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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 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
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Born 1932-11-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville) was a French film and television actress, known for her performances in award-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987) and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozičre (1978).
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Born 1942-07-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Victor Mikhailovich Kalashnikov was a Russian small arms designer known for developing the PP-19 Bizon submachine guns.
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Born 1973-04-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Arnaud Jean-Georges Beltrame was a lieutenant colonel in the French Gendarmerie nationale and deputy commander of the Departmental Gendarmerie's Aude unit, who was killed by a terrorist at Trčbes after having exchanged himself for a hostage. French President Emmanuel Macron said that Beltrame deserved "the respect and admiration of the whole nation." For his bravery and adherence to duty he was posthumously promoted to colonel and made a Commander of the Legion of Honour.
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Born 1968-11-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
DuShon Monique Brown was an American actress known for her performances as Nurse Katie Welch on the Fox series Prison Break and Connie in the NBC series Chicago Fire. Brown checked herself into the hospital earlier in the week of her death, after experiencing chest pains, but was released after undergoing tests. She died at St. James Olympia Fields Hospital on March 23, 2018. The Cook County coroner scheduled an autopsy on March 24, 2018. On May 31, 2018, the Cook County Medical examiner confirmed the death was the result of sepsis of an unknown etiology. Obesity and high blood pressure were also cited as the reason of sudden death.
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Born 1941-11-02. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Linda Jeanne Bement was an American model and beauty queen who became the third Miss USA to be crowned Miss Universe. She died of natural causes at her home in Salt Lake City.
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Born 1927-02-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Jacobus "Koos" Verhoeff was a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist, and artist. He is known for his work on error detection and correction, and worked on information retrieval. He has also held exhibitions of his mathematically inspired sculptures. He was best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm, which is based on the dihedral group of order 10. He was the father of Tom Verhoeff, also a mathematician and computer scientist.
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Born 1962-01-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Gonzalo Quintana III, also known as Charlie Quintana or Chalo, was an American rock and punk drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band The Plugz and as the drummer for the punk rock band Social Distortion from 2000 to 2009. Quintana died of a heart attack at the age of 56 at his home in Cancún.
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Born 1942-01-08. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:orphan disease
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Hawking had a rare early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neuron disease (MND; also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that results in the death of motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord, which gradually paralysed him over decades.
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Born 1981-02-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood was an American threat analyst and hacker. Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest. Lamo was best known for reporting U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. Lamo died on March 14, 2018, in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 37. Nearly three months later, the Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center reported that "Despite a complete autopsy and supplemental testing, no definitive cause of death was identified." However, many bottles of pills were found in his home. Several of the pills found there were known to cause severe health problems when combined with kratom. As a result, evidence points to an accidental death due to drug abuse.
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Born 1931-03-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Bernard Morin (French: [mɔʁɛ̃]) was a French mathematician, specifically a topologist. Morin lost his sight at the age of six due to glaucoma, but his blindness did not prevent him from having a successful career in mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
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Born 1932-04-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Siegfried Rauch was a German film and television actor. In a career spanning over 60 years, he appeared in several international film productions and had leading roles in numerous German television productions. In the 1970s, Rauch appeared in the 1970 Hollywood film Patton as Captain Steiger. In Le Mans (1971), Rauch played the race driver Erich Stahler who is Steve McQueen's rival. In Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One, Rauch played a German army sergeant, the counterpart of Lee Marvin's character, who experiences the same events as Marvin only from a German perspective. Other Hollywood productions in which Rauch appeared were The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and Escape to Athena (1979).
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Born 1927-02-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy was a French fashion designer who founded the house of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn and clothing for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970. His partner was Philippe Venet.
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Born 1938-06-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Michel Raynaud was a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He was a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University. He was married to Michčle Raynaud who also worked with Grothendieck. In 1983 he published a proof of the Manin–Mumford conjecture. In 1970 Raynaud was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. In 1987 he received the Prize Ampčre from the French Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he received the Cole Prize, together with David Harbater, for his solution of the Abhyankar conjecture. He practiced skiing (especially in Val-d'Isčre), tennis, and rock climbing (in Fontainebleau).
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Born 1966-07-14. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Ralf Waldmann was a German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1996, Waldmann finished second to Max Biaggi in the 250cc world championship. In the 1997 season, he gave Biaggi a strong challenge, winning four races and finishing only two points behind the Italian.
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Born 1921-06-10. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Oskar Gröning was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass killing in the camp. After being transferred from Auschwitz to a combat unit in October 1944, Gröning surrendered to the British at the end of the war; his role in the SS was not discovered. He was eventually transferred to Britain as a prisoner of war and worked as a farm labourer. Upon his return to Germany, he led a normal life, reluctant to talk about his time in Auschwitz. However, more than 40 years later, he decided to make his activities at Auschwitz public after learning about Holocaust denial. He openly criticised those who denied the events that he had witnessed and the ideology to which he had subscribed. Gröning was notable as a German willing to make public statements about his experience as an SS soldier, which were self-incriminating and which exposed his life to public scrutiny. In particular, he confessed to stealing jewellery and currencies from gas chamber victims for his personal benefit. In September 2014, Gröning was charged by German prosecutors as an accessory to murder in 300,000 cases, for his role at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His trial began in April 2015, after the court had ruled that, at the age of 93, he was still fit to stand trial. The trial was held in Lüneburg, Germany. On 15 July 2015, he was found guilty of facilitating mass murder and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Following a number of unsuccessful appeals against the prison sentence, Gröning died on 9 March 2018 while hospitalized before he was set to begin his sentence.
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Born 1965-11-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Jo Min-ki was a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Love and Ambition, East of Eden, Queen Seondeok, and Flames of Desire. He was also a noted photographer and published two books and held solo exhibitions,. In addition since 2010 he was an assistant professor at Cheongju University. Following high-profile accusations of sexual misconduct from numerous students, Jo was found dead at an underground parking lot in Seoul in an apparent suicide.
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Born 1951-07-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Francis Piasecki was a French professional football midfielder.
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Born 1931-12-18. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
André S. Labarthe was a French actor, film producer and director. He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 film Vivre sa vie. He was the director of many television documentaries that profile specific individuals, beginning with Cinéastes de notre temps.
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Born 1945-01-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
Frank Doubleday was an American actor whose most notable roles are as film villains. Doubleday was born in Norwich, Connecticut, but moved to Los Angeles with his family as a child. Doubleday is known for such films as John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) playing the character Romero. In the special edition Escape from New York DVD commentary, Kurt Russell credits Doubleday's performance as setting the tone of the movie. He made his film debut in The First Nudie Musical (1976), and his other film credits include roles in Alex & the Gypsy (1976), The Big Fix (1978), Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979), Avenging Angel (1985), Nomads (1986), Broadcast News (1987), L.A. Bounty (1989) and Dollman (1991). Doubleday also acted and directed theater productions. Doubleday taught acting at the Hollywood Court Theater. He was married to actress Christina Hart for over 40 years. The couple have two daughters, Kaitlin Doubleday and Portia Doubleday. Doubleday died of complications from esophageal cancer at age 73 at his Los Angeles home on March 3, 2018.
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Born 1929-12-28. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Robert Scheerer was an American film and television director, actor, and producer. Scheerer was born in Santa Barbara, California. Scheerer's more notable work includes directing Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He has received three Emmy Award nominations for directing Fame.
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Born 1953-04-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Marcel Philippot was a French actor, best known for his role of an angry customer in the series Palace.
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Born 1980-07-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Alexander Buchanan, better known by his stage name Bender, was a Canadian underground hip hop artist. He was a member of the group Flight Distance and a former King of the Dot champion. Bender was also a professional visual artist. Bender died aged 37, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. No cause of death has been released, but an article has reported that he may have died from sleep apnea.
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Born 1936-04-30. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Lancelot Pease Clark was an English shoemaker, businessman, and member of the Clark family, which is the majority owner of shoe retailer Clarks.
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Born 1964-03-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
She was an English comic actress. She played the role of Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the film Notting Hill (1999). She had a chronic allergy to animals, and had asthma.
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Born 1956-02-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Didier Lockwood was a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s and was known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin.