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Born 1932-09-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was an American heiress, socialite, and philanthropist. Her husband, Claus von Bülow, was convicted of attempting her murder by insulin overdose, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. A second trial found him not guilty, after experts opined that there was no insulin injection and that her symptoms were attributable to over-use of prescription drugs. The story was dramatized in the book and movie, Reversal of Fortune. Sunny von Bülow continued to live almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state until her death in a New York nursing home.
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Born 1975-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was an American professional wrestler who had competed on North American independent promotions throughout the 1990s including East Coast Wrestling Association, IWA Puerto Rico and the National Wrestling Alliance as well as spending over three years in World Wrestling Entertainment developmental territories including Power Pro Wrestling, Heartland Wrestling Association, Memphis Championship Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling under the ring name Steve Bradley.
Bradley was found dead in a parking lot across the street from where he once operated a pro wrestling school in Manchester, New Hampshire. Bradley's cause of death has yet to be determined. According to former WWE announcer and talent scout Kevin Kelly on Wrestlezone.com, Bradley had a past with heroin and painkillers.
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Born 1926-02-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
HM suffered from intractable epilepsy that has been often—though inconclusively—attributed to a bicycle accident at the age of nine. He suffered from partial seizures for many years, and then several tonic-clonic seizures following his sixteenth birthday. In 1953, HM was referred to William Scoville, a surgeon at Hartford Hospital, for treatment.
Scoville localized HM's epilepsy to his left and right medial temporal lobes (MTLs) and suggested surgical resection of the MTLs as a treatment. On September 1, 1953, Scoville removed parts of HM's MTL on both sides of his brain. HM lost approximately two-thirds of his hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala. His hippocampus appears entirely nonfunctional because the remaining 2 cm of hippocampal tissue appears atrophic and because the entire entorhinal cortex, which forms the major sensory input to the hippocampus, was destroyed. Some of his anterolateral temporal cortex was also destroyed.
After the surgery he suffered from severe anterograde amnesia: although his working memory and procedural memory were intact, he could not commit new events to long-term memory. According to some scientists (e.g., Schmolck, Kensinger, Corkin, & Squire, 2002), HM was impaired in his ability to form new semantic knowledge but researchers argue over the extent of this impairment. He also suffered moderate retrograde amnesia, and could not remember most events in the 3–4 -day period before surgery, and some events up to 11 years before, meaning that his amnesia was temporally graded. However, his ability to form long-term procedural memories was still intact; thus he could, as an example, learn new motor skills, despite not being able to remember learning them.
The case was first reported in a paper by Scoville and Brenda Milner in 1957.
The study of the patient HM has revolutionized the understanding of the organization of human memory. It has provided broad evidence for the rejection of old theories, as well as the formation of new theories on human memory, in particular about its processes and the underlying neural structures (cf. Kolb & Whishaw, 1996). In the following, some of the major insights are outlined.
The brain of Mr. Henry G. Molaison will be the subject of an unprecedented anatomical study funded by The Dana Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The project, a collaboration between MIT researchers and The Brain Observatory at UC San Diego, will provide a complete microscopic survey of the entire brain and reveal the neurological basis of H.M.'s historical memory impairment at cellular resolution.
Henry loved to do crossword puzzles, play bingo, watch TV, and socialize with the people who took care of him.
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Born 1914-07-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
"Léon Morin, Prêtre". She was André Gide's personal secretary. He pushed her to write about her personal experience such as her mother's suicide, war and poverty.
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Born 1987-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Derek Wayne Scott, 21, died when he lost control of his vehicle while traveling northbound on I-5 near Southwest Macadam. Speed and alcohol consumption are believed to be factors in the collision, which ejected Scott as the vehicle rolled over, according to Sgt. Brian Schmautz, Portland Police Bureau spokesman.
Authorities closed the northbound lanes at the Terwilliger exit about 11:30 p.m. after a rollover wreck, reopening them early in the morning.
Scott, an aspiring artist and musician from Texas, was featured earlier this year in a reality road trip series on YouTube called Ragged Road. The show followed five young talents as they drove cross country.
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Born 1958-12-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
He was the original drummer of the Japanese heavy metal band, Loudness.
On April 14, 2008 it was announced that he was diagnosed with Hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer.
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Born 1921-04-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter. He was New Zealand champion three times, British champion twice, and played in seven Chess Olympiads and one Interzonal tournament. Wade held the titles of International Master and International Arbiter.
Wade was hospitalized on November 26, 2008, with severe pneumonia and died three days later.
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Born 1940-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He was a convicted serial killer from Linden, New Jersey. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1969 murder of Rosemary Calandriello of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. On March 11, 2008, he was indicted for the 1968 murder of Jane Durrua of Keansburg. He was acquitted in 2001 of the 1958 murder of Rahway, New Jersey police officer Charles Bernoskie.
While the cause of death was uncertain, Zarinsky was known to have severe respiratory
problems and had been seen in court on a gurney and tethered to oxygen to breathe.
He was also a suspect in the murders of Linda Balabanow, Doreen Carlucci and Joanne Delardo of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.
Zarinsky died at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey of pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring of the lung tissue that made it increasingly difficult for him to breathe. Zarinsky's death occurred exactly 50 years from the date of the Bernoskie murder.
He held the infamous distinction of being the first person in New Jersey state history to be convicted of murder without a corpse.
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Born 1949-00-00. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Murder
He was a Chinese scientist and entrepreneur of Daur nationality. He was executed at the age of 60 on 28 November 2008, allegedly due to spying for a Taiwanese organization. Weihan's trial was held in secrecy in 2007.
Wo Weihan was interrogated for ten months without legal counsel. During this time he suffered a life-threatening stroke and spent the rest of his incarceration in a prison hospital.
According to the verdict released by the High Court of Beijing after the sentencing in March 2008, the charges Wo Weihan was convicted of included: "...discussing the health of senior Chinese leaders." Wo was also accused of copying military photos from a magazine, which was public at the time but later declared classified, and for collaborating with Guo Wanjun, according to the jingoistic Global Times an alleged missile expert, who was also executed.
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Born 1944-07-25. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
Film producer (Les bronzés 3). Also a "Charlot"'s brother.
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Born 1928-05-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
While Markale presents himself as being very widely read on the subjects about which he writes, he is nonetheless surrounded by controversy regarding the value of his work. Critics allege that his 'creative' use of scholarship and his tendency to make great leaps in reasoning cause those following the more normative (and hence more conservative) mode of scholars to balk. As well as this, his interest in subjects that his critics consider questionable, including various branches of the occult, have gained him at least as many opponents as supporters. His already weakened reputation was further tarnished in 1989, when he became involved in a plagiarism case, when he published under his own name a serious and well-documented guide to the oddities and antiquities of Brittany, the text of which had already been published twenty years before by a different writer through the very same publisher.
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Born 1943-07-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a French member of Parliament and for 13 years was the Mayor of Thionville, serving in that capacity from June 25, 1995 to March 21, 2008. He had been distraught since losing the election to a Socialist and committed suicide by gunshot after he killed his mistress, Karine A. aged 43, following a heated argument.
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Born 1954-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Being remembered as always playing the most hated Hong Kong on-screen bad guys, Lung Fong, died from lung cancerat a hospital in Xi'an of northern China. Lung Fong, birth name Li Chien-Min, started his career by playing small roles in kung fu movies in the 1970s and unsuccessfully portrayed a baddie in a gang movie in 1979. Then in 1981 he disappeared from the big screen.
In 1989, producer/director Wong Jing need someone to play a baddie in Casino Raiders and someone recommended Lung Fong, a restaurant manager at that time. Playing the role turned out to be his biggest career break through and baddies he played in Wong Jing's Crocodile Hunter (1989) and God of Gamblers (1989) made him more famous. He quitted his restaurant job and played dozens of bad guys in the following decade. In 1994, Lung Fong invited no less than half dozen well-known Hong Kong actors who are playing bad guys to star in a comedy called Hong Kong Adam's Family, in which they portrayed members of a baddie family, who in the end all turned good except Lung Fong's character. The movie failed miserably at the box-office.
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Born 1962-03-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a Bulgarian discus thrower who competed from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, with a career break for a drugs ban. In 1982 she became European champion at only 20 years of age. Nine years later she won the World Championships, and the following year won an Olympic silver medal. Khristova tested positive for steroids in 1993 and was banned from competition. In 2004, at the age of 42, she competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Her personal best was 73.22m.
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Born 1924-06-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Writer and biographer, member of the Oulipo.
He was, with Jacques Jouet, Paul Fournel and Hervé Le Tellier, from l'Oulipo, one of the regular participants of a radio braodcast on France Culture: « Des Papous dans la tête »
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Born 1947-07-09. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
His last days were spent celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix on the 2008 Experience Hendrix Tour. For nearly 4 weeks the tour travelled coast to coast in an 18-city tour in the US finishing in Portland. In addition to Mitchell the tour featured Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo, Aerosmith's Brad Whitford, Hubert Sumlin, Chris Layton as well as Eric Gales and Mato Nanji. Five days after the tour ended Mitchell was found dead at appoximately 3 AM in his room at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland. Following medical tests, it was revealed by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office that Michell had died, in his sleep, of natural causes. He was the last surviving member of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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Born 1932-03-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
She was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning afrobeat artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika.
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Born 1910-09-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at the center. She later was promoted officially to the position. During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the programming language of Fortran. She later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley. Vaughan is one of the women featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's history Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016). It was adapted as a biographical film of the same name, also released in 2016. In 2019, Vaughan was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously.
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Born 1920-05-29. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
he was a chemist who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter, which has played a dramatic role in reducing pollution from motor vehicles since their introduction in the mid-1970s.
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Born 1942-10-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
He wrote the best-sellers "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere" and "Rising Sun,".
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Born 1935-06-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires is a Jamaican ska, calypso and soca band. The band played a crucial pioneering role in bringing Caribbean music to the world. Byron Lee died in his homeland Jamaica after a long battle with cancer
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Born 1922-10-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Madelyn Dunham was the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama.
She suffered from severe osteoporosis. In 2008, she underwent both corneal transplant and hip replacement surgeries.
A day before the U.S. Presidential election, the Obama campaign announced that Madelyn Dunham had "died peacefully after a battle with cancer" in Hawaii. "She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility."
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Born 1922-07-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He is one of only two people, along with Lt. Don Walsh of US Navy, to have explored in 1960 the deepest point of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench located in the western North Pacific Ocean.
Jacques Piccard was born in Brussels, Belgium to Auguste Piccard, who was himself an adventurer and engineer. The Piccard family is noted for undertaking challenges. Jacques' father Auguste Piccard twice beat the record for reaching the highest altitude in a balloon, in 1931-32. The Piccard family has the unique distinction of having made both the highest flight and the deepest dive of all time.
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Born 1922-09-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music and became an international success, based on the merits of her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak.
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Born 1925-04-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Margery Jean Gill was a British illustrator of children's books.
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Born 1925-11-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He is best known for his first novel Birdy, which was also successful as a film.
Wharton died on of an infection he contracted while being hospitalized for blood-pressure problems.
In 1988, Wharton's daughter, Kate; his son-in-law, Bert; and their two children, two-year-old Dayiel and eight-month-old Mia, were killed in a horrific 23-car motor vehicle accident near Albany, Oregon, that was caused by the smoke generated by grass-burning on nearby farmland.
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Born 1928-08-04. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Stroke
He directed the famous film Deep Throat in 1972 starring Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems, the most successful film of all time in terms of the budget to box office returns ratio (Estimates vary but it's approximately 25,000 to 1. In comparison, Titanic (1997) has a ratio of less than 10 to 1).
He married porn star Paula Morton in 1975, and the couple had two children, Christar and Gerard, Jr.
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Born 1980-01-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was a professional tennis player from Italy who had been ranked as high as 92nd in the world. Luzzi had been banned from professional tennis in 2008 for more than a half year after a determination was made that he had gambled on the outcome of matches over a three-year span.
Luzzi was forced to retire from a club match in Sardinia in mid-October due to a fever. Luzzi had contracted a rapid form of leukemia, and died in a hospital in his home town of Arezzo at age 28.
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Born 1982-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder
Anne Pressly was found at 4:30 a.m. on Monday, October 20, 2008, a half-hour before she was due to to appear on the station's Daybreak program. Little Rock police were alerted by her mother, Patricia Cannady, when Pressly failed to answer her wake-up call. Cannady found Pressly unresponsive in her bed with injuries sustained to her head and upper body consistent with a beating.
She was hospitalized at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, where she died five days later. Hospital spokeswoman Margaret Preston was quoted as saying "It was our hope, as was yours, that Anne would overcome the injuries inflicted upon her in the brutal attack at her home. ... We were with her in her last moments, and although our hearts are broken, we are at the same time comforted by our faith knowing that Anne is now with our heavenly father."