Celebrities from France
France: 770 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, were laid to rest here, or came from France
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François Jacob
06/17/1920 – 04/19/2013
92 years
French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
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Deanna Durbin
12/04/1921 – 04/17/2013
91 years
Canadian singer and actress
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Ali Kafi
10/07/1928 – 04/16/2013
84 years
Algerian politician
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Zao Wou-Ki
02/01/1920 – 04/09/2013
93 years
Chinese-French painter
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Stéphane Hessel
10/20/1917 – 02/27/2013
95 years
French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor
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Marie-Claire Alain
08/10/1926 – 02/26/2013
86 years
French organist and organ teacher
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Kevin Ayers
08/16/1944 – 02/18/2013
68 years
English singer-songwriter, record producer
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Sakine Cansız
née Sakîne Cansiz
02/12/1958 – 01/09/2013
54 years
Kurdish activist, co-founder of PKK
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Maurice Herzog
01/15/1919 – 12/13/2012
93 years
French mountaineer and politician
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Jacques Barzun
née Henri Louis Jacques Roger Martin
11/30/1907 – 10/25/2012
104 years
French-American historian
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Émile Allais
02/25/1912 – 10/17/2012
100 years
alpine skier
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Schadhli ibn Dschadid
04/14/1929 – 10/06/2012
83 years
President of Algeria from 1979 to 1992
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Claude Pinoteau
05/25/1925 – 10/05/2012
87 years
French film director
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Chris Marker
née Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve
07/29/1921 – 07/29/2012
91 years
French filmmaker
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André Simon
01/05/1920 – 07/11/2012
92 years
French racing driver
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Robert Sabatier
08/17/1923 – 06/28/2012
88 years
French writer
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Brigitte Engerer
10/27/1952 – 06/23/2012
59 years
French pianist
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Roger Garaudy
07/17/1913 – 06/13/2012
98 years
French philosopher, politician and Holocaust denier
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Héctor Bianciotti
03/18/1930 – 06/12/2012
82 years
French writer
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Georges Mathieu
01/27/1921 – 06/10/2012
91 years
French painter
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Roy Salvadori
05/12/1922 – 06/03/2012
90 years
racecar driver
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Warda al-Dschaza'iriya
07/22/1939 – 05/17/2012
72 years
Algerian singer
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Carlos Fuentes
11/11/1928 – 05/15/2012
83 years
Mexican writer
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Ahmed Ben Bella
12/25/1916 – 04/11/2012
95 years
President of Algeria from 1963 to 1965
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