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Cho Seung-Hui (b. 1984-01-18 / d. 2007-04-16)
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1929-04-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
The tiny one who hurts himself with an axe in "Les grandes gueules".
He died from an esophagus cancer.
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Born 1944-10-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
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Born 1899-08-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
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Born 1909-05-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
He was known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman".
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Born 1916-03-26. Domain:Other. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
Born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Hayden's parents were George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden.
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Born 1958-03-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
During tests at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, the rear wing of the BT55 came off at high speed, making the car lose downforce on the rear wheels, cartwheel over a barrier and catch fire. The impact did not kill de Angelis but, tragically, he could not get out of the car unassisted. The situation was exacerbated by the lack of marshals on the French circuit, or indeed anyone who could have assisted. A 30 minute delay ensued before an emergency helicopter arrived. De Angelis died 29 hours later in the hospital in Marseille to which he had been taken, from injuries caused by the smoke inhaled during the accident. His only other injuries were a broken collar bone and light burns on his back
De Angelis was the last driver to die in an F1 car until Roland Ratzenberger at Imola eight years later. His place in the Brabham team was taken, ironically, by Derek Warwick - allegedly because Warwick was the only unemployed F1 driver who did not contact Ecclestone immediately afterwards asking about the drive.
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Born 1914-00-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
An interesting aside of this ascent was that all the photos that existed of the mountaineers on the top showed only Tenzing. When asked why there were no photos featuring Hillary, Sir Edmund replied, "Tenzing did not know how to operate the camera and the top of Everest was no place to start teaching him how to use it". Hillary and Tenzing remained on friendly terms throughout their lives.
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Born 1910-09-14. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He died in office as Mayor of Marseille.
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Born 1899-07-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Heart attack while ill with diabetes.
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Born 1911-09-07. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
On December 6, 1931, De France founded the Compagnie Générale de Télévision in Le Havre, making television sets with a vertical definition of 60 lines. In February 1932, De France made several transmissions over a distance of 7km from the "Radio-Normandie" station in Fécamp. These signals were received by a few people located at over 100km away. In October 1932, he achieved a definition of 120 lines. In 1956 he patented the SECAM color television system. On October 1, 1967 at 2:15pm CET, la deuxičme chaîne switched from black and white to color using SECAM.
De France is interred at Jarnac, the same town where former president François Mitterrand is buried.
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Born 1906-12-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer
Dyan Cannon once commented that she didn't think "he was capable of directing his nephew to the bathroom."
Otto Preminger died of cancer and Alzheimer's disease, and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York.
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Born 1892-01-22. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1910-12-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first year of his life before putting him up for adoption.
His dates of birth and death coincidate with the last two appearing of the Halley comet.
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Born 1908-01-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
She was bisexual and had an affair with her adoptive daughter.
She had shared the life of Claude Lanzmann for 6 years.
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Born 1907-01-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Milland was in all probability born Alfred Roger Jones in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott) and Alfred Jones. It has been suggested that Ray Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones, however, there is no such person in the General Registry of Births for England and Wales, so this must have been an early affectation designed to further his career, the possession of a double-barrelled surname often being taken as a sign of class superiority in Britain.
Milland gave the shortest acceptance speech of any Oscar winner: he simply bowed and left the stage.
Milland had a near-fatal accident on the set of Hotel Imperial (1939). One scene called for him to lead a cavalry charge through a small village. An accomplished horseman, Milland insisted upon doing this scene himself. As he was making a scripted jump on the horse, his saddle came loose, sending him flying straight into a pile of broken masonry. Laid up in the hospital for weeks with multiple fractures and lacerations, he was lucky to be alive.
Milland died of lung cancer in Torrance, California.
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Born 1927-01-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was twice Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death. Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party. While leader of the opposition, he parted domestic and international interests and served as special mediator of the United Nations in the Iran–Iraq War, and was President of the Nordic Council in 1979. He returned as Prime Minister after electoral victories in 1982 and 1985. Palme was a pivotal and polarizing figure domestically as well as in international politics from the 1960s onward. He was steadfast in his non-alignment policy towards the superpowers, accompanied by support for numerous third world liberation movements following decolonization including, most controversially, economic and vocal support for a number of Third World governments. He was the first Western head of government to visit Cuba after its revolution, giving a speech in Santiago praising contemporary Cuban and Cambodian revolutionaries. Frequently a critic of United States and Soviet foreign policy, he resorted to fierce and often polarizing criticism in expressing his resistance to imperialist ambitions and authoritarian regimes, including those of Francisco Franco of Spain, Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal and Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, as well as John Vorster and P. W. Botha of South Africa. His 1972 condemnation of American bombings in Hanoi, notably comparing the tactic to the Treblinka extermination camp, resulted in a temporary freeze in Sweden–United States relations. Palme's assassination on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 was the first murder of a national leader in Sweden since Gustav III in 1792, and had a great impact across Scandinavia. Local convict and addict Christer Pettersson was originally convicted of the murder in district court but was acquitted on appeal by the Svea Court of Appeal. On 10 June 2020, Swedish prosecutors held a press conference to announce that there was "reasonable evidence" that Stig Engström had killed Palme. Given that Engström had committed suicide in 2000, the authorities also announced that the investigation into Palme's death was to be closed.
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Born 1939-07-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal was a commercial airline pilot who became a major drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel. When Seal was convicted of smuggling charges, he became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration and testified in several major drug trials. He was murdered in 1986 by contract killers hired by the cartel. On the evening of February 19, 1986, Seal was shot to death in front of the Salvation Army Center, three weeks into his probation. When Seal pulled into the house's lot and parked, a man got out of a car behind the center's donation drop boxes and opened fire with a suppressed MAC-10 machine gun. Seal was hit six times and died instantly. Six Colombians were quickly arrested in connection with the murder. Three of them, Luis Carlos Quintero-Cruz, Miguel Vélez, and Bernardo Antonio Vásquez, were indicted on state charges for capital murder. A fourth man was indicted separately on lesser charges, and evidence of direct involvement was insufficient for two, who were released and deported. In addition to the state charges against the killers, federal charges were filed against Fabio Ochoa, Pablo Escobar, and a third cartel member, Rafael Cardona, for conspiring to violate Seal's civil rights by murdering him.
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Born 1920-10-08. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
1984 was a tumultuous year in Herbert's life. In the same year that his wife died, his career took off with the release of David Lynch's film version of Dune. Despite high expectations, a big-budget production design and an A-list cast, the movie drew mostly poor reviews in the United States. However, despite a disappointing response in the USA, the film was a critical and commercial success in Europe and Japan. After Beverly's death, Herbert married Theresa Shackleford in 1985, the year he published Chapterhouse Dune, which tied up many of the saga's story threads (though ending on a cliffhanger intended to lead into his planned Dune 7). This would be Herbert's final single work (the anthology Eye was also published that year, and Man of Two Worlds was published in 1986). He died of a massive pulmonary embolism while recovering from surgery from pancreatic cancer.
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Born 1939-05-19. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American astronaut who died commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission.
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Born 1945-04-30. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American astronaut, pilot of the Space Shuttle Challenger when it was destroyed during the STS-51-L mission.
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Born 1949-04-05. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American astronaut who died at the age of 36 in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster during the launch of the mission STS-51-L.
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Born 1946-06-24. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Japanese-American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawai'i who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, where he was serving as mission specialist on mission STS-51-L.
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Born 1950-10-21. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American physicist and a NASA astronaut. McNair perished during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.
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Born 1944-08-24. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American astronaut who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist.
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Born 1948-09-02. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
She was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (STS-51-L).
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Born 1914-05-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1952-02-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
helicopter, during the Paris-Dakar event
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Born 1921-01-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Reed is probably best remembered for her roles as the wholesome housewife "Donna Stone" on television's The Donna Reed Show and as "Mary Bailey" in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953).