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Baire René-Louis (b. 1874-01-21 / d. 1932-07-05)
René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variable réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Since he was young, Baire always had "delicate" health. He had developed problems with his esophagus before he attended school and he would occasionally experience severe attacks of agoraphobia. From time to time, his health would prevent him from working or studying. The bad spells became more frequent, immobilizing him for long periods of time. Over time, he had developed a kind of psychological disorder that made him unable to undertake work that required long periods of concentration. At times this would make his ability to research mathematics impossible. Between 1909 and 1914 this problem continually plagued him and his teaching duties became more and more difficult. He was given a leave of absence from the University of Dijon due to all these breakdowns. He retired from Dijon in 1925 and spent his last years living in multiple hotels that he could afford with his meager pension.
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Born 1909-05-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a former English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
His daughter Charlotte Rampling is a film actress. He was, as of October 2007, the last surviving male athletics medallist from the 1932 Summer Olympics and the last male gold medallist in athletics from the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1933-11-08. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He marked his arrival in the Formula One World Championship in 1964 with two podium finishes. He was regarded as a strong prospect for the future and a great supporting driver for World Champion Jim Clark. In 1964, while racing in Formula 2 at Reims-Gueux, he had a spin and was hit at high speed by Richie Ginther; Arundell was thrown from the car in the impact, which resulted in him missing most of the 1965 season. Lotus boss Colin Chapman saved his place in the team for 1966, finishing third on his comeback in the non-championship South African Grand Prix at East London on 1 January 1966. He did not enjoy any great success and at the end of that year he retired from Formula One, having started only 11 races. He retired from racing altogether in 1969, and later moved to Florida, where he set up the software company Mystique, responsible for amongst other games the notorious Custer's Revenge.
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Born 1975-09-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
During the 97th lap of a 100-lap NASCAR Mexico Series race at Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Amozoc, Puebla, on June 14, 2009 Pardo was hit by Jorge Goeters, which caused him to lose control of his car and impacted against a barrier sideways at over 200 km/h causing the disintegration of the car. He was transported to a local hospital by helicopter, where he was pronounced dead. He was declared the winner of the race since he was leading the race at the last completed lap before the accident occurred, beating Goeters by 0.044 seconds. Pardo, driving for Motorcraft team, had started the race from the last row. He is survived by wife Ana, and an infant child.
Pardo's brother Ruben also competes in the NASCAR Mexico Series, and finished sixth in the race that his brother won posthumously.
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Born 1944-04-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Yves-Marie Maurin was a French actor and stage director. He was the son of Mado Maurin.
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Born 1962-06-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Japanese professional wrestler.
On June 13, 2009, Misawa teamed with Go Shiozaki against Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith at Hiroshima Green Arena. After taking a belly to back suplex from Saito, Misawa lost consciousness and was taken to a hospital. He was pronounced dead in the hospital at 10:10 p.m. due to spinal damage.
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Born 1976-11-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He landed a number of film roles in big-budget Hollywood productions. Some of these include the role of Private Mike Maddox of the US Rangers in Black Hawk Down (based on a true story and a real character), the fictional and comedic character of Dil Driscoll in The Dukes of Hazzard, and as fictional National Security Agency Agent Toby Lee Shavers in xXx and its sequel xXx: State of the Union.
Roof's role as NSA Agent Shavers in xXx and xXx: State of the Union are perhaps Roof's most recognized to date.
In the early morning of June 9, Roof's wife contacted police, and reported him missing. Several hours later, his body was found hanged from a tree in a wooded area near a Snellville, Georgia elementary school parking lot. Roof reportedly suffered from bipolar disorder, and had been despondent about family finances.
He is buried in Dunnellon Memorial Gardens, Dunnellon, Florida
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Born 1935-12-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
President of Gabon for years. Both Sarkozy and Chirac attended his funerals.
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Born 1982-03-00. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
Johnny Palermo appeared in more than 30 television shows. He was a regular on the Nickelodeon series Just for Kicks, and he had appeared in Everybody Hates Chris as Chris' overgrown classmate Frank DiPaolo.
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Born 1936-12-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American actor, best known for his work in the 1970s television series Kung Fu.
On June 4, 2009, Carradine was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel on Wireless Road, near Sukhumvit, in central, Bangkok, Thailand. The initial police report indicated that Carradine had committed suicide by hanging himself; he was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body.
a Thai forensic pathologist and Director of Central Institute of Forensic Science, stated the incident met four of the criteria for accidental death involving autoerotic asphyxiation. Police Lieutenant General Worapong Chewprecha, Commander of the Metropolitan Police, remarked that the closed circuit television installed within the hotel supported the theory that no other persons were involved with the death. Carradine's representative and family members told the press that they believed the death to be accidental and not a suicide.
Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot his latest movie, Stretch, but the film crew were aware of his absence when they went to dine out at a restaurant on June 3.
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Born 1930-00-00. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.
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Born 1912-02-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which occurred on 15 April 1912. At nine weeks of age, she was also the youngest passenger on board.
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Born 1978-01-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
She was a French snowboarder and Olympic champion. She won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. She received a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Ruby was killed after a climbing accident on Mont Blanc when the top climber, Gilles Monchard, of five roped climbers fell into a crevasse, pulling Ruby and French climber Simon Ouest to their deaths.
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Born 1939-11-19. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Surprise sur prise
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Born 1946-08-06. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was the 16th President of South Korea (2003–2008).
One year and two months after leaving office, Roh became the center of an ongoing bribery scandal. This scandal, the collapse of the "Pro-Roh faction" of politicians, the collapse of the Uri Party and the defeat of its successor Democratic Party in the National Assembly, and the defeat of Roh's designated successor in the presidential elections, marked a decline in the fortunes of the 386 Generation that had brought Roh to power.
Roh committed suicide on 23 May 2009 by jumping from a mountain cliff, after leaving a suicide note. His suicide was confirmed by the police.
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Born 1980-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Gordon had played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque; a biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Before the film was released, she was found hanged in her flat in Paris on 20 May 2009 after committing suicide.
French cinematographer Jérôme Alméras found Gordon hanged in their Paris flat. A French police official said Gordon appeared to have committed suicide by hanging. One police officer was quoted as calling the scene in the flat "absolutely horrific". Tabloid newspapers have reported that she left two suicide notes before hanging herself in the Paris flat; one detailing her last wishes regarding her estate, the other a letter for her parents. A neighbour is said to have heard the couple having an argument before Alméras fell asleep. Michel Haddi, who recently photographed Gordon for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, said she had revealed to him that she was in love with Alméras.
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Born 1914-09-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian mountaineer. Together with Lino Lacedelli, on 31 July 1954 he was the first man to reach the summit of K2.
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Born 1949-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Unknown
"Portraits toqués" on France Info between 1993 and 1999.
Director of the Mouv' since 1997.
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Born 1931-07-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
"Tony" Marsh was a British racing driver from England. His Formula One career was short and unsuccessful, but he later enjoyed great success in hillclimbing, winning the British Hill Climb Championship on a record six occasions, divided into two sets of three successive titles. His first 'batch' came in a Cooper-JAP in 1955-56-57, while exactly a decade later (1965-66-67) he repeated the hat-trick at the wheel of his own Marsh-GM special.
Marsh continued to compete in hillclimbs until 2008.
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Born 1960-09-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was the bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 2001 until his death. He joined the band following the death of Leon Wilkeson.
In late 2008 Evans was diagnosed with cancer, of which he died at his home in Columbus, Mississippi.
An ailing Evans performed with Skynyrd one last time from a chair on April 19, 2009, at the Mississippi Kid Festival, organized in support of Ean Evans.
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Born 1919-12-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Fritz Muliar, born as Friedrich Ludwig Stand, was an Austrian actor who, due to his huge popularity, is often referred to by his countrymen as Volksschauspieler. Muliar appeared in numerous films and in some television series such as Kir Royal (alongside Franz Xaver Kroetz) and Kommissar Rex. He is best remembered beyond the boundaries of his native Vienna for playing the title role in the 13-part TV series, Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk, which was filmed in German and broadcast by the Austrian state TV (ORF) in 1972.
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Born 1929-11-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
French's 1977 novel, The Women's Room, follows the lives of Mira and her friends in 1950s and 60s America, including Val, a militant radical feminist. The novel portrays the details of the lives of women at this time and also the feminist movement of this era in the United States. At one point in the book the character Val says "all men are rapists". This quote has often been incorrectly attributed to Marilyn French herself. French's first book was a thesis on James Joyce.
French survived esophageal cancer. This experience was the basis for her book A Season in Hell: A Memoir (1998).
She was also mentioned in the 1982 ABBA song, "The Day Before You Came." The lyrics that mentioned French were: "I must have read a while, the latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style".
French died from heart failure.
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Born 1941-07-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer
She was known for her nightly radio emission "Allo Macha", she had ran for about 30 years (between 1977 and 2006). She was a chain smoker.
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Born 1914-08-10. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director.
Annakin's last completed film was The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988), Ghenghis Khan (1992) was not completed. He died on 22 April 2009, the same day as Jack Cardiff, who had been his cinematographer on the 1979 film The Fifth Musketeer.
Despite claims that George Lucas took the name for Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars from his friend and fellow film director, Lucas denied this via his publicist following Annakin's death in 2009.
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Born 1914-09-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.
His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor (and, less successfully, Smell-o-vision), to filmmaking in the 21st century. He was best known for his influential cinematography for directors such as Powell, Huston and Hitchcock.
Cardiff died of natural causes, the same day as Ken Annakin, with whom he had worked on The Fifth Musketeer (1979).
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Born 1926-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was also a singer. He married Christine Carrère in 1957.
He was Simon Guilbaud in the movie "pouic-pouic"