×
Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
Lookup: name or firstname or alias or date (yyyy-mm-dd):
43
Born 1981-08-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Émilie Dequenne (French: [emili dəkɛn]) was a Belgian actress. She first gained recognition for her role in the Dardenne brothers' film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the festival. She died at the Gustave-Roussy Hospital in Villejuif, France after being diagnosed with adrenocortical carcinoma. She was 43.
92
Born 1932-12-05. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jacques Roubaud was a French poet, writer, and mathematician. Jacques Roubaud taught mathematics at University of Paris X Nanterre and poetry at EHESS. A member of the Oulipo group, he has published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French, such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically structured sonnets, published by Éditions Gallimard, and then invited Roubaud to join the Oulipo as the organization's first new member outside the founders. He died exactly the day of his birthday.
78
Born 1945-09-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Franz Anton Beckenbauer (German pronunciation: [fʁants ˈʔantoːn ˈbɛkn̩ˌbaʊɐ]) was a German professional football player, manager, and official. Nicknamed "der Kaiser" ('the Emperor'), he was a versatile player who started out as a midfielder, but made his name as a central defender. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper (libero). He is one of nine players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the European Champions Cup, and the Ballon d'Or.
98
Born 1925-07-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (French pronunciation: [ʒak lysjɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ dəlɔʁ]) was a French politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and the modern European Union.
60
Born 1963-08-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Emmanuelle Debever was a French actress. In 1983, she landed the lead role in Un jeu brutal by Jean-Claude Brisseau, in which she starred opposite Bruno Cremer. The same year, she starred in Andrzej Wajda's Danton as Louison Danton, the young wife of revolutionary figure Georges Jacques Danton, played by Gérard Depardieu. She also played a supporting role in the comedy My Other Husband, by George Lautner, with Miou-Miou, followed by the telefilm thriller Quidam alongside Richard Bohringer. Debever died on 6 December 2023, at the age of 60. Her death was first reported by Libération, which initially reported the date as 7 December. The newspaper later issued a correction, citing Debever's sister. Debever died after a week of hospitalization following a suicide attempt in which she jumped off a bridge into the Seine. Debever had been reported missing by her partner on 29 November after disappearing from their home and leaving a concerning note. Her death came the day before the release of France 2's investigative news show Complément d'enquête in which she presented her allegations against Gérard Depardieu. Prosecutors in Paris have opened an investigation to determine the causes of her death.
94
Born 1929-07-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie was a French historian whose work was mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Régime, particularly the history of the peasantry. One of the leading historians of France, Le Roy Ladurie has been called the "standard-bearer" of the third generation of the Annales school and the "rock star of the medievalists", noted for his work in social history.
92
Born 1931-03-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Peyroles was a French writer and journalist. In 1980, he created the TV series Julien Fontanes, magistrat with Jean Cosmos.
96
Born 1926-11-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Rozier (French: [ʒak ʁozje]) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was one of the lesser-known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Rozier died at the age of 96.
82
Born 1940-09-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada) was an American actress and model. In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list. Welch died at her home in Los Angeles, following a brief illness. She was 82.
91
Born 1931-08-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Alain Goraguer was a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer. Goraguer was a composer/arranger of music for Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Ferrat, Serge Reggiani and Nana Mouskouri. In 1965 he was the orchestra conductor for Luxembourg's winning entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Poupée de cire, poupée de son". (Though it represented Luxembourg, the song had an entirely French creative team behind it, as it was sung by France Gall, written by Gainsbourg, and conducted by Goraguer.) He composed some or all of the music for films including La Planète Sauvage (1973), La Vie de bohème (1992), Deux jours à tuer (2008) and Saint Laurent (2014). Goraguer died at the age of 91.
91
Born 1931-07-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Dominique Lapierre was a French author.
89
Born 1932-08-17. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Jacques Sempé, usually known as Sempé, was a French cartoonist. He is known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny, Le Petit Nicolas, and also for his poster-like illustrations, usually drawn from a distant or high viewpoint depicting detailed countrysides or cities.
80
Born 1941-07-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet) was a French actor and filmmaker. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Perrin was born in Paris. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director and his mother, Marie Perrin, was an actress. He is also the nephew of the actor Antoine Balpêtré. Perrin was trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. He married Valentine Perrin in 1995. He had three sons, Mathieu (born 1975), Maxence (born 1995), and Lancelot, born 2000. The two eldest are actors.
96
Born 1925-11-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Michel Bouquet was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
90
Born 1931-04-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Dominique Paturel was a French voice, stage and film actor.
75
Born 1946-10-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Jean-Jacques Beineix ([bɛnɛks]) was a French film director whose work is generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look. Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular (studio based) and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax. Luc Besson, like Beineix, was much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired. In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire (in French only). The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire (Paths of Glory).
66
Born 1955-12-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo (Spanish pronunciation: [beˈɾonika foɾˈke]) was a Spanish stage, film and television actress. She was a four-time Goya Award winner, the most award-winning actress alongside Carmen Maura. She had a knack for characters "between ridiculous and tender, stunned and vehement". Forqué fell into a depression in the wake of her 2014 separation from Iborra, a situation aggravated by the death of her brother Álvaro some months later. Forqué was found dead in her Madrid residence on 13 December 2021 at the age of 66, presumably a suicide.
91
Born 1930-08-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jacques Tits was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
89
Born 1932-07-16. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Accident
Emmanuel de La Taille was a French journalist and television producer. He worked for TF1, where he was an economic correspondent. Emmanuel de La Taille died in a traffic collision, after being hit by a truck in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
80
Born 1941-06-17. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Roger Quemener was a French racewalker, who was a legend of the Ultramarathon race Paris-Colmar winning seven times. He was thus the record of the number of wins, until Polish racewalker Grzegorz Adam Urbanowski brought it to ten wins.
81
Born 1940-03-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jacqueline Sassard was an actress best known for appearances in Italian films such as Guendalina directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and financial troubles in Luigi Zampa's Il Magistrato and Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer (1959), in which her character was left by Jean-Louis Trintignant.
31
Born 1990-05-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Jolien Verschueren was a Belgian cyclo-cross cyclist, who rode for UCI Cyclo-cross team Pauwels Sauzen–Bingoal. She represented her nation in the women's elite event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder. She won the Koppenbergcross in 2015 and repeated this at the 2016 DVV Verzekeringen Trofee Koppenbergcross 2016, besting world champion Thalita de Jong. On 12 April 2018, it was announced that earlier that week Verschueren was operated on to remove a malignant brain tumor. Verschueren tried a comeback in 2019 and 2020 but her health did not allow for good results. Verschueren died of brain cancer.
91
Born 1929-07-23. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Jacqueline Caurat was a French TV speakerine.
73
Born 1947-04-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Frantz was a French actor. Nominated for the Molière Award, he was renowned for his theatre work, and his voice, which he lent to many actors, such as Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, and Nick Nolte. Frantz also appeared in films. Since October 2013, he was the official voice of the radio station Nostalgie.
87
Born 1933-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Henry Darrow (born Enrique Tomás Delgado Jiménez) was an American character actor of stage and film known for his role as Manolito "Mano" Montoya on the 1960s television series The High Chaparral. In film, Darrow played the corrupt and vengeful Trooper Hancock in The Hitcher. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was seen in numerous guest starring television roles. Darrow replaced Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Zorro's father Don Alejandro de la Vega in the 1990s television series Zorro.
72
Born 1948-09-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Bral was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was also a painter.
75
Born 1945-08-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Caroline Cellier was a French actress. She has appeared in such films as L'année des méduses (Year of the Jellyfish), La vie, l'amour, la mort, Le zèbre and Le Plaisir (et ses petits tracas) She married the actor Jean Poiret. Their son Nicolas, who was born on 19 November 1978, became a screenwriter and actor. The couple stayed together until Jean's death in March 1992.
71
Born 1949-03-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Secrétin is a male former international table tennis player from France.
97
Born 1923-11-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Georges Marie de Barrigue de Montvallon dit Piem was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist.
63
Born 1957-09-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Dominique Kalifa was a French historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, where he was director of the Centre of 19th Century History and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A student of Michelle Perrot, he specialised in the history of crime, transgression, social control, and mass culture in 19th and early 20th century France and Europe. He also taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) from 2008 to 2015, and was several times "Invited professor" at NYU and "Visiting Scholar" at the University of Saint Andrews. From 1990, he was also columnist (historical reviews) for the French newspaper Libération. His study about the underworld and its role in the Western imagination is now translated into Portuguese (EDUSP), Spanish (Mora) and forthcoming in English (Columbia University Press). His Véritable Histoire de la Belle Epoque, published in 2017, won the Eugène Colas Prize from the Académie française. He also worked on a project about love, Paris and the topographical imagination. Before taking his own life he left a last tweet reading "Au revoir".