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Canovas
Francine (alias: Nathalie Delon). 2021-01-21

79

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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Julienne
Rémy. 2021-01-21

90

Born 1930-04-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:COVID

Rémy Julienne was a French driving stunt performer, stunt coordinator, assistant director and occasional actor. He was also a rallycross champion and 1956 French motorcross champion. He was a veteran of over 1,400 films. Notable large film projects in which he arranged stunts, consulted or manufactured special stunt cars include The Italian Job and six James Bond films, five of which were directed by John Glen and three with his sons Dominique and Michel. His career suffered a setback in 1999, when a stunt went wrong during the filming of Taxi 2, written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Krawczyk, causing the death of a cameraman Alain Dutartre and the serious injury of the cameraman's assistant. Julienne accused the production company of taking short cuts in safety equipment, which Besson denied. The case wound up on September 11, 2007, with Julienne receiving an 18-month suspended jail sentence and a €13,000 fine. The prosecutor accused Julienne of "not taking all the necessary measures for the security of the stunt in question" and notably to have "neglected the speed calculations of the car and the length of the jump". Besson's firm EuropaCorp was initially cleared of all charges in 2007. Instead, Julienne, was held solely responsible for the botched scene. But the Paris Court of Appeal reversed the ruling in June 2009, and ordered EuropaCorp pay €100,000. Julienne's jail sentence was reduced to six months, and his fine was reduced from €13,000 to €2,000 but he was required to pay the Dutartre family €50,000 in court costs. EuropaCorp producers were criticised for rejecting Julienne's offers to trial the car scene in question for a price, which the stuntman claims would have prevented the tragedy.

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Graton
Jean. 2021-01-21

97

Born 1923-08-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

Jean Graton was a French comic book author and cartoonist. Graton created the famous character Michel Vaillant and the eponymous series in 1957.

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Jones
Terence Graham Parry (alias: Terry Jones). 2020-01-21

77

Born 1942-02-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy team. In 2016, Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film. After living for several years with a degenerative aphasia, he gradually lost the ability to speak and died on 21 January 2020 from frontotemporal dementia.

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Kubouchi
Shuchi. 2020-01-21

99

Born 1920-01-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Shuchi Kubouchi was a Japanese professional Go player. Kubouchi became a professional 9-dan in 1960 for the Kansai Ki-in. His teacher was Katsukiyo Kubomatsu. He died in January 2020, a few days short of his one hundredth birthday.

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Demorand
Sébastien. 2020-01-21

50

Born 1969-08-04. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer

Sébastien Demorand was a French journalist and food critic. He was the brother of journalist and radio presenter Nicolas Demorand and sculptor Catherine Demorand. Since 2010, he was a member of the jury in the French version MasterChef on TF1. He was the only food critic among the chefs Frédéric Anton, Yves Camdeborde and Amandine Chaignot (since 2013). He was fluent in English and also appeared as a special guest in episode 18 of the second season of MasterChef US.

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Afonso
Yves Philippe. 2018-01-21

73

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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Winner
Robert Michael. 2013-01-21

77

Born 1935-10-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other

He was an English film director and producer, and a restaurant critic for The Sunday Times. By the early 1980s, Winner found himself in great need of a successful film and accepted Charles Bronson's request to film Death Wish II, a sequel to the 1974 hit. Bronson had already signed a lucrative deal with Cannon Films, independent producer of exploitation fare and marginal art house titles. The sequel, co-starring Bronson's wife Jill Ireland, is considered a rehash of Death Wish with violence raised to more graphic levels. Winner became engaged to Geraldine Lynton-Edwards in 2007. They had met in 1957 when he was a 21-year-old film-maker and she was a 16-year-old actress and ballet dancer. He stated "I have told Geraldine that it took me 72 years to get engaged so she's not to hold her breath for the marriage". However, they did marry, on 19 September 2011 at Chelsea Town Hall, London. Michael and Shakira Caine were witnesses to the ceremony. On 1 January 2007, Winner acquired the bacterial infection Vibrio vulnificus from eating an oyster in Barbados. He almost had a leg amputated and verged on the brink of death several times. Before recovering, Winner was infected with the "hospital superbug" MRSA. In September 2011, Winner was also admitted to hospital with food poisoning after eating steak tartare, a raw meat dish, four days in a row. The dish is not recommended for those with a weak immune system and in retrospect Winner regarded his decision to eat it as "stupid". In an interview with The Times newspaper, Winner said liver specialists had told him in summer 2012 that he had between 18 months and two years to live. He said he had researched assisted suicide offered at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, but found the bureaucracy of the process off-putting.

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Ntuka-Pule
Jeffrey. 2012-01-21

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Born 1985-05-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder

He was a South African footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a defender. Ntuka was stabbed to death in a nightclub in Kroonstad.

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Martin
Jacques Jam (alias: Jam). 2010-01-21

88

Born 1921-09-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

He was a French writer and artist of comics. He is one of the classic artist of Le Journal de Tintin magazine, alongside with Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, of whom he was a longtime collaborator. He is best known for his series Alix.

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De La Beckwith
Byron. 2001-01-21

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Born 1920-11-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Byron De La Beckwith Jr. was an American murderer, white supremacist and a member of the Ku Klux Klan from Greenwood, Mississippi who murdered the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two trials in 1964 on that charge, with all-white male Mississippi juries, resulted in hung juries. In 1994, he was tried by the state in a new trial, which was based on new evidence. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. De La Beckwith died after he was transferred from prison to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. He was 80 years old. He had suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, and other ailments for some time.

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Ryan
John (alias: Jack Lord). 1998-01-21

77

Born 1920-12-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart

He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980.
Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Aubry
Jenny. 1987-01-21

83

Born 1903-10-08. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)

She was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She is Élisabeth Roudinesco's mother. She died of a brain tumor.

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DeMille
Cecil Blount (alias: Cecil B. DeMille). 1959-01-21

78

Born 1881-08-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart

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Blair
Eric (alias: George Orwell). 1950-01-21

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Born 1903-06-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other

Tuberculosis

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Méliès
Georges. 1938-01-21

77

Born 1861-12-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

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