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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 1914-12-04. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a cinematographer.
He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir and nephew of director Jean Renoir. He was also the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
He lost his sight in 1978.
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Born 1943-04-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was a French American actor. He is best remembered for his roles as the evil henchman, Nick Nack, in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, and for playing Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the 1977–1984 American television series Fantasy Island, where his catch phrase was "Ze plane! Ze plane!" n the early morning hours of September 4, 1993, Villechaize is believed to have first fired a shot through the sliding glass patio door to awaken his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self, before shooting himself at his North Hollywood home. Self found Villechaize in his backyard, and he was pronounced dead at a North Hollywood facility. Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems. Villechaize was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his small body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.
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Born 1937-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Robert Anson Jordan Jr. was an American stage, screen, and television actor. A long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, he performed in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include Logan's Run, Les Misérables, Old Boyfriends, Raise the Titanic, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, Interiors, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Success, Timebomb, The Hunt for Red October, Posse and Gettysburg. By 1993, his health began to fail and he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Cast as Dr. Charles Nichols, he was filming The Fugitive in April 1993 when his illness forced him to withdraw. He was replaced by Jeroen Krabbe.
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Born 1913-05-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Luciano Charles "Charlie" Scorsese was an American film actor, and the father of director Martin Scorsese. Scorsese was born in New York City, the son of Teresa and Francesco Scorsese, Sicilian immigrants from Polizzi Generosa, a small town near Palermo. He married Catherine Cappa in 1933. He was the father of Academy Award-winning film director Martin Scorsese. In 1976 he made his first film appearance in Taxi Driver, albeit in a still newspaper photograph with his wife, as Iris’ Father. He later appeared in his son’s 1980 film, Raging Bull, where he played "Charlie.” He featured in the gangster film Goodfellas in 1990, portraying "Vinnie" who was based on the real-life gangster Thomas Agro.
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Born 1965-11-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993. Lewis suffered sudden cardiac death on the basketball court at an off-season practice on July 27, 1993 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was only 27 years old. Lewis had shown symptoms of heart problems in the preceding months (including collapsing during the opening game of their first-round playoff series with the Charlotte Hornets), and the cause of his death was subsequently attributed to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a structural heart defect that is considered the most common cause of death in young athletes.
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Born 1955-01-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was a lawyer for the law firm of Holden Day Wilson in Toronto who became notorious for the circumstances of his death. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the glass windows of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable, He threw himself at a glass wall on the 24th floor. The glass did not break, but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death. Garry Hoy was a respected corporate and securities law specialist in Toronto. He had also completed an engineering degree before studying law. The firm's spokesman mentioned that the glass, in fact, did not break, but popped out of its frame, leading to Hoy's fatal plunge.
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Born 1907-07-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
One of the most significative poet of his time.
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Born 1908-10-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Marcel Béalu was born in Selles-sur-Cher and raised in impoverished circumstances in Saumur. In 1951, Marcel Béalu set himself up in business as a Parisian bookseller. He named his store, after a comment on his work by Jean Paulhan, Le Pont Traversé, or "the Crossed Bridge." The store, which sold all manner of strange works in addition to the more familiar bookshop fare, moved several times, at one time into a former butcher's shop at 62 rue de Vaugirard. One of his first customers was pre-eminent French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, who purchased a complete edition of Shakespeare — for which he never paid. His writing was admired by Jean Paulhan and Antonin Artaud, but as yet his literary reputation has not fully developed. Only one of his works, L’Expérience de la nuit, has been translated into English (by Christine Donougher, as The Experience of the Night).
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Born 1925-07-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was secretary to Jean-Paul Sartre, after which he was a journalist and reporter for l'Express, Figaro, and Paris-Match. In 1961, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for La pitié de Dieu.
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Born 1947-08-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was married twice: first, to model Suzy Millar, who left him for the actor Richard Burton. His second marriage, to Sarah, resulted in two children.
Soon after retirement, Hunt became an outspoken and entertaining television commentator for the BBC, alongside Murray Walker. Viewers were regularly exposed to his knowledge, insights and dry sense of humour during broadcasts, bringing him a whole new fanbase. He was famous for 'rubbishing' drivers he didn't think were trying hard enough, and although harsh-sounding, his comments were usually in good humour – he once described René Arnoux's comments that non-turbo cars didn't suit the Frenchman's driving skills as "bullshit", while live on the BBC. He was also skilled at reading a race and predicting outcomes to situations on-track. He briefly considered making a comeback to F1 in the mid-80's, and even tested privately for Williams setting competitive lap times, but eventually changed his mind.
Hunt fought depression and alcoholism and despite severe financial setbacks in his business life, approaching his mid-40s it seemed that he had overcome many of his demons (particularly alcohol and tobacco) and had finally achieved happiness. Happiness to Hunt included his new partner Helen, his clean health, his bicycle, his casual approach to dress, his two sons and his Austin A35 van.
Hunt made a brief appearance in the 1979 British silent slapstick comedy "The Plank." He also made an appearance on ITV's Police, Camera, Action! special Crash Test Racers in 2000; this was one of many interviews to be aired posthumously.
This was however not to last long - Hunt died at the age of 45, of a heart attack at his home in Wimbledon, only hours after proposing marriage to Helen.
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Born 1924-03-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was one of the original "Mercury Seven" NASA astronauts. Initially grounded by a heart condition, he would serve as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations. Deke Slayton was responsible for all crew assignments at NASA from November 1963 until March 1972, when he was granted medical clearance to fly as docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. At the time of the flight, he became the oldest person to fly into space.
A long medical program led to him being restored to full flight status in 1972, when he was selected as docking module pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, designed to allow a docking between the American Apollo spacecraft and the Soyuz spacecraft of the Soviet Union (July 17, 1975).
At the end of the flight, a leaking thruster led to the introduction of noxious fumes into the Apollo cabin during landing, and the crew was hospitalized as a precaution in Honolulu, Hawaii, for two weeks. During hospitalization, a lesion was discovered on Slayton's lung and removed. It was determined to be benign.
Shortly after he moved to League City, Texas in 1992, Slayton was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. He succumbed to the illness the following summer.
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Born 1909-05-11. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Bousquet was shot dead by a mentally unstable person.
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Born 1950-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
A few hours before his killing “HB” wrote: " Prisonnier de mes rêves les plus fous : je suis mal assis sur une petite chaise de bambin… Alors, revenons à cette mort dont je sens à peine, mais sûrement, la faux s’affûter sur ma nuque. Mort je le suis, il fallait l’être, je m’y suis préparé…"
He was shot dead of three bullets in the head, by the RAID.
Nicolas Sarkozy tried to participate to the negociation. He was evicted from the spot by Ch. Pasqua, because HB was getting nervous and declarerd he would no longer talk with such a joker.
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Born 1965-01-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Bruce Lee's son.
On March 31, 1993, the 52nd day of a 60-day shooting schedule for The Crow, the scene being filmed involved Lee's character walking into his apartment and discovering his girlfriend being raped by thugs. This would subsequently lead to Eric being brutally killed, along with his girlfriend, by the thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the villains named Funboy in the movie, was supposed to fire a gun at Lee as he walked into his apartment with groceries.
Because the movie's second unit team were running behind schedule, it was decided that dummy cartridges would be made from real cartridges, which had been brought to the set earlier in production. Bruce Merlin, an effects technician, dismantled the live cartridges by removing the bullets, emptying out the gunpowder, detonating the primer and reinserting the bullets. This rendered the cartridges inoperative but realistic in appearance. Merlin and his propmaster, Daniel Kuttner, took initiative to create some blanks by removing live cartridges and replacing the gunpowder with firework powder; the bullets were not reinserted.
Later, a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in a pistol; this caused the bullet to lodge in the forcing cone of the revolver. When the first unit used this gun to shoot the death scene, the chamber was loaded with blanks which had no bullets. However, there was still the bullet in the barrel, which was propelled out by the blank cartridge's explosion. Consequently, Lee was shot and severely wounded as cameras were rolling at the Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. Seconds later, director Alex Proyas stopped the scene, but Lee remained on the floor. Stuntman (and Lee's friend) Jeff Imada ran over to him with a paramedic, and discovered a thin slit an inch below to the right of his navel. By this time, Lee had slipped into unconsciousness and was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered that a bullet was the cause of the damage. They fought for five hours in an attempt to save him, but at 1:04 PM he was pronounced dead.
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Born 1909-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
French actress specialized in playing supporting roles of fat gross women in french movies such as la traversée de paris.
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Born 1906-08-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart attack
Inventor of the polio vaccination
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Born 1970-09-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was a supporter of Liverpool football club injured in the Hillsborough disaster (15 April 1989). He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state whereby the hospital, with the support of his parents, applied for a court order allowing him to 'die with dignity'. As a result he became the first patient in English legal history to be allowed to die by the courts through the withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment
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Born 1893-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She died in her sleep of heart failure.
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Born 1917-10-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1941-04-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (bowel)
In April 1991, Moore underwent an emergency operation for suspected colon cancer, though at the time it was just reported that he had undergone an "emergency stomach operation".
On February 14, 1993, he publicly announced he was suffering from bowel cancer. Three days later, he commentated on an England match against San Marino at Wembley, alongside his friend Jonathan Pearce. That was to be his final ever public appearance.