Historical Archives & Public Figures

Georges Mathé

France

1922 – 2010 (88 years old)

French oncologist and immunologist who performed the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplants on humans and pioneered cancer immunotherapy.

Sermages, France

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Arts & Music

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Simon MacCorkindale

Simon John MacCorkindale

Great Britain

1952 – 2010 (58 years old)

Dashing British actor, director, and producer renowned for playing Simon Doyle in Death on the Nile, starring in television series Manimal, and playing Dr. Harry Harper on BBC's Casualty.

London, United Kingdom

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Sciences & Discovery

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Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Poland

1924 – 2010 (85 years old)

Polish-born French-American mathematician widely acclaimed as the father of fractal geometry, identifying self-similar geometric patterns underlying natural phenomena.

Cambridge, United States

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Arts & Music

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Manuel Alexandre

Manuel Alexandre Abarca

Spain

1917 – 2010 (92 years old)

Beloved Spanish character actor whose warmth and gentle comic humanity illuminated over 300 films and plays, including Welcome Mr. Marshall! and Elsa & Fred.

Madrid, Spain

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Solomon Burke

United States

1940 – 2010 (70 years old)

Pioneering soul titan crowned the 'King of Rock 'n' Soul', whose gospel-infused hits like Cry to Me and Everybody Needs Somebody to Love helped invent Atlantic soul music.

Los Angeles, United States

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Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland

Australia

1926 – 2010 (83 years old)

Australian dramatic coloratura soprano acclaimed as 'La Stupenda', who spearheaded the mid-20th-century revival of the bel canto opera repertoire alongside conductor Richard Bonynge.

Montreux, Switzerland

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Sciences & Discovery

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Maurice Allais

France

1911 – 2010 (99 years old)

French polymath and economist awarded the 1988 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources.

Saint-Cloud, France

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Arts & Music

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Colette Renard

Colette Raget

France

1924 – 2010 (85 years old)

Beloved French chanson singer and actress who originated the title role in the musical Irma la Douce and charmed generations as Rachel Carmin in Plus belle la vie.

Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Keith Campbell

Keith Henry Stockman Campbell

Great Britain

1954 – 2010 (56 years old)

British cell biologist who pioneered somatic cell nuclear transfer, playing the central role in creating Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

Derbyshire, United Kingdom

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Philosophy & Thought

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Claude Lefort

France

1924 – 2010 (86 years old)

French political philosopher and disciple of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, famous for co-founding Socialisme ou Barbarie and theorizing the empty place of democratic power.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Georges Charpak

Jerzy Charpak

Poland

1924 – 2010 (86 years old)

Polish-born French physicist awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber, transforming particle physics.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Arthur Penn

Arthur Hiller Penn

United States

1922 – 2010 (88 years old)

Pioneering American film and stage director whose radical 1967 masterpiece Bonnie and Clyde shattered cinematic conventions and inaugurated the New Hollywood era.

New York City, United States

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Gloria Stuart

Gloria Frances Stewart

United States

1910 – 2010 (100 years old)

American actress whose extraordinary 80-year career spanned the Golden Age of Hollywood horror classics and an Oscar-nominated turn as 101-year-old Rose Dawson in Titanic (1997).

Los Angeles, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Gennady Yanayev

Геннадий Иванович Янаев

Russia

1937 – 2010 (73 years old)

Soviet political figure who served as the first and only Vice President of the Soviet Union and nominal head of the State Emergency Committee during the fateful August 1991 Coup.

Moscow, Russia

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Eddie Fisher

Edwin Jack Fisher

United States

1928 – 2010 (82 years old)

One of the most successful American pop singers of the 1950s, scoring thirty-five Top 40 hits including Anytime and Oh! My Pa-Pa, and father of actress Carrie Fisher.

Colma, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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José Antonio Labordeta

José Antonio Labordeta Subías

Spain

1935 – 2010 (75 years old)

Aragonese singer-songwriter, writer, and politician whose anthemic Canto a la libertad became an informal national hymn of Spanish democratic freedom and regional dignity.

Zaragoza, Spain

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Politics

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Mahjoub Ben Seddik

المحجوب بن الصديق

Morocco

1922 – 2010 (88 years old)

Historic patriarch of the Moroccan trade union movement who founded the Moroccan Workers' Union (UMT) in 1955, leading Moroccan labor through five decades of national and international activism.

Casablanca, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Larbi Zekkal

العربي زكال

Algeria

1934 – 2010 (76 years old)

Master stage and film actor who played pivotal roles in world-renowned cinematic classics including Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' and 'Hors-la-loi'.

Algiers, Algeria

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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries