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Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, KCB, CVO, OBE (27 October 1929 – 10 November 2024) was a British Army officer. He served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) from 1981 to 1982, and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1996 to 2004.
Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres 23 September 1906; died at La Verrière 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of a winemaking family from Poitou , he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud . [ 1 ]
Maurice Dormann (20 April 1881 – 14 November 1947) was a politician in France. [1] He was born in Etrechy in Essonne and apprenticed as a printer. In 1905, he became manager for the weekly newspaper Le Réveil d’Etampes and a print shop. [2]
Francis de Noyelle (December 9, 1919, in Paris – March 30, 2017, in Paris) was a French diplomat. He was French ambassador to Nepal between 1980 and 1984.. During the Second World War, after spending two years in the office of the Prefect of Hérault, Francis de Noyelle played an important role in the French Resistance, particularly in Isère and Paris.
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. October 2024 1 Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian ...
Delafosse, Maurice (1904), Vocabulaires comparatifs de plus de 60 langues ou dialectes parlés à la Côte d'Ivoire et dans les régions limitrophes (in French), Paris: E. Leroux. Also available from the Internet Archive here. Delafosse, Maurice (1908), Les frontières de la Côte d'Ivoire, de la Côte d'Or, et du Soudan, Paris: Masson.
Maurice Tillieux was born in Huy in 1921. At first he studied for the merchant navy, but his career prospects were sunk following the German invasion of Belgium in 1940.He claims that while waiting at Bordeaux for a ship that was to take him and his fellow students to South America, a Stuka dive-bomber attacked another ship, forcing Tillieux's to turn round and Tillieux to go home.
Dr Maurice Curé was the first activist to advocate the need to observe the First of May as Labour Day in Mauritius. On 1 May 1938 he organised a rally at the Champ de Mars which was attended by 35,000 workers.