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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1968-02-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Christopher Johnson McCandless, also known by his nickname Alexander Supertramp, was an American hiker who sought an increasingly itinerant lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length feature film. After graduating from Emory University in Georgia in 1990, McCandless traveled across North America and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he entered the Alaskan bush with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. On the eastern bank of the Sushana River, McCandless found an abandoned bus, Fairbanks Bus 142, which he used as a makeshift shelter until his death. In September, his decomposing body, weighing only 67 pounds (30 kg), was found inside the bus by a hunter. McCandless' cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation, although the exact circumstances relating to his death remain the subject of some debate.
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Born 1932-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Girlfriend of Jacques Brel. He wrote "ne me quitte pas" for her, although he was the one who left.
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Born 1954-04-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Jeff Porcaro suffered a fatal and completely unexpected heart attack on August 5, 1992 at the age of 38. He was using a pesticide in his yard and an allergic reaction to the substance triggered the attack. An autopsy revealed a serious heart condition that had been previously undiagnosed. A report issued by the office of the Los Angeles County Coroner a month later also mentioned that a minute trace of cocaine was found in his body, and this is disputed to this day (many close to him felt he had not used the drug in years, if at all). However, many on both sides of the argument state it was not a big factor in the death of Porcaro.
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Born 1947-11-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1898-05-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1961-04-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Other
She died of meningitis.
Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. Meningitis may develop in response to a number of causes, usually bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, but also physical injury, cancer or certain drugs.
Véronique was born Audemard d'Alençon, and had 16 brothers and sisters.
She married Yves Mourousi on September 25, 1985.
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Born 1942-05-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Amadeus August was a German actor and singer. Amadeus August became famous throughout Europe as protagonist of the successful European TV series Quentin Durward (based on Walter Scott's novel of the same name), broadcast for the first time in 1971. Although it turned out that this role marked the peak of his career, he frequently was a guest star in TV shows, sucjh as Derrick. He also had a supporting role as the Count of Haugwitz-Reventlow in The Barbara Hutton Story in 1987. He died of AIDS. His sepulchre is in the cemetery of Unterhaching.
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Born 1921-03-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
In 1990 he suffered thrombosis in Paris, and died two years later in Buenos Aires.
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Born 1944-02-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:AIDS
He was an Australian songwriter and entertainer.
In 1990 he recorded his final album on RCA Making Every Moment Count which featured Melissa Manchester and Harry Connick Jr. Shortly before his death from an AIDS-related throat cancer, he gave his last performance in Sydney on January 26, 1992. His ashes were scattered at sea.
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Born 1944-06-04. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:AIDS
He was an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image. Although highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work remains little known to English-speaking audiences, largely because it has not been consistently translated.
Daney went on to found the quarterly film magazine Trafic in which he wrote four pieces before dying of AIDS
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Born 1908-12-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He appeared as Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore.
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Born 1939-05-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was an Italian magistrate who specialised in prosecuting the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. He was killed by the Mafia, together with his wife and three of his bodyguards, by a 350-kg dynamite explosion placed beneath the motorway from Palermo Airport to Palermo at the town of Capaci.
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Born 1908-01-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century.
Yupanqui died in Nimes, France in 1992 at the age of 84; he was buried in the Cerro Colorado Cemetery.
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Born 1901-12-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Dietrich died peacefully of renal failure at the age of 90 in Paris.
Dietrich was bisexual. She had an affair with writer Mercedes de Acosta, who published her autobiography Here Lies the Heart in 1960.
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Born 1927-10-24. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1909-10-28. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Heart attack
In 1964, Bacon began a relationship with 39-year-old Eastender George Dyer, whom he met, he claimed, while the latter was burgling his apartment. A petty criminal with a history of borstal and prison, Dyer was a somewhat tortured individual, insecure, alcoholic, appearance obsessed and never really fitting in within the bohemian set surrounding Francis. The relationship was stormy and in 1971, on the eve of Bacon's major retrospective at the Paris Grand Palais, Dyer committed suicide in the hotel room they were sharing, overdosing on barbiturates. The event was recorded in Bacon's 1973 masterpiece Triptych, May-June 1973. In 1974, Bacon met John Edwards, a young, illiterate, handsome Eastender with whom he formed one of his most enduring friendships, eventually bequeathing his £11m fortune to Edwards after his death. Bacon died of a sudden heart attack in Madrid, Spain.
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Born 1908-12-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
he died at hospital Beaujon.
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Born 1925-01-21. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1910-05-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Bertram's sister, Millvina Dean, was the last living survivor of the disaster.
Dean died exactly 80 years, to the day, after the Titanic struck the iceberg.
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Born 1920-01-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:AIDS
Asimov was born around January 2, 1920 (his date of birth for official purposes—the precise date is not certain)
he had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion received during a heart bypass operation in December 1983. The specific cause of death was heart and renal failure as complications of HIV infection
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Born 1915-08-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
The face of Fantômas.
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Born 1925-03-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Made the music of "radiosscopie" of J. Chancel
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Born 1925-08-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor. In Gervaise, he was Goujet, a smith, a friend of Henri and Gervaise.
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Born 1926-08-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In 1992, Poiret directed his first and only film, Le Zèbre (The Zebra). This adaptation of Alexandre Jardin's novel starred Thierry Lhermitte and Mme. Poiret, Caroline Cellier. Unfortunately, Poiret died of a heart attack in Paris three months before the film's premiere.
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Born 1912-05-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart
Brooks died from congestive heart failure in 1992 in Beverly Hills, California and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Born 1941-03-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Born in Frugarolo, Piedmont, she participated in 17 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974 and finishing her career with half a point. She is the only female Formula One driver in history to have a top six finish in a World Championship race, which she did at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix (Half points were awarded for this race due to a shortened race distance, hence Lombardi received half a point instead of the usual one point). As well as being the sole female driver to score points in Formula One (and the only driver with a career total of half a point), she is one of two who qualified for a Formula One race (the other being compatriot Maria Teresa de Filippis).