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Soltan Petru (b. 1931-06-29 / d. 2016-07-15)
He was a Moldovan mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Petru Soltan was a member of the Mathematical Society of Moldova. Petru Soltan served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1994) and is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.
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Born 1920-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It stars Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori.
The film has an unusual narrative structure that reflects the impossibility of obtaining the truth about an event when there are conflicting witness accounts. In English and other languages, 'Rashomon' has become a byword for any situation in which the truth of an event is difficult to verify due to the conflicting accounts of different witnesses. In psychology, the film has lent its name to the 'Rashomon effect'.
In 1992, Mifune began suffering from a serious health problem, the exact nature of which is not fully known. It has been variously suggested that he destroyed his health with overwork, suffered a heart attack, or experienced a stroke. For whatever reason, he abruptly retreated from public life and remained largely confined to his home, cared for by his estranged wife Sachiko. When she succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 1995, Mifune's physical and mental state began to decline rapidly.
He died in Mitaka, Japan, of multiple organ failure at the age of 77.
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Born 1925-07-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1964-02-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
His younger brother John found Farley dead in his apartment on the sixtieth floor of the John Hancock Center in Chicago. An autopsy later revealed that Farley had overdosed on a combination of cocaine and morphine (a speedball) with advanced atherosclerosis cited as a "significant contributing factor" in his death. Farley's death was similar to the death of John Belushi, a comedian and actor who, like Farley, starred in Saturday Night Live. Both died at age 33 of a drug overdose.
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Born 1964-04-19. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Son of Umberto Agnelli.
Died of a very rare form of cancer.
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Born 1915-08-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
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Born 1908-01-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Grappelli's music is played very quietly, almost inaudibly, on Pink Floyd's album Wish You Were Here. The violinist was not credited, according to Roger Waters, in order to avoid "a bit of an insult".
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Born 1920-01-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
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Born 1930-06-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection
septicemia
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Born 1960-01-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
The new INXS album, Elegantly Wasted, was released in April 1997. Hutchence and INXS went on a world tour. The final leg of the tour was to be in Australia in November and December. However, on the morning of November 22, 1997, Hutchence, aged 37, was found dead in his room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney (now the Stamford Plaza). A belt found at the scene suggested that he had died by hanging.
The Coroner of New South Wales determined that Hutchence's death was the result of suicide but analysis of the witness statements in the Coroner's report, the lack of a suicide note and other anecdotal evidence, such as the fact that Hutchence was found nude has led some - including some of Hutchence's closest relatives, including his brother - to suggest that the cause of death may have resulted from autoerotic asphyxiation.
Kym Wilson and her then boyfriend Andrew Reyment were the last people to see Michael alive. Kym later became known as the "Suicide Blonde", after one of INXS' hits, which was originally written for Kylie Minogue.
Michael Hutchence's coffin was carried out of St. Andrews Cathedral by members of the band and his younger brother Rhett. "Never Tear Us Apart" was played in the background. The song is now known to many original fans as his anthem.
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Born 1920-06-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Heart failure at the hospital la Riboisière
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Born 1905-01-08. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").
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Born 1922-05-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1906-07-18. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. He died at his home in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, at the age of 91.
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Born 1912-08-12. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
The French New Wave claimed Fuller as a major stylistic influence. His visual style and rhythm were seen as distinctly American, and praised for their energetic simplicity. He makes a cameo appearance in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965), where he famously intones, Film is like a battleground... Love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word, emotion! He plays a film director in Dennis Hopper's ill-fated The Last Movie (1971). Martin Scorsese praised Fuller's ability to capture action through camera movement. Recently, Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch credited Fuller as influential upon their works.
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Born 1931-12-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
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Born 1907-06-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1926-04-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Scottish actor, who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s. He was also active in television, and particularly in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s. He is most remembered for starring as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Hammer's film version of Quatermass and the Pit (1967). He also originated the role of Thomas Cromwell in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons in 1960.
His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing "considerable range and undeniable distinction."
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Born 1962-05-22. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
He was an American football player and professional wrestler best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling.
Pillman died in a Bloomington, Minnesota motel room. He was 35 years old. An autopsy found that a previously undetected heart condition - arteriosclerotic heart disease - had led to his death. He had been scheduled to face Dude Love (Mick Foley) on the pay-per-view. Pillman did not know that he was about to become a father once again when he died. On Raw the next night, he received a ten-bell salute.
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Born 1915-02-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1929-08-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
In 1982, he held his first retirement match against King Kong Bundy in the newly renamed World Class Championship Wrestling promotion, based in Dallas. Within a 10-year span, four of the remaining five Adkisson sons died premature deaths: David, 25 years of age, died in 1984 under circumstances that are still debated today. His cause of death was officially listed as acute gastroenteritis, but many believe, despite considerable evidence supporting the official cause, that he actually died of a drug overdose. Ric Flair implies this in his autobiography To Be The Man, stating that Bruiser Brody destroyed evidence pointing to an overdose. Mike died of a self-inflicted drug overdose in 1987 at the age of 23. He had apparently never completely recovered from a near-fatal bout with toxic shock syndrome, a condition very rarely seen in men, in 1985. Chris, depressed over his brothers deaths and his inability to excel as a wrestler, committed suicide in 1991 at the age of 21. Kerry, the most successful in the ring, also committed suicide in 1993 after well-documented substance abuse problems. He was 33 years old. Kevin is the only survivor of the Adkisson sons. Fritz's wife Doris divorced him in 1992, and he died of brain and lung cancer
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Born 1907-11-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was known for portraying Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and The Penguin in the television series Batman. Contemporary fans recall him as "Grandpa Gustavson" (Jack Lemmon's father) in the films Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Meredith died of Alzheimer's disease and melanoma at the age of 88. He was cremated and his ashes were either given to a friend or family.
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Born 1930-10-14. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
His disastrous mismanagement of his country's economy, and enriching himself off its financial and natural resources, makes his name synonymous with kleptocracy in Africa.
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Born 1951-07-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Elisabeth Brooks Luyties was a Canadian actress. Elisabeth is probably best remembered for her role as the evil, leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in The Howling (1981). Her other film appearances included Deep Space (1988), and The Forgotten One (1989), starring Kristy McNichol. Elisabeth was born in Toronto, Ontario, and adopted by William Harrison "Sandy" Luyties Jr. (1927–1996) and his wife Joan (née Brooks; 1935–2010) when she was six months old. After a two and half year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in Haven Hospice near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46.
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Born 1910-10-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Solti was born György Stern in Budapest, where he learned the piano and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. His father Germanized young György's given name to Georg and changed his family name to Solti, to shield his son from antisemitism. By 1935 he was gaining recognition as a conductor, and made his debut at the Budapest Opera in 1938 with The Marriage of Figaro.
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Born 1910-08-26. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Heart attack
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian Gonxha for "rosebud") was born in Skopje, now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Although she was born on August 26, 1910, she considered August 27, 1910, the day she was baptized, to be her "true birthday.
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Born 1905-03-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".
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Born 1955-04-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Todaille, Dodaille and Lady Daille dailled.