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Rolls Charles (b. 1877-08-27 / d. 1910-07-12)
He was killed in an air crash at Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off, making him the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident, and the eleventh internationally. A statue in his memory, in which he is seen holding a biplane model, was erected in Agincourt Square, Monmouth.
His grave lies in a little known corner of Monmouthshire at the now disused church of Llangattock Vibon Avel, where many of the Rolls family lie buried in various family tombs. His grave is just below Llangattock Manor and bears the inscription Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
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Born 1931-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress. She began performing in 1954, making her film debut in Treize à table. The 21 September 2006 issue of magazine Paris Match revealed that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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Born 1989-03-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
Better known by her stage name Emmy, she was an Albanian singer. Her most notable hits were "Pse të dua ty", "A ma jep", "Rastësisht u pamë", and "Let It Play". Hidersha was hit by a car allegedly driven by her ex-boyfriend, 47-year-old Kosovar businessman Haziz Kelmendi. The police said they suspect the incident was intentional and was a matter of jealousy. Reportedly Kelmendi was heavily intoxicated at the time of the incident. The incident happened in the late hours of 26 February 2011, when Hidersha was leaving a night club where she had been performing. Kelmendi allegedly followed and hit her with his car, although he denies the accusations. Hidersha was brought to the Military Hospital of Tirana suffering from severe brain damage and skull fractures. She lapsed into a coma and died on the morning of 28 February.
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Born 1921-06-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. She died at her home in Santa Maria of a respiratory-related illness.
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Born 1914-11-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an American film producer. He sat on the Motion Picture and Television Fund Board of Trustees, and was honored with the Silver Medallion for Humanitarian Achievement by the group in 1986. He died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, California, aged 96, from pneumonia. He produced the film "Soylent green".
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Born 1927-05-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French journalist and writer, a member of 30 years of the Academy Goncourt. He was akinetic from the beginning of the 2000's, and suffered of the Parkinson disease. He called it "Miss P."
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Born 1936-04-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American television, movie, and voice actor. He may be best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968's The Producers, and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's Young Frankenstein. He also played Otto Mannkusser, in Malcolm in the middle, Francis' German boss and sidekick for the fourth and fifth seasons. He meets Francis while he had a 1974 broken car at the highway coming down from Alaska. Otto is in charge of The Grotto, a dude ranch (named after the two in the episode "Zoo,", Otto says "She is Gretchen, I am Otto - Grotto"). Otto is married to Gretchen and has an estranged son. Otto is gullible and a bit of a pushover; he hires too many employees and gives them extra vacation days. However, after Francis works on the ranch for a little over two years, Otto fires him when the ATM that Francis was depositing his funds into was not really an ATM. His last name might be derived from the ill-formed German expression "Mannküsser", literally meaning "man kisser." In the German version of the show, the Mannkussers are Danes and speak with a very heavy Danish accent.
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Born 1991-03-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
William Morais started in football in the youth of Corinthians. With good performances in the Copa São Paulo de Juniores and the Campeonato Paulista de Juniores midfielder was named by coach Mano Menezes to integrate the core team of Corinthians. The 19-year-old midfielder on loan to Minas Gerais club America was shot in the back early Sunday while trying to escape a robbery attempt in the city of Belo Horizonte.
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Born 1920-03-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent. She got married to a physician when she was twenty-two, with whom she has two children: Louis Chedid, now a famous French singer, and Michèle. Andrée Chedid is the grandmother of the French rock star -M- (Louis Chedid's son) for whom she has contributed song lyrics including that of Bonoboo on the album Je dis aime.
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Born 1956-11-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Jean Paul Getty III was the first of four children of Paul Getty and Gail Harris, the grandson of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, and the father of actor Balthazar Getty. On 10 July 1973, Paul was kidnapped in Rome. A ransom note was received, demanding $17 million in exchange his safe return. When that ransom message arrived, some family members suspected the kidnapping was merely a ploy by the rebellious Paul, to get money from his grandfather. A second demand was received, but had been delayed by an Italian postal strike. Jean Paul Getty II asked his father for the money, but was refused. In November 1973, an envelope containing a lock of hair and a human ear was delivered to a daily newspaper, with a threat of further mutilation of Paul unless $3.2 million was paid: "This is Paul's ear. If we don’t get some money within 10 days, then the other ear will arrive. In other words, he will arrive in little bits." At this point Jean Paul agreed to pay a ransom, with his son repaying the sum at 4% interest. However, the reluctant Getty Sr. negotiated a deal and got his grandson back for about $2.9 million. Getty III was found alive in southern Italy on December 15, 1973, shortly after the ransom was paid. His kidnappers, supposedly linked with the 'Ndrangheta, were never caught. Paul III was permanently affected by the trauma and became a drug addict. After a stroke brought on by a cocktail of drugs and alcohol in 1981, Paul III was rendered speechless, nearly blind and partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. Getty defended his initial refusal to pay the ransom on two points. First, he argued that to submit to the kidnappers' demands would immediately place his other fourteen grandchildren at the risk of copy-cat kidnappers. He added: The second reason for my refusal was much broader-based. I contend that acceding to the demands of criminals and terrorists merely guarantees the continuing increase and spread of lawlessness, violence and such outrages as terror-bombings, "skyjackings" and the slaughter of hostages that plague our present-day world. (Getty, 1976, pg.139).
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Born 1938-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
She was a Japanese-born American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. She developed breasts very early and, despite being an excellent student, was constantly harassed for her figure and Asian heritage. Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off. This prompted her to learn the martial arts of aikido and karate and, over the next 15 years, she claimed that she had tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." Satana dated Elvis Presley but turned down his marriage proposal, though she did keep the ring.
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Born 1952-03-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French actress. She is best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris. Schneider was born Marie Christine Gélin, the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris. In 1974, Schneider came out as bisexual. The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, and a suicide attempt. By the 1980s, however, she had turned her life around: "I was very lucky — I lost many friends to drugs — but I met someone in 1980 who helped me stop. I call this person my angel and we've been together ever since. I don't say if it's a man or a woman. That's my secret garden. I like to keep it a mystery."
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Born 1919-06-15. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American aeronautical engineer and philanthropist, known for his work in rotary-wing flight. Kaman's first love was the guitar, and in 1966, he founded Ovation Instruments. The company would become the Ovation Guitar Company and developed an acoustic guitar using aerospace materials, featuring a rounded back design.
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Born 1933-11-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an English film score composer. He was best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style. Barry suffered a rupture of the oesophagus in 1988, following a toxic reaction to a health tonic he had consumed. The incident rendered him unable to work for two years and left him vulnerable to pneumonia. He died suddenly from a heart attack. Barry was married four times. His first three marriages ended in divorce: Barbara Pickard (1959-63); Jane Birkin (1965-68); and Jane Sidey (1969-71). He married his current wife, Laurie, on 3 January 1978. Barry has four children, one each from his first, second, and fourth marriages, and one with Ulla Larsson, with whom he lived for a while in the sixties, but did not marry.
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Born 1979-09-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Karen Cromie sustained fatal injuries after falling onto the main Bangor to Belfast road – the same spot where two weeks earlier she had threatened to take her life. The 31-year-old, from Ballinamallard, was a talented rower who was set to compete in the London Games next year. Moving tributes were paid to Ms Cromie. It is understood she became depressed after losing the use of her legs after a fall while at university in Edinburgh several years ago. Police were called to the Holywood Exchange flyover in the morning after reports she was in distress. They closed the road and drafted in a trained negotiator, but it was too late. She died near the Decathlon sports store which had recently selected her for sponsorship as part of its ‘dedicated athlete’ programme. Two weeks earlier she was involved in a similar incident, when emergency services spent eight hours persuading her not to jump off the same flyover. Questions are now being asked over whether Ms Cromie received adequate mental health care. Born in Banbridge, she played wheelchair basketball and was a member of the GB Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team. After being introduced to rowing, Ms Cromie participated in the world championships in 2007, where she and crewmate James Roberts qualified for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, where she was part of the mixed adaptive double scull which finished fifth.
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Born 1976-05-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Shawn Osborne. He is best known for his stint with World Wrestling Entertainment as a developmental talent, most recently wrestling for its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling. He apparently sent out suicide e-mails and texts before taking his own life. In the letter, Osbourne explained that taking his life was something he had thought a lot about. He also said the only drug in his system was Zoloft and it was prescribed. The letter detailed how he wanted his funeral to be handled and addressed his closest friends.
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Born 1924-05-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer. He was known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.
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Born 1987-05-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Operation
She was a German pornographic actress, model, and reality show participant. She was born Carolin Ebert.
Cora was hospitalized in 2009 after trying to break the world record for the number of fellatios performed in one day. She was trying for 200 men but was unable to pass 75.
Cora had a heart attack on January 11, 2011, during her breast enlargement surgery at a plastic surgery clinic in Hamburg. It was her sixth such operation. Minutes into the procedure, she went into the cardiac arrest. She was moved to a local hospital and placed in a medically-induced coma for a week. Police investigated the clinic afterward for possible treatment errors. Cora was in a relationship at the time of her death. She had him at her side at the hospital continuously from January 11 to her death.
On January 21, the two doctors who performed the surgery on Sexy Cora were charged with negligent manslaughter. A statement from the clinic said the doctors were "extremely upset and deeply regret the death of patient C.W." and that they are giving "full and complete support" to authorities investigating her death.
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Born 1930-11-18. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a Belgian artist and illustrator. He was born in Herseaux, Belgium. When he was 16, he enroled in decorative art at Saint-Luc de Tournai. He finished his studies in 1951 with the greatest distinction. He returned as a teacher two years later. From 1954, Marlier illustrated the children's series Martine, with the stories written by Gilbert Delahaye.
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Born 1918-08-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
John William Jamieson Herivel was a British science historian and former World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park. As a codebreaker concerned with Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Herivel is remembered chiefly for the discovery of what was soon dubbed the Herivel tip or Herivelismus. Herivelismus consisted of the idea, the Herivel tip and the method of establishing whether it applied using the Herivel square. It was based on Herivel's insight into the habits of German operators of the Enigma cipher machine that allowed Bletchley Park to easily deduce part of the daily key. For a brief but critical period after May 1940, the Herivel tip in conjunction with "cillies" (another class of operator error) was the main technique used to solve Enigma. After the war, Herivel became an academic, studying the history and philosophy of science at Queen's University Belfast, particularly Isaac Newton, Joseph Fourier, Christiaan Huygens. In retirement, he wrote an autobiographical account of his work at Bletchley Park entitled Herivelismus and the German Military Enigma.
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Born 1920-01-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French novelist. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. His first work, Le Complexe de César appeared in 1946 and received the prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française November 30, 1978.
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Born 1922-04-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a French TV news show presenter on TF1, in the 80's.
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Born 1933-11-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French TV news show presenter on TF1, in the 80's. He was a Dutch professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1956 to 1972. Post competed in road and track racing. Many of the British riders Post was involved with, found Post very difficult to get on with. Some claimed he didn't want any British riders in his teams. Some claimed Post's mind had been damaged by all the hard racing, and several bad crashes he had been involved in. Post had mostly Dutch or Belgian riders in his teams. Several of the riders Post managed died young, or had personal problems in their lives.
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Born 1929-07-24. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director and producer. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. Robbery (1967), a crime thriller, is a fictionalised version of the Great Train Robbery of 1963. This led to Bullitt (1968), his first American film, which is thought to contain the first example of the modern cinematic car chase.
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Born 1922-10-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was born at Grand Bassam in Ivory coast. He was a singer who gained notoriety during 60's. His voice was very charecteristic (Si toi aussi tu m'abandonnes). He had been deported in the concentration camp of Neuengame during WWII.
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Born 1947-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician best known for his solo hits "Baker Street" and "Right Down the Line", and "Stuck in the Middle" with the band Stealers Wheel. . In November 2010, Rafferty was admitted to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, Dorset, suffering from liver failure. He died at home of liver disease.
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Born 1966-04-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was the younger son of the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his third wife, former Empress Farah Diba, and member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family. Ali-Reza Pahlavi died by apparent suicide in his Boston apartment: he was found at his home after reports of a gun shot.
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Born 1930-09-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
She was an American actress. Francis was best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and for having starred in the television series Honey West (1965–1966) which was the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title. She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series.
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Born 1946-02-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Peter William Postlethwaite was an English character actor, who appeared in In the Name of the Father (1993), Sharpe (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Dragonheart (1996), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Brassed Off (1996), Amistad (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Animal Farm (1999), The Constant Gardener (2005), Clash of the Titans (2010), Inception (2010), and The Town (2010). Postlethwaite died of pancreatic cancer at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. The cancer had been diagnosed in March 2009. Postlethwaite continued acting almost to the end of 2010, showing clear signs of weight loss during his last performances. In his last two years, he worked on his memoir A Spectacle of Dust with Andy Richardson. It was published on 1 June 2011.
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Born 1922-10-30. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
he was one of the first presenters of the radio game "le jeu des 1000 francs"
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Born 1949-10-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a dancer and performer, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.
Bobby Farrell lived in Amsterdam Zuidoost, in the neighbourhood Gaasperdam. He died in the morning of December 30, 2010 in a hotel in Saint Petersburg, after performing with his band the evening before. The cause of death is still unknown.