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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 1927-11-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company.
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Born 1922-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French motorcycle racer. He also ran a motorcycle shop located rue Lacordaire in Paris XV. The shop moved out to Chatillon in the 90's, where I bought my first bike in 2009.
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Born 1935-08-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Hamidou Benmessaoud (Arabic: حميدو بنمسعود; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television, and stage actor. Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he made his debut on stage, in Jean Genet's Les paravents. Amidou was best known for his association with director Claude Lelouch, with whom he shot eleven films, including Lelouch's film debut Le propre de l'homme (1960). He made his debut in a Moroccan film in 1969, starring in Soleil de printemps directed by Latif Lahlou. His career included roles in Spaghetti Westerns like Buddy Goes West and several American productions, including William Friedkin's Sorcerer, John Frankenheimer's Ronin and John Huston's Escape to Victory. In 1969, Amidou was awarded best actor at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival for his role in Life Love Death by Claude Lelouch, and later won best actor awards at the Cairo Film Festival (for Pursuit by Leila Triquie) and at the Tangier Film Festival (for Rachid Boutounes' Here and There). In 2005 he received, at the hands of Martin Scorsese, a Lifetime Career Award at the International Film Festival of Marrakech. He was also the first Moroccan actor to have won an acting award at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
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Born 1913-09-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman.
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Born 1941-06-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a German film, theater, and voice actor.
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Born 1933-01-18. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. He was the founder of Dolby Laboratories.
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Born 1925-12-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was a French geneticist and essayist. He was well known for defending ideas related to the concept of degrowth. In 1948, he earned a master degree in public factory engineering from the French Polytechnical School and joined the French Institute of statistics.
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Born 1960-07-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
The Ariel Castro kidnappings took place between 2002 and 2004, when Ariel Castro kidnapped Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus and held them captive in his home in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The three girls were imprisoned until May 6, 2013, when Berry escaped with her six-year-old daughter, to whom she had given birth while imprisoned, and contacted the police. Police rescued Knight and DeJesus and arrested Castro within hours. On May 8, 2013, Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. He pleaded guilty to 937 criminal counts of rape, kidnapping, and aggravated murder, as part of a plea bargain. He was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole. On September 3, 2013, one month into his sentence, Castro died by suicide after hanging himself with bed sheets in his prison cell.
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Born 1965-11-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
She was a French actress and theater director. Her most successful television role was in the series Avocats et associés, in which she appeared from 2000 to 2005.
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Born 1942-09-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Dautriche was a French singer and actor. In 1967, he starts a solo carrier under the name Sullivan. He had some success with a psychedelic title, Les Palais de l'Orient. He made a few replacements of Luis Rego in the band les Charlots.
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Born 1925-03-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a lawyer who earned fame continually from the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients, from an anticolonialist Algerian militant, Djamila Bouhired (his future wife), in 1957–1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in 2008. His clients included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994).
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Born 1986-05-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Peritonitis
Christian Rogelio Benítez Betancourt (May 1, 1986 – July 29, 2013), also known as Chucho, was an Ecuadorian professional footballer who played as a forward. Benítez entered a hospital in Doha, Qatar, because of a strong pain in his abdomen. According to Miguel Herrera and other teammates in an interview with Mexican morning show Matutino Express, he did not receive immediate medical attention and a few hours later, Benítez went into respiratory failure. He died from complications leading to cardiac arrest at the age of 27.
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Born 1938-12-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Known as JJ Cale or J.J. Cale, he was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale was one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has often been described as "laid back".
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Born 1925-09-13. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Harley M. Flanders was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his fields: algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing.
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Born 1938-10-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 films.
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Born 1944-02-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Dennis Farina was an American actor, TV presenter, narrator and former police officer. He was a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer. He is known for roles such as mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty and Cousin Avi in Snatch. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012. He died in a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital from a pulmonary embolism. His body was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery at Hillside, Illinois.
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Born 1921-03-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film director and scriptwriter.
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Born 1982-05-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Cory Allan Michael Monteith was a Canadian actor, singer, and musician best known for his role as Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee. As an actor based in British Columbia, Monteith had minor roles on television series before being cast on Glee. During his success in that show, Monteith's film work included Monte Carlo and a starring role in Sisters & Brothers (both 2011). Monteith had a troubled adolescence involving substance abuse from age 13, and left school at age 16. After an intervention by family and friends, he entered drug rehabilitation at age 19. In a 2011 interview with Parade magazine, he discussed his history of substance abuse as a teen, and in March 2013, he again sought treatment for addiction. On July 13, 2013, he died of a toxic combination of heroin and alcohol in a Vancouver hotel room.
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Born 1920-12-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He died of heart attack in a pizzeria in Chantilly. André Verchuren holds the world record of Accordion sales records, with more than 80 million albums sold. He has recorded to date, 777 albums.
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Born 1929-12-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Victor Lundin was an American character actor who is best remembered as appearing in the 1964 science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars as the character Friday and for having later portrayed the first Klingon seen on screen in the Star Trek television franchise. He also appeared in films directed by Robert Wise and George Stevens, as well as in other television series such as Batman and The Time Tunnel.
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Born 1982-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
The first ever death of an acrobat from "Le cirque du soleil" during a performance. During the final battle scene of Kà, the stage is oriented vertically and performers use harnesses attached to cables to move about. During this scene at the 9:30pm show on June 29, 2013, Guyard-Guillot was hoisted up the side of the stage to a height of at least 50 feet (15 m) (some eyewitnesses said it may have been over 100 feet (30 m)). According to an eyewitness, she "then just plummeted down." Her harness apparently slipped free from its safety wire, causing her to fall into a pit, out of the audience's view. A spokesperson confirmed that the harness itself remained on Guyard-Guillot during her fall. "Initially, a lot of people in the audience thought it was part of the choreographed fight," said an eyewitness. "But you could hear screaming, then groaning, and we could hear a female artist crying from the stage." After her fall, the show was quickly stopped and a recording asked the audience to leave and said refunds would be offered. The other performers watched helplessly as they dangled in the air, before being lowered to safety. Guyard-Guillot died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. She was pronounced dead at 11:43 pm. Guyard-Guillot's death was the first on-stage death in Cirque du Soleil's 30-year history. She is survived by her two children aged 8 and 5. She was 31 at the time of her death. On July 2, 2013, the Clark County Coroner's office said Guyard-Guillot fell around 90 feet (27 m), which is almost twice the distance reported initially. She died of blunt force trauma.
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Born 1921-01-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Born in the arrondissement of Maïder in the town of Telagh, then in French Algeria (his birth name was Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha), Mimoun lost several years of competition to World War II. After the war (in which he was a combatant), he was French champion in the 5000 metres and 10000 metres. His second place finishes behind Zátopek gave him the nickname "Zátopek's Shadow." He finally won a gold medal in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (2h25mn00s), Zatopek finished sixth.
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Born 1948-04-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was "sociétaire de la Comédie Française" from 1977 through her suicide, and dean of the institution since 2010.
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Born 1926-02-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, and I Am Legend, all of which have been adapted as major motion pictures, the last at least three times. He died at his home.
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Born 1935-02-19. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He started working with Christian Dior, and created stuff under its own name from 1962.
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Born 1961-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American actor best known for his role in The Sopranos as Tony Soprano, a troubled crime boss struggling to balance his family life and career in the Mafia. Gandolfini died suddenly in Rome, Italy, during a brief vacation, as he was expected to travel to Sicily on June 22 where he was scheduled to receive an award at the Taormina Film Fest. Following a day of sightseeing in Rome in sweltering heat, Gandolfini was discovered around 10 pm local time on the bathroom floor at the Boscolo Exedra Hotel in Rome's Piazza della Repubblica by his 13-year-old son Michael. Michael quickly called hotel reception, who in turn called emergency paramedics. The time of death was 11:00 p.m., according to Dr. Claudio Modini, the head of the hospital's emergency room.
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Born 1911-05-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer and editor. He was born in Paris. One of his well-known works, translated into several languages, is the Histoire du surréalisme (The History of Surrealism).
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Born 1934-02-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He was an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA (with Xuejia Lai) and SAFER, and the Massey-Omura cryptosystem (with Jim K. Omura).
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Born 1928-08-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Socialist politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001.
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Born 1928-03-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English satirical author, best known for his Wilt series of novels and Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, both of which were adapted for television.