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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1928-03-03. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American artist who was best known for the designs he created for postage stamps, including 40 that were released by the United States Postal Service, along with other designs he created for stamps issued by the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Sweden and the United Nations, including several he co-designed with his son Chris. Hired by NASA as the only artist allowed to cover the Apollo 11 astronauts up close. Calle designed the 10 cent postage stamp commemorating the first manned moon landing, depicting an astronaut stepping onto the moon from the lunar module, with the orb of the Earth visible over the moon's horizon.
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Born 1953-04-10. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. Kelton was killed when his SUV collided head-on with a school bus in Crosby, Texas, two days before he was due to perform on New Years Eve at Rooster's Steak House in Baytown, Texas.
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Born 1949-07-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He notably appeared in The Tenant by Roman Polanski, The Professional by Georges Lautner, The Return of Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne and The Vanishing by George Sulizer.
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Born 1976-03-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Ukrainian professional football player and later a football referee. Kovalenko committed suicide by jumping from his apartment.
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Born 1913-03-26. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
She was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Of Jewish ancestry, she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie Française. She was also known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides. She was born Jacqueline David in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir.
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Born 1976-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
The Argentine cycling community lost one of its prized riders, Armando Borrajo, to a tragic suicide on December 18 in Buenos Aires. The 34-year-old was kidnapped for two days and released just prior to his death and reportedly suffered from injury and shock. According to reports, Borrajo's younger brother Alejandro, who races for the US-based team Jamis-Sutter Home, broke his arm while attempting to intervene. Details of Borrajo's death have not been released. Borrajo was a member of an electoral campaign for the Argentine Track and Road Cycling Federation, directly under Facundo Donadio who was running for presidency. The election was scheduled to take place on December 22 but has been postponed. Borrajo recently traveled to northern Argentina for a campaign presentation. It was reported that he was a victim of a kidnapping and then released two days prior to his suicide. Investigators are still searching for details in the kidnapping case. Borrajo won the national road title in 2006 and more recently won a stage of the Giro del Sol San Juan in 2009.
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Born 1941-01-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Van Vliet met Frank Zappa when they were both teenagers and shared an interest in rhythm and blues and Chicago blues. Zappa and Van Vliet began collaborating on pop song parodies and a movie script called Captain Beefheart vs. the Grunt People, the first appearance of the Beefheart name.
The cause of death was named as complications from multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms.
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Born 1952-01-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the 13th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1989 and 1998. He was also USSR Correspondence Champion in 1978.
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Born 1922-07-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Edwards died of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
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Born 1986-10-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. The cause of death was reported to be suicide by hanging as Roberts struggled to cope with the split from his fiancée after she had been having an affair with Paul Terry. At an inquest opened at the end of the week, deputy coroner Rodney Haig gave cause of death as asphyxia. Following Roberts' death, Rushden retired their number one shirt.
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Born 1946-08-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a Scottish racing car driver and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). He was also involved in professional rugby union, as owner of Gloucester Rugby, and chairman of the team owners organisation for the Aviva Premiership. He died from complications arising from lung cancer.
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Born 1964-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Exactly two years after Bernard's arrest — his son Mark Madoff, age 46, was found dead in his New York City apartment. The death was officially ruled a suicide by hanging by the city medical examiner.
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Born 1975-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Hendrik "Hendri" Coetzee was a renowned South African outdoorsman and author. He was presumed dead after being taken by a crocodile in December 2010.
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Born 1927-12-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French former footballer and coach. He spent his entire playing career with RC Strasbourg. After his playing career, he became a coach with RC Strasbourg and Standard de Liège.
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Born 1945-01-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a prolific porn actor who went on to have a long-running career as a producer and director of adult movies. Usually credited under the name John Leslie, he has also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely. He was one of the first porn actors to make the transition from performing to directing, beginning with 1987's Nightshift Nurses. Since then he directed more than 90 adult movies, including The Chameleon (1989), Curse of the Catwoman (1992), Dog Walker (1994), and Drop Sex (1997), along with the Voyeur, Fresh Meat and Crack Her Jack series.
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Born 1995-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
On November 29, 2010, he took multiple classmates and a teacher hostage for five hours. Although described as a good student with no previous law enforcement contact, Hengel took his own life via gunshot wound. He was initially taken to Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette, and then was transferred to St. Vincent Medical Center in Green Bay, where he was later pronounced dead at approximately 10:44am on November 30th 2010. He was described as a good, well-liked 4.0 student who had never been bullied. Marinette police interviewed the boy's parents and survivors; many classmates expressed surprise when interviewed by reporters. Those held hostage said that they had joked and talked with him - producing some lighter moments - about hunting and fishing, which were some of Samuel's hobbies. They and social studies teacher Valerie Burd were credited with keeping Samuel and everyone else relatively calm, which likely helped keep the situation from deteriorating to a far worse point where people could have been hurt or killed. Police said that a few shots were fired at equipment when the crisis began (it had actually begun sometime earlier than 3:45 PM, when the first 911 call was placed). Police stated he had likely gone out to get the guns from a locker or bathroom on a break, rather than bringing them along. At one point early in the crisis, the principal briefly came to the room but called 911 after being turned away at gunpoint by Samuel, who told him to leave. The students being held captive said they did not feel they were in danger despite the earlier shots. Ultimately, police inside were forced to break down the door and storm the room when they heard three shots which did not hit anybody. Before police could intervene, Samuel pointed the gun at himself (he did not threaten the officers) and fatally shot himself
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Born 1915-05-16. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana
Monicelli died at the age of 95 after he threw himself from a window of the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was admitted a few days earlier for prostate cancer.
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Born 1913-06-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge. He received a number of distinctions: he was a knight bachelor, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1951, he developed the concept of microprogramming from the realisation that the Central Processing Unit of a computer could be controlled by a miniature, highly specialised computer program in high-speed ROM. This concept greatly simplified CPU development. Microprogramming was first described at the Manchester University Computer Inaugural Conference in 1951, then published in expanded form in IEEE Spectrum in 1955. This concept was implemented for the first time in EDSAC 2, which also used multiple identical "bit slices" to simplify design. Interchangeable, replaceable tube assemblies were used for each bit of the processor. This was extremely advanced for the time.
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Born 1961-10-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
French footballer. Died after a long illness.
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Born 1921-01-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American physicist who invented the W70 warhead, more popularly known as the neutron bomb.
He died from complications of his stomach cancer.
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Born 1926-02-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.
In November 2010, Nielsen was admitted to a Fort Lauderdale, Florida hospital for pneumonia. On 28 November, Dr. Doug Nielsen, Nielsen's nephew, announced to the CJOB radio station that Nielsen had died in his sleep, due to complications from pneumonia, around 5:30 pm EST, surrounded by family and friends.
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Born 1923-04-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Kershner died at his home in Los Angeles after a three and a half year battle with lung cancer. Despite being a director, Kershner had been working on photography before his death.
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Born 1928-05-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
He was a French film actor. He was born in Morlaix, Finistère.
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Born 1914-12-21. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. He died in Canberra after a brief illness, and days after the birth of his first great-grandchild.
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Born 1971-10-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a Romanian operatic soprano.
A graduate of the Music Academy in Bucharest, Briban made her debut as a soloist with the Romanian National Opera in 2000. She made her international debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2003.
She apparently committed suicide, following a period of depression caused (according to her husband) by the termination of her contract with the National Opera.
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Born 1978-09-08. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a British comic, writer and director.
He started his comedy career in the sketch and improvisational group Wayward Council. He co-founded Phone Book Live, in which guests attempted to be funny from reading out of the phone book.
Taylor suffered from bipolar schizoaffective disorder all of his life. He turned his suicide attempt in 2008, in which he slipped into a drug-induced coma in the Komedia comedy club in Brighton, into an acclaimed show, No Straightjacket Required, at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Taylor died at the age of 32 after taking an overdose of drugs.
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Born 1982-09-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
She was a French model from Marseille, France, who became well-known after appearing in a controversial ad campaign "No Anorexia" which showed Caro with vertebrae and facial bones protruding in a picture by photographer Oliviero Toscani.
She died in Tokyo, Japan, after spending about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease although nobody knows the cause of her death. Her family only reported Isabelle's death to the media on December 29, 2010.
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Born 1932-03-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation
He was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times. He wrote a long-running syndicated chess column and wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books on chess.
Evans died in Reno, Nevada, from complications following gallbladder surgery.
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Born 1921-08-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1919-08-08. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Usually credited as Dino De Laurentiis, he was an Italian film producer.