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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Ferrero
Michele. 2015-02-14

89

Born 1925-04-26. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

He was the owner of the eponymous chocolate maker Ferrero SpA, one of Europe's largest with estimated 2012 sales of $19 billion. He was a fervent Catholic, and company executives have said that he went to the Lourdes shrine at least annually, and that there is a statue of the Madonna in every Ferrero factory and office. Ferrero died on 14 February 2015 in Monaco.

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Gendre
Louis Robert (alias: Louis Jourdan). 2015-02-14

93

Born 1921-06-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983).

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Norgaard
Finn. 2015-02-14

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Born 1959-00-00. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Murder

He was a Danish filmmaker who was involved in several documentary and feature films. Finn Nørgaard was killed on February 14, 2015 in an attack on a discussion meeting titled "Art, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression" organized by the Lars Vilks Committee and held at the Krudttønden culture center in Østerbro. The perpetrator shot with a submachine gun from close range. In the same incident two PET bodyguards and a police officer were wounded

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Steenkamp
Reeva Rebecca. 2013-02-14

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Born 1983-08-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp was a South African model and paralegal. She modeled for FHM magazine and was the first face of Avon cosmetics in South Africa. Steenkamp once worked as the live roaming presenter for FashionTV in South Africa and starred in television advertisements for Toyota Land Cruiser, Clover "The One", Redds and Aldor Pin Pop. She was a celebrity contestant on the BBC Lifestyle show Baking Made Easy in 2012 and on Tropika Island of Treasure season 5 which aired on SABC 3 in February 2013. On Valentine's Day 2013, Steenkamp was shot dead by her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius. He stated that he thought Steenkamp was an intruder hiding in the bathroom at his home. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide at a first trial. On 3 December 2015, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa overturned this conviction and instead convicted Pistorius of murder.

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Kazmierczak
Steven. 2008-02-14

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Born 1980-08-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

He graduated from the university in 2006, and had been enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since the spring of 2007. He was 27 when he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing five and wounding sixteen other people on the NIU campus. [
In 2006, Kazmierczak, with two other graduate students and under the lead authorship of a sociology professor, had co-authored an academic paper entitled, "Self-injury in Correctional Settings: 'Pathology' of Prisons or of Prisoners?"; it was published in the academic journal Criminology & Public Policy.
Kazmierczak died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. ABC News reports that his behavior seemed to become more erratic in the weeks leading up to the shooting, and that it is believed he stopped taking medication beforehand. His girlfriend, Jessica Baty, confirmed that Kazmierczak had stopped taking an antidepressant three weeks before the shooting, but denied that his behavior had become erratic. Since the shooting, authorities have intercepted a number of packages he sent to her, which included such items as a gun holster and bullets, a textbook on serial killers for her class, the book The Antichrist by Nietzsche, and a final note written for her. The shooting was baffling to those who knew him, as he appeared outgoing and never appeared to have social problems. This has also confused investigators, who have not found a suicide note.

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Larkin
Ryan. 2007-02-14

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Born 1943-07-31. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

He was a Canadian animator who rose to fame with the psychedelic 1969 Oscar-nominated short Walking and the acclaimed Street Musique (1972).
Ryan Larkin's father was an abusive alcoholic.
Ryan was plagued by a downward spiral of drug abuse, alcoholism and homelessness,

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Darricau
André (alias: Darry Cowl). 2006-02-14

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Born 1925-08-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Cancer à Neuilly-sur-Seine. Né à Vittel.

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Hariri
Rafik. 2005-02-14

60

Born 1944-11-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

Hariri was killed, along with 21 others, when explosives equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut. Among the dead were several of Hariri's bodyguards and his friend and former Minister of the Economy Bassel Fleihan. Rafik Hariri was buried along with his bodyguards, who died in the bombing, in a location near Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque.

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Pantani
Marco. 2004-02-14

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Born 1970-01-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Pantani admitted himself into a clinic in northern Italy in June 2003, suffering from clinical depression. At that point the chances of him once again being a contender in major races looked slim.
During the early evening of 14 February 2004 Pantani was found dead at a hotel in Rimini, Italy. An autopsy revealed he died of a cerebral edema and heart failure, and a later coroner's inquest revealed that this was brought on by acute cocaine poisoning.

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Glémée
Philippe (alias: Jean Néplin). 2003-02-14

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Born 1957-02-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

He made 2 discs, the first one in 1983 and the latest in 2001 (Les paradis bleus des coeurs couronnés). He appeared on the punk scene in the beginning of the 80s, and collaborated with taxi girl and les Rita Mitsouko.He was a close friend of Fred Chichin.
He committed suicide by an overdose of medicament.

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Longden
John Eric. 2003-02-14

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Born 1907-02-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

He was an American Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England but his father wanted to build a better life for his family so in 1909 emigrated to Canada, settling in Taber, Alberta.
Johnny Longden died on his 96th birthday at his home in Banning, California.

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Sarrazin
Guy (alias: Grosso). 2001-02-14

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Born 1933-08-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was Grosso, from the so much infamous duo 'Grosso et Modo'.

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Gazzo
Michael. 1995-02-14

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Born 1923-04-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

Gazzo was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II.

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Lasch
Robert Christopher. 1994-02-14

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Born 1932-06-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

Christopher Lasch was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. He strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled "the culture of narcissism". His books, including The New Radicalism in America (1965), Haven in a Heartless World (1977), The Culture of Narcissism (1979), The True and Only Heaven (1991), and The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (published posthumously in 1996) were widely discussed and reviewed. The Culture of Narcissism became a surprise best-seller and won the National Book Award in the category Current Interest (paperback). Lasch was always a critic of modern liberalism and a historian of liberalism's discontents, but over time his political perspective evolved dramatically. In the 1960s, he was a neo-Marxist and acerbic critic of Cold War liberalism. During the 1970s, he supported certain aspects of cultural conservatism with a left-leaning critique of capitalism, and drew on Freud-influenced critical theory to diagnose the ongoing deterioration that he perceived in American culture and politics. His writings are sometimes denounced by feminists and hailed by conservatives for his apparent defense of family life. He eventually concluded that an often unspoken but pervasive faith in "Progress" tended to make Americans resistant to many of his arguments. In his last major works he explored this theme in depth, suggesting that Americans had much to learn from the suppressed and misunderstood populist and artisan movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After seemingly successful cancer surgery in 1992, Lasch was diagnosed with metastatic cancer in 1993. Upon learning that it was unlikely to significantly prolong his life, he refused chemotherapy, observing that it would rob him of the energy he needed to continue writing and teaching. To one persistent specialist, he wrote: "I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament." Lasch succumbed to his cancer at his Pittsford, New York, home at age 61

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Besnard
Marie (alias: La bonne dame de Loudun). 1980-02-14

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Born 1896-08-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Born Marie Davaillaud in Loudun, France, Marie married Auguste Antigny in 1920. The marriage lasted until his death in 1927 of pleurisy (Antigny was known to suffer from tuberculosis). In 1928, Marie married Léon Besnard. When two wealthy aunts of Léon died, and left the bulk of their estates to Léon's parents, the couple invited the parents to move in with them. Soon thereafter, Léon's father died, apparently from eating poisoned mushrooms. Léon's mother followed three months later, apparently a victim of pneumonia. The parents' estate was left to Léon and his sister, Lucie, who supposedly committed suicide a few months later. Around this time, Marie's also father died, most likely due to cerebral hemorrhage. Shortly after this, the Besnards subletted rooms to a wealthy childless couple, the Rivets. Monsieur Rivet died of pneumonia, and Madame Rivet passed soon after from tuberculosis. The Rivets' will had named Marie Besnard as their only heir. Pauline and Virginie Lalleron, cousins of Marie, had also named Marie as their only beneficiary. Pauline died after mistaking a bowl of lye for her dessert one night, and Virginie made the same mistake a week later. After Marie discovered Léon was having an affair, Léon remarked to close friends that he believed he was being poisoned, and asked them to demand an autopsy if he died. He passed shortly thereafter, apparently of uremia. Having now accumulated most of the wealth of both families, suspicions were aroused of foul play. Marie was arrested, the bodies of her alleged victims were exhumed, and Marie was charged with 13 counts of murder. Two trials ended in hung juries, with a third ending in acquittal, and Marie was never convicted of any crime.

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Coffinières
Charles (alias: Frédéric Duvallès). 1971-02-14

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Born 1884-09-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Hilbert
David. 1943-02-14

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Born 1862-01-23. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He attended a banquet, and was seated next to the new Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust. Rust asked, "How is mathematics in Göttingen now that it has been freed of the Jewish influence?" Hilbert replied, "Mathematics in Göttingen? There is really none any more."

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