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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 1928-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Born in Lille, he was a member of the group Les Capenoules.
His best known song is undoubtedly Quand la mer monte, written by his friend Jean-Claude Darnal. He also sang the P'tit quinquin.
He hanged himself on a beam of a house under construction in front of the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
The song Quand la mer monte is featured in the movie by Yolande Moreau with the same title.
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Born 1934-09-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
De los Rios was born as Osvaldo Nicholas Ferrara in Buenos Aires into a musical family; his father was a musician and his mother a well known folk singer; he studied composition and arranging at the National Conservatory of Music under Alberto Ginastera and Teodoro Fuchs. A victim of an acute depression while working on "Don Juan Tenorio", de los Rios committed suicide in Madrid.
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Born 1951-09-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city where he would spend most of his life. Despite his premature death, his work is considered one of the most original in Colombian literature. It was in his novel "¡Qué viva la música" that Caicedo mentioned that to live more than 25 years of age was madness and he was loyal to what he said then on March 4, 1977. In the afternoon he died, he received a volume of his recently published book "Qué viva la música!" and wrote a letter to his friend Miguel Marías where he mentioned that his woman just left him for a reason he did not know. Then he took 60 pills of secobarbital.
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Born 1901-01-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Lee Parry (born Mathilde Charlotte Benz) was a German film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 48 films between 1919 and 1939.
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Born 1894-07-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
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Born 1916-09-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
At the time of his death, he was doing a promotional tour for the 1976 film Network in which he made an over-the-top portrayal of the crazed television anchor man Howard Beale. He was posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role, and went on to win the award, which was accepted by his widow. Although James Dean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi had also been posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, Peter Finch was the first (and only) actor ever to win the award posthumously. He was also the first Australian actor to win the Best Actor award.
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Born 1907-11-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
infarctus
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Born 1909-07-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
8 world records from 1930 to 1932
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Born 1922-12-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Tom Gries directed "The Glass House" a 1972 TV film about prisons. During post-production on his final film, The Greatest (1977), a biography on boxer Muhammad Ali (in which Ali also played himself), Tom Gries collapsed and died of a heart attack while playing tennis. He was 54 years old.
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Born 1927-03-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Cassidy died in an apartment fire while he slept on the couch, in West Hollywood, California. News reports at the time attributed it to a lit cigarette. In an eerie coincidence, he had starred in an episode of the TV series Night Gallery, called "The Last Laurel", in which he played a villainous character who discovered the secret of astral projection, and bent on revenge against others, accidentally killed himself while sleeping.
His son, David, wrote about his father's bisexuality in his autobiography.
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Born 1890-04-07. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Carlu was a French architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States. His most famous building is likely the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, near the Eiffel Tower, which was designed for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937). The building's long wings now serve as museum space, and it features sculptural groups on the attic by Raymond Delamarre, Carlo Sarrabezolles and Alfred Bottiau. His other buildings include the 1957 NATO HQ (see of the Secretary General) in Paris (until 1967), now Université Paris-Dauphine. Among his important interiors are the 1930 Eaton Auditorium in Toronto (now known as "The Carlu"), the 1943 French Nationality Room at the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning, and other venues. Carlu is buried at the Passy Cemetery with his spouse Anne. He was the brother of French graphic designer Jean Carlu. Carlu was married to little-known artist Anne Carlu (née Peckard 1895-1972). A mural of Anne's resides in the hall of the United Nations, Palais des Nations, in Geneva Switzerland.
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Born 1901-11-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
Pulmonary edema. He was a heavy smoker.
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Born 1890-08-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He died in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris. His epitaph reads: unconcerned, but not indifferent. When Juliet Browner died in 1991, she was interred in the same tomb. Her epitaph reads, together again. Juliet set up a trust for his work and made many donations of his work to museums.
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Born 1904-05-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Leucemia
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Born 1944-04-10. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1903-02-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Juliette Greco made popular his song 'Si tu t'imagines.'
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Born 1910-08-18. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Pál Turán was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He had a long collaboration with fellow Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, lasting 46 years and resulting in 28 joint papers. He died in Budapest of leukemia.
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Born 1892-08-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Emmanuel Berl was a French journalist, historian and essayist. He was born at Le Vésinet in the modern département of Yvelines, and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. In 1937 he married the singer, composer and film actress Mireille Hartuch; she had nicknamed him "Théodore" (which is what appears on their tomb). Berl was the cousin of Lisette de Brinon.
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Born 1889-02-01. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Shōjirō Ishibashi (石橋 正二郎, Ishibashi Shōjirō) was a Japanese businessman who founded the Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest maker of tires, in 1931 in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. the company was named after its founder: in the Japanese language, ishi means "stone" and hashi (here voiced to bashi) means "bridge", whence the origin of the company's name in English. Ishibashi's daughter, Yasuko Hatoyama, became heir to Ishibashi's considerable fortune and has used the inheritance to fund her family's political causes. She married former Japanese Foreign Minister Iichirō Hatoyama. The couple had two sons, who are Ishibashi's grandchildren – politicians Kunio Hatoyama, who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Yukio Hatoyama, who was Prime Minister from September 16, 2009 to June 8, 2010.
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Born 1893-12-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Other
Mao Zedong died at the age of 82, on September 9, 1976 at 10 minutes past midnight in Beijing. He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known in the U.S as Lou Gehrig's Disease and elsewhere as Motor Neurone Disease. Mao had been in poor health for several years and had declined visibly for some months prior to his death. His body lay in state at the Great Hall of the People.
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Born 1896-06-01. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was the assistant of professor Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku University, where they invented the Yagi-Uda antenna in 1926. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector antenna in a Japanese publication. Yagi applied for patents on the new antenna both in Japan and the United States. His U.S. Patent 1,860,123 ("Variable Directional Electric Wave Generating Device") was issued in May 1932 and assigned to the Radio Corporation of America.
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Born 1905-03-27. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
László Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical Computer Science in Hungary. His early life mixed promise and tragedy. His father died when he was young, and his mother died when he was 17, the year he entered the University of Budapest, making him essentially an orphan.
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Born 1913-09-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
He was a gangster based in Los Angeles and part of the Jewish Mafia, and also had strong ties to the American Mafia from the 1930s through 1960s. In 1961, Cohen was convicted of tax evasion and sent to Alcatraz. His heavily armored Cadillac from this period was confiscated by Los Angeles Police Department and is now on display at the Southward Car Museum in New Zealand. During his time on "the Rock," another inmate attempted to kill Cohen with a lead pipe. In 1972, Cohen was released from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he had spoken out against prison abuse. He had been misdiagnosed with an ulcer, which turned out to be stomach cancer. After undergoing surgery, he continued touring the U.S., including television appearances, once with Ramsey Clark. Mickey Cohen died in his sleep in 1976.
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Born 1954-04-06. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was executed by guillotine at Baumettes prison in Marseilles by André Obrecht. In his last words to his lawyers, who were witnessing the execution, he said "Rehabilitate me". There has been some controversy regarding Ranucci's guilt. A book by Robert Badinter, entitled Le Pull-over rouge, disputed his involvement in the crime. The title of the book refers to an article of clothing, a red sweater, found near the victim's body similar to that worn by the abducter, who drove a car that did not belong to Ranucci, if the witnesses to the abduction identified the vehicle correctly. The sweater was not Ranucci's. The book became a film by Michel Drach in 1979. In 2005, new claims were made that Michel Fourniret, a serial killer, had something to do with this case and could have been the real murderer.
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Born 1888-03-13. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Morand's reputation has been marred by his stance during the Second World War, when he collaborated with the Vichy regime and was a vocal antisemite. When the Second World War ended, Morand served as an ambassador in Bern, but his position was revoked and he lived in exile in Switzerland.
Paul Morand was a close friend of Marcel Proust and has left valuable observations about him.