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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
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 1956-04-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was a United States Naval Captain and a NASA astronaut. He was killed on his first space flight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996, but had not served on a space mission prior to the Columbia disaster.
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Born 1961-03-10. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
She was a medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist who was lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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Born 1954-06-20. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, where he and the other crew were killed in a re-entry accident over Texas.
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Born 1921-03-12. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
Better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research.
Agnelli stepped down in 1996, but stayed on as honorary chairman until his death. Giovanni Alberto Giovannino Agnelli , the son of Gianni's younger brother, Umberto Agnelli, died of a rare form of cancer in 1997 at age 33 while he was being groomed by his uncle to head the Fiat Group.
Fiat-owned Scuderia Ferrari named their 2003 F1 contender the F2003-GA, in tribute to Agnelli.
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Born 1916-09-21. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Accident
She died at hospital after a fall.
She wrote: "Should Death come and seize me tonight, would I say 'thank you, Life'"
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Born 1927-11-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Rambo's Colonel Trautman.
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Born 1958-02-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He died at his home after being hit in the back by a heavy bag falling from a locker during journey by flight. One first believed he only suffered of light contusion.
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Born 1949-12-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Maurice Gibb died unexpectedly at a Miami Beach, Florida, hospital on January 12, 2003, of complications resulting from a twisted intestine. Following his death, his surviving brothers Barry and Robin announced that they would no longer perform as the Bee Gees.
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Born 1926-07-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
In July 2002 new civil charges were brought concerning the kidnapping and disappearance of 18 leftist sympathizers in the late 1970s (while Galtieri was commander of the Second Army Corps), and the disappearance or death of three Spanish citizens at about the same time. Galtieri was placed under house-arrest. With his health declining, he was admitted to a hospital in Buenos Aires to be treated for cancer of the pancreas, where he died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
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Born 1930-07-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
When he was 15 years old, Fukasaku's class was drafted, and he worked as a munitions worker during World War II. In July 1945, the class was caught in artillery fire. Since the children could not escape artillery fire, they had to dive under each other in order to survive. The surviving members of the class had to dispose of the corpses. Fukasaku realized that the Japanese government lied about World War II at that point; Fukasaku had a burning hatred of adults in general for a long time.
In 1980, Fukasaku directed Virus, Japan's most expensive production at the time, which became a financial flop.
Near the end of his life, Fukasaku branched out into the world of video games by serving as the director of the Capcom/Sunsoft survival horror game Clock Tower 3. Although the game sold poorly and received fair to lukewarm reviews, the game has been praised for its cinematic cut-scenes, which some consider to be worth playing through the game in order to watch. In 2000, Battle Royale was released, which received positive critical praise as well as becoming a major financial success, grossing ¥3.11 billion domestically. Because he suffered from late stage prostate cancer during preparations for the film Battle Royale II: Requiem, the film's production was organized so that Fukasaku's son Kenta Fukasaku could take over the film's direction after he died. Fukasaku died after directing a single scene with Takeshi Kitano.
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Born 1925-08-31. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Kidney failure
Kidney failure
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Born 1912-06-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
During her career, she became one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 best-sellers in the last 20 years of her life. Her take on life reveals a sharp and critical eye which neatly dissects the idiosyncrasies of genteel England with humour, compassion and irony, detailing in particular sexual and emotional values. Her style has been described as "arsenic without the old lace". She wrote two books for children - Speaking Terms and The Sixth Seal (both 1969) - before publishing adult fiction. Since her first adult novel was published only in 1983, when she was 71, she may be regarded as a late bloomer.
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Born 1921-12-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Hill died at his home in New York of complications from Parkinson's disease.
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Born 1952-08-21. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart
(The Clash) Strummer died in his home at Broomfield in Somerset, the victim of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect.
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Born 1917-03-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a prolific american actor.
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Born 1917-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Brad Dexter (born Boris Michel Soso) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles, including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960), and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as Lady Sings the Blues. He is also known for a short marriage to Peggy Lee, a friendship with Marilyn Monroe and for saving Frank Sinatra from drowning. Dexter's tough-guy roles contrasted with his easygoing and friendly real-life personality
Emphysema.
He played Harry Luck in the magnificent seven.
On May 10, 1964, during production of the World War II film "None But the Brave" in Kaui, Hawaii, Frank Sinatra and Ruth Koch, the wife of producer Howard Koch, were swimming at a beach when they were swept out to sea by the outgoing tide and nearly drowned. Sinatra's co-star Brad Dexter and two surfers swam out and rescued them. Dexter was later awarded a Red Cross medal for his bravery. Sinatra and Dexter co-starred in a second film together "Von Ryan's Express" and Dexter subsequently produced "The Naked Runner" which starred Sinatra and was filmed in London. Unfortunately the two men clashed over Sinatra's unwillingess to finish the film and after it was completed, Dexter resigned. "I was the only guy who dropped Sinatra," Dexter said. "I couldn't put up with his nonsense."
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Born 1915-09-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Polytechnician. François Mitterrand's brother.
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Born 1910-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Born 1910 probably sept or oct... Lionel Jospin's mother Euthanasia. 'Ninety-two years - it is time to leave before deteriorations set in,' she wrote on the day of her death to members of an association called the Right to Die with Dignity, of which she was a member. 'I am leaving this life calmly. Even so, I am very sad to leave my family, big and small, and my friends: [but] isn't that in the order of things? 'My husband and children have filled my life. I am not a believer in the strict sense of the term, but I often say and repeat: thank you, thank you for the magnificence of this world. I would really like a little later on to lift a corner of the veil to see if mankind has become wiser, if it has given up destroying itself. 'I adore flowers. My husband and children have seen to it that they always accompanied me - from the little bouquets of marigolds at the start of my marriage to the magnificent roses, hortensias and orchids which my children offer me now. They have given me a mirror of life: budding, blooming, fading, over periods of different lengths, faithful to themselves, an image of all life.'
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Born 1921-05-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
He is the father of Maria Schneider with German model Marie Christine Schneider. However, Gélin never acknowledged his paternity of Maria Schneider.
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Born 1928-08-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Due to severe rheumatoid arthritis, he appeared in very few films during the 1980s and spent time writing songs with his partner at that time, British singer-songwriter Lynsey De Paul. He claimed to have healed himself with pills containing a sulfur-containing compound, and returned to screen in the 1990s. He then appeared in films such as Young Guns II (1990), Sister Act 2 (1993), Maverick (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Payback (1999), mostly in small but memorable roles.
He died suddenly from a cardiac arrest, while listening to the radio.
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Born 1976-03-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
He was an American television and film actor, of Dominican heritage, best known for his role as Romeo Santana on the WB series, The Steve Harvey Show.
Santana was sitting in a parked car when two men approached the car and shot him. Santana died before any help could arrive.
Damien Andre Gates was convicted of the first-degree murder of Santana and the attempted murder of another man in the car, and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences plus 70 years in prison. Brandon Douglas Bynes received a 23-year sentence after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon. An officer involved in the case testified that Monique King, reportedly Gates' girlfriend and aged 15 at the time of Santana's death, falsely claimed that Santana had tried to rape her, which prompted Gates and Bynes to attack the car. King received eight years in juvenile custody.
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Born 1913-12-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a scriptwriter for The Twilight Zone (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Star Trek and other shows . He also wrote novels, feature film scripts, and the nonfiction works Underhanded Chess and Underhanded Bridge in 1973.
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Born 1916-02-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1945-06-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Lionel Poilâne was killed when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into the Bay of Cancale off the coast of Brittany. The passengers, Poilâne's wife Iréna and their dog, also died in the crash. Poilâne was survived by his daughter Apollonia who now runs the enterprise.
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Born 1908-05-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
After his criticism of the policy of de Gaulle in 1961, he was fired from his positions of military governor of Metz and of the Sixth military region. In March 1966, he was made chief of the French forces in Germany in Baden-Baden. On the 29 May 1968, Charles de Gaulle came to visit him and sought his advice during the events of May 68.
After his retirement in July 1969, he spent the rest of his life in his home at Conflans-sur-Loing writing his mémoires.
Charles de Gaulle : "So, Massu, still that stupid ?"
Jacques Massu's answer : "Still that gaullist, General !"