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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1885-05-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Klemperer had taken Israeli citizenship in 1970. He retired from conducting in 1971.
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Born 1922-03-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Arthur P. Jacobs was a press agent turned film producer responsible for such films in the 1960s and 1970s as the Planet of the Apes series, Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Play It Again, Sam and Tom Sawyer through his company APJAC Productions. During production of the film Huckleberry Finn, Jacobs died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51.
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Born 1878-09-02. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces.
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Born 1913-05-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
During the early 1970s, Inge lived in Los Angeles, where he taught playwriting at the Irvine campus of the University of California. His last several plays attracted little notice or critical acclaim, and he fell into a deep depression, convinced he would never be able to write well again. He committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in 1973.
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Born 1945-12-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Jarno Saarinen commence à courir en Grand Prix en 1970, dans une écurie privée, avec pour monture une 125 Puch et une 250 Yamaha. Précurseur bien avant l'heure, Jarno Saarinen marqua son époque par son style de pilotage jugé "limite" par ses concurrents : il pilotait extrêmement déhanché, pour l'époque, tout en provoquant des dérobades partielles de sa roue arrière. Lorsque, fin 1972, Yamaha lui confirma son passage en 500, Jarno n'avait en tête que de battre Giacomo Agostini. Déterminé à démontrer sur les terres d'Agostini qui était le plus fort, Saarinen n'a cessé de se préparer pour le grand prix de Monza. Sa mort à Monza en 1973 est encore sujette à polémique. L'accident qui causa sa mort eut lieu dans la première courbe juste après le départ, la Curva Grande. Le premier carambolage eu lieu entre Jarno et Renzo Pasolini. Saarinen, au vu des témoignages de pilotes de l'époque, fut tué sur le coup. Cette chute entraîna une série de chutes impliquant plus d'une douzaine de pilotes. Parmi ceux-ci, Chas Mortimer qui percuta Pasolini qui se relevait tout juste de son accrochage avec Saarinen. Pasolini ne se releva pas. En signe de deuil, Yamaha se retira du championnat du monde. Saarinen a gagné 16 Grand Prix. 1971 : Vice-Champion du Monde en 250 cm³ 1972 : Champion du Monde 250 cm³, vice-champion 350 cm³ 1973 : 3 victoires en 250 cm³, 2 victoires en 500 cm³
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Born 1938-07-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Pasolini was killed in tragic and controversial circumstances at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on May 20, 1973. He retired four laps from the end of the 350cc race. On the first lap of the 250cc race, Pasolini fell from his motorcycle, and Jarno Saarinen was unable to avoid crashing into him. A pile-up involving twelve riders ensued, and Pasolini and Saarinen lost their lives.
Over the years, the condition of the track on that day has been the subject of considerable debate. The crash has often been attributed to a spill left on the track during the 350cc race when Walter Villa's Benelli began leaking on the penultimate lap, a problem which was exacerbated when his pit team encouraged him to finish the race in order to collect championship points. Race officials neglected to clean up the spillage prior to the 250cc race, and one rider, John Dodds, made his concerns known to authorities, only to meet with threats. However, Pasolini's fall and the damage to his bike were both consistent with the bike having seized.
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Born 1892-11-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a French aviator, known for long distance and record breaking flights.
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Born 1885-04-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jeanne Fusier-Gir was a French stage and film actress. She was married to the painter Charles Gir, and was the mother of the film director François Gir. She was Victorine the bonne in Marie-Octobre.
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Born 1879-02-26. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Goncourt in 1930 for Malaisie.
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Born 1896-04-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Completely destitute at the end of his life, he was also hemiplegic.
He was taken care of by the association "La roue tourne" and sent to a retirement home for the homeless. When he died, the association managed to prevent him to go to the potter's field.
His tomb is next to Mireille Balin's, who died in misery as well.
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Born 1899-12-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Suffering from severe arthritis and bouts of memory loss, which affected his work in The Italian Job, Coward retired from the theatre. He was knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in March 1973 of heart failure at the age of 73.
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Born 1885-06-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He ivented the expression "Drôle de guerre" to name WWII.
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Born 1900-08-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He died alone in 1973, seven weeks after his wife's death.
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Born 1906-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown
He was a French middle-distance runner. He became a running star as the sport enjoyed a huge resurgence at the start of the Great Depression, fueled in large part by newsreel coverage. But his career was abruptly cut short when he was banned for life from track for payments he received for several races.
A few days before his birth, his father died on the docks, crushed by wooden blocks, as he was trying to rescue collegues of him.
2 weeks after his birth, his mother died while saving him from their burning house.
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Born 1903-09-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bourvil's cousin.
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Born 1893-12-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1948-04-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died in a plane crash at Athens Airport in an incident that has fueled many conspiracy theories. He was buried on his father's private paradise, the Greek Ionian island of Skorpios. Approximately two years later, Aristotle Onassis died too, and was buried beside Alexander. Many people have said or written that Alexander's death was the end for Aristotle, in terms of his desire to go on living, that he died in all but fact along with Alexander.
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Born 1908-08-27. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
Johnson died from a third heart attack at his ranch, at age 64. His health was ruined by years of heavy smoking and stress, and the former President had severe heart disease. He was found in his bed, reaching for his phone.
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Born 1884-05-08. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Pneumonia
On December 5, 1972, he was admitted to Kansas City's Research Hospital and Medical Center with lung congestion from pneumonia. He subsequently developed multiple organ failure and died.
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Born 1888-11-10. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
A hallmark of his was to get an aeroplane into service very rapidly; then began an often interminable process of improving the shortcomings of the "quick and dirty" initial design. To his competitors among the Soviet aircraft design community, he was known above all as politically astute; a shrewd and unforgiving rival.
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Born 1888-10-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Two years after the death of Lloyd George's wife Margaret, Stevenson married Lloyd George on 23 October 1943 despite the disapproval of Lloyd George's children from his first marriage. Less than 18 months later, Lloyd George died.
Frances Stevenson, now the Dowager Countess Lloyd George of Dwyfor, lived at Churt for the rest of her life, devoting her time to her family, charitable activities, perpetuating the memory of Lloyd George and writing. Her memoirs The Years That Are Past was published in 1967, and her diary of her life with Lloyd George was published in 1971.
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Born 1933-05-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
In 1971, convicts Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems took a nurse and a prison guard hostage, then murdered them. They were captured. Bontems, whose defence counsels included Robert Badinter, contended that the murder was Buffet's idea, while Buffet affirmed that he now desired death. Both were sentenced to death by the "assises" court in June 1972 and were guillotined.
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Born 1936-09-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Beheaded with Claude Buffet for the murder of two hostages in Clairvaux.
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Born 1886-06-07. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Henri Marie Coandă (Romanian pronunciation: [ɑ̃ˈri ˈko̯andə]) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
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Born 1901-06-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Heart attack while making the 56th episode « Un gros pépin dans le chasselas ». Claude Loursais and Claude-Jean Bonnardot decided to introduce a new judge to finish their film.
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Born 1889-05-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914.
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Born 1886-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Leo Gratten Carroll was an English actor. He was best known for his roles in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest, and in three television series, Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. He is name checked in the song Science Fiction/Double Feature from The Rocky Horror Show with the line "I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel". In 1972, Carroll died in Hollywood of cancer-induced pneumonia. He is interred at the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Born 1896-04-21. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
De Montherlant published Le solstice de Juin in 1941 -- an essay in which he expressed his admiration for the German army and claimed that France was justly defeated and conquered in World War II.
Montherlant mostly hid his pederastic tendencies during his lifetime. In 1912, he had been expelled from the prestigious Sainte-Croix de Neuilly school for a relationship with a younger pupil. His novel Les garçons (1969) and his correspondence with Roger Peyrefitte (author of Les amitiés particulières (1943), also about homosexual relationships between boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school), are the main testaments to this side of his character.
Between 1960 and 1972, Montherlant was a member of the Académie française. According to Peyrefitte, he was beaten up by some youths which caused a serious injury to his eye. He was going blind on account of that and he committed suicide in 1972.