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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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Born 1929-10-19. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
Henri Cueco was, with Jean-Christophe Averty, Patrick Besnier, Jacques Jouet, Hervé Le Tellier, Lucas Fournier, Gérard Mordillat, Christian Zeimert and others one of the « papous » from France Culture, Des Papous dans la tête, founded by Bertrand Jérôme and Françoise Treussard.
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Born 1944-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor. He was active in theater where he was also a director, as well as in cinema, television and dubbing. He is known in animation for being the voice of Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon in most animated films and series as well as in Batman video games.
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Born 1930-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Francis Lax is known for his work on Les mystérieuses cités d'or (1982), La mort d'un touriste (1975) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). French dubbed voice of David Soul in "Starsky and Hutch" French dubbed voice of : Tom Selleck in "Magnum PI", "Friends" Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Indiana Jones Captain Stubbings in "The Love Boat" Dwight Schultz as "Howling Mad" in "A-Team" And some others as : Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, Gene Wilder, Michael Caine, Ronny Cox, Dustin Hoffman, Chuck Norris, and some more... Created the hilarious French dubbing for David Soul in Starsky et Hutch (1975). The series dubbing was far removed from its original American script by talented voice-over artists who ad-libbed, often changing the lines that American audiences hear, to add culturally fit humor for French audiences. The results made the series wildly popular in France. He was banned by libaneese censorship for no known reason.
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Born 1938-11-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French film actor, who appeared in 130 films from 1962 onwards.
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Born 1930-12-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
His Russian father was deported to Auschwitz during the war, where he died. Ferrat dropped out of school to help the family survive.
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Born 1923-12-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Blair was featured in such films as A Double Life (1947), Another Part of the Forest (1948), and The Snake Pit (1948).
Blair filmed scenes for Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002), initially playing the older version of Julianne Moore's character. She was either dropped or withdrew from the project (depending on the source) and her scenes were reshot with Moore in old-age makeup.
Blair died in London after a bout with cancer.
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Born 1917-10-15. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American businessman. He was also a writer/producer best-known for creating Bozo the Clown for a series of record-album and illustrative read-along children's book sets.
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Born 1923-05-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.
In the early 1970s, Stéphane was the lover of the American writer and critic Susan Sontag.
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Born 1941-06-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Operation
Krzysztof Kieślowski died aged 54, during open-heart surgery following a heart attack, and was interred in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. His grave is located within the prestigious plot 23 and has a sculpture of the thumb and forefingers of two hands forming an oblong space—the classic view as if through a movie camera.
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Born 1927-06-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career as a film director spanning nearly five decades, including comedy and spaghetti westerns, he garnered an international cult following for his giallo and horror films. His most notable films include the "Gates of Hell" trilogy—City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981), and The House by the Cemetery (1981)—as well as Massacre Time (1966), One on Top of the Other (1969), A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971), Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), White Fang (1973), Four of the Apocalypse (1975), Sette note in nero (1977), Zombi 2 (1979), The New York Ripper(1982), and A Cat in the Brain (1990). Although a number of films over the years were said to have been "co-produced" by Fulci, he was just allowing them to use his name to promote the films (with the exception of City of the Living Dead, which he did actively attempt to obtain some funding for). Because of the high level of visceral graphic violence present in many of his films, especially Zombi 2, The Beyond, Contraband and The New York Ripper, Fulci is frequently referred to as "The Godfather of Gore", a title also given to Herschell Gordon Lewis. Lucio Fulci died alone, in his sleep, in his apartment in Rome at around 2 P.M. on the afternoon of 13 March 1996, from diabetes-related complications at the age of 68. Toward the end of his life, Fulci had lost his house and was forced to move into a cramped apartment. Since Fulci had been so despondent in his later years, some believed that he may have intentionally allowed himself to die by not taking his diabetes medication, but this is controversial. Dario Argento paid for Fulci's funeral arrangements.
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Born 1903-08-28. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Suicide
Austrian. Bettelheim was interned at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps from 1938 to 1939 He arrived in Australia in 1939 and later to the United States in 1943, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1944. Bettelheim suffered from depression at the end of his life, and in 1990 committed suicide. He put his head in a plastic bag, the anniversary day of the nazis march in Austria. Left a letter. Looking for it
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Born 1925-03-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Bobet's career effectively ended when the car carrying him and his brother Jean crashed outside Paris in the autumn of 1960. Jean was also a professional.
Louison Bobet had a succession of businesses after he stopped racing, including a clothes shop, but he became best known for investing in and developing the then little known seawater health treatment of thalassotherapy. He fell ill, however, and died the day after his 58th birthday. There is a museum to Louison's memory in St Méen-le-Grand, the idea of village postmaster Raymond Quérat.
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Born 1909-08-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Jean Martinelli was a French actor who appeared in over 50 French films between 1933 and 1983, mostly in supporting roles. One of his few international films was Alfred Hitchcock's classic film To Catch a Thief (1955), where he played the role of a one-legged waiter. Martinelli also worked in television and theatre. He was married to the actress Nadine Basile. He also did a lot of dubbing, lending his soft, deep voice to actors such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster and Raymond Burr, as well as to animated characters such as Shere Khan and Colonel Hathi in The Jungle Book. For children in particular, he remained the voice of the famous Nounours in Bonne nuit les petits (replacing Georges Aubert).
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Born 1901-11-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1879-01-18. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
After Admiral Darlan's assassination, Giraud became his de facto successor with Allied support. He upset the Americans when he ordered that many French resistance leaders who had helped Eisenhower's troops be arrested, without any protest by Roosevelt's representative, Robert Murphy. Giraud took part in the Casablanca conference, with Roosevelt, Churchill and de Gaulle, in January 1943. Later, after very difficult negotiations, Giraud agreed to suppress Petain Hitlerian laws, and to liberate Vichy prisoners of the awful South Algerian concentration camps. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle then became co-presidents of the Comité français de la Libération Nationale and Free French Forces. However, De Gaulle consolidated his political position at Giraud's expense because he was more up to date with the political situation. Giraud also lost influence when he refused to reveal his plans for the invasion of Corsica until the last minute. On September 13, Giraud led the landings at Corsica arming Corsica's Communist-oriented Front National resistance group. This drew more criticism from de Gaulle, and he lost the co-presidency in November 1943. When the Allies found out that Giraud was maintaining his own intelligence network, the French committee forced him from his post as a commander-in-chief of the French forces. He refused to accept a post of Inspector General of the Army and chose to retire. On August 28, 1944 he survived an assassination attempt in Algeria.