Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher. Although he is often associated with existentialism, Camus preferred to be known as a man and a thinker, rather than as a member of a school or ideology. He preferred persons over ideas. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: “No, I am not an existentialist.

Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiology, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.

Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, was a French comedian famous for his irreverent sense of humour

Henri Paul was the Deputy Head of Security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris and the chauffeur driving at the time of the automobile accident that killed him along with Diana, Princess of Wales, and her companion Dodi Fayed. Trevor Rees-Jones, Al-Fayed's bodyguard, survived (see details of the crash).

Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, owner of the British department store Harrods, Fulham Football Club and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. His mother was Samira Kashoggi, sister of the notorious weapons dealer, Adnan Khashoggi. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Fayed was a student at Collège Saint Marc before attending the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.

Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their two sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms.

Jean Bugatti, (January 15, 1909 - August 11, 1939), was an Italian French automotive designer and test engineer. Born Gianoberto Maria Carlo Bugatti in Cologne, Germany, he was the eldest son of Ettore Bugatti. Shortly after his birth the family moved to the village of Dorlisheim near Molsheim in Alsace where his father built the new Bugatti automobile manufacturing plant. Born into a family of brilliantly creative people, …

Aristide Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art. After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. His early paintings show the influence of his contemporaries Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin.

Prince Ali Solomone Khan, known as Aly Khan, was a vice president of the United Nations General Assembly representing Pakistan, for which he served as U.N. ambassador (1958-1960). Best known, however, as an international playboy and a racehorse owner and jockey, he was a son of Aga Khan III, the head of the Ismaili Muslims, and the father of Aga Khan IV. His first name was typically spelled "Aly" in the popular press.

Ambroise Vollard (born July 3 1866, Saint-Denis, La Réunion; died July 21 1939 in Versailles, France), is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with providing exposure and emotional support to numerous notable and unknown artists, including Paul Cézanne, Maillol, Picasso, Rouault, Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh. He is also well-known as an avid art collector and publisher.

Georgy Mikhailovich, Count Brasov was a Russian prince and member of the House of Romanov. His parents were Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia and his mistress, Natalia Sergeyevna Sheremetyevskaya. His father was the youngest son of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Fyodorovna (formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark), a sister of King George V of the United Kingdom's mother, Queen Alexandra. George was born in Udinka, near Moscow.

Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. Born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, California, she is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she entertained throughout Europe.

Ivo Van Damme was a Belgian middle distance runner. Van Damme was born in Dendermonde. He played football until he was 16, but then switched to athletics. His breakthrough came in 1973, when he placed fourth in the Junior World Championships in the 800 m. He suffered from mononucleosis the following season, but returned strong beating Roger Moens's 1955 national record on 800 meter distance.

Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza, (January 22, 1909 in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic - July 5, 1965 in Bois de Boulogne, France) was a Dominican diplomat, polo player and Formula One race car driver, but was best known as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and legendary prowess with women. Born to a middle-class family, he was the son of an army general.

Lucien Georges Mazan was an Argentine cyclist (pseudonym: Lucien Petit-Breton). He was born in Loire-Atlantique in France, a part of Brittany, currently part of Pays de la Loire région. When he was six years old he moved with his parents to Buenos Aires. He took the Argentinian nationality. When he won a bike in a lottery his cycling career started. His father rather wanted him to do a 'real' job, therefore he adapted the nickname Lucien Breton.

Françoise Dorléac, was a popular French actress. She was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve. Also the elder sister of the now better-known Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort". She was made famous by Philippe de Broca's movie "L'homme de Rio", François Truffaut's "La peau douce" and Roman Polański's "Cul-de-Sac", …

Steven John Bator, known as Stiv Bators (October 22 1949 - June 2 1990), was an American rock and roll and punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church.

Nicolas Grunitzky was the third president of Togo. He was President from 1963 to 1967. He was born in Atakpamé to a German father (of Polish origin) and a Togolese mother. He studied civil engineering in Paris and was a public administrator before leaving to form his own company. He was the secretary-general of the Parti togolais du progrès ("Togolese Party of Progress") and elected into office with the Togolose Parliament in 1951.

Jacques Lusseyran (1924-1971) was a blind French author. Jacques Lusseyran was born on September 19th, 1924, in Paris, France. He became totally blind in a school accident at the age of 7. He soon learned to adapt to being blind and maintained many close friendships, particularly with one boy named Jean. At a young age he became alarmed at the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany and decided to learn the German language so that he could listen to German radio broadcasts.

Carl Grossberg (1894 - 1940) was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement. Grossberg was born in Elberfeld and studied architecture in Aachen and Darmstadt prior to his military service in World War I. He later studied at the Weimar Academy of Art and at the Bauhaus. He became known for paintings of urban landscapes, and for exterior and interior views of factories and industrial sites which he rendered with a chilly precision.

Jean Robic (born June 10 1921 in Vouziers (Champagne-Ardenne) - died October 6 1980) was a French road racing cyclist, who won the 1947 Tour de France. A professional from 1943 to 1961 he died in a car accident near Claye-Souilly.

Ngo Dinh Le Thuy was the daughter of South Vietnam's First lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and Ngo Dinh Nhu, the National Secret Police Chief.

Piers Frederick Alexander Flint-Shipman (1962-1984) was a British actor. He was the son of a film producer and was educated at Eton College. Among theatre roles, he appeared in several well-known films and television series in the UK during the 1970s and the 1980s. He died in a road accident in France, aged 22, when his car was hit by another driver intent on suicide. He sometimes used the stage name Frederick Alexander, his middle two names.

Jean Bruce born Jean Brochet on 22 March 1921 was a prolific French popular writer who died in 26 March 1963 in a car accident. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Alexandre, Jean Alexandre Brochet, Jean-Martin Rouan, and Joyce Lindsay. He is particularly known for the adventures of secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka OSS 117, of which many novels have been adapted for the screen in the 1960s. Bruce's first OSS 117 novel appeared in 1949.

Jules Carpentier was a French engineer and inventor. Jules Carpentier was a student at the French École Polytechnique. He bought the Ruhmkorff workshops in Paris when Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff died and made it a successful business for building electrical and magnetical devices. From 1890, he started to build photographic ans cinematographic cameras. He is the designer of the submarine periscope, and worked at the adjustment of trichromic process of colour photography.

Jean Rondeau (May 13, 1946 - December 27, 1985) was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.

Arthur 'Boy' Capel was an English polo player best remembered for his affair with, and influence on the style of, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. He was wealthy and supplied her with resources she needed to open her first shop. His blazers inspired her to put a squared, masculine touch on classic suit designs. Capel was killed in an auto accident in 1919.

of Japan, was the 3rd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.

Ernest Chausson (January 20, 1855 - June 10, 1899) was a late-blooming French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.

Hana Mašková (September 26, 1949 – January 31, 1972) was a Czech figure skater who competed for Czechoslovakia.

Jacob Émile Albert Mayrisch was a Luxembourgian industrialist and businessman. He served as president of Arbed. He died in a car accident at Châlons-sur-Marne, in France, in 1928.