July 9, 2023 Scientists Alain Besançon French historian Died on Sunday July 9th 2023 Other scientistsNikolay Tsaturyan dead at age 81, Armenian theatre directorKhalifa Chater dead at age 90, Tunisian academic and historianKenneth Keith dead at age 88, New Zealand jurist and legal scholar, judge of the International Court of JusticePatrick Arnold dead at age 59, American organic chemistWilliam V. Tamborlane dead at age 79, American pediatrician and academicBarry W. Blaustein dead at age 72, American screenwriter and film director, pancreatic cancerMary Lovelace O'Neal dead at age 84, American artist and arts educatorJosé Ballesta Spanish politician, mayor of Murcia, cancer dead at age 67Theo van Boven dead at age 91, Dutch juristMelo Freire Brazilian politician, deputy dead at age 99More from FranceClaudine Longet dead at age 84, public figureSophie Garel dead at age 84, French media presenter and singerPierre Mouallem dead at age 96, Israeli Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch, bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo and archbishop of AkkaFleury Di Nallo dead at age 83, French footballerKevin Buys dead at age 40, public figureRomuald Figuier dead at age 88, French singerJean Bonfils dead at age 96, French Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Viviers, bishop of NiceBassek Ba Kobhio dead at age 69, Cameroonian writer and filmmakerDidier Pillet dead at age 77, French journalist, editor-in-chief of Ouest-FranceHélène Mignon public figure dead at age 91More from July 8, 2023Peter NeroEva SchreiberVioleta Hemsy de GainzaNikolaj AljochinJosé MattosoTara HeissPatrice AouissiIvan LevačićLuis SuárezAsbjørn Sennels Tags 08 July 2023 2023-07-08 Alain Besançon France French July 2023 July 8 Scientists ←Roy Herron Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood→