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March 29, 2024

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Melly
Andrée. 2020-01-31

87

Born 1932-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Andrée Melly was an English actress. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, she performed at the Old Vic in Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in her early twenties and worked with Peter Finch and Robert Donat at the theatre. In 1958, she appeared with the Jamaican actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis play Hot Summer Night, a production which was later adapted for the Armchair Theatre series in 1959 and in which she was a participant in the earliest known interracial kiss on television. She continued to appear on British television until 1991. Her other stage work includes the original West End production of the farce Boeing-Boeing at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 with David Tomlinson and as Alice "Childie" McNaught in The Killing of Sister George at St Martin's in 1966. Melly appeared in British films, including the comedy The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and the Hammer Horror film The Brides of Dracula (1960). Her role in the later film was as Gina, a woman who is bitten by Baron Meinster, a vampire, turning her into another undead character. With the death of Bill Kerr in 2014, Melly was the last surviving regular cast member of Hancock's Half Hour. Melly died in January 2020 at the age of 87.

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Alma Mabel (alias: Ann Gillis). 2018-01-31

90

Born 1927-02-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

She was an American actress, best known for her film roles as a child actress. She was sometimes credited as Anne Gillis or Ann Gilles. She performed the voice of Faline in the 1942 Disney animated film Bambi. Gillis died in a nursing home in Horam, East Sussex, England.

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Pellegrino
Frank Joseph. 2017-01-31

72

Born 1944-05-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

He was an American actor and restaurateur. Pellegrino has often acted in law and gangster-themed film and television productions. He was a member of an early 1960s singing group called the Holidaes. Notable acting roles include Johnny Dio in Goodfellas, assorted appearances on Dick Wolf's Law & Order, and FBI Chief Frank Cubitoso on HBO's The Sopranos. Pellegrino was a co-owner of the restaurant Rao's in New York City. Books written by Pellegrino include Rao's Cookbook, Rao's Recipes from the Neighborhood and Rao's on the Grill. He also produced the CD An Evening at Rao's, featuring music from Rao's jukebox.

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Wetton
John Kenneth. 2017-01-31

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Born 1949-06-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)

He was an English singer, bassist, and songwriter. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire, and grew up in Bournemouth, Dorset. He rose to fame with bands Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music and Uriah Heep. Following his period in Uriah Heep, Wetton formed U.K., and later — after a brief stint in Wishbone Ash — he was the frontman and principal songwriter of the supergroup Asia, which proved to be his biggest commercial success. Their eponymous debut album sold eight million copies worldwide, and was Billboard magazine's No. 1 album of 1982. He later formed the duo Icon with Geoff Downes (also from Asia, ex-Yes, ex-The Buggles), and from the 1990s had a successful solo career, releasing several studio and live albums. Wetton had a long career as an in-demand session bass player, collaborating with many members of progressive rock bands such as Yes (Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, Alan White, Billy Sherwood, Peter Banks), Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera) and Genesis (Steve Hackett).

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Yoshiaki
Tokitenkü. 2017-01-31

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Born 1979-09-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer

Tokitenkū Yoshiaki, born as Altangadasyn Khüchitbaatar, was a sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in 2002, reaching the top makuuchi division just two years later. The highest rank he reached was komusubi, which he held on three separate occasions, but never retained for more than one tournament. He earned one special prize, for Technique. He wrestled for the Tokitsukaze stable and acquired Japanese citizenship in 2014. Tokitenkū was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma in 2015 and retired from sumo in 2016 to become a coach; he was the first Mongolian-born wrestler to acquire the right to remain with the Sumo Association as a coach following retirement as an active wrestler.

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Kaman
Charles Huron. 2011-01-31

91

Born 1919-06-15. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was an American aeronautical engineer and philanthropist, known for his work in rotary-wing flight. Kaman's first love was the guitar, and in 1966, he founded Ovation Instruments. The company would become the Ovation Guitar Company and developed an acoustic guitar using aerospace materials, featuring a rounded back design.

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Van Hecke
Pierrre (alias: Pierre Vaneck). 2010-01-31

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Born 1931-04-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation

He died after undergoing heart surgery.

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Essel
André. 2005-01-31

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Born 1918-09-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Co-founder with Max Théret of the store named FNAC.

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Combret
Georges. 1998-01-31

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Born 1906-11-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident

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Boulle
Pierre. 1994-01-31

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Born 1912-02-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Boulle himself won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite not having written the screenplay and not even speaking English. Boulle had been credited with the screenplay because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted. The Motion Picture Academy added their names to the award in 1984.
A few months prior to his death a woman who was a former editor visited Boulle and his family in the hospital. She revealed to Boulle's family that she was in love with Pierre Boulle and had been his lover before. Years before there were rumours that Pierre Boulle was seeing a French actress. He had never married due in large part to the fact that he had decided to take care of his sister and raise his niece as his own daughter.

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Held
Martin Erich Fritz. 1992-01-31

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Born 1908-11-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Martin Erich Fritz Held was a German television and film actor. Roses for the Prosecutor (German: Rosen für den Staatsanwalt) is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and starring Martin Held (portraying prosecutor Schramm), Walter Giller and Ingrid van Bergen. It was one of the few German movies of the 1950s which openly addressed the German Nazi era. It was shot at the Göttingen studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag.

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Allégret
Yves. 1987-01-31

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Born 1907-10-13. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

"Les orgueilleux"

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Sardou
Fernand. 1976-01-31

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Born 1910-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Armstrong
Edwin Howard. 1954-01-31

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Born 1890-12-18. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Suicide

He was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He has been called "the most prolific and influential inventor in radio history". He invented the regenerative circuit while he was an undergraduate and patented it in 1914, followed by the super-regenerative circuit in 1922, and the superheterodyne receiver in 1918. Armstrong was also the inventor of modern frequency modulation (FM) radio transmission. Financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA and others, Armstrong lashed out at his wife one day with a fireplace poker, striking her on the arm. MacInnis left their apartment to stay with her sister, Marjorie Tuttle, in Granby, Connecticut. On 31 January 1954 Armstrong removed the air conditioner from the window and jumped to his death from the thirteenth floor of his New York City apartment. His body was found fully clothed, with a hat, overcoat and gloves, the next morning by a River House employee on a third-floor balcony. The New York Times described the contents of his two-page suicide note to his wife: "he was heartbroken at being unable to see her once again, and expressing deep regret at having hurt her, the dearest thing in his life." The note concluded, "God keep you and Lord have mercy on my Soul." After his death, a friend of Armstrong estimated that 90 percent of his time was spent on litigation against RCA.

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Giraudoux
Jean. 1944-01-31

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Born 1882-10-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other

He died offically of poisoned food. More probably, he suffered pancreatitis.

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Brodie
Steve. 1901-01-31

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Born 1861-12-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown

He was an American from Manhattan, New York City, who on July 23, 1886, claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived. The supposed jump, of which the veracity was disputed, gave Brodie publicity, a thriving saloon and a career as a performer. Brodie's fame persisted long past his death, with Brodie portrayed in films and with the slang term "Brodie"—as in to "do a Brodie"—entering American vernacular, meaning to take a chance or a leap, specifically a suicidal one. Brodie died in San Antonio, Texas, in 1901. The cause of death has been variously described as diabetes and tuberculosis.

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