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Armstrong Louis (b. 1901-08-04 / d. 1971-07-06) alias Satchmo
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Born 1932-06-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Angeli died of anaphylactic shock after being given a tranquilizer by her doctor; while making a Hollywood comeback in the minor movie Octaman (1971). Speculation that her death was a suicide has never been officially confirmed.
She is interred in the Cimetière des Bulvis, in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Her twin sister is the actress Marisa Pavan
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Born 1906-05-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Horace McMahon was an American actor. He was one of Hollywood's favorite heavies. McMahon began his acting career on Broadway, then appeared in many films and television series. In 1962, he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the series Naked City (1958–1963).
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Born 1923-03-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Suicide
In July 1971, Arbus committed suicide in Greenwich Village by ingesting a large quantity of barbiturates and then cutting open her wrists. Rumors held that she photographed her suicide, but no photos were discovered by the police.
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Born 1910-12-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Heflin had a heart attack, while getting out of a swimmingpool. He lay unconscious for days, apparently never regaining consciousness. Van Heflin died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
He had left instructions forbidding a public funeral. Instead, his cremated remains were scattered on the ocean. (Heflin was a sailor before becoming an actor).
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Born 1940-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Mexican Grand Prix motor racing driver. He was born in Mexico City and was the older brother of Ricardo Rodríguez. The two are sometimes referred to as "The Little Mexicans". The brothers both raced bicycles and motorcycles to become Mexican champions. Pedro was national champion in 1953 and 1954 in motorcycles. He made his international debut in cars at Nassau in 1957 in a Ferrari, along with Ricardo in a Porsche.
Rodríguez was killed in an Interserie sports car race at Norisring in Nuremberg, Germany, on 11 July 1971, at the wheel of a Ferrari 512M of Herbert Müller Racing, his Swiss friend and partner at the Targa Florio in 1971.
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Born 1901-08-04. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1943-12-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Morrison moved to Paris in March 1971 with the intention of taking a break from performing and concentrating on his writing. Hoping to get his life back on track, Morrison lost a great deal of weight and shaved off his beard (although his last photographs show a considerable amount of bloating -- a classic symptom of congestive heart failure). By all accounts he became very depressed whilst in Paris, but he admired the city's architecture, saying 'When they built this city, they threw away the blueprint' in an interview with a Los Angeles journalist in summer 1971.
He was found in his bathtub by Courson. According to Stephen Davis' biography of Morrison, it was reported that he had dried blood around his mouth and nose and large bruising on his chest. This suggests Morrison might have died from a massive hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis. Many fans and biographers have speculated that the cause of death was a drug overdose, but the official report listed the cause of death as heart failure. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. The lack of an official autopsy left many questions unanswered and provided a fertile breeding ground for speculation and rumor.
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Born 1908-03-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart
Franz Paul Stangl was an Austrian-born police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka. Stangl, an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander in Nazi Germany, became commandant of the camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He worked for Volkswagen do Brasil and was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited to West Germany and tried for the mass murder of 1 million people. In 1970, he was found guilty and sentenced to the maximum penalty, life imprisonment. He died of heart failure six months later.
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Born 1894-11-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
In 1920, Hopf moved to Berlin to continue his mathematical education. He studied under Ludwig Bieberbach, receiving his doctorate in 1925. In his dissertation, Connections between topology and metric of manifolds (German Über Zusammenhänge zwischen Topologie und Metrik von Mannigfaltigkeiten), he proved that any simply connected complete Riemannian 3-manifold of constant curvature is globally isometric to Euclidean, spherical, or hyperbolic space. He also studied the indices of zeros of vector fields on hypersurfaces, and connected their sum to curvature. Some six months later he gave a new proof that the sum of the indices of the zeros of a vector field on a manifold is independent of the choice of vector field and equal to the Euler characteristic of the manifold. This theorem is now called the Poincaré-Hopf theorem.
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Born 1924-06-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier in World War II. In 27 months of combat action, he became the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II.
Murphy received the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional medals awarded for bravery and service.
In the later part of his life, he went on to have a successful movie career, including the extremely popular To Hell and Back(1955), based on his memoir of the same name (1949).
Post-war illness.
While on a business trip (during Memorial Day weekend), flying in bad weather with a pilot unqualified to fly on instruments, Murphy's private plane crashed into Brush Mountain, near Catawba, Virginia, some 20 miles west of Roanoke.
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Born 1907-04-14. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
In 1959, Papa Doc suffered from a heart attack and sustained oxygen deprivation that may have affected his sanity. He had been a diabetic since early adulthood and also suffered from heart disease and associated circulatory problems. On May 24, 1959 Duvalier suffered a massive heart attack and, possibly as a result of a subsequent insulin overdose, was unconscious for nine hours. Many associates believed that the neurological damage he sustained during the long period of time he was unconscious affected his mental health and made him paranoid and irrational.
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Born 1899-08-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician working in the field of commutative algebra. In mathematics, more specifically in ring theory, Krull's theorem, named after Wolfgang Krull, proves the existence of maximal ideals in any commutative unital ring. The theorem was first stated in 1929 and, following the theory of Zermelo-Fraenkel, it is equivalent to the axiom of choice.
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Born 1903-08-29. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
While rushing to dinner with his wife, the French poet Jean Follain died after being struck by a car on a Paris corner. It was the exact corner on which his father had been knocked down and killed years previously.
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Born 1903-05-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
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Born 1884-09-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1888-12-27. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
In 1920 he married Nicole Cervi, with whom he had three children. In 1923 they moved into a studio at 16 rue des Volontaires (Paris, 15th arrondissement) where he remained until his death.
He died while sculpting something in his studio.
1931 - War Monument for the RATP, Richelieu - Drouot (Paris Metro).
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Born 1896-04-07. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Heart
He was an English pediatrician, psychiatrist, sociologist and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory.
Winnicott died in 1971 following the last of a series of heart attacks and was cremated in London.
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Born 1883-08-19. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
For more than 30 years, Gabrielle Chanel made the Hôtel Ritz Paris her home, even during the Nazi occupation of Paris. During that time she was criticized for having an affair with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a German officer who arranged for her to remain in the hotel. She also maintained an apartment above her Rue Cambon couture house and built Villa La Pausa in the town of Roquebrune on the French Riviera.
She owes Winston Churchill not to get in trouble for having written to the Kommandantur about the brothers Wertheimer, founders of la maison Bourjois. She was accused of antisemitism after using the word "youpin" in this letter.
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Born 1941-08-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian racing driver who made his name in saloon and Sports Car Racing in the late 1960s. Tragedy struck in his first drive in 1971 whilst racing in the 1000 km Buenos Aires race, when his Ferrari 312PB prototype ploughed into the back of the Matra 660 of Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who was pushing the car along the track after it had run out of fuel. The impact and the subsequent fire gave the popular Italian no chance of survival.
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Born 1925-01-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Ritual suicide by doing seppuku.
Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri
Women have their own ritual suicide, jigai. The legs are tied together. This is a female feature of seppuku to ensure a "decent" posture in death
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Born 1890-11-22. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Other
In robust health until then, it was reported that as he had finished watching the evening news on television and was sitting in his armchair he suddenly said "I feel a pain here", pointing to his neck, just seconds before he fell unconscious due to an aneurysmal rupture. Within minutes, he was dead.
Unlike many other politicians, he died nearly destitute.
Hara-Kiri Hebdo bore the headline « Tragic ball at Colombey: 1 death » The choice of the title refers to a tragedy of the same month: a fire at a discotheque where 146 people were killed. As a result, the magazine was immediately and permanently banned by the French authorities.
Charlie Hebdo was started immediately afterwards. Charlie in the title refers to general de Gaulle.
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Born 1926-07-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1943-01-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
During the fall 1970 recording sessions for the Pearl album with The Doors and Phil Ochs producer Paul A. Rothchild, Joplin died, aged 27. Her death was caused by an overdose of heroin and whiskey. The last recordings she completed were "Mercedes Benz" and a birthday greeting for John Lennon on October 1, 1970; Lennon, whose birthday was October 9, later told Dick Cavett that her taped greeting arrived at his home after her death.
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Born 1896-01-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Tragedy struck when an automobile accident killed his wife of 18 years, Katharine Smith, and cost him the sight in one eye.
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Born 1918-01-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Heart attack
Because of his ability to motivate nationalistic passions, as a testament to what one would call the future of his influence, "men, women and children wept and wailed in the streets" after hearing of his death. His funeral on October 1 was one of the largest in history, attended by an estimated five million people.
He suffered from hemochromatosis, or Bronze diabetes, a hereditary disease related to excessive iron in the body.
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Born 1898-06-22. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease
Atherosclerosis.
In 1933, the Nazis banned and burned Remarque's works, and issued propaganda stating that he was a descendant of French Jews and that his real last name was Kramer, a Jewish-sounding name, and his original name spelled backwards. This is still listed in some biographies despite the complete lack of proof. Also despite clear evidence to the contrary, their assertion that he had never seen active service remains in some references.
In 1948 he went to Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life. He married the Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard in 1958 and they remained married until his death in 1970.
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Born 1917-07-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Multiple myeloma (also known as MM, myeloma, plasma cell myeloma, or as Kahler's disease after Otto Kahler) is a type of cancer of plasma cells which are immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies. Its prognosis, despite therapy, is generally poor, and treatment may involve chemotherapy and stem cell transplant. It is part of the broad group of diseases called hematological malignancies.
Bourvil wasn't born when his father was killed at war, and he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, the name of which inspired his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on January 23, 1943
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Born 1942-11-27. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
On May 3, 1969, Hendrix was arrested at Toronto's Pearson International Airport after heroin and hashish were found in his luggage. Hendrix argued in his trial defense that the drugs were slipped into his bag by a fan without his knowledge, and he was acquitted.
Jimi Hendrix was found dead in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent in London. Hendrix died amid circumstances which have never been fully explained. He had spent the night with his German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, and likely died in bed after drinking wine and taking nine Vesperax sleeping pills, then asphyxiating on his own vomit. For years, Dannemann publicly claimed that Hendrix was alive when placed in the back of the ambulance; however, her comments about that morning were often contradictory and confused, varying from interview to interview. Police and ambulance reports reveal that not only was Hendrix dead when they arrived on the scene, but he had been dead for some time, the apartment's front door was wide open, and the apartment itself empty. Following a libel case brought in 1996 by Hendrix's long-term British girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, Monika Dannemann allegedly committed suicide.
Some reports indicated that the paramedics who escorted Jimi out of the apartment did not support his head and that he was still alive. According to this version of events, he choked on his own vomit and died during the trip to the hospital, because his head and his neck were not supported.
A sad poem written by Hendrix that was found in the apartment has led some to believe that he committed suicide. The most plausible theory, however, is that he simply misjudged the potency of the sleeping pills, and asphyxiated in his sleep due to an inability to regain consciousness when he vomited.