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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 1948-04-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can. Michael Karoli was born and grew up in Straubing, Bavaria, moving to St. Gallen, Switzerland by the time he finished school. He learned to play the guitar, violin and cello as a child, and played in numerous jazz and dance bands. In 1966, he met and befriended Holger Czukay, who was his guitar teacher for a while. After he graduated he began studies of the law until leaving in 1968 to form Can with Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, and David Johnson. His main role was that of the guitarist, with occasional uncredited violin performances, and later also providing vocals. He was a constant member of the band, playing with it between 1968 and its break-up in 1979. He also joined the band for its three reunions, in 1986, 1991, and 1999. Karoli died from an undisclosed form of cancer in 2001 in Essen, Germany, aged 53. Karoli's sister, Constanze Karoli, and then-girlfriend Eveline Grunwald are the models on the cover of Roxy Music's 1974 album Country Life.
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Born 1930-03-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
Thomas Lee Flanagan (16 March 1930–16 November 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald. He played on a number of critically acclaimed recordings, such as John Coltrane's Giant Steps, Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus , The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper's Straight Life. He died on November 16, 2001, of an arterial aneurysm.
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Born 1966-12-01. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder
She was a French radio reporter and journalist. Graduating from the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in 1990, she began working for Radio France International in 1991.
Sutton, along with fellow French journalist Pierre Billaud and German journalist Volker Handloik, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack. According to Reyberotte Billaud and Sutton jumped off the tank.
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Born 1970-05-21. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder
He was a French radio reporter and journalist. He started his career on Radio France then then joined Radio Tele Luxembourg as international reporter.
Billaud, along with fellow French journalist Johanne Sutton and German journalist Volker Handloik, was killed in an ambush in Dasht-e Qaleh, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack by Taliban troops with machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack. According to Reyberotte Billaud and Sutton jumped off the tank.
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Born 1920-02-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Bérégovoy's widow.
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Born 1970-06-27. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
On 29 October 2001, Cavagnoud collided with German ski coach Markus Anwander during ski training in Pitztal, Austria and sustained severe brain injuries as a result of the collision. She was evacuated by helicopter to Innsbruck's university hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries two days later. Her death was the first fatality involving a World Cup skier since Austria's Ulrike Maier death in 1994. She was buried in her native village of La Clusaz in the French Alps.
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Born 1946-10-23. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Unknown
Des suites d'une "Longue maladie"
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Born 1910-08-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Odette Joyeux's husband until her death.
He is best remembered as a cinematographer (Les dames du bois de Boulogne) than as a Director (Le dialogue des carmélites).
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Born 1922-12-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
She was a French athlete and pianist.
A great-niece of the French author Victor Hugo, and a niece of the composer Lucien Paroche, Ostermeyer was born in Rang-du-Fliers, France. At the insistence of her mother, she began learning piano at the age of 4, and at 14 she left her family's home in Tunisia to attend the Conservatoire de Paris. After the outbreak of World War II, she moved back to Tunisia where she performed a weekly half-hour piano recital on Radio Tunis.
She competed in a range of contests, eventually winning French titles at running, throwing and jumping events. In 1946, she placed second in the shot put at the European Athletics Championship in Oslo, as well as winning the Prix Premier at the Conservatoire.
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Born 1906-12-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer
He was the brother of the romancier Pierre Daninos, had founded the society Facel (Forges et Ateliers des Constructions d'Eure-et-Loir) in 1939 to realise his dream to design his own automobile.
This engineer had collaborated before with Citroën for the "Traction Avant" and worked in aviation.
The Facel society produced the bodies of special versions and luxury cars like the Panhard Dyna cabriolet or the Ford Comète.
The first Facel Vega, designed by Jean Daninos, arose in 1954, equipped with a Chrysler engine. Daninos counted around his clients stars of showbusiness (Tony Curtis, Ava Gardner) and racing drivers (Stirling Moss, Maurice Trintignant).
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Born 1927-05-13. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.
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Born 1933-11-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Gloria Foster was an American actress. She had acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. She played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003) films, the latter film being her last. She played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the mini series The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985. The cause of her death was diabetes.
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Born 1938-02-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a judoka who competed in the +80 kg and Open divisions. In 1966, he resigned from his post at the Tokyo Police Department to become an executive at the Tokai Construction company. He continued to work with judo as an advisor for the International Judo Federation, and as an instructor at Tokai University, where he coached future Olympic gold medalist Yasuhiro Yamashita. He also authored several prominent books and manuals relating to judo, contributing to the sport's development. He became the CEO of the Tokai Kensetsu company in 1993, but committed suicide in 2001 by means of seppuku, possibly due to the financial losses suffered by his company. He was 63 years old.
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Born 1945-06-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was the French voice of Matt Houston , Drôles de monstres, Spirou, Blake et Mortimer, Mighty Max, La guerre des tomates, etc...
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Born 1927-07-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Yee Keung Victor Wong (traditional Chinese: 黃自強) was an American actor, artist, and journalist. A fourth-generation Chinese-American, he appeared in supporting roles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He portrayed Chinese sorcerer Egg Shen in John Carpenter's 1986 cult film Big Trouble in Little China, royal adviser Chen Bao Shen in the Best Picture–winning The Last Emperor, rural storekeeper Walter Chang in the comedy horror film Tremors, and Grandpa Mori Tanaka in the 3 Ninjas tetralogy.
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Born 1948-04-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Murder
Known as the wife of actor Anthony Perkins, from 1973 until his death in 1992.
She died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on board American Airlines flight 11. She had been returning from a holiday on Cape Cod to her California home.
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Born 1968-09-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
On September 10, Atta picked up al-Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan to a Comfort Inn in Portland, Maine, where they arrived at 5:43pm and spent the night in room 232 only to catch a flight back to Boston the following morning. Possibly this was done by the two men to clear airport security under less scrutiny in Maine than they would have faced at Logan Airport in Boston. It was initially reported that Adnan and Ameer Bukhari were the two hijackers who had rented and driven the car. The FBI also states that Atta made a credit-card purchase in Manhattan, New York on the 10th.
The two spent their last night pursuing ordinary activities: making two ATM withdrawals, and a 20-minute stop at Wal-Mart. FBI reports specified that "two middle-eastern men" were seen in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut, but despite alluding to Atta and Marwan, does not explicitly say it was them.
On the morning of September 11, they drove to the Portland International Jetport, and took the 6am Colgan Air (U.S. Airways Express) BE-1900C flight to Logan International Airport in Boston. The two sat in the rearmost seats, next to one another. In Portland, Mohamed Atta was selected by CAPPS, which required his checked bags to undergo extra screening for explosives and involved no extra screening at the passenger security checkpoint.
The connection between the two flights at Logan Airport was within Terminal B, but the two gates were not connected within security. You must cross a parking garage before going through security once again. There are two separate concourses in Terminal B, the south concourse is mainly used by US Airways and the north is mostly American. It was overlooked that there would still be security in Boston because of this distinct detail of the terminal's arrangement.
At the American Airlines concourse, the pair boarded American Airlines Flight 11, where Atta was checked in under the abbreviation "Moham Atta", and was seated in 8D. At 6:45 a.m., while at the Boston airport, Atta took a call from Marwan al-Shehhi, another hijacker. This call was apparently to confirm that the attacks were ready to begin.
At 7:59 a.m., the plane departed from Boston, carrying 81 passengers. The plane's transponder was turned off at 8:28am. At 8:24:38, a voice believed to be Atta's was heard by air traffic controllers, saying: "We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move, everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet...".
Seconds after American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the World Trade Center.Atta is believed to have been the pilot of the plane when it crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center 23 minutes later at 8:46.40a.m. All aboard the plane were killed.
Because the flight from Portland to Boston had been delayed, his bags did not make it onto Flight 11. When later found by U.S. authorities, they contained airline uniforms, flight manuals, and a four-page document in Arabic, copies of which were also found with the terrorists of the other three planes. It contains a list of instructions, such as "make an oath to die and renew your intentions," "you should feel complete tranquility, because the time between you and your marriage in heaven is very short," and "check your weapon before you leave and long before you leave. You must make your knife sharp and you must not discomfort your animal during the slaughter."
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Born 1953-02-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Massoud was the target of a suicide attack which occurred at Khvajeh Ba Odin. The attackers were two Arabs who claimed to be Belgians originally from Morocco. However their passports turned out to be stolen and their nationality Tunisian. The assassins claimed to want to interview Massoud and set off a bomb either in their video camera or in a belt worn by the cameraman while asking Massoud questions. The explosion also killed Mohammed Asim Suhail, a Northern Alliance official, while Mohammad Fahim Dashty and Massoud Khalili were injured. The assassins may have intended to attack several Northern Alliance council members simultaneously. One of the attackers was killed by the explosion and the other was shot while trying to escape. Massoud was rushed after the attack to the Indian Military hospital at Farkhor, Tajikistan which is now Farkhor Air Base. The news of Massoud's death was reported almost immediately, appearing in European and North American newspapers on 10 September 2001. It was quickly overshadowed by the September 11, 2001 attacks, which proved to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against.
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Born 1931-08-00. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
He was the French voice of Robert Stack and Clint Eastwood.
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Born 1922-11-08. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Other
Christiaan Barnard died in September 2001, whilst on holiday in Paphos, Cyprus. Early reports claimed that he had died of a heart attack, although an autopsy showed his death to be caused by an acute asthma attack.
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Born 1936-01-27. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
He starred in Monster on the Campus, Live Fast, Die Young, and The Tarnished Angels, all in 1958, and opposite fellow teen idol Sandra Dee in A Summer Place in 1959. The latter made him a huge star, especially among teenage audiences.
In 1974 he was cast in his most high profile role, a small part in The Godfather Part II as the new fiancé of Connie Corleone. His character was called Merle Johnson, Donahue's real name.
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Born 1925-03-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Rabal died in 2001 from compensatory dilating emphysema, while on an airplane travelling to Bordeaux.
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Born 1940-08-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Died form excess of drugs and alcohol.
Died of respiratory failure.
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Born 1979-01-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Just after wrapping up filming of the "Rock the Boat" video, Aaliyah and various members of her record company boarded a twin engine Cessna 402B (N8097W) at Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, Bahamas to travel to Opa-locka Airport near Miami, Florida, but the plane crashed shortly after takeoff about 200 feet from the runway. Pilot Luis Morales III and all eight passengers, including Aaliyah, were killed in the aviation accident.
Further investigations determined the plane was over its total gross weight by several hundred pounds.
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Born 1924-05-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
Tyrrell served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war he became a timber merchant. In 1951 he began racing a Cooper in Formula 3. A good but not great driver, he achieved a number of good placings and the occasional win but, realising he was not going to reach the top, Ken Tyrrell stood down as a driver in 1959, and began to run a Formula Junior team using the woodshed owned by his family business, Tyrrell Brothers, as a workshop.
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Born 1925-02-11. Domain:Other. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
Her first movie was The Goddess (1958), playing a tragic movie star modeled on Marilyn Monroe. In 1964, she starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon, won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress for it and was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar.
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Born 1949-04-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was grinded by an elephant during a photograph rallye in Kenya.