List of Famous people who died at 94

Cécile DeWitt-Morette

Cécile Andrée Paulette Morette
First Name Cécile
Born on December 21, 1922
Died on May 8, 2017 (aged 94)

Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.

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Ella Maillart

First Name Ella
Born on February 20, 1903
Died on March 27, 1997 (aged 94)

Ella Maillart was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.

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Heribert Barrera i Costa

First Name Heribert
Born on July 6, 1917
Died on August 27, 2011 (aged 94)
Born in Spain, Catalonia

Heribert Barrera i Costa was a Spanish chemist and politician from Catalonia, member of Republican Left of Catalonia and first president of the restored Parliament of Catalonia after Francoism, from 1980 until 1984.

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Marcel Bigeard

Marcel Maurice Bigeard
First Name Marcel
Last Name Bigeard
Born on February 14, 1916
Died on June 18, 2010 (aged 94)
Born in France, Grand Est

Marcel "Bruno" Bigeard was a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards. He was one of the most decorated soldiers in France, and is particularly noteworthy because of his rise from being a regular soldier in 1936 to ultimately finishing his career in 1976 as a Lieutenant General. A former member of the French Resistance, he is associated mainly with the wars in Indochina and Algeria.

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Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca

First Name Fazıl
Last Name Dağlarca
Born on August 26, 1914
Died on October 15, 2008 (aged 94)

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca was one of the most prolific Turkish poets of the Turkish Republic with more than 60 collections of his poems published as of 2007. He was a laureate of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award.

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Laurance Rockefeller

First Name Laurance
Last Name Rockefeller
Born on May 26, 1910
Died on July 11, 2004 (aged 94)

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was an American businessman, financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. Rockefeller was a son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. As a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, he provided venture capital for Intel, Apple Computer and many other successful start-ups. Rockefeller was known for his involvement in wilderness preservation, ecology and the protection of wildlife. His crusade was the establishing of a conservation ethic, and he was declared America's leading conservationist by Lady Bird Johnson.

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Gertrud Luckner

First Name Gertrud
Born on September 26, 1900
Died on August 31, 1995 (aged 94)

Gertrud Luckner was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families. On one such journey, she was arrested, and spent the remainder of the war in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was named as righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1966.

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Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles

First Name Erzsébet
Born on November 3, 1924
Died on June 16, 2019 (aged 94)
Born in Hungary

Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles was a Hungarian gymnast who competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics. She died in June 2019 in Budapest at the age of 94.

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Queen Marie-José of Italy

First Name Queen
Last Name Italy
Born on August 4, 1906
Died on January 27, 2001 (aged 94)

Marie-José of Belgium was the last Queen of Italy. Her 35-day tenure as queen consort earned her the nickname "the May Queen".

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Martin Drewes

First Name Martin
Last Name Drewes
Born on October 20, 1918
Died on October 13, 2013 (aged 94)

Martin Drewes was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and night fighter ace during World War II. He is credited with 52 victories of which 43 were claimed at night whilst flying variants of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Western Front in Defense of the Reich missions against the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command.

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