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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1939-04-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
François de Roubaix was a French film score composer. In a decade, he created a musical style with new sounds, until his accidental death at 36. Notable in his style is his use of folk elements, as well as electronic musical instruments such as synthesizers and early drum machines. He is thus seen as a precursor of the French electronic music. Roubaix had a home studio where he would overdub parts until he was satisfied with the result. He died in 1975 in a diving accident. In 1976, his score for Le Vieux Fusil was awarded a César Award. He also wrote the music of Dernier Domicile Connu.
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Born 1892-12-04. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
After a long illness, Franco died on same date as the death of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange. It is suspected that the doctors were ordered to keep him barely alive by artificial means until this symbolic date of the far-right. The historian Ricardo de la Cierva says that on the 19th around 6 p.m. he was told that Franco had already died.
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Born 1887-02-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a German-American businessman and intimate friend of Adolf Hitler. He eventually fell out of favour with Hitler, however, and defected from Nazi Germany to the United States. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes. Hanfstaengl was portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the 2003 Canadian television miniseries Hitler: The Rise of Evil. American actor Randy Quaid played him in the 1982 television film Inside the Third Reich. Ronald Pickup played him in the 1989 miniseries The Nightmare Years.
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Born 1922-03-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Murder
He was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer.
Pasolini was brutally murdered by being run over several times with his own car, dying on November 2, 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome, in a location typical of his novels.
Giuseppe Pelosi, a seventeen-year-old hustler, was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. However, on May 7th, 2005, he retracted his confession, which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family, and claimed that three strangers with southern Italian accents had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "filthy communist.
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Born 1905-12-31. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Guy Mollet died in Paris in 1975. He is, until today, the more controversial of the French Socialist leaders. His name is tied up to the SFIO decline and his repressive policy in Algeria. In the French political language, the word molletisme means a duplicity consisting to do left-wing speeches to win the elections then lead a conservative policy. Currently, the French Socialist politicians preferred refer to the moral authority of Pierre Mendès-France, although he was not member of the party.
Guy Mollet was actually born on January 2nd, 1906.
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Born 1887-05-31. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
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Born 1955-06-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Pierre Blaise was discovered by Louis Malle who gave him the leading role in his 1974 film Lacombe Lucien. Pierre Blaise spurned a cinema career to return to wood cutting in rural France, but only a year after the film, he was killed in an accident in his R8 Gordini, a moment after having left a night club.
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Born 1906-09-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
In later life, Shostakovich suffered from chronic ill health, but he resisted giving up cigarettes and vodka. From 1958 he suffered from a debilitating condition which particularly affected his right hand, eventually forcing him to give up piano playing.
Shostakovich died of lung cancer.
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Born 1933-10-29. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Mildred Delores Loving (July 22, 1939 – May 2, 2008) and her husband Richard Perry Loving (October 29, 1933 – June 29, 1975) were plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967). Their life and marriage has been the subject of several songs and three movies, including the 2016 film Loving. On June 29, 1975, a drunk driver struck the Lovings's car in Caroline County, Virginia. Richard was killed in the accident, at age 41; Mildred lost her right eye.
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Born 1895-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
embolie pulmonaire
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Born 1893-07-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Germaine Kerjean (1893–1975) was a French stage and film actress. She spent a decade with the Comédie-Française. In films she frequently played character roles.
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Born 1947-02-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Très affecté psychologiquement par le cambriolage de son appartement, il fait une première tentative de suicide le 21 novembre 1974 en se jetant du 5e étage de l'hôtel de la Paix, à Genève. Par chance, il est bloqué aux rambardes du 3e étage : il en est quitte pour un nouveau traumatisme crânien et deux fractures des jambes.
Le vendredi 25 avril 1975 à 11 h du matin, Mike Brant se suicide du 6e étage de l'immeuble situé au 6 de la rue Erlanger à Paris à l'âge de 28 ans. Plusieurs thèses ont été mises en avant pour expliquer sa mort prématurée. Certains ont parlé de sa difficulté de plus en plus pesante d'assumer son succès, tandis que d'autres ont défendu la version du traumatisme psychologique qui touche les enfants de déportés. Parmi les autres versions qui firent également les gros titres des magazines à sensation : un implication dans un trafic d'œuvres d'art, une obscure histoire d'espionnage avec le Mossad
buried in Haifa, Israel.
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Born 1908-01-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
William Henry Hartnell was an English actor. While Hartnell made numerous stage and television appearances and acted in over 75 British films, he is best remembered today as the First Doctor in BBC Television's Doctor Who, which he played from 1963 to 1966. He was also well known for his roles as Sergeant Grimshaw, the title character of the first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant in 1958, and as Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the sitcom The Army Game from 1957 to 1961. Hartnell's health had worsened during the early 1970s and, in December 1974, he was admitted to hospital permanently. In early 1975, he suffered a series of strokes, brought on by cerebrovascular disease, and he died in his sleep of heart failure.
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Born 1898-05-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
In 1974, he was elected member of the Académie Française, but he died suddenly the night before his acceptance ceremony.
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Born 1897-08-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
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Born 1906-06-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
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Born 1912-12-19. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Operation
He prepares his personal exhibition scheduled for the spring of 1976 in Paris. But at the end of March, his bad health calls for hospitalization and for surgery. He dies a few days later. He is buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Born 1938-08-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
suicide by overdose of sleeping pills.
Probably best remembered for her role in the John Wayne comedy adventure Hatari! (1962).
But she also appears in "sous le signe du lion"
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Born 1906-01-20. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Onassis married Athina Livanos, daughter of shipping magnate Stavros Livanos, on December 28, 1946; their son, Alexander (April 30, 1948 – January 23, 1973), and daughter Christina (December 11, 1950 – November 19, 1988), were both born in New York City. After their divorce, Athina married her late sister's widower (and Onassis's arch shipping rival) Stavros Niarchos.
Despite the fact they were both married, Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas embarked on a notorious affair. Maria Callas gave birth to their child, a boy, who died hours later on March 30, 1960. Onassis ended his relationship with Callas to marry Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on October 20, 1968. It was said that Kennedy insisted on marriage rather than an affair so as to avoid upsetting her children. That Callas was really the love of his life is suggested by the short lived happiness he experienced with Kennedy (he tried to end the marriage early but was unable to without committing an egregious offense, according to Greek law at the time), and by the many times he tried to see Callas while married to Kennedy. He flew to Paris to see Callas after the death of his son Alexander in an airplane crash. Callas responded, "If only our son had lived," referring to the child they are believed to have had together in 1960. Onassis never recovered from the death of his son.
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Born 1917-06-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (brain)
She died of pneumonia-related complications of her brain cancer, having survived considerably longer than doctors had originally predicted.
Some theorize that Hayward’s cancer was a result of having been exposed to fallout during the filming of The Conqueror (1956)
However, the number of cases of cancer detected (91) and the number of deaths from cancer (46) in the cast and crew (220) are in line with the average lifetime risk of cancer in whites (around 40%) and the average lifetime risk of dying of cancer for whites (around 20%), as published by the National Cancer Institute SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2001.
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Born 1940-08-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
James Anthony Sullivan (August 13, 1940 – disappeared March 6, 1975) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who released two albums before he disappeared without a trace in New Mexico. Sullivan left Los Angeles on March 4, 1975, to drive to Nashville alone in his Volkswagen Beetle. The next day, after being cautioned by a highway patrol officer regarding his driving, he checked into the La Mesa Motel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Later reports suggest he did not sleep there, and left his key inside the room, and that he bought vodka at the town store. He was seen the following day about 26 miles (42 km) away, at a remote ranch owned by the Gennitti family. His car was later found abandoned at the ranch, and he was reportedly last seen walking away from it. The car contained Sullivan's money, papers, guitar, clothes, and a box of his unsold records. He was never seen again, and reports have variously attributed his disappearance to being murdered, becoming disoriented and lost, or, particularly in the light of the title of his first album, alien abduction. Search parties failed to find any trace of him. A decomposed body resembling Sullivan was later found in a remote area several miles away, but was determined not to be his.
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Born 1893-08-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Unknown
Né à Dehli, de petite taille, et d'un caractère paisible, c'était un nain doux.
"La mort, avait-il dit, c'est un manque de savoir-vivre."
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Born 1904-12-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Umm Kulthum (Egyptian Arabic: Om Kalsoum; the name is spelled variously using the Roman alphabet as Om Koultoum, Om Kalthoum, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom, Omme Kolsoum, and others. In Turkish she is known as Ümmü Gülsüm. Born Fatma Ibrahim el-Beltagi).
In 1967, Umm Kulthum was diagnosed with a severe case of nephritis. She gave her last concert at the Palace of the Nile in 1973. Tests at that time indicated that her illness was incurable. She moved to the United States, where she benefited for some time from the advanced medical technology, but in 1975, upon re-entering her home country, she required hospitalisation due to declining health. Umm Kulthum died in a Cairo hospital.
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Born 1904-12-10. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Antonín Josef Novotný was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968, and also held the post of President of Czechoslovakia from 1957 to 1968. An ardent hardliner, Novotný was forced to yield the reins of power to Alexander Dubček during the short-lived reform movement of 1968. In 1971, during the period of normalization (Czechoslovakia) , he was reelected to the Central Committee. However, his political influence was minimal and he was too ill to be a strong force in the Gustáv Husák administration.
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Born 1897-04-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
He lived together with the French actress and singer Yvonne Printemps. He died of respiratory problems at the age of seventy-seven at Neuilly-sur-Seine and is interred there side by side with Yvonne in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery.
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Born 1882-03-25. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Japanese doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. His natural father's family name was Nakamura, but Kyusaku was adopted by the Ogino family in 1901. Ogino studied infertility and developed a method to estimate the fertile period of the menstrual cycle based on the length of a woman's past cycles. This knowledge could be used by couples seeking pregnancy to time intercourse so as to maximize the chances of conception. In 1930, John Smulders, Roman Catholic physician from the Netherlands, used this discovery to create a method for avoiding pregnancy. Smulders published his work with the Dutch Roman Catholic medical association, and this was the official Rhythm Method promoted over the next several decades. Babies born despite the use of this method are known as "Ogino babies"