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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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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.
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Born 1936-12-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a British motor racing driver from England.
He participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 18 July 1959. During his career he achieved one podium, and scored a total of eight championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Taylor is also credited with inventing the yellow stripe that ran down the middle of Team Lotus cars during the 1960's.
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Born 1935-08-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He commented the images of the first step on the moon for French TV.
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Born 1978-11-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an English international rugby league player.
On 22 February 2010 Newton was banned for two years by the UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) after failing a drug test on 24 November 2009. He was just two games into 2 year deal that he had signed with Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, but the contract was cancelled.
On 26 September 2010, Newton was found hanged in a house on Harswell Close.
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Born 1948-03-27. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
He was a British entrepreneur. A former coal miner, Heselden made his fortune manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system. In 2010, he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system. Heselden died in 2010 from injuries apparently sustained falling from a cliff whilst riding a Segway. At 11:40 a.m. on 26 September 2010, West Yorkshire Police received reports of a man falling 213 feet (65 m) into the River Wharfe, at the village of Thorp Arch near Boston Spa, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above. The fall from a narrow footpath was witnessed by a man walking his dog nearby. A Segway vehicle was recovered and Heselden was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Investigators said, "At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious" and were investigating as to "whether there was a fault with his particular machine or it was driver error". On 4 October 2010, at an inquest at Leeds Coroner's Court, coroner David Hinchliff reported that a post-mortem examination had concluded that Heselden had suffered "multiple blunt force injuries of the chest and spine consistent with a fall whilst riding a gyrobike". Recording a verdict of accidental death, West Yorkshire Coroner David Hinchliff told Heselden's family: "I think it's probable — I think typical of Jimi and the type of man he was — he held back and waited as an act of courtesy to allow Mr Christie (a dog walker) more room. In so doing, he's attempted to reverse the Segway back. As a result of that he's got into difficulty."
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Born 1981-08-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Slovak judoka of Hungarian ethnicity. He was born in Rimavská Sobota and died in Vienna.
He was killed in an air crash.
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Born 1969-04-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
She was an American murderer and the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution.
Lewis was sentenced to death for hiring two men to kill her husband, Julian Clifton Lewis, Jr., and her stepson, Charles J. Lewis, in their Pittsylvania County home on the night of October 30, 2002. Her stepson had a $250,000 life insurance policy from his military service, with Julian Lewis as the primary beneficiary and Lewis as the secondary beneficiary. The motive for the murder on the eve of the stepson's deployment, according to a later interview, was to collect the life insurance money. Her two accomplices, Matthew Jessee Shallenberger, then 21, and his former roommate and friend Rodney Lamont Fuller, then 19, were sentenced to life terms at their separate trials. Schallenberger committed suicide in prison in 2006.
Lewis was executed on September 23, 2010, at 9 p.m. by lethal injection, at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt.
Lewis' lawyer stated that “She’s not mentally retarded, but she is very, very close to it."
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Born 1992-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University in Piscataway Township, New Jersey, who jumped from the George Washington Bridge in an apparent suicide on September 22, 2010. This occurred after his sexual encounter with a man in his dorm room was video streamed over the internet without his knowledge by his roommate Dharun Ravi, and a fellow hallmate, Molly Wei, and after a second attempt by Ravi was made to do the same.
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Born 1924-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Belgian singer, who was also the pianist of Juliette Gréco. Born Fernand Urbain Dominic Leclercq, Leclerc had a career as a pianist, accordionist, song writer and singer before retiring to travel the world. On his return to Belgium he began a new career as a building contractor. More recently, Leclerc was invited to ESC 2005 by the Belgian TV network RTBF as a guest star.
Leclerc represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest four times. The song Leclerc performed in the 1962 Contest is notable for being the (joint) first song performed at the Contest that scored zero points.
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Born 1958-10-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a member of Kassav'.
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Born 1925-01-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French wrestler.
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Born 1932-11-18. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Czech American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He was well-known for his oft-quoted quip that "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". In 1993 he retired from IBM and went to Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing, where he was director. He was still working there at the time of his death; Jelinek died of a heart attack at the close of an otherwise normal workday in mid-September 2010.
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Born 1930-06-24. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Chabrol was married three times: to Agnčs Goute from 1956 to 1962, Colette Dacheville (the real name of actress Audran) from 1964 to 1978, and Aurore Pajot. He had four children.
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Born 1914-02-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American stage, film, and television actor, who appeared in over two hundred television and film roles. For his role in the 1951 film version of Death of a Salesman, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor. McCarthy is probably best known for his starring role in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a 1956 horror science fiction film. McCarthy died of pneumonia at the age of 96.
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Born 1990-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a japanese motorcycle racer. After a successful career in the All Japan Road Race Championship, he switched to the MotoGP and competed in the 250cc class during 2009. In the 2010 season he is riding in the newly created Moto2 class. Tomizawa won the first race of the new class, at Losail in Qatar, winning by nearly five seconds from Alex Debón and Jules Cluzel.
Tomizawa was involved in serious accident at Misano World Circuit. Tomizawa fell in the fast right-hander and was then run over by Scott Redding and Alex de Angelis. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. He died at 14.21 in Riccione.
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Born 1954-02-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a motorcycle racer. He had an accident during the 1986 Paris-Dakar (11th January, 1986) which left him in a vegetative state for 24 years.
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Born 1960-08-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
He won the Tour de France twice, in 1983 and 1984; he missed winning it a third time, in 1989, by 8 seconds, the closest margin ever to decide the tour.
In June 2009, Fignon revealed that he was undergoing chemotherapy for metastatic cancer. He also admitted having used doping products. Fignon's cancer was diagnosed in spring 2009. It is now known it originated in his lungs.
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Born 1943-08-07. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French film director and writer.
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Born 1963-04-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
"There are times I don't like the way my life went, but that doesn’t mean that I'm not in love with life," says the 43-year-old motivational speaker who created the Choose Living Foundation. "Is it fair what's happened to me? No, of course not. So what? I still have to get up in the morning. By engaging life, by moving what few muscles I have, my bed suddenly becomes an exercise mat."
Finishing his undergraduate work in 1985, he ventured to New York City, to train at the Circle in the Square Theatre School on Broadway. Three weeks later, leaving a late-night rehearsal session on his motorcycle, MacLaren was broadsided by a 40,000-pound city bus. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was initially diagnosed as "dead on arrival."
After 18 hours of surgery doctors stabilized a comatose MacLaren and made a decision that would shape the next eight years of his life. They amputated his left leg below the knee. He awoke from his coma, rehabbed diligently, and attempted to resume his graduate studies at the Yale School of Drama. There, he started swimming, and picked up a book on triathlons that sparked his imagination. Soon, MacLaren was ready to resume life as an athlete, as a triathlete. "I felt like I was back in it, back in life," he says. "I didn't compete against other people. I was competing against me. A buddy once said, 'Mac, nobody cares how fast you go, they just love that you're doing it.'
"I told him I care. I never wanted to be taken for granted, as that guy with the fake leg. So I just kept pushing myself."
MacLaren became a media sensation in the fledgling sport of triathlons, paving the way for a new generation of disabled athletes. He competed and set scores of records in some of the toughest races on the planet, including the New York City Marathon and the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii, and routinely finished ahead of 80 percent of the able-bodied athletes.
Then, on June 6, 1993, his life took another cruel turn. He was in Mission Viejo, California, racing another triathlon. Two miles into the bike leg, on a closed course, a traffic marshal misjudged MacLaren's speed approaching an intersection. The marshal directed a van to cross the street, and the van and MacLaren collided. Hurled into a signpost, MacLaren broke his neck at the C5 vertebrae, paralyzing him.
Slowly, MacLaren pulled himself back again, grappling with seemingly insurmountable obstacles and even reclaiming some motor function of his limbs. Most importantly, he fostered an inner force that enabled him to act in ways he couldn't as an able-bodied athlete. "It took two years of self study, going deep, and then deeper again," he says. "And, sometime in 2000-2001, I chose life."
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Born 1968-07-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Lynn Turner (born Julia Lynn Womack), was an American convicted murderer.
In 1995, Turner, then 27, murdered her husband, Cobb County, Georgia police officer Maurice Glenn Turner, age 31. Maurice Turner went to the emergency room on March 2, 1995, complaining of flu-like symptoms. He was treated there and when he felt better, he went home. The next day, he was found dead when Lynn came home. On January 22, 2001, she killed her boyfriend, Forsyth County firefighter Randy Thompson, age 32. She had been having an affair with Thompson at the time of her husband's murder. Thompson reported to the emergency room complaining of a stomach ache and constant vomiting. He was treated and released on January 21. She made him some Jell-O. By the next day, he was dead. She collected around $153,000 in death benefits for her husband's death and $36,000 in her boyfriend's death.
According to a Georgia Department of Corrections website, Turner was serving a life sentence at Metro State Prison. She faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson but she was instead sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The cause of Turner's death is an apparent suicide by toxic overdose of blood pressure medication.
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Born 1997-05-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a nationally ranked American amateur motorcycle racer.
Lenz was involved in a fatal crash during a warmup lap at the MD250H race of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP. Lenz fell and was struck by another rider, 12-year-old Xavier Zayat. Medics immediately put Lenz into a neck brace, and rushed him to the Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis, where he later died of his injuries.
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Born 1980-12-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a male Ethiopian runner, who specialized in the 5000 metres.
He commited suicide b/c of the unfaithful wife.
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Born 1919-07-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a codebreaker with his wife, Mavis Batey, who worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the World War II.
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Born 1962-01-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
She was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by the ring name Luna Vachon.
She was found dead at her Florida home, when her mother called on her. Investigators found oxycodone and multiple prescription drugs in her bedroom. The Medication was due to her many injuries suffered during her career as well as her bipolar disorder. Luna became addicted to medication at some point and underwent rehabilition, paid for by WWE, which she completed in June 2009.
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Born 1944-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe.
Montignac was an international executive for the pharmaceutical industry, who, like his father, was overweight in his youth. His method is aimed at people wishing to lose weight efficiently and lastingly, reduce risks of heart failure, and prevent diabetes.
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Born 1930-05-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis was a mathematician at Temple University who proved the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. He previously held tenured positions at Yeshiva University and at the Courant Institute at New York University.