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Brugsch Theodor (b. 1878-10-11 / d. 1963-07-11)
He was a German internist born in Graz. He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to, and after World War I. In 1917-19 he served with distinction as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania. From 1927 to 1935 he was a professor at the University of Halle. In 1935 Brugsch resigned from the university due to the political climate in 1930s Germany, and opened a private practice in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to the Charité, where he remained for the remainder of his career. His father, Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894) was a well-known Egyptologist. With Friedrich Kraus he published a 19-volume medical textbook titled Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie (1919-1929), and with Friedrich H. Lewy he published Die Biologie der Person (1926-1930). He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on the 25-pfennig postage stamp by the East German government. Brugsch's syndrome: a multi-symptom disorder that is similar to Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome without acromegaly.
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Born 1927-05-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He had published articles on the Henri Curiel affair.
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Born 1940-06-23. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
"Jimmy" Castor was an American pop and funk musician. He is best known as a fun disco/funk saxophonist, with his biggest hit single being 1972's million seller, "Troglodyte (Cave Man)". He died in 2012 from heart failure.
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Born 1974-12-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation
He was a Finnish enduro rider and a five-time world champion. He was also a seven-time winner of the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) World Trophy with Team Finland, and was the fastest overall in the competition in 1999, 2001 and 2002. Mika Ahola announced his retirement from enduro racing on New Year's Day 2012. Ahola died of internal injuries on 15 January 2012 at a hospital in Barcelona, a few weeks after crashing while training in Girona, Spain. The question is that he had been to hospital just after the crash, and released after being told everything was OK. His health then deteriorated at the point that he returned to the hospital for a kidneytomy. But nothing could be done to avoid the tragic end.
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Born 1923-11-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a Turkish-born French actress of Armenian descent. She has appeared in 95 film and television shows since 1949. She starred in the 1972 film The Bar at the Crossing, which was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. She is probably best remembered for her TV role in the Serie "Maguy" with Jean-Marc Thibault. She died from a bronchitis that degenerated into a pulmonar infection.
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Born 1968-10-25. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder
Gilles Jacquier was a French photojournalist and reporter for France Télévisions. Jacquier worked as a special correspondent for Envoyé spécial, one of France's best known documentary programs which airs on France 2. He had a successful career, has covered major international military conflicts and won many awards during his life. He was killed on 11 January 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Homs, Syria. Jacquier was the first Western journalist killed in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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Born 1923-02-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress. She had appeared (2003-2005) in a serie of short sketches entitled "Chez maman" on Canal+. She portrayed an old freak mother.
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Born 1929-07-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Bulgarian naturalized Frenchman pianist.
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Born 1922-09-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was an English Olympic fencer, and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as Highlander, The Princess Bride, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and Die Another Day. He was regarded as the premier master of Hollywood sword-fighting, and during his career he coached many actors in swordsmanship, including Errol Flynn, Sean Connery, Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. He also appeared a stunt double for Darth Vader's light-saber battles in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
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Born 1973-07-03. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Argentine motorcycle racer who participated in the 2011 and 2012 Dakar Rally. He died in an accident during the first stage of the 2012 competition. He is the fastest dead in this competition, dying after 50km only.
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Born 1936-10-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. Havel received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award and several other distinctions. Soon to be former French president N. Sarkozy, while showing off as usual, pretending he knew him very well, mispronunced his firstname several times, saying vaklav instead of vasslav. Well done, Mr President.
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Born 1941-02-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Kim Jong-il, also written as Kim Jong Il, birth name Yuri Irsenovich Kim (according to Soviet records was the supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). He was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, the ruling party since 1948, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world. In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was amended to refer to him implicitly as the "Supreme Leader". He was also referred to as the "Dear Leader", "our Father", "the General" and "Generalissimo". His son Kim Jong-un was promoted to a senior position in the ruling Workers' Party and is heir apparent. In 2010, he was ranked 31st in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People. The North Korean government announced his death on 19 December 2011.
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Born 1941-08-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed The Barefoot Diva for performing without shoes, she was also The Queen of Morna. In late September 2011, Évora's agent announced she was ending her career due to poor health. Évora died in São Vicente, Cape Verde, from respiratory failure and hypertension. A Spanish newspaper reported that 48 hours before her death she was still receiving people -and smoking- in her home in Mindelo, popular for having always its doors open.
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Born 1921-11-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, born in New York City, best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil, the former partner turned supervisor of Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas's character, in the 1970s TV police drama Kojak. Frazer's screen career started in 1950. His TV appearances include The Phil Silvers Show, Car 54, Where Are You?, The Untouchables, Route 66, The F.B.I., Barney Miller and Law & Order. His first film role was in 1963's Lilies of the Field, playing Father Murphy. In his later years, Frazer appeared as a detective on the daytime soap As the World Turns. He died of cardiac arrest.
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Born 1927-08-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Walter Giller was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading men. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in Roses for the Prosecutor. Giller was born in Recklinghausen. In 1956, he married actress Nadja Tiller; they had two children and appeared together in a number of films. The couple resided in Lugano, Switzerland for many years. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent a major (but unsuccessful) operation. He died in Hamburg in 2011, aged 84.
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Born 1923-12-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a stage actor and a writer.
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Born 1914-11-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor, best remembered for taking over the role of Commissaire Cabrol in "Les cinq dernières minutes", at Raymond Souplex death.
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Born 1939-03-27. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a reporter for TF1 in the e80's. He died in Seignosse, from which he was the mayor.
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Born 1954-02-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Infection
He was a Brazilian footballer. He was also a qualified doctor, and was the elder brother of Raí, who was a member of Brazil's World Cup winning squad in 1994. Pelé named him as one of the Top 125 Living Footballers in March 2004, and World Soccer named him one of 100 best footballers in history. In October 2008, Sócrates was inducted into the Pacembu Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame. Sócrates was admitted to intensive care in the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo on 19 August 2011 with gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to portal hypertension and was put on life-support, suffering from septic shock. On 4 December 2011, it was announced that he had died.
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Born 1926-05-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a racing driver from the United States, born in Medina, Wisconsin. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1962 United States Grand Prix, on October 7, 1962. He finished tenth, seven laps behind the winner, and scored no championship points.
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Born 1931-09-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American character actor whose most famous role was the sadistic mountain man in the movie Deliverance. McKinney was also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Union cavalry commander Captain "Redlegs" Terrill in The Outlaw Josey Wales. It was the film Deliverance which provided his breakthrough in 1972, and remains his signature role. He portrayed one of the rapists in the film. An avid smoker for 25 years of his younger life, he died of cancer of the esophagus.
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Born 1969-09-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Welsh football player and manager. He was captain of the Wales national football team until he retired from international football in 2004 and he remains the most capped outfield player for Wales and the second overall, having appeared 85 times at senior level between 1990 and 2004. Speed died of suicide by hanging at his home in Huntington, Cheshire
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Born 1927-07-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church. His films often dealt with the lives of famous composers or were based on other works of art which he adapted loosely. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who's Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980).
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Born 1924-10-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Born Danielle Émilienne Isabelle Gouze, she was the widow of French President François Mitterrand, and was president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand.
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Born 1926-02-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Later known as Lana Peters, she was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. In 1967, she caused an international furor when she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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Born 1923-02-24. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He participated to the debut of French TV.
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Born 1944-01-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
Also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion.
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Born 1920-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 37 films between 1951 and 1994
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Born 1927-09-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), invented the Lisp programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI. McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems. He received the Turing Award for his major contributions to the field of AI, and many other accolades and honors, including the United States National Medal of Science.
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Born 1987-01-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Simoncelli was involved in a fatal accident with Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi during the 2011 Malaysian GP at the Sepang International Circuit. In fourth position during lap two Simoncelli's bike veered across the track and straight into the path of Edwards and Rossi. Edwards also fell off but was unhurt, but Simoncelli lay still on the track after the crash, his helmet having come off during the incident. The race was immediately red-flagged. He was taken by ambulance to the circuit's medical centre, but at 16:56 local time it was announced he had died from his injuries.