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July 09, 2025

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Garreaud Jean-François (b. 1946-04-01 / d. 2020-07-09)

Jean-François Garreaud was a French actor. His best-known role is that of Jean Dabin in Violette Nozičre, released in 1978. Garreaud married actress Virginie Ogouz, with whom he had two children. He died in Saint-Jory-de-Chalais on 9 July 2020 at the age of 74.

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Peter William. 2011-01-02

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Born 1946-02-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Peter William Postlethwaite was an English character actor, who appeared in In the Name of the Father (1993), Sharpe (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Dragonheart (1996), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Brassed Off (1996), Amistad (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Animal Farm (1999), The Constant Gardener (2005), Clash of the Titans (2010), Inception (2010), and The Town (2010). Postlethwaite died of pancreatic cancer at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. The cancer had been diagnosed in March 2009. Postlethwaite continued acting almost to the end of 2010, showing clear signs of weight loss during his last performances. In his last two years, he worked on his memoir A Spectacle of Dust with Andy Richardson. It was published on 1 June 2011.

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Frank Plumpton. 1930-01-19

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Born 1903-02-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Other

He was a precocious British philosopher, mathematician and economist who died at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and was instrumental in translating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English, as well as persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1921. Suffering from chronic liver problems, Ramsey developed jaundice after an abdominal operation and died on 19 January 1930 at Guy's Hospital in London at the age of 26.

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