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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1928-04-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1903-11-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
there was a controversy when he refused to work with director Joseph Losey on the film 'X the unknown' because Losey was on the Hollywood blacklist. Losey was removed from the project after a few days shooting and replaced with Les Norman.
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Born 1904-06-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was Master Po in the film series Kung Fu.
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Born 1957-07-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
On January 11, 1983, she lost control of her old car that had no seat belts, was thrown from it and landed face down in a water-filled ditch. Paramedics found her with no vital signs, but they resuscitated her. After a couple weeks of remaining dormant within a coma, she was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Surgeons inserted a feeding tube for her long-term care. Her husband and parents waited for a more substantial recovery, but eventually, after four years, accepted that there was no hope. In 1987 her parents asked to have Cruzan's feeding tube removed, but the hospital demanded a court order to that effect.
Cruzan's feeding tube was taken out in December 1990. 15 members of Operation Rescue, including a nurse, appeared at the hospital to re-insert the feeding tube, but they were arrested. Cruzan died 11 days later. Her father committed suicide in 1996 and her mother died in 1999.
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Born 1925-01-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Operation
Gripari was openly gay and often wrote on gay themes, but his work often borders on the surreal and includes several parodies of litterary genres.
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Born 1904-12-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
His true name was Pierre Cohen. But in those trouble days it were worth hold another name.
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Born 1931-03-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
Parker had a minor career as a Hollywood actor and stunt man. His most notable film was Kill the Golden Goose. In this film, he co-stars with Hapkido master Bong Soo Han. His acting work included the (uncredited) role of Mr. Chong in student Blake Edwards' Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Edmund K. Parker died in Honolulu of a heart attack. His widow Leilani Parker died on June 12, 2006.
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Born 1950-08-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a judge. He instructed the terrorist attacks in Paris, in 1986, attributed to Iran.
He commited suicide because he could not bear the pressure of media and politicians.
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Born 1914-03-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Ritt's 1964 film The Outrage, is an American retelling of the Kurosawa film Rashomon, and stars Laurence Harvey, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, Howard Da Silva, and William Shatner. The film uses the Western genre to tell the same story as the Japanese movie. Like the original Kurosawa film, this film contrasts the stories of various witnesses to a crime. Shatner and Robinson listen to four different versions of a rape/murder, told alternatively by Harvey, Bloom, Newman and Da Silva. Harvey is the one murdered, but tells his story through an Indian medicine man. Each story is a biased opinion of what happened, and the movie never resolves which story is true (if any). Like the Kurosawa original, Ritt's film is an example of nonlinear storytelling.
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Born 1949-00-00. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Accident
Journalist and newsreader on FR3.
He was killed in a car crashed due to an alcoholic in Ste Geneviève des Bois.
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Born 1908-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
In October, a viral flu forced him to interrupt « Quelque part dans cette vie », by Israel Horovitz, that he was playing at Bouffes parisiens with Jane Birkin.
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Born 1916-09-13. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
In 1920, when Roald was three, his seven-year-old sister, Astri, died from appendicitis. About a month later, his father died of pneumonia at the age of 57.
On 19 September 1940, Dahl was ordered to fly his Gladiator from Abu Sueir in Egypt, on to Amiriya to refuel, and again to Fouka in Libya for a second refuelling. From there he would fly to 80 Squadron's forward airstrip 30 miles south of Mersa Matruh. On the final leg, he could not find the airstrip and, running low on fuel and with night approaching, he was forced to attempt a landing in the desert. Unfortunately, the undercarriage hit a boulder and the plane crashed, fracturing his skull, smashing his nose in, and blinding him. He managed to drag himself away from the blazing wreckage and passed out. Later, he wrote about the crash for his first published work.
Roald Dahl died in November 1990 of a rare blood disease, myelodysplastic anaemia, at his home, Gipsy House in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and was buried in the cemetery at the parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. According to his granddaughter, the family gave him a "sort of Viking funeral". He was buried with his snooker cues, some very good burgundy, chocolates, HB pencils and a power saw.
The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS, formerly known as "preleukemia") are a diverse collection of hematological conditions united by ineffective production of blood cells and varying risks of transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia. Anemia requiring chronic blood transfusion is frequently present. Although not truly malignant, MDS is nevertheless classified within the haematological neoplasms.
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Born 1915-01-30. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German-born cryptographer, who moved to the United States in 1934. During World War II, he was placed under house arrest, but nevertheless gained U.S. citizenship on 31 January 1944. He worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that would culminate in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s.
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Born 1901-05-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Wolfgang Schmieder was a German music librarian, and musicologist. Schmieder was born in Bromberg. In 1950, he published the BWV, or Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Bach Works Catalogue"), a catalog of musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The numbering system used in the BWV has since become a nearly universal standard, used by scholars and musicians around the world. (BWV numbers are sometimes referred to as "Schmieder" numbers, so that it is possible to encounter the designation S 971 as BWV 971 for the Italian Concerto.) Schmieder served as the Special Advisor for Music for the City and University Library at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main from April 1942 until his retirement in 1963. He lived in Freiburg im Breisgau until his death in November 1990 at the age of 89.
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Born 1912-02-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Stroke
Durrell suffered from emphysema for many years: he died of a stroke at his house in Sommières in November 1990.
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Born 1898-10-31. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy. Sauvy coined the term Third World ("Tiers Monde") in reference to the underdeveloped countries in an article published in the French magazine L'Observateur on August 14, 1952. At the end of the article Sauvy said:
"...car enfin, ce Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers Etat, veut lui aussi, être quelque chose"
"...because at the end this ignored, exploited, scorned Third World like the Third Estate, wants to become something too".
In using the expression Third World here he was paraphrasing Sieyès's famous sentence about the Third Estate during the French Revolution.
He wrote for Le Monde until his death in October 1990.
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Born 1918-10-16. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Heart attack
After the war, Althusser was able finally to attend ENS. However, he was in poor health, both mentally and physically. In 1947, he received electroconvulsive therapy. Althusser was from this time to suffer from periodic mental illness for the rest of his life. The ENS was sympathetic however, allowing him to reside in his own room in the school infirmary. Althusser found himself living at the ENS in the Rue d'Ulm for decades, except for periods of hospitalization.
On November 16, 1980, Althusser strangled his wife, Hélène Legotien nee Rytmann, to death, following a period of alleged mental instability. The exact circumstances are debated, with some claiming it was deliberate, others accidental. Althusser himself claimed not to have a clear memory of the event, saying that, while he was massaging his wife's neck, he discovered he had strangled her. Since he was alone with his wife when she died, it is difficult to come to firm conclusions. Althusser was diagnosed as suffering from diminished responsibility, and he was not tried, but instead committed to the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital. Althusser remained in hospital until 1983. Upon release, he moved to Northern Paris and lived reclusively, seeing few people and no longer working, except for producing his autobiography.
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Born 1924-08-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Karl Egil Aubert was a Norwegian mathematician. Karl Aubert was born at Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the brother of sociologist Vilhelm Aubert. He studied at the University of Oslo and took his Doctor of Science degree at the University of Paris in 1957. He stayed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1958 to 1960. From 1962 to 1990 he was a professor at the University of Oslo. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and Tufts University. He chaired the Norwegian Mathematics Society from 1960 to 1967.
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Born 1932-04-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Born Delphine Claire Belriane Seyrig in Beirut.
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Born 1918-08-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Emphysema. After a prolonged period, hyperventilation becomes inadequate to maintain high enough oxygen levels in the blood. The body compensates by vasoconstricting appropriate vessels. This leads to pulmonary hypertension, which places increased strain on the right side of the heart, the one that pumps unoxygenated blood to the lungs, fails. The failure causes the heart muscle to thicken to pump more blood. Eventually, as the heart continues to fail, it becomes larger and blood backs up in the liver.
He died just five days after retiring. A longtime heavy smoker, he had battled emphysema from his mid-20s; he suffered a coughing fit in the middle of the Beethoven performance which almost caused the concert to break down. Bernstein is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
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Born 1928-07-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
John Stewart Bell FRS was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories. Bell died unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Geneva in 1990. It is widely said that, unknown to Bell, that year he had been nominated for a Nobel Prize. His contribution to the issues raised by EPR was significant. Some regard him as having demonstrated the failure of local realism (local hidden variables). Bell's own interpretation is that locality itself met its demise.
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Born 1901-04-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer.
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Born 1907-11-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
In September 1990, Alberto Moravia was found dead in the bathroom of his Lungotevere apartment, in Rome.
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Born 1941-11-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:AIDS
"Creedance Clearwater Revival". Tom Fogerty died of AIDS (specifically from a Tuberculosis infection), having contracted HIV from blood transfusions for back ailments.
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Born 1907-02-26. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. There is a mention about him in the film "Peggy Sue got married"
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Born 1954-10-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Drug addiction and alcoholism took a toll on Vaughan in mid-1986. Cocaine and Crown Royal whiskey were among his addictions. After becoming acutely ill in Germany while on tour, Vaughan managed to struggle through three more shows (one of those shows was recorded and released by the name Live alive)and was finally admitted into a hospital in London. Dr. Victor Bloom, who has helped Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend with their addictions, told Stevie he was a month away from dying. After a struggle to get sober in London, he then flew to Atlanta, Georgia to a rehabilitation center. He eventually recovered fully from his addictions and became a teetotaler.
On August 25, 1990, Vaughan and Double Trouble finished up the summer leg of the tour with shows at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, just outside of East Troy, Wisconsin. The show also featured Robert Cray and his Memphis Horns along with Eric Clapton's set. Alex Hodges, Double Trouble's tour manager, arranged flight by helicopter with Omni Flights.
At the end of the show, Vaughan was informed by a member of Clapton's crew that three seats were open on one of the helicopters returning to Chicago with Clapton's crew, enough for Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, and Jimmie Vaughan's wife Connie. It turned out there was only one seat left, which Stevie Ray Vaughan requested from his brother, who obliged. Stevie strapped himself next to Clapton's crew. It was 12:44 am. Pilot Jeffrey Browne guided the copter off the ground as the lights flashed below. Seconds later, the mistake was made. After just a few seconds in the copter, the pilot banked the machine into a 300-foot high hill with the twisted metal scattered over an area of 200 square feet. All on board were killed instantly. No one realized that the crash had occurred until the helicopter failed to arrive in Chicago, and the wreckage was only found with the help of its locator beacon. The main cause of the crash was believed to be pilot error.
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Born 1920-12-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He is widely considered one of the greatest French cellists of the twentieth century.