Allais, Maurice b. May 31, 1911 d. October 9, 2010 Economist. He won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, for his contributions to market theory and the efficient utilization of resources. As a student in the early 1930s Allais toured Depression-era America, which he called "a graveyard of factories", and this decided his future career. He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1949, by which time he had already written his two most important books, "In Quest of an Economic Discipline (1943) and "Economy and Interest" (1947). His work...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser) Cimetière de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
Blain, Gerard b. October 23, 1930 d. December 17, 2000 Filmmaker, Actor. Born in Paris, he appeared in films such as "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945), "Voici le Temps des Assassins" (1956), Claude Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge" (1958), "Les Cousins" (1959), as John Wayne's sidekick in "Hatari!" (1962), "Via Margutta" (1963), "Un Homme de Trop" (1967), "Le Pélican" (1973), Wim Wenders' "Der Amerikanische Freund/The American Friend" (1977), "Utopia" (1978), "Si Je Réponds Pas, C'est que Je Suis Mort" (1982), "La Derelitta" (1983), "Poussière d'Ange" (1987)...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni) Cimetière de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
b. May 31, 1911 d. October 9, 2010