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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 1930-01-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Considered one of the greatest actors of his generation and a paragon of the New Hollywood movement, Hackman's acting career spanned over four decades. He received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Hackman was found dead along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and one of their three dogs, at their home in Santa Fe on February 26, 2025. He is presumed to have died of heart disease complicated by advanced Alzheimer's disease around February 18, about a week after Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. In 1990, Hackman underwent an angioplasty. In 2012, Hackman was struck by a pickup truck while he was cycling in the Florida Keys. It was initially reported that he had suffered serious head trauma; however, his publicist stated that his injury was nothing more than "bumps and bruises". Hackman attended an event in Santa Fe in late 2022. He was last seen in public in March 2024. After his death, autopsy reports revealed Hackman had Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to his death. Hackman's will, created in 1995, lists Arakawa as his sole inheritor; Arakawa's will states that if they die within 90 days of each other, the proceeds go to charity.
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Born 1954-12-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Raymond Allen Liotta was an American actor and producer. He was known for playing Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989), Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990), and Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). Liotta's other roles included Ray Sinclair in Something Wild (1986), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, as well as starring in Unlawful Entry (1992), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Killing Them Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Marriage Story (2019) and The Many Saints of Newark (2021), as well as the drama series Shades of Blue (2016–2018). Liotta died in his sleep at the age of 67 in the Dominican Republic, during the filming of Dangerous Waters. At the time of his death, he was engaged to Jacy Nittolo.
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Born 1932-08-04. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Frances Elizabeth Allen was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently, was a Fellow Emerita.
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Born 1953-11-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American video game composer known for his work for Atari, Inc. and Atari Games. Fuller composed the soundtracks for Marble Madness, released by Atari Games in 1984, Blasteroids, released in 1987, and Tengen Tetris, which was originally released in 1988. He also served as the Director of Audio of Atari, in which he oversaw all of the company's soundtracks and music for its video games. Fuller was promoted to Director of Engineering in 1993. He remained at Atari until his departure in 1996.
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Born 1921-10-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Whitmore was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2008.
He was the President of the Assembly in "the planet of the apes"
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Born 1954-09-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Allen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2008 and died at her home in country Western Australia.
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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 1955-10-03. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Was the bass player for rock groups The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, The Artemus Pyle Band, The Peter Criss Band and Montage.
The cause of his death has not been publicly released (or determined?), and consequently has been speculated among fans.
Woody's death helped Haynes in his decision to return to The Allman Brothers Band. Gov't Mule continued on after his death with Andy Hess assuming bass duties after a three year period that saw a routing group of bass players including Dave Schools and Oteil Burbridge.
After his death, Epiphone released the Allen Woody Rumble Kat limited edition bass guitar.
Woody was a respected bass guitarist - he had a large collection of bass guitars (around 450), featured in his own 'masterclass' bass instruction video and was held in high esteem for his playing. His proficient technique was characterized by steady playing of the 16th note, while maintaining consistent rhythm. The Epiphone signature bass was similar to two specially built double-neck instruments that Gibson made him... a bass/guitar and a bass/mandolin. Allen usually played the Gibson EB series, but at times played a Rickenbacker or Gibson Thunderbird. Ampeg SVT was his amp of choice most of the time.
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Born 1926-06-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
Ginsberg called one of his favorite techniques the "eyeball kick" or the "ellipse"; it is a paratactical juxtaposition of two starkly dissimilar images. The line in Howl starting "who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue" contains several examples of eyeball kicks, such as "mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors." The eyeball kick is not only a way to describe the juxtaposition of words, but the structure of poems as a whole and the flow of ideas within poems, the shift between each section of Howl for example. In the following selection "yellow shadow" is an example of an eyeball kick, and the last line of the selection is an example of the haiku-like paratactical shift common in Ginsberg's poetry.
"Lightning's blue glare fills Oklahoma plains, the train rolls east casting yellow shadow on grass Twenty years ago approaching Texas, I saw sheet lightning cover Heaven's corners... An old man catching fireflies on the porch at night watched the Herd Boy cross the Milky Way to meet the Weaving Girl... How can we war against that?" (From Iron Horse, 1972)
Ginsberg also commonly employed catachresis. For example, from Howl: "secret gas station solipsisms of johns" is perhaps designed to make solipsism (a noun used as a verb here) sound like a sexual act. Another example is "what peaches and what penumbra" from "Supermarket in California" is perhaps designed to make penumbra seem like a fruit or like something you can buy in a supermarket.
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Born 1933-12-18. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was the prime suspect in the Zodiac murders. Although he was never charged in the case, many believed him to have been the infamous Zodiac serial killer.
Allen was a diabetic and died in 1992 of a heart attack at the age of 58. Allen had been working at a hardware store for over a decade before his death.
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Born 1944-02-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:AIDS
He was an Australian songwriter and entertainer.
In 1990 he recorded his final album on RCA Making Every Moment Count which featured Melissa Manchester and Harry Connick Jr. Shortly before his death from an AIDS-related throat cancer, he gave his last performance in Sydney on January 26, 1992. His ashes were scattered at sea.
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Born 1930-12-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Ronald John Allen was an English character actor who became a soap opera star. For many years, Allen had a relationship with Brian Hankins, who also appeared in Crossroads. They lived together for many years, until Hankins died in 1978. Allen was also very close friends with his co-star and on-screen wife, Sue Lloyd. The two became a couple, and made their relationship public when the British media started to intrude into their private lives. When Allen learned that he had terminal cancer, he and Lloyd married. He died three months later, at the age of 60. Sue Lloyd died of cancer in 2011.
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Born 1908-06-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Unknown
Just prior to the capture of La Moneda (the Presidential Palace), with gunfire and explosions clearly audible in the background, Allende gave his (subsequently famous) farewell speech to Chileans on live radio, speaking of himself in the past tense, of his love for Chile and of his deep faith in its future. He stated that his commitment to Chile did not allow him to take an easy way out and be used as a propaganda tool by those he called "traitors" (accepting an offer of safe passage), clearly implying he intended to fight to the end.
Shortly afterwards, Allende died. An official announcement declared that he had committed suicide with an automatic rifle, purportedly the AK-47 assault rifle given to him as a gift by Fidel Castro, which bore a golden plate engraved "To my good friend Salvador from Fidel, who by different means tries to achieve the same goals."
In his 2004 documentary Salvador Allende, Patricio Guzmán incorporates a graphic image of Allende's corpse in the position it was found after his death. According to Guzmán's documentary, Allende simply shot himself with a gun, and not a rifle.
At the time and for many years after, his supporters nearly uniformly presumed that he was killed by the forces staging the coup. In recent years, the view he committed suicide has become more accepted, particularly as different testimonies are confirming the details of the suicide in news and documentary interviews. Also, members of Allende's immediate family including his daughter, accept that it was a suicide.
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Born 1893-04-07. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:flu
Allen Welsh Dulles was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was dismissed by John F. Kennedy over the latter fiasco. Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration and is the namesake of Dulles Airport. He died of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, at the age of 75, in Georgetown, D.C.