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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 1978-07-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:virus
He was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii, and won three world titles (2002, 2003, 2004), three Quiksilver Pro France titles (2003, 2004, 2005), two Rip Curl Pro Search titles (2006 and 2007) and 19 elite tour victories. On September 3, 2010 he won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti.
In a statement, the Association of Surfing Professionals said "He had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease."
Irons married Lyndie Dupuis on November 25, 2007 in Princeville, Kauai. She was seven months pregnant with their first child at the time of his death
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Born 1999-01-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
She was an American child actress. She appeared in the Broadway theatre production of The Lion King by Walt Disney Theatrical, where she played the role of the young lion cub Nala.
Tavarez died at the age of 11 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, due to acute myeloid leukemia. The lights at the Minskoff Theatre, where The Lion King was playing, were dimmed the night she died. In a statement released following her daughter's death, Odiney Brown said that "Shannon's dream was to perform on stage, and that she did."
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Born 1978-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
The role of his life.
A village watchman in the central Philippines allegedly mistook an actor playing a masked gunman in a British film for a real assassin and fatally shot him, police said Monday.
Watchman Eddie Cuizon tried to accost Filipino actor Kirk Abella late Saturday then shot him as the actor was directed to speed away on a motorcycle with a masked driver, said community police chief Alexis Relado of central Cebu city's Parian district.
Cuizon, 52, told police he was sleeping and was woken up by a concerned citizen who reported the presence of armed men in his community.
He told police he saw two masked men on a motorcycle and approached them but they sped away and he stumbled as he tried to stop them, injuring his knee. He fired at Abella when the actor pulled out a gun, which turned out to be made of plastic, Relado said.
Many street killings in the Philippines, including those of political activists and journalists, have been perpetrated by motorcycle-riding gunmen.
Abella, 32, was acting in "Going Somewhere," being filmed by British theatre and film director Alan Lyddiard in Cebu, Relado said.
It was supposed to be the final take of a scene where Abella's character was to be involved in a drive-by shooting, the police chief said.
Abella died later in a hospital and Cuizon immediately surrendered to the police after he realized what happened, police said.
Volunteer watchmen in communities around the country help police keep the peace, patrol the streets and implement curfews. They are normally armed only with batons and are not supposed to carry firearms.
Cuizon told police he just borrowed the pistol he used but refused to identify from whom, Relado said. Cuizon will be charged with homicide and for violation of a gun ban, Relado said.
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Born 1949-08-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a Japanese scriptwriter. He was best known as chief writer of the Pokémon anime.On October 28, 2010, Shudo suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage in the smoking area of the Kansai Main Line's Nara Station at around 6:00 AM, and was transported to a Nara, Nara hospital for emergency surgery. He died on the morning of the day after.
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Born 1925-02-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He played minor roles in more than 250 French films. With Robert Dalban and Dominique Zardi he was one of the most important third strings of the French cinema.
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Born 1927-07-04. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American software engineer, key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and was often called the father of software quality.
The Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India is named after him.
The Capability Maturity Model was published in 1989 in Humphrey's "Managing the Software Process"
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Born 1937-12-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor best known for the role of Danny "Danno" Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad Hawaii Five-O.
After leaving Hawaii Five-O, McArthur guest-starred on such television shows as Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Vega$, as well as in the mini series Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story and The Night the Bridge Fell Down, and in the 1998 television movie Stormchasers: Revenge of the Twister, with Kelly McGillis.
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Born 1964-01-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
She was an American television actress who had a recurring role as Ginny Sacramoni, the overweight wife of New York mob boss Johnny Sack in the television series The Sopranos.
To obtain the part of Ginny Sacramoni, she attended the casting call in Harrison, New Jersey to support a friend and because she thought it would be fun to watch the crowds. She was picked from 14,000 actresses. Previously, she had been a legal assistant in New Brunswick, New Jersey firm of Hoagland-Longo.
She later lost 175 pounds via stomach stapling. She married Luke Quinn, Jr., in 2005 and they lived in Bordentown, New Jersey. He died in March 2010. They had no children. She died only seven months later from liver cancer
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Born 1957-07-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Lisa Suzanne Blount was an American film and television actress, and Academy Award-winning producer. Blount received a Golden Globe nomination for new star of the year for her performance in An Officer and a Gentleman, and she acted in the 1987 cult horror film Prince of Darkness. Another memorable role was that of Jim Profit's outrageous stepmother Bobbi Stakowski in the short-lived television series Profit. She appeared in season two of Moonlighting in the episode "Sleep Talkin' Guy" (1986). Blount was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Arkansas by her mother on October 27, 2010. The coroner told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Blount appeared to have died two days earlier. No foul play was suspected, according to the Pulaski County coroner. Although the coroner did not release an official cause of death, Blount's mother told RadarOnline.com that her daughter had suffered from idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), in which low levels of platelets keep blood from clotting and lead to bleeding and bruising. "I think that might have been part of the problem when she passed away because when I found her she had a purple look on her neck that looked like blood on the surface".
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Born 1938-07-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
A long-time political figure within French political circles, Frêche is an extremely controversial character, considered by some a great builder and visionary, while criticised by others and condemned in court for his controversial, sometimes racist remarks.
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Born 1912-05-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.
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Born 1984-04-17. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an American long-distance swimmer.
While competing in an open water 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) World Cup swimming race in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, teammate Alex Meyer noticed Crippen did not cross the finish line. After Meyer screamed for help, the other competing swimmers jumped back into the water to try to find Crippen. Two hours after the finish of the men's race, and after 90 minutes of searching by other swimmers, deep-sea divers finally arrived. Crippen's body was found near the final buoy, about 500 yards from shore. He was rushed to the local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, though it was suspected he died at the scene. Winner Thomas Lurz and other swimmers said the water was above 30 °C (86 °F) and that several other swimmers, including two Americans and one Brazilian, had to be briefly hospitalized.
FINA president Dr. Julio Maglione said it was the first death in any FINA event and an investigation was opened. Crippen had told his coach after 8 kilometers that he was feeling thirsty, yet continued with the race.
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Born 1942-01-11. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American cartoonist who was one of the most frequent contributors on the pages of The New Yorker with more than 800 of his gag cartoons published. His most recent cartoon appeared in the issue dated October 25, 2010.
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Born 1920-02-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a professional 9-dan Japanese professional Go player. Sakata became a professional Go player in 1935.
Sakata wrote many books in Japanese; several have been translated into English, including Modern Joseki and Fuseki, The Middle Game of Go, Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go and Killer of Go.
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Born 1933-06-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Operation
He was an American novelist, screenwriter, and non-fiction author. He died in Montevarchi, Italy, as a result of complications from cancer surgery
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Born 1927-10-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom Happy Days.
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Born 1919-11-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French road bicycle racer. He was born in Paris XV arrdt, France. He was a professional rider from 1945 until 1954. He jointly won the 1949 classic cycle race Paris–Roubaix with Serse Coppi in controversial fashion. In 1950 he won the classic Paris–Tours race.
The result of the 1949 Paris–Roubaix took several months and two international conferences to sort out. André Mahé was first across the line, but his win was challenged on the grounds that he took the wrong course.
Mahé was in a break of three riders that reached the Roubaix velodrome in the lead, but was misdirected by officials. Mahé, Jacques Moujica and Frans Leenen were desperate to get inside the stadium and cross the finish line before the next riders arrived. Moujica damaged his bike in the process, but Mahé and Leenen got into the stadium by a back door. André Mahé was first and was awarded the race. Or so it seemed.
Mahé acknowledged the crowds, took the bouquet, did a lap of honour and then headed to clean himself up at the track's showers.
A few minutes later the bunch arrived using the correct route and Serse Coppi, brother of the more famous Fausto, won the sprint for what was assumed to be, the minor placings. When the Coppi brothers heard about Mahé's unconventional approach to the finish they protested, demanding he be disqualified or demoted and that Serse be named as the winner.
The judges changed their minds and awarded Coppi the race. Five days later the French federation confirmed Mahé as the winner. The Italian federation then protested to the Union Cycliste Internationale and the dispute became international. The UCI's response (in August 1949) was to declare the race null - no winner. However, they agreed to review their decision at a conference in November of that year.
In November the Belgian federation sided with the Italians. After much internal politicking a compromise was reached. The final outcome - to reinstate the race and declare André Mahé and Serse Coppi as joint winners - was not popular with either side. The race was Serse Coppi's only classic win.
In a 2007 interview, André Mahé still maintained that he should have been awarded the race. He said of Fausto Coppi: "Coppi wanted his brother to have a big victory. He was a great champion, Coppi, but to do what he did - to protest like that to get a victory for his brother - that wasn't dignified for a champion. That was beneath him."
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Born 1922-07-09. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French oncologist and immunologist. In 1959, he performed the first successful bone marrow transplant not performed on identical twins.
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Born 1924-11-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Franco-American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United States, acquiring dual French and American citizenship.
Mandelbrot died in a hospice in Cambridge, Massachusetts from pancreatic cancer, at the age of 85. Reacting to news of his death, mathematician Heinz-Otto Peitgen said "if we talk about impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, he is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years." Chris Anderson described Mandelbrot as "an icon who changed how we see the world." French President Nicolas Sarkozy said very not interesting things about Mandelbrot, as usual.
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Born 1940-03-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues. Burke died at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport while on a plane from Washington Dulles Airport that had just landed. He had been due to perform with De Dijk in Amsterdam on October 12. The cause of death was not immediately clear; according to his family, Burke died of natural causes. At a 2012 probate court hearing of Burke's will, Burke's manager/companion of 16 years, Jane Margolis Vickers, stated that doctors at Reston Hospital suspected that Burke had a pulmonary embolism and had urged him not to travel. Burke decided to leave the hospital "against medical advice" and proceed to the Washington Dulles for his flight to Amsterdam. There was no autopsy after his death, but the general assumption is that Burke died as a result of a pulmonary embolism.
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Born 1911-05-31. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was a French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources."
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Born 1924-11-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1966-08-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Dutch television and film actor and musician.
Kamerling suffered from depression and committed suicide.
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Born 1923-05-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
From a humble background, he was largely self-educated. He began working as a pastry cook apprentice when he was 14 years old.
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Born 1941-02-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
As of 2009, Cannell lived in Los Angeles. He married his high school sweetheart, Marcia; he "asked her to go steady in the eighth grade". Together they had two daughters, Tawnia and Chelsea, and two sons, Cody and Derek. Derek died in 1981 at age 15 when a sand castle he was building at the beach collapsed and suffocated him.
Cannell was dyslexic, and was a spokesperson on the subject. According to an episode of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, Cannell frequently had to dictate ideas or even complete scripts to a personal secretary. He discussed his experiences as a dyslexic in the upcoming documentary Dislecksia: The Movie.
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Born 1924-08-01. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Charpak was born in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (modern Dubrovytsia, Ukraine). Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old.
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Born 1925-06-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
His parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary. Hungarian was Curtis' only language until he was five or six, postponing his schooling.
When Curtis was eight, he and his younger brother Julius were placed in an orphanage for a month because their parents could not afford to feed them. Four years later, Julius was struck and killed by a truck.
Curtis was married six times. His first wife was actress Janet Leigh, to whom he was married from 1951–1962, and with whom he fathered actresses Kelly and Jamie Lee Curtis
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Born 1922-09-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American film director and producer with a career as a theater director as well. Although probably best known as the director of Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
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Born 1912-12-16. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Polish electronic engineer.