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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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Bonnet
Christian. 2020-04-07

98

Born 1921-06-14. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

He was appointed Minister of the Interior on 30 March 1977, following the resignation of Michel Poniatowski. His notable events in office include the arrest of Jacques Mesrine and the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing.

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Germain
Jean. 2015-04-07

67

Born 1947-09-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a French socialist politician. Germain was the president of l'Université de Tours from 1988 to 1993. In 1995 Germain was elected mayor of Tours since 1995, and president of the agglomeration community of Tours, Tour(s) Plus. Germain committed suicide by shooting himself to the head in Tours, France, aged 67. It was all about a scandal that had exploded in the local media about dodgy marriage among Chinese community.

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Geoffrey Bond. 2015-04-07

79

Born 1935-07-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Geoffrey Bond Lewis was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He typically portrayed villains or quirky characters. He played a bodyguard in the Jean-Claude van Damme film Double Impact.

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Kanumba
Steven Charles. 2012-04-07

28

Born 1984-01-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder

He was a Tanzanian actor and director. Kanumba died after he fell down in his bedroom on 7th April 2012. His 17-year-old girlfriend, Elizabeth "Lulu" Michael Kimemeta, was questioned and charged. Kanumba was taken unconscious to Muhimbili National Referral Hospital where he was declared dead. His funeral was attended by around 30,000 people including the first lady of Tanzania, Salma Kikwete, The Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Gharib Bilal, and the minister for culture and sport, Emmanuel Nchimbi. He was buried in Kinondoni Cemetery.

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de Brunhoff
Cecile. 2003-04-07

99

Born 1903-10-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

She was a French storyteller and the co-creator of the Babar stories.
She told the stories to her son when he was sick, and her husband Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated the children's books that became popular world-wide.

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Mourousi
Yves. 1998-04-07

55

Born 1942-07-20. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Heart attack

Bonjour !
Drugs ?

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de Grossouvre
François. 1994-04-07

76

Born 1918-03-29. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide

Grossouvre allegedly committed suicide, although some, such as Captain Paul Barril, claimed that he had been murdered. He was discovered dead, two bullets in his head, in his office at the Elysée — several hours after the assassination of Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana. Barril, who worked in Rwanda, presented himself in his book Guerres secrètes à l’Élysée (Secret Wars in the Elysée) as an "intime" of Grossouvre. The "hurt friend" of Mitterrand according to Le Monde, Grossouvre voluntarily gave evidence to a judge investigating the case of Roger-Patrice Pelat, a businessman who reportedly financed many of Mitterrand's political campaigns and who was facing charges of insider trading when he died of natural causes in 1989.

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Clark
Jim. 1968-04-07

32

Born 1936-03-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Hockenheim

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Bluysen
Auguste Marie Joseph. 1952-04-07

84

Born 1868-06-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

Auguste Bluysen was a French architect. He is the conceptor of the pavilion de la grande source in Vittel.

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Ford
Henry. 1947-04-07

84

Born 1863-07-30. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Stroke

Henry Ford took his last ride to Ford Cemetery in a Packard. On the night of his death the River Rouge had flooded the local power station and had left Ford's house without electricity. Before going to sleep Henry and his wife lit candles and oil lamps to light the house. Later that evening, just before dawn, Henry Ford, father of mass production and creator of the modern era, died in the same atmosphere as he had been born 83 years earlier, surrounded by candlelight.

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Hoess
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand. 1947-04-07

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Born 1900-11-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

Höss (also spelled Höß, sometimes spelled in English as Hoess) was an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel), and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered. Höss joined the Nazi Party in 1922, the SS in 1934. He was hanged in 1947 following his trial at Warsaw.

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Valade
Marie-Clémentine (alias: Suzanne Valadon). 1938-04-07

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Born 1865-09-23. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

In 1894 Valadon was the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
Valadon turned to painting landscapes, still lifes and female nudes, that were naked in an unashamed way that was shocking at this time. When she died Georges Braque, Andre Derain and Pablo Picasso, attented her funeral at the Cimetière parisien, St.-Ouen (Paris).

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