Canadian musical producer, talent manager, and singer (1942–2016)
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René Angélil, CM, OQ (Arabic: رينيه أنجليل; January 16, 1942 – January 14, 2016) was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager and singer. He was the manager (1981–2014) and husband (1994–2016; ...
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Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard PC CC OQ (August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal ...
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Lhasa de Sela (1972 – January 1, 2010), also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-born singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States, and divided her adult life between Canada ...
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Martin Brian Mulroney PC CC GOQ ( muul-ROO-nee; March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993 ...
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Adolfo Bresciano (August 6, 1948 – March 10, 1993) was an Italian-Canadian professional wrestler and promoter, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo ().
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Paul Dupuis (August 11, 1913 – January 23, 1976) was a French Canadian film actor who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and who performed in British films during the late 1940s. The roles he played ...
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Marc Lépine (born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec who, in 1989, murdered fourteen women, and wounded ten women and ...
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Denise Morelle (3 December 1926 in Montreal – 17 July 1984 in Montreal) was a Quebec actress whose 1984 murder was a significant media event in Quebec.
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Jean Coutu (March 31, 1925 – November 1, 1999) was a Canadian actor. Born in Montreal, his career included many movies and TV series in Quebec, including episodes of La famille Plouffe in 1953. He also ...
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Paolo Violi (February 6, 1931 – January 22, 1978) was an Italian-Canadian mobster and acting capodecina of the Bonanno crime family's faction in Montreal, the Cotroni crime family.
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Jacques Alfred Dextraze CC, CMM, CBE, DSO & Bar, KStJ, CD (August 15, 1919 – May 9, 1993) was a Canadian military officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from 1972–1977.
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Lise Payette, OQ (August 29, 1931 – September 5, 2018) was a Canadian feminist, journalist, writer, businesswoman, columnist and politician. She was a Parti Québécois (PQ) minister under the leadership ...
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Mary Rose-Anne Bolduc, born Travers, (June 4, 1894 – February 20, 1941) was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity ...
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Robert Bourassa, GOQ (July 14, 1933 – October 2, 1996) was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He served as the 22nd Premier of Quebec in two different mandates, first from May 12, 1970, to November ...
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Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Grace Hughes McGee (13 April 1825 – 7 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was ...
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Clairette, CM CQ (April 3, 1919 – October 28, 2008) was a Quebec-based French actress and singer. After her own career slowed down she became the proprietor of Montreal's "Chez Clairette" nightclub ...
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Jean-Pierre Masson (August 25, 1918 - March 11, 1995) was a Canadian film and television actor, best known for his long-running television role as Séraphin Poudrier in Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en ...