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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1971-09-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:orphan disease
David's parents, David Joseph Vetter Jr. and Carol Ann Vetter, had one daughter, Katherine; their first son, named David Joseph Vetter III, died seven months after birth. Doctors said that the baby boy had been born with a defective thymus, a gland which is important in the functioning of the immune system, due to a genetic condition, SCID. Each further son the couple might conceive would have a 50% chance of inheriting the same condition. Three doctors from Baylor College of Medicine—John Montgomery, Mary Ann South and Raphael Wilson —told the Vetters that if they had another child with SCID, the child could be placed in a sterile isolator until a cure could be found, and the project would be funded with federal research grants.
The couple were anxious to have another child to carry on the family name. So, believing that after a short treatment their child could live a normal life, they decided to go through another pregnancy. There was no private or public discussion of what would happen if no cure was found, or how long the prospective child would remain in the bubble.
The Rev. Raymond Lawrence, the chaplain of the hospital at that time, said of the situation: "The great scandal of the Bubble Boy was that he was conceived for the bubble. The team that did this didn't think through this very well. They didn't consider what would happen if they didn't find an immediate cure. They operated on the assumption that you could live to be 80 years old in a bubble, and that would be unfortunate but okay." Lawrence says that the original three doctors encouraged David's parents to conceive David just so that they could have a test subject for their studies, a charge which is denied by the three involved doctors. Montgomery said: "I have to be honest that we never sat down and outlined this is what we will do 'if'. It was an unspoken understanding that he would match Katherine, we would transplant him, it would work, and six weeks to three months later, he would be reconstituted and come out, and we would all be joyful, and maybe famous"
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Born 1897-02-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine. At the age of 85, Newman began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. He died in Cambridge two years later.
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Born 1919-05-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
Pierre Brambilla, 3rd of Tour de France 1947, used to talk to himself like that : « Tu vas avancer, vieille carcasse... Ah ! tu ne veux pas... Eh bien, tu ne boiras pas ! » Finally, beaten by thirst, he was drinking enormous quantity of liquid, that was too much compared with the normal capability of assimilation by the body (800 millilitres per hour). This gastric overload was limiting his respiratory function, slowing down his cell's oxygenation. Then, he believed that drinking a lot was bad for sporting performances.
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Born 1914-08-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He died reportedly of leukemia in Paris in 1984 and was interred there in the Cimetière de Montparnasse with Carol Dunlop. Some people have stated that he died from AIDS contracted via a blood transfusion; sources close to Cortázar have denied this. He did suffer from melomania.
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Born 1904-06-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
Johnny Weissmuller was born in Timisoara, Romania, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
A sickly child, he took up swimming on the advice of a doctor.
Won 5 Olympic Gold Medals 1924-28 for swimming. Broke the record in each race. From 1921-29 he won every free style race he entered.
At his request, a recording of his trademark Tarzan yell which he invented was played as his coffin was lowered into the ground.
Was the first man in the world to swim 100 m. Freestyle in less than a minute
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Born 1896-10-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
First flight Paris-New York in 37h14mn.
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Born 1944-12-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Succeeding years saw his alcohol abuse problem worsen and he possibly became disillusioned by others' neglect of his talent (though he had always shown a blatant disregard for his own physical safety), he continued to record solo intermittently, but never released any more material. Thus, the "other" Beach Boy who has been called genius by some was unfulfilled creatively at the time of his death by alcohol-related drowning at Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, just after his 39th birthday. On the day of his death in 1983, Wilson was quoted as saying "I'm lonesome. I'm lonesome all the time."
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Born 1893-04-20. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
"How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling..."
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Born 1925-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Michael Conrad was an American actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of veteran cop Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues, in which he ended the introductory roll call to each week's show with "Let's be careful out there". He won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Hill Street Blues in 1981 and 1982. Conrad died from urethral cancer in November 1983 during the fourth season of Hill Street Blues. The show's writers wrote his death into the show, although they credited the character's death to a different reason.
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Born 1899-11-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Marcel Dalio (born Israel Moshe Blauschild) was a French character actor. He had major roles in two films directed by Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939).
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Born 1902-01-14. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
In 1933, Tarski published a very long (more than 100pp) paper in Polish, titled "Pojęcie prawdy w językach nauk dedukcyjnych", setting out a mathematical definition of truth for formal languages. The 1935 German translation was titled "Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen", (The concept of truth in formalized languages), sometimes shortened to "Wahrheitsbegriff". An English translation had to await the 1956 first edition of the volume Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics. This enormously cited paper is a landmark event in 20th century analytic philosophy, an important contribution to symbolic logic, semantics, and the philosophy of language.
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Born 1905-03-14. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
He was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist, well known to the broad public for his skeptical analyses of the post-war vogue in France for leftist ideologies that largely took their inspiration from a Marxist tradition.
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Born 1902-12-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He worked in films throughout most of his career, and played more than sixty cinema roles. From an artistic but not theatrical background, Richardson had no thought of a stage career until a production of Hamlet in Brighton inspired him to become an actor. He learned his craft in the 1920s with a touring company and later the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1931 he joined the Old Vic, playing mostly Shakespearean roles. He led the company the following season, succeeding Gielgud, who had taught him much about stage technique. After he left the company, a series of leading roles took him to stardom in the West End and on Broadway. Throughout his career, and increasingly in later years, Richardson was known for his eccentric behaviour on and off stage. He was often seen as detached from conventional ways of looking at the world, and his acting was regularly described as poetic or magical.
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Born 1907-04-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
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Born 1899-01-10. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Jewish-Polish mathematician. He worked mainly in classical analysis; he was a student of Jacques Hadamard, and became Hadamard's successor as Professor at the Collège de France. He was an early member of the Bourbaki group, taking part in some of its initial gatherings. In fact his direction was very different, as his publications show, with an interest in Dirichlet series, lacunary series, entire functions and other major topics in complex analysis and harmonic analysis. He is more accurately described as a follower of G. H. Hardy, and can be placed in the group containing Norbert Wiener and Torsten Carleman who were moderate modernisers of classical Fourier analysis. Shmuel Agmon, Jean-Pierre Kahane, Yitzhak Katznelson, and Paul Malliavin are among his students. During World War II he was in the United States, in Houston at the Rice Institute from 1940, being one of many French scientists helped by the programme of Louis Rapkine (1904–1948). Benoît Mandelbrot was his nephew.
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Born 1949-01-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Marc Michel Marrier de Lagatinerie was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012), an actress and granddaughter of Gabrielle Réjane, and Gérard Landry, an actor. He had three half siblings, one from an affair his mother had with the singer Henri Salvador : his brother Jean-Marie Périer, and two from her marriage to actor François Périer : his brother Jean-Pierre and sister Anne-Marie. Porel died in Casablanca of an overdose of heroin. He had once a role in the movie La Horse, where he played a drog dealer.
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Born 1915-11-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French swimmer and water polo player. A member of the French team for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, he also swam in the first post-war Summer Olympics in London in 1948. He is one of two Jewish athletes, as far as is known, to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust. He died following a seizure while swimming in the port of Cerberus, making his daily swim km.
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Born 1910-03-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
In February 1983, Niven using a false name to avoid publicity, was hospitalized ten days for treatment, ostensibly for treatment of a digestive problem. Afterwards, Niven returned to his chalet at Chateau d'Oex in Switzerland, where his condition continued to decline. He refused to return to the hospital, and his family supported his decision. Niven died in Switzerland of motor neurone disease (Lou Gehrig's Disease) at age 73.
Bitter, estranged, and plagued by depression, Niven's wife Hjördis showed up drunk at the funeral, having been convinced to attend by family friend Rainier III of Monaco.
Oddly, Niven died on the same day as Raymond Massey, his co-star in The Prisoner of Zenda and A Matter Of Life And Death.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, Maladie de Charcot or motor neurone disease) is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons. ALS is marked by gradual degeneration of the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. The disorder causes muscle weakness and atrophy throughout the body. In ALS, both the upper motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die, ceasing to send messages to muscles. Unable to function, the muscles gradually weaken, waste away (atrophy), and have fasciculations because of denervation. Eventually, the brain completely loses its ability to initiate and control voluntary movement. The disease does not necessarily debilitate the patient's mental functioning in the same manner as Alzheimer's disease or other neurological conditions. Instead, those suffering advanced stages of the disease may retain the same memories, personality, and intelligence they had before its onset.
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Born 1900-02-22. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Last movie: 1977 : Cet obscur objet du désir.
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Born 1899-02-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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Born 1940-04-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He claimed to be the Comte de Saint-Germain and appeared in numerous European television shows claiming to transmute lead into gold. In 1972 he met the singer Dalida, at the height of her fame. Her husband, Lucien Morisse, and her lover, Luigi Tenco, had both previously committed suicide. When Dalida met Chanfray, she quickly became infatuated. She recognized his paranoia, however: he slept with a shotgun under his bed. He also spent another year in prison, as well as being forced to pay FF 500,000 restitution, when he shot a man whom he found naked in his kitchen late one night. The man was only superficially wounded, and turned out to be the servant's lover. The incident marked the start of his decline. The couple ran out of money and Chanfray attempted music, painting, and sculpture, all without success. Dalida and Chanfray separated, but despite his problems, he continued to be a part of the celebrity society of Paris and Saint Tropez. He became the lover of the Trintignan "baroness", Paula de Loos, whose title was as false as his own. De Loos was, however, allegedly a millionaire and when Chanfray began to suspect the activities of de Loos's financial administrator, he threatened him with a rifle. He was again imprisoned and fined -- to which he looked to de Loos for help. She, however, was also heavily in debt. He last appeared in public at a party in Saint Tropez, in June 1983. He was reportedly very thin, with white hair and an exhausted appearance. In a town near Saint Tropez, Chanfray and de Loos committed suicide, ingesting barbiturates while inhaling the exhaust of his car. Nearby was a suicide note that read: "I leave and I bring her with me, because she is so like me..."
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Born 1895-07-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Known as R Buckminster Fuller (or Buckie Fuller), he was famed as an engineer, mathematician and architect. Fuller's family were from New England and he grew up with a boyhood fascination for ship-building and fishing which were part of life on the coast of Maine. By age 32, Fuller was bankrupt and jobless, living in public, low-income housing in Chicago, Illinois. In 1922, Fuller's young daughter Alexandra died from complications from polio and spinal meningitis. Allegedly, he felt responsible and this caused him to drink frequently and to contemplate suicide for a while. He finally chose to embark on "an experiment, to find what a single individual could contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity."
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Born 1920-11-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
There were only 2 people at her funeral: Barbara and Catherine Lara.
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Born 1903-12-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He played solo in The White House and played solo for the Pope—and played (and sang) his last show a few days before he died in Oakland, quite likely somewhat older than he had always maintained. As he had wished, his Steinway had a very much "All Star" Christie's auction for the benefit of gifted low-income music students, still bearing its silver plaque: "presented by jazz lovers from all over the world. this piano is the only one of its kind in the world and expresses the great genius of a man who has never played a melancholy note in his lifetime on a planet that has often succumbed to despair".
On his tombstone is the inscription: "piano man".
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Born 1914-10-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
1964 : Cent mille dollars au soleil - Henri Verneuil.