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March 29, 2024

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Elkabbach
Jean-Pierre. 2023-10-03

86

Born 1937-09-29. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach was a French journalist.

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Tapie
Bernard. 2021-10-03

78

Born 1943-01-26. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer

Bernard Tapie was a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was Minister of City Affairs in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy.

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Narasimhan
Raghavan. 2015-10-03

78

Born 1937-08-31. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Narasimhan (August 31, 1937 – October 3, 2015) was an Indian mathematician at the University of Chicago who worked on real and complex manifolds and who solved the Levi problem for complex manifolds

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Bellec
André. 2008-10-03

94

Born 1914-02-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He is considered as the founder of "les frères Jacques". He was appearing in green stockings

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LeJuan
Simon. 2008-10-03

27

Born 1981-02-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Other

His personal best jump was 16.87 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Odessa. He has 17.05 metres on the indoor track, achieved in March 2004 in Fayetteville. He also has 8.01 metres in the long jump, achieved in May 2004 in Baton Rouge.
LeJuan Simon died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from complications of primary pulmonary hypertension.

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Jackson
Johnny (alias: Johnny "J"). 2008-10-03

39

Born 1969-08-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

He is better-known in the music industry as Johnny "J", was a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer & rapper who was perhaps best known for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World. He was born in Juárez, Mexico, in 1969 and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Johnny "J" was co-owner and CEO of Klock Work Entertainment.
Johnny J died at the age of 39. While serving a sentence for DWI in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility located in Los Angeles, California, he allegedly jumped off an upper tier of the prison in an apparent suicide.

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Ryan
Thomas. 2007-10-03

71

Born 1936-02-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Founder of Ryanair.

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Morrison
Jeanette (alias: Janet Leigh). 2004-10-03

77

Born 1927-07-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease

She died at her home after suffering cardiac arrest due to dilated cardiomyopathy at age 77. Her family was at her side. She also suffered from vasculitis and peripheral neuropathy, which caused her right hand to become gangrenous.

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Benveniste
Jacques. 2004-10-03

69

Born 1935-03-12. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Operation

He was at the center of a major international controversy in 1988 when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature reporting on the action of very high dilutions of anti-immunoglobulin E on the degranulation of human basophils, a kind of white blood cell. Biologists were puzzled by these results as only molecules of water, and no molecules of the initial substance (anti-IgE) are expected to be found in these high dilutions. These results seem to indicate that the configuration of molecules in water may be biologically active. A journalist coined the term water memory for this hypothesis. As a condition for publication, Nature asked for the results to be replicated by independent laboraties, which was done. The article was then published. A follow-up investigation of Benveniste's laboratory by a team including Nature editor Dr. John Maddox and "professional pseudo-science debunker" James Randi, with the cooperation of Benveniste's own team, failed to replicate the results. Subsequent investigations have yielded mixed results. Benveniste's reputation was damaged, but he refused to retract his controversial article. He began to fund his research himself as his external sources of funding were withdrawn, and in 1997 he founded the company DigiBio to further his research:: "The principal mission of DigiBio is to develop and commercialise applications of Digital Biology."
Benveniste died in Paris at the age of 69 after heart surgery.

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Paltrow
Bruce. 2002-10-03

58

Born 1943-11-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer

Paltrow died while vacationing in Rome, Italy, to celebrate his daughter's (Gwyneth) 30th birthday. He had suffered from oral cancer for several years, and his death was due to complications from cancer and pneumonia. In 2007, his widow, in cooperation with The Oral Cancer Foundation, set up a fund in his name to address the oral cancer issues in the US. The foundation works primarily in the areas of public awareness, early detection, patient support functions and research.

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McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude. 1998-10-03

70

Born 1928-09-17. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer

Roddy McDowall died at his home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles from cancer. ``It was very peaceful,`` said Dennis Osborne, a screenwriter friend who had cared for the actor in his final months. ``It was just as he wanted it. It was exactly the way he planned.`` Though he was cremated through The Neptune Society, his ashes were not distributed in the Pacific Ocean as had been widely reported at the time.

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Anouilh
Jean. 1987-10-03

77

Born 1910-06-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack

“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it”

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Mollet
Guy. 1975-10-03

69

Born 1905-12-31. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Guy Mollet died in Paris in 1975. He is, until today, the more controversial of the French Socialist leaders. His name is tied up to the SFIO decline and his repressive policy in Algeria. In the French political language, the word molletisme means a duplicity consisting to do left-wing speeches to win the elections then lead a conservative policy. Currently, the French Socialist politicians preferred refer to the moral authority of Pierre Mendès-France, although he was not member of the party.
Guy Mollet was actually born on January 2nd, 1906.

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Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson (alias: Woody Guthrie). 1967-10-03

55

Born 1912-07-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:orphan disease

He was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land." Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. By the late 1940s, Guthrie's health was declining, and his behavior was becoming extremely erratic. He received various diagnoses (including alcoholism and schizophrenia), but in 1952, it was finally determined that he was suffering from Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder inherited from his mother.

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Eagels
Jeanne. 1929-10-03

39

Born 1890-06-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

She was born Amelia Jeannine Eagles. "Never deny. Never explain. Say nothing and become a legend."
Just before she was to return to the Broadway stage in a new play, Eagels died suddenly at a private hospital in New York City. Medical examiners disagreed on the exact cause of death, toxicology not being the science it is today, but the available evidence pointed to the effects of alcohol or heroin. After services in New York, Eagels received a second funeral service when her body was returned to Kansas City, where she was buried in Calvary Cemetery.
The story of her death was covered by a young crime reporter named Samuel Fuller, later a noted film writer and director.

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Gateaux
René Eugène. 1914-10-03

25

Born 1889-05-05. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Murder

René Eugène Gateaux was a French mathematician. He is principally known for the Gateaux derivative, used in the calculus of variations and in the theory of optimal control. He died in combat during World War I. Paul Lévy produced a posthumous edition of his works, extending them considerably, in his Leçons d'analyse fonctionnelle of 1922.

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de Heredia
José-Maria. 1905-10-03

63

Born 1842-11-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Cuban-born French poet, the modern master of the French sonnet, was born at Fortuna Cafeyere, near Santiago de Cuba, being of partly Spanish (Criollo) and partly French ancestry.

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