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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1936-10-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Nicole Croisille was a French singer and actress. She appeared in 24 films between 1961 and 2005, and recorded several albums since 1961. She lived with Méničre's disease.
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Born 1936-08-27. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Philippe Labro was a French author, journalist, and film director. He worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1, and Antenne 2. He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986. Labro died in Paris at the age of 88, from cancer.
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Born 1914-05-18. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Georg Heinrich Patrick Baron von Tiesenhausen was a United States-based German rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States in 1953 as part of Operation Paperclip, he was part of Wernher von Braun's team at the United States Army, and later, NASA. He is credited with the first complete design of the Lunar Roving Vehicle and made a variety of other contributions to the space program. He was a member of Baltic German noble family of Tiesenhausen. Tiesenhausen worked with Wernher von Braun developing V-2 rockets in Germany during World War II. He came to America in 1953 as part of Operation Paperclip, where he again worked with von Braun on guided missiles such as the Redstone, this time for the United States Army at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. He was later transferred to NASA, where he worked on various spaceflight programs, including the Apollo program, which landed men on the Moon.
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Born 1932-02-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Marc Ogeret was a French singer.
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Born 1934-09-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the RSFSR. After retiring from a singing career, Khil slowly faded into obscurity in his later years. In 2010, Khil reclaimed the spotlight when he became the subject of the viral Trololo internet meme on YouTube, thanks to the spreading popularity of a single-serving website "Trololololololololololo.com" featuring a 1976 video of a vocalised version of the song, "I Am Glad I'm Finally Going Home" In May 2012, Khil suffered a stroke and was hospitalized. He had suffered from irreversible brain damage and was in a coma. He died in hospital in St. Petersburg
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Born 1928-08-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American musician, vocalist and founding member of The Platters, who were known for their hits during the 1950s and 1960s. Reed, who was the last surviving original member of the group, which he co-founded with four other musicians in 1953, is credited with creating The Platters' name. He died from complications from several ailments, including heart disease, at a hospice in Boston.
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Born 1923-02-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isčre. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrčte and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.
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Born 1982-04-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Infection
She was a Polish volleyball player, and a member of the women's national team. She died of an infection following a bone marrow transplant. The transplant was to treat Myelodysplastic syndrome, which she had suffered from since the age of 17.
In 2007 she gave up career because of the bone marrow disease, from which she had suffered since the age of seventeen. Polish and international volleyball authorities as well as numerous fans organized a campaign to help her.
She is survived by husband Jacek Olszewski and daughter Liliana, who was born on April 4, 2008, two months before Mróz's death.
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Born 1949-04-15. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Screenplay writer for cartoons.
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Born 1921-03-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
It is rumoured that he was the inspiration for the character Nino in The Godfather
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Born 1949-07-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Alain Prieur was a French cascadeur. On October 10, 1986, in Burkina Faso, he jumped from a plane at an altitude of 4,000 m without a parachute. Two of his teammates (including Patrick de Gayardon) brought him the parachute in progress. Alain Prieur installed and opened it before the limit. It was a world first. He repeated the jump in May 1987 over Gap airport. It was while repeating this almost identical stunt, which he had named "Zero Risk", (passing from one glider to another, one below the other, without a parachute) that he fell and killed himself. His colleagues brought him the parachute, but there were problems installing it. In fact, only one of the two carabiners could be installed and locked, and when it came to opening it snapped. He is buried in the Forcalquier cemetery.
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Born 1878-09-02. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces.
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Born 1904-03-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a main architect of the Holocaust. He was chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalised plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe. Many historians regard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi regime; Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart". In London, the Czechoslovak government-in-exile resolved to kill Heydrich. Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík headed the team chosen for the operation, trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). They returned to the Protectorate, parachuting from a Handley Page Halifax on 28 December 1941, where they lived in hiding, preparing for the mission. On 27 May 1942, Heydrich planned to meet Hitler in Berlin. German documents suggest that Hitler intended to transfer him to German-occupied France where the French resistance was gaining ground. Heydrich would have to pass a section where the Dresden-Prague road merges with a road to the Troja Bridge. The junction in the Prague suburb of Libeň was well suited for the attack because motorists have to slow for a hairpin bend. As Heydrich's car slowed, Gabčík took aim with a Sten submachine gun, but it jammed and failed to fire. Heydrich ordered his driver, Klein, to halt and attempted to confront Gabčík rather than speed away. Kubiš, who wasn't spotted by Heydrich or Klein, threw a converted anti-tank mine at the car as it stopped, landing against the rear wheel. The explosion ripped through the right rear fender and wounded Heydrich, with metal fragments and fibres from the upholstery causing serious damage to his left side. He suffered major injuries to his diaphragm, spleen, and one lung, as well as a broken rib. Kubiš received a minor shrapnel wound to his face. After Kubiš fled, Heydrich ordered Klein to chase Gabčík on foot, and Gabčík shot Klein in the leg, before escaping himself. A Czech woman went to Heydrich's aid and flagged down a delivery van. He was placed on his stomach in the back of the van and taken to the emergency room at Bulovka Hospital. A splenectomy was performed, and the chest wound, left lung, and diaphragm were all debrided. Himmler ordered Karl Gebhardt to fly to Prague to assume care. Despite a fever, Heydrich's recovery appeared to progress well. Hitler's personal doctor Theodor Morell suggested the use of the new antibacterial drug sulfonamide, but Gebhardt thought that Heydrich would recover and declined the suggestion. Heydrich reconciled himself to his fate on 2 June, during a visit by Himmler, by reciting one of his father's operas: The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum. Heydrich fell into a coma on 3 June, the day after Himmler's visit, and never regained consciousness. He died on 4 June; an autopsy concluded that he died of sepsis. He was 38 years old.
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Born 1870-12-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema.
Pierre Lou˙s was a French poet and Romantic writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."
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Born 1888-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
The thirty-five-year-old Hayes had never won a race before and in fact by profession was not actually a jockey but a horse trainer and longtime stableman. The horse, a 20-1 outsider called Sweet Kiss, was owned by Miss A.M. Frayling. Hayes apparently died somewhere in the middle of the race, but his body remained in the saddle throughout. Sweet Kiss eventually crossed the finish line, winning by a head with Hayes technically still atop her back, making him the first, and thus far only, jockey known to have won a race after death.