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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1936-11-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:orphan disease
Atteinte, comme sa mère et son fils, par la chorée de Huntington, maladie génétique qui entraîne une dégénérescence neuronale irréversible
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Born 1963-10-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (uterus)
From the early 1980s to 2003, she was a close friend with Leslie Cheung, another Hong Kong pop star, who committed suicide in April 2003. She was devastated by his death.
Anita Mui announced in early September 2003 that she had cervical cancer and was undergoing treatment. Some of her friends and the media were baffled as to why she took so long to undergo treatment when it appeared she knew of her ailment when it was in a fairly early stage. It's also possible that it was a late detection like most cases or secretly had treatment.
It was widely believed she forwent early treatment because she wanted to preserve the possibility to conceive. Mui eventually lost her battle to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at 02:50 (local time). She was 40 years old and single. Her sister, Ann Mui, also a Hong Kong singer, died from the same illness in 2000.
Her death, following Leslie Cheung's, was a great loss to the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
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Born 1933-11-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection
She was an American film, stage, and television actress. She played the wife of Charles Bronson in the original Death Wish film. In 1985, she appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and in 1986, she took a role as Laura Dern's mother in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Lange's year of birth is often reported as 1931, but the correct year is 1933. A possible source of this error is the Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook. Lange died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, as a result of an ischemic colitis infection at the age of 70.
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Born 1925-08-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an Australian actor, who lived in the UK for many years. He was best known for playing the part of "Matt Hammond" in the Australian children's television series Skippy. He was also involved in the series behind the scenes: Devereaux directed The Veteran (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. He also wrote the script. Devereaux wrote the story of Double Trouble, wrote the screenplay of Summer Storm and wrote the script of The Mine.
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Born 1920-10-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Frank Sheeran was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, a small working-class borough on the outskirts of Philadelphia. His family was of mixed Irish- and Swedish-American descent. He grew to his full adult height of 6'4" tall while serving in the Army during World War II. He enlisted the U.S. Army in 1941, and was assigned to the military police before transferring to the 45th Infantry Division, known as "The Thunderbirds." It was while serving in World War II that Sheeran developed a callousness to the taking of human life. He served 411 days of combat duty (a large amount; average is around 100), and participated in the Dachau massacre. He later told Charles Brandt, “When an officer would tell you to take a couple of German prisoners back behind the line and for you to ‘hurry back,’ you did what you had to do.” When he left the service, he became a trucker, but made extra money on the side by committing crimes, including murder for hire. Due to his criminal acumen, he became a close associate of Mafia bosses Russell Bufalino and Angelo Bruno. It was Bufalino, the head of the Bufalino crime family, who acted as Sheeran's mentor throughout his life. At Sheeran's request, Bufalino also set him up with Teamsters International President Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa, who became a close friend, used Sheeran for muscle, including the assassination of recalcitrant union members and members of rival unions threatening the Teamsters' turf. Brandt describes in his book how the old and ill Sheeran told him that he was the man who shot Jimmy Hoffa upon Mafia orders. Sheeran would also confess to killing Hoffa to Fox News reporters. While investigators did find traces of blood in the Detroit house where Sheeran confessed he killed Hoffa in, they also determined it may have been too old for conclusive testing.
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Born 1971-02-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Jiménez received psychological treatment for depression, and retired from professional cycling in 2002, at which point he got married. He died of a heart attack in a clinic in Madrid at the age of 32
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Born 1941-11-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup in 1966.
Hemmings died of a heart attack, in Romania, on the film set of Blessed, (working title Samantha's Child) after playing his scenes for the day.
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Born 1977-09-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Murder
Better known by his stage name Soulja Slim, he was an American rapper who achieved modest success on Master P's No Limit record label. He is best known for his U.S. #1 hit "Slow Motion" (with Juvenile), which hit #1 posthumously on August 7, 2004 and was his only chart entry.
On Thanksgiving Eve, Slim was en route to a performance when an unknown gunman shot him three times in the face, and once in the chest, in front of his mother's home in the 8th Ward/Gentilly area.
This would be the last of several violent encounters in Slim's life. The source said that a man was in the V.I.P. area of an unnamed club. Slim didn't recognize the man and apparently struck him, before being thrown out of the club.
22-year-old Garelle Smith from the St. Bernard Projects (7th Ward) is known as the potential hitman. Smith was arrested on December 30, 2003 and soon charged with Slim's murder. The charges were subsequently dropped in February 2004.
On December 25 a man named Steven Kennedy was killed; police said that the murder was likely a revenge killing in response to Tapp's murder. Police charged Ivory "B-Stupid" Harris and Jerome Hampton for the crime.
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Born 1962-05-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
He was an American actor, dancer, and choreographer who is best known for his portrayal of the street smart dancer Leroy in the 1980 film Fame in addition to the television spin-off which aired from 1982 until 1987.
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Born 1971-08-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) under the ring name Crash Holly.
Lockwood died, while at the home of wrestler Stevie Richards in Florida. He was found partially clothed with a pool of vomit around his face. Empty prescription medication bottles and a partly-consumed bottle of alcohol were found nearby, and he had recently received divorce papers from his wife. The cause of death was first ruled as choking on his own vomit, but it was later officially ruled a suicide. He was buried in China Grove in Rowan County, North Carolina.
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Born 1917-11-19. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Husband of Catherine Anglade.
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Born 1969-08-06. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums, and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery". Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction, and these topics often appeared in his lyrics. At age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously released. While Smith's death was originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in December 2003 left open the question of possible homicide. A possible suicide note, written on a Post-it, read, "I'm so sorry—love, Elliot. God forgive me."
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Born 1923-12-02. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Cancer
He died of cancer, consequence of an hepatitis he contracted due to blood transfusions he had been doing to his patients.
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Born 1973-01-31. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Dwain Weston was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper and wingsuiter. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston was killed while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado. Weston was wearing a wingsuit, a skydiving suit with fabric extended below the arms to the body and between the legs to catch air allowing for horizontal travel when skydiving. Weston was to go over the bridge while fellow skydiver Jeb Corliss was to go under it. Just prior to the jump, Weston said to Corliss, "Just remember: whatever happens, happens." Miscalculating the winds and his distance from the bridge, Weston struck a railing while traveling at an estimated 120 miles per hour (190 km/h), severing one of his legs. After the impact with the bridge, Weston's parachute deployed and he fell onto a rock face about 300 feet (91 m) from the bottom of the gorge, where he bled to death. Spectators on the bridge witnessed and filmed the event, capturing the reaction of the crowd and the damage to the bridge.
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Born 1918-10-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
In the 1950s, Jackson worked as a studio musician, freelanced, and hosted a TV show for children.
In 2000, Jackson was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.
He died in Rancho Bernardo, California (in the Poway area) at age 84.
His son Duffy Jackson is now a prominent jazz drummer and will be starring in the upcoming 2008 film, "Revolutionary Road" as a 1950's musician.
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Born 1909-09-07. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Kazan's later career was marked by his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the postwar "Red Scare", in which he "named names." Some others who named names, for a variety of reasons, included Jerome Robbins, Robert Taylor, Sterling Hayden, Leo Townsend, Burl Ives, Budd Schulberg and Lela Rogers (mother of Ginger Rogers).
In 1967, Kazan published The Arrangement, a novel about an emotionally-battered middle-aged Greek-American living a double life in California as both an advertising executive, under the name "Eddie Andreson", and a serious, muckraking magazine writer under the name "Evans Arness", neither of which was his birth name, Evangelos Arness. The character's "arrangement" of his life takes a huge toll on him, eventually leading him to a suicide attempt and a nervous breakdown. His suicide attempt is considered by many to be caused by his sudden decline in drug sales. Critics saw parallels to Kazan's own life, most notably that the character had briefly been a member of the Communist Party prior to World War II and of course, the character's Anatolian Greek background and Americanization of his birth name. Kazan disclaimed any autobiographical elements and stated that the novel was a work of fiction, nothing more or less. It served as the basis for his 1969 film of the same name.
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Born 1981-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Born in 1981. Tetraplegic after a road accident. Wrote a letter to Jacques Chirac asking for "the right to die".
Euthanasia.
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Born 1949-01-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
Palmer, who made his home in Lugano, Switzerland for his last 15 years, died in Paris, France of a heart attack at the age of 54. He is interred at the cemetery in Lugano.
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Born 1920-06-20. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a writer and professor of literature. Of French descent, he was born in Algeria, but left as part of the diaspora of French colonists referred to as pied-noirs following the Algerian War.
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Born 1924-09-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor and stuntman.
He was "Freddy" in "les tontons flingueurs" and "Maurice" in "Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles".
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Born 1911-02-06. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
She discovered that she was the daughter of Marcel Duchamp only in her 50's.
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Born 1937-04-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Pulmonary failure, complication of esophageal cancer.
Recognized as one of Los Angeles' most prominant small-theater performers.
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Born 1923-07-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Unknown
Gordon Mitchell (born Charles Allen Pendleton) was an American actor and bodybuilder who made about 200 B movies. From the early 1970s onwards, he started to diversify into everything from horror (Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks - 1974), Nazi exploitation (Achtung! The Desert Tigers! -1977), sexploitation (Porno-Erotic Western - 1979), French criminal comedy (The Umbrella Coup - 1980), and post-apocalyptic films (Endgame - 1983). He also appeared in the bizarre 1982 Israeli adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's She as "Hector." The film was directed by Avi Nesher and co-starred Sandahl Bergman. He returned to the United States in the late 1980s and retired from acting, but kept making occasional film appearances until his death from an apparent heart attack in Marina Del Rey, California, aged 80.
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Born 1932-02-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter. Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century.
In 1997, Cash was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Shy-Drager syndrome. The diagnosis was later altered to autonomic neuropathy associated with diabetes. This illness forced Cash to curtail his touring. He was hospitalized in 1998 with severe pneumonia, which damaged his lungs. The albums American III: Solitary Man (2000) and American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) contained Cash's response to his illness in the form of songs of a slightly more somber tone than the first two American albums. The video for "Hurt", generally recognized as "his epitaph," from American IV received particular critical and popular acclaim.
Less than four months after his wife's death, Johnny Cash died, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 71. He was interred next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
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Born 1948-09-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Aortic dissection.
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Born 1922-03-03. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
Painter for advertising (Gitane, ...)