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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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Bush
Barbara. 2018-04-17

92

Born 1925-06-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Barbara Bush (née Pierce) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of George H. W. Bush, who served as the 41st president of the United States, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She previously was the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Among her six children are George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida. She and Abigail Adams are the only two women to be the wife of one U.S. president and the mother of another.

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Garcia Marquez
Gabriel. 2014-04-17

87

Born 1927-03-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Messiah
Albert. 2013-04-17

91

Born 1921-09-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was a French physicist. He spent the Second World War in the French Resistance: he embarked June 22, 1940 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz to England and participated in the Battle of Dakar with Charles de Gaulle in September 1940. He joined the Free French Forces in Chad, and the 2nd Armored Division in September 1944, and participated in the assault of Hitler's Eagle's nest at Berchtesgaden in 1945. After the war, he went to Princeton to attend the seminar of Niels Bohr on quantum mechanics. He returned to France and introduced the first general courses of quantum mechanics in France, at the University of Orsay. His textbook on quantum mechanics (Dunod 1959) has trained generations of French physicists. He was the director of the Physics Division at the CEA and professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University.

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Sarrazin
Jacques Michel André (alias: Michael Sarrazin). 2011-04-17

70

Born 1940-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Sarrazin was originally cast to play Joe Buck in the drama film Midnight Cowboy (1969); however, he was unable to be released from a prior contract and the part went to Jon Voight. For fourteen years he was in a relationship with actress Jacqueline Bisset, whom he met while making the drama film The Sweet Ride (1968). Sarrazin died after a brief battle with cancer, with his daughters, Catherine and Michele, at his side.

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Kouyaté
Sotigui. 2010-04-17

73

Born 1936-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

He was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté and was a member of the Mandinka ethnic group.

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Césaire
Aimé. 2008-04-17

94

Born 1913-06-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

From April 9, 2008, he had serious heart troubles and was admitted to Pierre Zobda Quitman hospital in Fort-de-France.

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Bernard
Jean. 2006-04-17

98

Born 1907-05-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

He was professor of haematology and director of the Institute for Leukaemia at the University of Paris.
Bernard gave the first description of the use of high dosage radiotherapy in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease

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Johnson
Earl Silas (alias: Earl King). 2003-04-17

69

Born 1934-02-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other

In fall of 2001, he was hospitalized for an illness during a tour to New Zealand, however, that did not stop him from performing. In December of the same year, he toured Japan, and he continued to perform off and on locally in New Orleans until his death.
He died of complications from diabetes just a week before the New Orleans Jazz Fest.

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Getty
Eugene Paul (alias: Jean Paul Getty II). 2003-04-17

70

Born 1932-09-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

He was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book collector. He was the son of Jean Paul Getty, Sr. (1892–1976), one of the richest men in the world at the time, and his wife Anne Rork. Paul Getty initially became reclusive after the death of his second wife in 1971. He moved to Rome as head of Getty Oil Italiana. In 1973, his eldest child and son, Paul III, was kidnapped in Rome by Calabrian mobsters and held in the Calabrian Mountains, chained to a stake in a cave. Getty did not have enough money to pay the $17 million ransom demand, and his father refused to help, saying "I have 14 other grandchildren, and if I pay one penny now, then I will have 14 kidnapped grandchildren." However, when one of his son's ears was delivered by mail to a newspaper in Rome (delivery had been delayed by three weeks because of a postal strike), his father finally agreed to help out with the ransom payment by making the ransom payment a loan to his son. In 1976, Paul Getty's father died. Getty's money came from a family trust and his grandmother. After his father's death, he was able to stop using drugs. Getty's daughter Aileen was married to Elizabeth Taylor's son, Christopher Wilding (son of actor Michael Wilding). Aileen recently married Bartolomeo Ruspoli (son of European playboy Dado Ruspoli and actress Debra Berger). Over the next decade Getty suffered from depression and, in 1984 in a final attempt to end his drug addiction, checked himself into a London clinic. Whilst there he received a visit from the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher to thank him for large donations to the National Gallery. She reportedly helped speed his recovery by telling him, "My dear Mr. Getty, we mustn't let things get us down, must we? We'll have you out of here as soon as possible." During a low period in the 1970s Getty had been cheered up by the former England cricketer and later President of the M.C.C., Gubby Allen, having previously been introduced to the game by Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.

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McCartney
Linda. 1998-04-17

56

Born 1941-09-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)

Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and her condition soon grew worse as the cancer spread to her liver. McCartney's last words to her were: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue". She died at age 56 on 17 April 1998, at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. She was cremated in Tucson, and her ashes were scattered at McCartney's farm in Sussex, England.
(née Eastman) She was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on 12 March 1969, and was a member of the Wings.

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de La Brosse
Simon. 1998-04-17

32

Born 1965-10-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

His first role was in "Pauline à la plage". He has had scenes in "37°2", but they were all cut out in the commecial version.
« Acteur, c’est le seul métier qu’on peut apprendre tout seul, où l’on ne fait appel qu’à soi et à son imaginaire. Mais je crois que, tous les jours, les acteurs sont tentés de s’arrêter et se disent : Mais pourquoi je n’ouvre pas un restau ? C’est vrai que c’est un peu un métier de fêlé où on alterne de grands moments de doute avec d’autres, plus brefs, où on a un peu confiance en soi. Il faut savoir aller au bord du gouffre, le plus près possible, sans y tomber… »

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Hocquenghem
Alexis. 1990-04-17

82

Born 1908-01-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Alexis Hocquenghem was a French mathematician. He is known for his discovery of Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem codes, today better known under the acronym BCH codes. This class of error correcting codes was published by Hocquenghem in 1959. The code also bears the names of R. C. Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.

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Bloch
Marcel (alias: Marcel Dasault). 1986-04-17

94

Born 1892-01-22. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

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Kernan
Reginald. 1983-04-17

68

Born 1914-10-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

1964 : Cent mille dollars au soleil - Henri Verneuil.

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Larquey
Pierre. 1962-04-17

78

Born 1884-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

He was Dr Vorzet in "Le corbeau".

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Cochran
Edward. 1960-04-17

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Born 1938-10-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident

On the night of Saturday April 16, 1960, at about 11:50 p.m. while on tour in the United Kingdom, Cochran died in a traffic accident in a taxi (a Ford Consul) travelling through Chippenham, Wiltshire, England on the A4. The taxi crashed into a lamp post on Rowden Hill. There was no other car involved. A plaque erected there shows the actual spot. He was taken to St. Martin's Hospital, Bath, but died at 4:10 p.m. the following day. Songwriter Sharon Sheeley (Cochran's fiancée) and singer Gene Vincent survived the crash. The taxi driver, George Martin, was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for fifteen years and sent to prison for six months.

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