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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1933-04-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
Montgomery was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the spring of 1995. She had ignored the symptoms of her illness until it was too late during the filming of "Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan." Unwilling to die in a hospital, and with no hope of recovery, she elected to return to her Beverly Hills home that she shared with Robert Foxworth, her last husband. She died there, in the company of her children and Foxworth.
She died just eight weeks after her cancer diagnosis. Her last words were "I cry out! A silver sparrow has flown in the dark night!".
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Born 1914-11-21. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He appeared in the 1980 Alain Resnais film Mon oncle d'Amérique, which is built around the ideas of Laborit and uses the stories of three people to illustrate theories deriving from evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.
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Born 1942-08-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a German film actress. She appeared in 54 films between 1957 and 1994. She played Patricia in the French film "Les tontons flingueurs". She died from cancer in 1995. 9 years earlier, she had already lost her right eye due to a cancerous tumor.
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Born 1923-01-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
María Dolores Flores Ruiz was a Spanish singer, actress, dancer and businesswoman. Popularly known as (La Faraona) since the 1950s, Lola is known for her overwhelming personality onstage. Lola performed more than 35 films, pigeonholed, in many of them, in Andalusian folklore, although she also interpreted rumbas and rancheras. She died at her residence "El Lerele" situated in La Moraleja, municipality of Alcobendas (Madrid), at the age of 72, due to breast cancer that had been diagnosed in 1972. Her funeral chapel was installed in the Cultural Center of the Villa (now Teatro Fernán Gómez) of Madrid, in Plaza de Colón (Colón's square). In an open and shrouded coffin with a white blanket, all her admirers and friends could come and see her. She was taken to the Cemetery of the Almudena in Madrid where she was buried. It was one of the burials most remembered by the number of people who came; the funeral was broadcast live on television. Fifteen days after her death, on May 31, 1995, her son Antonio Flores (aged 33) was found dead in the family residence of "El Lerele".
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Born 1911-07-03. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Isorni was a French lawyer and memoirist. He came to prominence for his role as defending counsel in a number of cases involving prominent figures on the far right as well as for his own involvement in right wing politics. Isorni came to wider prominence in the immediate post-war years when he was chosen to defend Robert Brasillach and then Pétain himself in their trials for collaboration with Nazi Germany. However Isorni's earlier success rates deserted him as not only were both men found guilty both were also sentenced to death, albeit with the sentence commuted to life in the latter case on account of the Marshal's age and fragile mental state.
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Born 1911-08-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
There are persistent rumours that other Soviet players were coerced or forced to "throw" games to allow Botvinnik to win or keep the World Championship. These rumours usually centre around Keres (who lost his first 4 games to Botvinnik at the 1948 Championship Tournament), and Bronstein (who seemed to prematurely resign the penultimate game of their 1951 Championship Match). These rumours ave never conclusively been proven or disproven and continue to generate debate.
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Born 1911-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1927-02-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
kidney cancer.
In East Germany, Guillaume was received and celebrated as a hero, worked as a spy trainer, and published his autobiography Die Aussage in 1988. Guillaume and East German spymaster Markus Wolf have said that Willy Brandt's resignation was not intended, and that the affair is among the Stasi's biggest mistakes.
Guillaume changed his name for Broehl after marrying a nurse with whom he had had an affair from the first day of his arrival in East Germany.
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Born 1932-01-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
He participated to the creation of the Algerian film society "Casbah films".
He portrayed typical arabic types in "Dupont la joie" and "Les sous-doués".
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Born 1971-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
In early 1995, the Quintanillas discovered that Yolanda Saldívar, the president of Selena's fan club and the manager of her boutiques, was stealing money from the boutiques and decided to fire her. Soon after the fallout, Selena agreed to meet Saldívar in a Days Inn hotel in Corpus Christi on the morning of March 31, 1995 to retrieve paperwork for tax purposes.
At the hotel, Selena demanded the missing financial papers. Saldívar delayed the handover by claiming she had been raped in Mexico. The singer drove Saldívar to a local hospital where doctors found no evidence of rape. Saldívar returned to the motel where Selena again demanded the missing financial papers.
An argument ensued and Saldívar drew a gun from her purse, pointing it first at her own head and then at Selena. As the singer turned and left the room, Saldívar shot her once in the back. Selena fled to the manager's office in the lobby for help, with Saldívar chasing her, calling her a "bitch". Before collapsing to the floor, Selena named Saldívar as her assailant and gave the room number where she had been shot. After an ambulance and the police arrived on the scene, Selena was transported to a local hospital. She died there from loss of blood at 1:05 p.m., at the age of 23.
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Born 1924-08-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
"La vieille dame indigne"
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Born 1952-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Having contracted HIV via heroin abuse, Rick Aviles died in Los Angeles, California, from AIDS complications.
In 1990, Rick auditioned and landed his most memorable role. He was cast as Willie Lopez, Sam Wheat's killer, in the movie Ghost.
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Born 1891-11-22. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He is considered one of the fathers of the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the subconscious.
He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the 'herd instinct' that Trotter had described. Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.
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Born 1907-06-28. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
He was born in Geneva Switzerland. He graduated from École Centrale de Lyon in 1928. Paul-Émile Victor was the initiator of the Expéditions polaires françaises, the French polar expedition after the Second World War. Mount Victor, in the Belgica Mountains of Antarctica, is named after him.
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Born 1923-03-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
One member of "les compagnons de la chanson". Baryton.
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Born 1923-04-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
Gazzo was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Frank Pentangeli in The Godfather Part II.
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Born 1921-01-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
She was an alcoholic who never had a relationship that lasted for more than a few years, and was seen by some of her contemporaries and acquaintances as misanthropic and cruel. She famously preferred the company of animals to that of people, and once said, "My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."
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Born 1919-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
He died at the age of 75 in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France from complications from heart valve replacement surgery.
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Born 1915-01-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was raised atheist from his parents but when he was 20 years-old converted to Roman Catholicism. He was baptized on July 8, 1935, in the chapelle des religieuses de l’Adoration.
He was also one of the closest French friends of Pope John Paul II.
He had a chronicle in le Figaro until his death (Cavalier seul).
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Born 1975-12-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Solenn, committed suicide at a Paris metro station (Les Sablons), having been a long-term anorexic.
In her farewel message to her father she wrote: Thank you for everything, but I don't like the life. I want to be incenerated and kept in a little box, but not thrown to the sea"
Since then, her plight has become the symbol in France of the problems of anorexia and bulimia, with Poivre becoming a noted campaigner and writer on the issue. In December 2004, Bernadette Chirac, wife of the French President Jacques Chirac, whose daughter has also suffered from the disorder, opened a new treatment centre in Paris for adolescents with the condition and named it “Maison de Solenn” in memory of Solenn.
Poivre caused controversy by presenting his regular news bulletin the very next evening after Solenn's death.
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Born 1942-08-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
In 1988, he allegedly beat his second wife Alicia Muñiz so many times that she, scared and bloody, ran to the balcony of their second floor apartment. According to the investigation performed later, he followed her there, grabbed her by the neck, and then picked her up and pushed her off the balcony, to her death, after which he followed her in the fall injuring a shoulder. Upon hearing his sentence, Monzón did not show any remorse for what had happened.
In 1995, he was given a weekend furlough to visit his family and kids, and upon returning to jail after the weekend, he crashed near the jail building, dying instantly. There have been rumors that he committed suicide by crashing the car, but there has been no evidence found that supports that claim.
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Born 1891-12-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Because of injuries suffered in WWI, his right arm was paralyzed.
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Born 1912-07-09. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
Chansonnier in the caveau de la République.
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Born 1927-01-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1908-01-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Stander's acting career was derailed when he was blacklisted during the 1950s after being exposed as a Communist Party member during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. In his own HUAC testimony in May 1953, Stander denounced HUAC's use of informers, particularly those with mental problems.
It was his gruff, foghorn voice that made his fortune.
Stander is best remembered for playing Max on TV's "Hart to Hart" (1979) (1979-84) with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers, a role he re-prised in a series of "Hart to Hart" TV movies.
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Born 1931-12-28. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Suicide
His lifelong steady alcohol consumption began to take a toll on his health. Apparently to end the suffering from a form of polyneuritis brought on by his excessive drinking, he committed suicide, shooting himself in the heart at his cottage in Champot.
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Born 1960-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Dahmer along with another inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin was beaten to death with a bar from a weight machine while cleaning the prison gym. The cause of death was ruled as severe head trauma.
This was not the first attempt on Dahmer's life. Previously during his prison sentence, a different inmate tried to murder him by slitting his throat after a church service, but was unable to kill him.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was one of America's most notorious serial killers who is well known for picking up gay men at bars and taking them back to his apartment where he tortured, performed experiments on, murdered and ate his victims.
He took the lives of seventeen known victims in Wisconsin and Ohio from 1978 to 1991.