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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1961-01-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:COVID
Fausto Gresini was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, who was World Champion in 1985 and 1987. He was in his later years team manager for the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoGP team. On 27 December 2020, Gresini was hospitalised at the Ospedale Maggiore in Bologna after contracting COVID-19. After an apparent initial improvement in his condition, on 18 February 2021 he worsened with a serious lung infection. He died in hospital on 23 February 2021, at the age of 60.
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Born 1933-05-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Hervé Bourges was a French journalist and audiovisual executive. He became the director of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in 1976. He directed the likes of Radio France internationale, TF1, and Radio Monte Carlo. It was under his leadership that Antenne 2 and FR3 were renamed as France 2 and France 3, thus forming the group France Télévisions. He was appointed Ambassador of France to UNESCO in 1993. In 1995, François Mitterrand appointed him Director of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, and in 2001 led the International Francophone Press Union.
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Born 1927-05-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Marella Agnelli, born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto was an Italian noblewoman, art collector and socialite. She was the widow of Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli. She often appeared in the fashion magazine Vogue. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1963.
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Born 1937-07-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Bruce Mohr Powell Surtees was an American cinematographer, the son of Robert L. Surtees. He is best known for his extensive work on Clint Eastwood's films, mostly westerns of the 1970s and early 1980s. His filming style has been compared to that of the Dollars trilogy of Sergio Leone. In 1971 he was director of photography on Dirty Harry. He died of complications of diabetes.
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Born 1967-05-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Cuban mason, plumber, and democracy activist who died after fasting for more than 80 days.
Zapata was arrested on December 6, 2002 by agents of the Cuban political police on charges of contempt, for which he was imprisoned for over three months. On March 20, 2003, 13 days after he was freed, he was arrested for a second time during a crackdown on dissidents and sent to the Kilo 8 prison in Camagüey.
On either December 2 or 3, 2009, Zapata began a hunger strike as a protest against the Cuban government for having denied him the choice of wearing white dissident clothes instead of the designated prisoner uniform, as well as denouncing the living conditions of other prisoners. He refused to eat any food other than his mother's, who visited him every three months. According to the Cuban Democratic Directorate, prison authorities denied Zapata water for 18 days, which led to his deteriorated health and kidney failure.
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Born 1910-07-04. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy." He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model" and "unintended consequences".
His son was awarded a nobel prize.
Let us talk about the Stigler's Law of Eponymy: "No scientific law is named after its
original discoverer." (Stephen Stigler attributes this to Robert
Merton.)
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Born 1955-07-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Epstein died of complications due to drug use; but not an overdose as has been reported. Investigators were told Epstein had been using heroin. Howie was driven to St. Vincent Hospital by his girlfriend, who described him as "under distress."
Epstein was taking antibiotics for an illness, and he had recently suffered from flu, stomach problems and an abscess on his leg, friends said.
"Apparently he passed out in the bathroom, and his girlfriend drove him to the hospital.
Reportedly he was extremely despondent over the death of his 16 year-old German Shepherd dog a few days earlier. In recent interviews, Tom Petty admitted that Epstein's behavior had become unpredictable: "He was just degenerating on us to the point where we thought keeping Howie in the band was actually doing him more harm than getting rid of him. His personal problems were vast and serious."
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Born 1942-05-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
He was a United States Marine Corps sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock's record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the Marine Corps. His fame as a sniper and his dedication to long-distance shooting led him to become a major developer of the United States Marine Corps Sniper training program. He was honored by having a rifle named after him: a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather. The protagonist of Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger Series consisting of the novels Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt and I, Sniper is loosely based on Carlos Hathcock (Hathcock is alluded to in the book as "Gunny Sgt Carl Hitchcock"). The 1993 movie Sniper, featuring actor Tom Berenger, is loosely based on some of Hathcock's exploits in Vietnam. Shooter is a 2007 American conspiracy action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. The film concerns a former U.S. Marine Scout Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), who is framed for murder by a rogue secret private military company unit. It was released in cinemas on March 23, 2007. Carlos Hathcock died on February 23rd, 1999, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, from complications resulting from multiple sclerosis.
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Born 1904-08-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Marcel Jacno, known as Jacno, is a French graphic designer, famous in particular for having designed the Gauloises cigarette packet, as well as the logo of the TNP (1951). He is also the creator of the typography for the newspaper France-Soir.
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Born 1890-06-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
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Born 1868-08-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith.
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Born 1857-06-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Inoperable colorectal cancer was discovered during an operation on 8 October 1933. He told his consulting doctor, Arthur Thomson, that he had no faith in an afterlife: "I believe there is nothing but complete oblivion." Elgar died at the age of seventy-six and was buried next to his wife at St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church in Little Malvern.