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Born 1945-04-23. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
She was a former Canadian waitress who became the public face of Canada's anti-smoking campaign. She contracted lung cancer in 2002, allegedly from second-hand smoke encountered at her workplace of over forty years.
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Born 1951-01-05. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Suicide
Bullet
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Born 1911-12-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1906-10-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Lillian Gertrud Asplund was the last American survivor of the Titanic disaster. She was thought to be the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking, as the remaining survivors were less than one year old at the time. A passenger in third class, she escaped from the sinking ship on lifeboat 15, with her mother Selma and younger brother Felix.
Following her death, only two of the 712 Titanic survivors are still alive, both of whom live in England.
Selma, who lost three sons and her husband in the sinking of the White Star Liner in 1912, told her daughter it was wrong to talk about the disaster, and accordingly Lillian never publicly spoke about her memories.
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Born 1932-03-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (generalized)
Woods was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998 and was treated with radiation, but the cancer returned in 2004 and spread throughout his body.
Last month, he was too frail to travel to the Masters for the first time. The last tournament Woods attended was the Target World Challenge in December 2004, when his son rallied to win and then donated $1.25 million to the Tiger Woods Foundation that his father helped him establish.
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Born 1908-10-15. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Born 1921-00-00. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Communist politician active in French and international politics. Fraenkel was born to Jewish parents in 1921 in Danzig (then an independent territory, thus allowing him a stateless status) now in northern Poland. He began by fighting for extreme-left Zionism under Hashomer Hatzair, where Marxist ideology mixed with Jewish nationalism. Arriving in France in 1938, to study agriculture at Nancy, he moved to study chemistry and in 1940 joined his mother at Grenoble, where he just missed being raided by the Gestapo. He then fled to Switzerland and was interned in the Gierenbad camp in Zürich, where he met the novelist and philosopher Manes Sperber, the future Racine specialist, Lucien Goldmann, and Aby Wieviorka, a major translator from Yiddish in Paris. During the 1960s and 70s Fraenkel crossed the path of many persons who became public personalities - politicians like Alain Krivine and Lionel Jospin, university lecturers like Jean-Marie Brohm and Georges Vigarello, as well as many journalists. In 2002 he decided to join the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire "to break his isolation", but was disappointed by it and did not long remain a member. Boris Fraenkel committed suicide by jumping into the Seine from Pont du Garigliano (the highest bridge in Paris, near parc André Citroên). His body was found two days later at the level of the 8e arrondissement de Paris.
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Born 1907-05-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was professor of haematology and director of the Institute for Leukaemia at the University of Paris.
Bernard gave the first description of the use of high dosage radiotherapy in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease
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Born 1926-06-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
complication cardio-respiratoire.
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Born 1926-10-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Shin Sang-ok was a prolific South Korean film producer and director, with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits. He is most famous for having been kidnapped by the former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, for the purpose of producing critically acclaimed films. In 1978, actress Choi Eun-hee, recently divorced from Shin, was kidnapped from Hong Kong to North Korea. When Shin traveled to Hong Kong to investigate, he was kidnapped as well. The kidnappings were on orders of future leader Kim Jong-il, who wanted to establish a film industry for his country to sway international opinion regarding the views of the Workers' Party of Korea. The North Korean authorities have denied the kidnapping accusations, claiming that Shin came to the country willingly. Shin and Choi made secret audio tapes of conversations with Kim Jong-il, supporting their story. Shin was put in comfortable accommodations, but, after an escape attempt, was placed in prison. He was brought to Pyongyang in 1983, to learn why he had been brought to North Korea. His ex-wife was also brought to the same dinner party, where she first learned that Shin was also in North Korea. They re-married shortly afterwards, as suggested by Kim Jong-il. From 1983 Shin directed seven films with Kim Jong-il acting as an executive producer. The best known of these films is Pulgasari, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla. In 1986, eight years after his kidnapping, Shin and his wife escaped while in Vienna for a film festival. They managed to seek political asylum from the United States Embassy before they were found out. Kim Jong-il became convinced that the couple had been kidnapped by the Americans. They eventually fled safely. Shin worked in the US in the 1990s under the pseudonym Simon Sheen, directing 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up and working as an executive producer for 3 Ninjas Kick Back and 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain. At first, Shin was reluctant to return to South Korea, because he feared that the government's security police would not believe the kidnapping story. He returned to South Korea permanently in 1994, and continued to work on new movies. His last movie as director is Kyeoul-iyagi (The Story of Winter) (2002, unreleased). He had a liver transplant in 2004, and died of complications of hepatitis two years later. At the time of his death, he was planning Genghis Khan, a musical. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun posthumously awarded him the Gold Crown Cultural Medal on April 12, 2006, the country's top honor for an artist.
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Born 1960-02-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Daniel Rialet was a French actor most remembered for his role of the preacher in the series "Père et Maire".
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Born 1925-06-02. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
Xavier Zevaco was a French painter..He was a nephew of Michel Zévaco.
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Born 1924-09-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia and Holocaust survivor. Originally from Slovakia, he is known for his escape, at the age of 19, from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, and for having provided some of the earliest and most detailed information about the mass murder that was taking place there. Vrba and a fellow prisoner, Alfréd Wetzler (1918–1988), managed to flee Auschwitz on 10 April 1944, three weeks after German forces had invaded Hungary (a German ally), and after SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann had arrived in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, to begin the deportation to Auschwitz of the country's Jewish population. The 40 pages of information the men passed to Jewish officials when they arrived in Slovakia on 24 April – which included information about the use of gas chambers and crematoria – became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report.
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Born 1916-12-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He died in his sleep at age 89, after having been in failing health for the better part of a year. Coincidentally, it was the same age at which his father had died
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Born 1913-04-11. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was born in Paris as Oleg Cassini Loiewski, the elder son of Countess Marguerite Cassini and her husband, Count Alexander Loiewski.
He was a French-born American fashion designer noted for being chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her state wardrobe in the 1960s. He became the exclusive costume designer for his then wife the American film and stage actress Gene Tierney. His designs appeared in ten of Tierney’s films in the 1940s and 50s.
Cassini died from complications of a stroke in Manhasset, New York, in 2006.
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Born 1964-03-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He joined Digital Equipment Corporation in 1994 and, as the Associated Press wrote: Flaherty came up with the idea of indexing Web pages that made the AltaVista search engine one of the most popular Internet search tools in the mid-1990s. Flaherty was working as a research engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Palo Alto when he teamed up with two other staff researchers in 1995 to develop AltaVista's technology. The Web site was made public in December 1995 and within weeks was processing several million searches a day. It was spun off from Digital Equipment as a private company in 1999.
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Born 1920-02-29. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a journalist in the early times of Le Monde.
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Born 1941-08-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Milosevic was found dead in his cell in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague.
Autopsies soon established that Milosevic had died of a heart attack. He had been suffering from heart problems and high blood pressure. However, many suspicions were voiced to the effect that the heart attack had been caused or made possible deliberately - by the ICTY, according to sympathizers, or by himself, according to critics.
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Born 1961-03-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Christopher Reeve's Widow.
Never lit a cigarette.
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Born 1912-11-30. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director.
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Born 1917-09-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American chemist who, as a PhD student of Glenn T. Seaborg at UC Berkeley, first isolated plutonium in February 1941. He also worked on the Manhattan Project.
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Born 1945-06-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a French essayist and novelist. Although none of his works has yet been translated into English, Muray is considered one of the most influential thinkers of his generation. In 2002, Daniel Lindenberg included him in his notorious list of "new reactionaries"
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Born 1959-06-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Action Directe
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Born 1920-07-10. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery, with collaborator Emilio Segrè, of antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Chamberlain was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1985, and retired from teaching in 1989. He died of complications from the disease in February, 2006.
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Born 1898-10-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Il est le dernier poilu du Loiret.
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Born 1924-06-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He appeared in Duel, a television movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
Weaver had been a vegetarian since 1958 and student of yoga and meditation since the 1960s. He was also renowned as an environmentalist.