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Yeltsin Boris (b. 1931-02-01 / d. 2007-04-23)
Those russian names are boring. In French, it spells "Eltsine"
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Born 1947-10-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
Henri Louis Michel was a French football player and coach. He played as a midfielder for Nantes and the France national team, and later went on to coach various clubs and national teams all over the world. He coached France at the 1986 World Cup, where they reached the semi-final, eventually managing a third–place finish; he also helped the Olympic squad win a gold medal in the 1984 edition of the tournament.
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Born 1927-04-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
André Tarallo , commonly known as Monsieur Africa, was a French businessman who worked as the top manager of African affairs for French petroleum company Elf Aquitaine from the late 1970s until his arrest in the 1990s for embezzlement.
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Born 1938-03-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Arthur Benjamin Rubinstein was an American Emmy Award winning composer. He composed several television series soundtracks and songs for film scores. He was frequently been hired by film director John Badham, and the majority of his movie soundtracks are found in Badham's work, including Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), WarGames (1983), Blue Thunder (1983), Stakeout (1987), The Hard Way (1991), Another Stakeout (1993), and Nick of Time (1995). He was also member of the band The Beepers. He died from cancer at the age of 80,
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Born 1969-01-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Verne Jay Troyer was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer, best known for his role of Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series. He had cartilage–hair hypoplasia and was 2 ft 8 in (81 cm) tall. Troyer died at the age of 49. No cause was immediately released. His death was reported as a possible suicide to the coroner, who found very high alcohol levels in his body, suggesting alcohol poisoning. His death was later ruled a suicide. He was cremated and his ashes were interred in a niche at Colon United Methodist Church Columbarium in Colon, St. Joseph County, Michigan.
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Born 1989-09-08. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
Tim Bergling, better known by his stage name Avicii was a Swedish DJ, remixer, record producer, musician, and songwriter who specialized in audio programming, remixing, and record producing. Bergling died near Muscat at the age of 28. No cause of death was immediately given. On 21 April, the Omani police stated that there was "no criminal suspicion" or evidence of foul play in Bergling's death. On 1 May, TMZ reported that the cause of death was a suicide due to self-inflicted injuries with a broken wine bottle, with Bergling eventually dying of blood loss. In January 2012, Bergling was hospitalized for 11 days in New York City with acute pancreatitis caused by excessive alcohol use. In 2014, Bergling underwent surgery and had both his appendix and gallbladder removed. In 2016, Bergling's health deteriorated, and he retired from performing live. In the 2017 documentary Avicii: True Stories, directed by his close and longtime collaborator Levan Tsikurishvili, Bergling spoke about his physical and mental health struggles. The documentary depicts the pressure from his management to continue performing live in spite of his objections. High pressure from management and fans to continue touring and maintaining his public persona were cited as key reasons for his suicide, according to GQ. In a statement from the article, "Bergling feared upsetting fans. He was sensitive to the 'flood of hate mail' after cancelled gigs."
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Born 1943-11-05. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Joël Santoni was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1976 film Scrambled Eggs, which starred Jean Carmet and Anna Karina.
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Born 1925-06-08. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Barbara Bush (née Pierce) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of George H. W. Bush, who served as the 41st president of the United States, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She previously was the second lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Among her six children are George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida. She and Abigail Adams are the only two women to be the wife of one U.S. president and the mother of another.
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Born 1965-06-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Pamela Catherine Gidley was an American actress and model. Gidley is perhaps best known for her roles in television series. Her first appearance in television was in an episode of the action adventure series MacGyver. She had the recurring role of Brigitte Parker in The Pretender. Her character was the first to be introduced on the show's official website before any of the episodes had aired. She played another recurring character, Teri Miller on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She appeared in the show's first and third seasons.
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Born 1939-10-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Ivan Gerald Mauger OBE was a motorcycle speedway rider from New Zealand. He won a record six World Championships (Finals), a feat equalled only with the inclusion of the Speedway GP Championships by Tony Rickardsson of Sweden who won one World Final and five GP Championships. Mauger rode for several British teams – Wimbledon Dons, Newcastle Diamonds, Belle Vue Aces, Exeter Falcons, and the Hull Vikings. In 2010, Mauger was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.
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Born 1953-01-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Maurice Reedus Jr., better known as the Sax Man, was an American saxophone player and street performer based in Cleveland, Ohio. For more than 17 years, Reedus played an alto saxophone outside Playhouse Square and Cleveland sporting events. A documentary about his life and career, The Sax Man, directed by Joe Siebert, premiered at the 2014 Cleveland International Film Festival.
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Born 1944-03-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
Ronald Lee Ermey was an American actor, voice actor, drill instructor and Marine. He achieved fame for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ermey was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant. Ermey was often typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, Jimmy Lee Farnsworth in Fletch Lives, a police captain in Se7en, plastic army men leader Sarge in the Toy Story films, Lt. "Tice" Ryan in Rocket Power, a prison warden in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, and John House in House. On television, Ermey hosted two programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answered viewers' questions about various military issues both modern and historic; and Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey, which concerned the development of different types of weapons. He also hosted GunnyTime on the Outdoor Channel. Ermey died at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, from complications related to pneumonia on the morning of April 15, 2018, twenty-two days after his 74th birthday. His funeral was held in Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, January 18, 2019, where his ashes are buried.
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Born 1929-09-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated in productions of note.
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Born 1926-01-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Stanley Brian Reynolds was an English jazz trumpeter.
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Born 1932-02-18. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars and Czechoslovakian authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism, and it was banned for many years in his home country. He left Czechoslovakia for the United States, and his films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984) acquired particular renown and for both films he won the Academy Award for Best Director. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was the second film to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay). Forman also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). He also won Golden Globe, Cannes, Berlinale, BAFTA, Cesar, David di Donatello, European Film Academy, and Czech Lion awards.
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Born 1933-08-25. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Patrick Francis McManus was an American humor writer, who primarily wrote about the outdoors. A humor columnist for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other magazines, his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with A Fine and Pleasant Misery (1978) up through The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories (2012).
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Born 1918-04-11. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.
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Born 1982-06-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Peter Alexander Beckett was a British actor. He was best known for his role in the BBC TV comedy series Twenty Twelve and its follow-up W1A. He played many theatre roles, including Higgins in Pygmalion in 2017, and several characters, including Fidel Castro, in the 2013 musical hybrid production of the Neon Neon album Praxis Makes Perfect. Beckett died at his home in South Norwood, London, aged 35, in what was ruled by coroner to be suicide by hanging; it was noted that at the time of his death, he had been suffering from depression for almost a year. Director Josie Rourke dedicated Mary Queen of Scots in Alex's memory. He played the role of Walter Mildmay, English Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Born 1946-03-31. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Richard Peyzaret, better known by his pen name F'Murr or F'Murrr, was a French cartoonist and comic book writer. He was most famous for the long-running series Le Génie des alpages (The Genius of the Mountain Pastures).
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Born 1937-02-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Nathan Tate Davis was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute. He is known for his work with Eric Dolphy, Kenny Clarke, Ray Charles, Slide Hampton and Art Blakey.
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Born 1994-07-24. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
Michael Goolaerts was a Belgian cyclist who rode for Vérandas Willems–Crelan. During the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Goolaerts suffered cardiac arrest. He was airlifted to a hospital in Lille, where he died hours later.
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Born 1940-10-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Higelin had three children, all of whom became artists: Arthur H, singer, born to Nicole Courtois in 1966 Kęn Higelin, actor, born to Kuelan Nguyen in 1972 Izďa, singer, born to dancer Aziza Zakine in 1990. Higelin married Zakine in 2011.
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Born 1927-07-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Timothy Joseph O'Connor was an American character actor known for his prolific work in television, although he made only a few appearances after the early 1990s. Before moving to California, he lived on an island in the middle of Glen Wild Lake, located in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, 30 miles from Manhattan. O'Connor specialized in playing officials, military men, and police officers. O'Connor died of cancer at his home in Nevada City, California, at the age of 90.
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Born 1935-10-29. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, Takahata Isao) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer. In 1985, he co-founded Studio Ghibli with his long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki and Miyazaki's collaborators Toshio Suzuki and Yasuyoshi Tokuma. Takahata earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of anime films, among them Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Only Yesterday (1991), Pom Poko (1994), and My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999). His last film as director was The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), which was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Animated Feature Film at the 87th Academy Awards. Takahata had been diagnosed with lung cancer, and died at a hospital in Tokyo, at the age of 82. On May 15, 2018, a farewell ceremony for Takahata was held at the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo. Hayao Miyazaki publicly spoke for the first time about Takahata's death, saying "I was convinced that Paku-san [Takahata's nickname] would live to be 95 years old, but he unfortunately passed away. It makes me think my time is also limited...Thank you, Paku-san.
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Born 1914-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Gertrude Hadley Jeannette was an American playwright and film and stage actress. She is also known for being the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in New York City, which she began doing in 1942. Despite being blacklisted during the Red Scare in the 1950s, she wrote five plays and founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players in Harlem, New York, remaining active in mentoring African-American actors in New York City. In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in Broadway productions such as The Long Dream, Nobody Loves an Albatross, The Amen Corner, The Skin of Our Teeth and Vieux Carré. She also appeared in films such as Cotton Comes to Harlem in 1969, Shaft in 1971, and Black Girl in 1972. She acted into her 80s and retired from directing theater at the age of 98.
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Born 1932-06-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Soon-Tek Oh – also spelled as Soon-Taek Oh or Soon-Taik Oh or Soon-Teck Oh was a Korean–American actor best known for the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's Mulan and the direct-to-video sequel Mulan II and the sadistic Colonel Yin in Missing in Action 2: The Beginning. He has starred in many films, and also acted in television series, including Stargate SG-1, MacGyver, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., Hawaii Five-O, Kung-Fu, Zorro, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Touched by an Angel. Oh died in Los Angeles at age 85 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease, according to actor Chil Kong.
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Born 1939-04-15. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Ronald Dunbar was an American songwriter, A&R director and record producer who worked closely with Holland–Dozier–Holland, and with George Clinton. His co-writing credits include the hit songs "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Band of Gold", and "Patches", for which he won a Grammy. His Grammy award was sold for $2,350 to the owners of TV show Pawn Stars.
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Born 1930-07-26. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
David James Foulis was an American mathematician known for his research on the algebraic foundations of quantum mechanics. He spent much of his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,, retiring in 1997 but continuing to be very active in mathematics as professor emeritus. He is the namesake of Foulis semigroups, an algebraic structure that he studied extensively under the alternative name of Baer *-semigroups.
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Born 1927-02-26. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
David Russell Edgerton Jr. was an American entrepreneur and the founder of the Burger King Corporation, in what would become the second largest burger chain after McDonald's After serving as a manager of another restaurant Howard Johnsons, on March 1, 1954 he opened a franchise outlet of the restaurant chain Insta Burger King in Miami, Florida. On June 1 of the same year, he met fellow restaraunteur James McLamore and the two founded the Burger King Corporation. After leaving Burger King , he went on to start Bodega, a steakhouse restaurant.
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Born 1942-11-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
Susan Florence Anspach was an American stage, film and television actress, who was best known for her roles in films during the 1970s and 1980s such as Five Easy Pieces (1970), Play It Again, Sam (1972), Blume in Love (1973), Montenegro (1981), Blue Monkey (1987), and Blood Red (1989).
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Born 1926-01-26. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Wilbur E. Ternyik was an American civic leader who has been characterized as a founding father of coastal planning, a coastal advocate, and a guardian of the Oregon Coast. News coverage of his work has described him as an international expert on sand dunes, and has noted his "decades of work to protect the environment that draws thousands to the Oregon coast." Ternyik's outreach to skeptical local officials in the early 1970s, persuading them to engage with then-Governor Tom McCall's call for land use planning in advance of the state's landmark land use legislation, has been identified as his most significant achievement. He served multiple terms as the mayor of Florence, Oregon, as well as 16 years on the Florence City Council and 29 years as a commissioner on the Port of Suislaw