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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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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."
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Born 1914-06-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) was an American actress and singer, described by The New York Times as "matriarch of one of the leading families in American comedy". She was the wife of Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner.
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Born 1919-04-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He studied the role of love in French History, and was a TV film producer as well.
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Born 1908-11-16. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1971-07-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an English rugby league player from Widnes, Cheshire, who played for Wigan, Widnes, Salford, Bradford and Great Britain.
David Myers has been killed in an accident on the M6 in Cheshire.
The ex-Great Britain and Widnes star died when his van hit a bridge support on Monday between junctions 17 and 18.
The 37-year-old winger, from Warrington, scored a match-winning try when playing for Wigan in the 1991 Challenge Cup Final.
Myers died about 90 minutes before a separate crash on the M6 in which a family of six died.
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Born 1984-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Mexican featherweight boxer who died in a Mexico City hospital after five-day coma induced by a knockout punch by fellow Mexican boxer Alejandro Sanabria during an official fight held on October 15, 2008 in Polanco, Mexico. He was 24.
Aguillón (16-4-2, 9 KOs) was punched in the jaw in the last minute of the 12th round of the super featherweight bout for the Central American title, sanctioned by the World Boxing Council (WBC) by his opponent Sanabria, he fell unconscious on the floor and was taken to a hospital, but never recovered. The WBC announced it will provide financial support for the family.
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Born 1923-04-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
87
Born 1921-09-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a journalist at RTL for 36 years commenting horse races. His son Jérôme took over his father and had the same job at RTL. He died on February 17, 2017.
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Born 1927-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde."
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Born 1917-05-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Nathan Davis was an American film and television actor. Davis died from emphysema and complications of pneumonia in Chicago at age 91.
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Born 1967-06-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was an American murderer. With Clinton Dickens, he was responsible for the murder of two women in Akron, Ohio, in 1986.
Early on the morning of September 1, 1986, Cooey, Dickens and Kenneth Horonetz, Jr. were throwing chunks of concrete off the Stoner Street Bridge onto U.S. Interstate 77 in Akron. One of the objects dropped by Dickens struck the car of a University of Akron student, Wendy Offredo, age 21. Also in the car was another student, Dawn McCreery, age 20.
Pretending to rescue the two students, the three men kidnapped them. Cooey, then age 19, and Dickens, age 17, took the women to a field where they beat, stabbed, tortured and raped them for three and a half hours, eventually beating them to death and abandoning the bodies. Cooey and Dickens each blamed the other for the actual murders, Horonetz having left the car before the violence began. Cooey was convicted on November 14, 1986, and subsequently sentenced to death. Dickens, a minor at the time of the murders, could not be sentenced to death under Ohio laws, and as of 2008 is serving a life sentence in prison.
Following a long series of appeals, requests for clemency, and stays of execution, Cooey's final appeal was rejected. He argued that his obesity rendered lethal injection an inhumane form of execution. However, he was executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at 10:28 AM on October 14, 2008. At his execution, he was asked if he had any final words. Cooey replied "You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now?"
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Born 1934-12-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Pat Moss-Carlsson, born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, was one of the most successful women rally drivers of all time. She scored three outright wins and seven podium finishes in International rallies, and was crowned European Ladies' Rally Champion five times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964 and 1965). She was the younger sister of Formula One Grand Prix star Stirling Moss, and in 1963 married the Swedish rally driver Erik Carlsson.
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Born 1971-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
In 1995 Guillaume Depardieu had a motorcycle accident due to a suitcase that fell off a vehicle in front of him. Depardieu needed surgery on his knee. In the hospital he acquired a Staphylococcus aureus infection in the knee which led to an amputation in 2003.
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Born 1989-01-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a Russian professional ice hockey winger, who last played for the Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Cherepanov died after collapsing on the bench during a KHL game against Chekhov Vityaz. He played a shift with teammate Jaromir Jagr, and the two were talking on the bench shortly after they left the ice, when he suddenly collapsed. He was first tried to be revived on the bench, then carried to the dressing room and he was finally rushed to an intensive care unit. The ambulance that is normally at all games had already departed and had to be called back, taking approximately 15-20 minutes to get him to a hospital. He died later that day.
On August 29, 2007, during game 2 of the 2007 Super Series, Cherepanov collided with Canadian forward Brandon Sutter and suffered a concussion. The next day it was reported that he would be out for the remainder of the eight-game series. Team Russia went on to go winless in the series.
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Born 1928-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Louis Seigner's Daughter.
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Born 1967-04-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American football fullback who played for the Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings. He retired at the age of 33 in the 2000 season after playing in the NFL for 8 years.
He died of heart failure.
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Born 1977-07-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Cook Islands rugby league player. He played as a prop for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Bradford Bulls, Castleford Tigers and represented the Cook Islands.
He died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 31 after collapsing during a weight training session in the gym.
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Born 1950-01-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Accident
Haider was killed in a car crash in Köttmannsdorf near Klagenfurt, in the state of Carinthia, in the early hours of 11 October 2008. Police reported that the Volkswagen Phaeton that Haider had been driving came off the road, rolled down an embankment and overturned, causing him "severe head and chest injuries".
He was drunk at wheel.
Haider, who was on his way to a family gathering in honour of his mother's 90th birthday, was alone in the government car and no other vehicles were involved. An initial investigation uncovered no signs of foul play.
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Born 1927-10-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an American photographer and author.
Claxton died of complications from congestive heart failure, one day before his 81st birthday.
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Born 1922-10-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
he was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger.
He wrote background and theme music for television shows, including Batman and The Odd Couple.
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Born 1932-01-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was the first Liverpool artist to hit the United States music scene with his song "Rainbow" several years before The Beatles. In 1957, chart success in the U.S. was a very unusual feat for an English performer and so it made Hamilton a very hot property for a while. As a result, Hamilton had to commute from one side of the Atlantic to the other to meet the many demands for live performances.
His first hit in the United Kingdom was "We Will Make Love" which he recorded in 1957 for Oriole Records.
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Born 1969-09-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American musician. He was the second bassist for Alternative Metal band Marilyn Manson, during which time his stage name was created through the fusion of the names of Gidget and Ed Gein.
After being clean from drugs and alcohol for a year Gein accidentally died of a heroin overdose shortly after midnight October 8, 2008 at a friends home in Burbank, California.
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Born 1961-11-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
He was, at the time of his death, one of the world's heaviest people, with a total weight of 452 kg (990 lb). Before his death, he was helped by Manuel Uribe Garza, also of Nuevo León and also morbidly obese.
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Born 1931-01-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Finnish poet and playwright, considered one of the country's most outstanding writers. He won the Neustadt Prize for literature in 1984.