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Tait Peter Guthrie (b. 1831-04-28 / d. 1901-07-04)
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory. His work on knot theory contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait-Kneser theorem on osculating circles.
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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.
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Born 1916-04-28. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Ferrari insulted Lamborghini, effectively stating that a tractor manufacturer was not qualified to criticize Ferraris. Affronted by Ferrari's reaction, Lamborghini decided to "build better cars than Ferrari" and to prove that supercars did not have to be as temperamental as Ferraris. In order to achieve his goal, he founded his own rival sports car manufacturer near the Ferrari factory, and hired ex-Ferrari engineers Gianpaolo Dallara and Bob Wallace to design and develop the cars.
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Born 1952-04-17. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Cancer
He died of bone cancer.
He was a TV and radio presenter (le juste prix, une famille en or, with Philippe Risoli and Christian Morin).
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Born 1943-07-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:AIDS
In 1979, Ashe suffered a heart attack, an event that surprised the public in view of his high level of fitness as an athlete. His condition drew attention to the hereditary aspect of heart disease. After a quadruple coronary-bypass operation, he appeared to have made a full recovery, but was obliged to give up competitive tennis.
The story of Ashe's life turned from success to tragedy in 1988, however, when Ashe discovered he had contracted HIV during the blood transfusions he had received during one of his two heart surgeries. He and his wife kept his illness private until April 8, 1992, when reports that the newspaper USA Today was about to publish a story about his condition forced him to make a public announcement that he had the disease. In the last year of his life, Arthur Ashe did much to call attention to AIDS sufferers worldwide. Two months before his death, he founded the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, to help address issues of inadequate health care delivery and was named Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year. He also spent much of the last years of his life writing his memoir Days of Grace, finishing the manuscript less than a week before his death.
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Born 1946-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart
Best known as André the Giant, he was a French professional wrestler and actor. His great size was a result of a condition known as acromegaly, and led to him being dubbed "The Eighth Wonder of the World."
In the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Roussimoff briefly held the WWF Championship. In 1993, he was the first inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame. Roussimoff was one of the most famous professional wrestlers of the 1970s and 1980s, and was involved in a legendary match with Hulk Hogan in 1987 at WrestleMania III.
Andre the Giant was the largest athlete the world had ever seen, and was sports-entertainment’s most famous attraction throughout the 1970s and much of the 1980s. Standing 7 feet 4 inches (2m24) tall and weighing between 475 and 540 pounds over the course of his career, he truly earned his nickname
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Born 1929-05-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
The future actress's father later appended the surname of his maternal grandmother Kathleen Hepburn to the family's, and her surname became Hepburn-Ruston.
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Born 1917-10-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
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Born 1938-03-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:AIDS
He socialized with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, but he developed an intolerance for non-celebrities.
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Born 1928-06-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart attack
After his death, the studio continued, and new stories in different series still appear under his name.
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Born 1930-01-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Micheline Luccioni, née Micheline Jeanne Labourot was a French actress.
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Born 1909-01-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In the last years of his life Andrews suffered from Alzheimer's disease and in 1992 he died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia.
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Born 1920-01-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an Italian-American stage, film, and television actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor two times for Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) and Moonstruck (1987). He also portrayed Det. Frank Ochoa in Death Wish (1974) and its 1982 sequel and Mr. Mushnik in the 1986 musical film version of Little Shop of Horrors.
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Born 1921-04-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Connors was frequently a supporter of the Republican Party and attended several fundraisers for campaigns of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Connors was introduced to Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union at a party given by Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, in June, 1973. Upon boarding his airplane bound for Moscow, Brezhnev noticed Connors in the crowd and went back to him, to shake hands, and jokingly jumped up into Connor's towering hug. The Rifleman was one of the few American shows allowed on Russian television at that time because it was Brezhnev's favorite. Connors and Brezhnev got along so well that Connors traveled to the Soviet Union in December 1973. In 1982, Connors expressed an interest in traveling to the Soviet Union for Brezhnev's funeral, but the U.S. government would not allow him to be part of the official delegation.
Connors died in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-one of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer.
Soylent Green (1973) ... as Tab Fielding
Flipper (1963) ... as Sandy's Dad
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Born 1913-12-18. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm in Lübeck, Germany to Martha Frahm, an unwed mother who worked as a cashier for a department store. His father was an accountant from Hamburg by the name of John Möller, whom Brandt never met.
In 1933, using his connections with the port and its ships from the time he had been apprentice, he left Germany for Norway on a ship to escape Nazi persecution. It was at this time that he adopted the pseudonym Willy Brandt to avoid detection by Nazi agents. In 1934, he took part in the founding of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Youth Organizations, and was elected to its Secretariat.
The Guillaume affair and several revelations about Brandt's private life (he had had some short-lived affairs) appeared in newspapers. Brandt contemplated suicide and even drafted a suicide note. He chose instead to accept responsibility for Guillaume, and resigned on May 7, 1974.
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Born 1922-05-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Privately bisexual, Elliott was married twice, the first time to the British actress Virginia McKenna for a few months in 1954, and the second an open marriage to actress Susan Robinson, with whom he had two children. His daughter Jennifer Elliott (born in 1964) died by suicide (hanging) in 2003. Denholm Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987, and died in 1992 of AIDS-related tuberculosis at the age of 70 at his home on Ibiza, Spain.
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Born 1926-07-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician working in number theory, geometry and combinatorial group theory. He is best known for his discovery of the Leech lattice in 1965.
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Born 1932-04-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Quote: "I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life."
Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 60s film star Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson. He claimed to have been exclusively homosexual until his late thirties, when he met the actress Victoria Principal.
One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, his widow, Berry Berenson, was killed on American Airlines Flight 11.
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Born 1918-11-03. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a TV Director.
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Born 1930-04-30. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Heart attack
La Borde was a venue for conversation amongst innumerable students of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and social work. La Borde was Félix Guattari's principal anchoring until he died of a heart attack in 1992.
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Born 1925-12-20. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He is considered an early master of the Ligne claire style. He wrote and drew several comics series on his own, but also collaborated with Hergé on several volumes of The Adventures of Tintin.
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Born 1933-12-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was the prime suspect in the Zodiac murders. Although he was never charged in the case, many believed him to have been the infamous Zodiac serial killer.
Allen was a diabetic and died in 1992 of a heart attack at the age of 58. Allen had been working at a hardware store for over a decade before his death.