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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1941-01-09. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a British businessman. He was the founder of Grid Systems Corporation, maker of the Grid Compass, one of the first commercially successful laptop computers. He also co-founded GeoVector, an early augmented reality company.
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Born 1916-05-08. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, athlete and centenarian who served as the seventh President of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. His tenure as President is the second longest in FIFA's history, behind only that of Jules Rimet. He received the title of Honorary President when leaving office, but resigned in April 2013. He succeeded Stanley Rous and was succeeded by Sepp Blatter. João Havelange served as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1963 to 2011. He was the longest-serving active member upon his resignation. In July 2012 a Swiss prosecutor's report revealed that, during his tenure on FIFA's Executive Committee, he and his son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira took more than $41 million in bribes in connection with the award of World Cup marketing rights. In March and April 2012 Havelange was hospitalized for a seriously infected right ankle in Rio de Janeiro, which necessitated a period in intensive care. In April 2013 he resigned from his position as FIFA's Honorary President for "health and personal reasons". Havelange was again admitted to hospital in June 2014, for a lung infection, and in November 2015 with respiratory problems. He died at the age of 100 in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Summer Olympics which were being held there.
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Born 1983-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
She was a Japanese actress, HIV/AIDS activist, and AV idol. She was active in many media formats in Japan including mainstream theatrical film, and was a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation in adult videos (AV) earned Akane the title, "Shiofuki Queen". She retired from AV work in 2008. Akane was discovered collapsed at home on August 15, 2016. Suicide and foul play have been ruled out as causes. Her manager wrote that she had been suffering from a severe cough, and there was evidence of her smoking a cigarette shortly before her death. Her death is believed to be caused by suffocation stemming from an acute asthma attack.
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Born 1926-03-01. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer
He was a Swiss scientist doing research in condensed matter physics.
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Born 1931-10-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American born, British television actress.
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Born 1930-07-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She was a Belgian author.
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Born 1941-01-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He began acting during his college years at West Chester University, in Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jenner moved to New York City where he found roles in Club Champion’s Widow, opposite Maureen Stapleton, and Put Them All Together with Mariette Hartley. Along with Olympia Dukakis, he was a founding member of the innovative Whole Theatre Company where he starred opposite Dukakis in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Jenner also received wide acclaim as the self-destructive pitcher in Jonathan Reynolds' hit play, Yanks 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Ninth, directed by Alan Arkin at New York City’s American Place Theatre. Jenner had a recurring role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Admiral William Ross. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 75.
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Born 1930-09-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor. An Emmy Award nominee, Huddleston had a prolific television career, and appeared in many films including Blazing Saddles, Crime Busters, Santa Claus: The Movie and The Big Lebowski. Huddleston died of heart and kidney disease in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 85.
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Born 1929-03-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of Caucasian life. He authored various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which features a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik".
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Born 1965-10-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Accident
“Ed” Ross was an American tintype photographer and lawyer. His photography work spanned 27 years. His last six years were devoted exclusively to wet-plate photography. His focus as an artist was primarily on nude portraits and landscape photography. Ross was killed in a motorcycle accident on a mountain road near Yosemite National Park, while on his way to photograph one of his favorite subjects, the Half Dome in Yosemite Valley.
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Born 1945-10-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Canadian author of young adult fiction. He lived in Orillia, Ontario. He was born in Toronto, son of William and Irene Bell. He married Susan Arnup and had three children: Dylan, Megan and Brendan. He lived with his wife, Chinese-Canadian author Ting-Xing Ye. He died in Orillia at the age of 70
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Born 1935-05-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
She was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 track "So Long, Marianne", in which he sang that she "held on to me like I was a crucifix as we went kneeling through the dark". She was diagnosed with leukemia in late July 2016. Her close friend Jan Christian Mollestad contacted Cohen to tell him Ihlen was dying. Leonard Cohen penned a poignant final letter to her, which is often misquoted by the media and others as: Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. And you know that I've always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road. — Leonard Cohen, However, this widely circulated version of the letter was based on an inaccurate verbal recollection by Mollestad which was then transcribed in a radio interview. The actual letter (actually an email) obtained through the Leonard Cohen estate reads: Dearest Marianne, I’m just a little behind you, close enough to take your hand. This old body has given up, just as yours has too. I’ve never forgotten your love and your beauty. But you know that. I don’t have to say any more. Safe travels old friend. See you down the road. Endless love and gratitude. — your Leonard
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Born 1931-08-16. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American heir. He was the eldest son of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars Sr., and the grandson of Frank C. Mars, the founder of Mars, Incorporated, the confectionery company. In March 2015, Forbes estimated his wealth to be $26.8 billion up from US $11 billion in March 2010. In October 2012, the Bloomberg Billionaires List ranked Mars as the 31st richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of 20.1 billion. Mars died at age 84 in Seattle, Washington, of complications from a heart attack.
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Born 1962-08-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
She was an American television personality best known as Miss Cleo, a spokeswoman for a psychic pay-per-call service called Psychic Readers Network from 1997 to 2003. Harris used various aliases, including Cleomili Harris and Youree Perris Harris developed colon cancer, which eventually spread.
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Born 1944-07-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
She was a Japanese pianist. Nakamura lived in Mita, Tokyo with her husband Kaoru Shōji, one of the winners of Akutagawa Prize. Shōji had mentioned Nakamura by name in his novel Akazukin-chan Ki wo Tsukete. The two subsequently met in person and married. She was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2014, and suspended her performances for treatment. She briefly performed again in the spring of 2016, and her final performance was on 8 May 2016 in Sumoto, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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Born 1927-04-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was an American woman who, in the 1950s, was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder. Her case, with a pseudonym used, was depicted in the 1950s book The Three Faces of Eve, written by her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, upon which a film that starred Joanne Woodward was based. She went public with her true identity in the 1970s.
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Born 1922-11-21. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
He was a French painter. He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette's 1991 film about an elderly artist, was partly inspired by Dufour, who was credited as "the hand of the artist" painting the picture at the heart of the film. In 1995, Dufour's wife Martine died of cancer. Dufour lived his last years in Villeneuve. Dufour's representational art has often erotic components. The models in his paintings are often in the company of the painter. This visible relationship with the model brings the viewer of his pictures into a voyeur position. The blending of love and death has been a theme, as in a large (2.76 × 5.05 m) 1975 canvas depicting the autopsied body of Red Army Faction militant Holger Meins juxtaposed with Dufour's nude wife Martine defecating.
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Born 1921-10-01. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books. Godement started as a student at the École normale supérieure in 1940, where he became a student of Henri Cartan. His book Topologie Algébrique et Théorie des Faisceaux from 1958 was, as he said, a very unoriginal idea for the time (that is, to write an exposition of sheaf theory); as a non-specialist, he managed to write an enduring classic. It introduced the technical method of flasque resolutions, nowadays called Godement resolutions. It has also been credited as the place in which a comonad can first be discerned. He also wrote texts on Lie groups, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis.
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Born 1944-01-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Northern Irish boxer who was the first holder of the British junior welterweight title and went on to fight for the European title before moving up to welterweight at which he won the Irish title. He was the first man in his weight group to be awarded the Lonsdale Belt.
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Born 1991-07-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American news anchor for 41NBC News at Daybreak and 41Today at WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia. Terrell died on the eve of her 25th birthday after slipping over Rainbow Falls, a waterfall in North Carolina.
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Born 1955-09-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French racing cyclist. He rode in eleven editions of the Tour de France. Arnaud won three stages in the Vuelta a España, a stage in the Midi Libre and the Tour du Limousin in 1983.
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Born 1927-12-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a British singer, songwriter and composer. He founded the Fred Tomlinson Singers, who sang the music featured on Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Two Ronnies and other British television shows.
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Born 1923-11-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas. He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1977 until his retirement. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Silver in 1979 and Gold in 1999, and he also acted as chairman of its medical section. He was the author or co-author of three books and over 200 scientific papers.
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Born 1939-01-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee. He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. In 2006, he won the Lagrange Prize from SIAM. In 2008, he was awarded a Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Born 1940-10-08. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was a Chinese mathematician. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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Born 1931-06-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Moldovan mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Petru Soltan was a member of the Mathematical Society of Moldova. Petru Soltan served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1994) and is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.
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Born 1917-11-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fano was born in Turin, Italy in 1917 to a Jewish family and grew up in Turin. Fano's father was the mathematician Gino Fano, his older brother was the physicist Ugo Fano, and Giulio Racah was a cousin. Fano studied engineering as an undergraduate at the School of Engineering of Torino until 1939, when he emigrated to the United States as a result of anti-Jewish legislation passed under Benito Mussolini. He received his S.B. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1941, and upon graduation joined the staff of the MIT Radiation Laboratory. His thesis, titled "Theoretical Limitations on the Broadband Matching of Arbitrary Impedances", was supervised by Ernst Guillemin. In information theory, Fano's inequality relates the average information lost in a noisy channel to the probability of the categorization error. It was derived by Robert Fano in the early 1950s while teaching a Ph.D. seminar in information theory at MIT, and later recorded in his 1961 textbook.
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Born 1923-08-13. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Jean Bergeret was a French physician and psychiatrist.
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Born 1987-05-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Spanish bullfighter from Segovia. He was killed by a bull during the Feria del Ángel festival in Teruel; the bullfight was broadcast live on television. He was the first bullfighter to be killed in Spain since 1985 (excluding the banderilleros Manolo Montoliú and Ramón Soto Vargas, who died in 1992). Barrio was killed by a 529-kg bull named Lorenzo. The bull's horns perforated Barrio's chest several times. He was transported to the bullring's infirmary and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The autopsy revealed that Barrio's lungs and thoracic aorta had been pierced. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy paid tribute to him. Due to Barrio's death, most of the festival acts were cancelled
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Born 1942-03-11. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was the former vice chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 1997 - 1998．Former president and CEO Katsuaki Watanabe replaced him as the new vice chairman of the company and Watanabe's spot being replaced by Akio Toyoda.