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Westergaard Kurt (b. 1935-07-13 / d. 2021-07-14)
Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard) was a Danish cartoonist famous for creating the controversial cartoon of a terrorist, although not the Islamic prophet Muhammad as it is often claimed, wearing a bomb in his turban. This cartoon was the most contentious of the 12 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which met with strong reactions from Muslims worldwide who condemned the act, including Western countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he was under constant police protection
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Born 1916-04-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Lord Menuhin died in Berlin, Germany following a brief illness, from complications of bronchitis.
When Bartok was lost in poverty, and was stubbornly refusing help of any kind ( regarding it as degrading), Menuhin bought him a sonata.
Menuhin made several recordings with the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who had been criticized for conducting in Germany during the Nazi era. Menuhin defended Furtwangler, noting that the conductor had helped a number of Jewish musicians to flee Nazi Germany.
The name Yehudi means 'Jew' in Hebrew.
Ironically, in November 2005 his son Gerard was dismissed from his post as chairman of the Yehudi-Menuhin-Stiftung for alleged neo-Nazi opinions.
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Born 1914-11-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
According to biographer Maury Allen, Joe was so alarmed at how Marilyn had returned to her self-destructive ways, falling in with people he felt detrimental to her (including Frank Sinatra and his "Rat Pack"), he quit his job with a military post-exchange supplier on August 1, 1962 to ask her to remarry him. But before he could, she was found dead on August 5, a probable suicide. Devastated, he claimed her body, and arranged her funeral, barring Hollywood's elite. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered 3 times a week to her crypt for the next 20 years. Unlike her other two husbands or other men who knew her intimately (or claimed to), he refused to talk about her publicly or "cash in" on the relationship. He never married again
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Born 1928-07-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Unknown
During the making of "the shining", Stanley Kubrick would call Stephen King at 3:00 a.m. and ask him questions like "Do you believe in God?"
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Born 1939-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Many stories abound as to the origins of the names but certainly Dusty herself is quoted as saying that hers was the nickname given her by school friends because she was such a tomboy and loved playing football out in the streets with the boys! The ‘explanation’ for the name ‘Springfields’ comes from the anecdote that they used to rehearse in fields during the spring.
1993 saw the release of the ‘Heart and Soul’ single with Cilla Black to celebrate the latter’s 30 years in the music business and this was followed by what turned out to be Dusty’s last album, ‘A Very Fine Love’. She had for a long time nurtured the desire to return to Nashville. As part of the Springfields all those years previous, she had been asked to stay – it was almost like returning home for her. Nearing the completion of the recording, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment. The album was released in 1995 after Dusty had been given the all clear. The last live television appearance that Dusty made was on the show ‘Later With Jools Holland’ where, accompanied by Alison Moyet and Sinead O’Connor amongst others, she sang the track ‘Where Is A Woman To Go'.
Dusty’s cancer returned and was diagnosed as terminal. She moved to Henley-on-Thames and was able to spend some peaceful times looking out over the garden at the ‘pretty things’ which she always aspired to do.
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Born 1959-06-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Hepathitis B
Guitarist of the group Indochine
hepatitis foudroyante
hepatitis link
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Born 1904-11-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jean Coulomb was a French geophysicist and mathematician, and one of the early members of the Bourbaki group of mathematicians.
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Born 1912-04-19. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. On August 24, 1998, while in Boston to attend a meeting by the American Chemical Society, Seaborg suffered a stroke, which led to his death six months later at his home in Lafayette
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Born 1942-05-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
He was a United States Marine Corps sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock's record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the Marine Corps. His fame as a sniper and his dedication to long-distance shooting led him to become a major developer of the United States Marine Corps Sniper training program. He was honored by having a rifle named after him: a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather. The protagonist of Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger Series consisting of the novels Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt and I, Sniper is loosely based on Carlos Hathcock (Hathcock is alluded to in the book as "Gunny Sgt Carl Hitchcock"). The 1993 movie Sniper, featuring actor Tom Berenger, is loosely based on some of Hathcock's exploits in Vietnam. Shooter is a 2007 American conspiracy action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. The film concerns a former U.S. Marine Scout Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), who is framed for murder by a rogue secret private military company unit. It was released in cinemas on March 23, 2007. Carlos Hathcock died on February 23rd, 1999, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, from complications resulting from multiple sclerosis.
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Born 1929-03-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American actress best known for her roles in The Honeymoon Killers and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties.
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Born 1965-07-02. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
In 1998 Borrelli joined Lyon, but was killed in a road accident in February 1999, near Molphey (Côte-d'Or). Lyon subsequently retired the number 16 shirt in his honour, and Caen named an entire grandstand in his honour.
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Born 1929-09-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
La France défigurée.
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Born 1928-02-28. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Jeux de 20h, Francophonissime (Swiss)
And what about Paule Herman ?
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Born 1962-12-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Michel was born with osteogenesis imperfecta which is a genetic disease that causes brittle bones and in his case short stature. It is also often linked to pulmonary ailments. In his early career his father and brother occasionally carried him, literally, because he could not walk far on his own unaided. In certain respects though he considered it an advantage as it got rid of distractions, like sports, that other boys tended to become involved in.
He had three significant relationships. His first marriage to Italian pianist Gilda Buttà ended in divorce. He also fathered two children, one being a son named Alexandre. One of these children inherited his condition. He also had a stepson named Rachid Roperch.
Michel Petrucciani died at 36 from a pulmonary infection.
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Born 1952-09-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
in the 80's, there were only two official circuits in Spain, one in Jarama and the other in Calafat. The team planned test rides before the race, but both circuits were already booked, forcing them to practice in Martorelles. This region of Barcelona was an industrial park near the Derbi factory. The team occasionally had test runs in this area, blocking off the roads to ensure that no cars would interfere with the racers. However, during a practice prior to the Spanish Grand Prix, a vehicle gained access to the area from one of the team’s assistants who was supposed to have blocked off all of the roads. Tragically, Tormo, who was testing a new racing suit, hit the car and shattered his right leg. The accident marked the end of his racing career and the beginning of a countless series of operations.
Tormo died from leukemia, which he had been battling for many years. In his honor, Valencia’s racetrack was re-named the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo.
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Born 1924-08-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Ray Goossens was a Belgian artist, animator, writer, and director best known for creating the cartoon character Musti. He worked as an animator mainly for client's publicity purposes, and in 1957 became artistic director of Belvision, the new animation studios of Le Lombard, one of the major Belgian comics publishers. At first, they created series based on existing comics series like Oumpah-pah, Hergé's Adventures of Tintin or Chlorophylle. They also made the full-length movie Pinocchio in Outer Space.
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Born 1913-12-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Archie Moore died of heart failure in 1998 four days shy of his 85th birthday. He was cremated and is interred in a niche at Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory, in San Diego.
He was light heavyweight world boxing champion between 1952 and 1959 (and again in 1961) and had one of the longest professional careers in the history of his sport.
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Born 1942-11-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a British actor noted for his role of Ben Jackson, a companion of the Doctor, in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He played the part from 1966 to 1967 alongside both William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton.
Craze died of a heart attack on 8 December 1998. He had fallen down some steps the previous day while picking up his neighbour's paper for her, and owing to a heart condition, they were unable to operate.
Michael Craze's brother is actor Peter Craze. Coincidentally Peter Craze has also appeared in Doctor Who in a number of guest roles but never worked with his brother on the series
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Born 1928-04-07. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
Pakula died in a bizarre car accident on a part of the Long Island Expressway in Melville, New York at the age of 70. A driver in front of him struck a metal pipe, which went through Pakula's windshield, striking him in the head and causing him to swerve off the road and into a fence, killing him instantly.
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Born 1928-05-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart
As accusations of political corruption against him grew through the decade, he fled France in 1990. He was finally arrested in Uruguay in 1993 and was extradited back to France in 1994. There, he was convicted of several counts of corruption and associated crimes and sentenced to prison. He died in Punta del Este, Uruguay following cardiac arrest in November 1998. He had returned to Uruguay following his release from prison.
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Born 1907-10-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1913-12-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
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Born 1910-06-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Hunt may have had an encounter with the alleged Abominable Snowman or Yeti of the Himalaya. One night, while camping in the Himalaya, he sensed the presence of a large animal near his tent. When he went out to investigate, he vaguely saw a large creature scurrying away. When later asked why he had not shot at it, he replied, "that would have been murder." On another occasion, in 1951, Hunt's team found and photographed mysterious footprints in the mountain snow allegedly made by the yeti.
In 1953, Hunt was chosen as the leader of the ninth British expedition to Mount Everest and the first to make a successful ascent. Hunt selected two climbing pairs to attempt to reach the summit. The first pair (Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans) turned back after becoming exhausted high on the mountain. The next day, the expedition made its second and final assault on the summit with second climbing pair. The summit was eventually reached at 11:30 am on 29 May 1953 by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal climbing the South Col Route. News of the expedition's success reached London on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
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Born 1908-01-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
French composer of Turkish origin.
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Born 1905-12-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
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Born 1917-09-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Kenkichi Iwasawa was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory.
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Born 1943-08-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Operation
Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death. In his lifetime he was known as the "god of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence on the medium. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work. In 2012, Postel was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society. The Channel Islands' Domain Registry building was named after him in early 2016. Perhaps his most famous legacy is from RFC 760, which includes a robustness principle often called Postel's law: "an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior" (reworded in RFC 1122 as "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"). Postel died of complications from heart surgery in Los Angeles, nine months after the DNS Root Authority incident. He was recovering from a surgery to replace a leaking heart valve.
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Born 1915-06-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American orchestral tuba player.
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Born 1928-09-17. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
Roddy McDowall died at his home in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles from cancer. ``It was very peaceful,`` said Dennis Osborne, a screenwriter friend who had cared for the actor in his final months. ``It was just as he wanted it. It was exactly the way he planned.`` Though he was cremated through The Neptune Society, his ashes were not distributed in the Pacific Ocean as had been widely reported at the time.
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Born 1959-12-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Other
In 1998, Griffith-Joyner died in her sleep at her home in Mission Viejo, California. On October 22, the sheriff-coroner's office (it was an unexpected death) announced the cause of death as: "1) positional asphyxia 2) epileptiform seizure 3) cavernous angioma, left orbital frontal cerebrum".
The cavernous angioma referred to a brain abnormality discovered during the autopsy that made Joyner subject to seizures. It is in fact, a congenital defect, having developed at birth. In 1990 she had, according to a family attorney, suffered a grand mal seizure and had been treated for seizures in 1990, 1993 and 1994.
The cause of death in effect said that she had suffocated in her pillow during a severe epileptic seizure.
Her retirement from competitive track and field after her 1988 Olympic Games triumph further fueled the controversy as mandatory random drug testing was about to be implemented in 1989. Under the less stringent testing schedule during her career, no evidence was found that Griffith-Joyner used performance enhancing drugs.
She stunned the world when—known as a 200 m runner—she ran a new 100 m World Record of 10.49 in the quarter-finals of the US Olympic Trials. Reporters at the event commented that although the wind meter measured 0.0—indicating no wind—there was visual evidence of considerable wind in the stadium at the time of the race. Every event on that day measured excessive wind speeds and this led many to later suggest that the wind meter in the stadium malfunctioned during the race, but the record is still recognized. Joyner, her coach stated that he believed the 10.49 run to be wind aided as well. Flo-Jo never ran faster than 10.61 without excessive wind assistance that season.