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Rolls Charles (b. 1877-08-27 / d. 1910-07-12)
He was killed in an air crash at Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off, making him the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident, and the eleventh internationally. A statue in his memory, in which he is seen holding a biplane model, was erected in Agincourt Square, Monmouth.
His grave lies in a little known corner of Monmouthshire at the now disused church of Llangattock Vibon Avel, where many of the Rolls family lie buried in various family tombs. His grave is just below Llangattock Manor and bears the inscription Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Born 1909-10-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
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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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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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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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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