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Distel Alexandre (b. 1933-01-29 / d. 2004-07-22) alias Sacha Distel
Sacha Distel had a much publicised relationship with actress Brigitte Bardot but in 1963 he married skier Francine Bréaud.
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Born 1931-05-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Louis Rayer, known by his stage name Pierre Vernier, was a French actor. He repeatedly worked with Claude Chabrol, Henri Verneuil and Claude Lelouch, Georges Lautner and Jacques Deray.
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Born 1918-10-16. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Charles-Henri Jean Dewisme, better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, was an author of action and science-fiction novels. He published over 200 titles in the action and science-fiction genre. He was most noted for the creation of the character Bob Morane, a hero whose adventures spanned fifty years and went from straight adventure and science-fiction to fantasy. Vernes also wrote the text of many comics albums and animated movies. Dewisme used a number of other pseudonyms, including Jacques Colombo, Robert Davids, Duchess Holiday, C. Reynes, Jacques Seyr, Lew Shannon, and Ray Stevens, as well as his real name.
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Born 1969-01-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Verne Jay Troyer was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer, best known for his role of Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series. He had cartilage–hair hypoplasia and was 2 ft 8 in (81 cm) tall. Troyer died at the age of 49. No cause was immediately released. His death was reported as a possible suicide to the coroner, who found very high alcohol levels in his body, suggesting alcohol poisoning. His death was later ruled a suicide. He was cremated and his ashes were interred in a niche at Colon United Methodist Church Columbarium in Colon, St. Joseph County, Michigan.
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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 1926-08-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Cuban communist revolutionary politician, a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist. Castro governed the Republic of Cuba as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011, Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers from 1976 to 2008. Castro also served as the Commander-in-chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist policies were implemented throughout society. Cuban state television announced that Castro had died on the night of 25 November 2016. The cause of death was not disclosed. His brother, President Raúl Castro, confirmed the news in a brief speech: "The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 [EST] this evening." His death came 9 months after his older brother Ramón died at the age of 91 in February. Fidel Castro was cremated on 26 November 2016. A funeral procession travelled 900 kilometres (560 mi) along the island's central highway from Havana to Santiago de Cuba, tracing in reverse, the route of the "Freedom Caravan" of January 1959, and after nine days of public mourning, his ashes were entombed in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba.
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Born 1920-10-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1948-10-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
he was a New Zealand yachtsman who led his country to two successive America’s Cup victories. He previously won the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989, and the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 by setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza. Blake was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995 for services to yachting, and received an honorary doctorate in 2000 from AUT University.
Pirates shot and killed Blake while he was on an environmental exploration trip in South America, monitoring global warming and pollution for the United Nations. The two-month expedition was anchored off Macapá, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon delta, waiting to clear customs after a trip up the Amazon river. At around 9 pm a group of six to eight armed, masked robbers wearing balaclavas and crash helmets boarded the Seamaster. As one of the robbers held a gun to the head of a crewmember, Blake sprang from the cabin wielding a rifle used to ward off polar bears. He shot one of the assailants in the hand before the rifle malfunctioned; he was then fatally shot in the back by assailant Ricardo Colares Tavares. The boarders injured two other crew members with knives, and the remaining seven were unhurt.
The only booty the attackers seized from Seamaster was a 15 hp outboard motor and some watches from the crew. Authorities eventually captured the pirates and sentenced them to an average of 32 years in prison each; Tavares, the man who fired the fatal shots, received a sentence of 36 years 9 months.
Prior to the attack, the yacht's crew had been very careful when travelling up the river and back down again; they always had crew members on watch. Only upon return to 'civilisation' did they relax their guard.
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Born 1920-06-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a French film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1947 and 1981. He was depressive after his wife passed away. He tried to commit suicide at his home and died some time afterwards at the hospital.
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Born 1913-01-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), Little Big Horn (1951) and High Noon (1952). On television, he starred in Sea Hunt from 1958 to 1961. By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such parody films as Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991), and Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998). Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994. Bridges' last film, Jane Austen's Mafia!, which came out the year of his death, bears a dedication to him.
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Born 1898-03-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor and writer. Throughout his career, he worked with several notable directors, like Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, and René Clair. Filmography 1977 : Un oursin dans la poche de Pascal Thomas 1976 : Le Corps de mon ennemi de Henri Verneuil: Pierre Leclercq 1967 : Un homme de trop de Constantin Costa Gavras : Colonel Guers 1966 : Angélique et le Roy de Bernard Borderie : Colbert 1963 : La Foire aux cancres de Louis Daquin 1963 : Un gosse de la butte de Maurice Delbez 1962 : Le Doulos de Jean-Pierre Melville : Gilbert Varnove 1962 : Comme un poisson dans l'eau de André Michel : M. Dumesnil 1962 : Une blonde comme ça de Jean Jabely : Doc 1959 : Rue des prairies de Denys de La Patellière - Uniquement d'après son roman 1959 : Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon de Jacqueline Audry : Le comte Antoine d'Éon 1958 : Douze heures d'horloge de Geza Radvanyi 1958 : Le Gorille vous salue bien de Bernard Borderie : Commissaire Blavet 1958 : La Liberté surveillée de Vladimír Vlček et Henri Aisner : Benoît 1958 : Sois belle et tais-toi de Marc Allégret : Monsieur Raphael 1958 : C'est la faute d'Adam de Jacqueline Audry : Norbert de Cazaubon 1957 : Celui qui doit mourir de Jules Dassin : Yannakos 1957 : La Garçonne de Jacqueline Audry : Professeur Vignabos 1955 : La Lumière d'en face de Georges Lacombe 1954 : Bel-Ami de Louis Daquin 1952 : Fille dangereuse - (Bufere) de Guido Brignone 1952 : Seuls au monde de René Chanas : François Hermenault 1952 : Trois femmes de André Michel : M. Cachelin (segment "L'Héritage") 1950 : Un sourire dans la tempête de René Chanas - Uniquement dialoguiste 1950 : Sous le ciel de Paris de Julien Duvivier - Uniquement dialoguiste 1949 : L'Escadron blanc de René Chanas 1949 : Le Point du jour de Louis Daquin : Dubard ...
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Born 1964-10-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Born Gamil Gharbi, he was a 25-year-old man from Montreal, Quebec, Canada who murdered fourteen women and wounded ten women and four men at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in "the Montreal Massacre", also known as "the École Polytechnique massacre".
In August 1989, Lépine picked up an application for a firearms-acquisition certificate and received his permit in mid-October. In November 21, 1989, Lépine purchased a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle at a local sporting goods store. During the period October to December 1989, Lépine was seen at least seven times at the École Polytechnique. He brought his mother a present four days before the shooting, though it was several weeks before her birthday. He had always been very punctual paying his rent, but did not do so in December 1989.
On December 6, 1989, Lépine walked into the École Polytechnique de Montréal. There, he entered a second-floor classroom where he separated the men and women and then ordered the approximately fifty men to leave. Claiming that he was fighting feminism, he shot the nine women who remained, killing six and injuring the rest. After this, Lépine moved to other areas of the building, including the cafeteria, corridors and another classroom. A total of fourteen women (twelve engineering students, one nursing student, and one university employee) were killed, and four men and ten women injured before Lépine turned the gun on himself.
A three-page letter (see below) was found in the pocket of his jacket. The letter was never officially made public, but was leaked in November 1990 to Francine Pelletier, and published in the newspaper La Presse. In his suicide letter, Lépine claimed political motives, blaming feminists for ruining his life. He considered himself rational and expressed admiration for Denis Lortie, who had mounted an attack on the Quebec National Assembly in 1984 for political reasons, killing three Quebec government employees. The letter also contained a list of nineteen Quebec women whom Lépine apparently wished to kill because of their feminism.
Marc Lépine was buried in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal, a few blocks from where he committed the massacre.
Excusez les fautes. J’avais 15 minutes pour l’écrire (Voir aussi Annexe)
Veillez noter que si je me suicide aujourd’hui 89/12/06 ce n’est pas pour des raisons économiques (car j’ai attendu d’avoir épuisé tout mes moyens financiers refusant même de l’emploi) mais bien pour des raisons politiques. Car j’ai décidé d’envoyer Ad Patres les féministes qui m’ont toujours gaché la vie. Depuis 7 ans que la vie ne m’apporte plus de joie et étant totalement blasé, j’ai décidé de mettre des bâtons dans les roues à ces viragos.
J’avais déjà essayés dans ma jeunesse de m’engager dans les Forces comme élève-officier, ce qui m’aurais permit de possiblement pénétrer dans l’arsenal et de procédé Lortie dans une rassia. Ils m’ont refusé because associàl. J’ai donc attendu jusqu'a ce jour pour mettre à exécution mes projets. Entre temps, j’ai continué mes études au grès du vent car elles ne m’ont jamais intéressée sachant mon destin à l’avance. Ce qui ne m’a pas empécher d’avoir de très bonnes notes malgré ma théorie de travaux non remis ainsi que la carence d’étude avant les examens.
Même si l’épitète Tireur Fou va m’être attribué dans les médias, je me considère comme un érudit rationnel que seul la venu de la Faucheuse on amméné à posé des gestes extrèmistes. Car pourquoi persévéré à exister si ce n’est que faire plaisir au gouvernement. Etant plûtot passéiste (Exception la science) de nature, les féministes ont toujours eux le dont de me faire rager. Elles veulent conserver les avantages des femmes (ex. assurances moins cher, congé de maternité prolongé précédé d’un retrait préventif, etc.) tout en s’accaparant de ceux des hommes.
Ainsi c’est une vérité de la palice que si les Jeux olympiques enlevaient la distinction Homme/Femme, il n’y aurait de Femmes que dans les compétitions gracieuses. Donc les féministes ne se battent pas pour enlever cette barrière. Elles sont tellement opportunistes qu’elles ne négligent pas de profiter des connaissances accumuler par les hommes au cours de l’histoire. Elles essai toutefois de travestir celles-ci toute les fois qu’elles le peuvent. Ainsi l’autre jour j’ai entendu qu’on honoraient les canadiens et canadiennes qui ont combattus au front pendant les guerres mondiales. Comment expliquer cela alors que les femmes n’étaient pas autorisés à aller au front??? Va-t-on entendre parler des légionnaires et galériennes de César qui naturellement occuperont 50% des effectifs de l’histoire malgré qu’elles n’a jamais exister. Un vrai Casus Belli.
Désoler pour cette trop compendieuse lettre.
Marc Lépine
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Ont toutes Failli disparaitre aujourd’hui. Le manque de temps (car je m’y suis mis trop tard) à permis que ces féministes radicals survives.
Alea Jacta Est
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Born 1914-10-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
1964 : Cent mille dollars au soleil - Henri Verneuil.
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Born 1948-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a French Maoist. He was shot by Jean-Antoine Tramoni, a security agent of Renault.
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Born 1880-06-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. One of Helen's Swiss ancestors was the first teacher for the deaf in Zurich. Keller reflected on this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating "that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left the child deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, Helen had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice. He subsequently put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anagnos, the school's director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and only 20 years old, to become Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship, Sullivan evolving into governess and then eventual companion. Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for "mug", Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll. Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water"; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world. Due to a protruding left eye, Keller was usually photographed in profile. Both her eyes were replaced in adulthood with glass replicas for "medical and cosmetic reasons". Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and a birth control supporter. Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.
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Born 1899-06-27. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
He studied at ENS. Then, he became a member of the croix-de-feu. He was a member of the governement of Vichy from 1941 through 1942, where he created the sections speciales, ancestor of the CRS.
After the murder of a German officer in Paris in 1941, he made and communicated to the Germans a list of 50 hostages to be executed in reprisals. Among them was Guy Moquet.
Pucheu joined the allied army in Africa in november, 1942, evidently to try to save his life.
He was arrested in Alger, on the request of gaullist and communist people. He was sentenced to death by a military court.
He was executed by a firing squad. General de Gaulle refused to give him mercy.
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Born 1820-04-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He photographed Victor Hugo on his death-bed in 1885. He is credited with having published (in 1886) the first photo-interview (of famous chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul, then a centenarian), and also took erotic photographs.
The character of "Michel Ardan" in Verne's De la Terre à la Lune (From Earth to the Moon) is inspired by Nadar.
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Born 1828-02-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
On March 9, 1886, as Verne was coming home, his twenty-five-year-old nephew, Gaston, with whom he had entertained lengthy and affectionate relations, shot him with a gun. One bullet missed, but the second entered Verne's left leg, giving him a limp that would not be cured. The incident was hushed up by the media, and Gaston spent the rest of his life in an asylum.
After the deaths of Hetzel and his beloved mother in 1887, Jules began writing darker works. This may partly be due to changes in his personality, but an important factor is the fact that Hetzel's son, who took over his father's business, was not as rigorous in his corrections as Hetzel Sr. had been.
In 1888, Jules Verne entered politics and was elected town councillor of Amiens, where he championed several improvements and served for fifteen years.
In 1905, while ill with diabetes, Verne died at his home, 44 Boulevard Longueville (now Boulevard Jules-Verne).