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July 11, 2025

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Brugsch Theodor (b. 1878-10-11 / d. 1963-07-11)

He was a German internist born in Graz. He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to, and after World War I. In 1917-19 he served with distinction as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania. From 1927 to 1935 he was a professor at the University of Halle. In 1935 Brugsch resigned from the university due to the political climate in 1930s Germany, and opened a private practice in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to the Charité, where he remained for the remainder of his career. His father, Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894) was a well-known Egyptologist. With Friedrich Kraus he published a 19-volume medical textbook titled Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie (1919-1929), and with Friedrich H. Lewy he published Die Biologie der Person (1926-1930). He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on the 25-pfennig postage stamp by the East German government. Brugsch's syndrome: a multi-symptom disorder that is similar to Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome without acromegaly.

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Marchand
Guy. 2023-12-15

86

Born 1937-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Guy Marchand was a French actor, musician, and singer. He was best known for his role as the fictional private detective Nestor Burma and as the singer of the song "Destinée".

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Halimi
Chantal (alias: Chantal Gallia). 2022-07-10

66

Born 1955-12-08. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Stroke

Chantal Gallia (born Chantal Halimi) was an Algerian-born French singer, humorist, and impersonator.

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Marchand
Robert. 2021-05-22

109

Born 1911-11-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Robert Marchand was a French centenarian cyclist. He is the holder of the world record for cycling 100 km and for the distance cycled in one hour, both in the over 100 to 105 years old age category and for the distance cycled in one hour in the over 105 years old age category.

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Dubois
chantal. 2021-05-16

63

Born 1957-12-05. Domain:Personal. Cause of death:Unknown

Cousine.

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Garrigues
Chantal. 2018-06-29

73

Born 1944-11-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Chantal Garrigues was a French actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in a dozen films. She was also a stage and television actress, and she played Gisèle Favrot in Soda.

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Buchanan
Alexander (alias: Bender). 2018-03-01

37

Born 1980-07-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown

Alexander Buchanan, better known by his stage name Bender, was a Canadian underground hip hop artist. He was a member of the group Flight Distance and a former King of the Dot champion. Bender was also a professional visual artist. Bender died aged 37, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. No cause of death has been released, but an article has reported that he may have died from sleep apnea.

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Changeux
Simone (alias: Anne Golon). 2017-07-14

95

Born 1921-12-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

She was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She was most known for a series of novels about a heroine called Angelique

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Akerman
Chantal. 2015-10-05

65

Born 1950-06-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide

She was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which was dubbed a "masterpiece" by The New York Times. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist filmmaking and avant-garde cinema has been substantial. According to Akerman's sister, she had been hospitalized for depression and then returned home to Paris ten days before her death.

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Crampes
Joseph Jacques André Régis (alias: Jacques Chancel). 2014-12-23

86

Born 1928-07-02. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer

He was a French journalist and writer. He was known for being the radio host of Radioscopie and Le Grand Échiquier for 22 years. Chancel was born in Ayzac-Ost, France.

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Buchanan
James McGill. 2013-01-09

93

Born 1919-10-03. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age

He was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which in 1986 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy. He was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and professor at George Mason University.

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Lubtchansky
William. 2010-05-04

72

Born 1937-10-26. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart

He was an acclaimed French cinematographer. His first film was Agnes Varda's 1965 short, Elsa la Rose. Lubtchansky has shot over 100 films, including several for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and Nadine Trintignant. He has also worked with Philippe Garrel, François Truffaut, Marcel Camus and Peter Brook (for the 1989 6-hour version of The Mahabharata).

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Chandavarkar
Bhaskar. 2009-07-26

73

Born 1936-03-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He was an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer who worked with directors of Indian cinema, in various languages including Marathi, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam, Mrinal Sen, Girish Karnad, Aparna Sen and Amol Palekar and was known for his blending of Indian classical and western music.
He died in Pune, after a prolonged illness.

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Chan
Kim. 2008-10-05

90

Born 1917-12-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Kim Chan, also known as Kim S. Chan, was a Chinese-American actor and producer. He was most notable for his roles as Lo Si, a.k.a. The Ancient, in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and Mr. Kim in The Fifth Element. He also was a villain in the series Now and again.

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Sébire
Chantal. 2008-03-19

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Born 1955-01-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown

Chantal Sébire was a retired 52-year-old French teacher living in Plombières-lès-Dijon nearby Dijon in France, who suffered from esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare and incurable form of cancer. It is so rare that in the past 20 years there have been only 200 reported cases. In Ms Sébire's case the disease left her severely facially disfigured and partially disabled. She first gained recognition in Feburary 2008 when she made a public appeal to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to allow her to die through euthanasia. On March 17, 2008, she lost her appeal to die in a French court. On March 19, 2008, she was found dead in her home.

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Rehman
Ismail (alias: Ismail Merchant). 2005-05-25

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Born 1936-12-25. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Operation

Merchant died in London, aged 68, following surgery for abdominal ulcers.
He was buried in the Bada Kabrestan in Marine Lines, Mumbai, on 28 May 2005, in keeping with his wish to be laid to rest with his ancestors.
Merchant was Ivory's long-term life partner. Their professional and romantic partnership lasted from the early 1960s until Merchant's death in 2005.

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Mauduit
Chantal. 1998-05-13

34

Born 1964-03-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

Her promising climbing career was cut short by an avalanche on Dhaulagiri on May 13, 1998 that killed her and her Sherpa partner Ang Tsering while they were asleep in their tent. She is remembered for her high spirits and smile.

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Buchanan
Roy. 1988-08-15

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Born 1939-09-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide

Roy dies in a police cell (FAIRFAX, VA). Roy apparently came home from the local bar with some male person, who then along with Roy acted up, so Judy threw them out, then called the cops. The cops picked up Roy and, the county sheriff tells Jim Buchanan, he was jovial when locked up. Sheriff says they didn't even arrest and book him and told him to sleep it off. A routine check supposedly found Roy hanging from his shirt in the cell, from a low window grate that would make that difficult if not impossible. Marc Fisher, a friend, claims to have seen Roy's body afterwards and reported bruises about the head. It is possible Roy did himself in. It is also possible that he grew belligerent at being picked up, gave the cops a hard time, and they used a choke hold or something that resulted in his death and the need to stage a suicide. Roy may indeed have been fatally remorseful that he couldn't stay on the wagon (reports differ on why he shaved his head that summer) or he might have been the victim of murder.
"My name is Jerry Hentman, I was in the cell directly across from Roy's on that fateful night. I can say with confidence that I was the last person to speak to him. I was locked up in the DT block at Fairfax jail for a B.S. charge (argument w/ girlfriend). I fell asleep only to be awakened several times by Roy throwing some toilet paper at me and cussing at me. I got fed up with it so I told him to shut the "F" up. We went back and forth several times and it just ceased. I was awakened early the next morning to some commotion, I looked from out of my cell and saw the Deputy Sheriffs open Roy's door and cut his shirt from around his neck from the door. I was the only person contacted by I.A.D. several times after this and what I saw was that Roy had taken his own life. They tried in vane for about 15 minutes to revive him but it was too late. Look, I know that it is easy to put the blame on someone else but sometimes the truth is hard to handle. I did not know who Roy Buchanan was, in 1988 I was 24 years old and was into heavy metal rock and roll."

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Bose
Raj Chandra. 1987-10-31

86

Born 1901-06-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Raj Chandra Bose was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, association scheme, and strongly regular graph and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs. He was notable for his work along with S. S. Shrikhande and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order 4n + 2 for every n.

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Dreyfus
Jean-Paul (alias: Jean-Paul Le Chanois). 1985-07-08

75

Born 1909-10-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

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Chanfray
Richard (alias: Saint-Germain). 1983-07-21

43

Born 1940-04-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

He claimed to be the Comte de Saint-Germain and appeared in numerous European television shows claiming to transmute lead into gold. In 1972 he met the singer Dalida, at the height of her fame. Her husband, Lucien Morisse, and her lover, Luigi Tenco, had both previously committed suicide. When Dalida met Chanfray, she quickly became infatuated. She recognized his paranoia, however: he slept with a shotgun under his bed. He also spent another year in prison, as well as being forced to pay FF 500,000 restitution, when he shot a man whom he found naked in his kitchen late one night. The man was only superficially wounded, and turned out to be the servant's lover. The incident marked the start of his decline. The couple ran out of money and Chanfray attempted music, painting, and sculpture, all without success. Dalida and Chanfray separated, but despite his problems, he continued to be a part of the celebrity society of Paris and Saint Tropez. He became the lover of the Trintignan "baroness", Paula de Loos, whose title was as false as his own. De Loos was, however, allegedly a millionaire and when Chanfray began to suspect the activities of de Loos's financial administrator, he threatened him with a rifle. He was again imprisoned and fined -- to which he looked to de Loos for help. She, however, was also heavily in debt. He last appeared in public at a party in Saint Tropez, in June 1983. He was reportedly very thin, with white hair and an exhausted appearance. In a town near Saint Tropez, Chanfray and de Loos committed suicide, ingesting barbiturates while inhaling the exhaust of his car. Nearby was a suicide note that read: "I leave and I bring her with me, because she is so like me..."

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Chanel
Gabrielle (alias: Coco Chanel). 1971-01-10

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Born 1883-08-19. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

For more than 30 years, Gabrielle Chanel made the Hôtel Ritz Paris her home, even during the Nazi occupation of Paris. During that time she was criticized for having an affair with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a German officer who arranged for her to remain in the hotel. She also maintained an apartment above her Rue Cambon couture house and built Villa La Pausa in the town of Roquebrune on the French Riviera.
She owes Winston Churchill not to get in trouble for having written to the Kommandantur about the brothers Wertheimer, founders of la maison Bourjois. She was accused of antisemitism after using the word "youpin" in this letter.

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Grossel
Ira (alias: Jeff Chandler). 1961-06-17

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Born 1918-12-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation

Shortly after completing his role in Merrill's Marauders in 1961, he injured his back while playing baseball with U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers who served as extras in the movie. Chandler entered a Culver City hospital and had surgery for a spinal disc herniation on May 13, 1961. There were severe complications; an artery was damaged and Chandler hemorrhaged. In a seven and a half hour emergency operation over and above the original surgery, he was given 55 pints of blood. Another operation followed, date unknown, where he received an additional 20 pints of blood. He died. His death was deemed malpractice and resulted in a large lawsuit and settlement for his children (forgotten scalpel).
Tony Curtis and Gerald Mohr were among the pallbearers at Chandler's funeral.

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Chaney
John (alias: Jack London). 1916-11-22

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Born 1876-01-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing. Jack London's death is controversial. Many older sources describe it as a suicide, and some still do. However, this appears to be at best a rumor, or speculation based on incidents in his fiction writings. His death certificate gives the cause as uremia, also known as uremic poisoning. He died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch. It is known he was in extreme pain and taking morphine, and it is possible that a morphine overdose, accidental or deliberate, may have contributed

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