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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1948-09-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Bral was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was also a painter.
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Born 1932-04-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Peter John Bell Clarricoats CBE, FREng, FRS was a British engineer, and was Professor of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London from 1968 to 1997. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1958, with a thesis entitled "Properties of waveguides containing ferrites with special reference to waveguides of circular cross-section". He was vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, from 1989 to 1991. He was vice-president and treasurer of URSI (the International Union of Radio Science) from 1993 to 1999. He was appointed a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1983. He was educated at Minchenden Grammar School and Imperial College London. In September 2015 Clarricoats was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of the academy's highest accolades.
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Born 1928-02-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Guy Dupré was a French writer and publisher. Dupré published three novels, two books of memoirs and a collection of chronicles, but the unity of his style and his writing unconcerned with traditional genres makes the same voice heard from one book to the other. At the time of its publication (1953), his first work, Les Fiancées sont froides, was hailed by Albert Béguin, André Breton, and Julien Gracq. This poetic and initiatory account, with its rather obscure intrigue, bears the imprint of German Romanticism. Plotting a fugitive hussar in the time of the Napoleonic wars, it is set on the shores of the Baltic Sea and is not without evoking Le Coup de Grâce (1939) by Marguerite Yourcenar. The subject and the style of the book earned Dupré to be attached to the movement of the Hussards. Guy Dupré joined the publishing house Plon, which has long specialized in military memorabilia. He prepared a biography of General Charles Mangin that was never completed but whose face would appear in Le Grand coucher. He made an anthology of Maurice Barrès (Mes Cahiers, Plon, 1962), an anthology of the Chroniques de la Grande Guerre of the same (Plon, 1968), as well as the cross-correspondence between Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras: La République ou le Roi, correspondance 1888-1923, Plon, 1970. Close to novelist Jean Parvulesco, he wrote the preface for his L'Étoile de l'Empire invisible (Guy Trédaniel, 1994).
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Born 1965-12-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a Belgian comics artist and cartoonist best known for his work on Peyo's The Smurfs and Benoît Brisefer (known in Dutch as Steven Sterk). Pascal Garray died in Liège, Belgium at the age of 51. Prior to his death, Garray had completed work on his last comic for The Smurfs, "The Smurfs and the Purple Bean" (Les Schtroumpfs et les haricots Mauves), which was scheduled to be released in September 2017.
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Born 1948-10-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an English drummer and a founding member of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople. Later, he worked as a producer, and produced many of the BBC Radio 1 John Peel sessions from 1981 to 1994. Aged 58, Griffin was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. In January 2009 it was confirmed that Griffin and the other original members of Mott the Hoople would reform for three 40th anniversary reunion concerts in October 2009. Due to popular demand, the reunion was eventually extended to five shows. Having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Griffin only performed during the encores. The Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers, a fellow Herefordshire native and friend of the band, played the main set and also covered for Griffin on the 2013 tour. Griffin died in his sleep exactly a week after former collaborator David Bowie died from cancer.
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Born 1953-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was a Scottish professional darts player who competed in the 1970s & 1980s.
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Born 1927-05-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He had published articles on the Henri Curiel affair.
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Born 1920-01-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. His first work, Le Complexe de César appeared in 1946 and received the prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française November 30, 1978.
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Born 1937-06-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, educator and classicist. He was best known for writing the bestselling novel Love Story (1970) and the hit motion picture of the same name. He also casually played as an actor such in 1971 : Sans mobile apparent : Hans Kleinberg Segal, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died of a heart attack. Segal ran in the Boston Marathon almost every year from 1955 to 1975. He finished in 79th place at 3 hours, 43 minutes in his first attempt, and his best performance was in 1964 when he finished 63rd with a time of 2:56:30. He recounted that after one Boston marathon someone yelled "Hey, Segal, you run better than you write".
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Born 1943-02-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
In 1958, he named himself "Carlos" in tribute to drummer Carlos Patato Valdes.
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Born 1943-03-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Kidney failure
In November 2007, some Spanish-language newspapers reported that Fischer was hospitalized in Reykjavík, Iceland for "serious physical problems and strong signs of paranoia." Inquiries by Mig Greengard confirmed that Fischer was hospitalized, but all other details were impossible to verify. Robert James Fischer died at the age of 64 in his home in Reykjavík. He died of kidney failure, caused by an unknown sickness. Einar Einarsson, the chairman of a Fischer support group in Iceland was the one who announced Fischer's cause of death. "He was not a man who wanted to seek medical attention. He didn't believe in Western medicine" stated Einarsson in reference to Fischer's passing. Fischer was never married nor had any children and has therefore left no immediate survivors. Fischer stayed at a Reykjavík hospital in October and November and at his home in December, until his death in January.
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Born 1920-11-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
In 1949's White Heat she took on the role of "Verna Jarrett," opposite James Cagney. Mayo later claimed in interviews that she was occasionally genuinely frightened by Cagney during the filming of the picture, because Cagney's acting was so realistic and natural.
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Born 1927-11-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Rambo's Colonel Trautman.
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Born 1958-02-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He died at his home after being hit in the back by a heavy bag falling from a locker during journey by flight. One first believed he only suffered of light contusion.
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Born 1921-11-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was born György Cziffra. He always performed with a large leather wristband, as a memento of his years in labour. Georges Cziffra died in Senlis, from a heart attack resulting from series of complications from lung cancer due to smoking and alcohol.