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Portas Miguel (b. 1958-05-01 / d. 2012-04-24)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1951-11-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
The son of the performer Dean Martin, he was "Dino" in the pop group Dino, Desi, & Billy. Oriented toward teenage girls, the group had a few minor hits between 1965 and 1968, landing in the Top 30 only twice. Martin later began to go by his given name Dean Paul instead of the nickname "Dino". He became a successful tennis player and actor.
Martin met an untimely death in 1987 when his National Guard F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed in a mountainous area of California, killing him and his RIO (Radar Intercept Officer), Ramon Ortiz. Shortly before his death, Dean Paul Martin had starred in the TV series Misfits of Science. The singer Dean Martin never recovered from the loss of his son, and he retired from show business that same year.
Martin's twelve-year-old son, Alexander, had watched his father take off on the ill-fated flight.
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Born 1913-01-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Kaye died in 1987 from a heart attack, following a bout of hepatitis.
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Born 1928-08-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Operation
New York des suites d'une opération
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Born 1930-11-29. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Accident
François Baroin's father. Chirac's close friend. He was killed in an airplane's crash, just after a take off from Brazzaville. There is no clear explanation to the crash.
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Born 1903-10-08. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)
She was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She is Élisabeth Roudinesco's mother. She died of a brain tumor.
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Born 1897-04-26. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his Jewish wife was persecuted by the Nazis. In the 1950s, he achieved his greatest commercial success with film melodramas like Imitation of Life, All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, Magnificent Obsession and A Time to Love and a Time to Die. While those films were initially panned by critics as sentimental women's pictures, they are today widely regarded by film directors, critics and scholars as masterpieces. His work is seen as "critique of the bourgeoisie in general and of 1950s America in particular", while painting a "compassionate portrait of characters trapped by social conditions". Beyond the surface of the film, Sirk worked with complex mises-en-scène and lush Technicolor colors to subtly underline his statements.
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Born 1917-06-14. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a French TV Presenter of Swiss origin.
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Born 1932-04-04. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Andrei Tarkovsky was buried in a graveyard for Russian émigrés in the town of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Île-de-France, France. The inscription on Tarkovsky's grave reads "To the man who saw the Angel".
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Born 1894-02-10. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Dubbed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. Macmillan had often play-acted being an old man long before real old age set in. As early as 1948 Humphry Berkeley wrote of how "he makes a show of being feeble and decrepit", mentioning how he had suddenly stopped shambling and sprinted for a train. Nigel Fisher tells an anecdote of how Macmillan initially greeted him to his house leaning on a stick, but later walked and climbed steps perfectly well, twice acting lame again and fetching his stick when he remembered his "act". However, in genuine old age he became almost blind, causing him to need sticks and a helping arm. Macmillan died at Birch Grove, the Macmillan family mansion on the edge of Ashdown Forest near Chelwood Gate in East Sussex, four days after Christmas in 1986. His age was 92 years and 322 days—the greatest age attained by a British Prime Minister until surpassed by Lord Callaghan on 14 February 2005. His grandson and heir Alexander, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, said: "In the last 48 hours he was very weak but entirely reasonable and intelligent. His last words were, 'I think I will go to sleep now'.
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Born 1905-04-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer of French origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.
It seems that he did not behave very correctly during WWII.
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Born 1964-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a student at l'Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières.
He was killed rue Monsieur le Prince, in the lobby of a builiding whee he thought he would be safe. The killers were people of "le bataillon des voltigeurs", who beat him up to death. Oussekine had been suffering of kidney problems for long time.
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Born 1912-05-28. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Goncourt 1955 for "Les eaux mêlées"
After the suicide of his son, who belongeg to a sect, Ikor fought against all form of sects.
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Born 1948-03-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French navigator. He died during the race "La route du rhum" in 1986.
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Born 1890-03-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
In retirement Molotov remained totally unrepentant about his role during Stalin's period of rule. After the Sino-Soviet split, it was reported that he agreed with the criticisms made by Mao Zedong of the supposed "revisionism" of Khrushchev's policies. According to Roy Medvedev, Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, recalled Molotov and his wife telling her: "Your father was a genius. There's no revolutionary spirit around nowadays, just opportunism everywhere. China's our only hope! Only they have kept alive the revolutionary spirit".
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Born 1906-01-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Kurt August Hirsch was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. His research was in group theory. He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion. The Hirsch length and Hirsch–Plotkin radical are named after him. He taught at the University of Leicester from 1938 (except for a brief internment as an enemy alien in 1940), moved to King's College, Newcastle in 1948, and then moved again to Queen Mary College in London in 1951, where he stayed for the remainder of his career and worked with K. W. Gruenberg. Hirsch's doctoral students include Ismail Mohamed and Ascher Wagner.
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Born 1909-11-05. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Famous for his unique stuttering talent. Pierre Repp appeared in many theatre plays and TV shows, but mainly in music-hall and cabarets in Paris or on tour.
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Born 1919-02-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of only fifteen years old. A mentor provided funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, five inches. Tucker was a sight reader who needed only one take and his film career started well despite a perception in most Hollywood studios that blond men were not photogenic. He enlisted in the Army during World War II. After twenty years spent mainly in Westerns and action roles, he returned to his roots, showing versatility as a comedic and stage musical actor. In the television series F Troop, he became identified with the character of Cavalry Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke (a manipulative character quite similar to Phil Silvers' role as MSgt. Ernie Bilko). Tucker struggled with a drinking problem that began to affect his performances in the later years of his career. Tucker, who had battled lung cancer for more than a year, as well as having a series of minor illnesses, collapsed and was hospitalized, for the second time in a week, on his way to the ceremony for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 21, 1986. He died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital on October 25, 1986, a few months after the theatrical release of Thunder Run and Outtakes. He was interred in Forest Lawn–Hollywood Hills Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.
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Born 1942-00-00. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He died by drowning.
Director on:
1980 : La Femme objet
1980 : Les Petites écolières
1981 : Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent
Screenplay:
1980 : Les Petites écolières
1987 : On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez
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Born 1929-10-20. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide
She left a note beside the bath where she was found unconscious:
"when there is no spotlight to lighten them, TV stars are like running beheaded ducks".
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Born 1909-04-09. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer. Born Robert Murray Helpman, he added the extra 'n' to avoid his name having 13 letters, at the suggestion of Anna Pavlova, who was a devotee of numerology.
He portayed Dr Roget in the movie 'Patrick'.
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Born 1927-12-25. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Murder
PDG of Renault (since 1985)
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Born 1900-01-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. Most of the Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Poland and residents of Lithuania. Sugihara wrote travel visas that facilitated the escape of more than 6,000 Jewish refugees to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family's lives.
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Born 1903-02-28. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Other
Alzheimer.
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Born 1912-05-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Fernand Pouillon was a French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer. Pouillon was one of the most active and influential post-World War II architects and builders in France. He is remembered for his use of ‘noble’ building materials (especially stone), his seamless integration of all phases of the building process, his inexpensive and efficient building techniques and for his harmonious juxtaposition of forms. He was a humanist, as well as an architect. His stated goal was to meet human needs, and especially, those of middle-class and poorer families who faced severe shortages of dignified housing in the post-War period. Due to his success, ostentation and his imperious personality, he attracted the jealousy and ill-will of many. His was a tumultuous life, including prison time and a prison escape. Some architectural critics say he will be remembered as one of the great French architects of the 20th century. By the 1970s, influential people in France were having second thoughts about the treatment accorded to Pouillon: In 1971, he was pardoned by the French President Georges Pompidou. In 1978, he was reintegrated into the French Order of Architects. Pouillon returned definitively to France in 1984. In April 1984, he was named an Officer of the Légion d’Honour (the French Order of Merit), an honour conferred in person by the French President François Mitterrand. He spent the last years of his life at Château de Belcastel, a medieval castle in the Aveyron department, which he had restored together with Algerian craftsmen. He died in the Château de Belcastel. It is said that he had requested that his final resting place not show his name.
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Born 1901-07-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a popular American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.
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Born 1912-06-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Music-hall band's director