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March 29, 2024

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Ventura Raymond (b. 1908-04-16 / d. 1979-03-29) alias Ray Ventura

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Conway
John Horton. 2020-04-11

82

Born 1937-12-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:COVID

He was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Conway developed symptoms of COVID-19. He died in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the age of 82.

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Chatelain
Hélène. 2020-04-11

84

Born 1935-12-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID

She was a French actress who appeared as "the woman" in Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), and later worked with playwright Armand Gatti and Iossif Pasternak. She was also a translator, writer and filmmaker (Goulag).

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McManus
Patrick Francis. 2018-04-11

84

Born 1933-08-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Patrick Francis McManus was an American humor writer, who primarily wrote about the outdoors. A humor columnist for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other magazines, his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) up through The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012).

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Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Claude. 2018-04-11

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Born 1918-04-11. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.

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Favier
Maurice (alias: Maurice Favières). 2016-04-11

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Born 1922-10-14. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

Les Jeux de 20h

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Maspero
François. 2015-04-11

83

Born 1932-01-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He has also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express. His father, Henri Maspero, a sinologist and professor at the Collège de France, died at Buchenwald, but his mother managed to return alive from Ravensbrück. His grandfather, Gaston Maspero, who died before his birth, was an Egyptologist. Maspero was criticized by Situationists such as Guy Debord, who used the term "masperize" to describe the falsification or corruption of a text, as by deleting segments from a quote without marking them.

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Ben Bella
Ahmed. 2012-04-11

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Born 1916-12-25. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

First President of freed Algeria

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Boiteux
Jean. 2010-04-11

76

Born 1933-06-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Boiteux was the first person from France to win an olympic gold medal in swimming (1952). He died of a fall from a tree.

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Monory
René. 2009-04-11

85

Born 1923-06-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

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Leferme
Loic. 2007-04-11

36

Born 1970-08-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

French diver.
On 30 October 2004, he extended his own world record to 171 meters in the no limits free-diving category.
He died during a training session in Villefranche-sur-Mer when his equipment failed and he did not reach the surface in time

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Browne
Roscoe Lee. 2007-04-11

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Born 1925-05-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

With a strong sense of himself, Browne was determined not to accept stereotyped and demeaning roles that had routinely been offered to black actors, and he resisted emulating fellow actors.

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Shin
Sang-ok. 2006-04-11

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Born 1926-10-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

Shin Sang-ok was a prolific South Korean film producer and director, with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits. He is most famous for having been kidnapped by the former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, for the purpose of producing critically acclaimed films. In 1978, actress Choi Eun-hee, recently divorced from Shin, was kidnapped from Hong Kong to North Korea. When Shin traveled to Hong Kong to investigate, he was kidnapped as well. The kidnappings were on orders of future leader Kim Jong-il, who wanted to establish a film industry for his country to sway international opinion regarding the views of the Workers' Party of Korea. The North Korean authorities have denied the kidnapping accusations, claiming that Shin came to the country willingly. Shin and Choi made secret audio tapes of conversations with Kim Jong-il, supporting their story. Shin was put in comfortable accommodations, but, after an escape attempt, was placed in prison. He was brought to Pyongyang in 1983, to learn why he had been brought to North Korea. His ex-wife was also brought to the same dinner party, where she first learned that Shin was also in North Korea. They re-married shortly afterwards, as suggested by Kim Jong-il. From 1983 Shin directed seven films with Kim Jong-il acting as an executive producer. The best known of these films is Pulgasari, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla. In 1986, eight years after his kidnapping, Shin and his wife escaped while in Vienna for a film festival. They managed to seek political asylum from the United States Embassy before they were found out. Kim Jong-il became convinced that the couple had been kidnapped by the Americans. They eventually fled safely. Shin worked in the US in the 1990s under the pseudonym Simon Sheen, directing 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up and working as an executive producer for 3 Ninjas Kick Back and 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain. At first, Shin was reluctant to return to South Korea, because he feared that the government's security police would not believe the kidnapping story. He returned to South Korea permanently in 1994, and continued to work on new movies. His last movie as director is Kyeoul-iyagi (The Story of Winter) (2002, unreleased). He had a liver transplant in 2004, and died of complications of hepatitis two years later. At the time of his death, he was planning Genghis Khan, a musical. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun posthumously awarded him the Gold Crown Cultural Medal on April 12, 2006, the country's top honor for an artist.

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Rialet
Daniel. 2006-04-11

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Born 1960-02-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

Daniel Rialet was a French actor most remembered for his role of the preacher in the series "Père et Maire".

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Siniac
Pierre. 2002-04-11

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Born 1928-06-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He died alone in his flat. His neighbours did not realize it until an unmistakble smell alerted them. Firemen discovered him in the flat on the 11th of April. His dead body was in an advanced state of decomposition.

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Bleustein-Blanchet
Marcel. 1996-04-11

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Born 1906-08-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Founder of Publicis.

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Dubroff
Jessica Whitney. 1996-04-11

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Born 1988-05-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident

She was a seven-year-old pilot trainee who died attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States. The NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the accident was Reid's "improper decision to take off into deteriorating weather conditions (including turbulence, gusty winds, and an advancing thunderstorm and associated precipitation) when the airplane was overweight and when the density altitude was higher than he was accustomed to, resulting in a stall caused by failure to maintain airspeed." The NTSB further determined that "contributing to the pilot in command’s decision to take off was a desire to adhere to an overly ambitious itinerary, in part, because of media commitments."

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Levi
Primo. 1987-04-11

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Born 1919-07-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide

He fell from the interior landing of his third-story apartment in Turin to the ground floor below, leading to speculation that he had killed himself. Elie Wiesel said at the time that "Primo Levi died at Auschwitz forty years later."
Principal biographers (Angier, Thomson) agree with the coroner's verdict that Levi committed suicide. In his later life Levi indicated he was suffering from depression: factors may have included responsibility for his elderly mother and mother-in-law, living in the same apartment, concerns for his own health and memory, and genetic disposition.

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Prévert
Jacques. 1977-04-11

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Born 1900-02-04. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Stickelberger
Ludwig. 1936-04-11

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Born 1850-05-18. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Ludwig Stickelberger was a Swiss mathematician who made important contributions to linear algebra (theory of elementary divisors) and algebraic number theory (Stickelberger relation in the theory of cyclotomic fields).

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