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March 29, 2024

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Cooreman
Léonie (alias: Annie Cordy). 2020-09-04

92

Born 1928-06-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Léonie, Baroness Cooreman, known by the stage name Annie Cordy as a Belgian actress and singer. She appeared in more than 50 films since 1954 and staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia. Her version of "La Ballade de Davy Crockett" was number 1 in the charts for five weeks in France in August 1956. She was born in Laeken, Belgium, where in 2004, King Albert II of Belgium bestowed upon her the title of Baroness in recognition for her life's achievements.

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Lawford
Christopher. 2018-09-04

63

Born 1955-03-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

Christopher Kennedy Lawford was an American author, actor, and activist. He was a member of the prominent Kennedy family, and son of actor Peter Lawford and Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford, who was the sister of President John F. Kennedy. He graduated from Tufts University in 1977 and earned a law degree from Boston College in 1983. He later earned a master's certificate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University, and was a lecturer on drug addiction. After struggling with addiction for 17 years, he became an actor, performing in several movies and television shows for over 20 years. He wrote several books, based on his own experience, about addiction and recovery. He also traveled around the U.S. speaking about his experiences with addiction for 20 years, and was a public health campaigner, working with organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN), and for the U.S. federal government. Lawford died of a heart attack in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was living with his girlfriend and working to open a recovery center. He had a medical emergency at a yoga studio and later died. Patrick Kennedy told the Associated Press that Lawford had been doing "hot yoga, which he did often, but the strain of it 'must have been too much for him at that point'"

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Joly
Sylvie. 2015-09-04

80

Born 1934-10-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

She was a French actress and comedian. She was best known for her roles in the films Going Places (1974) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). Joly was born in Paris. She had two daughters, Mathilde Vitry and Stéphane Joly. In October 2010, she revealed she had Parkinson's disease. Joly died from a heart attack on 4 September 2015 in Paris.

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Molinsky
Joan Alexandra (alias: Joan Rivers). 2014-09-04

81

Born 1933-06-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation

She was an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and television host. She was best known for her stand-up comedy and red carpet interviews, and for co-hosting the E! celebrity fashion show Fashion Police from 2010 to 2014, as well as starring in the reality series Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? alongside her daughter Melissa Rivers from 2011 to 2014. She often appeared on QVC shopping channel, selling jewelery and fashion items that she had created. On August 28, 2014, Rivers experienced serious complications and stopped breathing during a surgical procedure on her vocal cords at a clinic in Yorkville, Manhattan. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was put into a medically induced coma after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest. On August 30, she was put on life support. On September 1, 2014, Rivers's physicians had reportedly begun trying to bring her out of the coma, and she was moved to a private room on September 3, still without a prognosis. The following day, September 4, Rivers died at 13:17 EDT. The exact cause of death was still undetermined after two days, while more tests had been ordered.

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Cerati
Gustavo. 2014-09-04

55

Born 1959-08-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke

He was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and producer, considered one of the most important and influential figures of Ibero-American rock and a Latin American rock legend. Cerati died on 4 September 2014 at the age of 55, after suffering a stroke four years earlier in Caracas, Venezuela which resulted in a coma.

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Belvaux
Remy. 2006-09-04

38

Born 1967-11-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide

He was a Belgian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He was the brother of Lucas Belvaux, also an actor and film director, and of Bruno Belvaux, theater director.
In 1992, he was with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde director, producer and actor of the feature film Man Bites Dog.
In 1998 he was one of the four participants who creampied Bill Gates, along with Noël Godin.

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Irwin
Stephen (alias: The crocodile hunter). 2006-09-04

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Born 1962-02-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident

Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine while snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the stingrays. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.
The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police. After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger by automatically flexing the serrated spine on its tail (which can measure up to 25 cm or about 10 inches in length) in an upward motion.
Ironically, the stingray was not the creature being filmed. It was deemed "not dangerous enough" to be featured in the documentary.

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Marquand
Serge. 2004-09-04

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Born 1930-03-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)

Nadine Trintignant's brother. He died of an acute leukemia.

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Bobesco
Lola. 2003-09-04

82

Born 1920-09-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

She was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin.
She began her career as a child prodigy, giving her first recital at the age of 6 together with her father. She gained her first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1934. She became known internationally after obtaining the seventh prize at the Eugène Ysaÿe contest, in 1937. She founded in 1958 the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.

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Clarke
Joan Elisabeth. 1996-09-04

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Born 1917-06-24. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Joan Elisabeth Lowther Murray, MBE (née Clarke) was an English cryptanalyst and numismatist best known for her work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Although she did not personally seek the spotlight, her role in the Enigma project that decrypted Nazi Germany's secret communications earned her awards and citations, such as appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), in 1946. Hugh Alexander, head of Hut 8 from 1943 to 1944, described her as "one of the best Banburists in the section". Alexander himself was regarded as the best of the Banburists. He and I. J. Good considered the process more an intellectual game than a job. It was "not easy enough to be trivial, but not difficult enough to cause a nervous breakdown". Banburismus was a cryptanalytic process developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in Britain during the Second World War. It was used by Bletchley Park's Hut 8 to help break German Kriegsmarine (naval) messages enciphered on Enigma machines. The process used sequential conditional probability to infer information about the likely settings of the Enigma machine. It gave rise to Turing's invention of the ban as a measure of the weight of evidence in favour of a hypothesis. This concept was later applied in Turingery and all the other methods used for breaking the Lorenz cipher. Clarke and Turing had been close friends since soon after they met, and continued to be until Turing's death in 1954. They shared many hobbies and had similar personalities. They became very good friends at Bletchley Park. Turing arranged their shifts so they could work together, and they also spent much of their free time together. In early 1941, Turing proposed marriage to Clarke, and subsequently introduced her to his family. Although privately admitting his homosexuality to her—she was reportedly "unfazed" by the revelation—Turing decided that he could not go through with the marriage, and broke up with Clarke in mid-1941. Clarke later admitted that she suspected Turing's homosexuality for some time, and it was not much of a surprise when he made the admission to her.

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Villechaize
Hervé Jean-Pierre. 1993-09-04

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Born 1943-04-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French American actor. He is best remembered for his roles as the evil henchman, Nick Nack, in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, and for playing Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the 1977–1984 American television series Fantasy Island, where his catch phrase was "Ze plane! Ze plane!" n the early morning hours of September 4, 1993, Villechaize is believed to have first fired a shot through the sliding glass patio door to awaken his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self, before shooting himself at his North Hollywood home. Self found Villechaize in his backyard, and he was pronounced dead at a North Hollywood facility. Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems. Villechaize was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his small body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.

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Simenon
Georges. 1989-09-04

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Born 1903-02-13. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Bonheur
Gaston. 1980-09-04

66

Born 1913-11-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

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Rostand
Jean. 1977-09-04

83

Born 1894-10-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist. His scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as amphibian embryology, parthenogenesis and teratogeny, while his literary output extended into popular science, history of science and philosophy.

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Ferréol
Marcel (alias: Marcel Achard). 1974-09-04

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Born 1899-07-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other

Diabetes

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Schweitzer
Albert. 1965-09-04

90

Born 1875-01-14. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age

The will to live is naturally both parasitic and antagonistic towards other forms of life. Only in the thinking being has the will to live become conscious of other wills to live, and desirous of solidarity with it. This solidarity, however, cannot be brought about, because human life does not escape the puzzling and horrible circumstance that it must live at the cost of other life. But as an ethical being one strives to escape whenever possible from this necessity, and to put a stop to this disunion of the Will to live, so far as it is within one's power.

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Schuman
Robert. 1963-09-04

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Born 1886-06-29. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

He was a noted Luxembourg-born German-French politician, a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) who is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union.

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Grieg
Edvard. 1907-09-04

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Born 1843-06-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)

Tuberculosis.
Edvard Grieg died in the autumn of 1907, aged 64, after a long period of illness. The funeral drew between 30,000 and 40,000 people out on the streets of his home town to honour him. Following his wish, his own funeral march for Rikard Nordraak was played in an orchestration by his friend Johan Halvorsen. In addition, the funeral march by Frederic Chopin was played. His and his wife's ashes are entombed in a mountain crypt near his house, Troldhaugen.

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