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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1947-02-10. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Péchin was a French humorist, best known for his telephonic canulars on Europe 1.
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Born 1928-03-01. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times.
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Born 1937-06-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
she was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds. McCullough died at the age of 77, on Norfolk Island from apparent kidney failure after suffering from a series of small strokes. She had suffered from failing eyesight and was confined to a wheelchair.
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Born 1923-02-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French author and satirical newspaper editor. He contributed to the creation and success of Hari Kiri and Charlie Hebdo. He wrote in a variety of genres including reportage, satire, essays, novels, autobiography and humor. He also translated six books about famous cartoonists. In his final book, Lune de miel, Cavannas deals with Parkinson disease.
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Born 1944-12-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a racing driver from Le Mans, France. He participated in 16 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 August 1972, but scored no championship points. Migault's first attempt in Formula One in 1972 was with the small, underfunded Connew team that managed to start in only one race. In 1974, he drove almost a complete season with British Racing Motors after both BRM drivers of 1973, Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni, had moved to Ferrari. In 1975, a few races with the ill-fated Hill team and Williams followed. In Formula Two that year, Migault achieved some success with an Osella FA2, scoring one point. A native of Le Mans, he also entered many 24 Hours of Le Mans races, from the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans to the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans. Migault died on 29 January 2012 after a long battle with cancer.
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Born 1918-09-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian politician and magistrate, ninth President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999, and subsequently a senator for life. Formerly a member of Christian Democracy, he belonged to the centre-left Democratic party.
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Born 1948-01-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Je l'aurai un jour je l'aurai.
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Born 1924-02-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Margaret Truman Daniel died in Chicago at the age of 83 following a brief illness during which she was on a respirator and living in an assisted care facility.
She was the only child of Harry S. Truman
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Born 1973-01-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She is best known internationally as Nadine in the 2000 film Baise-moi.
While staying at a friend's house in Paris's XIVth arrondissement, she committed suicide on the night of January 28, 2005 by overdosing on sleeping pills.
« Double péné par 5 °C, suivie d'une éjaculation. Couverte de sperme, trempée, morte de froid, personne ne m'a tendu une serviette. Une fois que t'as tourné ta scène, tu vaux plus rien. »
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Born 1924-08-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
She was a New Zealand author. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Janet Frame died in Dunedin in January 2004, aged 79, from acute myeloid leukaemia, shortly after becoming one of the first recipients of the New Zealand "Icon" award.
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Born 1911-01-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1919-11-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He escaped jail 17 times in 8 years. His nickname stems from a bullet he received in one of his legs.
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Born 1893-04-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:flu
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was dismissed by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco. Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration and is the namesake of Dulles Airport. He died of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 75, in Georgetown, D.C.
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Born 1886-11-27. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. In 1921, he became involved with Lucie Badoul, whom he called Oyuki, or "Rose Snow". She would become his third wife. The relationship ended when she became the lover, then the wife of the surrealist poet Robert Desnos. Tsuguharu Foujita died of cancer in Zürich, Switzerland and was interred in the Cimetière de Villiers-le-Bâcle, Essonne département, France. In 2003, his coffin was reinterred at the Foujita chapel under the flagstones in the position he originally intended when constructing the chapel.
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Born 1874-12-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Henriette Caillaux was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France, Joseph Caillaux. On March 16, 1914, she shot and killed Gaston Calmette, editor of the newspaper Le Figaro. Henriette Caillaux was born Henriette Raynouard, at Rueil-Malmaison. At the age of 19, she married Léo Claretie, a writer twelve years her senior. They had two children. In 1907 she began having an affair with Joseph Caillaux while both he and she were still married. In 1908, she divorced Claretie; Caillaux had more difficulties in divorcing his wife, but he eventually did so and they married in October 1911. Their joint assets were worth around 1.5 million francs, placing them among France's wealthiest couples