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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1964-08-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a founding member of hip hop trio the Beastie Boys. He was frequently known by his stage name, MCA. In 2009, Yauch was diagnosed and treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node and underwent surgery and radiation therapy delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two and the subsequent tour. He was unable to appear in music videos for the album. Yauch became a vegan under the recommendation of his Tibetan doctors.
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Born 1973-02-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American Marine, border militia leader and former member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement who sought the office of sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona. Ready allegedly entered his home in Gilbert, Arizona, and fatally shot his girlfriend Lisa; her daughter, Amber; Amber's boyfriend, Jim Hiott; and Amber's infant daughter Lily. He then fatally shot himself. A 9-1-1 call made from the house referred to an argument until the call was interrupted by gunfire. A teenager in the house at the time was in her bedroom and heard an argument, but survived the incident without being shot. Though the authorities cannot discount the possibility of there being a 6th or more additional persons in the house, and neighbors reported there being additional vehicles in front of the house at the time of the shooting. Victims: Lisa Mederos, age 47, Ready's girlfriend – she is suspected to have made the first 9-1-1 call and was found dead inside the home. Amber Mederos, 23, Lisa's daughter with Hugo Mederos – found dead inside the home Lilly Mederos, 15 months, Amber's daughter – shot yet initially found alive inside the home, she was declared dead at the hospital Jim Hiott, 24, Amber's fiancee, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan – found dead outside the home near Ready's body A local police spokesman said that this shooting was believed to have started as a domestic dispute.
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Born 1942-04-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was a Japanese physicist, best known for his development of electron holography and his experimental verification of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Tonomura was also known for his observations of magnetic vortex movement in superconductors.
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Born 1910-03-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Israeli historian and a professor emeritus at Cornell University. He was a specialist in the golden age of Jewish History in Spain, and is known for his opus, the Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain. In his final work, The Founding Fathers of Zionism, Benzion profiled the leading theorists of Israel; Leo Pinsker, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Israel Zangwill and Ze'ev Jabotinsky. He was secretary to Ze'ev Jabotinsky, "the father of Revisionist Zionism", and was a Revisionist leader of the Zionist Movement in the United States. He was the father of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Born 1945-06-11. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He is best remembered for having invented the concept of smart card in 1974. In 1968 German electrical engineer Helmut Gröttrup and his colleague Jürgen Dethloff invented the automated chip card, receiving a patent only in 1982, while working for German company Giesecke & Devrient. The first mass use of the cards was as a Télécarte for payment in French pay phones, starting in 1983. French inventor Roland Moreno patented the memory card concept in 1974. In 1977, Michel Ugon from Honeywell Bull invented the first microprocessor smart card. In 1978, Bull patented the SPOM (self programmable one-chip microcomputer) that defines the necessary architecture to program the chip. Three years later, Motorola used this patent in its "CP8". At that time, Bull had 1,200 patents related to smart cards. In 2001, Bull sold its CP8 division together with its patents to Schlumberger, who subsequently combined its own internal smart card department and CP8 to create Axalto. In 2006, Axalto and Gemplus, at the time the world's top two smart card manufacturers, merged and became Gemalto. In 2008 Dexa Systems spun off from Schlumberger and acquired Enterprise Security Services business, which included the smart card solutions division responsible for deploying the first large scale public key infrastructure (PKI) based smart card management systems.
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Born 1942-10-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Lymphoma.
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Born 1936-10-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an Israeli mathematician working in functional analysis. He was a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Lindenstrauss was married to theoretical computer scientist Naomi Lindenstrauss. Two of their children, Ayelet Lindenstrauss and Fields Medallist Elon Lindenstrauss, are also mathematicians (providing a rare example of father, mother, son and daughter all having papers listed in Mathematical Reviews).
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Born 1918-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012) was a French stage and film actress. She was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in French-speaking markets. She dubbed Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn et Lana Turner. She was married to the actor Gérard Landry. She is the mother of 4 children : Jean-Marie Périer (né en 1940), with chanteur Henri Salvador (1917-2008) filmmakerJean-Pierre Périer (1943-1966) and journalist Anne-Marie Périer(née in 1945) actor Marc Porel (1949-1983)
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Born 1922-09-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
French writer. Author of "La maison assassinée". He had met with Jean Giono.
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Born 1946-06-21. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
Peter Fischli and David Weiss often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, were an artist duo that had been collaborating since 1979. They were among the most renowned contemporary artists of Switzerland. Their best known work is the film "Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go)." This was described by The Guardian as being "post apocalyptic" as it is all about chain reactions and the way in which objects fly, crash, and explode across the studio it was shot in.
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Born 1958-05-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1978-11-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American saxophone player, best known for his recordings and live performances with The Killers. He toured widely with the band in 2008–2009, and also played on the albums "Sam's Town" and "Day & Age" Marth's body was discovered in his Las Vegas, Nevada home, his death caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The Killers tweeted to their fans soon after receiving the news. The message said, "Last night we lost our friend Thomas Marth. Our prayers are with his family. There's a light missing in Las Vegas tonight. Travel well, Tommy".
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Born 1927-10-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a French scuba diving veteran and champion of underwater conservation. He was one of the longest-serving diving companions of Jacques Cousteau, Chief Diver, and later Captain of the RV Calypso. He lived in France and was active in preserving aquatic ecosystems. Falco was also on the Ocean Advocacy Advisory Board of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a non-profit ocean conservation organization. He died a few days after the creation of the Parc National des Calanques, for which he had given energy to make it exist.
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Born 1920-02-15. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
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 1984-10-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
She was an Indian actress. Thapar was born in Dehradun. She made her debut in the 2011 horror film "404". In April 2012, during the filming of Heroine, Thapar was reportedly kidnapped by another actor who had a minor role in the film, Amit Jaiswal and his girlfriend Preeti Surin who had overheard her talking of her family's wealth. She was held to ransom for 1,500,000 Rupees ($28,655.50). They reportedly told her mother that if the ransom was not paid she would be forced into pornographic films. Her mother only paid 60,000 rupees ($1,146.22). She was later strangled in a hotel and decapitated in northern India in Gorakhpur; her body was reportedly left in a water tank and her head thrown out of a bus on the way to Mumbai. The perpetrators were caught with her mobile phone SIM card.
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Born 1968-10-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was an American college and professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight seasons during the 1990s. Off the court, Schintzius was known for his performance as a Russian basketball player in the 1996 comedy film Eddie, and also for his distinctive mullet-style haircut. He was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia in 2009, and, after treatment and a brief remission, died from complications of the disease in 2012.
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Born 1942-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Phantom of the paradise
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Born 1916-12-25. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
First President of freed Algeria
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Born 1914-07-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Born Raymond Samuel into a Jewish family in Vesoul, Haute-Saône. His father, Albert, was born on January 1884, in Vesoul and his mother Helene Samuel was born on March 2, 1894 in Crest. His parents were deported to Auschwitz by the convoy No. 66 of January 20, 1944, and killed there. Aubrac and his wife, Lucie, joined the French Resistance in 1940. They took the pseudonym "Aubrac" to escape Nazi persecution. Lucie died in March 2007.
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Born 1930-10-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan. Guardiola was born in Barcelona, Spain. He performed and recorded mostly Spanish versions of foreign songs and reached his maximum fame in Spain and Latin America in the early 1960s with versions of songs like "Sixteen Tons", "Mack the Knife" and "Ya Mustafa". He was known as the Spanish Crooner due to his style and the types of songs he sang. He represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1963, placing 12th. At that time he also sang a few songs with his infant daughter. He retired in 2008.
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Born 1928-12-13. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Jack Tramiel (Polish: Jacek Trzmiel, Trzmiel means bumblebee) was a Polish-born American businessman, best known for founding Commodore International, the manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, and other Commodore models of home computers. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, where he worked in a garment factory. When the ghettos were liquidated his family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was examined by Dr. Mengele and selected for a work party, after which he and his father were sent to the labor camp Ahlem near Hanover, while his mother remained at Auschwitz. Like many other inmates, his father was reported to have died of Typhus in the work camp; however, Tramiel believes he was killed by an injection of gasoline. Tramiel was rescued from the labor camp in April 1945 by the 84th Infantry Division. In November 1947, Tramiel emigrated to the United States. He soon joined the army, where he learned how to repair office equipment, including typewriters. In 1953, while working as a taxi driver, he bought a shop in the Bronx to repair office machinery, and named it Commodore Portable Typewriter. Tramiel secured a $25,000 loan for the business from a U.S. Army entitlement. In 1955, Tramiel signed a deal with a Czechoslovak company to assemble and sell their typewriters in North America. However, as Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact, they could not be imported directly into the U.S., so Tramiel set up Commodore Business Machines in Toronto. Tramiel wanted a military-style name for his company, but names like Admiral and General were already taken, so he settled on the Commodore name. Tramiel was a co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which was opened in 1993. He was among many other survivors of the Ahlem labor camp who were tracked down by U.S. Army veteran Vernon Tott, who was among the 84th Division which rescued survivors from the camp and had taken and kept photographs of at least 16 of the survivors in storage until 2003. Tott, who died of cancer in 2003, was personally commemorated by Tramiel with an inscription on one of the Holocaust Museum's walls saying "To Vernon W. Tott, My Liberator and Hero".
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Born 1984-01-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
He was a Tanzanian actor and director. Kanumba died after he fell down in his bedroom on 7th April 2012. His 17-year-old girlfriend, Elizabeth "Lulu" Michael Kimemeta, was questioned and charged. Kanumba was taken unconscious to Muhimbili National Referral Hospital where he was declared dead. His funeral was attended by around 30,000 people including the first lady of Tanzania, Salma Kikwete, The Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Gharib Bilal, and the minister for culture and sport, Emmanuel Nchimbi. He was buried in Kinondoni Cemetery.
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Born 1935-12-11. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Nicknamed "Butzi", he was the son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, and was a German designer whose best known product is the first Porsche 911. Being born the first son of sportscar company founder Ferry Porsche F.A. Porsche was nearly destined to be involved in the development of cars. His grandfather and his father were engineers, but he got more involved into working out the looks of a product. He never thought of himself as an artist like a designer could be considered, but more as a technically talented craftsman in shaping.
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Born 1923-07-29. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, he was an English businessman, and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification, has created kits used by some of the biggest names in rock, producing amplifiers with an iconic status. Marshall received an OBE honour for "services to the music industry and to charity". Marshall has been listed as one of the four forefathers of rock music equipment along with Leo Fender, Les Paul and Seth Lover.
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Born 1942-02-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
1976 : La Meilleure Façon de marcher 1977 : Dites lui que je l'aime 1981 : Garde à vue 1983 : Mortelle randonnée 1985 : L'Effrontée 1988 : La Petite Voleuse 1992 : L'Accompagnatrice 1994 : Le Sourire 1998 : La Classe de neige 2000 : La Chambre des magiciennes 2001 : Betty Fisher et autres histoires 2003 : La Petite Lili 2007 : Un secret 2009 : Marching Band 2009 : Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante coréalisé avec son fils Nathan Miller 2011 : Voyez comme ils dansent 2012 : Thérèse D
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Born 1958-06-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a French civil servant. He was serving as the Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: Institut d'études politiques de Paris or Sciences Po Paris), and as such as the Chief Administrator of the National Foundation of Political Science (Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, FNSP). These two entities are collectively referred to as Sciences Po (see Use of Sciences Po), and are two of the most prestigious public policy research and teaching bodies in Europe. Descoings was also a senior member of the Conseil d'État. He was found dead and naked in a New York hotel room.
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Born 1937-03-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career spanned six decades. For many years he was the main Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene. His music was influenced by Nat King Cole and American country music artist Jim Reeves.
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Born 1898-02-01. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
(née Daughtry)She was an American pediatrician. She was the world's oldest practicing pediatrician until her retirement in May 2001 at the age of 103. She was one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity; the only such person living to be 114. On November 27, 2011, at age 113 years 299 days, she became one of the 100 oldest people ever. At her death she was the 4th-oldest verified living person in the world and the 3rd-oldest verified living person in the United States.
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Born 1914-04-05. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was the eighth president of Cornell University. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938.
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Born 1954-11-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Also known as "Caballo Blanco", he was an American ultrarunner from Boulder, Colorado, who gained fame as a central character in Christopher McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run. The book chronicles his time in Mexico's Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara Indians, who taught him a new and better way to run so he could avoid the normal injuries that beset long distance runners. He was said to be "a legend" in the ultra marathon community. He was thought to be "indestructible" and a "pillar of the running community." On March 27, 2012, True disappeared after heading out for a run in the Gila Wilderness, part of the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico. He departed from the Wilderness Lodge in Gila, left his dog, took a water bottle and said he was going for a 12 miles (19 km) run. It was assumed that he was heading north towards the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. His body was found around 6 p.m. on March 31, 2012. Cause of death is unknown at this point. The local sheriff said there were "no obvious signs of trauma". The mountain rescue effort involved three aircraft and at least nine search and rescue teams. His remains were expected to be removed by horseback, and because of difficult terrain and remote location, that was not expected to be completed until April 1. True was to attend the memorial for his mother Mary Louise Hickman on Sunday, April 1, 2012