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Kesselring
Rolf. 2022-07-30

80

Born 1941-10-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Rolf Kesselring, born on 26 October 1941 in Martigny, Switzerland, and died on 30 July 20221 was a publisher, writer and journalist from the canton of Vaud and founder of the Kesselring publishing house.

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Pickett
Jay Harris. 2021-07-30

60

Born 1961-02-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown

Jay Harris Pickett was an American actor. In 1997, Pickett originated the role of Frank Scanlon, a dedicated paramedic and substitute teacher and the complicated older brother of Joe Scanlon, on the ABC Daytime drama Port Charles. Pickett died unexpectedly while preparing to film a scene for the film Treasure Valley on a set near Oreana, Idaho.

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Desvarieux
Jacob. 2021-07-30

65

Born 1955-11-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:COVID

Jacob Desvarieux was born in Pointe-à-Pitre. He was a French singer, musician, arranger and producer. He is one of the co-founders of the music group Kassav '. Diabetic, Jacob Desvarieux had undergone a kidney transplant, which forced him to take immunosuppressive therapy for life to fight against rejection of the transplanted organ. Having received three injections of the vaccine against Covid-19, he nevertheless developed the disease in July 2021. He was hospitalized at the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital where he was placed in an artificial coma so that he could be provided with the necessary care. He eventually died of Covid-19 at the age of 65.

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Djemelbarek
Belkacem (alias: Djemel Barek). 2020-07-30

56

Born 1963-12-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

Djemel Barek was born on December 18, 1963 in Algiers, Algeria as Belkacem Djemelbarek. He was an actor, known for Munich (2005), Carlos (2010) and Mon roi (2015). He died on July 30, 2020 in Versailles, Yvelines, France.

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Ross
Michael Edward. 2016-07-30

50

Born 1965-10-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Accident

“Ed” Ross was an American tintype photographer and lawyer. His photography work spanned 27 years. His last six years were devoted exclusively to wet-plate photography. His focus as an artist was primarily on nude portraits and landscape photography. Ross was killed in a motorcycle accident on a mountain road near Yosemite National Park, while on his way to photograph one of his favorite subjects, the Half Dome in Yosemite Valley.

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Bell
William Edwin. 2016-07-30

70

Born 1945-10-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a Canadian author of young adult fiction. He lived in Orillia, Ontario. He was born in Toronto, son of William and Irene Bell. He married Susan Arnup and had three children: Dylan, Megan and Brendan. He lived with his wife, Chinese-Canadian author Ting-Xing Ye. He died in Orillia at the age of 70

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Millar
William. 2008-07-30

53

Born 1955-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

A Renault Formula One engineer is believed to have shot himself at the team's headquarters.
Thames Valley Police said they are not treating the death of William Millar as suspicious, after he was found on a footpath within the grounds of the Whiteways Research Centre, near Enstone, Oxfordshire.
A police spokeswoman today confirmed that the body was identified by the Oxfordshire coroner as that of the 53-year-old research and development engineer, of Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire.
His body was discovered shortly after 11am on Wednesday after staff heard a gunshot. Mr Millar was found with a single head wound.
The apparent suicide came days before the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, where Renault drivers Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet Jr will take to the track.
Renault issued a tribute to Mr Millar following his death.
'Everyone at the team is deeply shocked to lose such a valued member of staff who had been with the team for 27 years.
'Before the team was taken over by Renault, he worked for Benetton Formula One. We have a very large site but it happened within the premises on a footpath.
'Known as Bill, he was involved in designing anything that can improve the car.'
Local reports said Mr Millar was a married father of two.
Renault stressed yesterday they did not believe the suicide was work-related.
Neighbours of Bill, who lived with bed-ridden wife Valerie in the Cotswolds village of Minster Lovell said he had personal problems.
One added:"Sadly, it seems it all got to much. It's a tragedy. He was a lovely man."
Daughter Lawrie Millar, who answered the door at the family home, said: "We have nothing to say. "
A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman confirmed that the death was not being treated as suspicious. She said: "We were called just after 11am after staff at Renault witnessed a man walking to the bridleway near to the headquarters.
"A gunshot was heard and then the body of a man was discovered on the path."
Renault said the centre's 500 staff had been offered counselling in the wake of Wednesday's tragedy.
A spokeswoman said Mr Millar was popular with his colleagues. She added: "We are all very sad and shocked. William was very well liked. He'll be greatly missed."

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Antonioni
Michelangello. 2007-07-30

94

Born 1912-09-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

Stroke in 1985. But, he survived. Made a film "Eros" in 2004.

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Bergman
Ingmar. 2007-07-30

89

Born 1918-07-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Cardwell
Donald. 2004-07-30

68

Born 1935-09-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer

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Grisoni
Dominique-Antoine. 2003-07-30

58

Born 1945-04-11. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

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Chauchoin
Lily (alias: Claudette Colbert). 1996-07-30

92

Born 1903-09-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

David O. Selznick wrote in a memo that they had rebuilt several sets of Since You Went Away (1944) "because of her refusal to have the right side of her face photographed, on top of which we have to pay her not only a fabulous salary, but also give her two days off a month, which works out to $5000 every four weeks for doing absolutely nothing, and now she's demanding three.... Tell her there's a war on and we all have to make some sacrifices."
Colbert suffered a stroke in 1994 and never fully recovered; it curtailed her daily swims and speedboat rides. She died at her oceanfront home in the former British colony, Barbados at the age of 92, following a series of small strokes during the last two years of her life.

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Schneider
Magda. 1996-07-30

87

Born 1909-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Obrecht
André. 1985-07-30

86

Born 1899-08-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

André Obrecht was the official executioner of France from 1951 until 1976.
Born in Paris Obrecht was the nephew of the chief executioner Anatole Deibler. He learned of his uncle's job at ten, when a series of postcards depicting an execution were published in September 1909. Following the death of his own son, who was born only one month after Obrecht, Deibler had a father-like relationship with young André, and the affection between the two men never ceased.
Obrecht joined the executioners' team on April 4, 1922, as second assistant. By day, he worked in a factory as a machine operator. He remained as second assistant until 1939, when Anatole Deibler died. Due to financial obligations Deibler's widow allowed Obrecht's cousin Jules-Henri Desfourneaux and not Obrecht to succeed Deibler despite her late husband's indication that he would prefer Obrecht as his successor. Obrecht subsequently took Desfourneaux's former place as first assistant.
Obrecht and Desfourneaux disliked each other. Obrecht thought his cousin too slow and badly organized. In late 1943, after having executed many French resistance fighters, Obrecht and his colleagues and friends, the Martin brothers, quit. Obrecht resumed his job in 1945, but his animosity towards his cousin had grown. After an execution in 1947, the cousins fought and Obrecht decided, for the second time, to quit.
When Desfourneaux died in 1951, Obrecht wrote to the ministry of Justice, proposing his candidature as chief executioner. This was agreed and on November 1, 1951, he was officially nominated. On November 13 he performed his first guillotining as chief in Marseilles when he executed the police killer Marcel Ythier.
As time passed by, the number of executions decreased. In the early '70s, Obrecht learned he had Parkinson's disease. Though his health was poor, he guillotined four men, Roger Bontemps and Claude Buffet in Paris on November 28, 1972 (murder of a nurse and a jail warden), Ali Benyanès in Marseilles on May 12, 1973 (murder of a 8-year old girl during a hold-up) and finally, also in Marseilles, Christian Ranucci on July 28, 1976 (for the kidnapping and murder of a young girl). Many think Ranucci was in fact innocent.
On September 30, 1976, Obrecht resigned his job. The next day, his title was handed to his nephew by marriage Marcel Chevalier who had been his assistant since 1958. Chevalier performed the final two guillotinings in France
Obrecht died on July 30, 1985 in a Nice hospital. Four years later, reporter Jean Ker, who interviewed him many times, released a book called "Le Carnet Noir du Bourreau" (The Executioners' Black Diary), a biography. Obrecht left an image of himself as a normal man albeit a womaniser, quite authoritative at work and, more than anything else, lonely because of his job.

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Hoffa
James Riddle. 1982-07-30

69

Born 1913-02-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa (born February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975, declared legally dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader. Hoffa was involved with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union as an organizer from 1932 to 1975. He served as the union's General President from 1958 to 1971. He secured the first national agreement for teamsters' rates in 1964, and played a major role in the growth and development of the union, which eventually became the largest single union in the United States, with over 1.5 million members during his terms as its leader. Hoffa, who had been convicted of jury tampering, attempted bribery, and fraud in 1964, was imprisoned in 1967, sentenced to 13 years, after exhausting the appeal process. It was not until mid-1971 that he officially resigned the Teamsters' presidency, an action that was part of a pardon agreement with U.S. president Richard Nixon, in order to facilitate his release later that year. Nixon blocked Hoffa from union activities until 1980 (which would have been the end of his prison term, had he served the full sentence); Hoffa was attempting to overturn this order and to regain support. Hoffa was last seen in late July 1975, outside the Machus Red Fox, a suburban Detroit restaurant.

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Jardin
Pascal. 1980-07-30

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Born 1934-05-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Lewis
Maud Kathleen. 1970-07-30

67

Born 1903-03-07. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Pneumonia

Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. Lewis lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, achieving national recognition in 1964 and 1965. Several books, plays and films have since been produced about her. Lewis remains one of Canada's best-known folk artists; her works and the restored Maud Lewis House are displayed in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In the last year of her life, Maud Lewis stayed in one corner of her house, painting as often as she could while traveling back and forth to the hospital for treatment of health issues. She died in Digby from pneumonia. Her husband Everett was killed in 1979 by a burglar during an attempted robbery of the couple's house.

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de Flers
Robert. 1927-07-30

55

Born 1872-11-25. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Unknown

Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers was a French author and journalist born in Pont-l'Évêque (Calvados). He died in Vittel (Vosges).
Worked at the Figaro

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Poulain
Victor-Auguste. 1918-07-30

93

Born 1825-02-11. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Chocolate maker

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