Jacques Pépin

male, 74 years old
James Beard Award winner, television chef, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ordre National du Mérite, l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres…L'Ordre du Mérite Agricole
Jacques Pépin is a French chef working in the United States. Pépin was born in Bourg-en-Bresse near Lyon, and began cooking in his parents' re...
Marvin Hier

Marvin Hier

male, 70 years old (Los Angeles, California, United States)
newsweek magazine, from New York City, Ordre National du Mérite, Human Rights, dean, academy award winner
Rabbi Marvin Hier (b. 1939 in New York) is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah, the Center's...
Raymond Daudel

Raymond Daudel

male, deceased (2006)
French, scientist, theoretical, quantum chemistry, sorbonne, Légion d'honneur recipient…Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ordre National du Mérite
Raymond Daudel was born on 2 February, 1920 in Paris, France and died on 20 June, 2006 (Ivry, France). He was a theoretical and quantum chemist....
Michel Ciment

Michel Ciment

male, 81 years old
Légion d'honneur recipient, Légion d'honneur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Ordre National du Mérite, FIPRESCI
Michel Ciment was born 26 July 1928 in the Bronx, New York. He is the director of the French cinema magazine Positif. He is Chevalier of the Order...
Joseph Rovan

Joseph Rovan

male, deceased (2004)
Légion d'honneur, Accidental death, politician, Légion d'honneur recipient, catholicism, French Resistance…Ordre National du Mérite
Joseph Adolph Rovan (born Joseph Adolphe Rosenthal in Munich, Germany on July 25, 1918, died August 27, 2004), was a French philosopher and...
Jacques Duchesneau

Jacques Duchesneau

male
Royal Military College of Canada, Ecole nationale d'Administration publique, Chief of Police, Montreal Urban Community Police Service, Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, Civil Servant…Ordre National du Mérite
Jacques Duchesneau is a French Canadian civil servant and former Chief of Police. From 1994 to 1998, he was Chief of Police and Chief of Staff of...
Bill Coleman

Bill Coleman

male, deceased (1981)
Blues trumpeter, Jazz-blues trumpeter, Classic jazz trumpet player, American jazz trumpeter, Swing trumpeter, Dixieland trumpeter…Ordre National du Mérite
William Johnson Coleman (born August 4, 1904 in Paris, Kentucky; died August 24, 1981 in Toulouse) was a jazz trumpeter from the swing era. He had...

John Hinch

male, 62 years old
Fellow of the Royal Society, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, non-Newtonian fluid, rheology, Ordre National du Mérite, fluid dynamics
John Hinch (born March 4, 1947) is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His...
Natalie Griesbeck

Natalie Griesbeck

female, 53 years old
economic development, Member of the European Parliament, University of METZ, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Committee on Budgets, Mercosur…Ordre National du Mérite
Natalie Griesbeck (born 24 May 1956 in Metz) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. She is a member...
Michel Allex

Michel Allex

male, 62 years old
French, Chocolatier, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Chalon-sur-Saône, chocolate liquor, Ordre National du Mérite
Michel Allex is a French chocolatier and politician, the current appointed mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône, France since 2002. He was named by Dominique P...