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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1948-00-00. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer
She had a specific voice, and had been working at France Inter for 40 years.
Songes d'une nuit d'été (1989), Roue libre (1996-1999), Portraits sensibles (2000-2004) and Kriss Crumble (2005-2009).
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Born 1935-06-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Other
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. Jeanne-Claude died, aged 74, on November 18, 2009, from complications of a brain aneurysm. Christo died, aged 84, on May 31, 2020, of natural causes.
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Born 1979-02-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French actor. He starred in the film Syriana.
Quivrin was the partner of French actor Alice Taglioni, with whom he had a son, Charlie, born 18 March 2009. Quivrin and Taglioni had met during the making of the film Grande École.
Quivrin lost control of his Ariel Atom at the entrance of the Saint-Cloud tunnel on Autoroute 13. The car caught fire while Quivrin was trapped in the driver's seat. He perished despite the efforts of firefighters.
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Born 1977-08-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a German international football goalkeeper.
Enke committed suicide when he was hit by a regional express train at a level crossing in Eilvese, Neustadt am Rübenberge. Police confirmed a farewell letter was discovered but would not publicise its details. Enke had suffered from severe depression since the death of his baby daughter, and had been receiving medical treatment for this for several years. In the weeks before his death, he had been rested from training due to this.
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Born 1974-12-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Gerhardt "Jerry" Fuchs was an American indie rock drummer, writer and graphic artist. Fuchs was a member of the bands Turing Machine, The Juan MacLean, !!! and Maserati and performed drums live with the groups MSTRKRFT and LCD Soundsystem. Early in the morning on November 8, 2009, Fuchs was caught in a broken elevator in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. When assistance arrived and the doors were pried open, he attempted to jump out of the elevator car. Upon landing, his hood caught on something, pulling him off balance, and he accidentally fell to his death down the elevator shaft. He was attending a benefit to raise education funds for underprivileged children in India. LCD Soundsystem's third album, This Is Happening, was dedicated to Fuchs' memory, as was the Holy Ghost! song, "Jam for Jerry", on their debut album.
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Born 1957-07-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Jacno is also the name of a graphic artist who designed the gallic helmet logo of Gauloises brand cigarettes, which the musician had been smoking infamously. He was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former Stinky Toys singer Elli Medeiros to form the pop duo Elli et Jacno. Jacno has also released a number of solo albums since 1979.
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Born 1924-06-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
L'homme du Picardie.
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Born 1908-11-28. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
He was a French anthropologist.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, born in Brussels, grew up in Paris, living in a street of the 16th arrondissement named after the artist Claude Lorrain, whose work he later admired and wrote about. Lévi-Strauss's father was also a painter, and Claude was born in Brussels because his father had taken a contract to paint there.
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Born 1919-10-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
I thought he had died a long time ago, but I checked it out in 2007, to see I was wrong.
* "Entre le premier cri et le dernier râle, il n’y a qu’une suite de mots sans importance !"
* "C’est très beau un arbre dans un cimetière. On dirait un cercueil qui pousse."
* "J'ai fait hier un gala dans une maison de retraite, j'ai eu un mal fou à les dérider."
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Born 1927-02-12. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was well known as a movie critics for RTL during the 60's.
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Born 1923-08-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an historian. A revisionist one.
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Born 1918-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
The last surviving brother of President Miterrand.
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Born 1918-05-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian American theatre and film actor, well known for starring as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No in 1962. Wiseman was also known for his role as Manny Weisbord on the TV series Crime Story, and his career on Broadway. He was once called "the spookiest actor in the American theatre." Wiseman married Nell Kinard on August 25, 1943 in New York, but they eventually divorced May 15, 1964 in Durham NC. He was married to dancer, teacher, and choreographer Pearl Lang from 1964 until her death in February 2009. Wiseman died at his home in Manhattan aged 91, having been in declining health for some time.
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Born 1974-11-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in athletics and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drugs problems, rows with teams, suicide attempts and finally being disowned by world cycling. His former wife described him as a cocaine addict.
In 1978, when he was four and cycling in the village square, he was knocked over by the driver of a rally car. His mother said her son didn't cry until doctors cut his cycling shorts. The collision led to four operations on his right knee and repeated problems later in life.
Vandenbroucke died while on holiday in Senegal due to a pulmonary embolism.
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Born 1913-09-02. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and linear algebra. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Order of Lenin and the Wolf Prize, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a lifelong academic, serving decades as a professor at Moscow State University and, after immigrating to the United States shortly before his 76th birthday, at the Busch Campus of New Jersey's Rutgers University.
While he was still an adolescent, his level of academic achievement was ascertained to be of an extremely high degree, enabling him to bypass high school and college and proceed to postgraduate study at Moscow State University, where his advisor was the preeminent mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov. Another source says he was expelled from high school and refused undergraduate admission because his father had been a mill owner. He nevertheless managed to attend lectures at the University and began postgraduate study at the age of 19.
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Born 1930-10-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, and the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space.
He was the 4th Cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space.
Popovich died in a hospital in Gurzuf in the Crimea, Ukraine, where he had been taken following a stroke. Brain hemorrhage was cited as the cause of death.
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Born 1948-05-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
She was a convicted American murderer who was a member of the "Manson family", led by Charles Manson. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Atkins, known within the Manson family as Sadie Mae Glutz, was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the "Tate/LaBianca" murders. She was sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life in prison. Atkins was incarcerated in California from October 1, 1969 until her death, having been denied parole 18 times. She had been the longest-incarcerated female inmate in the California penal system.
Atkins' release hearing took place on July 15, 2008. During the 90-minute hearing, emotional pleas were made by both supporters and opponents of Atkins' release. The public hearing limited speakers to five minutes each for comment. After the board heard the case (as well as other agenda items) it retired to closed session for final deliberations. Due to her failing health, Atkins did not attend the hearing.
Debra Tate, the only surviving immediate relative of murder victim Sharon Tate, spoke in opposition to a compassionate release for Atkins, stating that "She will be set free when judged by God. It's important that she die in incarceration." Pam Turner, a cousin of Sharon Tate, also opposed Atkins' release, stating that "If she were capable of comprehending what our family's been through, she would be ashamed to come before this parole board and ask such a request." Anthony DiMaria, the nephew of murder victim Thomas Jay Sebring, also opposed Atkins' release stating that "You will hear various opinions with respect to this today, but you will hear nothing from the nine people who lie in their graves and suffered horrendous deaths at the hands of Susan Atkins."
Gloria Goodwin Killian, director of ACWIP (Action Committee for Women in Prison) and a Pasadena legal researcher and prisoner advocate, spoke in support for Atkins' compassionate release, arguing "Susan has been punished all that she can be. Short of going out to the hospital and physically torturing her, there is nothing left anyone can do to her. The people who are suffering are the people you see in this room today." In July 2008 Atkins' husband, James W. Whitehouse, told the board "They tell me we're lucky if we have three months. It's not going to be fun. It's not going to be pretty."
The 11 members of the California Board of Parole Hearings ultimately denied Atkins' request in a unanimous decision after final deliberations. The decision — posted on its Web site — meant the Atkins' request would not be forwarded to the Los Angeles Superior Court that sentenced her, which would have had the final say as to whether she would be released.
Atkins was transferred back to the Central California Women's Facility, which has a nursing facility, in Chowchilla, California, on September 24, 2008.
Atkins, reportedly paralyzed over 85 percent of her body, unable to sit up or be transferred to a wheelchair, according to a Web site maintained by her husband, was denied parole at a parole hearing on September 2, 2009.
Coincidentaly, Atkins died a couple of days before Roman Polanski was arrested in Zürich for an old paedophilic affair in the U.S.
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Born 1963-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Infection
Vodden was born Lucy O'Donnell in Weybridge, Surrey, in 1963.
She was a classmate of Julian Lennon's, son of Beatles musician John Lennon, at Heath House School. Julian Lennon drew a picture of O'Donnell in 1966 and took it to his father, explaining to him that the picture he drew was, "That’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds." The quote became the legend for the origin of the song.
in 2007, Lucy Vodden admitted to being the Lucy referred to in the song in an interview with the BBC Radio. She told the BBC that, "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant… Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school."
In 2009, Julian Lennon learned that Vodden, who lived in Surrey, England, suffered from the immune system disease lupus. Lennon sent her flowers with a personally written card. After learning that Vodden was taking solace from gardening and looking at plants, Lennon sent her gift vouchers for a garden centre. Vodden, who saw Lennon in the intervening years one time at a concert of his, reacted by saying, "It was lovely of Julian."
Vodden developed an infection on the second day of her first vacation with her husband in eight years. She was rushed to a hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where she died.
At the time of its release, the Beatles claimed that the inspiration for the song came from a drawing by John Lennon's son, Julian, which Julian called "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". The song sparked controversy when released, including being banned by the BBC because of the supposed reference to the drug LSD, with the letters of the title spelling Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Lennon would later deny the reference during an interview with Rolling Stone. Despite John Lennon's denial of the title and content of the song having to do with LSD, on June 2, 2004, McCartney told BBC that the song is, in fact, about LSD
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Born 1948-11-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He attained some popularity after finding a steady role starring T.J. with Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep. He won his first film action lead in The Exterminator (1980), which became a surprising box-office hit.
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Born 1974-09-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
He was the leader of the 2Be3 French boys band.
He might have died of an abuse of barbituric
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Born 1903-02-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lincoln Maazel was an American singer and actor of stage and screen. Maazel was born in New York City to Russian Jewish parents. In 1920, aged 17, he and 30 other young people were picked to perform at the Shubert Theater on Broadway, where he sang the Prologue to Pagliacci. He later moved to Los Angeles, California and developed into a performer at nightclubs and for local television. As an actor, Maazel did not start an onstage career until he was 56 but proceeded to appear in stage plays for the Pittsburgh Playhouse, the Civic Light Opera, Little Lake Theater, Mountainview Playhouse, Odd Chair Playhouse and White Barn Theatre. In 1977, he appeared in the screen role for which he is best known in George A. Romero's Martin. In 1928 he married his wife Marie (died 1993) in Paris. On March 6, 1930, his son, conductor Lorin Maazel (1930–2014) was born. In 2003 he became a centenarian. He died six years later in Castleton, Virginia, United States, at the age of 106.
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Born 1952-08-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
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Born 1982-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an Irish professional boxer from Dublin, Ireland. His amateur career was crowned by a bronze medal for Ireland in the middleweight division at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Sutherland was found dead at his home in Bromley, Kent, by his manager. He committed suicide by hanging.
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Born 1989-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was killed when the F-16A Falcon jet he was flying crashed during a routine training flight near the southern Hebron Hills.
Ramon is the son of Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who died during the disastrous Earth reentry of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. Like his son, Col. Ramon was an F-16 pilot.
Ramon took off from the Nevatim air base at 1 P.M. on a routine training flight in a single-seat Falcon as part of the advanced flight training course that the pilot began in July. The formation was led by A., a veteran pilot, and was meant to exercise at an altitude of 18,000 feet over the Hebron Hills and the West Bank.
The two aircraft were to simulate dogfighting. The training was fairly basic, as this was a somewhat early stage of Ramon's fighter pilot training. The two aircraft were supposed to pass each other, and then perform a fairly wide turn in order to continue the exercise.
A. was supposed to see Ramon several seconds after the two aircraft had passed each other, but quickly realized that he could not find him. He called him on the radio: "Watch your altitude," but there was no response.
The incident occurred at about 1:30 P.M., when Ramon's aircraft disappeared off radar. Several minutes later reports began coming in from people living in the area south of Hebron that an aircraft had been seen flying at low altitude over the Hebron-Be'er Sheva highway, and of an explosion, followed by a cloud of smoke.
The search and rescue operation commenced nearly immediately, initially with IDF ground forces in the area and civilians from nearby. IDF helicopters were also dispatched. Meanwhile, the other pilot in the formation began making low passes in an effort to identify the precise location of the crash.
The mountainous terrain made it difficult to find the location of the crash. A crater that had been carved by the downed plane was located some 90 minutes after the incident.
An IDF officer who was one of the first on the scene said that "all that was left was a big, burned out crater, with very little debris."
The remains of the aircraft were spread over a wide area and the IDF brought hundreds of soldiers who began combing the mountains for debris. Ramon's remains were found not far from the crater. He had not been able to eject from the aircraft before the crash.
Ramon's aircraft began falling when it was at 18,000 feet. When it was last seen, the jet had its nose slightly downward. Based on its speed and altitude at the time, the plane likely struck the ground with enormous force within 20-45 seconds from when it began to fall.
Ramon had managed to complete 47 flights as part of his advanced training program, and 15 of those included simulated basic dogfight training. The type of training that this particular flight involved was not extreme, but it was done at nearly 720 km/h (400 knots) which is about the maximum allowable speed.
Pilots perform this sort of exercise while keeping sufficient distance and height between the aircraft in order to avoid flying into each other.
Ramon had completed pilot training three months ago and was named best cadet in his class. At an advanced stage of his training, when he flew an A-4 Skyhawk as part of the fighter-aircraft training, the engine stalled and Ramon successfully restarted the engine by carrying emergency procedures. He landed that aircraft safely.
President Shimon Peres awarded Ramon his wings at his graduation ceremony in July.
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Born 1910-08-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French photographer, the best-known of whose work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.
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Born 1922-06-19. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, and the son of Niels and Margrethe Bohr.
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Born 1926-07-21. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1925-10-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Günter Kießling was a German general in the Bundeswehr, who became famous as the subject of what became known as the Kießling (or Kiessling) Affair.
In 1983 Kießling was secretly accused of homosexuality, which, in his position, was regarded as a security risk and led to his premature retirement. The allegations were later found to be without foundation and he was rehabilitated, being briefly reinstated before retiring with full honours.
Kießling again achieved public prominence in 1997 when he spoke at the funeral of Joseph W. Rettemeier, a highly decorated World War II soldier and one of the few soldiers to be awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.