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PARIS

Most Famous People Born in Paris, France

Notable people
19,561
Peak decade
1950s
Median birth year
1888
Most distinctive
Playwright 7.0×

Paris is the salon and the studio. Notable births stretch unbroken from the late Renaissance through the Belle Époque to the Nouvelle Vague, and whole subgenres of fame — the chansonnier, the salonnière, the ébéniste, the gallerist — exist here at densities found almost nowhere else. Painters, playwrights, sculptors, and architects crowd every century since 1600, and each era seems to leave its own profession on the books before the next one arrives.

Standouts

What Paris Is Known For

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Politician is Paris's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (1,799).

Paris over-indexes on playwright 7.0× the global rate.

Paris under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Politician 1,799 0.8×
  2. Actor 1,636 1.6×
  3. Painter 1,632 3.2×
  4. Writer 1,043 1.6×
  5. Journalist 490 1.6×
  6. Architect 470 2.7×
  7. Film 463 1.9×
  8. Composer 451 1.8×
  1. Playwright 212 7.0×
  2. Sculptor 408 3.2×
  3. Painter 1,632 3.2×
  4. Architect 470 2.7×
  5. Photographer 207 2.2×
  6. Film 463 1.9×
  7. Composer 451 1.8×
  8. Diplomat 197 1.7×
  1. Football 445 0.2×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Paris's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0008 FILM

Roman Polanski

Born 1933

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0010 ACTOR

Brigitte Bardot

Born 1934

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0016 POLITICIAN

Jacques Chirac

1932 - 2019

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0024 FILM

Jean-Luc Godard

Born 1930

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0035 FILM

François Truffaut

1932 - 1984

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0069 ACTOR

Annie Girardot

1931 - 2011

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0072 FILM

Claude Chabrol

1930 - 2010

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0074 FILM

Claude Lelouch

Born 1937

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0084 FILM

Guy Debord

1931 - 1994

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0143 ACTOR

Jean-Pierre Cassel

1932 - 2007

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0154 ACTOR

Claude Berri

1934 - 2009

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0192 ACTOR

Caterina Valente

Born 1931

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0219 WRITER

Elena Poniatowska

Born 1932

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0268 PAINTER

Roland Topor

1938 - 1997

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0335 FILM

Claude Zidi

Born 1934

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0344 ACTOR

Victor Lanoux

1936 - 2017

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0371 HISTORIAN

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

1930 - 2006

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0414 ACTOR

Sami Frey

Born 1937

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0416 POLITICIAN

Claude Allègre

Born 1937

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0433 THRONE

Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma

1930 - 2010

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0436 ESSAYIST

Dominique Venner

1935 - 2013

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0437 FILM

Jeannot Szwarc

Born 1939

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0458 JOURNALIST

Vladimir Posner

Born 1934

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0462 SCULPTOR

Marisol Escobar

1930 - 2016

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0472 SINGER

Warda Al-Jazairia

1939 - 2012

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0522 FILM

Marc Dorcel

Born 1934

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0533 FILM

Gérard Blain

1930 - 2000

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0545 ACTOR

Guy Marchand

Born 1937

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0551 FILM

Jean Becker (director)

Born 1933

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0563 ACTOR

Philippe Nahon

1938 - 2020

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0579 POLITICIAN

Pierre Joxe

Born 1934

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0623 FILM

Yves Boisset

Born 1939

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0625 ACTOR

Theophanis Lamboukas

1936 - 1970

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0639 MATHEMATICIAN

Yves Meyer

Born 1939

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0759 PHILOSOPHER

Sarah Kofman

1934 - 1994

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0773 THEATRE

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

1932 - 1988

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0793 POLITICIAN

Jean Tiberi

Born 1935

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0802 ACTOR

Dominique Zardi

1930 - 2009

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0817 WRITER

Vladimir Volkoff

1932 - 2005

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0866 PHYSICIAN

Jacques Benveniste

1935 - 2004

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0871 PHOTOGRAPHER

Irina Ionesco

Born 1935

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0872 FILM

George Sluizer

1932 - 2014

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0895 WRITER

Gilles Perrault

Born 1931

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0897 ACTOR

Corinne Marchand

Born 1931

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0948 SINGER

Danyel Gérard

Born 1939

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0988 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jeanloup Sieff

1933 - 2000

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1013 CURATOR

Pierre Rosenberg

Born 1936

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1017 CONDUCTOR

Jean-Claude Casadesus

Born 1935

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1030 ACTOR

Jean-Paul Roussillon

1931 - 2009

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1037 HISTORIAN

Jean Tulard

Born 1933

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1048 POET

Henri Meschonnic

1932 - 2009

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1064 POLITICIAN

Hervé de Charette

Born 1938

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1070 POLITICIAN

Hans van den Broek

Born 1936

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1114 BIOLOGIST

Pierre Joliot

Born 1932

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1127 ARTIST

Fred (cartoonist)

1931 - 2013

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1147 POET

Amelia Rosselli

1930 - 1996

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1200 ACTOR

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Born 1938

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1203 HISTORIAN

Alain Besançon

Born 1932

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1212 ACTOR

Myriam Bru

Born 1930

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1216 FILM

Juan Luis Buñuel

1934 - 2017

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1222 JOURNALIST

Jacques Séguéla

Born 1934

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1234 RACER

Jean-Pierre Beltoise

1937 - 2015

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1259 MATHEMATICIAN

Paul Benacerraf

Born 1931

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1270 COMPOSER

Éliane Radigue

Born 1932

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1287 POET

Michel Deguy

Born 1930

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1314 ESSAYIST

Philippe Lejeune

Born 1938

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1323 MATHEMATICIAN

Louis de Branges de Bourcia

Born 1932

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1333 FILM

Alain Jessua

1932 - 2017

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1374 SOCIOLOGIST

Dominique Schnapper

Born 1934

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1407 ACTOR

Yves Barsacq

1931 - 2015

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1418 COMPOSER

Paul de Senneville

Born 1933

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1435 ACTOR

Frédéric de Pasquale

1931 - 2001

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1442 FILM

Luc Moullet

Born 1937

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1465 POLITICIAN

Louis Mermaz

Born 1931

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1467 POET

Claude Esteban

1935 - 2006

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1504 COMPOSER

Gilbert Amy

Born 1936

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1513 ACTOR

Mijanou Bardot

Born 1938

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1542 HISTORIAN

Pierre Milza

1932 - 2018

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1565 EXPLORER

Michel Peissel

1937 - 2011

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1578 WRITER

Éric Hazan

Born 1936

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1579 FILM

Michel Drach

1930 - 1990

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1584 ACTOR

Michel Beaune

1933 - 1990

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1585 POLITICIAN

Lowell Weicker

Born 1931

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1626 ACTOR

Jean-Claude Grumberg

Born 1939

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1660 ART HISTORIAN

Philippe de Montebello

Born 1936

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1710 HISTORIAN

Daniel Roche (historian)

Born 1935

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1741 ACTOR

Jean-François Adam

1938 - 1980

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1747 WRITER

Kenizé Mourad

Born 1939

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1808 PHILOSOPHER

Miguel Abensour

1939 - 2017

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1846 PRODUCER

Michel Ciment

Born 1938

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1868 PHILOSOPHER

Sylvère Lotringer

Born 1938

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1885 COSTUME DESIGNER

Albert Wolsky

Born 1930

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1909 PSYCHOLOGIST

Claude Steiner

1935 - 2017

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1914 ACTOR

Dominique Boschero

Born 1934

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1926 ACTOR

Jean-Pierre Bernard

1933 - 2017

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1931 ACTOR

Liliane Rovère

Born 1933

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1941 SOCIOLOGIST

Christian Baudelot

Born 1938

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1946 JOURNALIST

Michel Polac

1930 - 2012

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1964 ACADEMIC

Élisabeth de Fontenay

Born 1934

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2004 CINEMA

William Lubtchansky

1937 - 2010

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2033 ECONOMIST

Pascal Salin

Born 1939

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2075 PUBLISHER

André Schiffrin

1935 - 2013

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2092 ESSAYIST

Gilles Jacob

Born 1930

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2097 PHYSICIST

Édouard Brézin

Born 1938

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2150 JOURNALIST

Christiane Collange

Born 1930

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2168 ACTOR

Roland Bertin

Born 1930

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2188 WRITER

Anne Cuneo

1936 - 2015

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2198 ACTOR

Henri Attal

1936 - 2003

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2201 MATHEMATICIAN

Georges Matheron

1930 - 2000

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2213 RABBI

Aharon Lichtenstein

1933 - 2015

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2246 SINGER

Rosy Armen

Born 1939

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2247 ACTOR

Jacques Boudet

Born 1939

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2276 WRITER

Éric Jourdan

1938 - 2015

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2310 COMPOSER

Éric Demarsan

Born 1938

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2344 SCREENWRITER

Véra Belmont

Born 1932

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2356 FASHION DESIGNER

Daniel Hechter

Born 1938

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2382 AUTHOR

Jean-Louis de Rambures

1930 - 2006

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2399 ACTOR

Jacqueline Monsigny

1931 - 2017

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2439 CONDUCTOR

Roger Boutry

1932 - 2019

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2463 SCREENWRITER

Serge Leroy

1937 - 1993

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2542 PAINTER

Jean-Pierre Yvaral

1934 - 2002

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2600 MUSIC

René Urtreger

Born 1934

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2620 WRITER

Michèle Bernstein

Born 1932

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2622 WRITER

Élisabeth Gille

1937 - 1996

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2635 SKATER

Jacqueline du Bief

Born 1930

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2647 HISTORIAN

Serge Berstein

Born 1934

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2661 POLITICAL

Ivan Chtcheglov

1933 - 1998

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2695 ARTIST

Christian Godard

Born 1932

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2711 PHYSICIAN

Jean-Claude Chermann

Born 1939

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2770 PAINTER

Michel Delacroix (painter)

Born 1933

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2785 MATHEMATICIAN

Philippe G. Ciarlet

Born 1938

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2788 ACTOR

Popeck

Born 1936

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2797 GEOGRAPHER

Claude Raffestin

Born 1936

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2821 HISTORIAN

André Burguière

Born 1938

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2847 FASHION DESIGNER

Jean-Louis Scherrer

1935 - 2013

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2854 PAINTER

Sam Szafran

1934 - 2019

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2885 ACTOR

Andre Gregory

Born 1934

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2931 WRITER

Carmen Rico Godoy

1939 - 2001

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2942 PHYSICIST

Raymond Stora

1930 - 2015

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2959 MUSIC

Michel Debost

Born 1934

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3036 ACTOR

Danielle De Metz

Born 1938

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3056 INVESTMENT

Michel David-Weill

Born 1932

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3087 ASTROPHYSICIST

Pierre Léna

Born 1937

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3100 WRITER

Lily Tuck

Born 1938

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3137 JOURNALIST

Bernard Cassen

Born 1937

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3150 SINGER

Marc Ogeret

1932 - 2018

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3204 FENCER

Pierre Rodocanachi

Born 1938

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3206 POLITICIAN

Didier Motchane

1931 - 2017

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3262 ACTOR

Jean-François Poron

1936 - 2020

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3269 WRITER

Maud Tabachnik

Born 1938

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3310 ARCHITECT

Jean-Marie Charpentier

1939 - 2010

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3332 WRITER

Georges Chaulet

1931 - 2012

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3378 POLITICIAN

Didier Julia

Born 1934

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3392 LEXICOGRAPHER

Michel Duc-Goninaz

1933 - 2016

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3402 ECONOMIST

Serge-Christophe Kolm

Born 1932

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3440 CHOREOGRAPHER

Claude Bessy (dancer)

Born 1932

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3477 COMPOSER

Bernard Ringeissen

Born 1934

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3502 ACTOR

Anne-Marie Coffinet

1933 - 1984

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3504 ENTREPRENEUR

Jean-Louis Dumas

1938 - 2010

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3510 FOOTBALL

Gérard Banide

Born 1936

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3544 DIARIST

Jean-René Huguenin

1936 - 1962

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3546 BIOGRAPHER

Desmond Seward

Born 1935

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3557 ARTIST

Edmond Couchot

Born 1932

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3632 ACTOR

Jacqueline Doyen

1930 - 2006

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3633 ACTOR

Jacqueline Beer

Born 1932

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3640 PRIEST

Jacques Perrier

Born 1936

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3765 MATHEMATICIAN

Roland Glowinski

Born 1937

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3806 PHYSICIST

Claude Itzykson

1938 - 1995

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3840 COMPOSER

Jean-Pierre Drouet

Born 1935

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3856 WRITER

Daniel-Henri Pageaux

Born 1939

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3859 LAWYER

Georges Kiejman

Born 1932

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3871 BUSINESS

Jérôme Monod

1930 - 2016

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3923 FILM

Jacques Witta

Born 1934

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3966 PHILOSOPHER

François Fédier

Born 1935

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3971 HISTORIAN

Jacques Lafaye

Born 1930

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3989 MUSIC

Gilles Cantagrel

Born 1937

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4004 ART HISTORIAN

Jean-Pierre Adam

Born 1937

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4017 HISTORIAN

Anka Muhlstein

Born 1935

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4018 DIARIST

Matthieu Galey

1934 - 1986

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4050 CINEMA

Alain Levent

1934 - 2008

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4081 JOURNALIST

Anthony Haden-Guest

Born 1937

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4103 ACTOR

Pierre Meyrand

1932 - 1999

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4104 CINEMA

Michel Hugo

1930 - 2010

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4114 ACTOR

Yvan Chiffre

1936 - 2016

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4130 PHILOSOPHER

François Regnault

Born 1938

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4144 PHYSICIST

Albert J. Libchaber

Born 1934

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4148 ENTREPRENEUR

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus

1932 - 2016

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4179 FRIAR

Henri Burin des Roziers

1930 - 2017

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4185 ESSAYIST

Christian Gerondeau

Born 1938

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4254 ORGANIST

Francis Chapelet

Born 1934

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4255 ACTOR

Jacques Santi

1939 - 1988

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4256 POET

Hubert Lucot

1935 - 2017

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4307 COMPOSER

Tomáš Svoboda (composer)

Born 1939

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4363 FILM

Pierre Koralnik

Born 1938

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4382 FILM

Michèle Rosier

1930 - 2017

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4385 FILM

Éric Rochat

1936 - 2003

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4394 CREATOR

Dominique Frémy

1931 - 2008

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4410 PHOTOGRAPHER

Michel Journiac

1935 - 1995

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4440 WRITER

Bernard Lenteric

1934 - 2009

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4469 FILM

Raymonde Guyot

Born 1935

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4485 SURGEON

Claude-Henri Chouard

Born 1931

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4539 PHYSICIST

Constantin Piron

1932 - 2012

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4543 PRODUCER

Pierre-André Boutang

1937 - 2008

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4544 WRITER

Michel Baroin

1930 - 1987

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4591 LITERARY

Jacques Henric

Born 1938

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4600 PIANIST

Évelyne Crochet

Born 1934

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4616 WRITER

Alain Dorémieux

1933 - 1998

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4617 ASSEMBLY

Tony Dreyfus

Born 1939

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4646 WRITER

Jean-François Steiner

Born 1938

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4680 PHOTOGRAPHER

Colette Álvarez Urbajtel

1934 - 2020

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4681 POLITICIAN

Françoise Dior

1932 - 1993

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4700 WRITER

Elvire de Brissac

Born 1939

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4702 PAINTER

Maurice Matieu

1934 - 2017

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4744 ARTIST

Claude Moliterni

1932 - 2009

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4767 ACTOR

Gésip Légitimus

1930 - 2000

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4870 ACTOR

Nadine Basile

1931 - 2017

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4882 FILM

Maurice Failevic

1933 - 2016

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4897 CONDUCTOR

Michel Decoust

Born 1936

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4898 PIANIST

Christian Ivaldi

Born 1938

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4926 BUSINESS

Romain Zaleski

Born 1933

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4946 ACTOR

Henri-Jacques Huet

1930 - 2009

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4953 EPIDEMIOLOGIST

Denise Kandel

Born 1933

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4985 PHILOSOPHER

Gérard Lebrun

1930 - 1999

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4997 DESIGNER

Emmanuelle Khanh

1937 - 2017

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5000 MATHEMATICIAN

Alexeï Sossinski

Born 1937

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5002 SCREENWRITER

Michel Lebrun (écrivain)

1930 - 1996

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5047 WRITER

Janine Boissard

Born 1937

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5103 FILM

Michel Vianey

1930 - 2008

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5104 ENGINEER

Olivier Mourgue

Born 1939

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5108 COMPOSER

Nicolas Zourabichvili

Born 1936

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5129 SCULPTOR

Guy de Cointet

1934 - 1983

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5146 FILM

Michèle Ray-Gavras

Born 1939

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5152 SINGER

Roger Soyer

Born 1939

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5189 BIOLOGIST

Monique Adolphe

Born 1932

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5196 JOURNALIST

Veronique Peck

1932 - 2012

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5273 ACTOR

Michel Tureau

Born 1938

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5295 MUSIC

Gérard Badini

Born 1931

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5303 RACING

Jean Vinatier

Born 1933

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5310 SCREENWRITER

Dominique Delouche

Born 1931

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5319 SOCIOLOGIST

Alain Joxe

Born 1931

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5356 ACTOR

Jacques Ardouin

1937 - 2002

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5363 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jean-Pierre Leloir

1931 - 2010

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5387 ACTOR

Jean-Loup Philippe

Born 1936

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5401 POLITICIAN

Yann Gaillard

Born 1936

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5417 DIRECTEUR DE CABINET

Jacques Rigaud (RTL)

1932 - 2012

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5483 MUSIC

François Tusques

Born 1938

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5488 HISTORIAN

Gérard Nahon

1931 - 2018

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5551 PSYCHIATRIST

Anne Fagot-Largeault

Born 1938

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5584 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jan Brøgger

1936 - 2006

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5608 PAINTER

Claude Garache

Born 1930

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5674 PHYSICIST

Étienne Guyon

Born 1935

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5689 FILM

Jean-Pierre Desagnat

Born 1934

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5695 AUTHOR

Schoschana Rabinovici

1932 - 2019

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5796 PIANIST

Alain Bernheim

Born 1931

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5847 ACTOR

Mireille Granelli

Born 1936

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5890 PLAYER

Jaime Ortiz-Patiño

1930 - 2013

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5892 JOURNALIST

Claude B. Levenson

1938 - 2010

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5894 POLITICIAN

Robert Chapuis

Born 1933

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5930 PHILOSOPHER

Nicolas Grimaldi

Born 1933

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5939 WRITER

Philippe Doumenc

Born 1934

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5984 POLITICIAN

Jean-Pierre Prouteau

1930 - 1998

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6013 SKATER

André Kouprianoff

Born 1938

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6050 PRODUCER

Daniel Caux

1935 - 2008

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6081 COMPOSER

Thérèse Brenet

Born 1935

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6085 CINEMA

Claude Agostini

1936 - 1995

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6093 ARCHITECT

Aymeric Zublena

Born 1936

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6137 POET

Claude Minière

Born 1938

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6146 CHOREOGRAPHER

André Prokovsky

1939 - 2009

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6160 LINGUIST

Georges Charachidzé

1930 - 2010

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6216 HISTORIAN

Évelyne Patlagean

1932 - 2008

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6224 MUSIC

Michel Glotz

1931 - 2010

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6233 ACTOR

Michel Dupleix

Born 1932

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6255 PAINTER

Maks Velo

1935 - 2020

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6257 ACADEMIC

Marianne Lederer

Born 1934

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6262 FILM

Nicole Lubtchansky

1937 - 2014

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6274 PAINTER

Pierre Clayette

1930 - 2005

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6304 HISTORIAN

Jean-Pierre Laurant

Born 1935

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6329 ACTOR

Pierre Santini

Born 1938

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6347 WRITER

Jean-Louis Baudry

1930 - 2015

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6359 JOURNALIST

Anna Kisselgoff

Born 1938

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6361 WRITER

Jean Basile

1932 - 1992

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6371 GUITAR

Joël Favreau

Born 1939

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6405 SINGER

Jeanne-Marie Sens

Born 1937

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6423 ACTOR

Serge Bento

Born 1931

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6484 POLITICIAN

Pierre Lelong (homme politique)

Born 1931

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6491 PIANIST

Georges Rabol

1938 - 2006

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6517 ACTOR

Jean-Baptiste Thierrée

Born 1937

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6545 PHYSICIST

Marcel Froissart

1934 - 2015

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6546 ORGANIST

Pierre Cogen

Born 1931

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6554 LEXICOGRAPHER

Gwennole Le Menn

1938 - 2009

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6588 POET

Gérard Le Gouic

Born 1936

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6625 WRITER

Simone Langlois

Born 1932

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6630 HISTORIAN

Fred Kupferman

1934 - 1988

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6643 SINGER

Nicole Louvier

1933 - 2003

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6656 PHYSICIST

Jean-Paul Poirier

Born 1935

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6692 SCREENWRITER

Don Houghton

1930 - 1991

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6694 POLITICIAN

Dominique Chaboche

1937 - 2005

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6710 ASTRONOMER

Jean-Pierre Verdet

Born 1932

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6731 CHOREOGRAPHER

Dominique Dupuy (dancer)

Born 1930

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6766 FENCER

Roger Closset

1933 - 2020

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