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Tait Peter Guthrie (b. 1831-04-28 / d. 1901-07-04)
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory. His work on knot theory contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait-Kneser theorem on osculating circles.
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Born 1942-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French theater director and actor. His work has democratized and widened the appeal of musical theater in France, drawing together and blending such genres as opera, operetta, and musical comedy.
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Born 1959-05-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Taxi Girl
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Born 1917-10-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was born a German, and was naturalized French in 1937.
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Born 1919-06-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
French journalist an résistant.
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Born 1983-08-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp was a South African model and paralegal. She modeled for FHM magazine and was the first face of Avon cosmetics in South Africa. Steenkamp once worked as the live roaming presenter for FashionTV in South Africa and starred in television advertisements for Toyota Land Cruiser, Clover "The One", Redds and Aldor Pin Pop. She was a celebrity contestant on the BBC Lifestyle show Baking Made Easy in 2012 and on Tropika Island of Treasure season 5 which aired on SABC 3 in February 2013. On Valentine's Day 2013, Steenkamp was shot dead by her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius. He stated that he thought Steenkamp was an intruder hiding in the bathroom at his home. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide at a first trial. On 3 December 2015, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa overturned this conviction and instead convicted Pistorius of murder.
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Born 1979-06-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Christopher Jordan Dorner was a Los Angeles police officer who, beginning on February 3, 2013, committed a series of shootings in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County and San Bernardino County, California. The victims were law enforcement officers and the daughter of a former police captain. Dorner killed four people and wounded three others. On February 12, 2013, Dorner died during a standoff with San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputies after a shootout at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains. A manifesto posted by Dorner on Facebook declared "unconventional and asymmetric warfare" upon the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), their families and their associates, unless the LAPD admitted publicly he was fired in retaliation for reporting excessive force. In two separate incidents during the manhunt, police shot at three civilians unrelated to Dorner, mistaking their pickup trucks for the vehicle being driven by Dorner (which was a dark gray 2005 Nissan Titan). One of the civilians was hit by the police gunfire, another was wounded by shattered glass, and a third individual was injured when police rammed his vehicle and opened fire. The officers involved were not charged with any crime.
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Born 1921-01-22. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American motorsports engineer. After serving in the Army, he began working with friends who raced by building race cars, developing hydroplane parts and engine swap kits. In the late 1950s he became chief engineer to Lance Reventlow, building the Scarab sports racing car on Princeton Street in what is now Marina del Rey, California. When Reventlow was closing his shop, Carroll Shelby hired Remington as his chief engineer in Shelby's new shop on the same street. Shelby said his competition success was due to Remington. When Shelby American was split up, Remington remained with the Shelby Racing Components company in Torrance. Remington moved to North Carolina in 1968 to run the Talladega Grand National stock car program at Holman and Moody. The team won the Daytona 500 that year. He moved back to California and worked at Dan Gurney's All American Racers (AAR). There Remington worked on Can-Am, Formula 1, Formula 5000, Indy 500, Trans-Am, GTP and IMSA cars. He also worked on Alligator Motorcycles and did contract work for aerospace while there. In 2012 he built the oil and water coolers and engineered the suspension on the DeltaWing race car. Health concerns caused him to discontinue working full-time at AAR in 2012.
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Born 1974-04-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a United States Navy SEAL and the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills (out of 255 claimed kills), although these statistics have not yet been released by the Pentagon. He and a companion were killed at a Texas shooting range. A friend of Kyle said the suspect was a veteran struggling with PTSD. Kyle had reportedly taken Routh to the gun range in an effort to help him with his PTSD.
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Born 1919-11-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
She was a codebreaker stationed at Bletchley Park during World War II. After the war ended, Du Boisson worked as a typist in the Air Ministry.
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Born 1926-06-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bernard Yves Raoul Dhéran was a French actor, who was active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over six decades. Dhéran was well remembered in French cinema's as the French dub of David Niven, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Ian McKellen and Leslie Nielsen. He was also recognized in dubbing as the voice of Count Dooku in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he also dubbed Christopher Lee's performance in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. In 1961, Dhéran was inducted into Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française.
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Born 1935-10-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
He was an English film director and producer, and a restaurant critic for The Sunday Times. By the early 1980s, Winner found himself in great need of a successful film and accepted Charles Bronson's request to film Death Wish II, a sequel to the 1974 hit. Bronson had already signed a lucrative deal with Cannon Films, independent producer of exploitation fare and marginal art house titles. The sequel, co-starring Bronson's wife Jill Ireland, is considered a rehash of Death Wish with violence raised to more graphic levels. Winner became engaged to Geraldine Lynton-Edwards in 2007. They had met in 1957 when he was a 21-year-old film-maker and she was a 16-year-old actress and ballet dancer. He stated "I have told Geraldine that it took me 72 years to get engaged so she's not to hold her breath for the marriage". However, they did marry, on 19 September 2011 at Chelsea Town Hall, London. Michael and Shakira Caine were witnesses to the ceremony. On 1 January 2007, Winner acquired the bacterial infection Vibrio vulnificus from eating an oyster in Barbados. He almost had a leg amputated and verged on the brink of death several times. Before recovering, Winner was infected with the "hospital superbug" MRSA. In September 2011, Winner was also admitted to hospital with food poisoning after eating steak tartare, a raw meat dish, four days in a row. The dish is not recommended for those with a weak immune system and in retrospect Winner regarded his decision to eat it as "stupid". In an interview with The Times newspaper, Winner said liver specialists had told him in summer 2012 that he had between 18 months and two years to live. He said he had researched assisted suicide offered at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, but found the bureaucracy of the process off-putting.
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Born 1926-09-23. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Cassagnes is best known as the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a popular mechanical drawing toy manufactured by the Ohio Art Company.
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Born 1932-03-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
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Born 1986-11-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American computer programmer, writer, archivist, political organizer, and Internet activist. On January 6, 2011, as a result of a federal investigation, Swartz was arrested in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR. Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles. Swartz contended that JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities. On the morning of January 11, 2013, Swartz was found dead in his Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.
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Born 1919-10-03. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which in 1986 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy. He was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and professor at George Mason University.
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Born 1961-11-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Metin Kaçan was a Turkish author who is best known for his novels Ağır Roman (Cholera Street), and Fındık Sekiz. Kaçan committed suicide by jumping from Bosphorus Bridge. On that day he took a cab, ostensibly going to the Üsküdar section of Istanbul, but asked the driver to stop near the Bridge so that he could take photographs. He got out of the vehicle, ran to the Bridge, and threw himself off.
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Born 1925-01-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was an American novelist. He was known for his book The Warriors which became a major motion picture.
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Born 1938-10-24. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Stephen A. Resnick was an American heterodox economist. He is well known for his work (with Richard D. Wolff) on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis.
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Born 1922-04-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor and voice actor. He was considered one of the best known voices on French television for decades. One of his last works was for the ouï FM jingle "OUI FM... Sur 102 3" French Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti released a statement following Topart's death calling him, "one of the inimitable voices of French cinema."
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Born 1969-07-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American singer known for her work within the banda and norteña music genres. At approximately 3:25 am (UTC−6:00), a private Learjet 25 carrying two pilots and five passengers including Rivera lost contact with air traffic control near Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico. The plane had taken off from General Mariano Escobedo International Airport in Monterrey about 10 minutes earlier and was en route to Toluca for an appearance by Rivera on La Voz... México. All on board were confirmed dead by Mexican authorities when the wreckage was found later that day.
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Born 1922-01-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French filmmaker and producer. Bénazéraf was born in Casablanca, French Morocco. After completing his studies in political sciences, he started his career by producing Les lavandières du Portugal in 1958, a film of Pierre Gaspard-Huit. He started to direct erotic feature films in 1961 with L'éternité pour nous. At the end of the 1970s, he moved his attention to the direct-to-video market. He died in Chiclana de la Frontera.
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Born 1931-09-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
He was an American film and television actor best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and befuddled astronaut Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. He underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. Although Hagman was a member of a 12-step program, he publicly advocated marijuana as a better alternative to alcohol. He died on November 23, 2012 from complications of throat cancer.
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Born 1941-00-00. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French software engineer and a pioneer of computer networking. Zimmermann was educated at École Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecom. His career began at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) in Rocquencourt from 1972 through 1979, where he led research into what became ChorusOS series of distributed operating systems. In 1977, he was an early member of the International Organization for Standardization as it developed the Open Systems Interconnection protocols. He then worked for France Télécom in 1980 through 1986.
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Born 1961-09-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French swimmer who became a national team trainer. He died of a heart attack while racing a mountain bike race.
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Born 1952-09-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a Dutch actress, model and singer. Her most famous role is in the French film Emmanuelle. She suffered throat cancer, lung cancer and esophageal cancer.
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Born 1912-02-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered the first great French alpine skier. Allais fought in World War II on skis, and even courted his wife at a ski meet.
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Born 1920-04-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Pierre Mauroy from 1981 to 1984.
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Born 1938-04-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Gary Ennis Collins was an American actor and television host. Throughout his career, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985. He starred in the 1972 television series The Sixth Sense, in syndication part of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, as the parapsychologist and extrasensory perception-gifted Dr. Michael Rhodes. The final decade of Collins's life was marred by several run-ins with the law. In January 2008, Collins served four days in jail in Glendale, California, for his second DUI conviction. He was arrested a year later, on January 31, 2009, in Santa Barbara County, California, and pleaded no contest to driving a motor home while drunk. Collins was then sentenced to 120 days home detention, according to a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office spokesperson. His blood alcohol content was measured at 0.29, more than three times the legal limit. In November 2010, Collins was charged with a misdemeanor for leaving the scene of an accident in Jackson, Mississippi and fined $500. On January 5, 2011, Collins was charged with defrauding an innkeeper, a felony, in Harrison County, Mississippi, for allegedly failing to pay his bill at Jazzeppi's Restaurant, according to a statement released by the Biloxi Police Department. Collins said the restaurant was taking too long to deliver his dinner, so he left and refused to pay the bill. The restaurant owner later said the arrest was due to a misunderstanding, and the charges against Collins were dropped.
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Born 1941-10-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Rock singer. He died of ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – also referred to as motor neurone disease in some British Commonwealth countries and as Lou Gehrig's disease in North America – is a debilitating disease with varied etiology characterized by rapidly progressive weakness, muscle atrophy and fasciculations, muscle spasticity, difficulty speaking (dysarthria), difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), and decline in breathing ability. ALS is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases.
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Born 1925-05-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film director and scriptwriter.