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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 1895-06-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
She was an American actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
In her last Will, she wrote:
"...I also wish to be buried in the Hollywood Cemetery".
The owner, Jules 'Jack' Roth, refused to allow her to be interred there, because they did not take blacks. Her second choice was Rosedale Cemetery, where she lies today.
In 1999, Tyler Cassity, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery, who had renamed it Hollywood Forever Cemetery, wanted to right the wrong and have Miss McDaniel interred in the cemetery. Her family did not want to disturb her remains after the passage of so much time, and declined the offer. Hollywood Forever Cemetery then did the next best thing and built a large cenotaph memorial on the lawn overlooking the lake in honor of McDaniel. It is one of the most popular sites for visitors
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Born 1906-12-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Philipp Auerbach, was born in Germany and had moved to Belgium where he became head of a chemical import-export company. After the German invasion of Belgium he was arrested and sent to Gurs and was later deported to Auschwitz. His wife, Martha, and daughter, Helen, managed to flee to Cuba and then come to the United States. In Asuchwitz, Auerbach served as the chief chemist preparing medicines and pesticides. He attested to having been coerced into making soap from human remains. After liberation he served the first chairman of the State Federation of North Rhine and Westphalia and later as the chairman of the Association of Jewish Communities in Bavaria. In 1946 he was appointed state commissioner of the Bavarian provincial government for religious, political and racial victims of the Nazis, thereby becoming one of the first Jews to play a role in postwar German political life. He was among the first to work for the financial compensation of victims of Nazism. In January 1951, he became a member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. One month later he was accused of financial misconduct and forgery in regard to reparations payments. His supporters insisted that he never personally benefited from the fraud, and that he gave all the money to the victims. On August 14, 1952, Auerbach was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a court of five judges, three of whom had had contacts with the Nazi party. Two days later, Auerbach committed suicide, by absorbing a surdose of somniferes. He could not endure this judgment. Four years later he was posthumously cleared of all charges.
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Born 1891-01-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
On the evening of 4 August 1952, while on holiday in France in their green Hillman estate car, the Drummonds stopped by the side of the N96 main road, less than 200 metres from a picturesque farmhouse called La Grand'Terre. The site is marked by a milestone as exactly 6km south of Peyruis and 6km north of La Brillanne. A footpath leads from the site down to the banks of the river Durance.
La Grand'Terre was the home of the Dominicis, a family of Franco-Italian peasant farmers: the patriarch Gaston, his wife Marie, their son Gustave, Gustave's wife Yvette and their baby son Alain. It was Gustave who claimed to have found the three dead bodies around 5:30am on the morning of 5 August, and who flagged down a passing motorcyclist, Jean-Marie Olivier, telling him to fetch the police.
Anne's body was found near the car. Jack's lay on the other side of the N96, covered by a camp bed. They had both been shot by a Rock-Ola rifle. The body of 10-year-old Elizabeth was found 77 metres away, down the path leading to the river, on the other side of the bridge over the railway. Her head had been brutally smashed in by the stock of the rifle. The barrel of the murder weapon was soon found in the river, with the stock a short distance downstream. It is likely that the force of the blow or blows used to kill Elizabeth had also broken the stock off the rifle.
Gaston Dominici was convicted of the murders in November 1954, and sentenced to the Guillotine. However, both the police investigation and the conduct of the trial had been widely criticised, and after two inconclusive inquiries, President René Coty commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Coty was succeeded in 1959 by President Charles de Gaulle, who ordered Dominici's release on humanitarian grounds, but did not pardon him, nor grant his request for a retrial.
The Drummond are buried in the classified cemetery of the well-known touristic town of Forcalquier, about 25 km East of Lurs. As Sir Jack had no more family, and the mother of Anne, Mrs Wilbraham didn't ask for the bodies, exceptionnally three British citizens are not buried in the UK. On the site of the drama near the stone bridge over the railway, there is a cross with childish votive offerings to mark the place where Elizabeth was found.
The murders remain a subject of hot dispute to this day in France, where they are referred to as L'affaire Dominici. Alain Dominici, a baby at the time of the murders, has spent a lifetime campaigning for the innocence of his grandfather.
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Born 1919-05-07. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
By 1951, it had become evident that her health was rapidly deteriorating. In early 1950, Evita fainted in public and underwent surgery few days later. Although it was reported that she had undergone an appendectomy, she had actually developed advanced uterine cancer. Fainting continued through 1951, with extreme weakness and severe vaginal bleeding. Although her diagnosis was withheld from her by Juan, she knew she was not well, and a bid for the vice-presidency was not practical in light of her condition. Only a few months after "the Renouncement," Evita underwent a secret radical hysterectomy in an attempt to cure her of her advanced cervical cancer.
Despite having undergone a hysterectomy by the eminent American surgeon, George T. Pack, Evita's cancer returned rapidly. She developed lung metastasis and was the first Argentinian to undergo chemotherapy (a novel treatment at that time). Despite all available treatment, she became emaciated, weighing only 36 kg (about 79 lb.) by June 1952. Evita died at the age of 33, at 8:27 p.m.
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Born 1913-03-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
His wife left him shortly before his death. The separation put him in a deep nervous breakdown, and his heart problem began to be extremly serious.
This is what one name "broken heart".
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Born 1879-01-01. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Fox lost control of the company in 1930 during a hostile takeover. A combination of the "Black Monday" stock crash, Fox's injury in a car crash, and government anti-trust action forced him into a protracted seven-year struggle to fight off bankruptcy. At his bankruptcy hearing in 1936, Fox attempted to bribe judge John Warren Davis and commit perjury. He was sentenced to six months in prison. After serving his time, Fox retired from the film business. Fox died in 1952 at the age of 73. No Hollywood producers came to his funeral.
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Born 1870-08-31. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
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Born 1868-06-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Auguste Bluysen was a French architect. He is the conceptor of the pavilion de la grande source in Vittel.
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Born 1885-03-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Operation
Complications from a kidney operation.
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Born 1927-08-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
She died in a plane crash (Paris-Nice) alongside actress Michèle Verly and dancer Harriet Toby.
She was the sister of actor Jean Topart.
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Born 1909-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Died in a plane crash alongside actress Lise Topart and dancer Harriet Toby.
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Born 1889-02-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
After World War II he commanded French troops in Indochina during the First Indochina War. His only son, a young lieutenant, was killed in action during the war. In 1951, illness forced de Lattre de Taissigny to return to Paris where he later died of cancer; he was posthumously made Maréchal de France.
His father, Roger, had been a Mayor from 1911 through his death in 1956, at the age of 101.
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Born 1860-04-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
Founder of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. (W.K. Kellogg Company).
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Born 1895-12-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
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Born 1912-06-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
"The Queen of Technicolor." Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and five in Europe.
The 39-year-old Montez died in Paris, France, after apparently suffering a heart attack and drowning in her bath. She was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris where her tombstone displays her theatrical year of birth, 1918.
She had a child, Tina Aumont, with Jean-Pierre Aumont.
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Born 1918-10-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Robert Hudson Walker was an American actor, best remembered for his starring role as the villain in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on a Train (1951), which was released shortly before his death. He started in youthful boy-next-door roles, often as a World War II soldier. One of these roles was opposite his first wife, Jennifer Jones, in the World War II epic Since You Went Away (1944). He also played Jerome Kern in Till the Clouds Roll By. Twice divorced by 30, he suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, which were exacerbated by his painful separation and divorce from Jones. On the night of August 28, 1951, Walker's housekeeper reportedly found Walker in an emotional state. She called the actor's psychiatrist, Frederick Hacker, who arrived and administered amobarbital for sedation. Walker had allegedly been drinking before the outburst, and it is believed the combination of amobarbital and alcohol caused him to lose consciousness and stop breathing. Efforts to resuscitate Walker failed and he was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. He was aged 32. The loss of such a promising young Hollywood actor was widely lamented.
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Born 1917-12-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Road accident.
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Born 1874-09-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Schoenberg's experience of triskaidekaphobia (the fear of the number 13), which possibly began in 1908 with the composition of op. 15, no. 13 (Stuckenschmidt 1977, 96), and his superstitious nature may have triggered his death. According to an unverified anecdote on a website, he feared he would die during a year that was a multiple of 13. He so dreaded his sixty-fifth birthday that a friend asked composer and astrologist Dane Rudhyar to prepare Schoenberg's horoscope. Rudhyar did this and told Schoenberg that the year was dangerous, but not fatal. But in 1951, on his seventy-sixth birthday, the Viennese musician and astrologist Oskar Adler wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13. This stunned and depressed the composer, for up to that point he had only been wary of multiples of 13 and never considered adding the digits of his age. He became obsessed with this idea and many friends report that he frequently said: "If I can only pull through this year I shall be safe." On Friday, July 13, of his seventy-sixth year, Arnold Schoenberg stayed in bed—sick, anxious and depressed. In a letter to Schoenberg's sister Ottilie, dated 4 August 1951, his wife, Gertrud, reported "About a quarter to twelve I looked at the clock and said to myself: another quarter of an hour and then the worst is over. Then the doctor called me. Arnold's throat rattled twice, his heart gave a powerful beat and that was the end"
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Born 1922-11-12. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a Polish writer and journalist, and a Holocaust survivor. He committed suicide at the age of 28 by breathing in gas from a gas stove.
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Born 1923-03-19. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian professional road racing cyclist born in Castellania. He was the younger brother of famous Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi.
His greatest victory was winning Paris–Roubaix in 1949, when he was placed as ex-aequo winner along with André Mahé after much controversy. He died in 1951 while riding in Giro del Piemonte after crashing in the final sprint when his wheel was caught in the tracks of the Turin tramway.
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Born 1871-02-18. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
George Udny Yule FRS , usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, particularly known for the Yule distribution and proposing the preferential attachment model for random graphs.
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Born 1870-12-21. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a French diplomat and lawyer who negotiated the Sykes–Picot Agreement with the English diplomat Sir Mark Sykes between November 1915 and March 1916 before its signing on May 16, 1916. It was a secret deal which proposed that, when the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire began after a then theoretical victory of the Triple Entente, Britain and France, and later Russia and Italy, would divide up the Arab territories between them. He was the son of historian Georges Picot and grand-uncle of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He married in Paris on 11 May 1897 to Marie Fouquet. They had three children: Jean Georges-Picot (b. Paris, 26 February 1898), Élisabeth Georges-Picot (1901–1906) and Sibylle Georges-Picot. His great-niece Olga Georges-Picot, appeared in the film The Day of the Jackal.
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Born 1868-03-03. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
In 1936, while he had long been suffering from regukar crisis of rheumatism, a stroke condemned him to a wheelchair.
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Born 1869-04-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer
Élie Cartan was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory. He was the father of another influential mathematician, Henri Cartan.
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Born 1889-04-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
His last words: "Tell them I've had a wonderful life."