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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1946-03-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died while trying to wind surf through the detroit of Taiwan.
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Born 1909-07-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Himes wrote in his autobiography:
Up to the age of thirty-one I had been hurt emotionally, spiritually and physically as much as thirty-one years can bear. I had lived in the South, I had fallen down an elevator shaft, I had been kicked out of college, I had served seven and one half years in prison, I had survived the humiliating last five years of Depression in Cleveland; and still I was entire, complete, functional; my mind was sharp, my reflexes were good, and I was not bitter. But under the mental corrosion of race prejudice in Los Angeles I became bitter and saturated with hate.
In 1969, fleeing oppression, Himes moved to Moraira, Spain, where he died in 1984 from Parkinson's Disease.
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Born 1917-11-19. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Indira Gandhi had numerous bodyguards, two of whom were Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, both Sikhs. They assassinated Indira Gandhi with their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's Residence at No. 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi. As she was walking to be interviewed by the British actor Peter Ustinov filming a documentary for Irish television, she passed a wicket gate, guarded by Satwant and Beant. According to information available immediately following the incident, Beant Singh shot her thrice using his side-arm and Satwant Singh fired twenty-two rounds into her using a Sten submachine gun. Beant Singh was shot dead and Satwant Singh was shot and arrested by her other bodyguards.
Gandhi died on her way to the hospital, in her official car, but she was not declared dead until many hours later. She was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where doctors operated on her. Official accounts at the time stated as many as 29 entry and exit wounds and some reports stated 31 bullets were extracted from her body. She was cremated on 3 November, near Raj Ghat and the place was called Shakti Sthal. After her death, sectarian unrest created by congress politicians loyal to Indira Gandhi engulfed New Delhi and several other cities in India, including Kanpur, Asansol and Indore, leading to the death of thousands of Sikhs. Gandhi's friend and biographer Pupul Jayakar would later reveal Indira's tension, and her premonition about what might happen in the wake of Operation Blue Star.
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Born 1958-10-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
« Tu m'excuseras mignonne
D'avoir pas pu pleurer
En suivant les couronnes
De tes amis branchés
Parce que ton dealer
Était peut-être là
À respirer ces fleurs
Que tu n'aimerais pas
À recompter ces roses
Qu'il a payé au prix
De ta dernière dose
Et de ton dernier cri
P'tite conne
Allez, repose-toi
Tout près de Morrison
Et pas trop loin de moi »
Renaud, P'tite conne, in: Mistral gagnant, 1985.
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Born 1895-11-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was the father of Patrick Brion, the voice of "Cinéma de minuit"
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Born 1922-11-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
"Jules", in François Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962);
His alcoholism apparently having resulted in the decline of his acting career, Werner died of a heart attack in 1984, at the age of 61, just before he was scheduled to deliver a lecture at a German drama club.
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Born 1932-02-06. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
Truffaut was born out of wedlock. He never met his biological father, who was a Jewish dentist. His mother's future husband Roland Truffaut accepted him as an adopted son and gave him his surname.
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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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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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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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Born 1980-08-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
What is blue, and flows down the Vologne?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Born 1929-06-17. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
He was World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.
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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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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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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, Brassaï 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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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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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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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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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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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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Born 1904-08-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Basie died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida