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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Bloch
Claude. 2023-12-31

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Born 1928-11-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Claude Bloch was a deportee and survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stutthof concentration camps. Arrested with his mother in June 1944 in Crépieux-la-Pape, Rhône, by Paul Touvier, head of the Lyon militia, he was deported by convoy 77, the last convoy to leave the Drancy camp for Auschwitz. As a survivor of the Shoah, he became a "passeur de mémoire" of the deportation.

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Hoskins
Melissa. 2023-12-31

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Born 1991-02-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder

Melissa Hoskins was an Australian track and road racing cyclist. She topped the general classification in the 2012 Tour of Chongming Island. She was a member of the Australian track cycling team pursuit team that finished in fourth place at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Hoskins announced her retirement from professional cycling on 2 May 2017. Hoskins died after being struck by a vehicle allegedly driven by her husband, cyclist Rohan Dennis.

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Ratzinger
Joseph Aloisius (alias: Benedict XVI ). 2022-12-31

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Born 1927-04-16. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Age

Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Benedict chose to be known as "Pope emeritus" upon his resignation, and he retained this title until his death in 2022.

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Pointer
Anita Marie. 2022-12-31

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Born 1948-01-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer

Anita Marie Pointer was an American singer-songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. She co-wrote and was the lead singer on their hit song "Fairytale", which garnered them their first Grammy Award in 1975. She was also the lead singer on many of their other hits, including "Fire", "Slow Hand", and "I'm So Excited". Pointer died from cancer at her home in Los Angeles, California.

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White Ludden
Betty Marion. 2021-12-31

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Born 1922-01-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Betty Marion White Ludden was an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of early television, with a career spanning seven decades, White was noted for her vast work in the entertainment industry. She was among the first women to exert control both in front of and behind the camera and the first woman to produce a sitcom (Life with Elizabeth), which contributed to her being named honorary Mayor of Hollywood in 1955. White is often referred to as the "First Lady of Television", a title used for a 2018 documentary detailing her life and career.

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Hosseinoff
Abraham (alias: Robert Hossein). 2020-12-31

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Born 1927-12-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:COVID

Robert Hossein was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western Cemetery Without Crosses (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Forbidden Priests. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (then Marina Poliakoff; on 23 December 1955, they had two sons, Pierre and Igor), later on 7 June 1962, to Caroline Eliacheff, daughter of Françoise Giroud (they had a son, Nicholas, who became rabbi Aaron Eliacheff). She was fifteen at the time and he was 34. In 1973, he dated for a short while Michèle Watrin, before she died the following year in a car accident. In 1976, he married actress Candice Patou, with whom he had a son.

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Panisse
Jean. 2020-12-31

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Born 1928-03-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID

Jean Panisse was a French actor.

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Laiho
Markku Uula Aleksi (alias: Alexi Laiho). 2020-12-31

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Born 1979-04-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

Alexi Laiho (born Markku Uula Aleksi Laiho) was a Finnish guitarist, composer, and vocalist. He was best known as the lead guitarist, lead vocalist and founding member of the melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, and was also the guitarist for Sinergy, The Local Band and Kylähullut. He had previously played with Thy Serpent and Impaled Nazarene on occasion, as well as Warmen and Hypocrisy. On 15 December 2019 Children of Bodom played their last show at the Icehall in Helsinki, dubbed “A Chapter Called Children of Bodom.” This followed the announcement in November that after this show, all members of the band except Laiho and guitarist Daniel Freyberg had quit. Following their departure, it was revealed that due to legal reasons, Laiho would need permission from his former band mates to continue using the Children of Bodom name. In March 2020, Laiho and Freyberg officially announced their new band, Bodom After Midnight, named after the second track from the album Follow the Reaper. This officially marked the end of Children of Bodom. In January 2021, it was announced that Laiho died of long-term health complications, leaving behind a few songs recorded with Bodom After Midnight to be published posthumously. Laiho received widespread acclaim for his guitar work. In 2004 he was ranked #96 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World. Guitar World magazine has also ranked him as one of the 50 fastest guitarists in the world. In addition, Roadrunner Records ranked Laiho at #41 out of 50 of The Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time. Furthermore, Total Guitar conducted a public voting poll to determine the greatest metal guitarist of all time; Laiho was voted #1 out of 20 metal guitarists, with over 20% of the vote.

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Lehto
Olli Erkki. 2020-12-31

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Born 1925-05-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Olli Erkki Lehto was a Finnish mathematician, specializing in geometric function theory, and a chancellor of the University of Helsinki. Lehto earned his PhD in 1949 from the University of Helsinki under Rolf Nevanlinna with thesis Anwendung orthogonaler Systeme auf gewisse funktionentheoretische Extremal- und Abbildungsprobleme. At the University of Helsinki, Lehto was from 1961 to 1988 a professor, from 1978 the dean of science, from 1983 the rector, and from 1988 to 1993 the chancellor.

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Christopher
William. 2016-12-31

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Born 1932-10-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer

He was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff AfterMASH from 1983 to 1985. According to his son John Christopher, the 84-year-old actor died as the result of small-cell carcinoma. He had been diagnosed with cancer about 18 months earlier, according to his New York-based agent, Robert Malcolm.

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Rogers
William Wayne. 2015-12-31

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Born 1933-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia

As a young actor, Rogers met actress Mitzi McWhorter in New York in the late 1950s. They married in 1960, had two children, and divorced in 1983. They had been separated for almost four years prior to the divorce. Rogers married his second wife, Amy Hirsh, in 1988. In 2001 Rogers made Destin, Florida, his home. Rogers died from complications of pneumonia in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 82. He died exactly one year before fellow M*A*S*H cast member William Christopher.

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Howland
Elizabeth. 2015-12-31

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Born 1941-05-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)

She was an American actress. She worked on stage and television, and was best known for playing Vera Gorman in Alice, the sitcom inspired by the Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Howland, who had been a smoker since she was a teenager until she finally quit in the early 2000s, died of lung cancer on December 31, 2015, at age 74. Per her request, her death was not reported to the media until May 24, 2016, four days before her 75th birthday.

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Cole
Natalie Maria. 2015-12-31

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Born 1950-02-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart

She was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Cole was the daughter of American singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole. She rose to success in the mid-1970s as an R&B singer with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable" (1975), and "Our Love" (1977). She returned as a pop singer on the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records worldwide. Cole died at the age of 65 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, due to congestive heart failure.

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Hugon
Elisabeth (alias: Sophie Daumier). 2003-12-31

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Born 1936-11-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:orphan disease

Atteinte, comme sa mère et son fils, par la chorée de Huntington, maladie génétique qui entraîne une dégénérescence neuronale irréversible

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Heckart
Anna Eileen. 2001-12-31

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Born 1919-03-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Heckart died of lung cancer at her home in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 82.

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Hubschmid
Paul. 2001-12-31

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Born 1917-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Paul Hubschmid was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens of films and television series between 1938 and 1991. Many of these were German and International productions.

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Gillot-Pétré
Alain. 1999-12-31

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Born 1950-06-16. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer

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Kennedy
Michael. 1997-12-31

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Born 1958-02-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident

Michael Kennedy died at the end of 1997 in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. He was skiing with several other members of the Kennedy family when he hit a tree while they were playing football on skis. Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or other safety equipment, and was reportedly filming the football game on a camcorder.
In 1997, the news broke that Michael Kennedy was having an affair with the family's former babysitter. Allegedly, the affair had begun three years before when the babysitter was a fourteen-year-old teenager, and Kennedy was placed under investigation for statutory rape. However, the babysitter did not cooperate with prosecutors. Shortly after the scandal began, Michael Kennedy and his wife separated. After the affair, Michael Kennedy checked himself into a rehab center for alcoholics.

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Ducaux
Annie. 1996-12-31

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Born 1908-09-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Prou
Suzanne. 1995-12-31

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Born 1920-07-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

She had recounted that her daughter had been contaminated by Cyril Collard.

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Walsh
Raoul. 1980-12-31

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Born 1887-03-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

Walsh was set to direct and star in the Western In Old Arizona in 1929, but had to abandon the project when a jackrabbit jumped through the windshield of a jeep he was driving and cost Walsh an eye. Walsh's replacement Warner Baxter won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in the film, and Irving Cummings was nominated for his direction.
After losing his eye, his doctor reportedly asked if he'd like an artificial glass. "Hell, no," Walsh snapped. "Everytime I'd get in a fight, I'd have to put it in my pocket." He wore an eyepatch for the rest of his life.

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Thurston
Betty Lou (alias: Carol Thurston). 1969-12-31

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Born 1920-09-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

She was an American film and television actress who played the fictitious Emma Clanton in eight episodes (1959-1961) of the ABC/Desilu western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian as frontier peace officer Wyatt Earp. In the years since her death, the prevailing rumor was that Thurston committed suicide. However, her daughter, Amanda Thayer, has disputed this, insisting that she witnessed her mother in a Los Angeles hospital after she succumbed to heart failure and spent her last hours in a coma.

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Fawcett
Percy Harrison. 1925-12-31

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Born 1867-08-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown

Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO (18 August 1867 – during or after 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimell) during an expedition to find "Z"—his name for an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the jungles of Brazil. Dead Horse Camp, or Fawcett's Camp, is one of the major camps that Fawcett made on his final journey. This encampment was his last known location. From Dead Horse Camp, Fawcett wrote to his wife about the hardships that he and his companions had faced, his coordinates, his doubts in Raleigh Rimell, and Fawcett's plans for the near future. He concludes his message with, "You need have no fear of any failure...” One question remaining about Dead Horse Camp concerns a discrepancy in the coordinates Fawcett gave for the camp. In the letter to his wife, he wrote: "Here we are at Dead Horse Camp, latitude 11 degrees 43' South and longitude 54 degrees 35' West, the spot where my horse died in 1920" (11°43′S 54°35′W). However, in a report to the North American Newspaper Alliance he gave the coordinates as 13°43′S 54°35′W. The discrepancy may have been a typographical error. However, he may have intentionally concealed the location to prevent others from using his notes to find the lost city. It may have also been an attempt to dissuade any rescue attempts; Fawcett had stated that if he disappeared, no rescue party should be sent because the danger was too great. Explorer Henry Costin accompanied Fawcett on five of his previous expeditions. Costin expressed his doubt that Fawcett would have perished at the hands of native Indians, as he typically enjoyed good relations with them. He believed that Fawcett had succumbed to either a lack of food or exhaustion.

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