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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1875-02-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
In 1965, aged 90, with no living heirs, Jeanne Calment signed a deal, common in France, to sell her condominium apartment en viager to lawyer François Raffray. Mr Raffray, then aged 47, agreed to pay a monthly sum until she died, an agreement sometimes called a "reverse mortgage". At the time of the deal the value of the apartment was equal to ten years of payments. Unfortunately for Mr Raffray, not only did Ms Calment survive more than thirty years, but Mr Raffray died of cancer in December 1995, at the age of 77, leaving his widow to continue the payments.
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Born 1914-02-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was also known by his pen name William Lee. He was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century." His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer who died in 1951 in Mexico City. Burroughs had drunk too much and tried to imitate Guillaume Tell, with a gun in place of arc, but he missed. Burroughs was convicted of manslaughter in Vollmer's death, an event that deeply permeated all of his writings. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997.
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Born 1915-03-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Richter died in his home outside Moscow due to a heart attack, after a long period of depression caused by his inability to perform in public. At the time of his death, Richter was learning Schubert's Fünf Klavierstucke, D.
During the taping of the documentary titled "Enigma", Richter claimed he never practiced more than 2 or 3 hours a day (except when he had to learn a piece on short notice). That statement, however, is demonstrably false. In fact, it is known that Richter routinely practiced for more than 10 hours a day, obsessively laboring over details, which may reflect Richter's constantly self-deprecating nature.
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Born 1969-08-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
The first murder of the spree was that of his friend Jeffrey Trail, a former US Naval Officer and propane salesman on April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The next victim was architect David Madson, who was found on the east shore of Rush Lake Near Rush City, MN after the Minnesota Corrections Association Fishing Tournament on April 29, 1997 with gunshot wounds to the head. Police recognized a connection, as Trail's body had been found in Madson's Minneapolis loft apartment, and started an intensive nationwide manhunt.
Cunanan next drove to Chicago and killed prominent real-estate developer Lee Miglin, 72, on May 4, 1997. Five days later, the intensive manhunt for Cunanan, who escaped in Miglin's car, culminated with the fourth victim in Pennsville, New Jersey, at the Finn's Point National Cemetery, killing caretaker William Reese, 45, on May 9, 1997. Cunanan apparently killed him for his pick-up truck, while leaving Miglin's car behind.
While the manhunt focused on Reese's truck, Cunanan remained in hiding in Miami Beach, Florida, for months between his fourth and fifth murders. Finally, for his fifth murder he chose fashion designer Gianni Versace, who was killed on July 15, 1997.
Eight days later, Cunanan committed suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat apparently to avoid capture by the police, who finally discovered Reese's stolen truck nearby and obtained tips from neighbors that someone resembling Cunanan was living in the houseboat.
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Born 1928-04-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Accident
Eugene Merle (Gene) Shoemaker was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and along with Edward Chao provided the first conclusive evidence of its origin as an impact crater. He was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research Program. He was killed in a car accident while visiting an impact crater site in Australia. After his death, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector mission.
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Born 1946-12-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Murder
One July morning in the summer of 1997, returning from his customary walk on Ocean Drive, he was gunned down outside his ocean-front mansion in Miami Beach, Florida. He was murdered by spree killer Andrew Cunanan, who committed suicide shortly after the murder. Police reported that Andrew Cunanan had committed suicide using the same handgun that had been used to murder Gianni Versace.
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Born 1927-03-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
Historian
was elected
at Académie française, on march 20,1997, seat n°1. Accidentally ran into his partner during a match of tennis with friends. He hit the soil with his head and was led to the hospital, where he died a few days later, presumably of a heart attack.
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Born 1908-05-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
cardiac arrest and pulmonary embolism following respiratory problems.
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Born 1910-06-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He died at the age of 87 of a heart attack while recovering from a respiratory illness. He is buried in the Cousteau family plot at Saint-André-de-Cubzac Cemetery, Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France.
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Born 1966-11-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Buckley drowned during an evening swim in 1997.
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Born 1923-04-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was an Irish actor whose career spanned four decades. He is better known for his starring roles in two television series, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, and Knight Rider (both the original 1980s television series and a 1991 TV film) as Devon Miles. (In the 1991 TV film, Mulhare's character of Miles was killed.) Edward Mulhare died in his Van Nuys home in Los Angeles of lung cancer in 1997. He was never married. The Team Knight Rider episode "K.R.O.," broadcast 27 October 1997, is dedicated to Edward Mulhare's memory.
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Born 1948-01-01. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Suicide
David Christie was a French singer (mostly disco). He was born in Tarare, France. During the 70s,
he made songs for Gloria Gaynor, Demis Roussos, Joe Dassin, Sylvie Vartan and Tina Charles under the name James Bolden. In 1973 he moved in Antony (92). In 1974 he becomes the father of Nathalie, with an unknown Françoise. His biggest hit was "SADDLE UP" (n°3 in South Africa, n°4 in Swiss, n°6 in France, n°9 in UK).
David committed suicide in Capbreton (Landes). He was in a deep depression because of the death of his daughter Julia, 11, he had with Nina Morato.
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Born 1928-05-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
his films are mainly about society decay, including scatology. Most of the time, they end up in auto-mutilation, run away, or suicide.
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Born 1900-05-03. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Jean Carlu (Bonnières-sur-Seine, France, 1900–1997) was a French graphic designer who specialised in posters. He was a member of a family of architects; his brother Jacques Carlu for example designed the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. He made posters during World War II to promote an increase in American production. The fame of Carlu rests mainly on two posters: for Monsavon and for the Théâtre Pigalle. He also designed a pioneering label for the 1924 vintage of Château Mouton-Rothschild. Carlu also designed posters for the Container Corporation of America, Pan American Airways, and Air France.
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Born 1904-04-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1938-01-07. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
He used to spend many hours at the café la Palette in Paris, where one could hear his famous laughters
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Born 1954-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Gary French Dockery was a police officer in Walden, Tennessee who made world headlines after emerging from a 7½ year coma-like state and started talking enthusiastically, recognizing friends and recalling events from past years.
On September 17, 1988 he was shot in the forehead by a drunken assailant as he responded to a domestic disturbance call. He slipped into what doctors called a persistent vegetative state, unable to communicate except occasionally with eye blinks and groans — indicating that part of his brain was still working.
But on February 11, 1996 he inexplicably stirred and started talking again nonstop, recognizing old friends, recalling the names of his horses, and recalling camping trips. By the second day he had largely become silent again, as he recovered from lung surgery and a serious bout with pneumonia. He never recovered to the same degree again.
A year later, he died at the age of 43, of a blood clot in his lung.
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Born 1926-06-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
Ginsberg called one of his favorite techniques the "eyeball kick" or the "ellipse"; it is a paratactical juxtaposition of two starkly dissimilar images. The line in Howl starting "who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue" contains several examples of eyeball kicks, such as "mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors." The eyeball kick is not only a way to describe the juxtaposition of words, but the structure of poems as a whole and the flow of ideas within poems, the shift between each section of Howl for example. In the following selection "yellow shadow" is an example of an eyeball kick, and the last line of the selection is an example of the haiku-like paratactical shift common in Ginsberg's poetry.
"Lightning's blue glare fills Oklahoma plains, the train rolls east casting yellow shadow on grass Twenty years ago approaching Texas, I saw sheet lightning cover Heaven's corners... An old man catching fireflies on the porch at night watched the Herd Boy cross the Milky Way to meet the Weaving Girl... How can we war against that?" (From Iron Horse, 1972)
Ginsberg also commonly employed catachresis. For example, from Howl: "secret gas station solipsisms of johns" is perhaps designed to make solipsism (a noun used as a verb here) sound like a sexual act. Another example is "what peaches and what penumbra" from "Supermarket in California" is perhaps designed to make penumbra seem like a fruit or like something you can buy in a supermarket.
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Born 1913-08-21. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Foccart was an initiator of what would become known as the Françafrique, a term borrowed from Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of Côte d'Ivoire, by François-Xavier Verschave. This expression would survive until François Mitterrand's 1981 election and the first socialist government of the Fifth Republic (founded in 1958), in particular with Mitterrand's son, Jean-Christophe, nicknamed "Papamadi" ("Papa-told-me").
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Born 1907-04-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like From Here to Eternity, High Noon and A Man for All Seasons.
When a young executive callowly asked Zinnemann to list what he had done in his career, Zinnemann delivered an elegant comeback by reportedly answering, "Sure. You first."
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Born 1932-11-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Kinnosuke Yorozuya was a Japanese actor. Born Kin'ichi Ogawa, son of kabuki actor Kichizō Nakamura III, he entered kabuki and took the name Kinnosuke Nakamura. He took his final surname, Yorozuya, in 1971.
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Born 1972-05-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
He was killed by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. His double-disc set Life After Death, released fifteen days later, hit #1 on the US album charts and was certified diamond in 2000. Biggie was noted for his “loose, easy flow”, dark semi-autobiographical lyrics and storytelling abilities.
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Born 1952-04-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
At the age of forty-three, on December 8, 1995, Bauby, a well-known Parisian, suffered a massive stroke which rendered his brain stem inactive. When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was mute and almost entirely paralysed; he could only move his head a little, grunt, and blink his left eyelid. This rare condition is called locked-in syndrome.
Despite his condition, he authored the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Bauby had to compose and edit the book entirely in his head, and convey it one letter at a time. He had his interlocuter read from a special alphabet which consisted of the letters reordered in accordance with their frequency in the French language. This made dictation more efficient. The book was published in France on March 6, 1997. Bauby died three days after due to heart failure.
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Born 1929-12-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He is perhaps best remembered for his role as detective John Bosley on the television series Charlie's Angels, for which reason he is occasionally mixed up with TV actor Tom Bosley.
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Born 1904-08-22. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Deng Xiaoping died from a lung infection and Parkinson's disease, but his influence continued. Even though Jiang Zemin was in firm control, government policies maintained Deng's ideas, thoughts, methods, and direction.