Yes. There were thousands of directly heat related deaths. You're welcome to look up all the disparate sources rather than concern trolling.

The article is about the 53,000 excess deaths which would imply there was either an undetected major disaster centered around the hotter regions of europe during a record heatwave, or that it's worth investigating what the causal links were.

At no point is it reasonable to try gaslighting people into somehow thinking it was cold as an anti-eu and anti-science dog whistle.