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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 1962-02-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine while snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, at Batt Reef, which is located off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague, John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the stingrays. "He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat the Croc One.
The events were caught on camera, and a copy of the footage was handed to the Queensland Police. After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds to danger by automatically flexing the serrated spine on its tail (which can measure up to 25 cm or about 10 inches in length) in an upward motion.
Ironically, the stingray was not the creature being filmed. It was deemed "not dangerous enough" to be featured in the documentary.
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Born 1937-02-08. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Mrs. Claustre's husband, Pierre.
Pierre and Françoise Claustre were released in Tripoli, on 1 February 1977.
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Born 1951-09-23. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer
French Deputy in 2002 (PS).
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Born 1916-05-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
Ford's only child, Peter Ford (born 1945), also became an actor before giving up on his acting career around 1975; he later became a successful business contractor.
Ford became estranged from his son and stated that he would leave his estate to Pauli Kiernan, his 39-year-old nurse and companion. While Peter contended Ms. Kiernan was manipulating his father, the elder Ford refused to accept his explanation and said "What Peter has done to me is cruel and wicked. He just wants my money. I want my nurse Pauli to get the money. I know who's been good and kind to me in these last years of my life."
Several years later, however, Ford reconciled with his son who subsequently moved into Ford's Beverly Hills mansion along with his wife Lynda and their three children. However, unlike his son, Ford never reconciled with any of his wives.
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Born 1932-11-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.
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Born 1962-11-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Jon Dough (born Chester "Chet" Joseph Anuszak) was an American pornographic actor who worked steadily from 1985 to 2006. Dough's first marriage was to Deidre Holland, a pornographic actress, whom he later divorced. He married pornographic actress Monique DeMoan, with whom he had a daughter in August 2002. Dough died of suicide by hanging. He was 43 years old. DeMoan discovered his body in a closet in their home. In a 2012 interview with Louis Theroux, she cited his struggle with a long-term drug addiction and insolvent porn business as a catalyst for his worsening depression and eventual suicide.
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Born 1945-02-17. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Also a writer and a director
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Born 1930-07-23. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
French historian.
About BHL, author of "le testament de Dieu" , he wrote:
"Bernard-Henri Levy cite (p. 278, note 49) 'la déposition d'Himmler' au procès de Nuremberg. Ce dut être une déposition fantomatique, car Himmler s'est suicidé après son arrestation par les troupes anglaises, le 23 mai 1945"
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Born 1913-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1930-04-00. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
„J’ai vécu chaque jour de ma vie comme si j’allais mourir dans 5 minutes“
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Born 1933-12-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Esophageal cancer.
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Born 1919-04-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1926-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Creator of des papous dans la tête. His exact birth date is undetermined.
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Born 1920-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
In twelve angry men:
The jury consists of the following (identified only by numbers, all are white men):
The Foreman (Juror #1, played by Martin Balsam)
Juror #2 (John Fiedler)
Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb)
Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall)
Juror #5 (Jack Klugman is the only survivor at this time - 2007-03-16)
Juror #6 (Edward Binns)
Juror #7 (Jack Warden) An exceptionally indifferent man, whose sheer apathy winds up offending the other jurors regardless of their vote. He has tickets to a baseball game and clearly will go along with whatever will get him out of the jury room the quickest. He is somewhat of a facetious bully by nature, but is easily enfeebled by someone else's aggressiveness. #11 confronts him about his changing his verdict so thoughtlessly.
Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney)
Juror #10 (Ed Begley)
Juror #11 (George Voskovec)
Juror #12 (Robert Webber)
Warden died of heart and kidney failure in a New York hospital at the age of 85.
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Born 1919-02-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1946-01-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
There has been much speculation concerning the psychological well-being of Syd Barrett. Many believe he suffered from schizophrenia, although he didn't exactly fit the typical profile for that condition. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder is also possible, most likely Bipolar I. In addition there have been many ongoing speculations that Syd Barrett suffered from Asperger syndrome (a mild form of Autism)
David Gilmour proposed, in an interview with the National Post's John Geiger, that the stroboscopic lights used in their shows combined with the drugs could have had a seriously detrimental effect on Barrett's mental health if he was a photo-epileptic who suffered partial seizures. When partial seizures occur in the temporal lobes patients are often misdiagnosed with schizophrenia or psychosis.
His sister denied he was a recluse or that he was vague about his past: "Roger may have been a bit selfish — or rather self-absorbed — but when people called him a recluse they were really only projecting their own disappointment. He knew what they wanted but he wasn’t willing to give it to them." Barrett, she said, took up photography, and sometimes they went to the seaside together. "Quite often he took the train on his own to London to look at the major art collections — and he loved flowers. He made regular trips to the Botanic Gardens and to the dahlias at Anglesey Abbey, near Lode. But of course, his passion was his painting", she said.
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Born 1925-12-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
In 1964, she landed a starring spot on Peyton Place as "Julie Anderson". She left the role in 1966 to replace Irene Vernon in the role of "Louise Tate" on the popular sitcom Bewitched in a same character, different actor situation.
After battling throat cancer for many years, Rogers went into cardiac arrest and suffered a severe stroke. She died of complications from the stroke.
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Born 1928-09-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a British pianist and piano teacher whose performing career spanned some twenty-five years, coming to an end in the mid-1970s. Late in her life, recordings released under her name won considerable critical acclaim, but after her death it was discovered that many of these recordings were taken from CDs recorded by other performers. On 26 February 2007, Gramophone Magazine published a confession from Hatto's husband-producer, admitting his sole responsibility in falsely passing off others' works as hers. His version of events has not been universally accepted.
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Born 1917-03-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Irving Kaplansky was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Kaplansky or "Kap" as his friends and colleagues called him was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Polish-Jewish immigrants. Kaplansky made major contributions to group theory, ring theory, the theory of operator algebras and field theory and created the Kaplansky density theorem, Kaplansky's game and Kaplansky conjecture. He published more than 150 articles and over 20 mathematical books. Kaplansky was the doctoral supervisor of 55 students including notable mathematicians Hyman Bass, Susanna S. Epp, Günter Lumer, Eben Matlis, Donald Ornstein, Ed Posner, Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg, Judith D. Sally, and Harold Widom. He has over 900 academic descendants, including many through his academic grandchildren David J. Foulis (who studied with Kaplansky at the University of Chicago before completing his doctorate under the supervision of Kaplansky's student Fred Wright, Jr.) and Carl Pearcy (the student of H. Arlen Brown, who had been jointly supervised by Kaplansky and Paul Halmos). Kaplansky was also an accomplished amateur musician. He had perfect pitch, studied piano until the age of 15, earned money in high school as a dance band musician, taught Tom Lehrer, and played in Harvard's jazz band in graduate school. He also had a regular program on Harvard's student radio station. After moving to the University of Chicago, he stopped playing for two decades, but then returned to music as an accompanist for student-run Gilbert and Sullivan productions and as a calliope player in football game parades. He often composed music based on mathematical themes. One of those compositions, A Song About Pi, is a melody based on assigning notes to the first 14 decimal places of pi, and has occasionally been performed by his daughter, singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky.
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Born 1923-04-22. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
His most recognizable contributions as a producer to television include Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Starsky and Hutch, Family, Hotel, The Rookies, Beverly Hills 90210 and its adult spin-off Melrose Place, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Vega$, Hart to Hart, The Colbys, T.J. Hooker, Nightingales, Kindred: The Embraced, 7th Heaven, Charmed, Burke's Law, Honey West, The Mod Squad, and S.W.A.T.. His company also co-produced the David Lynch series Twin Peaks (although Spelling himself was not directly involved in its production).
In 2001, Spelling was diagnosed with oral cancer.
On January 28, 2006, Spelling was sued by his former nurse, who sought unspecified damages for 10 claims, including sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, sexual battery, assault, wrongful termination and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
On June 18, 2006, Spelling suffered a severe stroke at his estate in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. He died there several days later from complications of the stroke, at the age of 83. A private funeral was held several days later, and Spelling was interred in a mausoleum in Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.
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Born 1927-05-04. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Fond of travelling, he was a chronicler on the television channel "Voyage" from 1997 to his death.
He died in June 21, 2006, aged 79, in Paris, the city that he had celebrated in his song Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille.
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Born 1906-07-16. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
At the age of 96, this legendary director appeared at the Hollywood Collectors Show in North Hollywood, California. There he greeted well-wishers and signed vintage stills, in which he was pictured with legends such as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore and others.
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Born 1915-04-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
The poverty of colonial Martinique forms the subject of Zobel's most celebrated novel, La Rue Case Nègres (1950, Black Shack Alley). In this explicitly autobiographical story, Zobel appears as the narrator José, while his indomitable grandmother, M'man Tine, is herself.
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Born 1924-07-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Iska Khan, is a French wrestler and actor of Kalmyk origin. He became famous in supporting roles in the cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. He played mainly the roles of Chinese, Japanese or henchmen. One of his most memorable roles is that of the Asian client of Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) in Belle de Jour, where he visits her with a strange buzzing box. Iska Khan was a wrestler in the 1950s and early 1960s under the name of "Iska Khan, the Thibetan champion". He appeared in Marie-Octobre, not as an actor but in the wrestling match that was broadcast on the television and of which several excerpts were seen during the evening. After his wrestling career, he reconverted to the cinema. In addition to Belle de Jour, he played a major role as a cruel overseer in the mine and as the kidnapper of Claude Jade in Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo. He also played in a tiny scene the father of the Japanese woman in Domicile conjugal.
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Born 1922-05-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1946-09-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Preston had battled kidney disease in his later years, brought on by a lifetime of alcohol and drug abuse. Although he received a kidney transplant in 2002, his health continued to deteriorate. He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. He had been in a coma since November 21, 2005.
Billy Preston is one of several people sometimes credited as a "Fifth Beatle".