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July 18, 2025

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Fachleitner Edouard (b. 1921-02-24 / d. 2008-07-18)

He was a French former professional road bicycle racer. He was an Italian citizen until June 23, 1939. He was a professional between 1943 and 1952. Fachleitners's best results were overall victories in the 1948 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and 1950 Tour de Romandie and second place overall in the 1947 Tour de France.

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Conti
Roger. 1995-07-14

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Born 1901-02-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

Roger Conti was a French carom player, specialized in all game modes and inventor of the modern game, because it is thanks to him that billiards knows its current technical form. He had become aware and transmitted the study of the mechanism (the gestures, the different positions of the body depending on the point to be executed), he understood the importance of building a series with different frame games (the 47/2 , 71/2, 47/1). He had approached the design based on fundamental principles. The design is the basis for building a series of different frame games: "The point played is not the one that presents itself, but those that will be." For him, "Billiards, the real, the only, pure blend of sport and art, requiring skill, measure, self-knowledge and self-control, fierce will, training followed by his muscles and his brain, the love of Beauty in the execution of stitches and the taste of Harmony in their sequence ğ.

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Luchino. 1976-03-17

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Born 1906-11-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other

Thrombus

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