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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1912-01-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Other
Parkinson disease.
1st seat at académie française. succesor of Louis de Broglie.
L'humoriste Coluche a raillé dans son sketch L'Ancien Combattant (1975) l'image un rien austère de l'ancien Premier ministre, en l'imaginant en boute-en-train lors des banquets des commémoration militaires : « T'entends un bouchon qui saute : c'est Debrééé ! Y en a un qui s'endort pendant le discours de Malraux : c'est Debrééé ! Y en a un qui s'met un entonnoir pour faire rigoler les copains, dites-le avec moi : [avec le public] C'est Debréééé ! Alors, j'invente rien, tout le monde le dit… »
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Born 1903-09-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
David O. Selznick wrote in a memo that they had rebuilt several sets of Since You Went Away (1944) "because of her refusal to have the right side of her face photographed, on top of which we have to pay her not only a fabulous salary, but also give her two days off a month, which works out to $5000 every four weeks for doing absolutely nothing, and now she's demanding three.... Tell her there's a war on and we all have to make some sacrifices."
Colbert suffered a stroke in 1994 and never fully recovered; it curtailed her daily swims and speedboat rides. She died at her oceanfront home in the former British colony, Barbados at the age of 92, following a series of small strokes during the last two years of her life.
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Born 1925-02-02. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Michel Paul Philippot was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator. Philippot was born in Verzy. His studies of mathematics were interrupted by World War II, after which he decided instead to study music, first at the Conservatory of Reims, and then at the Paris Conservatoire (1945–48), where he studied harmony with Georges Dandelot. He also took private composition lessons from 1946 to 1950 with René Leibowitz, who introduced him to the music of the Second Viennese School. In 1949 he began a career at ORTF in a position as a music producer. In 1959 he became assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, and later worked under Henri Barraud at France-Culture.
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Born 1951-08-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
Country and western music. He was a personal friend of country star Chet Atkins.
Dadi was one of the 230 people killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island. He was returning from the United States to France after being honored at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Born 1915-04-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
Paul Touvier died of prostate cancer in Fresnes prison near Paris.
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Born 1961-12-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American musician active in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the brother of Susannah and Wendy Melvoin of Prince and the Revolution. He first learned to play drums. He died in New York City of a drug overdose involving heroin at age 34. Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, present at the scene, tried but failed to revive him. There is much mystery and speculation about what events actually took place. Chamberlin was allegedly advised by 9-1-1 operators to put Melvoin's head in the shower in an attempt to revive him until paramedics arrived. Melvoin was pronounced dead at the scene. Chamberlin was subsequently fired from the band. According to the band, there had been previous overdoses by both Melvoin and Chamberlin. Melvoin had already been fired, but was continuing to tour with The Smashing Pumpkins until the end of the tour leg. Melvoin's replacement was The Frogs' Dennis Flemion. His last gig with the Pumpkins was at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland.
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Born 1907-07-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Death due to pancreatic cancer, stroke and pneumonia. He was a prominent American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and by detractors as 'Melvin Bellicose'. He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, Sirhan Sirhan, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha Mitchell, Lana Turner, Tony Curtis, and Mae West. He won over USD $600,000,000 in judgments during his legal career.
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Born 1954-02-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Hemingway was named for the wine, Château Margaux, which her parents, Puck and Jack Hemingway (he the son of Ernest), were drinking the night she was conceived.
On July 1, 1996, the day before the 35th anniversary of her grandfather's suicide, Hemingway was found dead in her studio apartment. She had taken an overdose of phenobarbital.
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Born 1919-02-05. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was hospitalized with advanced heart disease and kidney failure on November 20, 1995 and finally retired from office on January 16, 1996.
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Born 1922-07-18. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer
An epistemological paradigm shift was called a scientific revolution by epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.
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Born 1917-04-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Already blinded by the effects of diabetes, Fitzgerald had both her legs amputated in 1993. In 1996 she died of the disease in Beverly Hills, California.
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Born 1902-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
She is best known for the creation and the animation of a radio broadcast "les français donnent aux français" from 1947 to 1981 on France Inter.
She was the daughter of the journalist and writer Pierre Mille.
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Born 1920-10-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
Advocate of psychedelic drug research and use.
In early 1995, Leary discovered that he was terminally ill with inoperable prostate cancer. He did not reveal the condition to the press upon diagnosis, but did so after the death of Jerry Garcia in August.
Leary authored an outline for a book called Design for Dying, which attempted to show people a new perspective of death and dying. "The most important thing you do in your life is to die" he claimed happily, welcoming death with the same energetic excitement he had welcomed most other challenges in his life. Leary's de facto "family"--his staff of technophilic Gen Xers--updated his website on a daily basis as a sort of proto-blog, noting his daily intake of various illicit and legal chemical substances, with a predilection for nitrous oxide, cigarettes, his trademark "Leary biscuits", and eventually heroin and morphine. His sterile house was completely redecorated by the staff, who had more or less moved in, with an array of surreal ornamentation. In his final months thousands of visitors, well wishers and old friends visited him in his California home. Until the final weeks of his illness, Leary gave many interviews discussing his new philosophy of embracing death.
For a number of years, Leary was reported to have been excited by the possibility of freezing his body in cryonic suspension. He didn't believe that he would be resurrected in the future, but he recognized the importance of cryonic possibilities. He called it his "duty as a futurist," and helped publicize the process. Privately he dismissed cryonics as "a joke" and did not seem to regard the process with much seriousness. Leary had relationships with two cryonic organizations, the original ALCOR and then the offshoot CRYOCARE. A cryonic tank was delivered to Leary's house in the months before his death. However, Leary subsequently requested that his body be cremated, which it was, and distributed among his friends and family.
Leary's death was videotaped for posterity at his request, capturing his final words. This video has never been publicly seen but will be included in a documentary currently in production[citation needed]. At one point in his final delirium, he said, "Why not?" to his son Zachary. He uttered the phrase repeatedly, in different intonations and died soon after. His last word, according to Zach Leary, was "beautiful". With the movie Timothy Leary's Dead, filmmakers capitalized on his initial desire for cryogenic preservation by creating a fake decapitation sequence.
Seven grams of Leary's ashes were arranged by his friend at Celestis to be buried in space aboard a rocket carrying the remains of 24 other people including Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek), Gerard O'Neill (space physicist), Krafft Ehricke (rocket scientist), and others. A Pegasus rocket containing their remains was launched on February 9, 1997, and remained in orbit for six years until it burnt up in the atmosphere.
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Born 1909-01-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
In Dupont Lajoie (1975) by Yves Boisset, He was the legist.
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Born 1919-12-15. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
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Born 1927-08-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Pulmonary embolism.
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Born 1920-05-08. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an American graphic designer and Oscar winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. Bass designed some of the most iconic corporate logos in North America, including the AT&T "bell" logo in 1969, as well as AT&T's "globe" logo in 1983 after the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 "jetstream" logo and United Airlines' 1974 "tulip" logo which became some of the most recognized airline industry logos of the era.
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Born 1926-05-28. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
Patron of the Alcazar and other "revues"
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Born 1920-01-31. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Robert Hersant founded the rightist political party Jeune Front in 1940. He was selling a very antisemist newspaper "le pilori" founded by the Kommandantur. He was sentenced in 1947 to 10 years of national indignity for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
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Born 1909-07-03. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
His third wife was Eugenia Livanos, a daughter of shipping magnate Stavros G. Livanos; they divorced in 1965, and she died in 1970, at the age of 44, after an overdose of barbiturates. During this marriage he had an affair with Pamela Churchill (later Pamela Harriman). His fourth wife was American automotive heiress and socialite Charlotte Ford (a daughter of Henry Ford II) in Mexico. Ford was at the time pregnant with their daughter, Elena Anne Ford, and the child was born six months later. The marriage ended in divorce the following year, whereupon Niarchos returned to his former wife, Eugenia. No remarriage was necessary, since the couple's 1965 Mexican divorce was not recognized in Greece. in 1971, Niarchos married his wife Eugenia's sister, Athina, Marchioness of Blandford, who had been the first wife of Aristotle Onassis. She also died from an overdose, in 1974.
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Born 1906-08-21. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Founder of Publicis.
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Born 1988-05-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
She was a seven-year-old pilot trainee who died attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States. The NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the accident was Reid's "improper decision to take off into deteriorating weather conditions (including turbulence, gusty winds, and an advancing thunderstorm and associated precipitation) when the airplane was overweight and when the density altitude was higher than he was accustomed to, resulting in a stall caused by failure to maintain airspeed." The NTSB further determined that "contributing to the pilot in command’s decision to take off was a desire to adhere to an overly ambitious itinerary, in part, because of media commitments."
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Born 1924-10-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Pinot in week-end at Zuydcoote.
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Born 1918-06-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American motion picture actor who was mainly cast in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy.
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Born 1946-06-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
After Hendrix's death, Dannemann became romantically involved with German rock guitarist Uli Jon Roth, formerly of the Scorpions, with whom she collaborated on several songs (notably "We'll Burn the Sky")
In 1996 Monika Dannemann was convicted of breaking a British High Court order not to repeat allegations that Kathy Etchingham was an "inveterate liar" for accusing her of playing a role in Jimi Hendrix's death. Etchingham asked the judge to jail Dannemann but she was released. Two days later Monika Dannemann was found dead in a fume-filled Mercedes-Benz near her cottage in Seaford, East Sussex. Her death was ruled a suicide, though Uli Jon Roth suggested that foul play may have been involved, as Dannemann had received numerous death threats following Hendrix's death.
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Born 1928-04-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Verna Charlene Stavely, professionally known as Charlene Holt, was an American actress known for her supporting roles in television and film.