in Rodez. It was not until July 1, 1960, at the age of almost 40, that the man who was to become the great builder of the city of Vittel and the ardent promoter of the Vittel brand throughout the world changed his surname and added to his birth name that of Louis Bouloumié, the founder of the spa. An act directly linked to the thermal epic. Entered in 1947 as an accountant at the Société des eaux after graduating from Sciences Po, this young man, who had just distinguished himself during the liberation of France, was in fact entrusted with the management of the plant two years later. And not by an anonymous board of directors, but by his aunt and uncle, Marie Germaine dite Germaine and Jean Bouloumié, the grandchildren of Louis, who then ran the Company. After Jean's death at the age of 74 in 1952, Germaine, Edith's first cousin, Pierre Bouloumié's daughter and Guy's mother, chose her nephew, whom it is said that she loved him like her son, to succeed her in the management of the family business. In order to facilitate the future handover, which will be effective in 1972, she therefore officially adopts it during the summer of 1960. It was at this time that Guy Maigre de la Motte became Guy Maigre de la Motte-Bouloumié, shortened in Guy de la Motte-Bouloumié.
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Born 1938-05-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Rabhi (born Rabah Rabhi) was a French writer, farmer, and environmentalist. Originally a Muslim, he converted to Christianity before abandoning that religion as well. Rabhi studied in France, and is considered an important figure in French agroecology. He invented the concept of an oasis en tous lieux ("an oasis in any place"). Rabhi advocated a society which respects its population and land, supporting the development of agricultural techniques which preserve natural resources. His theories relate particularly, although not exclusively, to arid countries. His use of anthroposophically-based biodynamic agriculture was controversial. He died on 4 December 2021, at the age of 83.
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Born 1943-01-26. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
Bernard Tapie was a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was Minister of City Affairs in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy.
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Born 1948-03-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation
Jean-Pierre Adams was a French professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was capped 22 times for France in the 1970s, and at club level, he played Division 1 football for Nîmes, Nice and Paris Saint-Germain. From March 1982 until his death in September 2021, he was in a coma as a result of mistakes made during a hospital operation. In the mid-1990s, when a court of law adjudicated on the case, both the anaesthetist and trainee were given one-month suspended sentences and were fined $815. His wife continued to tend to his needs, refusing to consider euthanasia.
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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 1951-05-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Jean-Pierre Bacri was a French actor and screenwriter who frequently worked in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui. One of his earliest film appearances was Subway.
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Born 1990-03-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
Christopher Maboulou was a French-Congolese professional footballer who played as a winger or as a forward. On March 21, 2014, a controversy broke out about him during the meeting against SM Caen. While Caen leads 1-0 in the 94th minute of play, a free kick from Nasser Chamed is deflected from the hand by Christopher Maboulou. At first, the goal is awarded by referee Christian Guillard and then refused. The player and the staff are indignant at this decision, the referee validates the goal again, a scenario never seen in the history of French football. This controversy will have such an impact that Christopher Maboulou is taken in dislike by many chroniclers like Pierre Ménès who will accuse Maboulou of being "a cheater" and will be constantly hissed by all the other stadiums. Despite his official apologies, he will be suspended 3 games for his gesture. This gesture, which will not avoid the club's relegation to National, obscures his good season, which sees him participate in 32 league games (28 starts), score 10 goals and deliver 3 assists. He died of cardiac arrest during a match between friends in Montfermeil.
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Born 1927-12-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:COVID
Robert Hossein was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western Cemetery Without Crosses (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Forbidden Priests. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (then Marina Poliakoff; on 23 December 1955, they had two sons, Pierre and Igor), later on 7 June 1962, to Caroline Eliacheff, daughter of Françoise Giroud (they had a son, Nicholas, who became rabbi Aaron Eliacheff). She was fifteen at the time and he was 34. In 1973, he dated for a short while Michèle Watrin, before she died the following year in a car accident. In 1976, he married actress Candice Patou, with whom he had a son.
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Born 1922-07-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Costante Cardin, was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer.
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Born 1936-06-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Claude Brasseur was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Claude Pierre Espinasse, the son of actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux and grandson of Jules Brasseur. He is the godson of Ernest Hemingway and the father of Alexandre Brasseur. He was a member of the French bobsleigh team in the 60s and also a winning Paris-Dakar rally competitor, as co-pilot of Jacky Ickx. He played the title role in the early 1970s historical crime television series The New Adventures of Vidocq.
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Born 1923-11-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Georges Marie de Barrigue de Montvallon dit Piem was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist.
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Born 1933-00-00. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Pierre Rosenstiehl was a French mathematician recognized for his work in graph theory, planar graphs, and graph drawing. He was a member of the Oulipo. He married the French author and illustrator Agnès Rosenstiehl, the creator of Mimi Cracra.
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Born 1928-09-03. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Troisgros was a French restaurateur, best known for his restaurant Frères Troisgros.
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Born 1930-03-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID
He was a French film actor and producer. He was known for his role in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 crime film Bob le flambeur. His son Didier Cauchy also became an actor.
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Born 1938-03-01. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Bénichou, Commandeur, was a French journalist.
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Born 1932-07-07. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:COVID
Marguerite Derrida (née Aucouturier) was a Czech-born French psychoanalyst. She translated many psychoanalytic works into French. Aucutourier was born in Prague on 7 July 1932 to Gustave Aucouturier, a French journalist, and Marie Alferi, a Czech. She married Jacques Derrida on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of their sons is writer Pierre Alféri.
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Born 1917-12-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Suzy Delair, born Suzanne Pierrette Delaire, was a French actress, dancer and singer. She turned 100 in December 2017, and died some two years later.
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Born 1941-04-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest. In 1959, she married writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit. They later divorced. She married British businessman Peter Brent in the 1980s. The couple had one child, Jessica Claudine Brent (b. 1991). Peter Brent died in August 2008. Auger died in Paris following a lengthy illness.
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Born 1944-04-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Pierre-Alain baron De Smedt became the new president of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB) in 2011, succeeding Thomas Leysen. Until then he was vice-president of the same organization. De Smedt was a commercial engineer and graduated in economic and financial sciences from the ULB. From 2006 to 2011, De Smedt was also chairman of Febiac, the umbrella organization within the car industry and organizer of the Brussels Motor Show. Previously, he was IT Director at Solvay and Director at Bosch Belgium, as well as Managing Director at Volkswagen. As operations director at Renault, he was number two, under former Renault chairman Louis Schweitzer. He was also chairman of Autolatina, a Brazilian joint venture between Volkswagen and the American Ford. He also held directorships at Belgacom, the Antwerp car importer Alcopa, Avis and the National Portfolio Company. He was chairman of the board at Deceuninck, producer of PVC window profiles.