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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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Freeman
Heath. 2021-11-14

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Born 1980-06-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown

Heath Freeman was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing the role of Gavin Dillon in the American legal drama television series Raising the Bar, as well as roles on Bones (as the serial killer Howard Epps), NCIS, and Skateland. Freeman died in November 2021, at the age of 41.

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Lung Fong
Jimmy. 2008-11-14

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Born 1954-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

Being remembered as always playing the most hated Hong Kong on-screen bad guys, Lung Fong, died from lung cancerat a hospital in Xi'an of northern China. Lung Fong, birth name Li Chien-Min, started his career by playing small roles in kung fu movies in the 1970s and unsuccessfully portrayed a baddie in a gang movie in 1979. Then in 1981 he disappeared from the big screen.
In 1989, producer/director Wong Jing need someone to play a baddie in Casino Raiders and someone recommended Lung Fong, a restaurant manager at that time. Playing the role turned out to be his biggest career break through and baddies he played in Wong Jing's Crocodile Hunter (1989) and God of Gamblers (1989) made him more famous. He quitted his restaurant job and played dozens of bad guys in the following decade. In 1994, Lung Fong invited no less than half dozen well-known Hong Kong actors who are playing bad guys to star in a comedy called Hong Kong Adam's Family, in which they portrayed members of a baddie family, who in the end all turned good except Lung Fong's character. The movie failed miserably at the box-office.

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Khristova
Tsvetanka. 2008-11-14

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Born 1962-03-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer

She was a Bulgarian discus thrower who competed from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, with a career break for a drugs ban. In 1982 she became European champion at only 20 years of age. Nine years later she won the World Championships, and the following year won an Olympic silver medal. Khristova tested positive for steroids in 1993 and was banned from competition. In 2004, at the age of 42, she competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Her personal best was 73.22m.

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Colombier
Michel. 2004-11-14

65

Born 1939-05-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor.
During the course of his career, Colombier worked with an extremely diversified array of artists, including the Beach Boys, Supertramp, Herb Alpert, Quincy Jones, Roberta Flack, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond, Herbie Hancock, Earth Wind and Fire, Joni Mitchell, David Sanborn, Branford Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Jaco Pastorius and Madonna. He arranged the strings for her theme to Die Another Day and worked on her album American Life. His score for her critically savaged film Swept Away was probably the movie's only saving grace.

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Dupuis
Charles. 2002-11-14

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Born 1918-06-10. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

Cartoon's editor.

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Finney
Jack. 1995-11-14

84

Born 1911-10-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia

He was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes. He lived in Mill Valley, California, and died of pneumonia and emphysema in Greenbrae, California..

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Richardson
Cecil Antonio (alias: Tony Richardson). 1991-11-14

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Born 1928-06-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:AIDS

He was married to the actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1962 and 1967 (he left her for actress Jeanne Moreau) and had two daughters with Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson, both actresses.
Richardson was bisexual, but he never acknowledged it publicly until after he acquired AIDS. He died of complications from AIDS at age 63 in 1991. His last films were The Phantom of the Opera (1990) and Blue Sky (1994).

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Feistel
Horst. 1990-11-14

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Born 1915-01-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a German-born cryptographer, who moved to the United States in 1934. During World War II, he was placed under house arrest, but nevertheless gained U.S. citizenship on 31 January 1944. He worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.

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Laurent
Rémi. 1989-11-14

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Born 1957-10-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS

Filmography:
La Princesse surgelée (1987)
Black Mic Mac (1986) - L'inspecteur adjoint
Le Cadeau (Bankers Also Have Souls aka. The Gift) (1982) - Laurent
Une glace avec deux boules ou je le dis à maman (1982) - Bernard
Les Plouffe (The Plouffe Family) (1981) - Denis Boucher
La Cassure (1981)
Tous vedettes (All Stars) (1980) - Laurent
C'est dingue... mais on y va (1979) - Nicolas
La Cage aux folles (1978) - Laurent Baldi
Les Seize ans de Jérémy Millet (1978)
Arrête ton char... bidasse! (1977) - Francis
Dis bonjour à la dame (1977) - David Ferry
À nous les petites Anglaises (Let's Get Those English Girls) (1976) - Alain

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Caradec
Loic. 1986-11-14

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Born 1948-03-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He was a French navigator. He died during the race "La route du rhum" in 1986.

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Alcover
Pierre. 1957-11-14

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Born 1893-03-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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