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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1929-04-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Emilio Giletti was an Italian racing driver. He made a name for himself in the early 1950s, after the racing experience took possession of the family factory, and was later the owner of Giletti S.p.A. His son Massimo Giletti is an Italian television host. Despite his passion for speed, he abandoned motorsport when he inherited the family business, Giletti S.p.A., one of the leading companies in the production of yarns. Under his control, the company became a technologically advanced company in the development of its production cycle, as well as their technical socks for sport. In October 2012, Emilio Giletti was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, suspended, for manslaughter following the death of a Giletti S.p.A. employee, Massimo Sasso, in September 2008.
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Born 1927-12-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Reuben Hersh was an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. This work challenges and complements mainstream philosophy of mathematics. Although he was generally known as Reuben Hersh, late in life he sometimes used the name Reuben Laznovsky in recognition of his father's ancestral family name.
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Born 1996-07-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Nathaël Julan was a French professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented Guingamp in Ligue 1, and Le Havre and Valenciennes in Ligue 2. On 3 January 2020, Julan died in a car accident in his Audi Q5 in Pordic, Brittany after leaving training.
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Born 1953-05-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Joseph Karr O'Connor was an American computer scientist, accessibility advocate, and a main accessibility contributor to WordPress.
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Born 1940-01-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Élisabeth Rappeneau was a French film director and screenwriter. She was the sister of the French director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, the aunt of musician Martin Rappeneau and of the screenwriter Julien Rappeneau.
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Born 1926-01-06. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Walter Kurt Hayman FRS was a British mathematician known for contributions to complex analysis. He was a professor at Imperial College London. In 1947, he married Margaret Riley Crann: together, they founded the British Mathematical Olympiad.
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Born 1942-09-22. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014 and oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s. He is credited with developing and broadening the NBA's audience, especially internationally setting up training camps, playing exhibition games, and recruiting more international players. In addition, with Stern's guidance the NBA opened 12 offices in cities outside the United States, and broadcast to over 200 territories in over 40 languages. Stern also helped found the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA G League, the NBA's development league. Under Stern, the NBA launched their digital presence with NBA.com, NBA TV and NBA League Pass. He also established the NBA's social responsibility program, NBA Cares. On December 12, 2019, Stern suffered a brain hemorrhage and underwent emergency surgery. He died in Manhattan on January 1, 2020, at age 77.
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Born 1940-11-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Marie Devereux was a British model and film actress. She was born Patricia Sutcliffe in Edmonton, London. Marie Devereux became a regular and very popular nude model in magazines during the 1950s, photographed by George Harrison Marks. She had a brief career in cinema, starting in late 1950s usually as a sexy girl in comedies, dramas and horror films, but under the direction of distinguished filmmakers. After appearing in Terence Young’s "Serious Charge" and Stanley Donen's "Surprise Package", Devereux was seen to good advantage in three Hammer Film Productions: first, for genre master Terence Fisher, she played a follower of goddess Kali in “The Stranglers of Bombay” (1959), and was one of "The Brides of Dracula" (1960); followed in 1962 by John Gilling's "The Pirates of Blood River", in which she played a married woman who is having an affair with a sailor, played by Kerwin Mathews. She was also in Guy Green's praised drama "The Mark" (1961), and then travelled to Italy to work as Elizabeth Taylor's stand-in in Cleopatra (1963), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Devereux went to Hollywood after the production closed in Rome, and appeared in Samuel Fuller's cult melodramas "Shock Corridor" (1963) and most notably in "The Naked Kiss" (1964), in which she had a sizeable supporting role. After The Naked Kiss in 1964, she retired from acting, to get married and raise a family. Devereux died in Meridian, Idaho, United States.
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Born 1950-11-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Marc Liénart van Lidth de Jeude, known professionally as Art Sullivan, was a Belgian singer. He was successful in many countries, including Belgium, France, Portugal and Germany. Art Sullivan sold ten million records between 1972 and 1978. Compilations of his hits are still released. He died from pancreatic cancer.
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Born 1946-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Suellyn Lyon was an American actress. She joined the entertainment industry as a model at the age of 13, and later rose to prominence and won a Golden Globe for playing the title role in the film Lolita (1962). Her other film appearances included The Night of the Iguana (1964), 7 Women (1966), Tony Rome (1967), and Evel Knievel (1971). Lyon died in West Hollywood on the morning of December 26, 2019, at the age of 73. While no specific cause of death was given, she was reported to have been in poor health "for some time."
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Born 1938-01-09. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Gary Keith Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor most notable for the invention of the laser printer and color management.
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Born 1933-02-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Emanuel Ungaro was a French fashion designer who founded the eponymous fashion house in 1965.
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Born 1941-04-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest. In 1959, she married writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit. They later divorced. She married British businessman Peter Brent in the 1980s. The couple had one child, Jessica Claudine Brent (b. 1991). Peter Brent died in August 2008. Auger died in Paris following a lengthy illness.
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Born 1935-11-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Alain Barrière (born Alain Bellec) was a French singer, who was active from the 1950s until his death and was known for participating in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest. Barrière died of cardiac arrest.
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Born 1937-11-25. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Charles Ingerham Peddle was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. Peddle, along with the 6502's co-designer Bill Mensch, are regarded as personal computer pioneers, in that both the 6502 technology and business model were instrumental in helping launch the personal computer revolution. After Peddle's death, Mensch wrote in memoriam.
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Born 1943-05-07. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
Michèle Bernard-Requin was a French lawyer and magistrate. She was born in Vittel.
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Born 1940-09-22. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Bayer) was a Danish-French film avant garde actress, director, writer, and singer. She was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's muse in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part (Band of Outsiders), Pierrot le Fou (Crazy Pete) and Alphaville. For her performance in A Woman Is a Woman, Karina won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1972, Karina set up a production company for her directorial debut, Vivre ensemble (1973), which screened in the Critics' Week lineup at the 26th Cannes Film Festival. She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008). In addition to her work in cinema, she worked as a singer, and wrote several novels. Karina was an icon of 1960s cinema, and referred to as the "effervescent free spirit of the French New Wave, with all of the scars that the position entails". The New York Times described her as "one of the screen's great beauties and an enduring symbol of the French New Wave." Karina died at the age of 79 at a hospital in Paris. According to her agent, Laurent Balandras, the cause of death was cancer. However, her husband, Dennis Berry, told that the cause was not cancer, but a complication following a muscular rupture.
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Born 1926-01-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Bernard Lavalette was a French film and television actor. He died only a few weeks after Jeanon, his wife's death.
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Born 1932-03-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Gerd Baltus was a German television actor. Baltus was born in Bremen. While doing law studies Baltus became interested in acting. In 1952 he got his first theatre booking in Hamburg, later in Bonn, West Berlin and Munich. Baltus became known to a broad public however above all as a regular guest with crime film series such as Derrick and Tatort. He had basic roles also in the miniseries PS (1975) and in the popular family saga Lorentz & Söhne, where he starred with Ernst Schröder and Hans Korte before the camera. Besides his film work Baltus worked extensively as a speaker of radio plays. In 1964 he received the Federal Film Award for his work in the film The Blood of the Walsungs. He died in Hamburg.
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Born 1918-01-02. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse was a German book-binder, calligrapher and typographer. She also designed several typefaces. She was the 1991 winner of the Frederic W. Goudy Award. To mark her hundredth birthday in January 2018, Monotype released the titling typeface Hesse-Antiqua
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Born 1933-06-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Front (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Moonstruck (1987), Harlem Nights (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), Ruby (1992), Léon: The Professional (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), Dinner Rush (2000), and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). He played Don Domenico Clericuzio in the miniseries The Last Don (1997). Aiello was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (1989). Aiello died at age 86 at a hospital in New Jersey, following a brief illness.
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Born 1940-06-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
René Murat Auberjonois was an American actor, singer, voice artist, narrator and director best known for playing Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River. Auberjonois was born in New York City. His father, Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois (1910–2004), was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer. His paternal grandfather, also named René Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. His mother, Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (1913–1986), was a great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire, and his wife, Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest sister. His maternal grandmother, Hélène Macdonald Stallo (1893–1932), was an American, from Cincinnati, Ohio; his maternal grandfather's mother was a Russian noblewoman, Eudoxia Michailovna Somova (1850–1924), and his maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother, Caroline Georgina Fraser (1810–1879), who was married to Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, was an American, from Charleston, South Carolina. Auberjonois had a sister and a brother, and two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage. His family moved to Paris after World War II. That is where, at an early age, he decided to become an actor. After a few years in France, the family moved back to the United States and joined the South Mountain Road artists' colony in Rockland County, New York, whose residents included Burgess Meredith, John Houseman, and Lotte Lenya. During this part of his youth, he performed the young boy's part 'Bert' in All My Sons with the community theatre group The Rockland Foundation Players (which later changed its name to Elmwood Playhouse). Auberjonois died from metastatic lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles at age 79.
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Born 1940-04-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Robert Hudson Walker Jr. was an American actor who was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. He became less active in later decades.
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Born 1946-09-28. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Gérard Detourbet was a French automotive manager at Renault, where he was Managing Director of the Renault–Nissan Alliance "Alliance A Segment Development Unit".
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Born 1940-08-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Natalie Trundy (born Natalie Trundy Campagna) was an American stage, film, and television actress. Trundy was married five times. In September 1959, 19-year-old Trundy married 22-year-old trust fund millionaire Charles Hirshon, though the marriage was annulled in 1960. She is the widow of her second husband, movie producer Arthur P. Jacobs. Trundy had two children (born 1976 and 1977) during her six-year marriage to her third husband, Carmine Roberto Foggia. She had a short marriage to Scott Cristle in the early 1980s, and married Andres Lopez in 1985.
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Born 1934-01-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident
Leonard J. Goldberg was an American film and television producer. He had his own production company, Panda Productions (formerly Mandy Films). He served as head of programming for ABC, and was president of 20th Century Fox. Goldberg was also the executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods. Goldberg died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of injuries sustained in a fall. He was 85 years old.
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Born 1946-09-15. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Murder
Tetsu Nakamura (中村 哲, Nakamura Tetsu, Pashto: تېڅو ناکامورا), also known as Kaka Murad, was a Japanese physician and honorary Afghan citizen who headed Peace Japan Medical Services (PMS), an aid group known as Peshawar-kai in Japanese. Nakamura devoted to building canal projects, from the Kunar River in eastern Afghanistan and was credited for transforming the desert of Gamberi, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, into lush forests and productive wheat farmlands. He also constructed two hospitals and two mosques. In October 2019, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani granted him honorary Afghan citizenship. On 4 December 2019, as Nakamura was heading to work in his aid vehicle in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, he was assassinated by gunmen along with his bodyguards and driver.
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Born 1936-09-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Patrick Pym was a British sailor. He competed in the Finn event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1939-01-29. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Michel Verhoeve was a French footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Born 1935-03-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Donald Tosh was a BBC screenwriter who contributed to Doctor Who in 1965. He was the last surviving script editor and writer from the William Hartnell era.