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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1905-11-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was a British internet personality, known for being the oldest person in the world on both Facebook and Twitter.
She was born Asquith in Bradford, as one of 8 children.
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Born 1949-03-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
Alex Higgins, also known by his nickname of Hurricane Higgins, was a Northern Irish professional snooker player who was twice World Champion and twice runner-up. Higgins earned the nickname The Hurricane due to his speed of play.
Higgins lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer. It was reported that since losing them he had been living on liquid food, and had become increasingly depressed, even contemplating suicide. He was too ill to have implants fitted.
At the end of his life, Higgins' weight reduced to six stones (38 kilos). He lived on benefits in sheltered housing on Donegall Road, Belfast. He was found dead in bed in his flat.
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Born 1928-08-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
She was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh.
She is especially famous in France for her TV series for children, Poly (a boy and a horse) and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son Mehdi El Glaoui, only credited as Mehdi.
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Born 1915-04-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Gerhard Paul Hochschild was a German-born American mathematician who worked on Lie groups, algebraic groups, homological algebra and algebraic number theory.
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Born 1935-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Laurent Terzieff was the son of a plastician and of Jean Terzieff, a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France during the First World War. The spectacle of the bombardments had a dramatic effect on nine-year-old Laurent Terzieff. As an adolescent, he was fascinated with philosophy and poetry. He assisted with a representation of the "La Sonate des spectres" by Strindberg, directed by Roger Blin; while involved in the theater he decided he wanted to become an actor.
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Born 1926-07-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Leipzig.
Petri nets were invented in August 1939 by Carl Adam Petri – at the age of 13 – for the purpose of describing chemical processes.
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Born 1986-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
He was a Puerto Rican rapper and reggaeton artist signed to the Rottweilas label. He recorded solo or as part of a duo with partner Endo under Lele y Endo. He was also known by his nickname "El Arma Secreta".
He collaborated with Cosculluela. made a lot of songs with his duo partner Endo in the duo 'Lele y Endo', In 2008, Lele had threatened to sue Hector "El Father" for not receiving royalties for more than 40 songs he had co-written with him.
He was shot in his sports car in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.
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Born 1977-08-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Korean actor and singer.
In 2002, Park co-starred in Winter Sonata with Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji-woo, which brought him fame in Japan.
Park was found dead by his mother at 5:30 am June 30, 2010 at his home in Nonhyeon-dong, Seoul, hanging from a camcorder charger cable after supposedly committing suicide.
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Born 1975-02-04. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian actor, television personality and reality show contestant on Grande Fratello. An avid athlete and extreme sport enthusiast, he was nicknamed, O’ guerriero (The Warrior).
Taricone took part in a skydive over Terni, Umbria, in June 2010. During the jump, Taricone waited to open his parachute until he was just 100 metres from the ground. However, the parachute malfunctioned and failed to open, slamming Tarcione to the ground. He suffered severe back, leg and head injuries in the accident.
He died after more than nine hours of surgery.
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Born 1943-12-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
He was a founding member and the original bass guitarist for The Kinks, from 1963 until 1969.
Quaife had been receiving kidney dialysis for more than ten years.
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Born 1918-05-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was a German physician and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose. After Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst had been imprisoned she continued to publish the Scholl leaflets and collected money to aid the widow of Kurt Huber. In October 1943 she was also arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by the Volksgerichtshof in 1944 (until May 1945).
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Born 1916-02-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a French military officer who fought in World War II, Indochina and Algeria. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French 'unconventional' warfare thinking from that time onwards.
A key participant in the destruction of the FLN's organization during the battle of Algiers 1956, Bigeard applied concepts of counter-insurgency warfare which he articulated in his work Manuel de l’officier de renseignement (Intelligence Officer's Handbook). Among these concepts was the acceptance of the use of torture against suspected insurgents to gain information.
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Born 1988-03-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a French fashion model who modeled for a number of clients including Louis Vuitton, GQ and Vogue.
Nicon's body was found in the courtyard of a building in central Milan on 23 June 2010 after falling four floors from a window of an apartment he was residing in and just hours before a scheduled show he was to appear in at Milan Fashion Week event. He had been depressed following a split from his Italian girlfriend. He had attended a Versace fitting on the same morning. Police are treating Nicon's death as a suicide.
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Born 1922-11-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. When asked to describe his daily writing routine in 2009, Saramago responded, "I write two pages. And then I read and read and read."
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Born 1928-09-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
La porteuse de pain.
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Born 1928-01-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
In her later years she appeared in Raphael Mezrahi's play, Monique est demandée en caisse 12.
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Born 1970-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a New Zealand motorcycle road racer. He first competed in the Isle of Man TT races in 1999. His best finish was sixth in the 400cc lightweight division of the 2000 Isle of Man TT. He died in a racing accident while competing in the Supersport 2 race at the 2010 Isle of Man TT.
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Born 1970-05-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Welsh rock drummer and broadcaster, best known as the original drummer for the band Stereophonics.
He began drinking at the local pub, the Welsh Harp Inn, where he left his car, and walked home with friends to continue partying at his house. On arriving home, he continued drinking and has been reported by friends to have choked to death on his own vomit during his sleep. A post mortem has been conducted although the results have not been published. South Wales Police had previously ruled out any suspicious circumstances being involved in the death.
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Born 1976-05-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an African American pornographic actor who performed under the screen name "Steve Driver". He died while being apprehended by police for the alleged murder of fellow actor Herbert Hin Wong as well as assault on two other individuals. On June 1, 2010, Hill was accused of attacking the three with a sword.
Stephen Hill had been told he was terminated from Ultima DVD and was being evicted from the premises. The incident escalated, resulting in Hill attacking a man in the back of the building. Two others, including Herbert Wong, rushed to the victim’s aid and were cut with repeated swings of a movie prop Samurai-style machete. All three victims were rushed to Northridge Hospital Medical Center where Wong was pronounced dead.
Four days later on June 5th, Hill was surrounded by a SWAT team in a residence located around Azul Drive in West Hills. Hill climbed a nearby hill area and was brandishing a sword which he threatened to use to kill himself. Video recording shows that Hill was first shot near the right shoulder by a policeman, most likely with a non lethal gun. Hill, cornered, went closer to the edge of the cliff. A second shot was fired by another policeman. Then Hill got even closer to the edge, and only then attempted a jump that eventually killed him.
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Born 1937-06-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Peritonitis
He was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in a number of areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, classical mechanics and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem, since his first main result—the solution of Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957.
Arnold died of peritonitis.
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Born 1925-09-10. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician. He was Professor Emeritus at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He entered the Academy of Sciences in 1979.
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Born 1979-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
He was an English professional rugby league player and farmer. He was killed in the 2010 Cumbria shootings.
Purdham was working with his uncle mending a wire fence on his father's farm near the Red Admiral Hotel at Boonhead, near Gosforth when he was shot and killed. He became the ninth murder victim of spree killer Derrick Bird, who killed 12 people and injured 11 others that day before committing suicide. It was claimed by Purdham's neighbours that he was aware of Bird's rampage from radio broadcasts and recognised Bird's vehicle as it passed. It is alleged that Purdham was attempting to subdue Bird with a fence post when he was shot and killed.
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Born 1911-12-25. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Age
She was a French-born American artist and sculptor. Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled Maman, from the last dozen years.
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Born 1956-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Murder
Çetin Topçuoglu was a former European taekwondo champion.
He was in the Gaza flotilla raid, on the MV Mavi Marmara, and was killed by Israeli Defense Forces.
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Born 1974-06-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Suicide
Tobi Wong was a Canadian born designer. He was known for his appropriation of work by other designers.
One of his most elaborate productions was the Wrong Store, a hoax-like exhibition he organized in 2007 with Gregory Krum, the director of retail at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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Born 1919-01-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was associated with the abstract expressionist movement in New York City.
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Born 1936-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer of the film's script.
On January 14, 2010, he filed for divorce from his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy. After citing her "outrageous conduct", and stating Duffy was "insane", "inhuman", and "volatile", Hopper was granted a restraining order against her on February 11, 2010, and as a result, she has been forbidden to come within ten feet of him or contact him in any way.
On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held in front of Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court to decide who to designate on Hopper's life insurance policy which currently lists his wife as beneficiary. A very ill Hopper did not appear in court though his estranged wife did - case BD518046. The judge ruled that the policy should not be changed at present.
Hopper died at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer.
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Born 1977-03-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American Major League Baseball player.
Robertson died after crashing his motorcycle in his hometown of Exeter, California.
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Born 1935-11-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
He was an Australian writer.
He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the University of Leeds. He also worked on an Aboriginal mission as an anthropologist, used as background for To the Islands, and as a patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands, where he suffered a severe attack of malaria. He used this experience in Visitants.