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Rouxel Jacques (b. 1931-02-26 / d. 2004-04-25)
Rouxel is perhaps best known for his initially controversial animated French TV series Les Shadoks, which first appeared in 1968.
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Born 1873-09-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1932-08-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American amateur parachute jumper who reached 123,500 feet (37,642 meters, 23.39 miles) with his Strato Jump II balloon on February 2, 1966, flying a manned balloon higher than anyone before, a record that stood until Felix Baumgartner's flight on October 14, 2012. His third attempt occurred on the morning of May 1, 1966. Piantanida donned a bright orange suit and parachute harness. Secured inside a styrofoam-insulated gondola about the size of a portable toilet, he began his ascent for a planned super-sonic free fall from over 120,000 feet. However, ground controllers listening to the communications link with the Strato Jump III were startled by the sound of a whoosh of rushing air and a sudden, cut-off call over the radio to abort. Piantanida's suit had depressurized at about the 57,000-foot mark. Ground controllers immediately jettisoned the balloon at close to 56,000 feet (17,000 m) – higher than the cruising altitude for commercial jets – and for 25 minutes Piantanida's gondola parachuted to the ground. He barely survived the descent, having suffered massive tissue damage due to ebullism. The lack of oxygen left him brain damaged and in a coma from which he never recovered. Piantanida died four months later at the Veterans Hospital in Philadelphia. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington, New Jersey
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Born 1881-06-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was one of the early pioneers of radio and received 117 patents. He was the first to report observation of electroluminescence from a diode, leading to the discovery of the light-emitting diode. He was a personal assistant to Guglielmo Marconi. Round died in August 1966 in a nursing home in Bognor Regis after a short illness.
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Born 1918-11-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a British sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the US and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. The Ford J-car was intended to be the successor to the all-conquering Ford GT40 Mk.II and, despite reliability problems, showed potential in the springtime Le Mans trials. After the death of Walt Hansgen in a J-car Ford while testing at Le Mans in April, the decision was made to shelve the J-car and focus on the proven Mk IIs, and little development was done for the rest of the 1966 World Sports Car Championship season. Finally, in August 1966, Shelby American resumed testing and development work with Miles serving as primary test driver. The J-car featured a breadvan-shaped rear section that experimented with Kammback aerodynamic theories, as well as a revolutionary (but untested) honeycomb panel design that was supposed to both lighten and stiffen the car, but the design remained unproved with high-speed prototype sports cars. After almost a day of testing at Riverside International Raceway in the brutally hot Southern California desert summer weather, Miles approached the end of the track's 1-mile (1.6 km), downhill back straight at top speed (200-plus mph) when the car suddenly looped, flipped, crashed and caught fire. The car broke into pieces and ejected Miles, killing him instantly. The car had suffered precisely the sort of crash damage the honeycomb construction was designed to prevent. As a result, the aerodynamics of the J-car were greatly modified to correct the rear-end lift generated at race speeds. Ford officials, under pressure after the second of two fatal accidents in the program in five months, also ordered a NASCAR-style steel tube rollover cage to be installed in future versions of the car.] The death of 47-year-old Miles, following that of 46-year-old Hansgen, led Ford to favour younger drivers in subsequent race entries. The significantly revised J-car, renamed the Ford Mk IV, won the only two races in which it was entered: the 1967 Sebring (Fla.) 12 Hours, and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans. The steel roll cage in the Mk IV (mandated as a direct result of Miles's death) probably saved the life of Mario Andretti, who crashed violently during the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans but escaped.
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Born 1897-12-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1931 and 1964. He suffered fatal burns when his nylon shirt caught fire from his cigarette; apparently he had fallen asleep while smoking.
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Born 1906-10-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian racing driver. He stands out in the history of Grand Prix motor racing for his much copied 'straight-arm' driving style and his status as the first ever Formula One World Champion.
A notable character in early World Championship Grand Prix racing, Farina was noted for his driving style and intelligence, but also his petulant streak and his disregard for his fellow competitors on the race track. He was involved in the fatal accidents of Marcel Lehoux in the 1936 Grand Prix de Deauville and László Hartmann at Tripoli in 1938. It was ironic that after all the injuries he sustained in the latter part of his career, it was in a car crash that he finally lost his life at Chambery in France, whilst driving to spectate at the 1966 French Grand Prix.
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Born 1886-09-16. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Age
When Arp spoke in German he referred to himself as "Hans", and when he spoke in French he referred to himself as "Jean". Many people believe that he was born Hans and later changed his name to Jean, but this is not the case.
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Born 1884-06-30. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Duhamel's health deteriorated from 1960 and he reduced his activities. He died in Valmondois.
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Born 1893-11-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Farina officially changed his name to "Battista Pininfarina" in 1961. The change was authorized by President of the Italian Republic, acting on a proposal made by the Minister of Justice.
The last design personally attributed to Battista Farina was the iconic 1600 Duetto for Alfa Romeo. This was first seen by the public at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1966. He died less than a month later.
His nephew, Nino Farina, was the first Formula 1 world champion.
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Born 1917-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
In 1964 she joined the cast of the television series Bewitched. As the nagging and nosy neighbor, Gladys Kravitz, Pearce's scenes were almost entirely reactions to acts of witchcraft she had witnessed at the house across the street. Her hysterical accusations against Samantha, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, and the disbelief of her husband Abner (George Tobias), provided a common thread through many of the series' early episodes.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer before the Bewitched began, Pearce kept her illness a secret, but died from ovarian cancer during the second season of Bewitched at the age of 48. Gladys Kravitz was played from 1966 until the end of the series by actress Sandra Gould.
Alice Pearce was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.
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Born 1908-03-16. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Unknown
The hustler (1961)
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Born 1895-10-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Keaton died of lung cancer. He was never told that he was terminally ill. In a documentary on his career, his wife told Thames Television that Keaton played cards with friends the night before he died.
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Born 1907-01-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Operation
He was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered by many as the father of practical astronautics. Arrested for alleged mismanagement of funds (he spent the money on unsuccessful experiments with rocket devices), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years, including some months in a Kolyma labour camp. Following his release, he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet Intercontinental ballistic missile program. On 3 December 1960, Korolev suffered his first heart attack. During his convalescence, it was also discovered that he was suffering from a kidney disorder, a condition brought on by his detention in the Soviet prison camps. He was warned by the doctors that if he continued to work as intensely as he had, he would not live long. Korolev became convinced that Khrushchev was only interested in the space program for its propaganda value and feared that he would cancel it entirely if the Soviets started losing their leadership to the United States, so he continued to push himself even harder. By 1962 Sergei Korolev's health problems were beginning to accumulate and he was suffering from numerous ailments. He had a bout of intestinal bleeding that led to him being taken to the hospital in an ambulance. In 1964 doctors diagnosed him with cardiac arrhythmia. The actual circumstances of Korolev's death remain somewhat uncertain. In December 1965, he was supposedly diagnosed with a bleeding polyp in his large intestine. He entered the hospital on 5 January 1966 for somewhat routine surgery. He died nine days later. It was stated by the government that he had what turned out to be a large, cancerous tumor in his abdomen. But Glushko later reported that he actually died due to a poorly performed operation for hemorrhoids.
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Born 1901-10-10. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Heart
Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland.
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Born 1892-07-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French painter and tapestry designer.
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Born 1884-08-27. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
16th French President. Served as President of the France from 1947 to 1953 (during the Fourth Republic).
Burial:
Muret Cimetière.
Muret, Haute-Garonne, France
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Born 1888-02-06. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra. He also worked in geometry, topology, set theory, and analysis. He taught at the University of Leipzig between 1920 and 1935, when the Nazi government fired him because of his Jewish ancestry. In 1935 he accepted an offer as head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Calcutta. His mother and a sister remained in Germany and died in the Holocaust. In 1948, Levi became professor of mathematics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. In 1952, he returned to Germany and was a professor at the Free University of Berlin and later University of Freiburg. He died in Freiburg.
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Born 1874-01-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Maugham's mother Edith Mary (née Snell) was consumptive, a condition for which the doctors of the time prescribed childbirth. As a result Maugham had three older brothers, already enrolled in boarding school by the time he was three and Maugham was effectively raised as an only child. Sadly, childbirth proved no cure for tuberculosis, and Edith Mary Maugham died at the age of 41, six days after the stillbirth of her final son. The death of his mother left Maugham traumatized for life, and he kept his mother's photograph by his bedside until his own death at the age of 91 in Nice, France.
Two years after his mother's death, Maugham's father died of cancer. Willie was sent back to England to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent. The move was catastrophic. Henry Maugham proved cold and emotionally cruel.
He was teased for his bad English (French had been his first language) and his short stature, which he inherited from his father.
It is at this time that Maugham developed the stammer that would stay with him all his life, although it was sporadic and subject to mood and circumstance
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Born 1897-03-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He died in 1965 in Shady, New York, after a series of illnesses.
Cowell was the central figure in a circle of avant-garde composers that included his good friends Carl Ruggles and Dane Rudhyar, as well as Leo Ornstein, John Becker, Colin McPhee, French expatriate Edgard Varèse, and Ruth Crawford, whom he convinced Charles Seeger to take on as a student (Crawford and Seeger would eventually marry). Cowell and his circle were sometimes referred to as "ultra-modernists," a label whose definition is flexible and origin unclear (it has also been applied to a few composers outside the immediate circle, such as George Antheil, and to some of its disciples, such as Nancarrow); Virgil Thomson styled them the "rhythmic research fellows."
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Born 1904-10-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
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Born 1872-10-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Adeline Oppenheim Guimard was an American painter noted for her portraits in gouache and colored crayons.
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Born 1914-05-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
While walking along a road in Chapel Hill near dusk, Jarrell was struck by a car and killed. The coroner ruled the death accidental, but Jarrell had recently been treated for mental illness and a previous suicide attempt. The location of the accident makes it undoubtful that it was actually a suicide.
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Born 1891-02-17. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Abraham Halevi (Adolf) Fraenkel, known as Abraham Fraenkel, was an Israeli mathematician born in Germany. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his addition to Ernst Zermelo's axioms which resulted in Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms.
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Born 1897-07-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician and Fields Medalist known for his general solution to Plateau's problem. Douglas was one of two winners of the first Fields Medals, awarded in 1936. He was honored for solving, in 1930, the problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Douglas also made significant contributions to the inverse problem of the calculus of variations. The American Mathematical Society awarded him the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1943. Douglas later became a full professor at the City College of New York (CCNY), where he taught until his death. At the time CCNY only offered undergraduate degrees and Professor Douglas taught the advanced calculus course. Sophomores (and freshmen with advanced placement) were privileged to get their introduction to real analysis from a Fields medalist.
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Born 1875-01-14. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
The will to live is naturally both parasitic and antagonistic towards other forms of life. Only in the thinking being has the will to live become conscious of other wills to live, and desirous of solidarity with it. This solidarity, however, cannot be brought about, because human life does not escape the puzzling and horrible circumstance that it must live at the cost of other life. But as an ethical being one strives to escape whenever possible from this necessity, and to put a stop to this disunion of the Will to live, so far as it is within one's power.
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Born 1887-10-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Swiss-born architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture.
Against his doctor's orders, Le Corbusier went for a swim in the Mediterranean Sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. His body was found by bathers and he was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. It was assumed that he suffered a heart attack, at the age of seventy-eight. His death rites took place at the courtyard of the Louvre Palace on September 1, 1965 under the direction of writer and thinker André Malraux, who was at the time France's Minister of Culture.
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Born 1895-10-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Rugby.
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Born 1935-00-00. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
Liliane Benelli was a French musician, appointed pianist of the L'Écluse cabaret. She composed with Barbara Ni belle ni bonne and Ce matin-là in 1963. Liliane Benelli became, moreover, the fiancée and mentor of Serge Lama, they met in 1963. Thanks to her, he opens for Barbara. On August 12, 1965, she died at the age of 30 in a car accident outside Aix-en-Provence in a car driven by Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, brother of Enrico Macias, during a tour with Serge Lama who had multiple trauma for several months. In 1965, Barbara wrote Une petite cantata in homage to her friend and pianist, and Serge Lama dedicated Sans toi to her in 1966, D'aventures en aventures (on the homonymous album in 1968), as well as Toute blanche in 1974. In 2003, he took over Une petite cantate (in duet with Marie-Paule Belle), on the album Pluri ((they)).