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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 1895-07-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Orff was a personal friend of Kurt Huber, one of the founders of the resistance movement Die Weiße Rose (the White Rose), who was condemned to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed by the Nazis in 1943. After World War II, Orff claimed that he was a member of the group, and was himself involved in the resistance, but there was no evidence for this other than his own word, and other sources dispute his claim. Canadian historian Michael H. Kater made in earlier writings a particularly strong case that Orff collaborated with Nazi authorities, but in his most recent publication "Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits" (2000) Kater has taken back his earlier accusations to some extent. Orff's assertion that he had been anti-Nazi during the war was accepted by the American de-nazification authorities, who changed his previous category of "gray unacceptable" to "gray acceptable", enabling him to continue to compose for public presentation.
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Born 1949-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers.
Belushi was known for his drug use, and it eventually cost him his life. Belushi was found dead in his room at Bungalow #3 of the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The cause of death was a speedball, an injection of cocaine and heroin. On the night of his death, he was visited separately by friends Robin Williams (at the height of his own drug exploits) and Robert De Niro, each of whom left the premises, leaving Belushi in the company of assorted others, including Cathy Smith. His death was investigated by forensic pathologist Dr. Ryan Norris among others, and while the findings were disputed, it was officially ruled a drug-related accident.
The case was reopened two months later, when Smith, a former groupie for The Band, and a former friend of hers admitted in an interview with the National Enquirer that she had been with Belushi the night of his death and had given him the fatal speedball shot. After the appearance of the article "I Killed Belushi" in the Enquirer edition of June 29, 1982, the case was reopened. Smith was extradited from Toronto, arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A plea bargain arrangement reduced the charges to involuntary manslaughter, and she served 18 months in prison.
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Born 1936-03-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
A Void or in French La Disparition (literally, "The Disappearance") is a 300 page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. Its translation into English by Gilbert Adair is entitled A Void.
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Born 1921-05-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Max Amyl. Max Amil.
He died on stage of an infarctus.
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Born 1928-12-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. After completing an interview, Dick contacted his therapist complaining of failing eyesight and was advised to go to a hospital immediately; but he did not. The next day, he was found unconscious on the floor of his Santa Ana, California home, having suffered a stroke. In the hospital, he suffered another stroke, after which his brain activity ceased. Five days later, on March 2, 1982, he was disconnected from life support and died. After his death, Dick's father, Joseph, took his son's ashes to Fort Morgan, Colorado, where they were buried next to his twin sister Jane, whose tombstone had been inscribed with both their names when she died 53 years earlier.
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Born 1917-10-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke
The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributes Monk's quirky behaviour to mental illness. In the film, Monk's son, T.S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. According to T. S. Monk, electroconvulsive therapy was a treatment option recommended by physicians, but Monk's family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead. Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reports that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia. Others blamed Monk's behavior on intentional and inadvertent drug use: Monk was unknowingly administered LSD, and may have taken peyote with Timothy Leary. Another physician maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and given drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage.
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Born 1902-11-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Canadian–American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, like Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939). From 1959 to 1961 he had a lead role in the 78-episode television police drama Manhunt. He also recorded numerous stories for Peter Pan Records.
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Born 1912-11-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was well-received in her first starring role in 1935's Broadway Melody of 1936 (in which she was supported by Jack Benny and Frances Langford), and delighted 1930s audiences with her endless energy and enthusiasm, not to mention her stunning dancing. According to dancer Ann Miller, quoted in the "making-of" documentary about That's Entertainment! III, MGM was headed for bankruptcy in the late 1930s, but the films of Eleanor Powell, particularly Broadway Melody of 1936 were so popular they made the company profitable again.
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Born 1889-04-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was a prostitute and spy. She became a politician and worked towards the closing of brothels in France in 1946.
A controversy surrounding her nationality came up in 1948. She was English by her marriage to Thomas Crompton (her repatriation was denied in 1937). Thus, her election was illegal as were the votes she had participated in.
Meanwhile, the director of Le Crapouillot, Jean Galtier-Boissière denounced her services to the nation, accusing her of involvement with organized crime, of smuggling jewels, and of covering up crimes. The inspector of national safety, Jacques Delarue, a specialist in false heroes of war, inquired into the accusations. He found them to be false in 1954. She was called Le Veuve Qui Clôt by Antoine Blondin.
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Born 1930-03-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Died on the beach from a self-inflicted gun-shot to the head.
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Born 1924-11-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer. His career primarily revolved around the New York City jazz scene Jones wrote the jazz standard "Del Sasser", among other tunes.
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Born 1938-07-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Wood drowned while their yacht The Splendor was anchored at Catalina Island. An investigation by Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official verdict of accidental drowning, although speculation about the circumstances continued.
Wood was on board the yacht with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken. There were reports Wagner and Walken had a loud argument about Walken's behavior towards Natalie and was disrespectful and Wood apparently tried to either leave the yacht or to secure a dinghy that was banging against the hull when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard. A woman on shore said she heard cries for help from the water that night, along with voices replying "we're coming." Wagner, Walken, and the pilot of the Splendor said they heard nothing. Noguchi revealed that Wood was legally intoxicated when she died and there were marks and bruises on her body, which could have been received as a result of her fall. In Noguchi's memoir, Coroner, he stated that had Natalie not been intoxicated, she would likely have realized that her heavy down-filled coat and wool sweater was pulling her underwater, and would have removed it. Noguchi said he found Natalie's fingernails still embedded in the rubber boat's side.
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Born 1901-05-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack
Dr Max Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, earning his doctorate in 1926, and taught mathematics, first in Rotterdam, and later at a girls' Lyceum in Amsterdam. He published a mathematical analysis of the game of chess from an intuitionistic point of view, in which he showed, using the Thue-Morse sequence, that the then current official rules did not exclude the possibility of infinite games.
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Born 1918-04-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
William Holden died as the result of a fall in his high-rise apartment on the seaside cliffs of Santa Monica, California in November 1981. Holden was alone and heavily intoxicated when he apparently slipped on a throw rug, severely gashed his head on a night table, and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least half-an-hour after the fall but may not have realized the severity of the injury and did not summon aid. His body was found on November 16, but forensic and other evidence suggested he had been dead for several days and most likely died on November 12.
Holden suffered from alcoholism and depression. In 1966, he was involved in a car accident in Italy in which the other driver was killed. It was determined that Holden had been driving under the influence of alcohol; he was charged with vehicular manslaughter and received an eight-month suspended prison sentence. Holden was overcome with guilt, and friends said this led to even heavier bouts of drinking.
He was best man at the marriage of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952.
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Born 1938-11-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Suicide
Suicide by defenestration.
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Born 1943-07-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He fought the French connection.
His killer was François Checchi. The moto driver was Charles Altiéri.
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Born 1895-08-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Cohen had a limb broken. Then, complications occurred with anemia and pneumonia, and he died.
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Born 1915-05-20. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
Ariel Sharon noted about Dayan:
"He would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more were bad; the remaining two, however, were brilliant."
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Born 1918-12-25. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
As air force Mirage jets flew overhead, distracting the crowd, a troop truck halted before the Presidential reviewing stand, and a lieutenant strode forward. Sadat stood to receive his salute, whereupon the assassins rose from the truck, throwing grenades and firing assault rifle rounds. The assassination lasted about 2 minutes. The lead assassin Khalid Islambouli shouted "Death to Pharaoh!" as he ran towards the stand and shot Sadat in the head. After he fell to the floor, people around Sadat threw chairs to try to protect him from the bullets. Seven other dignitaries were killed, including the Cuban ambassador and a Coptic Orthodox bishop, and 28 were wounded, including James Tully, the Irish Minister for Defence, and four US military liaisons. Sadat was then rushed to a hospital, but he was declared dead within hours. This was the first time in the Egyptian history that the head of the Egyptian state was assassinated by Egyptian citizens. Two of the attackers were killed and the others were arrested by the military police on-site. Islambouli was later found guilty and executed in April of 1982.
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Born 1904-05-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed (née Barney) and Henry Montgomery, Sr.
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Born 1899-07-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Old Lodge Skins in Little Big Man.
He died in 1981 on the same reservation where he was born.
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Born 1901-04-13. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
The sinthome is a concept introduced by Jacques Lacan in his seminar Le sinthome (1975-76). According to Lacan, sinthome is an archaic way of spelling the French word symptôme, meaning symptom. The seminar is a continuing elaboration of his topology, extending the previous seminar's focus (RSI) on the Borromean Knot and an exploration of the writings of James Joyce. Lacan redefines the psychoanalytic symptom in terms of his topology of the subject.
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Born 1905-03-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich."
At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was one of the few officials to express remorse. He was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, most of which he would serve at Spandau Prison, West Berlin, largely for his use of slave labour.
Speer's release from prison in 1966 was a worldwide media event.
Speer died of a cerebral hemorrhage in London, exactly 42 years after Germany invaded Poland.
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Born 1901-02-07. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
1948 : Ruy Blas. Director.
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Born 1904-08-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was born in Paris, Kentucky, and died in Toulouse.
In 1935 he moved for the first time to France. He later spent time in Egypt working with Herman Chittison. In 1943 he worked with the American saxophonists Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins.
He returned to France in 1948 and spent the rest of his life there in part due to racial segregation.
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Born 1960-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Drummer of Taxi Girl. Overdose. Son of Jacques Wolfsohn