Marseille
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- City in France, capital of the department Bouches-du-Rhône.
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Births and deaths in Marseille
Marseille was the birthplace of:
- Pytheas (4th century BC) Greek merchant, geographer and explorer
- Antonin Artaud (1897–1948), author
- Ariane Ascaride (born 1954), actress
- Maurice Béjart (1927–2007), ballet choreographer
- Jean-Henry Gourgaud, aka. "Dugazon" (1746–1809), actor
- Désirée Clary (1777–1860), wife of King Carl XIV Johan of Sweden, and therefore Queen Desirée or Queen Desideria of Sweden
- Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), first president of the Third Republic
- Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pages (1801–1841), politician
- Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), caricaturist and painter
- Joseph Autran (1813–1877), poet
- Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod (1782–1861), bishop of Marseille and Founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
- Marius Petipa (1818–1910), ballet choreographer
- Olivier Émile Ollivier (1825–1913), statesman
- Joseph Pujol, aka. "Le Pétomane" (1857–1945), entertainer
- Pavlos Melas (1870–1904) Greek army officer
- Paul Mauriat (1925–2006), orchestra leader, composer
- Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), poet and dramatist
- Vincent Scotto (1876–1952), guitarist, songwriter
- Fernandel (1903–1971), actor
- Éliane Browne-Bartroli (Eliane Plewman, 1917–1944), French Resistance, Croix de Guerre
- Louis Jourdan (born 1919), actor
- Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922–2000), flûtiste
- Régine Crespin (1927–2007), opera singer
- André di Fusco (1932–2001), known as André Pascal, song writer, composer
- Georges Chappe (born 1944), cyclist
- Jean-Claude Izzo (1945–2000), author
- Eric Cantona (born 1966), Manchester United and French national team football player
- Patrick Fiori (born 1969), singer
- Marc Panther (born 1970), member of the popular Japanese rock band globe
- Zinedine Zidane (born 1972), professional football player and former captain of the France national football team
- Romain Barnier (born 1976), freestyle swimmer
- Sébastien Grosjean (born 1978), tennis player
- Mathieu Flamini (born 1984), football player
- Rémy Di Gregorio (born 1985), cyclist
The following personalities died in Marseille:
- French poet Arthur Rimbaud on November 10, 1891.
- King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was assassinated on October 9, 1934 in Marseille along with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou.
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