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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1957-07-06. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:COVID
Lin Zhengbin was a Chinese physician and organ transplant expert at Wuhan Tongji Hospital. Lin graduated from Tongji Medical College in 1987, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine. After graduation, he started his career at Wuhan Tongji Hospital, engaged in organ transplants for more than 30 years. He was chief physician of the Institute of Organ Transplantation of Tongji Hospital. He retired in July 2017, but was rehired by Wuhan Tongji Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Lin was infected with the coronavirus. He died on 10 February 2020 due to complications caused by the disease. Falun Gong supporters accused him of harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners.
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Born 1923-10-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
When the actor Patrick Jordan was in Star Wars he had a choice. Did he want a guaranteed fee for his part as an Imperial Officer, or a tiny share of the royalties? He got the part through his friend Alec Guinness with whom he had worked in the Old Vic theatre company in the 1940s. Jordan shared Guinness’s contempt for Star Wars, and was dubious about the film’s prospects, so he took the one-off fee. He regretted the decision ever after with rueful humour, claiming that had he chosen a cut he would never have had to work again. He was born and raised in Harrow, Middlesex, the son of Margaret, a cook, and Albert Jordan, a regimental sergeant major. An accident while playing bows and arrows with his two brothers left him with a distinctive scar on his right cheek. He made his stage debut in a 1946 Old Vic production of Richard II at the New Theatre, which was directed by Ralph Richardson and featured Harry Andrews and Alec Guinness. With Old Vic he went on to perform in other Shakespearean plays, including Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew, in the last of which also appeared Renée Asherson. Jordan remained friends with Asherson and Guinness.
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Born 1935-03-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk) was an American film and television actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the 1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West. He portrayed World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (later syndicated as Black Sheep Squadron). In addition to acting, he was a singer and recorded several pop/rock songs in the late 1950s and early 1960s as Bob Conrad. He hosted a weekly two-hour national radio show (The PM Show with Robert Conrad) on CRN Digital Talk Radio beginning in 2008. On March 31, 2003, while on Highway 4 in California's Sierra Nevada foothills near his Alpine County home, Conrad drove his Jaguar over the center median and slammed head-on into a Subaru driven by 26-year-old Kevin Burnett. Both men suffered serious injuries. Tried on felony charges, Conrad pleaded no contest, and he was convicted of drunk driving. He was sentenced to six months of house confinement, alcohol counseling, and five years' probation. A civil suit filed by Kevin Burnett against Conrad was settled the following year for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, Burnett died at age 28 from perforated ulcers; his family attributed them to his difficult recovery from the crash. Conrad suffered severe nerve injuries from the crash, leaving his right side partially-paralyzed. Conrad died of heart failure in Malibu, California at age 84.
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Born 1916-12-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Kirk Douglas was an American actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and writer. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war films. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films. Douglas was known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in Town Without Pity (1961). After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996, he focused on renewing his spiritual and religious life. He lived with his second wife (of 66 years), Anne Buydens, a producer, until his death On January 28, 1996, Douglas suffered a severe stroke, which impaired his ability to speak. Doctors told his wife that unless there was rapid improvement, the loss of the ability to speak was likely permanent. After a regime of daily speech-language therapy that lasted several months, his ability to speak returned, although it was still limited. He was able to accept an honorary Academy Award two months later in March and thanked the audience. He wrote about this experience in his 2002 book, My Stroke of Luck, which he hoped would be an "operating manual" for others on how to handle a stroke victim in their own family.
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Born 1929-04-23. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
He was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator.
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Born 1933-08-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Claire Clouzot was a French film director and journalist. Clouzot was the daughter of photographer Rémy Duval and the granddaughter of director Henri-Georges Clouzot. She worked as a photographer and journalist before she began directing in 1980, with the film L’Homme Fragile, starring Richard Berry, Françoise Lebrun, and Didier Sauvegrain.
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Born 1932-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Andrée Melly was an English actress. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, she performed at the Old Vic in Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in her early twenties and worked with Peter Finch and Robert Donat at the theatre. In 1958, she appeared with the Jamaican actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis play Hot Summer Night, a production which was later adapted for the Armchair Theatre series in 1959 and in which she was a participant in the earliest known interracial kiss on television. She continued to appear on British television until 1991. Her other stage work includes the original West End production of the farce Boeing-Boeing at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 with David Tomlinson and as Alice "Childie" McNaught in The Killing of Sister George at St Martin's in 1966. Melly appeared in British films, including the comedy The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and the Hammer Horror film The Brides of Dracula (1960). Her role in the later film was as Gina, a woman who is bitten by Baron Meinster, a vampire, turning her into another undead character. With the death of Bill Kerr in 2014, Melly was the last surviving regular cast member of Hancock's Half Hour. Melly died in January 2020 at the age of 87.
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Born 1963-03-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
John Andrew Andretti was an American race car driver. He won individual races in CART, IMSA GTP, Rolex Sports Car Series, and NASCAR during his career. He was the son of Aldo Andretti, older brother of racer Adam Andretti, nephew of Mario Andretti, and first cousin to IndyCar champion Michael and Jeff Andretti.
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Born 1966-12-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Miguel Arroyo was a Mexican road racing cyclist. He was born in Huamantla, and was a professional from 1989 to 1997. Hospitalized for pancreatic cancer, he died of cardiac arrest during an operation on this organ.
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Born 1936-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Dyanne Thorne was an American pornographic actress, stage performer and vocalist. She was known for her stage work in Las Vegas and as the lead actress in the Ilsa film franchise which began with Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975).
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Born 1933-11-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
John Francis Burns was an American comedian, actor, voice actor, writer, and producer. During the 1960s, he was part of two comedy partnerships, first with George Carlin and later Avery Schreiber. By the 1970s, he had transitioned to working behind the camera as a writer and producer on such comedy series as The Muppet Show and Hee Haw.
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Born 1978-08-23. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. As a shooting guard, Bryant entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) directly from high school, and played his entire 20-season professional career in the league with the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant won many accolades: five NBA championships, 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), two-time NBA Finals MVP winner. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, ranks fourth on the league's all-time regular season scoring and all-time postseason scoring lists. Bryant died at age 41, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, due to blunt force trauma sustained from a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
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Born 1931-06-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Michel Georges Alfred Catty, known as Michou, was a French singer, drag artist and owner of Chez Michou in Montmartre. He was born in Amiens. A local celebrity, he appeared in a cameo as himself in the 1973 film La bonne année directed by Claude Lelouch. In 1973 he also played the part of Beauchamp in the TV series Molière pour rire et pour pleurer, directed by Marcel Camus. He was the subject of Jean Luret's documentary L'intrigant destin d’un Transformiste. In the 1980s, he was regularly invited on French TV. He was made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2005.
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Born 1959-03-00. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:COVID
Liang Wudong was a physician at Xinhua Hospital in Hubei who was the first doctor to die from the COVID-19 pandemic due to nosocomial infection.
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Born 1971-04-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Edwin Straver was a Dutch motorcycle racer. Straver was particularly known for his participation in the Dakar Rally. He participated in 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2019 he won the classification in the class in which the driver himself must do all the maintenance on the engine; the so-called "Original by Motul". On 16 January, during the eleventh stage of the Dakar 2020 rally in Saudi Arabia, Straver crashed his motorcycle. He was resuscitated on site and then taken to a hospital in Riyadh. It was found here that one of his upper cervical vertebrae was broken. On 22 January, he was transferred to the Netherlands, where he died two days later. He was the son of five-time Dutch road racing champion for motorcycles Anton Straver.
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Born 1951-05-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Robert Francis Harper was an American actor, perhaps most well known for his role as Sharkey in Once Upon a Time in America. He also portrayed Charlie Gereson in Creepshow and Bubba 'Si' Weisberger in the CBS sitcom Frank's Place. Other film credits include Wiseguy, Final Analysis, The Insider, Deconstructing Harry, and Molly. He also appeared on Broadway in Once in a Lifetime (directed by Tom Moore), The Inspector General and Arthur Miller's The American Clock. In May 2007, Harper delivered the Commencement Address at University College, Rutgers. He was married to a Dutch woman, Sascha Noorthoorn van der Kruyff, and died in Rotterdam.
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Born 1932-02-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Stephen James Joyce was the grandson of James Joyce and the executor of Joyce's literary estate. He was born in France, the son of James Joyce's son, Giorgio, and Helen Joyce (née Kastor). Stephen graduated in 1958 from Harvard University, where he once roomed with Paul Matisse, grandson of French impressionist painter Henri Matisse, and with Sadruddin Aga Khan. When the Central Bank of Ireland issued a ten euro James Joyce commemorative coin on 10 April 2013, Joyce described the coin and the circumstances of its issue as "one of the greatest insults to the Joyce family that has ever been perpetrated in Ireland". He complained of a lack of consultation over the coin; he objected to an error in a Joycean quotation inscribed on the coin; he was upset by the design of the portrait on the coin, calling it "the most unlikely likeness of Joyce ever produced"; and he described as highly insensitive and offensive the decision to issue the coin on the anniversary of the death of his grandmother, Nora Joyce, who died in 1951.
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Born 1942-02-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Terence Graham Parry Jones was a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy team. In 2016, Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the BAFTA Cymru Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film. After living for several years with a degenerative aphasia, he gradually lost the ability to speak and died on 21 January 2020 from frontotemporal dementia.
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Born 1920-01-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Shuchi Kubouchi was a Japanese professional Go player. Kubouchi became a professional 9-dan in 1960 for the Kansai Ki-in. His teacher was Katsukiyo Kubomatsu. He died in January 2020, a few days short of his one hundredth birthday.
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Born 1969-08-04. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Cancer
Sébastien Demorand was a French journalist and food critic. He was the brother of journalist and radio presenter Nicolas Demorand and sculptor Catherine Demorand. Since 2010, he was a member of the jury in the French version MasterChef on TF1. He was the only food critic among the chefs Frédéric Anton, Yves Camdeborde and Amandine Chaignot (since 2013). He was fluent in English and also appeared as a special guest in episode 18 of the second season of MasterChef US.
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Born 1926-10-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
James Edward Heath nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.
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Born 1932-04-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Peter John Bell Clarricoats CBE, FREng, FRS was a British engineer, and was Professor of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London from 1968 to 1997. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1958, with a thesis entitled "Properties of waveguides containing ferrites with special reference to waveguides of circular cross-section". He was vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, from 1989 to 1991. He was vice-president and treasurer of URSI (the International Union of Radio Science) from 1993 to 1999. He was appointed a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1983. He was educated at Minchenden Grammar School and Imperial College London. In September 2015 Clarricoats was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of the academy's highest accolades.
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Born 1924-11-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was an English editor and academic. He was the son of author J. R. R. Tolkien and the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. Tolkien drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings. He died at the age of 95, in Draguignan, Var, France.
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Born 1934-11-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an American film actor appearing in a wide variety of films, including the crime dramas Serpico (1973), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) and Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987), as well as the cult favorites Car Wash (1976) and Midnight Run (1988), the popular western Young Guns II (1990), and On the Nickel (1980).
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Born 1989-04-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Sophie Kratzer was a German ice hockey forward.
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Born 1979-02-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Paulo Gonçalves was a Portuguese rally racing motorcycle rider. He won the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship in 2013. Gonçalves crashed during the seventh stage of the 2020 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, at 276 km. He was found unconscious, resuscitated at the scene, and then flown by helicopter to a hospital in Layla, where he was pronounced dead. He was less than a month away from his 41st birthday.
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Born 1968-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and acting coach. Kirsch was born in New York City, New York. He began acting as a young child. His first acting job was at the age of 4 when he appeared in some Campbell's soup television commercials. Kirsch appeared in the short-lived Saturday morning TV series Riders in the Sky and on the soap opera General Hospital in 1992. He has made guest appearances in some TV shows including JAG, Family Law, and Friends. His most notable role began in 1992 on Highlander: The Series as Richie Ryan. He left the show as a regular cast member in the fifth season finale in 1997, but he made one last guest appearance in the series finale episode, "Not To Be" which aired May 17, 1998. Kirsch made his debut as director and producer with the film Straight Eye: The Movie in 2004. In 2008, he founded his own acting studio called Stan Kirsch Studios. On January 11, 2020, 51-year-old Kirsch was found dead in his Los Angeles home. The LA Coroner ruled Kirsch’s death a suicide by hanging.
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Born 1942-03-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Michael Diamond Resnick was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards, and a Nebula award. He was the guest of honor at Chicon 7, the executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe and the editor and creator of Galaxy's Edge magazine.
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Born 1933-06-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He put the first computer on the ARPANET outside of the US and was instrumental in defining and implementing TCP/IP alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. He is "often recognized as the father of the European Internet". Peter Kirstein died from a brain tumour.
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Born 1925-12-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Dessange was a French hairdresser.