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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1919-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1943-08-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a four-time Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion. He was known for his quiet, unassuming nature off the bike who became a ruthless competitor once the races began. He was said to be, though involuntarily, at the origin of Saarinen's fatal race crash. He died in his sleep from a heart attack.
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Born 1940-10-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
Gotti was tried in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York before the Honorable I. Leo Glasser. The federal prosecutor's evidence was overwhelming. Not only did they have Gotti on tape, they also had several witnesses to testify against Gotti.
On June 23, 1992, Judge Glasser sentenced Gotti to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
Gotti paid the notorious prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood $50,000 a year for protection. However, in 1996 Gotti insulted Walter Johnson, a black inmate on the prison yard with racial slurs. The black inmate later assaulted Gotti. Gotti felt completely disrespected and paid the Aryan Brotherhood $500,000 to kill Gotti's attacker. However, Gotti died of cancer soon afterwards and the murder was never carried out.
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Born 1951-09-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Douglas Glenn Colvin, known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was a German-American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, songwriter and bassist for punk rock band the Ramones. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again some time later. Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002 by his wife Barbara at his apartment in Hollywood, California. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to perform at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor.
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Born 1930-10-29. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1979-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Daughter of singer Michel Fugain. Leukémia.
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Born 1905-01-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a Sicilian-born American Mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas", a name he reputedly dispised because it made him sound crazy.
The Judge Dredd character Joe Bananas, henchman for Don Uggie Apelino, was named for Bonanno.
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Born 1911-12-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was playing the accordion on Piaf' songs.
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Born 1915-01-29. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer
Complications from pneumonia and cancer. He was the creator of Dumbo at Disney.
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Born 1909-09-22. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was a United States sociologist, attorney, and educator.
Riesman's 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd, deals with modern sociology. In it Riesman wrote of the 'inner-directed' and 'other-directed' personalities.
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Born 1950-04-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Accident
He served as the governor of Krasnoyarsk until his death in a controversial helicopter crash. The official cause of the crash was the collision of the helicopter with electric lines during foggy weather in the Sayan Mountains. His death is surrounded by several conspiracy theories.
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Born 1949-01-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Boreman contracted hepatitis from the blood transfusion in 1970 as a result of a car accident. In 1987, this required her to undergo a liver transplant. In 1996, Boreman divorced Larry Marchiano. In 2000, she was featured on the E! Entertainment Network's E! True Hollywood Story. In 2001, Boreman did a pictorial, as Linda Lovelace, for the magazine Leg Show. She contended that she did not object to this because "there's nothing wrong with looking sexy as long as it's done with taste." Subsequently, Hustler named her the "Asshole of the Month" for March 2001.
On April 3, 2002, Boreman lost control of her car, which rolled twice. She suffered massive trauma and internal injuries. On April 22, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado.
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Born 1948-05-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1917-11-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He portrayed the grand-pa in Légitime violence.
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Born 1946-12-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
In 1996, Urich announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, synovial cell sarcoma, that attacks joints. The TV series he was working on at the time, The Lazarus Man, was doing well but was ultimately cancelled. His failing health was cited as the reason. Urich ultimately died from this disease, although he continued to appear in film and TV during treatment. His final TV series role was in the sitcom Emeril in 2001.
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Born 1928-06-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He died alone in his flat. His neighbours did not realize it until an unmistakble smell alerted them. Firemen discovered him in the flat on the 11th of April. His dead body was in an advanced state of decomposition.
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Born 1931-05-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a lawyer of the Red Army Faction, later an East German spy and a political activist for Berlin's Alternative Liste and after 1990 the PDS. Croissant was shown by Kurt Rebmann, then Attorney General of Germany “to have organized his cabinet the operational reserve of West German terrorism”. A campaign against his imprisonment, in which in particular Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault took part, was organized in his favour. He was released under bail and fled to France on July 10, 1977, before being stopped in Paris on September 30. There he applied without success for political asylum. In spite of some protests in Germany, France and Italy, the court of criminal appeal of the Court of Appeal of Paris decides in favour of the extradition to West Germany on November 16, 1977. Croissant was extradited the following day. In a platform published in Le Monde on November 2, 1977, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari wrote: Three things worry us immediately: the possibility that many German men of the left in an organized system of denouncement, see their life becoming intolerable in Germany, and are forced to leave their country. Conversely, the possibility that Croissant is delivered, returned to Germany where he risks the worst [Andreas Baader and its comrades had been found dead in their cells on October 18, 1977], or, simply expelled in a country of “choice” which would not accept him. Lastly, the prospect which whole Europe passes under this type of control claimed by Germany.” He was sentenced and jailed for supporting a designated terrorist organization for two and a half years. After his release, Croissant started to work for the Stasi, which registered him 1981 as Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter "IM Thaler“, Reg. Nr. XV/5231/81. His girlfriend, the taz-publisher and green member of the European Parliament Brigitte Heinrich, was led by Croissant to join his work for the Stasi till her death in 1987. In 1992 his collaboration with the Stasi was made public.
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Born 1935-04-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:orphan disease
On 30 September 1999, Moore announced that he was suffering from the terminal degenerative brain disorder Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and the illness had been diagnosed earlier in the year.
He died as a result of pneumonia, secondary to immobility caused by the palsy, in Watchung, New Jersey. Rena Fruchter was holding his hand when he died, and she reported his final words were "I can hear the music all around me".
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (or the Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, after the Canadian physicians who described it in 1963) is a rare degenerative disorder involving the gradual deterioration and death of selected areas of the brain.
The sexes are affected approximately equally and there is no racial, geographical or occupational predilection. Approximately 6 people per 100,000 population have PSP.
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Born 1917-01-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French middle distance runner, who won the bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London over 800 m in a time of 1:49.8 min. The race was won by Mal Whitfield. Hansenne also equalled Rune Gustafsson's 1000 m world record of 2:21.4 in Gothenburg in 1948. Hansenne was born in Tourcoing.
After his sporting career, he became a journalist and led the paper l'Equipe.
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Born 1949-01-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He directed films such as P.R.O.F.S. and Et la tendresse Bordel !
He was killed in a car crash near his home, by losing the control of his car in a curve and crashing into a bus. Hospitalized, he died during the night.
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Born 1918-03-05. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
Tobin became widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax". This was designed to reduce speculation on currency markets (forex), which he saw as unproductive. He also suggested that the proceeds of the tax could be used to fund projects for the benefit of Third World countries, or to support the United Nations.
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Born 1916-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Dubbing voice of Lana Turner in the French post-synchronized version of Green Dolphin Street (1947) (Le pays du dauphin vert) and Cass Timberlane (1947) (Éternel tourment).
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Born 1912-09-21. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart
he was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew and the other Warners characters, including the memorable What's Opera, Doc?
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Born 1920-04-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American character actor born in Yonkers, New York specializing in playing movie tough guys and heavies. Best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving, iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michael in Dick Tracy's Dilemma. He is often confused with Jack Lambert a British character actor of the same name, as well as the former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert.