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June 30, 2025

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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)

He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.

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Flint
Keith Charles. 2019-03-04

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Born 1969-09-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

Keith Charles Flint was an English singer, dancer and motorcycle racer. He was a founding member of the electronic dance act the Prodigy. Starting out as a dancer, he became the frontman of the group and performed on the group's two UK number one singles, "Firestarter" and "Breathe" both released in 1996. He was also the lead singer of his own band, Flint. He owned a motorcycle racing team, Team Traction Control, which won four Isle of Man TT races throughout 2015 and 2016, and competed in the British Supersport Championship. Flint was a keen motorcyclist. He rode 2,400 km (1,500 miles) from England to southern Spain to attend the 2007 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix and also raced in club competitions. He rode with Lee Thompson of the band Madness. He had his own motorcycle team, Team Traction Control, which competed in the British Supersport Championship as part of the British Superbike Championship before stepping up to the British Superbike Championship in 2017. In 2015 Team Traction Control machines won two Isle of Man TT races, ridden by Ian Hutchinson. The team and Ian Hutchinson repeated their two victories again in 2016. Flint's final public performance with the Prodigy was on 5 February 2019 at Trusts Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. On Saturday 2 March 2019, Flint took part in the Chelmsford Parkrun, for the third consecutive week, in which he achieved his personal best time. On 4 March 2019, just after 8:10 am, Essex Police were called to Flint's home in North End, near Great Dunmow, Essex, in response to concerns for his welfare. Flint was pronounced dead at the scene, and the police did not treat the death as suspicious. It was later confirmed at an inquest into his death he had died as a result of hanging. The coroner adjourned the inquest until 23 July for a full hearing. Later that day, bandmate Liam Howlett stated in an Instagram post that Flint had taken his own life. The official band website then went black with an announcement of his death and the Prodigy announced that they had cancelled all forthcoming shows. It was later revealed by Emily Eavis that this included a booking at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival. The next scheduled Prodigy performance was to be the Estéreo Picnic Festival on 6 April 2019 in Bogotá, Colombia. It was established by the coroners inquest on 8 May 2019 that there was insufficient evidence to conclude a suicide verdict in relation to Flint's death.

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Perry
Coy Luther (alias: Luke Perry). 2019-03-04

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Born 1966-10-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

Coy Luther Perry III was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. He also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale, had guest roles on notable shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, and also starred in several films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), 8 Seconds (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), his final feature performance. Perry suffered a massive ischemic stroke at his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles on February 27, 2019. After a second stroke, his family decided to remove him from life support, and he died on March 4, 2019 at age 52.

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Starobinski
Jean. 2019-03-04

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Born 1920-11-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Jean Starobinski was a Swiss literary critic. His knowledge of medicine and psychiatry brought him to study the history of melancholia (notably in the Trois Fureurs, 1974). He was the first scholar to publish work (in 1964) on Ferdinand de Saussure's study of anagrams.

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Averty
Jean-Christophe. 2017-03-04

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Born 1928-08-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

He was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique. Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studies were used in the following decades by the research groups of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA. Averty was one of the last salaried directors of the French Production Company. In 2012, he entrusted the management, conservation and safeguarding of the rights of all of his television and radio works to the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA); nearly a thousand television programs on jazz, sports, fashion, variety and the theater.

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Floersheim
Patrick. 2016-03-04

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Born 1944-03-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Patrick Floersheim was a French actor. He was the French voice of many stars : Jeff Bridges, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Willem Dafoe, Dustin Hoofman, Kurt Russel, Arnold Schwarzenegger or James Woods.

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Savary
Jérôme. 2013-03-04

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Born 1942-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a French theater director and actor. His work has democratized and widened the appeal of musical theater in France, drawing together and blending such genres as opera, operetta, and musical comedy.

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Marseille
Jacques. 2010-03-04

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Born 1945-10-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer

He was an historian and a politics commenter. he was very on the right wing.

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Gygax
Gary. 2008-03-04

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Born 1938-07-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

He was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973.
He was in semi-retirement, having almost suffered a heart attack after receiving incorrect medication to prevent further strokes after those on April 1 and May 4, 2004. He was diagnosed with an inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm. Even while his health failed, gaming remained very much a part of his life. Gygax was still active in the gaming community and had active Q & A forums on gaming websites such as Dragonsfoot and EN World. “I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.”

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Copin
Noel. 2007-03-04

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Born 1929-12-22. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer

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Tarassov
Lev (alias: Henri Troyat). 2007-03-04

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Born 1911-11-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was at his death the dean of the Académie française.
(Seat #28)

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Penchenier
Georges. 2006-03-04

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Born 1919-10-05. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

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Hughes
Glenn M. 2001-03-04

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Born 1950-07-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

He was the original "Biker" character in the disco group Village People from 1977 to 1996. He was interested in motorcycles, and was working as a toll collector at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when he responded to an advertisement by composer Jacques Morali seeking "macho" singers and dancers. Hughes and other members of the band were given a crash course in the synchronized dance choreography that later typified the group's live performances.
Glenn's powerful bass voice played an important part in the background lyrics of almost all Village People's most known hits, such as In The Navy. He sported an extravagant handlebar moustache (or more correctly a horseshoe moustache) and wore his trademark leather outfit on stage and off. As he was the band's "biker" and a real life fanatic, he kept his motorcycle parked inside his home. With Village People gaining fame, Hughes became one of the icons of the disco era, even appearing in a special television broadcast in Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner.

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Preboist
Paul. 1997-03-04

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Born 1927-02-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown

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Dubois
Georgette (alias: Georgette Anys). 1993-03-04

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Born 1909-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

French actress specialized in playing supporting roles of fat gross women in french movies such as la traversée de paris.

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Caicedo
Andrés. 1977-03-04

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Born 1951-09-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide

was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life. Despite his premature death, his work is considered one of the most original in Colombian literature. It was in his novel "¡Qué viva la música" that Caicedo mentioned that to live more than 25 years of age was madness and he was loyal to what he said then on March 4, 1977. In the afternoon he died, he received a volume of his recently published book "Qué viva la música!" and wrote a letter to his friend Miguel Marías where he mentioned that his woman just left him for a reason he did not know. Then he took 60 pills of secobarbital.

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Plancherel
Michel. 1967-03-04

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Born 1885-01-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Michel Plancherel was a Swiss mathematician. He was born in Bussy (Fribourg, Switzerland) and obtained his Diplom in mathematics from the University of Fribourg and then his doctoral degree in 1907 with a thesis written under the supervision of Mathias Lerch. Plancherel was a professor in Fribourg (1911), and from 1920 at ETH Zurich. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis.

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Artaud
Antoine (alias: Antonin Artaud). 1948-03-04

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Born 1896-09-04. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer

L'art et la mort, Denoël, Paris, 1929.

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Rossi
Jean-Baptiste (alias: Sébastien Japrisot). 1931-03-04

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Born 1931-07-04. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Angstroem
Knut Johan. 1910-03-04

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Born 1857-01-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

Knut Johan Ångström was a Swedish physicist. He was the son of Anders Angstrœm.

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Fusier
Léon. 1901-03-04

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Born 1851-08-24. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

Léon Fusier was a French lyric artist, impressionist and illusionist. He had renewed the art of chapeaugraphy. Chapeaugraphy, occasionally anglicised to chapography, is a novelty act and panhandling trick in which a ring-shaped piece of felt is manipulated to look like various types of hats. The act originated in 1618 with Parisian street performer Tabarin, the most famous of the charlatans who combined a French version of commedia dell'arte with a quack medicine show. In the 1870s another French comedian, Monsieur Fusier, revived the act and managed 15 hat-twisting styles in his act. Although rarely seen today, it was featured in an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1985, as performed by magician Harry Anderson.

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