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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1937-02-01. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Best known for his radio series about gardening.
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Born 1924-08-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French screenwriter and actor. He wrote 25 films between 1960 and 1995. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the 1980 film Mon oncle d'Amérique. He was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris.
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Born 1922-05-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was a British actor, singer and author. Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005).
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Born 1933-06-27. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was the owner of the German company Brandstätter Group. The company was founded by Andreas Brandstätter in 1876. Brandstätter joined the family firm in 1954. His "support" of the inventor Hans Beck allowed the company to begin production on what became the popular toy Playmobil, prototypes of which had been developed by Beck at the company. The 1973 oil crisis necessitated the creation of a toy whose production required little solid plastic.
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Born 1928-06-13. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Accident
He was an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness, and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. After 1970, Nash's condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980's. Nash's struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography A Beautiful Mind as well as a feature film starring Russell Crowe. Nash and his wife Alicia were killed in an automobile accident on the New Jersey Turnpike near Monroe Township. The driver of the taxi they were riding in lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle and struck a guard rail; the couple, who were not wearing their seatbelts, were thrown out of the car.
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Born 1925-01-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Claude Carliez was a French master at arms in classical fencing who became a period and fencing advisor to French films. He graduated to a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, special effects person and film director. He worked with such legends of the French cinema as Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Gérard Oury and Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was a President of the Academie d'Armes de France and the first President of the French Stuntman's Union.
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Born 1925-09-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. On May 1, 2015, after two hospitalizations caused by complications from high blood pressure and diabetes, King announced on his website that he was in hospice care at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He died there on May 14 at 9:40 P.M. PDT.
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Born 1949-02-23. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a French journalist and music lover.
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Born 1930-02-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
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Born 1938-09-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
Known as Ben E. King, he was an American soul and R&B singer. He was perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me" a US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), a number one hit in the UK in 1987.
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Born 1918-06-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
77
Born 1938-01-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1915-03-09. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church. At 100, he was one of the oldest Roman Catholic bishops. Since the death of Cardinal Ersilio Tonini, he also was the oldest Roman Catholic bishop from Italy. Leonardo born in Pietramelara, Italy in 1915. He was ordained a priest on 24 July 1938, appointed bishop on 22 July 1957 to the Telese o Cerreto Sannita Diocese, and consecrated on 29 September 1957. On 21 March 1984 Leonardo was appointed to the Diocese of Sant'Agata de' Goti then to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti when the diocese of Telese o Cerreto Sannita and the Diocese of Sant'Agata de' Goti united on 29 September 1986. Leonardo retired as Bishop of Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti on 20 July 1991.
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Born 1976-09-23. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and chef, known for his use of molecular gastronomy. He owned and operated the Cantu Designs Firm and Moto Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Cantu's body was found hanging inside a building he was renovating into a brewery on the Northwest Side of Chicago. After an autopsy on April 15, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said the cause of death was asphyxiation by hanging and ruled it a suicide. Cantu did not leave a note and had no history of depression or mental illness.
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Born 1935-07-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Anne-Marie Peysson was a French speakerin and journalist.
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Born 1927-10-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was widely regarded as Germany's most famous recently living writer. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, which includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
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Born 1950-01-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French tennis player.
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Born 1932-01-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He has also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express. His father, Henri Maspero, a sinologist and professor at the Collège de France, died at Buchenwald, but his mother managed to return alive from Ravensbrück. His grandfather, Gaston Maspero, who died before his birth, was an Egyptologist. Maspero was criticized by Situationists such as Guy Debord, who used the term "masperize" to describe the falsification or corruption of a text, as by deleting segments from a quote without marking them.
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Born 1937-08-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish emigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville. She wrote for 29 films and television shows.
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Born 1947-09-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a French socialist politician. Germain was the president of l'Université de Tours from 1988 to 1993. In 1995 Germain was elected mayor of Tours since 1995, and president of the agglomeration community of Tours, Tour(s) Plus. Germain committed suicide by shooting himself to the head in Tours, France, aged 67. It was all about a scandal that had exploded in the local media about dodgy marriage among Chinese community.
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Born 1935-07-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Geoffrey Bond Lewis was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He typically portrayed villains or quirky characters. He played a bodyguard in the Jean-Claude van Damme film Double Impact.
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Born 1950-03-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an English guitar player. In April 1971, he left Big Bertha and joined Procol Harum after he saw an advertisement in Melody Maker. He replaced Robin Trower, who had left the group to form his own band. He can be heard on the group's live album, Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, but left the group during the recording sessions for their 1973 album Grand Hotel, in September 1972.
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Born 1980-02-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Bulgarian weightlifter. He became Olympic champion in 2004 in the middle heavyweight class. That same year, he won the European Championship in Kiev.
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Born 1989-10-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
She was a French swimmer and three-time Olympic medalist. In March 2015, part of a group of French sports stars participating in a reality TV show called Dropped, she was one of 10 people killed when two helicopters collided in mid-air during filming in northwestern Argentina.
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Born 1986-11-17. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Light Welterweight. He also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals in a controversial decision. He died in the Villa Castelli helicopter crash during the filming of French TV reality show Dropped for the TF1 network.
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Born 1957-10-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
She was a French sailor born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. She is the daughter of Jacques Arthaud, director of the Arthaud publishing house. She died in the Villa Castelli helicopter crash in Argentina.