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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1928-04-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Colonel Joseph Gordon Clemons was a decorated soldier in the United States Army in the Korean War and in the Vietnam War. His actions in the 1953 Battle of Pork Chop Hill were the subject of a 1959 movie, Pork Chop Hill. Clemons died in Hendersonville, North Carolina of complications from pneumonia at the age of 90.
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Born 1922-03-15. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
He was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He specialized on the philosophy of language and is thus considered a communication theorist. He developed a distinctive philosophical approach which he called transcendental pragmatics (Transzendentalpragmatik).
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Born 1928-11-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Among his most celebrated works are: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). He influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been translated into English and other languages. Fuentes died in a private hospital in southern Mexico City from a massive haemorrhage.
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Born 1986-11-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was a Kenyan long-distance runner who won the 2008 Beijing Olympics Marathon in an Olympic record time of 2:06:32; becoming the first Kenyan to win the Olympic gold in the marathon. He became the youngest gold medallist in the marathon since 1932. He set the current (as of 2020) 10,000m World Junior Record in 2005 and set the half marathon world record 3 times. In 2009, he won both the London Marathon and Chicago Marathon, running the fastest marathons ever recorded in the United Kingdom and United States, respectively. He retained his Chicago title in 2010 in a season fraught with injury. On 15 May 2011, Wanjiru died from a fall off a balcony at his home in Nyahururu. Wanjiru appeared to have suffered internal injuries after the fall and was confirmed dead by doctors at a nearby hospital after attempts to revive him failed. Police said Wanjiru's wife, Triza Njeri, had come home to find him in bed with another woman. She locked the couple in the bedroom and ran outside. Wanjiru then died after falling from the balcony. Police are unsure if Wanjiru intended suicide or jumped out of rage, and were investigating the circumstances related to Njeri and his female companion that led to his death. In May 2017, while testifying during an inquest into Wanjiru's death, his mother Hannah Wanjiru said at the Milimani law court that she believes her son was murdered. His mother claimed at an inquest into his death that her son was murdered by six men who had conspired with his widow Trizah Njeri.[36] During the inquest at the Milimani court that sought to establish whether Wanjiru was murdered or jumped to his death, a former chief government pathologist said he was convinced that Wanjiru was hit by a blunt object after he had jumped from the balcony of his home, landing on his legs, or possibly he was pushed then struck.
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Born 1929-06-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Operation
She was a singer, songwriter, actress and comedian and was a member of the Carter Family, and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. She played the guitar, banjo, and autoharp.
June Carter Cash died in Nashville, Tennessee of complications following heart valve replacement surgery at the age of 73. Johnny Cash died September 12, 2003, and June's second daughter Rosie passed away a month later.
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Born 1962-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Beart, one of the biggest movie stars in France, posed nude in a 2003 photo spread with a young male model for Elle magazine. Her boyfriend Vincent Meyer became quite upset about this and committed suicide.
on 15 May 2003 Béart arrived at Nice airport for the opening of the Cannes festival only to learn that her partner, film producer Vincent Meyer, had been found dead in their Paris apartment.
They had met in 2001, during the presentation of "la Répétition" from Catherine Corsini, where Meyer participated in as a producer.
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Born 1919-08-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French cinematographer. He is most famous for his work with Alain Resnais, especially for the two films Hiroshima mon amour, L'année dernière à Marienbad and Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books).
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Born 1914-06-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
La Guitare à Chiquita, Le gros Bill, Le Régiment des mandolines, La Plume au chapeau, Les Trois bandits de Napoli, La Cane du Canada, La Bouteille, etc.
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Born 1950-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
A few hours before his killing “HB” wrote: " Prisonnier de mes rêves les plus fous : je suis mal assis sur une petite chaise de bambin… Alors, revenons à cette mort dont je sens à peine, mais sûrement, la faux s’affûter sur ma nuque. Mort je le suis, il fallait l’être, je m’y suis préparé…"
He was shot dead of three bullets in the head, by the RAID.
Nicolas Sarkozy tried to participate to the negociation. He was evicted from the spot by Ch. Pasqua, because HB was getting nervous and declarerd he would no longer talk with such a joker.
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Born 1958-03-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
During tests at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, the rear wing of the BT55 came off at high speed, making the car lose downforce on the rear wheels, cartwheel over a barrier and catch fire. The impact did not kill de Angelis but, tragically, he could not get out of the car unassisted. The situation was exacerbated by the lack of marshals on the French circuit, or indeed anyone who could have assisted. A 30 minute delay ensued before an emergency helicopter arrived. De Angelis died 29 hours later in the hospital in Marseille to which he had been taken, from injuries caused by the smoke inhaled during the accident. His only other injuries were a broken collar bone and light burns on his back
De Angelis was the last driver to die in an F1 car until Roland Ratzenberger at Imola eight years later. His place in the Brabham team was taken, ironically, by Derek Warwick - allegedly because Warwick was the only unemployed F1 driver who did not contact Ecclestone immediately afterwards asking about the drive.
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Born 1953-02-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
On May 14, 1982 Joëlle visited her sisters in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France, then had dinner with friends with whom she spent the night. In the morning, the 29-year-old singer was found dead of a drug overdose.
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Born 1879-04-23. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century. Born in Kiev to an ethnic Polish family, his concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as possible from the world of natural forms (objectivity) and subject matter in order to access "the supremacy of pure feeling" and spirituality. Malevich is considered to be part of the Ukrainian avant-garde (together with Alexander Archipenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sonia Delaunay, Aleksandra Ekster, and David Burliuk) that was shaped by Ukrainian-born artists who worked first in Ukraine and later over a geographical span between Europe and America. Early on, Malevich worked in a variety of styles, quickly assimilating the movements of Impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism, and after visiting Paris in 1912, Cubism. Gradually simplifying his style, he developed an approach with key works consisting of pure geometric forms and their relationships to one another, set against minimal grounds. His Black Square (1915), a black square on white, represented the most radically abstract painting known to have been created so far and drew "an uncrossable line (…) between old art and new art"; Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918), a barely differentiated off-white square superimposed on an off-white ground, would take his ideal of pure abstraction to its logical conclusion. In addition to his paintings, Malevich laid down his theories in writing, such as "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism" (1915) and The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism (1926). When Malevich died of cancer at the age of fifty-seven, in Leningrad, his friends and disciples buried his ashes in a grave marked with a black square. They didn't fulfill his stated wish to have the grave topped with an "architekton"—one of his skyscraper-like maquettes of abstract forms, equipped with a telescope through which visitors were to gaze at Jupiter.