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A key figure in French cinema, Nicolas Altmayer co-founded Mandarin & Compagnie with his brother, Eric. The production company backed 'Brice de Nice,' 'OSS 117,' and 10 films by François Ozon. He died on August 17 at age 61.
The former Socialist was the group leader of Macron's party in the Senate. He died following a serious cycling accident.
The former Socialist minister and tireless activist died Tuesday at age 97. In 1982, she secured coverage for abortion procedures through France's national health insurance.
Mathilde Favier was Dior's head of public relations. Nicolas Altmeyer, her partner, was known for producing the French films 'OSS 117,' 'Alpha,' and 'Monsieur Aznavour.'
Hayden Panettiere, star of several popular television series including 'Heroes' and 'Nashville,' and later an award-winning country music singer, was announced dead by her father, in a statement to ABC News on Sunday.
Awarded the prestigious literary prize in 1977 for his novel John l'Enfer, Decoin, whose father was one of the great postwar film directors, regarded the prize as a second birth.
A World Cup winner with Italy in 1982 and a finalist at the 1994 World Cup, Baresi is regarded as one of the greatest sweepers in football history.
After getting his start as an actor in the early films of Quentin Dupieux, the musician saw his career take off in 2011 thanks to his hit 'Nightcall,' which gained international fame through the film Drive. He was found dead at his Paris home.
Hansard combined acting and a musical career. He won an Oscar in 2007 for the song 'Falling Slowly' from the film 'Once,' in which he starred alongside Markéta Irglová.
The French DJ was a leading figure in the house music movement known as the 'French Touch.' He wrote 'Nightcall,' which appeared in the film 'Drive' and which he performed at the 2024 Paris Olympic closing ceremony alongside Belgian pop star Angèle and French band Phoenix.
Gunther von Hagens invented the plastination process, which involves removing water and fat from human and animal tissue and replacing them with chemical compounds in order to preserve bodies after death.
The ruler, who led the country from 1995 to 2013, worked to put the emirate on the international stage. Thanks to his vision, Qatar launched the influential Al Jazeera television network, established the far-reaching airline Qatar Airways, and built the massive US military base Al-Udeid.
The senator from South Carolina, who was seeking re-election in November, died suddenly at the age of 71. He embodied, perhaps better than anyone else, the Republican Party's surrender to Trumpism.
Famous for two hit singles, 'It's a Heartache' and 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', the gravel-voiced performer died on July 9, her family said.
The American economist, who led the US central bank for nearly two decades, died Monday, June 22, at the age of 100.
Through his research on the 16th and 17th-century Inquisition trials in Europe, he initiated a profound upheaval in the field of historical scholarship. He died on June 17 at the age of 87.
Business leaders, former ministers and first ladies paid their final respects to Bernadette Chirac on June 12 in Paris.
Bernadette Chirac, who stood by her late husband during 12 years as first lady, but also forged her own, more discreet, political career, died on June 5 at the age of 93.
Internationally renowned, notably for his painting 'A Bigger Splash' (1967) and his series of pool paintings, the British artist, who lived in Normandy from 2019 to 2023, produced work that straddled pop art and hyperrealism, never hesitating to use new technologies as sources of inspiration. He died on June 11.
The French sailor won the Vendée Globe, a solo, non-stop, unassisted round-the-world race, finishing over nine days and eight hours ahead of the previous record, all while battling cancer for two years. His family announced his death on June 11.
During all of ex-president Jacques Chirac's election campaigns, Bernadette Chirac quickly broke with official rhetoric. She passed away on June 5 at the age of 93.
An unfailing supporter of her husband's career, Bernadette Chodron de Courcel became a key figure a French politics. She was elected local councilor, a rare feat for a 'wife of,' and was very involved in charity work. She died at the age of 93.
Famous for her four-part graphic novel 'Persepolis' recounting her childhood in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, which she also adapted for the screen, Satrapi was also later involved with the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
The French-Iranian artist died in Paris at the age of 56, her family announced on Thursday. Many political and cultural figures paid tribute to her as 'an immense artist' and a woman who 'deeply loved Iran and its people's freedom.'