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March 29, 2024

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Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice. 1984-10-20

82

Born 1902-08-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age

He was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, was a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, and spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation, which describes the behaviour of fermions, and predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger, "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."

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Michaux
Henri. 1984-10-18

85

Born 1899-05-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Originally a Belgian citizen, he became a citizen of France in 1955, and he lived the rest of his life there along with his family. In 1965 he won the National Prize of Literature, which he refused to accept.

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Hexum
Jon-Erik. 1984-10-18

26

Born 1957-11-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident

He was an American actor and model who died accidentally shortly after a firearms incident on the set of Cover Up, a television series in which he was a central cast member.
In between filming scenes on the set of Cover Up, Hexum was critically wounded after he placed a .44 Magnum prop gun loaded with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger. The accident happened during the filming of a scene where Hexum’s character (Mac Harper) was supposed to unload a handgun and replace the bullets with blanks – as the script required. However, the shooting was delayed and Hexum – being overworked and tired due to his tight filming schedule and various TV appearances fell asleep. Hexum awoke, realizing that the scene still was not ready to be shot, and put the gun to his head. Of all the crewmembers in the studio that day, no one claims to have seen the shooting.
Hexum was apparently not informed that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired within a few inches of the body, especially if pointed at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. Although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, the wad struck him in the temple with enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain causing massive hemorrhaging.
Hexum was rushed to the Beverly Hills Medical Center where he underwent five hours of surgery to repair his wounds. Six days after the accident, Hexum was declared brain dead. Hexum's mother Greta allowed his body, still connected to life support, to be flown to San Francisco for organ transplants. Hexum's heart was then implanted into a then 36-year old Las Vegas escort service owner who was awaiting a heart transplant. Hexum's kidneys and corneas were also harvested and placed in organ transplant banks before his body was flown back to Los Angeles for autopsy and burial.

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Villemin
Gregory. 1984-10-16

4

Born 1980-08-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

What is blue, and flows down the Vologne?

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Ikehara
Shikao. 1984-10-10

80

Born 1904-04-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Shikao Ikehara was a Japanese mathematician. He was a student of Norbert Wiener at MIT (PhD 1930). Following Wiener in 1928, in 1931 Ikehara used Wiener's Tauberian theory to derive another proof of the prime number theorem, demonstrated solely via the non-vanishing of the zeta function on the line Re s = 1. An improved version of Ikehara's 1931 result by Wiener in 1932 is now known as the Wiener-Ikehara theorem.

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Pidgeon
Walter. 1984-09-25

87

Born 1897-09-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke

He retired fully in 1973, and died of stroke in Santa Monica, California. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to the UCLA Medical School for medical research.

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Gunei
Yilmaz. 1984-09-09

47

Born 1937-04-01. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)

Güney was an active member of the Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi (THKP-C) (Turkish People's Liberation Party-Front, TPLP-F), thus it is believed this is the reason for his exile.

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Palewski
Gaston. 1984-09-03

83

Born 1901-03-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer

On 1 May 1962 Palewski witnessed the French underground nuclear test codenamed "Beryl" in Algeria. The test shaft failed to contain the blast and he was exposed to radiation as result of a leak of radioactive lava and dust into the atmosphere. He believed that the leukemia which he contracted later in life was caused by this accident. From 1965 to 1974 he was President of the Constitutional Council of France. Palewski died of leukaemia in 1984, aged 83.

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Persons
Truman (alias: Truman Capote). 1984-08-25

59

Born 1924-09-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs

After the revocation of his driver's license (the result of speeding near his Long Island residence) and a hallucinatory seizure in 1980 that required hospitalization, Capote became fairly reclusive. These hallucinations continued unabated and scans revealed that his brain mass had perceptibly shrunk. On the rare occasions when he was lucid, he continued to hype Answered Prayers as being nearly complete and was reportedly planning a reprise of the Black and White Ball to have been held either in Los Angeles or a more exotic locale in South America. On a few occasions, he was still able to write. In 1982, a new short story, "One Christmas", appeared in the December issue of Ladies Home Journal and the following year it became, like its predecessors "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor", a holiday gift book. In 1983, "Remembering Tennessee", an essay in tribute to Tennessee Williams, who had passed away in February of that year, appeared in Playboy magazine.
Capote died in Los Angeles. According to the coroner's report the cause of death was "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication." He passed at the home of his old friend Joanne Carson, ex-wife of late-night TV host Johnny Carson, on whose program Capote had been a frequent guest. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, leaving behind his longtime companion, author Jack Dunphy. Dunphy died in 1992, and in 1994 both his and Capote's ashes were scattered at Crooked Pond, between Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor on Long Island, close to where the two had maintained a property with individual houses for many years. Capote also maintained the property in Palm Springs, a condominium in Switzerland that was mostly occupied by Dunphy seasonally, and a primary residence at the United Nations Plaza in New York City.
In 1933, he moved to New York City to live with his mother and her second husband, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born textile broker, who adopted his stepson and renamed him Truman García Capote.

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Zampa
Gaetano. 1984-08-16

51

Born 1933-04-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide

In prison, where he was to be for a maximum time of 5 years, he turned mad and commited suicide by hanging with a skipping rope.

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Petrosian
Tigran. 1984-08-13

55

Born 1929-06-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)

He was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.

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Waring
Frederick. 1984-07-29

84

Born 1900-06-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke

Fred Waring was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing."

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Mason
James. 1984-07-27

75

Born 1909-05-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Gallup
George Horace. 1984-07-26

83

Born 1901-11-18. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Heart attack

In 1936, his new organization achieved national recognition by correctly predicting, from the replies of only 5,000 respondents, the result of that year's presidential election, in contradiction to the widely respected Literary Digest magazine whose much more extensive poll based on over two million returned questionnaires got the result wrong. Not only did he get the election right, he correctly predicted the results of the Literary Digest poll as well using a random sample smaller than theirs but chosen to match it.

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Halasz
Gyula (alias: Brassaď). 1984-07-08

85

Born 1899-09-09. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

Gyula Halász was born in Brassó (Braşov), in south-east Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (today in Romania), to a Hungarian father and an Armenian mother.
In 1924 he moved to Paris where he would live the rest of his life. In order to learn the French language, he began teaching himself by reading the works of Marcel Proust. Living amongst the huge gathering of artists in the Montparnasse Quarter, he took a job as a journalist. He soon became friends with Henry Miller, Léon-Paul Fargue, and the poet Jacques Prévert.
After 1961, when he stopped taking photographs, Brassaď concentrated his considerable energy on sculpting in stone and bronze. Several tapestries were made from his designs based on his photographs of graffiti.

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Death
William George (alias: Billy Death). 1984-07-03

84

Born 1900-11-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

He was an English professional association football player of the 1930s. Born in Rotherham, he joined Gillingham from Exeter City in 1930 and went on to make 27 appearances for the club in The Football League, scoring six goals. He left to join Mansfield Town in 1931.

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Fabre
Henri. 1984-06-30

102

Born 1882-11-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

He was a French aviator and the inventor of Le Canard, the first seaplane in history.
During the First World War, he established a company with 200 employees, which was specialized in the manufacture of seaplanes.
He died at the age of 101, as one of the last living pioneers of human flight.

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Chevalley
Claude. 1984-06-28

75

Born 1909-02-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

Claude Chevalley was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. He was a founding member of the Bourbaki group.

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Foucault
Paul-Michel (alias: Michel Foucault). 1984-06-26

57

Born 1926-10-15. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:AIDS

Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality.
Foucault died of an AIDS-related illness in Paris. He was the first high profile French personality who was reported to have AIDS.

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Losey
Joseph. 1984-06-22

75

Born 1909-01-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

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Martin
Maryse. 1984-05-18

77

Born 1906-12-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

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Agostinho
Joaquim. 1984-05-10

41

Born 1943-04-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

He died in 1984 after colliding with a dog when racing in Algarve, south of Portugal. He fell on the ground head-on, not wearing a helmet, which he didn't like to use. Although he got up and appeared recovered, he would eventually die from internal hemorragies that developed later that day.

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Basie
William (alias: Count Basie). 1984-04-26

79

Born 1904-08-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)

Basie died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida

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Albaret
Céleste. 1984-04-25

93

Born 1891-05-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Céleste Albaret (née Gineste, was a country girl who moved to Paris in 1913 when she married the taxi driver Odilon Albaret; she is best known for being the writer and essayist Marcel Proust's housekeeper and secretary. Lonely and bored in the capital, and at her husband's suggestion, Albaret began to run errands for Proust, who was her husband's most regular client. Before very long she became his secretary and housekeeper. During the final decade of Proust's life, when his health declined and he became progressively more withdrawn, even while working with continuing intensity on his writing, she became his nurse and "the writer’s most trusted conduit to the world beyond his reclusive, cork-lined bedroom". Proust immortalised his housekeeper as Françoise in "Ŕ la recherche du temps perdu". There is also a character called Célestine in "Sodome et Gomorrhe".

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Gaye
Marvin. 1984-04-01

45

Born 1939-04-02. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder

Following a violent argument, He was shot dead by his father.

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Sékou Touré
Ahmed. 1984-03-26

62

Born 1922-01-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Operation

Relations with the United States fluctuated during the course of Touré's reign. While Touré was unimpressed with Eisenhower administration's approach to Africa, he came to consider President John F. Kennedy a friend and an ally. He even came to state that Kennedy was his "only true friend in the outside world". He was impressed by Kennedy's interest in African development and commitment to civil rights in the United States. Touré blamed Guinean labor unrest in 1962 on Soviet interference and turned to the United States.
Relations with Washington soured, however, after Kennedy's death. When a Guinean delegation was imprisoned in Ghana, after the overthrow of Nkrumah, Touré blamed Washington. He feared that the Central Intelligence Agency was plotting against his own regime. Over time, Touré's increasing paranoia led him to arrest large numbers of suspected political opponents and imprison them in camps, such as the notorious Camp Boiro National Guard Barracks. Tens of thousands of Guinean dissidents sought refuge in exile.
Once Guinea's reprochment with France began in the late 1970s, another section of his support, Marxists, began to oppose his government's increasing move to capitalist liberalisation. In 1978 he formally renounced Marxism and reestablished trade with the West. Running again for president unopposed, Touré was reelected in 1982.
Touré died in the city of Cleveland in the United States while undergoing heart surgery.

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Bellman
Richard Ernest. 1984-03-19

63

Born 1920-08-29. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

From 1949 Bellman worked for many years at RAND corporation and it was during this time that he developed dynamic programming. A Bellman equation, also known as a dynamic programming equation, is a necessary condition for optimality associated with the mathematical optimization method known as dynamic programming. Almost any problem which can be solved using optimal control theory can also be solved by analyzing the appropriate Bellman equation. The Bellman equation was first applied to engineering control theory and to other topics in applied mathematics, and subsequently became an important tool in economic theory.

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Coogan
John (alias: Jackie Coogan). 1984-03-01

69

Born 1914-10-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack

As a child actor, he is best remembered for his role as Charlie Chaplin's irascible sidekick in the film classic The Kid (1921) and for the title role in Oliver Twist, directed by Frank Lloyd, the following year.
As a child star, Coogan earned as much as $4 million, but the money was taken by his mother Lilian and stepfather Arthur Bernstein for cocaine and heroin. He sued them in 1935, but only received $126,000. When Coogan fell on hard times, Chaplin gave him some financial support.
Tragedy struck in 1935 when Coogan's father was killed in a car crash that also claimed the life of best friend Junior Durkin, a child actor best known as "Huckleberry Finn" in two films of the early 1930s. Just short of his twenty-first birthday, Jackie was the sole survivor of the accident.

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Couderc
Roger. 1984-02-25

65

Born 1918-07-12. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Stroke

He died only a few months after his retirement.

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Lancelot
Michel. 1984-02-25

46

Born 1938-01-17. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Unknown

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