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April 19, 2024

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Heche
Anne Celeste. 2022-08-12

53

Born 1969-05-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress who came to recognition portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), winning her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She achieved greater prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).
On August 5, 2022, Heche was involved in a sequence of two car crashes in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, first when the Mini Cooper she was driving hit a garage at an apartment complex, and second when she crashed into a house, resulting in a fire that left her severely burned. A video recorded in the moments before the final crash shows Heche's vehicle navigating a neighborhood street at a very high speed, followed a few seconds later by the sound of a crash. The vehicle collision and resulting house fire required 59 firefighters to handle, who took 65 minutes to fully extinguish the fire and rescue Heche from the vehicle. The house was left structurally compromised and uninhabitable. The tenant of the house sustained minor injuries, but said that she and her pets were almost killed and that she had lost all of her personal property to the fire. Law enforcement officials said that Heche was "deemed to be under the influence and acting erratically" at the time of the crashes. The Los Angeles Police Department said that a preliminary blood analysis confirmed the presence of narcotics in Heche's system, although more comprehensive toxicology tests that could take weeks are required to identify specific drugs. Heche was removed from the crash scene on a stretcher, and was transported to a hospital. She was filmed sitting up on the stretcher and struggling with paramedics as she was being wheeled into the ambulance; however, she lost consciousness soon afterward. On August 8, a representative for Heche said she was in a coma in extremely critical condition, with medical ventilation required for a pulmonary injury. On August 11, the representative said that Heche was not expected to survive due to an anoxic brain injury, and that she was being kept on life support to determine if her organs were viable for donation, in accordance with her expressed wish to be an organ donor. Heche was declared brain dead a few hours later on August 11, but remained on life support to assess organ donor viability and locate recipients. Her family released a statement saying they "lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul".

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Petersen
Wolfgang. 2022-08-12

81

Born 1941-03-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), and Poseidon (2006). Peterson died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 81, at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, United States.

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Perske
Betty Joan (alias: Lauren Bacall). 2014-08-12

89

Born 1924-09-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

She was an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks. Bacall died at the age of 89 after suffering a stroke.

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Allen
Christie. 2008-08-12

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Born 1954-09-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Allen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2008 and died at her home in country Western Australia.

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Lacassin
Francis. 2008-08-12

76

Born 1931-11-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

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Young
Gretchen (alias: Loretta Young). 2000-08-12

87

Born 1913-01-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)

In 1935, Young had an affair with Clark Gable, who was married at the time, while on location for The Call of the Wild. During their relationship, Young became pregnant. Due to the moral codes placed on the film industry Young covered up her pregnancy in order to avoid damaging her career (as well as Gable's). Returning from a long "vacation" (during which she secretly gave birth to her daughter), Young announced that she had adopted the little girl. The child was raised as "Judy Lewis" after taking the name of Young's second husband, producer Tom Lewis. According to Lewis's autobiography Uncommon Knowledge, Lewis was made fun of because of the ears that she received from her father, Clark Gable. Over the years she had heard rumors and secretly knew that Loretta Young was her biological mother, but it was not until 1958 when Judy's future husband Joseph Tinney told her that "everybody" knew the rumors that she really began to suspect. It was not until a few years later when Judy was a mother herself that she finally got the nerve to ask her mother, who finally admitted that Clark Gable was Judy's father.

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Cage
John. 1992-08-12

79

Born 1912-09-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

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Basquiat
Jean-Michel. 1988-08-12

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Born 1960-12-22. Domain:Art. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

By 1984, many of Basquiat's friends were concerned about his excessive drug use and increasingly erratic behaviour, including signs of paranoia. Basquiat had developed a frequent heroin habit by this point, starting from his early years living among the junkies and street artists in New York's underground. On February 10, 1985, Basquiat appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a feature entitled "New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist". As Basquiat's international success heightened, his works were shown in solo exhibitions across major European capitals. Basquiat died of mixed-drug toxicity (he had been combining cocaine and heroin, known as "speedballing") in his Great Jones Street loft/studio in 1988 several days before what would have been Basquiat's second trip to the Côte d'Ivoire.

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Fonda
Henry. 1982-08-12

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Born 1905-05-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart

Fonda died at his Los Angeles home from heart disease. He also suffered from prostate cancer, but this did not directly cause his death and was only mentioned as a concurrent ailment on his death certificate.

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Pons
Patrick. 1980-08-12

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Born 1952-12-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from France. His best year was in 1974 when he finished in third place in the 250cc and the 350cc world championships. Pons became the first Frenchman to win an F.I.M. world championship when he won the 1979 Formula 750 title. In 1980, he won the prestigious Daytona 200. He was killed in 1980 following an accident at the British Grand Prix.
He used to say "every fall is one ticket out of your stub book". His last one was at that British Grand Prix.

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Benelli
Liliane. 1965-08-12

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Born 1935-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident

Liliane Benelli was a French musician, appointed pianist of the L'Écluse cabaret. She composed with Barbara Ni belle ni bonne and Ce matin-là in 1963. Liliane Benelli became, moreover, the fiancée and mentor of Serge Lama, they met in 1963. Thanks to her, he opens for Barbara. On August 12, 1965, she died at the age of 30 in a car accident outside Aix-en-Provence in a car driven by Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, brother of Enrico Macias, during a tour with Serge Lama who had multiple trauma for several months. In 1965, Barbara wrote Une petite cantata in homage to her friend and pianist, and Serge Lama dedicated Sans toi to her in 1966, D'aventures en aventures (on the homonymous album in 1968), as well as Toute blanche in 1974. In 2003, he took over Une petite cantate (in duet with Marie-Paule Belle), on the album Pluri ((they)).

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Fleming
Ian Lancaster. 1964-08-12

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Born 1908-05-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack

In observance of what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday in 2008, Ian Fleming Publications commissioned Sebastian Faulks to write a new Bond novel entitled Devil May Care. The book, released in May 2008, is credited to "Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming".

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Mann
Thomas. 1955-08-12

80

Born 1875-06-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease

In 1955, he died of atherosclerosis in a hospital in Zürich and was buried in Kilchberg.
Death in Venice is considered a classic of homosexual passion and has been made into a film and an opera.

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