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Thierry Sabine
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Film & TV
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was a French wrangler, motorcycle racer and founder and main organizer of the Dakar Rally. In 1977 he got lost on the Tchigai Plateau, near the isolated mountain of Emi Fezzan during the Abidjan-Nice Race, and realized that the desert would be a good location for a rally where amateurs could test their ability. In December…
Known for
- A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later — Self (archive footage)1986
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Germany
Discography
- Sketches1988
- Time Will Tell1988
- Cat Walk1988
- Cookies for My Soul1989
- Can’t Tell You Why1989
- Harpsichord Concertos2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Boulogne-Billancourt
- Place of death
- Gourma-Rharous
- Occupation
- rally driver
- Position held
- founder
- Languages spoken
- French
- Participant in
- 1976 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Field of work
- motorsport
- Sport
- motorcycle sport
- Official website
- thierrysabine.com
- Image
- Thierry Sabine 2.jpg
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- Thierry Sabine
- date of birth
- 1949-06-13
- date of death
- 1986-01-14
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- Thierry Sabine
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Thierry Sabine
- birth name
- Thierry Gilbert Marcel Sabine
- field of training
- communication studies
- cause of death
- aviation accident
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