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Born 1923-02-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film. Steiner wrote the theme music for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Perry Mason and The Bullwinkle Show. In film, Steiner was one of the team of composers for the 1985 film, The Color Purple, which received an Oscar nomination and was an uncredited composer for Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Fred Steiner died on at his home in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, after suffering a stroke at the age of 88
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Born 1977-06-11. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American reality television personality and daredevil best known for being a member of the Jackass crew and a cast member on Viva La Bam. Dunn and Zachary Hartwell, a production assistant on Jackass Number Two, died when Dunn's Porsche 911 GT3 came off the road and hit a tree in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. Police stated that speed may have been a factor in the accident, and preliminary investigations suggested that the car had been traveling between 132 and 140 mph (212 and 230 km/h) in a 55 mph (89 km/h) zone. A toxicology report showed Dunn had a blood alcohol level of 0.196% — more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08%.
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Born 1973-05-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Russian international football referee. Pettay died in the crash of RusAir Flight 9605 at Besovets, near Petrozavodsk.
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Born 1947-00-00. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Stroke
Jim had just returned to work from a well-deserved vacation. Jim was excited about the next two articles of his scheduled to be published in EDN, one on a sine wave oscillator currently slated for August 11, 2011. The last article Jim wrote for EDN will be his brilliant description of developing a 100A electronic load currently scheduled for the September 22, 2011 issue. Jim was really pleased with that last article. Several times he confided that it was one of the few technical projects that "everything just worked perfect." He said it was rare to have all the parts of a complex design go so well. When he told me this I couldn't help but think how his awesome talent had to play a part in the ease of the design. Take a look at 'Circuitry for Single Cell Operation' which makes extensive use of Robert Widlar's amazing LM10, or 'Micropower Circuits for Signal Conditioning' which is truly inspiring, as it shows what can be achieved by simple circuits powered by lemons with nails in.
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Born 1950-10-20. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
Wayne Roberts was a pioneering 1970s graffiti writer known as “Stay High 149” who borrowed the haloed stick figure from the title sequence of the 1960s television series “The Saint,” put a joint in its mouth and turned it around. His “Smoker” tag, or signature, turned the heads of legions of imitators and admirers, including the anonymous teenagers who slipped into train yards at night to paint whole cars, as well as Norman Mailer, who featured him in his book “The Faith of Graffiti.” The cause was complications of liver disease, his sister Pauline Noble said.
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Born 1914-12-15. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.
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Born 1923-12-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in France. In 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp for his role in the Resistance.
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Born 1923-02-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrète and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.
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Born 1936-04-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
José Rosinski was a French sports journalist and racing driver.
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Born 1935-09-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Jennifer Louise Worth RN RM (née Lee) was a British memoirist. She wrote a best-selling trilogy about her work as a nurse and midwife practicing in the poverty-stricken East End of London in the 1950s: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to The East End. A television series, Call the Midwife, based on her books, began broadcasting on BBC One on 15 January 2012. After leaving nursing, she re-trained as a musician. Worth died having been diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier in the year. Deeply religious, she had a commitment to God. The first episode of the television series Call the Midwife, based on her experiences in Poplar, London, in the late 1950s, was dedicated to her.
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Born 1940-05-13. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a movie critic, who worked for les cahiers du cinéma and Charlie Hebdo.
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Born 1950-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Known as Jeff Conaway, he was an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the U.S. television series Taxi and Babylon 5. He directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer II. On May 11, 2011, Conaway was found unconscious from what was initially described as an overdose of substances, believed to be pain medication, and was taken to Encino Tarzana Medical Center in Encino, California, where he was listed as being in critical condition and in a coma. After the initial reports, Dr. Drew Pinsky, who had treated Conaway for substance abuse, said the actor was suffering not from a drug overdose but rather from "pneumonia with sepsis", for which he was placed into an induced coma. Though his pneumonia was not directly caused by drugs, his use of them hampered his ability to recognize how ill he was, and prevented him from seeking treatment for pneumonia until it was too late. On May 26, 2011, Conaway's family took him off life support after doctors decided there was nothing they could do to revive him. Conaway died the following morning at the age of 60. Pinsky attributed his death to his addiction, stating, "What happens is, like with most opiate addicts, eventually they take a little too much ... and they aspirate, so what's in their mouth gets into their lungs ... That's what happened with Jeff."
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Born 1941-05-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Canadian fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1932-08-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
The voice of Saturnin the duck (and the song of Colargol was also sung by him)
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Born 1954-05-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American adult model, adult film actress, exotic dancer, and escort. On the night of May 21, 2011, less than a week away from her 57th birthday, Valley was driving on U.S. Route 83 near Leakey, Texas, where she was rear-ended by a pickup truck. Valley was not wearing a seatbelt, thus she was ejected from her car as a result of the collision. She died at the scene. According to a friend, she did not wear seatbelts while driving because of her large breasts.
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Born 1986-11-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was a Kenyan long-distance runner who won the 2008 Beijing Olympics Marathon in an Olympic record time of 2:06:32; becoming the first Kenyan to win the Olympic gold in the marathon. He became the youngest gold medallist in the marathon since 1932. He set the current (as of 2020) 10,000m World Junior Record in 2005 and set the half marathon world record 3 times. In 2009, he won both the London Marathon and Chicago Marathon, running the fastest marathons ever recorded in the United Kingdom and United States, respectively. He retained his Chicago title in 2010 in a season fraught with injury. On 15 May 2011, Wanjiru died from a fall off a balcony at his home in Nyahururu. Wanjiru appeared to have suffered internal injuries after the fall and was confirmed dead by doctors at a nearby hospital after attempts to revive him failed. Police said Wanjiru's wife, Triza Njeri, had come home to find him in bed with another woman. She locked the couple in the bedroom and ran outside. Wanjiru then died after falling from the balcony. Police are unsure if Wanjiru intended suicide or jumped out of rage, and were investigating the circumstances related to Njeri and his female companion that led to his death. In May 2017, while testifying during an inquest into Wanjiru's death, his mother Hannah Wanjiru said at the Milimani law court that she believes her son was murdered. His mother claimed at an inquest into his death that her son was murdered by six men who had conspired with his widow Trizah Njeri.[36] During the inquest at the Milimani court that sought to establish whether Wanjiru was murdered or jumped to his death, a former chief government pathologist said he was convinced that Wanjiru was hit by a blunt object after he had jumped from the balcony of his home, landing on his legs, or possibly he was pushed then struck.
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Born 1984-09-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Quick Step and later for Leopard Trek. His first major win was the 17th stage of the 2008 Vuelta a España. He also won the 3rd stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia. In stage 3 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia, Weylandt crashed coming down the Passo del Bocco, near the town of Mezzanego, suffering catastrophic injury. While looking over his shoulder at other riders, the left side of his bike struck a wall, sending him across the road where he then hit another object at high speed. It is reported that CPR was carried out for around 25 minutes by two different paramedic teams, the one following the race at first, and the emergency team afterwards, to no avail. He was given adrenaline and atropine but the injuries were reported as too severe. All the resuscitation attempts failed and the sportsman was declared dead at the scene due to a fractured skull.
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Born 1957-04-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. At Madrid-Barajas Airport on 6 October 2008, Ballesteros lost consciousness and was admitted to hospital. Six days later, he confirmed that he had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. In January 2009 a message on his website said he had responded well to one course of chemotherapy. "I am very motivated and working hard although I am aware that my recovery will be slow and therefore I need to be patient and have a lot of determination. For these reasons I am following strictly all the instructions that the doctors are giving me. Besides, the physiotherapists are doing a great job on me and I feel better every day." On 6 May 2011, his family released a press release announcing that Ballesteros's neurological condition had "suffered a severe deterioration". He died within hours of the announcement in the early hours of 7 May 2011.
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Born 1932-11-14. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Suicide
Günter Sachs was a German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist. A trained mathematician and economist, Sachs was an investor and industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researches the claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker and documentary photographer. He was "passionately interested" in astrology and its connection with mathematics/statistics. His first wife, Anne-Marie Faure, died in 1958 during an operation. He courted his second wife, Brigitte Bardot, by flying over her villa on the French Riviera in a helicopter and dropping hundreds of roses. The couple were married on the 14 July 1966 in Las Vegas. They divorced in 1969. His final marriage was to Swedish former model, Mirja Larsson, which lasted from 1969 until his death. He had one son with his first wife, and a further two sons with his third wife. Sachs committed suicide through a gun shot wound to the head at his home in Gstaad. The suicide note stated that he acted because of what he defined as "no hope illness A" adding that "The loss of mental control over my life was an undignified condition, which I decided to counter decisively".
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Born 1901-03-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was the last First World War combat veteran in the world, and was the last military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War. At the time of his death, he was also the third oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia.
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Born 1917-07-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter. After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967) and La Cage Aux Folles (1983), and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions. Laurents' early film scripts included Rope (1948) for Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), The Way We Were (1973) and The Turning Point (1977). Laurents died at the age of 93 in New York City of pneumonia complications, as reported by The New York Times. He had lived with his lover Tom Hatcher for more than 50 years, until Hatcher's death in 2006.
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Born 1931-06-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
She was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dana Wynter died from congestive heart failure at the Ojai Valley Community Hospital's Continuing Care Center.
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Born 1930-07-04. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French politician. He is the son of Italo-Mexican immigrants. Stasi served as Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories from 2 April 1973 to 27 February 1974. From 1998 to 2004 he was the Ombudsman of the French Republic.
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Born 1957-08-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was a French politician, a member of the National Assembly. He represented the 19th constituency of the Nord département, and was a member of the French Socialist Party (PSF). He was also the mayor of Denain. He was known for the colorful clothes he wore at the National Assembly and his love of heavy metal music, a musical style he defended on various occasions during the debates concerning the Hadopi law or the controversy about the Hellfest festival. On 5 June 2010, he joined the French metal band Mass Hysteria on stage during the Metallurgicales festival in Denain.
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Born 1922-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. At age 9, he was also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role—an honor that he received for the film Skippy (1931). For nearly 50 years, Cooper remained the youngest Oscar nominee in any category, until he was surpassed by Justin Henry's nomination, at age 8, in the Supporting Actor category for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Cooper died after a short illness.
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Born 1957-03-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. As a result of his dealings in and advocacy of violent extremist jihad, Osama bin Laden lost his Saudi citizenship and was disowned by his billionaire family. According to U.S. officials a team of 20-25 US Navy SEALs under the command of the Joint Special Operations Command and working with the CIA stormed bin Laden's compound in two helicopters. Bin Laden and those with him were killed during a firefight in which U.S. forces experienced no injuries or casualties. The site is just a few kilometers from the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul. DNA from bin Laden's body, compared with DNA samples on record from his dead sister, confirmed bin Laden's identity. The body was recovered by the US military and was in its custody until, according to news sources, his body was buried at sea with Islamic traditions with one U.S. official stating that "finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult."
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Born 1923-11-27. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an African American mathematician and nuclear scientist, who gained first fame on entering the University of Chicago at age 13, becoming its youngest ever student. His intelligence led to him being referred to as a "negro genius" in the media. In a widely varied and notable career, Wilkins contributed to the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. He also gained fame working in and conducting nuclear physics research in both academia and industry. He wrote numerous scientific papers, served in various important posts, earned several significant awards and helped recruit minority students into the sciences. During his studies, and various careers he was not untouched by the prevalent racism that existed for much of his life.
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Born 1983-11-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American professional Freestyle Motocross (FMX) rider. He was a member of the Metal Mulisha FMX team. His career was highlighted by a silver medal in the Men's Best Trick competition at the 2005 Winter X Games. Kargola died after sustaining a head injury and internal bleeding on the second day of the Desert Assassins' Rip to the Tip motocross event in Baja California.
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Born 1926-10-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions and also starred in several low-budget B-movies, including two cult horror films. Campbell has also obtained cult status for his guest starring roles on Star Trek, appearing first as the mischievous super-being Trelane (in part a parody of Liberace, whom Campbell resembled), in an episode of the original series called "The Squire of Gothos". Campbell also appeared three times as the Klingon Captain Koloth. Campbell first played Koloth on the original Star Trek series in the classic episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." He reprised the Koloth role on the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, some thirty years later. Campbell appeared at several Trek conventions in the 1980s and 1990s and many Star Trek fans consider Campbell's portrayal of the Trelane character as the first introduction of the "Q culture" to the series. (The Q are an omnipotent race made part of The Next Generation, then Deep Space 9 and Voyager series.) His last appearance was at the convention organized by Creation Entertainment at the Las Vegas Hilton in August 2006.