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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 1938-01-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart
Leiji Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本零士, Hepburn: Matsumoto Reiji, born Akira Matsumoto (松本晟)) was a Japanese manga artist, and creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Matsumoto was famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999. His style was characterized by mythological and often tragic storylines with strong moral themes, noble heroes, feminine heroines, and a love of strange worlds and melancholy atmosphere.
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Born 1931-08-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Alain Goraguer was a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer. Goraguer was a composer/arranger of music for Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Ferrat, Serge Reggiani and Nana Mouskouri. In 1965 he was the orchestra conductor for Luxembourg's winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Poupée de cire, poupée de son". (Though it represented Luxembourg, the song had an entirely French creative team behind it, as it was sung by France Gall, written by Gainsbourg, and conducted by Goraguer.) He composed some or all of the music for films including La Planète Sauvage (1973), La Vie de bohème (1992), Deux jours à tuer (2008) and Saint Laurent (2014). Goraguer died at the age of 91.
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Born 1935-12-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Yury Petrovich Vlasov was a Soviet and Russian heavyweight weightlifter, writer and politician. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1960 and a silver in 1964; at both games, he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union. During his career, Vlasov won four world titles and set 31 ratified world records. He retired in 1968 and became a prominent writer and later a politician. He was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (1989) and then of the Russian State Duma (1993) and took part in the 1996 Russian presidential election. In February of 2021, Hollywood superstar and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote a message on Twitter about the passing of Yuri Vlasov, who he called his inspiration when he was a young weightlifter. Vlasov’s life story explains why Schwarzenegger said that “it is because of people like him that I refuse to call myself self-made”. Arnold Schwarzenegger later made an impassioned online plea to Russians in March 2022, urging them to ignore the war “propaganda” spewed by the Kremlin and “spread truth” about the bleak reality of the unprovoked attack on Ukraine. In a nine-minute long video clip meant to slip through strict Moscow censors, Schwarzenegger, 74, also invoked his father’s experience fighting with the Nazis in World War II after the annexation of Austria — telling Russians his dad was “pumped up on the lies of his government” and lived the rest of his life in “guilt” and “pain.” The one-time Mr. Universe began by talking about his reverence for the Russian people, cemented when he met world champion weightlifter Yuri Petrovich Vlasov at the age of 14. Schwarzenegger told viewers that Moscow was lying to both the Russian public and troops about their mission to “denazify” Ukraine.
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Born 1962-04-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French violist and specialist in contemporary music.
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Born 1930-03-07. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Tatiana Fabergé was a secretary, a Fabergé scholar and jeweler from Switzerland. Tatiana Fabergé joined CERN—the European Organization for Particle Physics Research—as a secretary when the CERN Theory Group was moved from Copenhagen to Geneva. She retired from CERN in 1995. Fabergé was always interested in the House of Fabergé. After retirement she worked researching the family history and promoting its heritage. In 1974 she launched her own jewelry and product line Tatiana Fabergé which is marketed through her own web site. During her career she created several products under different trademarks, in 2005 Fabergé Ltd purchased from the Tatiana Fabergé SA one of the trademarks, Tatiana Fabergé SA then continued developing products under the Tsars Collection trademark. Since 2007 she was actively involved in giving advice and guidance via the Fabergé Heritage Council, a division of Fabergé Ltd, regarding the relaunch of the brand. She worked closely with the creative team and advised on heritage matters.
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Born 1928-10-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Liliane de Kermadec was a French film director and screenwriter. She directed more than twenty films and documentaries between 1965 and 2016. Filmography Le Murmure des ruines (2008) La Très chère indépendance du Haut Karabagh (2005) La Piste du télégraphe (1994) Un moment d'inattention (1986) Mersonne ne m'aime (1982) Le Petit Pommier (1981) Aloïse (1975) Home Sweet Home (1972) Qui donc a rêvé? (1965)
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Born 1923-05-24. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991). His films remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid-1980s, home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 1990s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery. Suzuki continued making films, albeit sporadically. In Japan, he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television. He died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Born 1965-07-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Bulgarian international footballer who played as a defender.
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Born 1925-02-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. He died in Woodstock, England.
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Born 1965-08-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
He was a former sumo wrestler from Shingū, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was maegashira 1. Kushimaumi was one of the heaviest wrestlers ever, weighing over 200 kg at his peak, and his great physical strength was demonstrated by his frequent use of the kimedashi (arm barring force out) technique. He also regularly employed yorikiri (the force out) and kotenage (the arm lock throw). In 2003 he suffered an acute myocardial infarction, but it proved not to be life-threatening and he made an immediate recovery.
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Born 1922-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was the daughter of Bob Desmarets, who directed the Vel d'Hiv, and created les 6 jours de Paris (track cycling race)
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Born 1929-02-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was the French voice of Peter Falk, Jack Nicholson, Richard Burton, Burt Young, Montgomery Clift, Marcello Mastroianni, Mickey Rourke, Charles Bronson, Burt Reynolds and Sidney Poitier.
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Born 1915-11-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Ichikawa's films are marked with a certain darkness and bleakness, punctuated with sparks of humanity.
It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of genres. Some critics class him with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu as one of the masters of Japanese cinema.
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Born 1988-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
She was a Uruguayan fashion model.
Eliana Ramos was found dead at her grandparents' home in Montevideo, Uruguay, at age 18. Preliminary examinations indicated the cause of death as heart attack, believed to be related to malnutrition; final test results will be released at a later date.
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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 1917-10-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Louis' uncle.
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Born 1937-06-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. He escaped death in the February 3, 1959 plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he gave up his seat to Big Bopper.
Jennings suffered from worsening diabetes that had ended all but abbreviated touring. On December 19, 2001, his left foot was amputated in a Phoenix, Arizona, hospital due to infection arising from his diabetes. Jennings died in his sleep of diabetic complications in Chandler, Arizona. He is interred in the Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Arizona.
Jennings had a history of substance abuse, though he was clean by the mid-1980s. He continued to be active in the recording industry, forming the group The Highwaymen with fellow "Outlaws" Nelson, Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. Jennings released his last solo studio album in 1998.
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Born 1919-11-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In twelve angry men:
The jury consists of the following (identified only by numbers, all are white men):
The Foreman (Juror #1, played by Martin Balsam) A high-school assistant football coach; An every-man who clearly wants to do the right thing, but isn't quite sure what it is. He's neither too bright, nor too dumb, and tries not altogether unsuccessfully to maintain order throughout the deliberations.
Juror #2 (John Fiedler)
Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb)
Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall)
Juror #5 (Jack Klugman is the only survivor at this time - 2007-03-16)
Juror #6 (Edward Binns)
Juror #7 (Jack Warden)
Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney)
Juror #10 (Ed Begley)
Juror #11 (George Voskovec)
Juror #12 (Robert Webber)
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Born 1919-05-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Pierre Brambilla, 3rd of Tour de France 1947, used to talk to himself like that : « Tu vas avancer, vieille carcasse... Ah ! tu ne veux pas... Eh bien, tu ne boiras pas ! » Finally, beaten by thirst, he was drinking enormous quantity of liquid, that was too much compared with the normal capability of assimilation by the body (800 millilitres per hour). This gastric overload was limiting his respiratory function, slowing down his cell's oxygenation. Then, he believed that drinking a lot was bad for sporting performances.
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Born 1931-03-27. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
Following his parents' divorce when he was five, his mother took him to Los Angeles; she eventually married Eugene Janssen.
He was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the hit television series The Fugitive (1963–1967) with Barry Morse.
A smoker and a heavy drinker, plus a constant worker, Janssen died of a sudden heart attack in 1980 in Malibu, California two days into filming.
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Born 1905-08-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the sight-unseen Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages in the Second World War, seven years after Rejewski's original reconstruction of the machine. The intelligence that was gained by the British was code-named Ultra and contributed—perhaps decisively—to the defeat of Germany. He died at age 74 of a heart attack and was interred with military honors at Warsaw's Powązki Military Cemetery.
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Born 1887-09-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer
He was a German mathematician. He obtained his doctorate in Göttingen under the supervision of David Hilbert. Kurt Reidemeister and Heinrich Behnke were among his students. His early work included establishing the functional equation for the Dedekind zeta function, with a proof based on theta functions. The method extended to the L-functions associated to a class of characters now known as Hecke characters or idele class characters; such L-functions are now known as Hecke L-functions. He devoted most of his research to the theory of modular forms, creating the general theory of cusp forms (holomorphic, for GL(2)), as it is now understood in the classical setting. During the war, he fell ill from cancer and had to be operated. To spare him the rigors of post-war Germany, his Danish friends invited him to Copenhagen, where he died in 1947.
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Born 1881-06-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Lucien Bersot was executed February 13, 1915 and rehabilitated 12 July 1922. He was a French soldier among soldiers shot as an example during the First World War. His story was picked up by Alain Scoff and adapted to television by Yves Boisset. Shivering in the trenches, he asked the quartermaster sergeant wool pants identical to those worn by his comrades. The sergeant then offered him trousers ragged and stained with blood, taken from a dead soldier, that Bersot refused. For that refusal, Lucien Bersot was given a sentence of eight days in jail by Lt. André. But Lt. Col. Auroux, regimental commander, considered this insufficient punishment and required him to be trialed before a martial court. As new recruits had arrived, his intention was clearly to make an example of military discipline.
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Born 1853-04-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified by name or photograph. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting. He is also the inventor of the mug shot. Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the process. Bertillon was a witness for the prosecution in the Dreyfus affair in 1894 and again in 1899. He testified as a handwriting expert and claimed that Alfred Dreyfus had written the incriminating document (known as the "bordereau"). However, he was not a handwriting expert, and his convoluted and flawed evidence was a significant contributing factor to one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice—-the condemnation of the innocent Dreyfus to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Using a complex system of measurements, he attempted to prove that Dreyfus had disguised his handwriting by imitating his own handwriting as if someone else was doing so, so that if anyone thought the bordereau was in Dreyfus's hand, he would be able to say that someone else had forged his writing. Both courts martial evidently accepted this, and Dreyfus was convicted. The verdict of the second court martial caused a huge scandal, and it was eventually overturned. Bertillon was by many accounts regarded as extremely eccentric. According to Maurice Paleologue, who observed him at the second court-martial, Bertillon was "certainly not in full possession of his faculties". Paleologue goes on to describe Bertillon's argument as "a long tissue of absurdities.