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March 29, 2024

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Ventura Raymond (b. 1908-04-16 / d. 1979-03-29) alias Ray Ventura

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Lalande
François. 2020-09-01

89

Born 1930-11-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

François Lalande was an Algerian-born French actor. He had performed in the theatre, on television, and films.

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Fuchs
Gerhard (alias: Carl Duering). 2018-09-01

95

Born 1923-05-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Gerald Percy Fox, better known as Carl Duering, was a German-born British actor whose best known role is as Dr. Brodsky in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. He died in London in September 2018 at the age of 95.

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Weston
Randolph Edward. 2018-09-01

92

Born 1926-04-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.

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Jones
Dean Carroll. 2015-09-01

84

Born 1931-01-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was an American actor. Jones was best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977 such as The Love Bug (1968). Jones also originated the role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim's Company. Jones died on September 1, 2015, at the age of 84, of Parkinson's disease.

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Dautriche
Jacques. 2013-09-01

70

Born 1942-09-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Jacques Dautriche was a French singer and actor. In 1967, he starts a solo carrier under the name Sullivan. He had some success with a psychedelic title, Les Palais de l'Orient. He made a few replacements of Luis Rego in the band les Charlots.

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Schramm
Oded. 2008-09-01

46

Born 1961-12-00. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident

He was an Israeli mathematician working at the intersection of conformal geometry and probability theory. A constant theme in his research was the exploration of relations between discrete models and their continuous scaling limits.
Schramm fell to his death while solo climbing Guye Peak, north of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State

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Gautier
Nathalie. 2006-09-01

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Born 1951-09-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer

French Deputy in 2002 (PS).

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Curry
Haskell Brooks. 1982-09-01

82

Born 1900-09-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, much of the development was done by Curry. Curry is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry-Howard correspondence. He has the distinction of having two programming languages named after him, Haskell and Curry.

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Bieberbach
Ludwig. 1982-09-01

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Born 1886-12-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Bieberbach wrote a habilitation thesis in 1911 about groups of Euclidean motions that helped solve Hilbert's 18th problem.
Bieberbach was, like Martin Heidegger, a fellow traveller and Nazi sympathizer. He was involved in the repression of Jewish colleagues, including Edmund Landau and his former coauthor Schur. Bieberbach was heavily influenced by Theodore Vahlen, another German mathematician and anti-Semite, who along with Bieberbach founded the "Deutsche Mathematik"

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Speer
Albert. 1981-09-01

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Born 1905-03-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Stroke

He was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich."
At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was one of the few officials to express remorse. He was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, most of which he would serve at Spandau Prison, West Berlin, largely for his use of slave labour.
Speer's release from prison in 1966 was a worldwide media event.
Speer died of a cerebral hemorrhage in London, exactly 42 years after Germany invaded Poland.

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Russier
Gabrielle. 1969-09-01

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Born 1937-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

During the events of May 1968,Gabrielle Russier , a lit teacher ,fell in love with one of her students .His parents brought proceedings against her and she ended up in jail on a corruption of a minor charge. She spent a few days in a cell.
The establishment of the university was very angry agianst her. Everything was made to hinder her to find a job. She could not raise her two children. Out of despair,she committed suicide by opening gas.

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Sassoon
Siegfried Loraine. 1967-09-01

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Born 1886-09-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a vainglorious war. He later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy".

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