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Cho Seung-Hui (b. 1984-01-18 / d. 2007-04-16)
He committed suicide after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the academic building in which he had killed 30 of his 32 victims and wounded many more, both faculty and students.
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Born 1960-10-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was an American actress, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the television sitcom Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi. An autopsy report from the Harrison County coroner indicated the cause of death to be complications of stage four squamous cell carcinoma of the throat. Moran's husband, in an open letter released through her co-star Scott Baio, confirmed that she had first experienced symptoms of throat cancer around Thanksgiving 2016 and deteriorated rapidly from that point, and that the facilities that had unsuccessfully attempted to treat her cancer had not made anyone aware of how badly the cancer had metastasized
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Born 1979-09-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was an Italian road bicycle racer, who rode professionally from 2002 until his death in 2017 for the Acqua e Sapone–Cantina Tollo, Domina Vacanze–Elitron, Würth, Acqua & Sapone–Caffè Mokambo, Androni Giocattoli, Lampre–Merida and Astana teams. He was declared the winner of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after the disqualification of Alberto Contador. Other major results of his career were the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2011 Volta a Catalunya and the 2011 Giro del Trentino stage races. Scarponi died after being hit by a van while riding his bicycle, close to his home in Filottrano.
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Born 1932-02-10. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center until 1996. His son said he had suffered from Parkinson's disease and other health problems.
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Born 1932-03-25. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
(松本 俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio) (March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist.
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Born 1959-07-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was an American actor, comedian, and writer. Murphy was best known as a writer and cast member of the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show, and as the co-star of the sitcom Black Jesus. He was the older brother of comedian Eddie Murphy. Murphy was a resident of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey. He was married to Tisha Taylor Murphy from 1997 until her death from cervical cancer in December 2009. The couple had two children together, and Murphy had another child from a previous relationship. He was a karate practitioner. Murphy died from leukemia at the age of 57.
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Born 1922-02-24. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was an Italian motorboat designer and builder, famed for his luxurious runabouts. The runabouts built by Italian builder Carlo Riva are considered by many to be premier European examples of the type. The most famous Riva of all time was the Carlo Riva design called the Aquarama Special.
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Born 1921-12-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, best known for his role as lawyer Lee Baldwin, on the soap opera General Hospital, appearing in the role from 1963 to 1986, briefly in 1989 and 1990, and returning to the role from 1992 to 2004. In 1989, he appeared in the movie The War of the Roses. Hansen met his future wife, Florence (Betty) Elizabeth (Moe), while in high school and married her in 1943. Together, they had three children, Kristen, Peter and Gretchen, had three grandchildren: Allison, Erik and Jamal. Betty died in 1993 and his daughter, Kris, died in 1996. He then shared 24 years as companion to Barbara Wenzel. Hansen resided in Tarzana, California, with his family, and he enjoyed flying, owning his own Cessna for decades, spent many vacations in the Sierra Nevada high country. He led a devoted spiritual life at St. Nicholas of Myra Episcopal Church, in Encino, California. Hansen died at his home in Tarzana, California, at the age of 95.
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Born 1916-01-19. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American computer design pioneer. He visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer with Alan Turing and others. He was also involved with the EDVAC and SEAC computer projects. Huskey appeared with a junk dealer as the third pair of contestants in the 10 May 1950 episode of Groucho Marx's radio show You Bet Your Life. He was described as the designer of an "electronic brain". They selected the "state category" and missed the final question when they failed to identify Iowa as the state north of Missouri
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Born 1923-09-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film director born at Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. A brother of Claude Pinoteau and Arlette Merry, he is mostly known for his direction of the film Le Triporteur, after a novel by René Fallet which made Darry Cowl famous.
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Born 1932-06-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a British racing driver from England. He participated in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 July 1959, and qualified for two of them. He scored no championship points. His only finish was tenth place in the 1961 Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Parnell managed the BRM Formula One team from 1970–74, and was the son of Reg Parnell, another racing driver and team principal. After his father's death in 1964, he took on the running of Reg Parnell Racing and on occasion managed his own team with entries for Mike Spence and Pedro Rodriguez
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Born 1923-07-04. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory. He was the Henry Ford II (emeritus) Professor of Mathematics at Yale University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the 49th President of the American Mathematical Society (1987–1988), and former Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The rigidity phenomenon for lattices in Lie groups he discovered and explored is known as Mostow rigidity. His work on rigidity played an essential role in the work of three Fields medalists, namely Grigori Margulis, William Thurston, and Grigori Perelman. He served as a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1982 to 1992. In 1993 he was awarded the American Mathematical Society's Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. In 2013, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics "for his fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory."
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Born 1931-12-10. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French professional racing cyclist. He rode in two editions of the Tour de France.
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Born 1952-04-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was a prolific American serial killer and orderly who claimed to have murdered 87 people, though official estimates are between 37 and 57 victims. He was able to accomplish this during his time as an orderly. Harvey said he started out killing to "ease the pain" of patients by smothering them with their pillows. He mostly killed cardiac patients. As time progressed, he began to enjoy it more and more and became a self-described "angel of death". Harvey was serving 28 life sentences at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio, having pleaded guilty to murder charges to avoid the death penalty. On March 28, 2017, authorities reported that Harvey had been found in his cell severely beaten. He died on March 30, 2017. On May 3, 2019, fellow inmate James Elliott was charged with aggravated murder and other charges related to the death of Donald Harvey.
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Born 1945-05-31. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He was a French politician. A member of the French Socialist Party, he was deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981, from 1986 to 1997, and from 2000 to 2017. Emmanuelli died at a medical center in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques from complications of acute bronchitis at the age of 71.
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Born 1942-07-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
Peter Goodwill "Pete" Hamilton was an American professional stock car racing driver. He competed in NASCAR for six years, where he won four times in his career (including the 1970 Daytona 500), three times driving for Petty Enterprises. Hamilton died at the age of 74 due to complications of a stroke. He was buried at Peachtree Memorial Park in Norcross, Georgia. He was survived by his wife of forty-seven years and a daughter.
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Born 1940-08-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a professional road bicycle racer from France. Pingeon died at his home in the village of Beaupont in the Ain department, about 100 km away from his hometown of Hauteville-Lompnes, after suffering a heart attack.
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Born 1929-07-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a British racing driver. Stewart was regarded by Jim Clark as a highly-strung individual who “at the wheel was as relaxed as anyone”. His only appearance in a World Championship Grand Prix came at the 1953 RAC British Grand Prix, in which - due to ignition failure - he failed to finish.
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Born 1926-10-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Born 1922-09-11. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1956 and 1991. Day was born in Sheen, England. He was the brother of cinematographer Ernest Day.
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Born 1941-06-15. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Marxist philosopher and academic administrator. He taught Philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté and Pantheon-Sorbonne University until he became a full professor of Philosophy at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He served as its vice president from 1992 to 1998, and as the director of its Center for the History of Ideas from 1998 to 2003. He was the author of several books about Marxism and Marxist theorists.
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Born 1929-10-19. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
Henri Cueco was, with Jean-Christophe Averty, Patrick Besnier, Jacques Jouet, Hervé Le Tellier, Lucas Fournier, Gérard Mordillat, Christian Zeimert and others one of the « papous » from France Culture, Des Papous dans la tête, founded by Bertrand Jérôme and Françoise Treussard.
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Born 1944-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor. He was active in theater where he was also a director, as well as in cinema, television and dubbing. He is known in animation for being the voice of Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon in most animated films and series as well as in Batman video games.
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Born 1949-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Belgian racing driver. He participated in 14 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 16 May 1976. He was notable for being the very first driver for Williams Grand Prix Engineering. He scored no championship points. His younger brother, Guy, was also a racing driver.
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Born 1924-01-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French rugby league footballer who played as a fullback.
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Born 1934-02-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was an English Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver. He was a four-time 500 cc motorcycle World Champion – winning that title in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960 – the Formula One World Champion in 1964, and remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He founded the Surtees Racing Organisation team that competed as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2 and Formula 5000 from 1970 to 1978. He was also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation. Surtees died of respiratory failure at St George's Hospital in London, at the age of 83.
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Born 1982-01-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French Grand Prix motorcycle racer. He rode a Suzuki GSX-R1000 in the FIM CEV Superbike European Championship and the Endurance FIM World Championship. He died after falling from his bike during a test on the Circuit Paul Armagnac near Nogaro and breaking his neck.
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Born 1928-08-06. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French television and radio director, and Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysique. Many of his television productions from the 1960s were early examples of French video art. His studies were used in the following decades by the research groups of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA. Averty was one of the last salaried directors of the French Production Company. In 2012, he entrusted the management, conservation and safeguarding of the rights of all of his television and radio works to the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA); nearly a thousand television programs on jazz, sports, fashion, variety and the theater.
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Born 1931-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French footballer, integral to the French national team of the 1950s. At club level he was part of the legendary Real Madrid team of the 1950s, winning three European Cups.
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Born 1922-04-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Elisabeth Waldheim (née Ritschel) was an Austrian political figure and the wife of Kurt Waldheim, the UN Secretary-General and President of Austria. She was the First Lady of Austria from 1986 to 1992. She spoke German, English and French.