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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Lambert
Jean-Yves (alias: Jean-Yves Lafesse). 2021-07-22

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Born 1957-03-13. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:orphan disease

Jean-Yves Lambert, known as Jean-Yves Lafesse, was a French comedian and actor born in Pontivy (Morbihan) and died in Vannes (Morbihan). He is known for his phone hoaxes, as well as for his gags filmed on hidden camera from passers-by in the street. Jean-Yves Lafesse died in Vannes of Charcot's disease diagnosed a year earlier.

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Schiffer
Leo Egidius. 2018-07-22

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Born 1956-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident

Leo Egidius Schiffer was a German serial killer, who was known as the "Strangler of Aachen". Between 1983 and 1990, he murdered five girls and women between the ages of 15 to 31, abusing three of them sexually. His crimes were known as "hitchhiker killings" or "Disco-murders". In 1985, the program Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst covered his case. He was sentenced on August 19, 2008, 18 years after his last murder, by the Aachen Regional Court for murder in five cases and rape in two cases to life imprisonment. The court also noted the particular severity of the guilt. A revision was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in June 2009. On the morning of July 22, 2018, Schiffer was found dead in his cell in the Bochum correctional facility. There he had connected his body to the power grid using multiple cables to support autoerotic practises, and he died as a result of heart arrhythmia.

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Farina
Dennis. 2013-07-22

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Born 1944-02-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

Dennis Farina was an American actor, TV presenter, narrator and former police officer. He was a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. He is known for roles such as mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty and Cousin Avi in Snatch. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012. He died in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital from a pulmonary embolism. His body was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery at Hillside, Illinois.

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Falcon
André. 2009-07-22

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Born 1924-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2008.

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Getty
Estelle. 2008-07-22

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Born 1923-07-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
In 2000, Getty stopped making public appearances after revealing she had Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis. In 2002, media reports claimed she was also suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Doctors later discovered she actually had Lewy body dementia; both the Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diagnoses were incorrect. In 2003, Lifetime television hosted a Golden Girls reunion, but Getty did not appear due to her failing health.
Getty was married to Arthur Gettleman (from whose name she adapted her stage name) from 1946 until his death in 2004. Getty had two sons: Carl Gettleman, who lives in California, and Barry Gettleman, who lives in Florida.
In 1991, as later reported in Star magazine, Getty helped her 29-year-old nephew Steven Scher, who was suffering from the final stages of AIDS and near death. Because Scher's parents lived in England and his friends were no longer able to care for him in Greensboro, North Carolina, Getty had him flown to California and admitted to hospice care. He died in January 1992.

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Stablewski
Jean (alias: Jean Stablinski). 2007-07-22

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Born 1932-05-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer

He was caught two times for doping.

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Muehe
Ulrich. 2007-07-22

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Born 1953-06-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)

Mühe was already seriously ill at the prize-giving ceremony in Los Angeles in April 2007 when Das Leben der Anderen was awarded its Oscar, and flew back to Germany hours later for an urgent stomach operation.

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Rey
Pierre. 2006-07-22

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Born 1930-04-00. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

„J’ai vécu chaque jour de ma vie comme si j’allais mourir dans 5 minutes“

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Reggiani
Sergio (alias: Serge Reggiani). 2004-07-22

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Born 1922-05-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Distel
Alexandre (alias: Sacha Distel). 2004-07-22

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Born 1933-01-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

Sacha Distel had a much publicised relationship with actress Brigitte Bardot but in 1963 he married skier Francine Bréaud.

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Lewis
Norman. 2003-07-22

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Born 1908-06-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Sautet
Claude. 2000-07-22

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Born 1924-02-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)

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Dhotel
André. 1991-07-22

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Born 1900-09-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

His wife had died a day earlier.

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Newell
Patrick. 1988-07-22

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Born 1932-03-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

Later in life, Newell succeeded in losing a substantial amount of weight, but this did not prevent his early death from a heart attack.
He was a British actor known for his large size. It is reputed he gained weight as a deliberate attempt to boost his career, marking him out for some niche roles. It has been written that his entry in Who's Who On Television in the late 1970s, Newell described himself as "Actor with a weight problem--the more he diets, the less work he seems to get."
His most notable role was as "Mother," the spymaster in The Avengers.

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Byam
Wallace Merle. 1962-07-22

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Born 1896-07-04. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (brain)

He was one of the pioneer manufacturers of the travel trailer. He founded the company, Airstream Inc. From the 1930s until his death in 1962, Byam was a leader in developing both a romance and enthusiasm associated with the automobile and recreational vehicle culture as well as product features as the United States became increasingly focused on highways and automobile travel.

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Brown
Ernest William. 1938-07-22

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Born 1866-11-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

He was a British mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States. His life's work was the study of the Moon's motion (lunar theory) and the compilation of extremely accurate lunar tables. He also studied the motion of the planets and calculated the orbits of Trojan asteroids. A heavy smoker, Brown suffered from bronchial trouble for much of his life. He was afflicted by ill-health during most of the six years of his retirement, and died in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Dillinger
John. 1934-07-22

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Born 1903-06-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

Dillinger's last day of freedom was July 22, 1934. Dillinger attended the film Manhattan Melodrama (coincidentally, a gangster film) at the Biograph Theater in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago with his girlfriend, Polly Hamilton, and Ana Cumpanas (a.k.a. Anna Sage), who was facing deportation charges for running a brothel. Sage worked out a deal with the FBI to set up an ambush for Dillinger and drop the deportation charges against her. When they exited the theater that night, Sage tipped off the FBI agents who opened fire into Dillinger's back, killing him. Dillinger was struck three times, twice in the chest, one actually nicking his heart, and the fatal shot, which entered the back of his neck and exited just under his right eye. According to Purvis, Dillinger died without saying a word. Sage had identified herself to agent Melvin Purvis by wearing an agreed-upon orange and white dress, which due to the night lights, led to the enduring notion of the "Lady in Red" as a betraying character. Though she had delivered Dillinger as promised, Sage was still deported to her home country of Romania in 1936, where she remained until her death 11 years later.
To this day, there are doubts whether Dillinger actually died on July 22, 1934. Some researchers (chief among them famed Chicago crime writer Jay Robert Nash) believe that the dead man was in truth a petty criminal from Wisconsin named Jimmy Lawrence, who had dated Dillinger's sometime girlfriend Billie Frechette and bore a close resemblance to the famed bank robber.

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