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Baire René-Louis (b. 1874-01-21 / d. 1932-07-05)
René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variable réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Since he was young, Baire always had "delicate" health. He had developed problems with his esophagus before he attended school and he would occasionally experience severe attacks of agoraphobia. From time to time, his health would prevent him from working or studying. The bad spells became more frequent, immobilizing him for long periods of time. Over time, he had developed a kind of psychological disorder that made him unable to undertake work that required long periods of concentration. At times this would make his ability to research mathematics impossible. Between 1909 and 1914 this problem continually plagued him and his teaching duties became more and more difficult. He was given a leave of absence from the University of Dijon due to all these breakdowns. He retired from Dijon in 1925 and spent his last years living in multiple hotels that he could afford with his meager pension.
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Born 1936-12-17. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Age
Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III. Francis's last public appearance was at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025, where he gave his final Easter address and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. He died at 07:35 local time (UTC+02:00) on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, aged 88, in his residence in Domus Sanctae Marthae. His death, announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell on the Vatican's TV channel and in a video statement, was caused by a cerebral stroke, which led to a coma and irreversible cardiac arrest.
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Born 1942-04-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams CBE was a British businessman, racing car driver and the founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited. He was the team principal from its foundation in 1977 until 2020. Williams met Virginia Berry in 1967. They married in 1974. They had two sons, Jonathan and Jamie, and a daughter, Claire, who would go on to become the deputy team principal of his future Formula One team Williams Grand Prix Engineering. Williams used a wheelchair since a car accident in the South of France, on 8 March 1986, rendered him tetraplegic. He was driving with team sponsorship manager Peter Windsor in a hired Ford Sierra 1600 from the Paul Ricard Circuit to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport when the incident happened. Williams had been at the circuit to watch the testing of the team's new Williams FW11, but as a keen long distance runner, he was returning to the airport following the trials because he wished to compete in a half marathon in London the next day. During the drive to the airport, he lost control of the hire car on a slight left hand kink in the road, clipping a low stone wall, causing the vehicle to leave the highway. An eight-foot (2.4 m) drop between the road and a field caused the car to roll onto the driver's side. Williams remained conscious but was immediately aware that he could not move and was fearful of fire due to fuel spillage. He suffered a spinal fracture between the fourth and fifth vertebra after being pressed between his seat and the crushed roof. Windsor, who had sustained only minor injuries, extracted Williams from the vehicle while waiting for the emergency services. Virginia flew with Patrick Head to the French hospital and was of the opinion that Williams was about to die. She organised his urgent repatriation to England, where doctors performed a tracheotomy, which then allowed his lungs to be drained of fluid, almost certainly saving his life. Virginia wrote an autobiographical book that was published in 1991, A Different Kind of Life, in which she describes her experiences in the Formula One team's formative years as well as her husband's near-fatal accident. For his part, Williams decided not to read her account during her lifetime, preferring to leave the past in the past. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, and died on 7 March 2013, at the age of 66.
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Born 1947-09-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
Gérard Paul Francis Houllier OBE (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ ulje]) was a French football manager and player. His clubs consist of Paris Saint-Germain, Lens and Liverpool, with whom he won the FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup in 2001. He then guided Olympique Lyonnais to two French titles, before announcing his resignation on 25 May 2007. He became manager of Aston Villa in September 2010. He also coached the France national team between 1992 and 1993. He assisted Aimé Jacquet in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, was part of UEFA's and FIFA's Technical Committee in the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, and technical director for the French Football Federation during the 2010 finals. In June 2011, he stepped down from club coaching, leaving his managerial role at Aston Villa, following frequent hospitalisation over heart problems. From July 2012 until his death, Houllier had been head of global football for Red Bull. He was responsible for Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg, Germany's RB Leipzig and American club New York Red Bulls, as well as the now dissolved Red Bull Brasil and Red Bull Ghana academies. He became the technical director of women's football clubs Olympique Lyonnais Féminin and OL Reign in November 2020.
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Born 1933-11-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
John Francis Burns was an American comedian, actor, voice actor, writer, and producer. During the 1960s, he was part of two comedy partnerships, first with George Carlin and later Avery Schreiber. By the 1970s, he had transitioned to working behind the camera as a writer and producer on such comedy series as The Muppet Show and Hee Haw.
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Born 1951-05-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Robert Francis Harper was an American actor, perhaps most well known for his role as Sharkey in Once Upon a Time in America. He also portrayed Charlie Gereson in Creepshow and Bubba 'Si' Weisberger in the CBS sitcom Frank's Place. Other film credits include Wiseguy, Final Analysis, The Insider, Deconstructing Harry, and Molly. He also appeared on Broadway in Once in a Lifetime (directed by Tom Moore), The Inspector General and Arthur Miller's The American Clock. In May 2007, Harper delivered the Commencement Address at University College, Rutgers. He was married to a Dutch woman, Sascha Noorthoorn van der Kruyff, and died in Rotterdam.
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Born 1927-08-02. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, KBE, FRS was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.
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Born 1932-04-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Francis Albert Lai was a French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Oscar for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film Love Story. The soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film's theme, "Where Do I Begin", was a hit single for Andy Williams.
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Born 1927-12-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Robert Francis Churchhouse CBE was professor emeritus of computing mathematics at Cardiff University and Past President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He attended Manchester University, where he was taught by both Max Newman and Alan Turing. His specialism was Number Theory and he worked at the Government Communications Headquarters before becoming an academic, first at the Atlas Computer Laboratory at Harwell and then in a newly created chair at Cardiff.
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Born 1920-10-13. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Francis James Macdonald Farley FRS was a British scientist. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge. Farley obtained his PhD from Cambridge in 1950. Moving to France in 1986 he helped the cancer hospital Centre Antoine Lacassagne in Nice to install a 65 MeV cyclotron for proton therapy. He designed the beam transport which brings the beam to the patient. Operating unmodified for 23 years the system has treated over 3000 patients for ocular melanoma with a cure rate of 95%.
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Born 1933-08-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Patrick Francis McManus was an American humor writer, who primarily wrote about the outdoors. A humor columnist for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other magazines, his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) up through The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012).
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Born 1951-07-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Francis Piasecki was a French professional football midfielder.
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Born 1932-11-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known television roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series The Protectors; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–79 mini series Centennial; formidable General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season of the 1980s series The A-Team; and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British television drama series Hustle (2004–2012), for all but one of its 48 episodes. He also appeared in the British soap opera Coronation Street as Milton Fanshaw, a love interest for Sylvia Goodwin between January and February 2012. Vaughn died in a hospice in Danbury, Connecticut, eleven days before his 84th birthday, after a year-long treatment for leukemia.
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Born 1923-06-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Georges Francis Raymond Jouvin was a French trumpettist and composer.
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Born 1941-01-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He began acting during his college years at West Chester University, in Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jenner moved to New York City where he found roles in Club Champion’s Widow, opposite Maureen Stapleton, and Put Them All Together with Mariette Hartley. Along with Olympia Dukakis, he was a founding member of the innovative Whole Theatre Company where he starred opposite Dukakis in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Jenner also received wide acclaim as the self-destructive pitcher in Jonathan Reynolds' hit play, Yanks 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Ninth, directed by Alan Arkin at New York City’s American Place Theatre. Jenner had a recurring role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Admiral William Ross. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 75.
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Born 1930-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Francis Lax is known for his work on Les mystérieuses cités d'or (1982), La mort d'un touriste (1975) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). French dubbed voice of David Soul in "Starsky and Hutch" French dubbed voice of : Tom Selleck in "Magnum PI", "Friends" Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Indiana Jones Captain Stubbings in "The Love Boat" Dwight Schultz as "Howling Mad" in "A-Team" And some others as : Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, Gene Wilder, Michael Caine, Ronny Cox, Dustin Hoffman, Chuck Norris, and some more... Created the hilarious French dubbing for David Soul in Starsky et Hutch (1975). The series dubbing was far removed from its original American script by talented voice-over artists who ad-libbed, often changing the lines that American audiences hear, to add culturally fit humor for French audiences. The results made the series wildly popular in France. He was banned by libaneese censorship for no known reason.
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Born 1931-04-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Chico Anysio, born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. Chico died in Samaritano Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, from multiple organ failure.
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Born 1991-03-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
William Morais started in football in the youth of Corinthians. With good performances in the Copa Săo Paulo de Juniores and the Campeonato Paulista de Juniores midfielder was named by coach Mano Menezes to integrate the core team of Corinthians. The 19-year-old midfielder on loan to Minas Gerais club America was shot in the back early Sunday while trying to escape a robbery attempt in the city of Belo Horizonte.
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Born 1930-09-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
She was an American actress. Francis was best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and for having starred in the television series Honey West (1965–1966) which was the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title. She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series.
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Born 1984-04-17. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an American long-distance swimmer.
While competing in an open water 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) World Cup swimming race in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, teammate Alex Meyer noticed Crippen did not cross the finish line. After Meyer screamed for help, the other competing swimmers jumped back into the water to try to find Crippen. Two hours after the finish of the men's race, and after 90 minutes of searching by other swimmers, deep-sea divers finally arrived. Crippen's body was found near the final buoy, about 500 yards from shore. He was rushed to the local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, though it was suspected he died at the scene. Winner Thomas Lurz and other swimmers said the water was above 30 °C (86 °F) and that several other swimmers, including two Americans and one Brazilian, had to be briefly hospitalized.
FINA president Dr. Julio Maglione said it was the first death in any FINA event and an investigation was opened. Crippen had told his coach after 8 kilometers that he was feeling thirsty, yet continued with the race.
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Born 1920-03-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
"Bob" Doe was a flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II and served with honour with the Indian Air Force during the Burma campaign.
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Born 1961-04-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Francesco Puccioni, better known under his stage name Mike Francis was an Italian singer and composer, best known for his 1982 disco hit "Survivor". He was born in Florence.
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Born 1922-02-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer
was a British Conservative Party politician who, during his political career, held several Cabinet positions.
He was born at Penpergwm Lodge, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, and was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge. During World War II he served in North Africa and Italy as a Captain in the 9th Lancers and he was awarded the Military Cross.
He was a managing director and landowner, and became a councillor on Herefordshire County Council.
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Born 1932-04-08. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
One of the pink shirt's gang, who bought the PSG,and brought it to the state of most important football Paris team.
pink shirt's gang: Daniel Hechter, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Gérard, Bernard Brochand, and a couple of others.
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Born 1917-12-22. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Stroke
Freddie Francis achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers and Glory. As a director, he has cult status on account of his association with the British horror studios Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s. His son Kevin Francis became a film producer.
He died at age 89 as the result of the lingering effects of a stroke
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Born 1925-03-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Rabal died in 2001 from compensatory dilating emphysema, while on an airplane travelling to Bordeaux.
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Born 1915-12-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Legend has it that Sinatra was buried in a blue suit with a flask of Jack Daniel's and a roll of ten dimes which was a gift from his daughter, Tina, along with a card that said "Sleep warm, Poppa - look for me." The ten dimes were a habit dating back to the kidnapping of his son, Frank Sinatra, Jr., due to the kidnappers' demands that negotiations be made via pay phone. A Zippo lighter (which some take to be a reference to his mob connections) is purported to be buried with him as is a pack of Camel cigarettes. The words The Best Is Yet to Come are imprinted on his tombstone.
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Born 1945-10-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Scottish musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band, Sweet.
During the early 1990s Brian Connolly would play and tour particularly outdoor festivals in Europe, with his band.
By 1995, Brian Connolly had released a new album and this was entitled Let's Go. However, by the late 1990s Connolly's previous drinking problem had taken a toll on his body, and he died of liver failure on 9 February 1997. He was survived by two daughters, Nicola and Michelle, and a son Brian James (BJ) who lives in the south of Spain.