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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1976-07-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Guatemalan football goalkeeper who played for the Guatemalan national team and CSD Municipal.
Ortiz made his debut for Guatemala in February 2001 against Panama and collected a total of 11 caps.
During a 2004 match against CSD Comunicaciones he collided with Mario Rodríguez of the opposing team, suffering a torn pericardium. Ortiz died later at the hospital.
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Born 1917-05-31. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He became an influential anthropologist and sometimes controversial filmmaker.
He died in an automobile accident in February 2004, some 16 kilometres from the town of Birnin N'Konni in central Niger.
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Born 1928-01-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians. He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the dissertation: Über den Rand von Parallelkörpern. His advisor was Erhard Schmidt. His name has been given to Kneser graphs which he studied in 1955. He also gave a simplified proof of the Fundamental theorem of algebra. His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups. In graph theory, the Kneser graph KGn,k is the graph whose vertices correspond to the k-element subsets of a set of n elements, and where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the two corresponding sets are disjoint. Kneser graphs are named after Martin Kneser, who first investigated them in 1955.
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Born 1960-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Accident
During the night of March 27-28, 1996, seven monks of the Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of Atlas, near the village of Tibhirine in Algeria, were abducted by a radical faction of the GIA (Groupe Islamique Armée). On May 23, the GIA announced that the monks had been executed on May 21, 1996. Their remains were identified and their funeral Mass was celebrated in the Catholic Cathedral of Algiers on Sunday, June 2. They were buried in the cemetery of their monastery at Tibhirine on June 4, 1996.
The men executed were Dom Christian de Chergé, Brother Luc Dochier, Father Christophe Lebreton, Brother Michel Fleury, Father Bruno Lemarchand, Father Célestin Ringeard, and Brother Paul Favre-Miville.
Didier Contant was making investigations about that killing, when he died dubiously in an unexplained fall of a building in Paris.
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Born 1970-01-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Pantani admitted himself into a clinic in northern Italy in June 2003, suffering from clinical depression. At that point the chances of him once again being a contender in major races looked slim.
During the early evening of 14 February 2004 Pantani was found dead at a hotel in Rimini, Italy. An autopsy revealed he died of a cerebral edema and heart failure, and a later coroner's inquest revealed that this was brought on by acute cocaine poisoning.
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Born 1963-09-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American jockey. He was born in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Rowland died at University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio from head injuries suffered during a race on February 4 at Turfway Park, when his mount broke down and collapsed. Two other jockeys were injured. He was placed on life support, but never regained consciousness.
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Born 1908-06-29. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
One of Hench's most recognizable works is the well known Olympic Torch. Nearly all of the most recent versions have been modeled after his design for the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. In addition to all of these lengthy achievements, Hench also was the "official portrait artist" of Mickey Mouse, painting the company's official portraits for Mickey's 25th, 50th, 60th, 70th, and 75th birthdays.
Hench died of heart failure after a brief hospitalization in Burbank, California.
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Born 1900-03-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She was the daughter of William Marshall, an English architect.
She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and a writer, probably best known for the publication of her diaries.
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Born 1931-02-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Other
Ally MacLeod was a Scottish professional football player. He is perhaps better known for his time as a football manager, which included being in charge of Scotland at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
He died in 2004, aged 72, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Born 1924-08-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
She was a New Zealand author. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a lobotomy that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awarded a national literary prize. Janet Frame died in Dunedin in January 2004, aged 79, from acute myeloid leukaemia, shortly after becoming one of the first recipients of the New Zealand "Icon" award.
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Born 1944-06-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
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Born 1922-03-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Russian: Óльга Алекса́ндровна Лады́женская) was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She is the author of more than two hundred scientific works, among which are six monographs. Two days before a trip to Florida, she passed away in her sleep in Russia.
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Born 1925-10-31. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic. He managed a number of publications over the course of his long association with Daniel Filipacchi. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the influential radio show and magazine Salut les copains. From 1995 to 2001, he was mayor of the town of Marnay-sur-Seine. The Foundation Ténot involved in supporting artistic creation with the art center CAMAC in Marnay-sur-Seine.
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Born 1926-01-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
For many years she worked regularly with Ingmar Bergman; among other films, Thulin appeared in Bergman's The Magician (where she acted dressed as a boy), in Winter Light (1962), as well as The Silence (1963) and Cries and Whispers (1972).
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Born 1936-11-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:orphan disease
Atteinte, comme sa mère et son fils, par la chorée de Huntington, maladie génétique qui entraîne une dégénérescence neuronale irréversible
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Born 1963-10-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
From the early 1980s to 2003, she was a close friend with Leslie Cheung, another Hong Kong pop star, who committed suicide in April 2003. She was devastated by his death.
Anita Mui announced in early September 2003 that she had cervical cancer and was undergoing treatment. Some of her friends and the media were baffled as to why she took so long to undergo treatment when it appeared she knew of her ailment when it was in a fairly early stage. It's also possible that it was a late detection like most cases or secretly had treatment.
It was widely believed she forwent early treatment because she wanted to preserve the possibility to conceive. Mui eventually lost her battle to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at 02:50 (local time). She was 40 years old and single. Her sister, Ann Mui, also a Hong Kong singer, died from the same illness in 2000.
Her death, following Leslie Cheung's, was a great loss to the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
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Born 1933-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
She was an American film, stage, and television actress. She played the wife of Charles Bronson in the original Death Wish film. In 1985, she appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and in 1986, she took a role as Laura Dern's mother in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Lange's year of birth is often reported as 1931, but the correct year is 1933. A possible source of this error is the Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook. Lange died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, as a result of an ischemic colitis infection at the age of 70.
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Born 1925-08-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian actor, who lived in the UK for many years. He was best known for playing the part of "Matt Hammond" in the Australian children's television series Skippy. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes: Devereaux directed The Veteran (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. He also wrote the script. Devereaux wrote the story of Double Trouble, wrote the screenplay of Summer Storm and wrote the script of The Mine.
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Born 1920-10-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Frank Sheeran was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, a small working-class borough on the outskirts of Philadelphia. His family was of mixed Irish- and Swedish-American descent. He grew to his full adult height of 6'4" tall while serving in the Army during World War II. He enlisted the U.S. Army in 1941, and was assigned to the military police before transferring to the 45th Infantry Division, known as "The Thunderbirds." It was while serving in World War II that Sheeran developed a callousness to the taking of human life. He served 411 days of combat duty (a large amount; average is around 100), and participated in the Dachau massacre. He later told Charles Brandt, “When an officer would tell you to take a couple of German prisoners back behind the line and for you to ‘hurry back,’ you did what you had to do.” When he left the service, he became a trucker, but made extra money on the side by committing crimes, including murder for hire. Due to his criminal acumen, he became a close associate of Mafia bosses Russell Bufalino and Angelo Bruno. It was Bufalino, the head of the Bufalino crime family, who acted as Sheeran's mentor throughout his life. At Sheeran's request, Bufalino also set him up with Teamsters International President Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa, who became a close friend, used Sheeran for muscle, including the assassination of recalcitrant union members and members of rival unions threatening the Teamsters' turf. Brandt describes in his book how the old and ill Sheeran told him that he was the man who shot Jimmy Hoffa upon Mafia orders. Sheeran would also confess to killing Hoffa to Fox News reporters. While investigators did find traces of blood in the Detroit house where Sheeran confessed he killed Hoffa in, they also determined it may have been too old for conclusive testing.
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Born 1971-02-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Jiménez received psychological treatment for depression, and retired from professional cycling in 2002, at which point he got married. He died of a heart attack in a clinic in Madrid at the age of 32
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Born 1941-11-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup in 1966.
Hemmings died of a heart attack, in Romania, on the film set of Blessed, (working title Samantha's Child) after playing his scenes for the day.
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Born 1977-09-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
Better known by his stage name Soulja Slim, he was an American rapper who achieved modest success on Master P's No Limit record label. He is best known for his U.S. #1 hit "Slow Motion" (with Juvenile), which hit #1 posthumously on August 7, 2004 and was his only chart entry.
On Thanksgiving Eve, Slim was en route to a performance when an unknown gunman shot him three times in the face, and once in the chest, in front of his mother's home in the 8th Ward/Gentilly area.
This would be the last of several violent encounters in Slim's life. The source said that a man was in the V.I.P. area of an unnamed club. Slim didn't recognize the man and apparently struck him, before being thrown out of the club.
22-year-old Garelle Smith from the St. Bernard Projects (7th Ward) is known as the potential hitman. Smith was arrested on December 30, 2003 and soon charged with Slim's murder. The charges were subsequently dropped in February 2004.
On December 25 a man named Steven Kennedy was killed; police said that the murder was likely a revenge killing in response to Tapp's murder. Police charged Ivory "B-Stupid" Harris and Jerome Hampton for the crime.