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Born 1969-07-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
Rachel Rockwell was an American theater director, choreographer and performer. She graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati) and had a BFA in Theater Performance from the University of Evansville (IN). She moved to Chicago in 1991 and began performing and choreographing. She appeared on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and the national tours of Mamma Mia! and Harold Prince's Show Boat. In 2010, she was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine. In July 2014, Goodman Theatre produced the first major revival of Brigadoon in two decades—directed and choreographed by Rockwell, who, with Brian Hill, updated the book, with permission from the Lerner and Loewe estates. Her productions of Ride the Cyclone and Billy Eliot were named two of the Top Ten productions in Chicago for 2015. Her U.S. premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of Ride the Cyclone was then produced Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, and named Best of 2016 by the New York Times. She directed the World Premiere of Diary of a Wimpy Kid at Minneapolis Children's Theatre in April 2016. Rachel Rockwell died of ovarian cancer.
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Born 1918-10-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Jens Christian Skou was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.
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Born 1933-10-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Donald Herod Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, but, when that was canceled, he became a NASA astronaut in September 1969. He was a mission specialist on STS-6 on board Challenger. During the mission Peterson performed a spacewalk to test the new airlock and space suits. He logged 120 hours in space. Peterson retired from NASA in 1984. He died at his home in El Lago, Texas, of Alzheimer's disease and bone cancer, at the age of 84.
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Born 1929-10-21. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Bellemare was a French writer, novelist, radio personality, television presenter, TV producer, director, and actor.
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Born 1937-05-02. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Samuel Frederick Dabney Jr. was an American electrical engineer, and the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, Inc. He is recognized as developing the basics of video circuitry principles that were used for Computer Space and later Pong, one of the first and most successful arcade games. Dabney was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in late 2017, and opted against treatment. He died in his Clearlake home from complications from the cancer.
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Born 1931-12-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Roger Piantoni was a French international footballer. He was the star, inside-forward on the French team in the late 1950s. During the 1949–1950 season, he was the champion of Lorraine with his team, and was the top scorer in the league with 35 goals. At the 1958 World Cup, Piantoni was considered one of the best French players of his time. He was nicknamed Bout d'chou, meaning "Cabbage Tip", ranking as the sixth top scorer in the French Championship with a total of 203 goals in Division 1.
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Born 1924-10-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Fred Thomas Kovaleski was an American tennis player, spy, and businessman. Fred Kovaleski was born in Maynard, Massachusetts, and grew up in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck was known as a Polish American center, and both of Kovaleski's parents had immigrated from Poland. In high school, he showed aptitude in handball and tennis, and was coached by Jean Hoxie. By age 17, he played on the junior US Davis Cup team. After graduation in 1949, Kovaleski continued to play tennis. He competed at the 1950 Wimbledon Championships, losing in the fourth round to Australian Frank Sedgman. Kovaleski was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency, with international travel providing him a cover for performing espionage. He left the CIA when he fell in love with Manya Jabes, a woman of Russian ancestry, and the CIA did not approve, though the agency would later hire both of them to translate Russian. After the birth of his son Serge, Kovaleski left the CIA for good. He went on to work in the international divisions of Pepsi, Revlon, Schering-Plough, and Nabisco.
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Born 1920-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Gerard Marenghi, known as Jerry Maren, was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Wizard of Oz. He became the last surviving Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini on January 16, 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a specifically identifiable speaking or singing role.
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Born 1984-07-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
John Peter Bain, better known as TotalBiscuit, (or sometimes The Cynical Brit or TotalHalibut) was a British video gaming commentator and game critic on YouTube. He was known for his role in professional shoutcasting and e-sports, and also known for his gaming commentary audio work on WCradio.com. According to Eurogamer, he obtained a large following due to his video commentary on newly developed indie games and analysis of gaming news. Bain voiced strong support for consumer protection in the video gaming industry. In October 2015, Bain announced that he had terminal cancer that had spread to his liver. He continued to critique games after the diagnosis, announcing his retirement only a few weeks ahead of his death in May 2018.
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Born 1956-05-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Jeanna Michaels was an American actress, known for her soap opera roles as Lydia Saunders on Santa Barbara (1988–89), Constance Townley on General Hospital (1983) and Karen Richards on The Young and the Restless (1981–82). Between 1979–81, she portrayed Bobby Ewing's first secretary, Connie Brasher, on Dallas. She died from Lymphoma.
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Born 1934-04-05. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Richard Wayne Peck was an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature. He was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder (the sequel to A Long Way From Chicago). For his cumulative contribution to young-adult literature, he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1990.
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Born 1933-03-19. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth died at a Manhattan hospital of heart failure at the age of 85.
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Born 1954-10-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Elizabeth Fong Sung (Chinese: 孫芳; pinyin: Sūn Fāng) was a Chinese-American actress, director, and screenwriter. She was also a revered acting teacher and mentor to young performers and filmmakers in the Asian-Pacific community. Sung was married to writer and actor Peter Tulipan. She was fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. Her brother, Philip, died in 1985 from AIDS. Sung died aged 63. Her cause of death initially had not been released, but it was later revealed Sung died from lymphoma.
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Born 1982-06-09. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
Nobukazu Kuriki was a Japanese mountaineer and entrepreneur. He was known for his unusual climbing style, typically climbing solo and without supplementary oxygen. In May 2018, during his 8th attempt to climb Mount Everest, he died while descending from Camp Three after abandoning the attempt due to illness. He is survived by his father Toshio.
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Born 1927-05-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker was an American actor and singer. He played cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Bros. western series Cheyenne from 1955-63. Walker died of congestive heart failure in Grass Valley, California nine days before his 91st birthday.
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Born 1970-07-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Stephanie Adams was an American model and author. She was the November 1992 Playboy Playmate. On May 18, 2018, Adams killed her seven-year-old son and herself. According to the New York City Police Department, Adams pushed her son out of a 25th-story window, before jumping herself. On the evening of May 17, 2018, Adams with her seven-year-old son Vincent, checked into a 25th-floor penthouse in the Gotham Hotel on 46th Street in Manhattan. The next morning, both were found dead on a second-floor balcony in the hotel's rear courtyard. According to law enforcement officials, Adams and her husband were involved in a custody battle, and hours before checking into the hotel, Adams told the New York Post that her husband and his lawyer were preventing her from taking her son on vacation. The New York City Medical Examiner ruled the death of Stephanie as a suicide and the son as a homicide.
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Born 1924-11-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Joseph Anthony Campanella was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009. Campanella was best remembered for his roles as Joe Turino on Guiding Light from 1959 to 1962, Lew Wickersham on the detective series Mannix from 1967 to 1968, Brian Darrell on the legal drama The Bold Ones: The Lawyers from 1969 to 1972, Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1992, and his recurring role as Jonathan Young on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005. Campanella died at the age of 93 at his home in Sherman Oaks, California of complications from Parkinson's disease.
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Born 1942-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Hugh Dane was an American actor. He is best known for playing Hank the security guard on the television sitcom The Office from 2005 to 2013. Dane's professional acting career began with a role in the 1989 video game, It Came from the Desert before moving on to his first television role in a two-part episode of Hunter. In 1991, Dane acted in his first film role as a prison guard in the crime-thriller Ricochet. In the following years, Dane played small roles in popular television series' such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Boy Meets World, Martin, Friends ("The One With The Baby On The Bus"), Sister, Sister, Monk and Girl Meets World.
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Born 1943-12-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Yuriko Hoshi, real name Yuriko Shimizu, was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than ninety films beginning in 1959.
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Born 1928-04-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Colonel Joseph Gordon Clemons was a decorated soldier in the United States Army in the Korean War and in the Vietnam War. His actions in the 1953 Battle of Pork Chop Hill were the subject of a 1959 movie, Pork Chop Hill. Clemons died in Hendersonville, North Carolina of complications from pneumonia at the age of 90.
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Born 1930-03-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Infection
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. Wolfe died from an infection in Manhattan at the age of 88.
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Born 1930-06-07. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Gérard Genette was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.
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Born 1952-12-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Marta Estela DuBois was a Panamanian actress. DuBois had a steady career on episodes of numerous television series and films. She may be best known as the female lead -- homicide detective Roberta Hansen -- in the McBride franchise of 10 television films. DuBois died of a brain aneurysm in Los Angeles, California, at age 65.
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Born 1960-11-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress. Maurane was found dead at the age of 57 beside her bath at her home in Schaerbeek in the area of Brussels, Belgium. The following day, the magistrate of the Brussels public prosecutor's office confirms the opening of a judicial inquiry, although the death of the singer is not considered as suspect. The first conclusions point to a probable heart attack.
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Born 1930-08-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Wolfgang Otto Völz was a German actor. He is known for his roles in theatre plays, TV shows, feature films (especially German films based on Edgar Wallace works) and taped radio shows. He was also a very prolific voice actor. Völz studied acting and consequently worked as a stage actor. After more than ten years of acting including a great deal of supporting roles in feature films and TV shows he became a popular cast member ("Lt. Mario de Monti") of Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion. He continued being successful on the TV screen by playing Ioan (German: Johann), the driver and bodyguard of Graf Yoster (and afterwards many other characters). As a voice actor he dubbed American stars such as Walter Matthau, Peter Falk and Mel Brooks and people or animals in animated films like Impy's Island.
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Born 1928-08-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Manfredo Perdigăo do Carmo was a Brazilian mathematician, doyen of Brazilian differential geometry, and former president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. He was at the time of his death an emeritus researcher at the IMPA.
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Born 1944-08-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Anatole Borisovich Katok was an American mathematician with Russian-Jewish origins. Katok was the director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. His field of research was the theory of dynamical systems.
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Born 1984-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Juan Carlos Olivas was a Mexican actor known for playing Héctor Luis Palma Salazar in the 2017 Netflix and Univision series El Chapo. Olivas died in April 2018 due to cancer.
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Born 1920-01-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Michael Joseph Anderson was an English film director, best known for directing the World War II film The Dam Busters (1955), the epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and the dystopian sci-fi film Logan's Run (1976). Anderson died at the age of 98, from heart disease.
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Born 1988-02-16. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Jacquelyn Crowell was an American racing cyclist. She was a graduate from the University of Florida with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in October 2013 after a hemorrhage caused temporary paralysis on her right side. She underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation under the supervision of doctors at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University. In a speech given in May 2014, she discussed her mindset and prognosis. In the last years of her life, Crowell worked part-time at the Dick Lane Velodrome, where she taught bicycle racing to younger riders. She died , 2018 at the age of 30 after a 5 year battle with cancer.