×
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.
Lookup: name or firstname or alias or date (yyyy-mm-dd):
94
Born 1929-04-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French writer. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979 but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019. He saw himself as a French writer and insisted his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores. Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the communist regime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He led a low-profile life and rarely spoke to the media. He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also a nominee for other awards. Kundera was awarded the 1985 Jerusalem Prize, in 1987 the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 2000 Herder Prize. In 2021, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia. Kundera died after a prolonged illness, in Paris, at the age of 94.
56
Born 1961-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Ji Chunhua, sometimes romanized as Gai Chun Wa, was a Chinese actor and action choreographer. Just like Jet Li and Yu Chenghui, he was a Mainland China-trained wushu athlete who started his acting career in the 1982 Hong Kong martial arts blockbuster Shaolin Temple. Ji had alopecia totalis and often appeared as bald villains in movies (many starring Jet Li) and TV series.
65
Born 1952-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a retired judge who presided over one of France's most infamous unsolved murders : The Gregory affair. He has been found dead in is apartment.. Jean-Michel Lambert, 65, was found by emergency services with his head in a plastic bag at his home near Le Mans late on Tuesday. "There was no trace of violence...(and) no trace of a break-in," said the Le Mans prosecutor in a statement. The suicide is a new twist in the case that has haunted the country for three decades. Lambert has always been thinking that the mother was guilty. « [...] Ce énième « rebondissement » est infâme. Il repose sur une construction intellectuelle fondée en partie sur un logiciel [allusion au logiciel Anacrim]. La machine à broyer s’est mise en marche pour détruire ou abîmer la vie de plusieurs innocents, pour répondre au désir de revanche de quelques esprits blessés dans leur orgueil ou dans l’honneur de leur corps. Certains de mes confrères ont emboîté le pas avec une mauvaise foi abominable. [...] Car, dès novembre 1984, j’ai pu démontrer que si Murielle Bolle n’était pas dans le car de ramassage scolaire, ce n’était pas le mardi 16 octobre mais le mardi 23 octobre, semaine où elle est rentrée chez elle à cause de la grippe. Les preuves sont au dossier (registre du collège et surtout témoignage du chauffeur de car, Monsieur Galmiche, que j’ai piégé après la remise d’un certificat médical, je crois par la mère de Murielle Bolle, et les auditions d’autres collégiennes qui avaient parfois des repères précis mais qui se sont pourtant trompées d’une semaine). [...] Les événements depuis juin dernier sont voués normalement à l’échec. Et pour cause… Pour ne pas perdre la face, on cherchera alors un bouc émissaire. Autant dire qu’il est tout trouvé… Je refuse de jouer ce rôle. Si j’ai parfois failli, j’ai cependant la conscience parfaitement tranquille quant aux décisions que j’ai été amené à prendre. » — Jean-Michel Lambert
92
Born 1923-08-13. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Jean Bergeret was a French physician and psychiatrist.
65
Born 1949-01-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
better known by his stage name Tommy Ramone, he was a Hungarian American record producer and musician. He was the drummer of the influential punk rock band the Ramones for four years. He had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer, and was in hospice care following unsuccessful treatment for it.
99
Born 1908-09-07. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
On December 31, 2005, at age 97, DeBakey suffered an aortic dissection. Years prior, DeBakey had pioneered the surgical treatment of this condition, creating what is now known as the DeBakey Procedure. He was hospitalized at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Dr. DeBakey initially resisted the surgical option, but as his health deteriorated and DeBakey became unresponsive, the surgical team opted to proceed with surgical intervention. In a controversial decision, Houston Methodist Hospital Ethics Committee approved the operation; on February 9–10, he became the oldest patient ever to undergo the surgery for which he was responsible. The operation lasted seven hours. After a complicated post-operative course that required eight months in the hospital, at a cost of over one million dollars, Dr. DeBakey was released in September 2006 and returned to good health. Although DeBakey had previously refused surgery, he later stated that he was grateful that his surgical team performed the operation.
DeBakey died of natural causes at The Methodist Hospital in Houston. DeBakey was preceded in death by his first wife, Diana Cooper DeBakey who died of a heart attack in 1972 and by his sons, Houston lawyer Ernest O. DeBakey, who died in 2004, and Barry E. DeBakey, who died in 2007. His brother Dr. Ernest G. DeBakey died in 2006. Ernest DeBakey was a cancer specialist in Mobile, Alabama. In addition to his wife, Katrin, and their daughter, Olga, DeBakey is survived by sons Michael and Denis, as well as sisters Lois and Selma DeBakey, who are both medical editors and linguists at Baylor.
99
Born 1904-11-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Georges Lautner's mother.
82
Born 1907-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Since Olivier's death, multiple biographers have produced books about him, several of which include the claim that Olivier was bisexual.
63
Born 1909-11-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He married Jessica Cadwalader on March 11, 1939, and they remained married until her death from cancer in 1972; they had 3 children. He died from lung cancer in New York City the following year at the age of 63.
31
Born 1940-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Mexican Grand Prix motor racing driver. He was born in Mexico City and was the older brother of Ricardo Rodríguez. The two are sometimes referred to as "The Little Mexicans". The brothers both raced bicycles and motorcycles to become Mexican champions. Pedro was national champion in 1953 and 1954 in motorcycles. He made his international debut in cars at Nassau in 1957 in a Ferrari, along with Ricardo in a Porsche.
Rodríguez was killed in an Interserie sports car race at Norisring in Nuremberg, Germany, on 11 July 1971, at the wheel of a Ferrari 512M of Herbert Müller Racing, his Swiss friend and partner at the Targa Florio in 1971.
64
Born 1900-04-28. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Stroke
He proved to be the most Stalinist of all communist leaders in Western Europe, blocking the evolution of his party.
In 1950, at the height of his popularity among party members, Thorez suffered a stroke and remained in the Soviet Union for medical care until 1953. During his absence, the party was de facto controlled by his ally Jacques Duclos, who expelled Thorez's rival André Marty. Thorez resumed his duties upon returning to France. Although his health deteriorated, Thorez remained party leader, until shortly before his death in 1964 on a Black Sea cruise.
The city of Torez in Ukraine is named after him. The Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Московский институт иностранных языков имени Мориса Тореза) was named in his honor in the Soviet Union.
His grand-son François Thorez fled in Mexico with his two children in 1999. He was eventually retrieved and jailed in 2007.
85
Born 1878-10-11. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German internist born in Graz. He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to, and after World War I. In 1917-19 he served with distinction as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania. From 1927 to 1935 he was a professor at the University of Halle. In 1935 Brugsch resigned from the university due to the political climate in 1930s Germany, and opened a private practice in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to the Charité, where he remained for the remainder of his career. His father, Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894) was a well-known Egyptologist. With Friedrich Kraus he published a 19-volume medical textbook titled Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie (1919-1929), and with Friedrich H. Lewy he published Die Biologie der Person (1926-1930). He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on the 25-pfennig postage stamp by the East German government. Brugsch's syndrome: a multi-symptom disorder that is similar to Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome without acromegaly.
39
Born 1898-09-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Early in 1937, Gershwin began to complain of blinding headaches and a recurring impression that he was smelling burned rubber. He had developed a brain tumor. It was in Hollywood, while working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, that he collapsed and, on July 11, 1937, died following surgery for the tumor at the age of 38. Ironically, just a few months later in 1937, Gershwin's idol Ravel also died following brain surgery.