They All Died In 2016, 2017, etc ...

[topdog]

Stephen HAWKING (1942)
UK Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author
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[klimt]

Craig MACK - American Rapper (1970)
(Heart Failure)

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[brmstn69]

Stephen HAWKING (1942)
UK Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author
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[trencherman]

Count Hubert de GIVENCHY (1927)
French Fashion Designer
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He founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He was famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy. He is survived by his partner of over 70 years, Philippe Venet.

The dress is not easy to wear. It follows the curves of the body. It reveals the arms. But it’s not a dress that constrains a woman. It requires effort but not sacrifice. The dress is special. It makes a woman want to slink about, controlled and teasing. It’s possible to envision it on all sorts of shapes — slim, like Hepburn, but also curvy. And it looks as perfect in 2018 as it did 50 years ago.

Givenchy didn’t invent the little black dress, but he gave it its enduring cachet. He infused it with meaning beyond the practical and versatile. The dress represented a lifestyle: glamorous, reckless, defiant, urbane. It was Holly Golightly’s dress. She was complicated and sad, confounding and charming. She was not Everywoman. She was exceptional, which is what every woman wants to be. And her signature dress was wondrous.

Robin Givhan, TWJ

 

[klimt]

Geneviève FONTANEL - French Actress (1936)​

 

[klimt]

Yann ARNAUD - French Acrobat - Member of "Cirque Du Soleil" (1980)
(Fall during a show)​

 

[klimt]

Ezequiel OROZCO - Mexican Footballer (1988)
(Lung Cancer)​

 

[klimt]

Abu Zarin HUSSIN - Malaysian Snake Handling Artist (1985)
(Bitten by a cobra during a snake-catching mission)​

 

[klimt]

Bernard VERHEYDEN - Belgian Comedian (1938)​

 

[klimt]

Marielle FRANCO - Brazilian Member of The Municipal Chamber of Rio (1980)
(Shot)​

Brazil lost a politician who helped those who had long been ignored—women, the poor, and blacks. But with her death, it seems the world has gained a martyr.​

 

[klimt]

Alfred LYNN (aka. Allah REAL) American Rapper (Wu Tang Clan) (1956)​

 

[topdog]

Sammy WILLIAMS (1948)
US Broadway Dancer / Actor
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He played a realistic gay character, Paul, in the original company of A Chorus Line and won a Tony Award. See my tribute to Sammy here.

 

[takeitall456]

Philip KERR (Philip Ballantyne Kerr) - British author (1956)​

 

[takeitall456]

Lt Col Arnaud BELTRAME - French police officer (1973)​

 

[Shelter]

Lt Col Arnaud BELTRAME - French police officer (1973)​

He is what I call a HERO! R.I.P. hero Beltrame.

 

[rascalcat]

Lys ASSIA Swiss Singer (1924)
First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest

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[Stonecold]

1933 - 2018
Mireille Knoll 85 Holocaust survivor murdered in Paris with what French prosecutors call prejudicial motives

 

[takeitall456]

Stéphane AUDRAN - French actress (1932)​

 

[topdog]

Stéphane AUDRAN - French actress (1932)​

My two favorite performances of Ms. Audran: The first is Brideshead Revisited, and the second is Babette's Feast (below).

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[haiducii]

Linda BROWN - the Kansas schoolgirl whose case brought an end to racial segregation in US public schools in 1954 (1943)​