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Einstein Albert (b. 1879-04-14 / d. 1955-04-18)
He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.
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Born 1950-11-19. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Cancer
He was well-known in the field of econometrics for his 1980 paper on robust standard errors, which is the most-cited paper in economics since 1970. He also contributed to numerous other areas such as neural networks and medicine. In 1999, White co-founded an economic consulting firm, Bates White, which has offices in Washington, D.C. and San Diego, California.
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Born 1968-10-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an Italian football goalkeeper and coach, best known for his association with Foggia during the 1990s.
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Born 1930-10-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Born 1929-11-11. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Carelman was a French painter, illustrator and designer. In 1966, Jacques Carelman adapted Raymond Queneau's novel Zazie in the Metro in bandes dessinées. He is also the undiscovered author of one of the most famous posters of May 1968 events in France showing a threatening CRS brandishing a truncheon. He designed in 1972 a catalog of unfindable postage-stamps ("Catalogue de timbres-poste introuvables") portraying for instance la Semeuse, the sowing woman which symbolizes France on coins and stamps, swinging a tennis racket in her majestic gesture, or Papa Doc, the dictator of Haiti, as Père Ubu.
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Born 1939-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
A good friend of Stéphane Collaro
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Born 1926-06-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American pop singer, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was best known for his recordings of "The Tip of My Fingers" and "Moonlight Swim". Noble was popular in the mid-1950s, and he scored four hits on the newly-created Billboard pop charts between 1955 and 1957.
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Born 1931-04-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Chico Anysio, born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho was a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. Chico died in Samaritano Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, from multiple organ failure.
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Born 1988-10-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He is the suspect in the 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings. He is a Muslim French citizen, born to a French father and an Algerian mother. The 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings are a series of shooting attacks in the French cities of Montauban and Toulouse. At approximately 11 am on 22 March, the BBC reported that a police source had told AFP that the siege was "coming to an end". They later reported that France 2 had been told that RAID troops had entered Merah's flat. Less than one hour later, Didier Martinez of the SGP police union confirmed to media in Toulouse that Medah was dead. Merah's death was later confirmed. AFP reported that three police officers had been injured in the preceding gunfire, one of whom sustained "fairly serious" wounds.
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Born 1943-03-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems.
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Born 1920-03-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Tonino Guerra was an Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors of the world.
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Born 1927-09-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director, screenwriter, and production designer who has worked mostly in the horror, fantasy and suspense genres. Fuest's most highly praised and popular films, which feature strong black comedy undertones, include perennial cult favorites The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) (which he co-wrote), and The Final Programme (aka The Last Days of Man on Earth) (1973). As well as directing The Final Programme, he also wrote the screenplay and designed the impressive sets. Other films include And Soon the Darkness (1970), a straightforward suspense thriller which received considerable critical acclaim but little commercial success written by Avengers writers Brian Clemens and Terry Nation, and The Devil's Rain (1975), a horror film shot in the U.S.
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Born 1922-10-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. Former chairman and chief executive officer of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, he also served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America and as chairman of Character Education Partnership. He was "Man of the Year" in St. Louis in 1984
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Born 1920-04-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a man who was convicted as a war criminal. Demjanjuk's conviction was pending appeal at the time of his death. Demjanjuk was born in the Ukrainian People's Republic, 2 years before it was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1952 and was granted citizenship in 1958, when he formally anglicized his name from "Ivan" to "John". In 1986 he was deported to Israel to stand trial for war crimes, after being identified by Israeli Holocaust survivors as "Ivan the Terrible", a notorious guard at the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps. Demjanjuk was accused of committing murder and acts of extraordinarily savage violence against camp prisoners during 1942–43. He was convicted of having committed crimes against humanity and sentenced to death there in 1988. The verdict was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993 due to a finding of reasonable doubt based on evidence suggesting that this was a case of mistaken identity, that Demjanjuk was not "Ivan the Terrible". After the trial, in September 1993, he returned to his home in Ohio. His citizenship was reinstated in 1998 after a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that prosecutors had deliberately suppressed evidence related to whether he was Ivan the Terrible. In 2001 Demjanjuk was charged again, this time on the grounds that he had served as a guard at the Sobibor and Majdanek camps in occupied Poland and at the Flossenbürg camp in Germany. His deportation was again ordered in 2005, but after exhausting his appeals in 2008 he still remained in the United States, as no country would agree to accept him at that time. On 2 April 2009, it was announced that Demjanjuk would be deported to Germany, where he would stand trial. On 11 May, Demjanjuk left his Cleveland home by ambulance, and was taken to the airport, where he was deported by plane, arriving in Germany the next morning. On 13 July, he was formally charged with 27,900 counts of acting as an accessory to murder, one for each person who died at Sobibor during the time he served as a guard. On 30 November, Demjanjuk's trial began in Munich. It concluded on 12 May 2011, when he was convicted as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews and sentenced to five years in prison. He was later released pending appeal, and lived at a German nursing home in Bad Feilnbach, where he died at age 91.
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Born 1924-06-14. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was born in Pittsburgh, and was Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Cohen was a staunch opponent to the so called Linear no-threshold model (LNT) which postulates there exists no safe threshold for radiation exposure. His views, what was in the 1980s and 1990s considered a self-marginalizing posture had gained within 20 years support from a strong minority. He claimed: "All estimates of the cancer risk from low level radiation are based on the linear-no threshold theory (LNT) which is based solely on largely discredited concepts of radiation carcinogenesis, with no experimental verification in the low dose region of the most important applications. These risk estimates are now leading to the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars to protect against dangers whose existence is highly questionable. It is therefore of utmost importance to test the validity of this theory." When Ralph Nader described plutonium as "the most toxic substance known to mankind", Cohen, then a tenured professor, offered to consume on camera as much plutonium oxide as Nader could consume of caffeine, the stimulant found in coffee and other beverages, which in its pure form has an oral(LD50) of 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats.
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Born 1922-06-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician, known for works in symplectic geometry, in which he was one of the pioneers.
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Born 1928-05-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1956, he resigned from Pathé whose representative threatened him: "You are leaving us? So you'll never do cinema again, because we are huge!". In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966.
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Born 1938-11-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French film actor, who appeared in 130 films from 1962 onwards.
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Born 1938-05-08. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Jean Giraud was a French comics artist, working in the French tradition of bandes dessinées. Giraud earned worldwide fame, predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius, and to a lesser extent Gir (used for the Blueberry series), the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee and French politician Jack Lang among other notables, he was one of the few francophone comic strip artists to receive international acclaim.
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Born 1942-02-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Terry Teene was an American musician, vocalist, songwriter, and entertainer, most commonly known for the early 1960s novelty hit "Curse of the Hearse". According to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, he has recorded over 300 distinct songs and played on 100 or more released recordings, performing as a "major artist" on 25 of them. He has recorded under 70 names and appeared in over 500 nightclubs, by his own count. Teene began a second parallel career as a clown. He has performed under the names of "ToBo the Clown" and "Clownzo"; and was one of the creators and originators (with George Voorhees) of the costume, likeness, name and character of Ronald McDonald, one of the world's most recognizable trademark characters. On March 7, 2012, Teene was severely injured in Tyler, Texas, when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a tow truck. He died as a result of the accident. He was 70 years old.
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Born 1971-06-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Steve Romeo was an American ski mountaineer from Jackson, Wyoming. Together with Cary Smith, Pete Swenson and Chris Kroger he finished ninth in the relay event of the 2006 World Championship of Skimountaineering. He was also known as "Randosteve", "Randomeo", "Randobewan Skinobee", "Skeve", "Ex-Steve", "Stevester", and "Stelvester Stallone". Romeo was killed by an avalanche. He was 40.
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Born 1930-01-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Coma following an accidental fall.
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Born 1913-09-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist, playwright and essayist originally from Belgium. He was close to the Hussards right-wing literary movement, itself close to the monarchist.
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Born 1929-06-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award. McQuarrie died aged 82, in his Berkeley, California home, from complications of Parkinson’s disease.
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Born 1943-02-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was the leader and founder of "les Charlots". He had been the voice of many people in many films. He had been joining the Simpson's dubbing team, taking over Michel Modo, who had died in 2008.
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Born 1943-03-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a popular Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. Dalla was the composer of Caruso (1986), which has been covered by numerous international artists. In the morning of 1 March 2012, three days before his 69th birthday, Dalla died of a heart attack shortly after having breakfast at the hotel in Montreux (Switzerland) where he was staying having performed in that city the night before.
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Born 1970-05-06. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
The Texas Seven was a group of prisoners who escaped from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on December 13, 2000. They were apprehended a little more than a month later, on January 21–23, 2001, as a direct result of the television show America's Most Wanted. On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences. George Rivas was sentenced to death after being extradited to Texas. Subsequently, the other five surviving members of the Texas 7 were also sentenced to death along with Rivas.
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Born 1945-12-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
David Thomas "Davy" Jones was an English recording artist and actor, best known as a member of The Monkees. On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones was found seated in his car complaining of chest pains and having difficulty breathing. He was rushed to Martin Memorial South Hospital in Stuart, Florida, where he was pronounced dead of a severe heart attack due to atherosclerosis.
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Born 1995-02-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African American male who was unarmed; George Zimmerman is a 28-year-old Hispanic American, who at the time of the shooting was a community watch coordinator. Martin was walking back to a home in a gated community where he was staying when Zimmerman began following him, while contacting the Sanford Police Department to report Martin's behavior as suspicious. Soon afterward, there was a confrontation that ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin.
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Born 1933-05-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field. One of André's students, Guy Touvron wrote a biography on him entitled Maurice André: Une trompette pour la renommée (Maurice André: A Trumpet for Fame), which was published in 2003.
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Born 1955-11-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
he was a French rugby player.