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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 1927-07-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Claude Sarraute was a French writer and journalist and columnist for Le Monde. She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show Les Grosses Têtes between 1984–1995 and from 2014 until her death. She was the daughter of lawyer and novelist Nathalie Sarraute, and lawyer Raymond Sarraute. Her first marriage, with American journalist Stanley Karnow (1925–2013), lasted from 1948 to 1955. She remarried in 1957 to doctor Christophe Tzara (1927–2018), son of Swedish artist Greta Knutson and Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara. They had two sons, Laurent and Martin, and divorced in 1966. In 1967, she was married to Jean-François Revel (1924–2006), philosopher, writer and member of the Académie Française from 1998 on. They had two children, a daughter Véronique (born 1968) and a son Nicolas Revel (born 1966), the former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Jean Castex.
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Born 2002-11-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, known as "Junior", was 15 years old at the time of his death. The killing of Guzman-Feliz was purportedly a case of mistaken identity. Initial reports indicated that the killing was related to a sex video online that involved 15 year-old Stephanie Astacio, the presumed sister of Jose Muniz; and Irving Ozuna, a curly-haired male teenager, who some thought looked like Guzman-Feliz. The police reported that the alleged killers, all members of the Trinitarios subset "Los Sures", mistakenly believed that Guzman-Feliz was a member of the rival "Sunset" gang. Bronx County District Attorney Darcel Clark said that Guzman-Feliz had no ties to any gang activity. Nearly a full year after Guzman-Feliz was brutally slain outside of the Bronx bodega, five accused suspects were convicted of his murder. In a Bronx courtroom on June 14, 2019, a jury convicted Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, Manuel Rivera, Elvin Garcia, Jose Muniz, and Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, gang assault, and conspiracy. By also convicting the defendants of first-degree murder, the jury acknowledged that Guzman-Feliz was tortured before his death.
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Born 1974-11-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Operation
He was an American rapper, author, and entrepreneur who, with Havoc, was one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep. In an interview with Vibe in November 2000, Prodigy spoke about what inspired him to directly address his battle with sickle-cell anemia in his song "You Can Never Feel My Pain", from his debut studio album H.N.I.C. He attributes his nihilism to the "permanent physical suffering" caused by his lifelong battle with the condition. On June 20, 2017, it was reported that Prodigy had died at the Spring Valley Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, while hospitalized for complications related to his sickle-cell anemia. He was performing in the Art of Rap Tour in Las Vegas with Havoc, Ghostface Killah, Onyx, KRS-One, and Ice-T when he was hospitalized. According to a coroner's report, Prodigy was admitted to Spring Valley Medical Center after suffering a significant medical episode arising from his life-long battle with sickle-cell anemia. Days later, on the morning of June 20, Prodigy was found unresponsive by hospital staff. It was reported at the time that Prodigy died from accidental choking. The complaint, which was filed on behalf of the family by The Gage Law Firm, alleges that the Spring Valley hospital breached their duty of care for Prodigy by "failing to maintain a working IV access," and by "failing to continuously monitor oxygen levels" as ordered by physicians in the hospital, and that those failures led to Prodigy's death
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Born 1920-01-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Benoîte Groult was married three times. In 1944, she married medical student Pierre Heuyer, who died soon afterward of tuberculosis. In 1951, she married journalist Georges de Caunes with whom she had two daughters, Blandine and Lison. She later married the writer Paul Guimard (1921–2004). The couple had one daughter, Constance. Benoîte Groult had a holiday home in Derrynane (Republic of Ireland) and spent the summer there from 1977 till 2003. The French president François Mitterrand visited her there in 1988.
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Born 1918-10-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Edgard Pisani was a French statesman, philosopher, and writer.
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Born 1939-07-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Known professionally as James Victor, he was a Dominican-born American actor. He was best known for his role of Sgt. Jaime Mendoza on The Family Channel television series, Zorro, from 1990 to 1993 for three seasons. Victor was a longtime protege of filmmaker John Cassavetes. He appeared in several of Cassavetes' films, including Shadows (1959), Too Late Blues (1961), and Faces (1968). Victor, who suffered from heart disease, died at his apartment in Hollywood, at the age of 76.
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Born 1970-11-04. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Together with JL Melenchon, he founded the French party le parti de gauche.
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Born 1935-02-19. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He started working with Christian Dior, and created stuff under its own name from 1962.
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Born 1977-06-11. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American reality television personality and daredevil best known for being a member of the Jackass crew and a cast member on Viva La Bam. Dunn and Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass Number Two, died when Dunn's Porsche 911 GT3 came off the road and hit a tree in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. Police stated that speed may have been a factor in the accident, and preliminary investigations suggested that the car had been traveling between 132 and 140 mph (212 and 230 km/h) in a 55 mph (89 km/h) zone. A toxicology report showed Dunn had a blood alcohol level of 0.196% — more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08%.
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Born 1973-05-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Russian international football referee. Pettay died in the crash of RusAir Flight 9605 at Besovets, near Petrozavodsk.
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Born 1909-05-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a former English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
His daughter Charlotte Rampling is a film actress. He was, as of October 2007, the last surviving male athletics medallist from the 1932 Summer Olympics and the last male gold medallist in athletics from the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1938-09-29. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Cancer
Inventor of the coelioscopy.
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Born 1923-11-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer
He is a Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments (TI). He is also the inventor of handheld calculator and thermal printer.
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Born 1929-09-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Stroke
In 2005, while working from his home in the south of France on a book on the Middle East, Collins died of a sudden cerebral haemorrhage.
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Born 1943-08-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a four-time Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion. He was known for his quiet, unassuming nature off the bike who became a ruthless competitor once the races began. He was said to be, though involuntarily, at the origin of Saarinen's fatal race crash. He died in his sleep from a heart attack.
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Born 1870-12-21. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French diplomat and lawyer who negotiated the Sykes–Picot Agreement with the English diplomat Sir Mark Sykes between November 1915 and March 1916 before its signing on May 16, 1916. It was a secret deal which proposed that, when the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire began after a then theoretical victory of the Triple Entente, Britain and France, and later Russia and Italy, would divide up the Arab territories between them. He was the son of historian Georges Picot and grand-uncle of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He married in Paris on 11 May 1897 to Marie Fouquet. They had three children: Jean Georges-Picot (b. Paris, 26 February 1898), Élisabeth Georges-Picot (1901–1906) and Sibylle Georges-Picot. His great-niece Olga Georges-Picot, appeared in the film The Day of the Jackal.
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Born 1904-08-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
He was assassinated by the milice in the wood of Molles (Allier).
On doit à Jean Zay, né en 1904 d’un père juif alsacien ayant choisi la France en 1871, la scolarité obligatoire jusqu’à 14 ans, la création des Centres régionaux des œuvres universitaires et scolaires (CROUS), mais aussi l’École nationale d’administration (ENA), le Festival de Cannes ou encore le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). La carrière de cet avocat orléanais quadragénaire et ancien ministre du Front populaire aurait sans doute été longue et brillante si, le 20 juin 1944, la milice française ne l’avait assassiné. Le résistant Zay laissera une femme et deux filles, dont Hélène la cadette.
Aujourd’hui, cette dernière circule avec une carte d’identité «un peu fatiguée» dont elle se satisfait «en signe de protestation». Confrontée,
fin 1998, à la nécessité d’obtenir un certificat de nationalité pour son fils, Hélène, professeur des Universités en retraite, avait dû justifier de
sa propre nationalité auprès du tribunal d’instance d’Orléans. «Quand je m’y suis présentée avec les pièces requises, je me suis entendu dire qu’étant née au Maroc ma nationalité était à prouver», confie-t-elle à Libération.
La personne au guichet du tribunal lui avait donc demandé de se tourner vers Nantes, où se trouve le bureau des Français nés à l'étranger, pour obtenir, dans un délai de trois mois minimum, une attestation prouvant sa nationalité française. Hélène proteste et demande à voir un responsable qui fini par céder. «Embarrassé, il a accepté que la nationalité de mon fils soit attestée par celle de son père, se souvient-elle. J’étais donc et suis toujours sans doute de nationalité problématique à prouver».
Hélène Mouchard-Zay est conseillère municipale d’Orléans et ancienne adjointe au maire d’Orléans. Après l’assassinat de son père, elle a été élevée comme «pupille de la Nation». «Si je suis née au Maroc, c’est parce que mon père avait choisi, en juin 1940, de quitter la France pour continuer la lutte en Afrique du Nord, au moment où Pétain s’apprêtait à conclure un armistice honteux, insiste-t-elle. Les miliciens qui, en juin 1944, l’assassinèrent après l’avoir extrait de la prison où Vichy l’enfermait
depuis quatre ans, étaient, eux, incontestablement français… ».
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Born 1842-01-15. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
A close friend, mentor, and collaborator with Sigmund Freud, Breuer is perhaps best known for his work with Anna O. (the pseudonym of Bertha Pappenheim), a woman suffering from 'paralysis of her limbs, and anaesthesias, as well as disturbances of vision and speech.
Breuer observed that her symptoms were reduced or disappeared after she described them to him. Anna O. humorously called this procedure chimney sweeping. She also coined the more serious appellation for this form of therapy, 'her talking cure', which is widely regarded as the basis of Freudian psychoanalysis.