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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1894-12-16. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Samuel William Théodore Monod was a French writer, cartoonist, illustrator, publisher, journalist, critic art theorist and historian of the French letter and typography. He was born in Condé-sur-Noireau in Calvados, where his father was a minister, and educated at the Corneille school in Rouen. In 1914 he published his humorous cartoons in L'Humanité, Floréal and La Guerre Sociale and became editor of Le Mot, the review produced by Paul Iribe. Most of his cartoons were signed Sam Monod or Esmono. Monod adopted a number of aliases before settling on Maximilien Vox. After getting married he went to Paris to learn typography, and in 1926 was awarded the Prix Blumenthal, worth 20,000 Francs, for a series of 24 book covers. During the Second World War he worked as a department head for the Ministry of Information, whilst at the same time continuing his editorial activities. In 1942 he founded The Union Bibliophile de France, which published artworks. After the war he concentrated on typography and created in 1949 the professional magazine Characters, which he edited until 1964. He created the VOX-ATypI classification of type characters. In 1952 he moved to Lurs to live in a house he called Monodière and founded the Rencontres internationales de Lure. He died there and is buried in Lure. He had married Eliane Poulain in 1917 and had five sons.
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Born 1879-11-14. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
"I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life," Monfreid declared a few days before dying.
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Born 1909-01-22. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in September 1961.
"U" is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to "Mister." "Thant" was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, a reference to his home town of Pantanaw.
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Born 1948-06-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Nick Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Best known for the sombre pieces composed on his primary instrument, the guitar, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition; he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years. At some time during the night of 24/25 November 1974, Nick Drake died at home in Far Leys from an overdose of amitriptyline, a type of antidepressant. He had gone to bed early the night before, after spending the afternoon visiting a friend. His mother claimed that, around dawn, he left his room for the kitchen. His family was used to hearing him do this many times before but, during this instance, he did not make a sound. They presumed that he was eating a bowl of cereal. He returned to his room a short while later, and took some pills "to help him sleep". Drake was accustomed to keeping his own hours; he frequently had difficulty sleeping, and would often stay up through the night playing and listening to music, then sleeping late into the following morning. Recalling the events of that night, his mother later stated: "I never used to disturb him at all. But it was about 12 o’clock, and I went in, because really it seemed it was time he got up. And he was lying across the bed. The first thing I saw was his long, long legs." There was no suicide note.
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Born 1908-09-30. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
For around ten years, Oistrakh played the 1702 Conte di Fontana Stradivarius that he traded for the 1715 Ex Marsick Stradivarius in June 1966.
Oistrakh suffered a heart attack as early as 1964. He survived and continued to work at a furious pace. He had already become one of the principal cultural ambassadors for the Soviet Union to the West in live concerts and recordings. After conducting a cycle of Brahms with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he died of another heart attack in Amsterdam.
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Born 1926-03-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
While married to Stavros Niarchos, Tina's son Alexander Onassis died in a plane crash at the age of 24. Tina was devastated by this loss.
Tina Niarchos died in Saint-Moritz, where she was living with her then husband Stavros Niarchos, of a drug overdose.
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Born 1908-04-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart
Schindler was born into a Sudeten German family in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His parents, Hans Schindler and Franziska Luser, were divorced when he was 27. Oskar was always very close to his younger sister, Elfriede. Schindler was brought up within the Roman Catholic Church. Although he never formally renounced his religion, Oskar was never more than an indifferent Catholic. After school he worked as a commercial salesman. Schindler's grave is located on the mountainside below Zion Gate and the Old City walls. Stones placed on top of the grave are a sign of gratitude from Jewish visitors, according to Jewish tradition, although Schindler himself was not Jewish. On his grave, the Hebrew inscription reads: "Righteous among the Nations", an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. The German inscription reads: "The Unforgettable Lifesaver of 1200 Persecuted Jews" No one knows what Schindler's motives were. He was quoted as saying "I knew the people who worked for me... When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings." The writer Herbert Steinhouse, who interviewed Schindler in 1948 at the behest of some of the surviving Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews), wrote: "Oskar Schindler's exceptional deeds stemmed from just that elementary sense of decency and humanity that our sophisticated age seldom sincerely believes in. A repentant opportunist saw the light and rebelled against the sadism and vile criminality all around him. The inference may be disappointingly simple, especially for all amateur psychoanalysts who would prefer the deeper and more mysterious motive that may, if it is true, still lie unprobed and unappreciated. But an hour with Oskar Schindler encourages belief in the simple answer."
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Born 1928-11-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Sexton spoke candidly about her battle with bipolar disorder, SIDS, which she fought for most of her life. Her first manic episode took place in 1954. After a second breakdown in 1955, she met Dr. Martin Orne, who was to become her long time therapist, at Glenside Hospital. Sexton held the belief that she was not valuable except in her ability to please men and told Orne in her first interview that her only talent might be for prostitution. He later told her that his evaluation showed that she had a creative side and encouraged her to take up poetry. Though she was very nervous about it and needed a friend to make the phone call and accompany her to the first workshop, she enrolled in her first poetry workshop with John Holmes as the instructor. Writing poetry became part of her therapy.
On October 4, 1974 Sexton had lunch with Maxine Kumin to review her most recent book, The Awful Rowing Toward God. Upon returning home, she locked herself in her garage, started the engine of her car and committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Born 1894-07-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Upon his death from emphysema at the age of eighty in Oxnard, Brennan was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles. His widow, Ruth, whom he married in 1920, lived to be ninety-nine and is buried next to him. They had a daughter and two sons.
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Born 1899-07-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Other
Diabetes
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Born 1902-02-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
From 1957 until his death in 1974, Lindbergh had an affair with a woman 13 years his junior, German hat maker Brigitte Hesshaimer who lived in a small Bavarian town called Geretsried (35 km south of Munich). On 23 November 2003, DNA tests proved that he fathered her three children: Dyrk (1958), Astrid (1960) and David (1967). The two managed to keep the affair secret; even the children did not know the true identity of their father, whom they saw when he came to visit once or twice per year using the alias, "Careu Kent". Astrid later read a magazine article about Lindbergh and found snapshots and more than a hundred letters written from him to her mother. She disclosed the affair after both Brigitte and Anne Morrow Lindbergh had died.
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Born 1937-12-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was the Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1970 and Constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. Pusser is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line. His efforts have inspired several books, songs, movies, and a TV series. He was also a wrestler known as "Buford the Bull" in the Mid-South. The Buford Pusser Museum was established at the home he lived in at the time of his death in 1974. A Buford Pusser Festival is held each May in his hometown of Adamsville, Tennessee. According to Pusser, his phone rang before dawn on the morning of August 12, 1967, informing him of a disturbance on New Hope Road in McNairy County; Pusser responded and his wife Pauline rode along. Shortly after they passed the New Hope Methodist Church, a car came alongside theirs and the occupant opened fire, killing Pauline and leaving Pusser for dead. Doctors said he was struck on the left side of his jaw by at least two, or possibly three, rounds from a .30 caliber carbine. He spent 18 days in the hospital before returning home and would need several more surgeries to restore his appearance. Despite vowing to bring his wife's murderers to justice Pusser was unable to bring Kirksey Nix or any of the accused to justice. Nix was sentenced to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for the Easter Saturday 1971 murder of New Orleans grocer Frank J. Corso. Nix was later involved in the 1987 murder-for-hire of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, in Biloxi, Mississippi. His co-conspirator, Biloxi Mayor Pete Halat, had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from Nix and blamed it on his law partner, Judge Sherry. Nix ordered a hit from prison and was later sentenced to isolation for the rest of his life. Nix has repeatedly refused to comment about Pusser's claims that he was one of Pauline Pusser's killers. Pusser died from injuries sustained in a one-car automobile accident at 35°12′21″N 88°27′35.7″W. Earlier that day, he contracted with Bing Crosby Productions in Memphis to portray himself in the sequel to Walking Tall. That evening, returning home alone from the McNairy County Fair in his specially modified Corvette, Pusser struck an embankment at high speed that ejected him from the vehicle. The car caught fire and burned. Local speculation as to the cause included rumors of sabotage to the steering mechanism and the tie-rods. The State Trooper who worked the accident, Paul Ervin, later became McNairy County sheriff. Ervin claimed that Pusser's death was caused by drunk driving without a seat-belt. Dwana, a passenger in another car, came upon the scene of the accident moments later. No autopsy of Pusser's body was performed. As sheriff, Pusser was credited with surviving seven stabbings and eight shootings.
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Born 1907-05-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Imperial Governor") of Vienna
At the Nuremberg trial Schirach was one of only two men to denounce Hitler (the other was Albert Speer). He said that he did not know about the extermination camps. He also provided evidence that he had protested to Martin Bormann about the inhumane treatment of the Jews. Also, it was revealed by Schirach at Nuremberg that the roots of his antisemitism could be found in the readings of Henry Ford's The International Jew. He was found guilty on October 1, 1946, of "crimes against humanity" for his deportation of the Viennese Jews. He was sentenced and served twenty years as a prisoner in Spandau Prison.
He was released on September 30, 1966, and retired quietly to southern Germany. He published his memoirs, Ich glaubte an Hitler ("I believed in Hitler"), in 1974. Prematurily aged because of his time in prison he died in his sleep.
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Born 1909-06-07. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
She was an American pediatric anesthesiologist. She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and effectively founded the field of neonatology. To the public, however, she is best known as the developer of the Apgar score, a method of assessing the health of newborn babies that has drastically reduced infant mortality over the world.
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Born 1950-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
She was a French actress, who died in a car accident as she was driving a Matra while Robert Hossein was her passenger.
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Born 1941-09-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
The Mamas and the Papas
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Born 1891-10-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. He was the head of the British scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in 1945 for achievements in physics.
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Born 1921-07-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
"Laissez-moi dormir ! J'étais fait pour ça ! "
He used to say that he was the only living person having a street and a place with his name on it (rue blanche, place blanche).
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Born 1895-10-08. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Heart attack
Perón was buried in La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. In 1987, his tomb was defaced, and the hands (and some personal effects, such as his sword) of his corpse were stolen. Those responsible have never been found, but some say it was the responsibility of Licio Gelli, leader of the P2 Propaganda Due Italian Freemasonic lodge.
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Born 1898-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Minor character in many movies. ("dernier domicile connu", "les grandes gueules", "Maigret et l'Affaire St Fiacre", etc...).
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Born 1884-07-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Despite her frequent roles of servant, she hated to do the housekeeping. She had been living in hotels all her adult life (Hôtel Saint-James and d'Albany, Ritz).
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Born 1882-07-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp in London, England, at the family home in Bow (historically known as Stratford)
Crisp was in his eighties by the time he quit acting entirely, continuing to work long after financially necessary simply because he enjoyed it. He was married twice. He was divorced from his first wife in 1919. He later married film screenwriter Jane Murfin, whom he divorced in 1944. Crisp died in 1974, a few months short of his 92th birthday, due to complications from a series of strokes.
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Born 1899-04-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Malcolm X wrote in his autobiography that he polished Ellington's shoes when he worked at a nightclub.
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Born 1900-12-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
known for her role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched.
While never confirmed, some suspect that Moorehead’s cancer was a result of having been exposed to radiation at a site previously used for nuclear testing while filming The Conqueror (1956) in Utah. Moorehead believed her cancer was related to this exposure, and commented in an interview shortly before her death, "I wish I'd never done that damn movie!" There is no definitive proof that the movie caused her illness.
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Born 1895-10-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American actor, producer and comedian born in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
Bud Abbott suffered from epilepsy and died of cancer at the age of 78.