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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 1915-12-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Legend has it that Sinatra was buried in a blue suit with a flask of Jack Daniel's and a roll of ten dimes which was a gift from his daughter, Tina, along with a card that said "Sleep warm, Poppa - look for me." The ten dimes were a habit dating back to the kidnapping of his son, Frank Sinatra, Jr., due to the kidnappers' demands that negotiations be made via pay phone. A Zippo lighter (which some take to be a reference to his mob connections) is purported to be buried with him as is a pack of Camel cigarettes. The words The Best Is Yet to Come are imprinted on his tombstone.
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Born 1964-03-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Her promising climbing career was cut short by an avalanche on Dhaulagiri on May 13, 1998 that killed her and her Sherpa partner Ang Tsering while they were asleep in their tent. She is remembered for her high spirits and smile.
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Born 1961-02-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu was an English footballer, who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. His 1981 transfer to Nottingham Forest made him Britain's first £1m black footballer. In 1990 Fashanu encountered hostility after becoming the first prominent footballer to identify himself publicly as gay. In 1998 he was questioned by American police when a 17-year-old accused him of sexual assault. The police dropped the allegation because of lack of evidence, but Fashanu committed suicide in May of that year, protesting that he had "already been presumed guilty".
He hanged himself in a deserted lock-up garage he had broken into, in Shoreditch, London, after visiting Chariots Roman Spa (a gay sauna in the area). In his suicide note, he stated: "I realised that I had already been presumed guilty. I do not want to give any more embarrassment to my friends and family"..."I hope the Jesus I love welcomes me, I will at last find peace."
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Born 1907-09-23. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage.
She did an interview about erotic books in 1975 with author and publisher Régine Deforges, yet at the time her authorship of Story of O was still unknown. Desclos publicly admitted that she was the author of The Story of O forty years after the book was published, in an interview with The New Yorker magazine.
She was actively bisexual at times in her life.
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Born 1923-08-09. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Other
Had an affair with F. Mitterrand.
Multiple sclerosis.
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Born 1907-03-08. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Karamanlis retired in 1995, at the age of 88, having won 5 parliamentary elections, and having spent 14 years as Prime Minister, 10 years as President of the Republic, and a total of more than sixty years in active politics. For his long service to democracy and as a pioneer of European integration from the earliest stages of the European Union, Karamanlis was awarded one of the most prestigious European prizes, the Karlspreis in 1978. He died after a short illness in 1998, at the age of 91.
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Born 1928-03-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Hepathitis B
In 1997 Martin Luther King's son Dexter King met with Ray, and publicly supported Ray's efforts to obtain a retrial. Loyd Jowers, a restaurant owner in Memphis, was brought to civil court and sued as being part of a conspiracy to murder Martin Luther King; Jowers was found liable, and the King family was awarded $100 in restitution to show that they were not pursuing the case for financial gain.
Dr. William Pepper, a friend of King in the last year of his life, represented James Earl Ray in a televised mock trial in an attempt to get Ray the trial that he never had. Pepper then represented the King family in a wrongful death civil trial against Loyd Jowers. The King family does not believe Ray had anything to do with the murder of Martin Luther King.
Ray died in prison at the age of 70 from complications related to kidney disease, caused by hepatitis C probably contracted as a result of a blood transfusion given after a stabbing while at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. It was also confirmed in the autopsy that he died of liver failure.
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Born 1914-03-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Born 1941-09-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and her condition soon grew worse as the cancer spread to her liver. McCartney's last words to her were: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue". She died at age 56 on 17 April 1998, at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. She was cremated in Tucson, and her ashes were scattered at McCartney's farm in Sussex, England.
(née Eastman) She was an American photographer, musician, and animal rights activist. She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on 12 March 1969, and was a member of the Wings.
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Born 1965-10-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
His first role was in "Pauline à la plage". He has had scenes in "37°2", but they were all cut out in the commecial version.
« Acteur, c’est le seul métier qu’on peut apprendre tout seul, où l’on ne fait appel qu’à soi et à son imaginaire. Mais je crois que, tous les jours, les acteurs sont tentés de s’arrêter et se disent : Mais pourquoi je n’ouvre pas un restau ? C’est vrai que c’est un peu un métier de fêlé où on alterne de grands moments de doute avec d’autres, plus brefs, où on a un peu confiance en soi. Il faut savoir aller au bord du gouffre, le plus près possible, sans y tomber… »
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Born 1942-07-20. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Heart attack
Bonjour !
Drugs ?
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Born 1919-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was called Jackie Rollin, and married Fernand Sardou, a singer. She is the mother of singer Michel Sardou; and grandmother of Romain Sardou, an author.
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Born 1929-05-26. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
She had been sharing the life of Pierre Brasseur and Gérard Paris.
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Born 1923-06-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was the guru of a religious sect he named the Mandarom. He was charged for multiple rapes and incarcerated in June 1995. He was rapidly released because of his declining health. He died before the trial could take place.
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Born 1903-05-02. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do." Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics. His ideas about childcare influenced several generations of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their children, and to treat them as individuals, whereas the previous conventional wisdom had been that child rearing should focus on building discipline, and that, e.g., babies should not be "spoiled" by picking them up when they cried.
Later in life Spock wrote a book entitled "Dr. Spock on Vietnam" and co-wrote an autobiography entitled "Spock on Spock" (with Mary Morgan Spock), in which he stated his attitude toward aging: "Delay and Deny".
Spock died at his rented home in La Jolla, California after a long battle with cancer. The expenses of his treatment consumed most of his wealth.
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Born 1913-01-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), Little Big Horn (1951) and High Noon (1952). On television, he starred in Sea Hunt from 1958 to 1961. By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such parody films as Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991), and Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998). Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994. Bridges' last film, Jane Austen's Mafia!, which came out the year of his death, bears a dedication to him.
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Born 1906-06-03. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Benjamin George Bowden was a British industrial designer, who is known mostly for his work on automobiles and bicycles. Bowden designed the coachwork of Healey's Elliott, an influential British sports car. He was also the designer of the Spacelander, a space-age bicycle which was commercially unsuccessful when in production, but has since become a collector's item.
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Born 1906-03-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a British-born American comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners" - short, simple jokes delivered rapid-fire. His best known one-liner was "Take my wife ... please."
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Born 1946-12-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Carl Wilson, a heavy smoker, was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in late 1996. Despite his illness and chemotherapy treatments, Carl continued to perform as a gift to his fans. Carl played through the Beach Boys' entire summer tour which ended in the fall of 1997. His death came just three months after the death of his mother, Audree Wilson.
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Born 1937-10-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
He was murdered by Corse' independentists. (firearms)
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Born 1913-09-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Saunders Mac Lane.
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Born 1920-12-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980.
Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Born 1915-02-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications.
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Born 1958-02-27. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Michael Kennedy died at the end of 1997 in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. He was skiing with several other members of the Kennedy family when he hit a tree while they were playing football on skis. Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or other safety equipment, and was reportedly filming the football game on a camcorder.
In 1997, the news broke that Michael Kennedy was having an affair with the family's former babysitter. Allegedly, the affair had begun three years before when the babysitter was a fourteen-year-old teenager, and Kennedy was placed under investigation for statutory rape. However, the babysitter did not cooperate with prosecutors. Shortly after the scandal began, Michael Kennedy and his wife separated. After the affair, Michael Kennedy checked himself into a rehab center for alcoholics.