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Meyssonier Fernand (b. 1931-06-14 / d. 2008-08-08)
He was an executioner in the last years of French Algeria. He acted as an executioner from 1947 to 1961 and executed more than 200. He inherited the job of executioner from his father Maurice Meyssonnier in 1947 when he ended compulsory education. His ancestors had been executioners from ages ago. When Algeria became independent from France in 1961, the guillotine was replaced by execution by firing squad.
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Born 1935-06-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. Jeanne-Claude died, aged 74, on November 18, 2009, from complications of a brain aneurysm. Christo died, aged 84, on May 31, 2020, of natural causes.
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Born 1957-10-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
Jeanne Colette Dubin (née Evert) was an American professional tennis player and the younger sister of Chris Evert. She was ranked as high as 28th by the WTA in 1978 and ninth within the United States in 1974. She reached the third round of the U.S. Open in 1973 and 1978. She won all four of her Fed Cup matches for the U.S. in 1974. Evert retired in 1978, and in later years, was a coach at the Delray Beach Tennis Center. Evert died from ovarian cancer. She was 62.
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Born 1926-11-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Graeme Allwright was a New Zealand-born French singer and songwriter. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s as a French language interpreter of the songs of American and Canadian songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger, and remained active into his nineties. Graeme Allwright died aged 93 in the retirement home in Seine-et-Marne where he had been living for a year, according to his daughter Jeanne.
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Born 1914-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Gertrude Hadley Jeannette was an American playwright and film and stage actress. She is also known for being the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in New York City, which she began doing in 1942. Despite being blacklisted during the Red Scare in the 1950s, she wrote five plays and founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players in Harlem, New York, remaining active in mentoring African-American actors in New York City. In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in Broadway productions such as The Long Dream, Nobody Loves an Albatross, The Amen Corner, The Skin of Our Teeth and Vieux Carré. She also appeared in films such as Cotton Comes to Harlem in 1969, Shaft in 1971, and Black Girl in 1972. She acted into her 80s and retired from directing theater at the age of 98.
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Born 1941-11-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Linda Jeanne Bement was an American model and beauty queen who became the third Miss USA to be crowned Miss Universe. She died of natural causes at her home in Salt Lake City.
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Born 1928-01-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960) (which she shared with Melina Mercouri for her role in Never on Sunday), the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for Viva Maria! (1965), and the César Award for Best Actress for The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1992). She was also the recipient of several lifetime awards, including a BAFTA Fellowship in 1996, Cannes Golden Palm in 2003 and César Award in 2008.
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Born 1928-05-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French-Armenian actress. She was the wife of actor Jean Bouise. Her filmography includes films by Jeanne Moreau, Claude Chabrol, Claude Lelouch, Luc Besson, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri Verneuil, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Kechichian and Krzysztof Kieślowski.
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Born 1931-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, she appeared in 43 films between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few films, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber. In 1970 she turned to television, appearing in different television films and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004. Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962). She had notable parts in: La Marie du port (1950, opposite Jean Gabin), Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière (1956, opposite Marina Vlady).
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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 1922-01-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and has been a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983 until his death. He was born in Compiègne, Oise. As an actor in a small role Boulanger is famous as the neighbor of Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffauts Bed and Board. When Léaud throws down Claude Jade's coat and purse the stairs, Claude Jade crossing Boulanger and his wife (Silvana Blasi). Boulanger and Blasi help her get into the coat. Here Jade and Léaud are playing a copy of Boulanger and his wife, who says now to Boulanger: "You see, dear. They're truly in love, now." He also played one of the men that Jeanne Moreau was chasing in La Mariée était en noir. He was Delvaux, the shooter.
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Born 1935-09-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Pierre Ryckmans, better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Australia from 1970. His work particularly focused on the politics and traditional culture of China, calligraphy, French and English literature, the commercialization of universities, and nautical fiction. Through the publication of his trilogy Les Habits neufs du président Mao (1971), Ombres chinoises (1974) and Images brisées (1976), he denounced the Cultural Revolution in China and the idolizing of Mao in the West. He died of cancer in Sydney at the age of 78, in August 2014, surrounded by his wife and four children, Etienne, Jeanne, Louis and Marc.
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Born 1915-09-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Madeleine Jeanne Louise "Mado" Maurin was a French actress, whose career spanned over 55 years.
85
Born 1927-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was Jeanne Moreau's first husband from 1949 to 1951.
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Born 1952-03-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French actress. She is best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris. Schneider was born Marie Christine Gélin, the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris. In 1974, Schneider came out as bisexual. The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, and a suicide attempt. By the 1980s, however, she had turned her life around: "I was very lucky — I lost many friends to drugs — but I met someone in 1980 who helped me stop. I call this person my angel and we've been together ever since. I don't say if it's a man or a woman. That's my secret garden. I like to keep it a mystery."
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Born 1935-06-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. Jeanne-Claude died, aged 74, on November 18, 2009, from complications of a brain aneurysm. Christo died, aged 84, on May 31, 2020, of natural causes.
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Born 1930-03-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French film and television actor and agent. He was a close friend of François Truffaut. He played the murdered husband of Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black and the unknown man who declares his love for Claude Jade at the end of Stolen Kisses. He married Marie Dubois in 1961 and they remained together until his death by cancer at the age of 77.
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Born 1960-01-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
She was Marie-Jeanne in Starmania, following Maurane.
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Born 1875-02-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
In 1965, aged 90, with no living heirs, Jeanne Calment signed a deal, common in France, to sell her condominium apartment en viager to lawyer François Raffray. Mr Raffray, then aged 47, agreed to pay a monthly sum until she died, an agreement sometimes called a "reverse mortgage". At the time of the deal the value of the apartment was equal to ten years of payments. Unfortunately for Mr Raffray, not only did Ms Calment survive more than thirty years, but Mr Raffray died of cancer in December 1995, at the age of 77, leaving his widow to continue the payments.
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Born 1896-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Do you think of death ? Of course yes, but I don't want to get sick with this.
Interred in Arradon.
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Born 1930-01-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Micheline Luccioni, née Micheline Jeanne Labourot was a French actress.
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Born 1928-06-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:AIDS
He was married to the actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1962 and 1967 (he left her for actress Jeanne Moreau) and had two daughters with Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson, both actresses.
Richardson was bisexual, but he never acknowledged it publicly until after he acquired AIDS. He died of complications from AIDS at age 63 in 1991.
His last films were The Phantom of the Opera (1990) and
Blue Sky (1994).
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Born 1893-11-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
C'est bain vrai ça.
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Born 1900-12-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
51
Born 1933-10-17. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Suicide
Better known in English as The Singing Nun, she was a Belgian nun, and a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium. She became internationally famous in 1963 as Soeur Sourire (Sister Smile) when she scored a hit with the song "Dominique". In the English language world, she is mostly referred to as "The Singing Nun".
Her musical career over, Deckers opened a school for autistic children in Belgium. In the late 1970s (mentioned in the July 22, 1978 broadcast of American Top 40), the Belgian government claimed that she owed around US$63,000 in back taxes. Deckers countered that the money was given to the convent and therefore exempt from taxes. Lacking any receipts to prove her donations to the convent and her religious order, Deckers ran into heavy financial problems. In 1982 she tried, once again as Soeur Sourire, to score a hit with a disco version of "Dominique", but this last attempt to resume her singing career failed.
Citing their financial difficulties in a note, she and her companion of ten years, Anna Pécher, both committed suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol.
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Born 1918-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
She married Bourvil in 1943. She was killed in a car accident while going to Bourvil's tomb.
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Born 1892-01-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lucienne Bogaert (born Lucienne Jeanne Gabrielle Lefebvre) was a French actress. She started her career in theatre, but later also worked in film. After she divorced her husband Robert Bogaert, she retained his name for professional purposes. After her stage debut, Bogaert joined the company at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and then worked with Louis Jouvet at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées where she played the role of The Sphinx in Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine. On film she was often cast in the role of mothers such as in Robert Bresson's Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne and in Julien Duvivier's Voici le temps des assassins.
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Born 1885-04-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jeanne Fusier-Gir was a French stage and film actress. She was married to the painter Charles Gir, and was the mother of the film director François Gir. She was Victorine the bonne in Marie-Octobre.
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Born 1917-07-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Multiple myeloma (also known as MM, myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, or as Kahler's disease after Otto Kahler) is a type of cancer of plasma cells which are immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies. Its prognosis, despite therapy, is generally poor, and treatment may involve chemotherapy and stem cell transplant. It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological malignancies.
Bourvil wasn't born when his father was killed at war, and he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, the name of which inspired his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on January 23, 1943
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Born 1887-01-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
René Victor Paul Marie Jeanne was a French actor, writer, and cinema historian. He was born in 1887 and died in 1969. Jeanne was married to actress Suzanne Bianchetti. Jeanne was also notable for serving on the jury of the Mostra de Venise in 1937 and 1938. Jeanne and fellow film artist Émile Vuillermoz had the idea of an international film festival in France. Its goal would be to compete with the Venice Film Festival, which had become politicised and was controlled at that time by Benito Mussolini. He passed the idea to Jean Zay, the French Minister of Public Instruction at the time. Zay appreciated the idea, and therefore undertook the founding of the famous Festival de Cannes.