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March 29, 2024

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Sargaison
Eunice Elizabeth (alias: Eunice Gayson). 2018-06-08

90

Born 1928-03-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison, known professionally as Eunice Gayson, was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love) and is therefore considered to have been the first-ever "Bond girl".

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Kirwan
Daniel David. 2018-06-08

68

Born 1950-05-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Pneumonia

Daniel David Kirwan was a British musician whose greatest success came with his role as guitarist, singer and songwriter with the blues rock band Fleetwood Mac between 1968 and 1972. He released three albums as a solo artist from 1975 to 1979, recorded albums with Otis Spann, Chris Youlden, and Tramp, and worked with his former Fleetwood Mac colleagues Jeremy Spencer and Christine McVie on some of their solo projects. An obituary in The New York Times quoted Kirwan's former wife as saying that he had died in his sleep "after contracting pneumonia earlier in the year and never fully recovering from it." Alcohol and drugs appear to have contributed to Kirwan's decline. Green's biographer Martin Celmins said that by the age of 21, after two and a half years as a professional musician, Kirwan was "lost in a drink and drugs wasteland." A lot of pressure and responsibility had fallen on his shoulders after Green left the band in 1970 and he had found it difficult to cope. By the end of 1970 his excessive drinking was causing concern. By 1972 he was said to be drinking heavily and showing signs of alcoholism and he had experimented with LSD and mescaline. Celmins quoted Fleetwood's first wife, Jenny Boyd, who knew Kirwan, as saying, "I think drugs and alcohol got Danny totally nuts in the end. He was just too sensitive a soul." In the late 1970s Kirwan's mental health deteriorated, and after a difficult time recording his final solo album in January 1979 he played no further part in the music industry. In 1994 he was said to be "a homeless alcoholic, divorced, with a son he hardly ever sees." In March 1996 he was reported to be sleeping on park benches and was a semi-permanent resident of a hostel for the homeless. Around this time his ex-wife was quoted as saying, "[Danny] lives a very simple life and is pretty much disconnected from what you or I would call reality." In July 2000, a few weeks after his 50th birthday, Kirwan was settled in a care home for alcoholics in South London. Martin Celmins, who had interviewed Kirwan in 1996, said he was now looking "fitter, stronger and more together" and kept a guitar in his room. He noted, "[Danny] remains a very private person who keeps himself to himself." In 2002 Jeremy Spencer visited with Kirwan's ex-wife and son. Spencer said later that the meeting had been pleasant, although Kirwan was "in his own world". Kirwan was well looked after and was visited by family and friends.

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Lewandowski
Sascha. 2016-06-08

44

Born 1971-10-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a German football manager. He last managed Union Berlin. Lewandowski was head coach of VfL Bochum II between 1 July 2006 to 31 December 2006. He was appointed as the head coach of Union Berlin on 1 September 2015. He stepped down on 4 March 2016, after six months in charge. He was born on 5 October 1971 in Dortmund, West Germany. On 9 June 2016, Lewandowski was in a relationship with sports reporter Anne van Eickels and worked as a journalist until 2006. Lewandowski was found dead in his Bochum apartment on June 8, 2016. Shortly before, the police had initially arrested him on suspicion of a child sex offense. The post-mortem revealed that he had committed suicide.

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Gruault
Jean. 2015-06-08

90

Born 1924-08-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French screenwriter and actor. He wrote 25 films between 1960 and 1995. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the 1980 film Mon oncle d'Amérique. He was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris.

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Abragam
Anatole. 2011-06-08

96

Born 1914-12-15. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.

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Bongo
Omar. 2009-06-08

73

Born 1935-12-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

President of Gabon for years. Both Sarkozy and Chirac attended his funerals.

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Palermo
John Joseph. 2009-06-08

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Born 1982-03-00. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident

Johnny Palermo appeared in more than 30 television shows. He was a regular on the Nickelodeon series Just for Kicks, and he had appeared in Everybody Hates Chris as Chris' overgrown classmate Frank DiPaolo.

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Marshall
William. 1994-06-08

76

Born 1917-10-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was an American singer, bandleader and a motion picture actor, director and producer.
He became a vocalist for Fred Waring and his band, the "Pennsylvanians " before forming his own band in 1937. In 1940 he went to Hollywood to act in film.
He was married three times, all to actresses: Michèle Morgan (1942 - 1948) - son Michael Marshall, actor
Micheline Presle (1950 - 1954) - daughter Tonie Marshall, film director
Ginger Rogers (1961 - 1970)

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Bousquet
René. 1993-06-08

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Born 1909-05-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder

Bousquet was shot dead by a mentally unstable person.

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Spaggiari
Albert. 1989-06-08

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Born 1932-12-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (throat)

The heist of the century. The gang of the sewermen.
In 1995, Jacques Peyrat accused Christian Estrosi actual french minister and former motorcycle champion to have been the Spaggiari's driver for his escape from the hall of justice. But later Estrosi proved that this day he was challenging the Daytona's motorcycle racing.

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Wiener
Jean. 1982-06-08

86

Born 1896-03-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He found fame in the music halls of Europe for his talented performances in the piano duets with Clément Doucet, which they called Wiener et Doucet and which merged classical music and jazz. On Doucet's premature death in 1950, Wiener fully devoted himself to composition, notably film music (working on more than 300), as well as the opening theme music for ORTF's film history programme "Histoire sans parole" (History without words).

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Brugh
Spangler Arlington (alias: Robert Taylor). 1969-06-08

57

Born 1911-08-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

He was a chain smoker.

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Laurencin
Marie. 1956-06-08

73

Born 1883-10-31. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

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Desnos
Robert. 1945-06-08

45

Born 1900-07-04. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other

During World War II, Desnos was an active member of the French Résistance, often publishing under pseudonyms, and was arrested by the Gestapo on February 22, 1944. He was first deported to Auschwitz, then Buchenwald, Flossenburg and finally to Térézin (Theresienstadt) in Czechoslovakia in 1945, where he died from typhoid, only weeks after the camp’s liberation. He wrote poems during his imprisonment which were destroyed accidentally following his death.

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Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai. 1908-06-08

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Born 1844-03-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

Beginning around 1890, Rimsky-Korsakov suffered from angina. While this ailment initially wore him down gradually, the stresses concurrent with the February Revolution and its aftermath greatly accelerated its progress. Especially after December 1907, his illness became severe, preventing all work. He died in Lyubensk in 1908, and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg.

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