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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 1987-01-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Also known as Jizelle Salandy or Jizelle Joseph, she was an unbeaten world-class female boxer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is ranked as the # 1 female light middleweight boxer all-time by the Boxrec.
Salandy died in a serious vehicular accident, when she crashed into a concrete pillar while driving west into Port of Spain on the Beetham Highway. She succumbed to her injuries at around 8:29 a.m. She was 21. The other occupant of the vehicle, national footballer Tamar Watson is said to be in a critical condition, having suffered massive internal injuries and broken limbs. She was recently released from hospital and is said to be in good spirits.
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Born 1956-11-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a Belgian professional footballer, who played as a tough defender. He was mainly associated with the club Y.R. K.V. Mechelen, with whom he won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup.
Also a prominent member of the Belgian national team, he is the late father of tennis players Kim and Elke Clijsters.
Upon his death Belgian newspapers like Het Laatste Nieuws revealed that Clijsters suffered from a recurrence of a malignant melanoma which had spread to the lungs and other organs. Clijsters had first suffered from a bout with this disease twenty five years earlier.
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Born 1924-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He died at his home in Carolina Beach, North Carolina of leukemia, having been diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November 2006.
Pat Hingle is traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles is the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he is probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle has a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Muppets from Space, and Shaft (2000). Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he is one of only two actors to appear in all of the first four Batman films.
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Born 1969-09-02. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
Nagata's career in the Diet was marked by numerous embarrassing and controversial episodes.
On November 20, 2000, Diet member Kenshiro Matsunami doused Nagata with water for suggesting that he had slept with female Diet member Chikage Ogi. Nagata later claimed he had said nothing of the sort and was actually only stating that then Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was unfit to be the leader of his country.
On April 5, 2001, he asked questions at the main session of the Diet without written notes, opening the doors for a new level of preparedness in younger politicians who do not need to follow scripts in making speeches or during hearings, unlike their older peers.
In November 2002, a convict was killed at Nagoya Prison after being blasted with a high-pressure water hose. Nagata and others tried to prove that this was not an accident and that the officers who committed the act were, indeed, negligent by conducting a similar experiment on a mannequin. However, it was later revealed that the water pressure of the hose used in the experiment was more than ten times that of what had been used at the time of the incident, and, hence, the DPJ was later forced to apologize.
On March 11, 2004, he made disparaging remarks about Keizō Obuchi, Yoshiro Mori, and Junichiro Koizumi. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party protested and his remarks were removed from the record.
In July 2005, he accused the LDP coalition party, the New Komeito Party, of illegally moving voter registrations to Tokyo in the recent metropolitan elections. Nagata had no proof and based his statements on rumor, and the DPJ apologized to the Komeito.
In a similar incident in August 2005, Nagata accused the Komeito supporter group, the Soka Gakkai, of not registering as a religious group. The group has been registered as such since 1952, and the group brought suit against Nagata for libel later that month.
On February 16, 2006, it was revealed that an email he was using to accuse the LDP of accepting illegal funds from the discredited Livedoor corporation was fake. When it was revealed that the email was faked by a freelance reporter and handed to Nagata, and that he had trusted the source without question, the scandal became the sole topic of news for several weeks. Nagata finally revealed his source and had his party membership suspended on February 28 for 6 months.
He resigned on March 31, 2006 in reaction to the fallout from using a fake e-mail to suggest that LDP politicians had accepted funds and bribes from former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie.
Nagata committed suicide by leaping from a high-rise building.
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Born 1936-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Gilborn guest starred in a number notable television series including JAG, ER, The West Wing, and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in the show Ellen (as "Harold Morgan", Ellen's father). Another notable recurring role was his three episode stint as "Mr. Collins", Kevin Arnold's algebra teacher on The Wonder Years. Film credits include "Mr. Phillips" in The Brady Bunch Movie.
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Born 1918-10-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
J'attends un enfant and J'élève mon enfant.
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Born 1986-02-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Oscar Juliuss Grant III lived in Hayward, California. Grant had worked as a butcher at Farmer Joe's Marketplace in Oakland's Dimond District after jobs at several Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets. He attended both San Lorenzo and Mount Eden High Schools in Hayward until the 10th grade and eventually earned his GED. In the motion for bail, Mehserle's attorney, Michael Rains, stated that toxicology testing of Grant's blood revealed the presence of alcohol (0.02%) and Fentanyl, a potent pain reliever. The coroner's bureau said the pathologist's autopsy protocol would be finalized in March 2009. Grant's funeral was held at the Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward on January 7, 2009. Grant's mother, sister, daughter, and girlfriend (his daughter's mother) filed a wrongful death claim against BART following his death.
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Born 1928-06-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor.
He is best remembered for his role as the brusque, no-nonsense Captain Dobey in the United States 1970s police series Starsky and Hutch. Hamilton was the brother of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton.
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Born 1929-06-23. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was a French fashion designer. He was born in Paris the son of a Russian Émigré tailor.
Lapidus was considered the creator and pioneer of the unisex fashion look.
Lapidus died in Cannes, aged 79, from pulmonary complications brought on by leukaemia. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute and said Lapidus had ""democratised French elegance and classicism" and "made fashion accessible to men and women in the street."
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Born 1925-07-31. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
As an undergraduate during World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of John Littlewood's research students.
Atkin, along with Noam Elkies, extended Schoof's algorithm to create the Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm.
Atkin, together with Daniel J. Bernstein, developed the sieve of Atkin.
Atkin is also known for his work on properties of the integer partition function and the monster module.
Atkin contracted hospital pneumonia, and passed away.
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Born 1952-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Ellie Nesler shot and killed her son's accused molester in a courtroom Sonora, California, during the trial. She served 3 years of a 10-year sentence, and was released after an appeal based on jury misconduct. She later went back to prison after a conviction on drug charges, for which she served more than 3 years. While in prison, she developed breast cancer.
Nesler made headlines when she killed Daniel Driver, the man accused of molesting four boys (including her then 6 year old son, William) in 1993, in the Tuolumne County courthouse. She fired five shots into Driver's head, killing him instantly. In 2002, she was convicted of selling and possessing methamphetamine. She was released from a woman's facility near Chowchilla, California in 2006.
Meanwhile, her son got into legal troubles of his own and was convicted of first-degree murder in 2005 for stomping to death a man hired to clean the family's property in Sonora. The 23-year-old said he believed David Davis was letting people pick through the family's belongings.
William Nesler killed Davis less than an hour after he was released from a 30-day sentence for an earlier assault on him. He is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence.
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Born 1927-01-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
She was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world". She took over the role of Catwoman for the 4th series of the 1960s Batman TV series, replacing Julie Newmar who was unavailable for the final series.
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Born 1927-04-18. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was an American political scientist who gained prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order. Previously, his academic reputation had rested on his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coups d'état, and his more recent analysis of threats posed to the U.S. by contemporary immigration.
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Born 1943-00-00. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Suicide
He committed suicide after he understood h had been seriously crooked by Madoff.
De La Villehuchet was the founder of a Wall Street Financial fund that lost about $1.4 billion dollars because of Bernard Madoff’s schemings. This has given a grim turn to the events so far.
De La Villehuchet was working for the fund called Access International Advisors.
De la Villehuchet was found sitting at his desk with both wrists slashed at about 8:00 am
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Born 1925-08-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
His final film was 1991's The Man in the Moon, Reese Witherspoon's film debut.
Mulligan died from heart disease.
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Born 1923-11-15. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a radio animator with Coluche, Francis Blanche, among others.
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Born 1925-05-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French former football defender.
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Born 1913-08-17. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Felt died in his sleep at a hospice care facility in Santa Rosa, California. According to his daughter, he was fine but after a big breakfast he remarked that he was tired and he went back to sleep. He was 95 years old. No cause of death was released immediately to the press, but it was known that Felt had suffered from congestive heart failure in recent years.
He was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat."
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Born 1932-02-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Barrett-Roddenberry died on December 18, 2008, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, as a result of leukemia.
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Born 1980-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Justin "The Executioner" Levens grew up fast in the streets of Philadelphia, before eventually moving across the country for a chance at a better life. He found that life in Newport Beach, California, where he learned to channel his aggressive energy into a more productive form. He began training at Marco Ruas' Vale Tudo academy in Orange County, and the hard-hitting light heavyweight discovered a penchant for explosive action.
Levens and his wife were found shot to death in their home in Laguna Niguel, California. The police are investigating the deaths as a possible murder/suicide.
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Born 1916-08-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French pianist.
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Born 1955-10-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Sam Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara, California, the third son of James "Bud" Bottoms (a sculptor and art teacher) and Betty (Chapman). He is the brother of actors Timothy Bottoms, Joseph Bottoms and Ben Bottoms.
He is perhaps best remembered for his role as Lance Johnson, a Navy Gunner's Mate stationed on a river boat in Francis Ford Coppola's 20th century opus, Apocalypse Now.
Bottoms earlier appeared with Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
He died of glioblastoma multiforme, a brain tumor.
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Born 1961-11-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American actor best known for his role as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski, the gay fireman lover of Vito Spatafore, in the HBO TV series The Sopranos. Costelloe, a former FDNY firefighter in real life, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Sunset Park home in Brooklyn. He was 47. His body was not discovered until December 18.
Costelloe killed himself in the middle of a run in the off-off-Broadway ensemble play "Gang of Seven," which had received sterling reviews – including two printed the day after he died.
"This part he had, I really wrote it for him," said "Gang of Seven" playwright Jim Neu, who cast Costelloe as a fast-talking hustler.
Neu said Costelloe's timing was off in his final shows. But when Neu and the director gently quizzed Costelloe about what was bothering him, the actor didn't open up.
"He didn't seem like the kind of guy who would reach out," Neu said. "There couldn't have been a more supportive and friendly group. If he wanted to reach out to people, we were right in front of him. I wish he did."
Die Hard 2 (1990) as Sgt. Oswald Cochrane
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Born 1933-06-11. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Psychiatrist for the junkies.
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Born 1923-05-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
In December 2001, one of Derrick's sons, Gary, died of organ failure after having gone into a coma. He was 52, and an architect.
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Born 1930-07-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1951 and 1966.
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Born 1988-01-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a professional Ukrainian football defender who played for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Premier League.
He died in a car accident in Hradyzk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
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Born 1923-04-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She was also one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine.
"I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society," Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told the Associated Press. Her later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution.
According to long-time friend and business agent Mark Roesler, on December 6, 2008, Bettie Page was hospitalized in critical condition. Roesler was quoted by the Associated Press as saying Page had suffered a heart attack and by Los Angeles television station KNBC as claiming Page was suffering from pneumonia. A family friend said Page was in a coma, a claim not denied by Roesler. Her family eventually agreed to discontinue life support, and she died at 18:41 PST on December 11, 2008.
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Born 1932-11-30. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He studied philosophy and afterwards architecture in Paris. He worked in a press agency before travelling to Brazil, where he collaborated on the new capital Brasilia.
His most iconic character is Michel Choupon, an oversexed and philosophical 18 year old, who starred in the comic Souvenirs d'un Jeune Homme' and in the movie Petit con.
In later years, he became a film director, sometimes with movies based on his comics or on new stories. His most famous film is the 1991 Mon père ce héros with Gérard Depardieu, remade in English as My Father the Hero. Other titles include Le fils du Français with Fanny Ardant, and Je vais craquer with Christian Clavier.