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March 28, 2024

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Arden John (b. 1930-10-26 / d. 2012-03-28)

He was a English playwright whose works tended to expose social issues of personal concern. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Joliot-Curie
Irene. 1956-03-17

59

Born 1897-09-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (blood)

The years of working so closely with deadly materials finally caught up with Irène and, like her mother, she was diagnosed with leukaemia. She had been accidentally exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench. Treatment with antibiotics and a series of operations did relieve her suffering temporarily but her condition continued to deteriorate. Despite this Irène continued to work and in 1955 drew up plans for new physics laboratories at the Universitie d’Orsay, South of Paris. In 1956, after a final convalescent period in the French Alps Irène was admitted to the Curie hospital in Paris where she died from leukemia.

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Buisson
Emile. 1956-02-28

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Born 1902-02-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder

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Léautaud
Paul. 1956-02-22

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Born 1872-01-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

His last words would have been "Et maintenant foutez moi la paix"

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Borel
Emile. 1956-02-03

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Born 1871-01-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

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Karpinski
Louis Charles. 1956-01-25

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Born 1878-08-05. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York to Henry Hermanagle Karpinski from Warsaw, Poland and Mary Louise Engesser from Guebweiler, Alsace. He was educated at Cornell University and in Europe at Strassburg.

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Bourgeois
Jeanne (alias: Mistinguett). 1956-01-05

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Born 1875-04-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

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Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo. 1955-12-08

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Born 1885-11-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as pure disciplines including number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important member of the Institute for Advanced Study during its early years.

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Archambaud
Maurice (alias: Le nabot). 1955-12-03

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Born 1906-08-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Unknown

He was a French professional cyclist

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Honegger
Arthur. 1955-11-27

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Born 1892-03-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack

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Valadon
Maurice (alias: Maurice Utrillo). 1955-11-05

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Born 1883-12-26. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

Although his life also was plagued by alcoholism, he lived into his seventies.
Utrillo was the son of the artist Suzanne Valadon (born Marie-Clémentine Valadon), who was then an eighteen-year-old artist's model. She never revealed who had been the father of her child; speculation exists that he was the offspring from a liaison with an equally young amateur painter named Boissy, or with the well established painter, Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes. In 1891 a Spanish artist, Miguel Utrillo y Molins, signed a legal document acknowledging paternity, although the question remains as to whether he was in fact the child's father.

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Dean
James. 1955-09-30

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Born 1931-02-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident

Dean and his mechanic Rolf Wuetherich set off from Competition Motors, where they had prepared his Porsche 550 Spyder that morning for a sports car race at Palm Springs. Dean originally intended to trailer the Porsche to the meeting point at Salinas, behind his new Ford Country Squire station wagon, crewed by Hickman and photographer Stanford Roth, who was planning a photo story of Dean at the races. At the last minute, Dean drove the Spyder, having decided he needed more time to familiarize himself with the car. At 3:30PM, Dean was ticketed in Kern County for doing 65 in a 55 mph zone. The driver of the Ford was ticketed for doing 20 mph over the limit, as the speed limit for all vehicles towing a trailer was 45 mph. Later, having left the Ford far behind, they stopped at Blackwell's Corner for fuel and met up with fellow racer Lance Reventlow.
Dean was driving west on U.S. Highway 46 (later California State Route 466) near Cholame, California when a 1950 Ford Tudor, driven from the opposite direction by 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, attempted to take the fork onto California State Route 41 and crossed into Dean's lane without seeing him. The two cars hit almost head on. According to a story in the October 1, 2005 edition of the Los Angeles Times, California Highway Patrol officer Ron Nelson and his partner had been finishing a coffee break in Paso Robles when they were called to the scene of the accident, where they saw a heavily-breathing Dean being placed into an ambulance. Wuetherich had been thrown from the car, but survived with a broken jaw and other injuries. Dean was taken to Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 5:59PM. His last known words, uttered right before impact, are said to have been "That guy's got to stop... He'll see us."
Contrary to reports of Dean's speeding, which persisted decades after his death, Nelson said "the wreckage and the position of Dean's body indicated his speed was more like 55 mph (88 km/h)." Turnupseed received a gashed forehead and bruised nose and was not cited by police for the accident. He died of lung cancer in 1995. Rolf Wuetherich would die in a road accident in Germany in 1981

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Léger
Fernand. 1955-08-17

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Born 1881-02-04. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

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Mann
Thomas. 1955-08-12

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Born 1875-06-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cardiovascular disease

In 1955, he died of atherosclerosis in a hospital in Zürich and was buried in Kilchberg.
Death in Venice is considered a classic of homosexual passion and has been made into a film and an opera.

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Ascari
Alberto. 1955-05-26

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Born 1918-07-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident

His 1955 season started with difficulties. He had a spectacular incident in Monaco where he crashed into a harbour after missing a chicane. A week later, he went to Monza to test a Ferrari sports car (Eugenio Castellotti's car) and crashed on the Curva di Vialone, one of the track's challenging high-speed corners. He was killed in the accident. The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, no longer exists, having been replaced with a chicane, the Variante Ascari.

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Breguet
Louis Charles. 1955-05-04

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Born 1880-01-02. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Unknown

One of the founders of Air-France.

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Einstein
Albert. 1955-04-18

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Born 1879-04-14. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Other

He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.

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Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre. 1955-04-10

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Born 1881-05-01. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age

A few days before his death Teilhard said "If in my life I haven't been wrong, I beg God to allow me to die on Easter Sunday". April 10 was Easter Sunday.

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de Stael
Nicolas. 1955-03-16

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Born 1914-01-05. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Suicide

Nicolas de Staël (French nationality, of Russian origin) was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
By 1953, de Staël's depression led him to seek isolation in the south of France (eventually in Antibes). He suffered from exhaustion, insomnia and depression. In the wake of a disappointing meeting with a disparaging art critic on he committed suicide. He leapt to his death from his eleventh story studio terrace, in Antibes. He was 41 years old.

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Parker
Charlie (alias: Bird). 1955-03-12

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Born 1920-08-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Pneumonia

Though the official cause of death was pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer, his death was hastened by his drug and alcohol abuse. The 34-year-old Parker was so haggard that the coroner mistakenly estimated Parker's age to be between 50 and 60.

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Claudel
Paul. 1955-02-23

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Born 1868-08-06. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith.

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Lefaucheux
Pierre. 1955-02-11

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Born 1898-06-30. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Accident

He was made CEO of Renault on March 7, 1945, after having been provisory administrator from the end of war. He was accidentally killed in a car crash, en route to Strasbourg in his Fregate.

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Heawood
Percy John (alias: Pussy). 1955-01-24

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Born 1861-09-08. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a British mathematician educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich, and Exeter College, Oxford. He devoted essentially his whole working life to the four colour theorem and in 1890 he exposed a flaw in Alfred Kempe's proof, that had been considered as valid for 11 years. With the four colour theorem being open again he established the five colour theorem instead. The four colour theorem itself was finally established by a computer-based proof in 1976. Durham University awards an annual Heawood Prize to a student graduating in Mathematics whose performance is outstanding in the final year.

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Furtwaengler
Wilhelm. 1954-11-30

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Born 1886-01-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer.
Albert Speer claimed that in December 1944 Furtwängler asked whether Germany had any chance of winning the war. Speer replied in the negative, and advised the conductor to flee to Switzerland from possible Nazi retribution. Furtwängler did in fact escape to Switzerland shortly after a concert in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic on 28 January 1945. At that concert he conducted an account of Brahms's Second Symphony that was caught on tape and is considered one of his greatest recordings. At his denazification trial, Furtwängler was charged with supporting Nazism by remaining in Germany, performing at Nazi party functions and with making an anti-Semitic remark against the part-Jewish conductor Victor de Sabata. However, he was eventually cleared on all these counts.

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Fermi
Enrico. 1954-11-28

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Born 1901-09-29. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)

Two of his graduate students who assisted him in working on or near the nuclear pile also died of cancer. Fermi and his team knew that such work carried considerable risk but they considered the outcome so vital that they forged ahead with little regard for their own personal safety. As Eugene Wigner wrote: "Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, 'I hope it won't take long.' He had reconciled himself perfectly to his fate".

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Fath
Jacques. 1954-11-13

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Born 1912-09-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (blood)

Jacques Fath was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain. The playwright Georges Fath was his great-grandfather. Fath died of leukemia.

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Matisse
Henri. 1954-11-03

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Born 1869-12-31. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age

Matisse died of a heart attack at the age of 84 in 1954. He is interred in the cemetery of the Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez and a Matisse Museum was opened in the area.

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Mareuil
Simone. 1954-10-24

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Born 1903-08-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide

She was a French actress born in Perigueux, Dordogne. She appeared in a number of films, most notably director Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog, 1929).
After World War II she returned to her native region where she fell into a deep depression. She committed suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square.

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McManus
George. 1954-10-22

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Born 1884-01-23. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

George McManus was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie, the main characters of his syndicated comic strip, Bringing Up Father. (La famille Illico in France) Syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate, Bringing Up Father achieved great success and was produced by McManus from 1913 until his death, when Vernon Greene and Frank Fletcher replaced him. McManus was inspired by The Rising Generation, a musical comedy by William Gill that he had seen as a boy in St. Louis, Missouri's Grand Opera House, where his father was manager. In The Rising Generation, Irish-American bricklayer Martin McShayne (played by the fat Irish comedian Billy Barry in the stage production McManus saw) becomes a wealthy contractor, yet his society-minded wife and daughter were ashamed of him and his buddies, prompting McShayne to sneak out to join his pals for poker. McManus knew Barry and used him as the basis for his drawings of Jiggs. Two years before his death, McManus said that Bringing Up Father had earned him $12,000,000 during his lifetime. McManus' wife, the former Florence Bergere, was the model for daughter Nora in Bringing Up Father. Zeke Zekley was his assistant on the comic strip from 1935 to 1954.

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Brandt
Heinrich. 1954-10-09

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Born 1886-11-08. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

He was a German mathematician who was the first to develop the concept of groupoid.

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Derain
André. 1954-09-10

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Born 1880-06-10. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Accident

A year before his death, he contracted an eye infection from which he never fully recovered. He died in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France in 1954 when he was struck by a moving vehicle.
During the German occupation of France in World War II, Derain lived primarily in Paris and was much courted by the Germans because he represented the prestige of French culture. Derain accepted an invitation to make an official visit to Germany in 1941, traveling with other French artists to Berlin to attend an exhibition by Nazi sculptor Arno Brecker. The Nazi propaganda machine naturally made much of Derain's presence in Germany, and after the Liberation he was branded a collaborator and ostracized by many former supporters.

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