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Farina Sergio (b. 1926-09-08 / d. 2012-07-03) alias Sergio Pininfarina
He was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the driver, but ahead of the rear wheels. The resulting Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale was presented at the Paris Motor Show in October, although it would be another two years before the cars were offered for sale. After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company. In 2006 Sergio and his son Andrea, who died in 2008 were named Honorary Chairmen of Pininfarina,
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Born 1933-02-17. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Lucienne Moreau was a French actress. She was best known for her appearances on Groland and Le Petit Journal on Canal+.
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Born 1941-06-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz composer, keyboardist, bandleader and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, he is considered one of the major piano players to emerge in jazz during the post-John Coltrane era. Corea continued to pursue multiple collaborations and to explore different musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He was also known for promoting and fundraising for a number of social issues. Corea won 23 Grammy Awards and was nominated over 60 times. Corea died from cancer at his home in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
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Born 1933-07-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Julian Alexander Bream was a British classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public perception of the classical guitar as a respectable instrument. Over the course of a career that spanned more than half a century, Bream helped revive interest in the lute.
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Born 1946-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jean-François Garreaud was a French actor. His best-known role is that of Jean Dabin in Violette Nozière, 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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Born 1929-04-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
André Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Prewin) was a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. Andre Previn was married five times. His fifth marriage was to the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for whom he wrote a violin concerto. They divorced in 2006. Previn died at home in Manhattan aged 89.
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Born 1928-01-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) (which she shared with Melina Mercouri for her role in Never on Sunday), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992). She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, Cannes Golden Palm in 2003 and César Award in 2008.
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Born 1940-03-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American singer and musician. He received a total of seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. He is perhaps best known for his 1981 album Breakin' Away. Jarreau also sang the theme song of the 1980s television series Moonlighting, and was among the performers on the 1985 charity song "We Are the World." It was reported on July 23, 2010, that Jarreau was critically ill at a hospital in France, after performing in Barcelonnette, and was being treated for respiratory problems and cardiac arrhythmias. He was conscious, in a stable condition and in the cardiology unit of La Timone hospital in Marseille, the Marseille Hospital Authority said, and he remained there for about a week for tests. n June 2012, Jarreau was diagnosed with pneumonia, which caused him to cancel several concerts in France. Jarreau made a full recovery and continued to tour extensively for the next five years until February 2017. On February 8, 2017, after being hospitalized for exhaustion in Los Angeles, Jarreau cancelled his remaining 2017 tour dates. On that date, the Montreux Jazz Academy, part of the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, announced that Jarreau would not return as a mentor to ten young artists, as he had done in 2015. Jarreau died of respiratory failure, at the age of 76, just two days after announcing his retirement, and one month before his 77th birthday.
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Born 1944-01-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Northern Irish boxer who was the first holder of the British junior welterweight title and went on to fight for the European title before moving up to welterweight at which he won the Irish title. He was the first man in his weight group to be awarded the Lonsdale Belt.
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Born 1921-07-06. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was an American film actress and the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. She was the first lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan died of congestive heart failure.
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Born 1959-05-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian racing driver. He started 208 Formula One Grands Prix but never won, holding the record for the longest career without a race victory. A string of accidents early in his career earned him the nickname 'Andrea de Crasheris'. Though the nickname stuck, he became a more reliable driver in his later career. De Cesaris was killed in a motorcycle crash. Italian press reports said de Cesaris was killed instantly in the crash in Rome.
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Born 1944-11-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer.
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Born 1973-02-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American Marine, border militia leader and former member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement who sought the office of sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona. Ready allegedly entered his home in Gilbert, Arizona, and fatally shot his girlfriend Lisa; her daughter, Amber; Amber's boyfriend, Jim Hiott; and Amber's infant daughter Lily. He then fatally shot himself. A 9-1-1 call made from the house referred to an argument until the call was interrupted by gunfire. A teenager in the house at the time was in her bedroom and heard an argument, but survived the incident without being shot. Though the authorities cannot discount the possibility of there being a 6th or more additional persons in the house, and neighbors reported there being additional vehicles in front of the house at the time of the shooting. Victims: Lisa Mederos, age 47, Ready's girlfriend – she is suspected to have made the first 9-1-1 call and was found dead inside the home. Amber Mederos, 23, Lisa's daughter with Hugo Mederos – found dead inside the home Lilly Mederos, 15 months, Amber's daughter – shot yet initially found alive inside the home, she was declared dead at the hospital Jim Hiott, 24, Amber's fiancee, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan – found dead outside the home near Ready's body A local police spokesman said that this shooting was believed to have started as a domestic dispute.
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Born 1955-06-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was an American heavy metal guitarist best known for being the only constant original member in the band Riot. Reale died of complications related to Crohn's disease. Reale, who had Crohn's disease most of his life, had been in a coma since January 11th due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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Born 1980-05-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Jay Reatard, was a force in the worlds of punk and garage rock, was found dead in his home in Memphis.
The Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported that a roommate had found him in bed, and the police have opened an investigation into his death. A spokeswoman for the Shelby County medical examiner in Tennessee said an autopsy had been performed but that a cause of death had not been determined.
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Born 1982-01-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. Matzbacher was killed in a car crash in southern Austria after he lost control of his car and crashed into an overhead signpost.
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Born 1957-01-09. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Unknown
Attention Chien Léchant, Fluide Glacial - Audie (1997) ;
Vu à la Télé, Charlie Hebdo (1999) ;
Le zapping de Bernar : Chroniques télé parues dans Charlie Hebdo, Éditions Hoëbeke (2005).
Bernar est mort, les peoples unanimes : "Il ne dessinera plus nos sales gueules"
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Born 1946-05-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
And Babylon 5
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Born 1929-08-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
Her father died when she was 9. She started to prostitute herself at the beginning of the sixties. In her first book, Le noir est une couleur (Black is a color), she told her story in a blunt and honest way, with a dark lyrical tone she got from her own experience. During the seventies, Réal became an activist, in particular with the occupation of the Chapelle Saint-Bernard, in Paris, in June 1975. She rejected the argument of the alienation by the pimps, and stated that prostitution could be a choice, a free-will decision. The revolutionary whore was born. Réal stopped prostitution in 1995, at the age of 66.
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Born 1925-01-06. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Stroke
Renault was contracted to build the factory, which employed over 2000 workers at its peak production. The engine was made by Renault, while Lotus designed the chassis and bodywork details. The factory started manufacturing cars in early 1981, but the company was in receivership by February 1982. It turned out around 9,000 cars over 21 months before the British government ordered its closure in November 1982.
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Born 1953-07-01. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was a black dwarf. He played in a number of porn movies. He is also known for his role in "le miel et les abeilles", as Giant coocoo. He played also in "les filles d'à coté". He died in a car crash.
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Born 1911-02-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
A few hours after his death, Mrs. Nancy Reagan released a statement saying: "My family and I would like the world to know that President Ronald Reagan has passed away after 10 years of Alzheimer's Disease at 93 years of age. "
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Born 1925-08-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian actor, who lived in the UK for many years. He was best known for playing the part of "Matt Hammond" in the Australian children's television series Skippy. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes: Devereaux directed The Veteran (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. He also wrote the script. Devereaux wrote the story of Double Trouble, wrote the screenplay of Summer Storm and wrote the script of The Mine.
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Born 1938-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Peter Miles was the stage name of American child actor Gerald Richard Perreau-Saussine. After his film career ended, he turned to writing under the pen name Richard Miles
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Born 1941-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.
She died in Sacramento, California, from melanoma.
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Born 1919-02-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was hospitalized with advanced heart disease and kidney failure on November 20, 1995 and finally retired from office on January 16, 1996.
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Born 1935-05-09. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a British author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers. The books' simple and silly stories, with bright-coloured, boldly drawn illustrations, have been part of popular culture for over 25 years, with sales over 85 million worldwide in 20 languages. Between 1979 and 1982 Hargreaves lived with his family in Guernsey. Then they settled at Sussex House Farm near Cowden, Kent. In 1988 Hargreaves died at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Royal Tunbridge Wells, following a stroke. After his death his son Adam continued writing and drawing the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters with new stories. However, in April 2004, Roger's wife Christine sold the rights to the Mr. Men characters to the UK entertainment group Chorion, for £28 million.
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Born 1943-05-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
With the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer on 5 September 1977 and the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in mid-October, terrorists tried to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members. At the conclusion of a period of several weeks that came to be called the German Autumn, the passengers of the Boeing 737 named Landshut were freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977.
In the morning, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe were found in their prison cells, having died from gunshot wounds, while Gudrun Ensslin was found hanging. RAF member Irmgard Möller was found with four stab wounds to her chest, but survived.
All official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed collective suicide while Möller still insists that the deaths and her injury were extrajudicial executions.
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Born 1917-07-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died following a goring in the right upper leg as he killed the fifth bull of the day, the Miura bull Islero, an event that left Spain in a state of shock.
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Born 1861-02-12. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Kidney failure
She was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.
Lou Andreas-Salomé died of uremia in Göttingen.