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Brugsch Theodor (b. 1878-10-11 / d. 1963-07-11)
He was a German internist born in Graz. He became an associate professor in 1910, and practiced medicine at the Charité Hospital in Berlin prior to, and after World War I. In 1917-19 he served with distinction as a physician with the 9th Army in Romania. From 1927 to 1935 he was a professor at the University of Halle. In 1935 Brugsch resigned from the university due to the political climate in 1930s Germany, and opened a private practice in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to the Charité, where he remained for the remainder of his career. His father, Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827-1894) was a well-known Egyptologist. With Friedrich Kraus he published a 19-volume medical textbook titled Spezielle Pathologie und Therapie (1919-1929), and with Friedrich H. Lewy he published Die Biologie der Person (1926-1930). He was the 1954 recipient of the Goethe Prize, and in 1978 was depicted on the 25-pfennig postage stamp by the East German government. Brugsch's syndrome: a multi-symptom disorder that is similar to Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome without acromegaly.
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Born 1895-10-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was one of the most famous Finnish mathematicians. He was particularly appreciated for his work in complex analysis. Rolf Nevanlinna did not participate actively in politics, but in the thirties he was known to sympathise with the right-wing Patriotic People's Movement party and, partly because of his half German ancestry, was leaning towards Germany. In the spring of 1941, Finland contributed a battalion of volunteers to the Waffen SS, which then fought on the Eastern Front. At the time, the battalion was considered to form a certain bond with Germany, as Germany and Finland both fought against the Soviet Union, without a formal alliance. In 1942, an official SS Volunteer Committee was established in Finland to take care of the battalion's somewhat strained relations with its German superiors. Rolf Nevanlinna was chosen to be the chairman of the committee, as a person respected in Germany but loyal to Finland. The battalion was finally brought back to Finland and disbanded in 1943. Nevanlinna's Nazi sympathies during the war did not affect his mathematical contacts. His election to the presidency of the IMU was almost unanimous. In 1950 the Soviet mathematical community was isolated from their Western colleagues. The International Colloquium on Function Theory in Helsinki in 1957, directed by Nevanlinna, was the first post-war occasion when the Soviet mathematicians could contact their Western colleagues in person. In 1965, Rolf Nevanlinna was an honorary guest in a function theory congress in Armenia.
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Born 1926-03-06. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Kim Jae-gyu was a South Korean politician, army lieutenant general and the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. He assassinated South Korean President Park Chung-hee, who had been one of his closest friends, on October 26, 1979, and was subsequently executed by hanging on May 24, 1980. He remains a controversial figure with many contradictions: he is regarded by some as a patriot who ended Park's 18-year military dictatorship, and by others as a traitor who killed his long-time benefactor out of personal grievance. For many years, the latter was the prevailing view, but later revelations in the early 2000s about Kim's relationship with some leaders of the democracy movement prompted a re-evaluation in some circles.
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Born 1956-07-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Curtis's last live performance on May 2, 1980 at Birmingham University was held in the same month as his death and included Joy Division's first and last performance of the song "Ceremony", which was later used by New Order. The last song Curtis ever performed in front of an audience was "Digital". The recording of this performance can be found on the compilation album Still.
The effects of his epilepsy and personal problems, such as an impending divorce from his wife, may have contributed to Curtis's suicide by hanging at the age of 23. According to the book Touching From A Distance, Curtis had taken an overdose of his epilepsy medication and ended up in hospital only a few months before his death. The overdose was believed to be a 'cry for help' but Curtis himself was said to have told his bandmates that he hadn't meant to overdose. The book states that Bernard Sumner took him to a graveyard after he had left hospital to show him where he would have ended up had the overdose killed him. The night Curtis died, days before Joy Division was to begin its first American tour, he watched one of his favourite movies, Stroszek by Werner Herzog. He later hanged himself in his kitchen while reportedly listening to Iggy Pop's The Idiot. On top of the LP cover was a small cut out photograph of a moon struck dying sky taken by artist David Horvitz. Curtis's viewing and listening choices continue to generate speculation as to the true reasons why he took his life.
Curtis was cremated and his ashes were buried in Macclesfield, with the inscription on his memorial stone reading, "Love Will Tear Us Apart". The epitaph, chosen by Deborah Curtis, is a reference to Joy Division's best-known song.
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Born 1892-05-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
In January 1980, Tito was admitted to Klinični center Ljubljana (the clinical centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia) with circulation problems in his legs. His left leg was amputated soon afterwards. He died there, three days before his 88th birthday.
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Born 1944-08-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was a French singer and song writer. He participated in the libertarian movement of the 70's. He Died in 1980 from a brain tumor in the hospital La Salpetriere.
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Born 1904-12-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
Carpentier died in Paris. He was struggling with cancer as he completed his final novel.
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Born 1949-02-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from France. His best year was in 1977 when he finished in sixth place in the 350cc world championship. His only Grand Prix victory came at the 1976 350cc Yugoslavian Grand Prix at Opatija. He was killed while competing at the Grand Prix of Le Castelet in 1980.
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Born 1913-09-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
between first symptoms and confirmed prognosis of lung cancer the average elapsed time is 72 days.
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Born 1915-11-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
On 25 February 1980, after leaving a lunch party held by François Mitterrand, Barthes was struck by a laundry truck while walking home through the streets of Paris. He succumbed to his injuries a month later.
Roland Barthes aimait raconter cette petite blague à ses étudiants : un infirme se plonge dans l’eau de Lourdes pour que sa situation s’améliore et en ressort avec une chaise roulante toute neuve. Passé maître dans les discours aux multiples sens, qu’il s’amusera à démystifier, Barthes accouche en 1968 de cet article bizarre qu’est « La mort de l’auteur ».
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Born 1889-04-17. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
On his passing in 1980, Boussac's estate was liquidated and "L'Aurore" sold to Robert Hersant who merged it with his "Le Figaro" newspaper.
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Born 1900-03-23. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was a social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was one of the Founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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Born 1899-07-03. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games. A Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, Guttmann was a founding father of organized physical activities for people with disabilities.
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Born 1914-03-15. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Unknown
Elvgren was a commercial success. His clients ranged from Brown and Bigelow and Coca-Cola to General Electric and Sealy Mattress Company. In addition, during the 1940s and 1950s he illustrated stories for a host of magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping.
His death occured on a 29th february, which is very unusual, and interesting for this deadabase.
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Born 1946-07-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.
He passed out after a night of heavy drinking in a London club called MusicMachine (hosted at the Camden Palace, later known as the KOKO). He was left to sleep in a car owned by an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear, at 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich, South London. The following afternoon, Kinnear found Scott lifeless, and alerted the authorities. Scott was rushed to King's College Hospital in Camberwell, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Although common folklore claims that ingestion of vomit or drugs were the cause of Scott's death, the official cause was listed as "acute alcohol poisoning" and "death by misadventure." Scott was cremated and his ashes were interred by his family in Fremantle, Western Australia, the area to which they had moved to when he was a boy.
Bon Scott's grave.
Statue of Bon Scott, Fremantle, Western Australia.Inconsistencies in media accounts of Scott's death (incorrect spelling of Alistair Kinnear's first name, amongst others) have been cited in conspiracy
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Born 1905-04-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Unknown
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux.
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Born 1896-08-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Born Marie Davaillaud in Loudun, France, Marie married Auguste Antigny in 1920. The marriage lasted until his death in 1927 of pleurisy (Antigny was known to suffer from tuberculosis). In 1928, Marie married Léon Besnard. When two wealthy aunts of Léon died, and left the bulk of their estates to Léon's parents, the couple invited the parents to move in with them. Soon thereafter, Léon's father died, apparently from eating poisoned mushrooms. Léon's mother followed three months later, apparently a victim of pneumonia. The parents' estate was left to Léon and his sister, Lucie, who supposedly committed suicide a few months later. Around this time, Marie's also father died, most likely due to cerebral hemorrhage. Shortly after this, the Besnards subletted rooms to a wealthy childless couple, the Rivets. Monsieur Rivet died of pneumonia, and Madame Rivet passed soon after from tuberculosis. The Rivets' will had named Marie Besnard as their only heir. Pauline and Virginie Lalleron, cousins of Marie, had also named Marie as their only beneficiary. Pauline died after mistaking a bowl of lye for her dessert one night, and Virginie made the same mistake a week later. After Marie discovered Léon was having an affair, Léon remarked to close friends that he believed he was being poisoned, and asked them to demand an autopsy if he died. He passed shortly thereafter, apparently of uremia. Having now accumulated most of the wealth of both families, suspicions were aroused of foul play. Marie was arrested, the bodies of her alleged victims were exhumed, and Marie was charged with 13 counts of murder. Two trials ended in hung juries, with a third ending in acquittal, and Marie was never convicted of any crime.
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Born 1931-03-27. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
Following his parents' divorce when he was five, his mother took him to Los Angeles; she eventually married Eugene Janssen.
He was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the hit television series The Fugitive (1963–1967) with Barry Morse.
A smoker and a heavy drinker, plus a constant worker, Janssen died of a sudden heart attack in 1980 in Malibu, California two days into filming.
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Born 1905-08-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the sight-unseen Nazi German military Enigma cipher machine in 1932. The cryptologic achievements of Rejewski and colleagues Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski enabled the British to begin reading German Enigma-encrypted messages in the Second World War, seven years after Rejewski's original reconstruction of the machine. The intelligence that was gained by the British was code-named Ultra and contributed—perhaps decisively—to the defeat of Germany. He died at age 74 of a heart attack and was interred with military honors at Warsaw's Powązki Military Cemetery.
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Born 1904-08-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Secondo Campini was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.
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Born 1930-03-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia. Nicknamed Le Leone de Mugella, "The Lion of Mugella", Nencini was a powerful all-round rider, but particularly strong in the mountains.
He was a spectacular descender. "The only reason to follow Nencini downhill would be if you had a death wish", said the French rider Raphaël Géminiani.
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Born 1921-07-14. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Unknown
Used to represent Monaco in the TV show Francophonissime or Les jeux de 20h.
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Born 1898-08-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local classfield theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Politically he was a right-wing nationalist, and applied for membership in the Nazi Party in 1937 but this was denied to him because he had Jewish ancestors. After war work he returned to Göttingen briefly in 1945 but was excluded by the British authorities. After brief appointments in Berlin from 1948 he settled permanently as professor in Hamburg.
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Born 1901-02-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Offstage Zeppo was reputed to be a mechanical wizard and held many patents. He got his start with machines early. When Gummo and Groucho bought a car (back in the early vaudeville days) it was Zeppo who kept it running.
Zeppo would go through many careers in his lifetime. He worked machining parts for the war effort during WWII. He grew grapefruits. He ran a theatrical agency with Gummo. And he was a commercial fisherman.
On 12 April 1927, Zeppo married Marion Benda. The couple would adopt one child, Timothy, in 1944 and would later divorce on 12 May 1954. On 18 September 1959, Zeppo married Barbara Blakeley, whose son, Bobby Oliver, he adopted and gave his surname. Zeppo and Blakely would divorce in 1972 or 1973. Blakely would later marry singer Frank Sinatra.
