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Pasqua Charles (b. 1927-04-18 / d. 2015-06-29)
He was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Edouard Balladur.
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Born 1997-05-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Bjarne Vanacker was a belgian cyclist. He was found dead in his bed.
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Born 1938-02-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a German actress most famous for her role in the late-1960s as a Bond girl in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (1967). Dor died at a nursing home in Munich aged 79.
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Born 1924-03-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an SS guard in Italy during World War II. He was an ethnic German born in Landau (present-day Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine). Dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", he was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona, Italy, on nine counts of murder, committed while he was an SS guard at the Bolzano Transit Camp, northern Italy. He was sentenced to life in prison and extradited on February 17, 2008, from Canada to Italy. His crimes involved actions taken in a prison camp in Bolzano from 1944 to 1945. At his trial, witnesses accused him of leaving a prisoner to starve to death, raping and killing a pregnant woman, and gouging an inmate's eyes out. He died in 2010 in Santa Maria after having been transferred to a hospital from the Capua Vetere prison
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Born 1957-07-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Jacno is also the name of a graphic artist who designed the gallic helmet logo of Gauloises brand cigarettes, which the musician had been smoking infamously. He was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former Stinky Toys singer Elli Medeiros to form the pop duo Elli et Jacno. Jacno has also released a number of solo albums since 1979.
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Born 1921-03-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1971-08-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) under the ring name Crash Holly.
Lockwood died, while at the home of wrestler Stevie Richards in Florida. He was found partially clothed with a pool of vomit around his face. Empty prescription medication bottles and a partly-consumed bottle of alcohol were found nearby, and he had recently received divorce papers from his wife. The cause of death was first ruled as choking on his own vomit, but it was later officially ruled a suicide. He was buried in China Grove in Rowan County, North Carolina.
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Born 1920-11-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema. Buried in the Glenwood cimetery at Houston, Texas.
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Born 1887-02-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a German-American businessman and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler. He eventually fell out of favour with Hitler, however, and defected from Nazi Germany to the United States. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes. Hanfstaengl was portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the 2003 Canadian television miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil. American actor Randy Quaid played him in the 1982 television film Inside the Third Reich. Ronald Pickup played him in the 1989 miniseries The Nightmare Years.
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Born 1892-12-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1925-03-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Six years after his retirement from a cycling career, Koblet died at the age of 39 in a car crash, under circumstances that caused speculation that his death may have been a suicide rather than an accident. Eye witnesses to the incident saw Koblet driving his white Alfa Romeo at high speed on the highway between Zürich and Esslingen. Weather and road conditions were ideal, but the vehicle reportedly drove straight into a tree without any attempt by the driver to avert the crash.