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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1926-03-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American film and television actor. He was known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967-1973. He has an older brother, actor James Arness (born 1923) of the long-running Gunsmoke western series, which aired on CBS from 1955-1975.
Graves died of a heart attack four days prior to his 84th birthday. The actor had just returned from brunch with his wife and children, collapsing before he could enter the house. Although one of his daughters administered CPR, she could not revive him.
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Born 1930-12-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
His Russian father was deported to Auschwitz during the war, where he died. Ferrat dropped out of school to help the family survive.
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Born 1916-11-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Guy Lapébie was a French professional road bicycle racer. In the 1936 Olympics, Lapébie won two golden medals and one silver medal. He was born in Saint-Geours-de-Maremne and died in Bagnères-de-Luchon.
Lapébie's older brother was Tour de France winner Roger Lapébie. Guy's son Serge (9 June 1948 – 2 October 1991) was also a professional cyclist
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Born 1944-12-30. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Heart attack
The son of a Georgian father and a Corsican mother which, according to him, made him "a delicate Franco-Russian dessert," Topaloff began his career on Europe 1, where his comic antics drew a wide audience, especially among children who delighted in his many silly catch phrases.
In his later years, problems in Topaloff's private life overshadowed his professional successes. Deeply in debt, he frequently worked without billing in an effort to avoid liens being placed on his salary. In 1995, he was sentenced to a year in prison for non-payment of alimony and taxes. Paroled after four months, he forged for himself a new and highly successful career in legitimate theatre.
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Born 1933-02-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a TV presenter from 1975 to 1981
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Born 1962-09-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best-known as leader of Sparklehorse. He was also known for his collaborations with such notable artists as Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Nina Persson, David Lynch, and Danger Mouse.
Linkous committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart outside a friend's house in Knoxville at 1:20pm. According to a spokesperson for the Police Department, the musician was staying with two friends, who told authorities that he had been drinking heavily and had become upset after trading text messages with an unknown person. The friends said Linkous went upstairs for a short period, then told the two that he was going for a walk and exited through a back door. A witness saw him sit down in the alley near Irwin Street, pull out his rifle, and fire into his own chest. Linkous was declared dead at the scene; police did not find a suicide note, but told the press that he was having "personal problems." The musician's publicist confirmed the details of his death to a number of publications on the same day.
Within a few hours of his death, a message attributed to the Linkous family was posted on the official Sparklehorse website: “It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today. We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts. May his journey be peaceful, happy and free. There’s a heaven and there’s a star for you.”
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Born 1973-05-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a computer programmer and engineering student from Hollister, California, with bipolar disorder who had been institutionalized several times according to a 2006 Orange County court filing regarding an arrest for marijuana possession. It is not clear that the bipolar disorder affected his behavior.
On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro mass-transit system in Washington, D.C., United States. They returned fire and struck him in the head. He died a few hours later.
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Born 1945-10-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an historian and a politics commenter. he was very on the right wing.
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Born 1977-06-24. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
He was an English television presenter and director who is best known for presenting To Buy or Not to Buy on BBC One. It was announced on 1 March 2010 that he had been found dead under what police said were "unexplained circumstances".
Digby was found dead in his flat in Richford Road, Newham, London E15 at 7.45 am on 1 March 2010. An ambulance was called; paramedics declared him dead at the scene. A belt and a bag, items associated with autoerotic asphyxiation, had been removed from the property for forensic tests.
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Born 1931-01-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a former motorcycle champion.
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Born 1927-03-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a son of aircraft designer Sergei Ilyushin and a noted test pilot in the Soviet Union. He spent most of his career as a test pilot for the Sukhoi OKB.
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Born 1924-00-00. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1983-10-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a skiing mastermind and a pioneer in the freeskiing movement.
Johnson died skiing at his home mountain, Squaw Valley Resort in the Light Towers area. Witnesses said he caught his ski on an exposed rock which caused him to fall several hundreds yards down a ridge. The medical assistance showed up several minutes after the incident but pronounced him dead on the scene.
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Born 1967-05-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Cuban mason, plumber, and democracy activist who died after fasting for more than 80 days.
Zapata was arrested on December 6, 2002 by agents of the Cuban political police on charges of contempt, for which he was imprisoned for over three months. On March 20, 2003, 13 days after he was freed, he was arrested for a second time during a crackdown on dissidents and sent to the Kilo 8 prison in Camagüey.
On either December 2 or 3, 2009, Zapata began a hunger strike as a protest against the Cuban government for having denied him the choice of wearing white dissident clothes instead of the designated prisoner uniform, as well as denouncing the living conditions of other prisoners. He refused to eat any food other than his mother's, who visited him every three months. According to the Cuban Democratic Directorate, prison authorities denied Zapata water for 18 days, which led to his deteriorated health and kidney failure.
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Born 1935-04-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
She was an American actress who later became a publicist and producer. She was best known for her role as "Mil" in the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause. Her father was Hollywood columnist and movie producer Sidney Skolsky (1905-1983).
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Born 1920-03-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
"Bob" Doe was a flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II and served with honour with the Indian Air Force during the Burma campaign.
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Born 1944-05-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a French motorcycle champion. Part of the band of Maison-Alfort, a group of motorcyclists of the 70s, he went in prison many times for drug abuse and drunk driving.
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Born 1963-04-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was suspected of the murder of Géraldine Giraud and Katia Lherbier. He committed suicide by hanging in his cell in Fleury-Merogis, 3 months before the beginning of his trial.
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Born 1943-04-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American pornographic actor and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Gillis was born in New York City. He appeared in more than 470 movies as an actor." He also directed several adult movies. A bisexual, he appeared in gay porn, but never had homosexual sex on film.
Gillis died in New York City from melanoma, which was diagnosed four or five months earlier.
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Born 1928-10-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
About the death of Malik Oussekine, he said : « Si j'avais un fils sous dialyse, je l'empêcherais de faire le con la nuit ».
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Born 1968-08-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
The body of Growing Pains star Andrew Koenig was found in a Vancouver park, the victim of a suicide.
"My son took his own life," his father, Walter Koenig, said in an emotional news conference in the park.
The actor's body was found in a heavily wooded area just off a bridle path in 1,000-acre Stanley Park, a favorite place for Koenig to frequent during his visits to Vancouver.
The body was found by a private search team of his family and friends. His father was in the midst of searching when he received a cell phone call from other searchers who discovered the body.
Police and his family declined to comment on how Koenig took his life.
Koenig disappeared on Feb. 16 while traveling to the British Columbia city. Mounted officers had been searching the park, but didn't see the body amid the trees.
The announcement came a day after Koenig's father, who is also an actor – he starred as Mr. Chekov in the original Star Trek TV show and movies – made an emotional televised plea to his son to let the family know he was okay.
The younger Koenig, who played Kirk Cameron's pal Boner on the hit '80s sitcom, had long battled depression, his family said. He had cleared out his Los Angeles apartment about three weeks ago before traveling to Vancouver, where he once lived.
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Born 1929-02-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was the French voice of Peter Falk, Jack Nicholson, Richard Burton, Burt Young, Montgomery Clift, Marcello Mastroianni, Mickey Rourke, Charles Bronson, Burt Reynolds and Sidney Poitier.
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Born 1988-11-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Georgian luger. Kumaritashvili suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition. He was the fourth athlete ever to die during Winter Olympics preparations, after British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski, Australian skier Ross Milne (both Innsbruck 1964), and Swiss speed skier Nicolas Bochatay (Albertville 1992).
His father, Dato, had also been a luger. The cousin of Nodar's father, Felix Kumaritashvili, is the head of the Georgian Luge Federation.
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Born 1969-03-17. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an English fashion designer.
On 3 February 2010, he wrote on his Twitter page that his mother had passed away the day before, adding: "RIP mumxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx." Four days later he wrote that he had had an "awful week" but said "friends have been great", adding: "now i have to some how pull myself together".
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Born 1920-01-23. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known as the inventor of the Frisbee.
Morrison claimed that the original idea for a flying disc toy came to him in 1937, while throwing a popcorn can lid with his girlfriend, Lu, whom he later married. The popcorn lid soon dented which led to the discovery that cake pans flew better and were more common. Morrison and Lu developed a little business selling "Flyin' Cake Pans" on the beaches of Santa Monica, California.
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Born 1964-12-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian road racing cyclist. Born in Florence, his greatest exploits as a rider came with his two victories in the cycling classic Paris–Roubaix, riding for the Mapei cycling team. In 1993 he was beaten on the line by Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle in an exciting Paris–Roubaix finale. Also on his palmarès or list of accomplishments there are other one-day races such as Omloop Het Volk and Paris–Brussels. Ballerini, a rallying fan, was seriously injured during a race in Larciano where he was participating as co-driver/navigator for professional driver Alessandro Ciardi. He later died of his injuries at the Pistoia city hospital. One year later, Robert Kubica was severely injured while driving his skoda on the same track. He nearly lost his right hand.
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Born 1921-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Wilson's last film was Not Here to Be Loved (Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé).
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Born 1931-04-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
He died after undergoing heart surgery.
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Born 1919-01-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He is best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.
He made headlines around the globe in June 2009, after filing a lawsuit against another writer for copyright infringement resulting from that writer's use of one of Salinger's characters from Catcher in the Rye.
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Born 1922-08-24. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American historian and Professor of Political Science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. He was the author of more than 20 books. Zinn was active in and wrote extensively about the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements. In his best-selling A People's History of the United States (1980), "he concentrated on what he saw as the genocidal depredations of Christopher Columbus, the blood lust of Theodore Roosevelt and the racial failings of Abraham Lincoln. He also shined an insistent light on the revolutionary struggles of impoverished farmers, feminists, laborers and resisters of slavery and war. Such stories are more often recounted in textbooks today; they were not at the time."
While traveling, Zinn died of an apparent heart attack while swimming in Santa Monica, California.