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March 29, 2024

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Hashimoto
Shinobu. 2018-07-19

100

Born 1918-04-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Shinobu Hashimoto was a Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for such internationally acclaimed films as Rashomon and Seven Samurai.

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Vigilante
John. 2018-07-19

33

Born 1985-05-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart

John Vigilante was an American professional ice hockey forward. At the time of his death he was the head coach for the 19u Belle Tire Girls Hockey Program.

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Bénard
Anne-José (alias: Cécile Aubry). 2010-07-19

81

Born 1928-08-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

She was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh.
She is especially famous in France for her TV series for children, Poly (a boy and a horse) and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son Mehdi El Glaoui, only credited as Mehdi.

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Surtees
Henry. 2009-07-19

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Born 1991-02-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a British racing driver and the son of John Surtees.
At Brands Hatch, Surtees was hit on the head by a wheel from the car of Jack Clarke after Clarke spun into the wall exiting Westfield Bend. The wheel broke its tether and bounced back across the track into the following group of cars and collided with Surtees' helmet. The car continued straight ahead into the barrier on the approach to Sheene Curve, also losing a wheel, and came to rest at the end of the curve with its remaining rear wheel still spinning. This indicated that Surtees had lost consciousness, with his foot still pressing the accelerator.
Surtees was extricated from the car and taken to the circuit's medical centre, where he was stabilised before being transferred to the Royal London Hospital. His death was attributed to severe head injuries, inflicted by colliding with the wheel rather than the following crash with the barriers.

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Rudelle
Roger (alias: Roger Rudel). 2008-07-19

86

Born 1921-12-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was the dubbing voice of Artemus Gordon and a lot of James Bond and many others.

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Devon
Laura. 2007-07-19

76

Born 1931-05-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart

Laura Devon was an American actress, singer, and model. Her birth name has been given as either Mary Lou Briley or Mary Laura Briley. Her father was identified in the press as Merrill Devon, an automotive engineer, and her mother as Velma Prather. Laura Devon died of heart failure in Beverly Hills

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de Larosière
Bertrand (alias: Bertrand Jérôme). 2006-07-19

79

Born 1926-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown

Creator of des papous dans la tête. His exact birth date is undetermined.

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Lebzelter
John (alias: Jack Warden). 2006-07-19

85

Born 1920-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart

In twelve angry men:
The jury consists of the following (identified only by numbers, all are white men):
The Foreman (Juror #1, played by Martin Balsam)
Juror #2 (John Fiedler)
Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb)
Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall)
Juror #5 (Jack Klugman is the only survivor at this time - 2007-03-16)
Juror #6 (Edward Binns)
Juror #7 (Jack Warden) An exceptionally indifferent man, whose sheer apathy winds up offending the other jurors regardless of their vote. He has tickets to a baseball game and clearly will go along with whatever will get him out of the jury room the quickest. He is somewhat of a facetious bully by nature, but is easily enfeebled by someone else's aggressiveness. #11 confronts him about his changing his verdict so thoughtlessly.
Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney)
Juror #10 (Ed Begley)
Juror #11 (George Voskovec)
Juror #12 (Robert Webber)
Warden died of heart and kidney failure in a New York hospital at the age of 85.

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Bombard
Alain. 2005-07-19

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Born 1924-10-27. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

Bombard's claim was tested and contested by Hannes Lindemann, a German physician, canoeist and sailing pioneer. Lindemann wanted to repeat Bombard's trip in order to gain a better understanding of living on salt water and fish, but found that he needed fresh water (from rain) most days. Lindemann later claimed that Bombard had actually taken along fresh water and consumed it on the ocean, and that he had also been secretly provided further supplies during his voyage. Lindemann's own observations about reactions to scarce fresh water supplies became the basis for the World Health Organisation's navigation recommendations.

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Doucé
Joseph. 1990-07-19

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Born 1945-04-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

Joseph Doucé was a French psychologist and Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay and was among the founders of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. After one year at the Stenonius College (a Roman Catholic seminary) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conversion to Protestantism by 1967.
His Centre du Christ Libérateur was a ministry to sexual minorities. The center had support groups for homosexuals, transsexuals, sadomasochism and pedophiles.
Doucé was killed and the murder has never been solved. According to Doucé's lover, he was taken away by two men, who showed police badges on July the 19th 1990. The body was found in a forest in October 1990.
According to some, the killers were a unit of the secret French police, Renseignements Généraux, who investigated Doucé because of his support for pedophiles. (The unit has also been linked to the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985).

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Kopechne
Mary-Jo. 1969-07-19

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Born 1940-07-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident

Mary Jo Kopechne was an American secretary, one of the campaign workers for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the Boiler Room Girls. In 1969, she died in a car accident on Chappaquiddick Island, while being driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.

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Audran
Edmond. 1951-07-19

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Born 1917-12-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident

Road accident.

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