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March 29, 2024

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Lavado Tejón
Joaquín Salvador (alias: Quino). 2020-09-30

88

Born 1932-07-17. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known by his pen name Quino was an Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip Mafalda (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is popular in many parts of the Americas and Europe and has been praised for its use of social satire as a commentary on real-life issues

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Gaillard
André. 2019-09-30

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Born 1927-12-19. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

André Gaillard was a French humorist and actor. In the 60's, together with Teddy Vrignault, he formed the duo Les Frères ennemis.

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Pétillon
René. 2018-09-30

72

Born 1945-12-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

René Pétillon was a French satirical and political cartoonist and comics artist. As a cartoonist he was most famous for his work in Canard Enchaîné. As a comics artist his best known and longest-running series was the humoristic comic strip Jack Palmer, about a goofy private detective.

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Voevodsky
Vladimir Alexandrovich. 2017-09-30

51

Born 1966-06-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Other

He was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He is also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch–Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory. Voevodsky died at his home in Princeton, from an aneurysm.

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Campana
André. 2017-09-30

77

Born 1940-03-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

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Benoit
Thierry (alias: Ted Benoit). 2016-09-30

69

Born 1947-07-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Stroke

He was a French comics artist, graphic novelist and prominent figure in the stylish Franco-Belgian ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s. His influences included Edgar P. Jacobs, Moebius, Robert Crumb and to a lesser extend Jacques Tardi.

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Cannell
Stephen Joseph. 2010-09-30

69

Born 1941-02-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer

He was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
As of 2009, Cannell lived in Los Angeles. He married his high school sweetheart, Marcia; he "asked her to go steady in the eighth grade". Together they had two daughters, Tawnia and Chelsea, and two sons, Cody and Derek. Derek died in 1981 at age 15 when a sand castle he was building at the beach collapsed and suffocated him.
Cannell was dyslexic, and was a spokesperson on the subject. According to an episode of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, Cannell frequently had to dictate ideas or even complete scripts to a personal secretary. He discussed his experiences as a dyslexic in the upcoming documentary Dislecksia: The Movie.

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Popovich
Pavel. 2009-09-30

78

Born 1930-10-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

He was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, and the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space.
He was the 4th Cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space.
Popovich died in a hospital in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Ukraine, where he had been taken following a stroke. Brain hemorrhage was cited as the cause of death.

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Lagarce
Jean-Luc. 1995-09-30

38

Born 1957-02-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:AIDS

wrote for theatre.

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Leiris
Michel. 1990-09-30

89

Born 1901-04-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer.

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Kaminker
Henriette (alias: Simone Signoret). 1985-09-30

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Born 1921-03-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

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Lacans
Pierre. 1985-09-30

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Born 1957-04-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Pierre Lacans was a French rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played club level rugby league (RL) for Lézignan Sangliers, and representative level rugby union (RU) for France, and at club level for AS Béziers, as a flanker, i.e. number 6 or 7. Pierre Lacans was born in Conilhac-Corbières, France, and he was killed in a traffic accident.

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Dean
James. 1955-09-30

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Born 1931-02-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident

Dean and his mechanic Rolf Wuetherich set off from Competition Motors, where they had prepared his Porsche 550 Spyder that morning for a sports car race at Palm Springs. Dean originally intended to trailer the Porsche to the meeting point at Salinas, behind his new Ford Country Squire station wagon, crewed by Hickman and photographer Stanford Roth, who was planning a photo story of Dean at the races. At the last minute, Dean drove the Spyder, having decided he needed more time to familiarize himself with the car. At 3:30PM, Dean was ticketed in Kern County for doing 65 in a 55 mph zone. The driver of the Ford was ticketed for doing 20 mph over the limit, as the speed limit for all vehicles towing a trailer was 45 mph. Later, having left the Ford far behind, they stopped at Blackwell's Corner for fuel and met up with fellow racer Lance Reventlow.
Dean was driving west on U.S. Highway 46 (later California State Route 466) near Cholame, California when a 1950 Ford Tudor, driven from the opposite direction by 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, attempted to take the fork onto California State Route 41 and crossed into Dean's lane without seeing him. The two cars hit almost head on. According to a story in the October 1, 2005 edition of the Los Angeles Times, California Highway Patrol officer Ron Nelson and his partner had been finishing a coffee break in Paso Robles when they were called to the scene of the accident, where they saw a heavily-breathing Dean being placed into an ambulance. Wuetherich had been thrown from the car, but survived with a broken jaw and other injuries. Dean was taken to Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 5:59PM. His last known words, uttered right before impact, are said to have been "That guy's got to stop... He'll see us."
Contrary to reports of Dean's speeding, which persisted decades after his death, Nelson said "the wreckage and the position of Dean's body indicated his speed was more like 55 mph (88 km/h)." Turnupseed received a gashed forehead and bruised nose and was not cited by police for the accident. He died of lung cancer in 1995. Rolf Wuetherich would die in a road accident in Germany in 1981

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Garman
Samuel. 1927-09-30

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Born 1843-06-05. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

Garman, or "Garmann," as he sometimes styled himself was a naturalist/zoologist from Pennsylvania. He became noted as an ichthyologist and herpetologist. He was a friend and regular correspondent of the naturalist Edward Drinker Cope, and in 1872 accompanied him on a fossil hunting trip to Wyoming. In 1873 he became assistant director of herpetology and ichthyology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His work was mostly in the classification of fish, especially sharks, but also included reptiles and amphibians.

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