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Baire René-Louis (b. 1874-01-21 / d. 1932-07-05)
René-Louis Baire was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Sur les fonctions de variable réelles ("On the Functions of Real Variables") in 1899. Since he was young, Baire always had "delicate" health. He had developed problems with his esophagus before he attended school and he would occasionally experience severe attacks of agoraphobia. From time to time, his health would prevent him from working or studying. The bad spells became more frequent, immobilizing him for long periods of time. Over time, he had developed a kind of psychological disorder that made him unable to undertake work that required long periods of concentration. At times this would make his ability to research mathematics impossible. Between 1909 and 1914 this problem continually plagued him and his teaching duties became more and more difficult. He was given a leave of absence from the University of Dijon due to all these breakdowns. He retired from Dijon in 1925 and spent his last years living in multiple hotels that he could afford with his meager pension.
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Born 1945-02-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Herbert Léonard (French pronunciation: [ɛʁbɛʁ leɔnaʁ]), born Hubert Lœnhard, was a French entertainer and historian, who was principally known as a singer. He was also a specialist of Russian airplanes from World War II. His first success "Quelque chose tient mon cœur" (Somethings Got A Hold of My Heart) opened the doors of the hit-parade to him in 1968. His 1982 album Ça donne envie d'aimer and the song "Amoureux fous" was done in a duo with Julie Pietri, perpetuating his image as a crooner. Léonard died from lung cancer in Fontainebleau, aged 80.
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Born 1963-08-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
Artis Leon Ivey Jr., known professionally as Coolio, was an American rapper. First rising to fame as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Maad Circle, Coolio achieved mainstream success as a solo artist in the mid-to-late 1990s with his albums It Takes a Thief (1994), Gangsta's Paradise (1995), and My Soul (1997). He is best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single "Gangsta's Paradise", as well as other singles "Fantastic Voyage" (1994), "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" (1996), and "C U When U Get There" (1997). From 1996 on, Coolio released albums independently, and provided the opening track "Aw, Here It Goes!" for the 1996 Nickelodeon television series Kenan & Kel. He created the web series Cookin' with Coolio and released a cookbook. While at a friend's house in Los Angeles on September 28, 2022, Coolio was discovered unresponsive on a bathroom floor. He was pronounced dead by first responders. He was 59 years old at the time of his death. Police have opened an investigation into his death, though foul play is not suspected, and Coolio's manager stated he appeared to have suffered cardiac arrest. Coolio was cremated in a private ceremony with no funeral service. His ashes were then encased in jewelry for his family, with the rest of his ashes going into an urn.
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Born 1969-05-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress who came to recognition portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), winning her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She achieved greater prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).
On August 5, 2022, Heche was involved in a sequence of two car crashes in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, first when the Mini Cooper she was driving hit a garage at an apartment complex, and second when she crashed into a house, resulting in a fire that left her severely burned. A video recorded in the moments before the final crash shows Heche's vehicle navigating a neighborhood street at a very high speed, followed a few seconds later by the sound of a crash. The vehicle collision and resulting house fire required 59 firefighters to handle, who took 65 minutes to fully extinguish the fire and rescue Heche from the vehicle. The house was left structurally compromised and uninhabitable. The tenant of the house sustained minor injuries, but said that she and her pets were almost killed and that she had lost all of her personal property to the fire.
Law enforcement officials said that Heche was "deemed to be under the influence and acting erratically" at the time of the crashes. The Los Angeles Police Department said that a preliminary blood analysis confirmed the presence of narcotics in Heche's system, although more comprehensive toxicology tests that could take weeks are required to identify specific drugs.
Heche was removed from the crash scene on a stretcher, and was transported to a hospital. She was filmed sitting up on the stretcher and struggling with paramedics as she was being wheeled into the ambulance; however, she lost consciousness soon afterward. On August 8, a representative for Heche said she was in a coma in extremely critical condition, with medical ventilation required for a pulmonary injury. On August 11, the representative said that Heche was not expected to survive due to an anoxic brain injury, and that she was being kept on life support to determine if her organs were viable for donation, in accordance with her expressed wish to be an organ donor. Heche was declared brain dead a few hours later on August 11, but remained on life support to assess organ donor viability and locate recipients. Her family released a statement saying they "lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul".
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Born 1943-03-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου [eˈvaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsi.u]), known professionally as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɪs/ vang-GHEL-iss; Greek: Βαγγέλης [vaɲˈɟelis]), was a Greek musician, composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Vangelis died of heart failure, aged 79, at a hospital in Paris. He was suffering from several health issues in the last couple of years and allegedly died of Covid-19 complications, according to a number of reports.
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Born 1969-05-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Hugo Hernán Maradona, also known as El Turco, was an Argentine football player and coach. He was the younger brother of legendary player Diego Maradona. He played as a midfielder for clubs in South America, Europe, Japan, and Canada, and was a member of the Argentina U-16 national team. He died from a heart attack at his home in Monte di Procida, near Naples.
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Born 1933-05-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Robert Moyal, dit Robert Castel, was a French actor. He was a paradigm for black-feet humor.
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Born 1960-10-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine football manager and retired professional legendary footballer. In January 2019, Maradona underwent surgery after a hernia caused internal bleeding in his stomach. On 2 November 2020, Maradona was admitted to a hospital in La Plata, supposedly due to psychological reasons. A representative of the ex-footballer said his condition was not serious. A day later, he underwent emergency brain surgery to treat a subdural hematoma, a blood clot on the brain. He was released on November 12 after successful surgery and will continue to be supervised by doctors as an outpatient.
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Born 1934-06-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French scriptwriter, stand-up comedian and actor (mostly known for his part in the film Nous irons tous au paradis). He identified with the ethnic group Pied-Noir, descending from Algeria. At Music-Hall, he interpreted various sketches of authors alike him. He developed a regularly updated political satire. This satire affected mostly right-wing politicians, his "friends" of the left also suffer from his cutting reflections. He was also famous for his left-wing political affiliation and he had supported politicians such as François Mitterrand. In order for him to fulfill his military service during the Algerian war, he went on a hunger strike and succeeded in being reformed for mental illness.
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Born 1943-08-21. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Gary Friedrich was an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, and, in the following era, for the series The Monster of Frankenstein and for co-creating the supernatural motorcyclist the Ghost Rider and the supernatural hero the Son of Satan. Friedrich – no relation to fellow comics writer Mike Friedrich – was the first successful new writer brought into the burgeoning 1960s Marvel after fellow Missourian Roy Thomas. Succeeding Thomas on Sgt. Fury, Friedrich and the art team of Dick Ayers and John Severin produced a World War II series for the Vietnam years, combining militaristic camaraderie and gung ho humor with a regretful sense of war as a terrible last resort. The humanistic military drama was noted for its semi-anthological "The" stories, such as "The Medic" and "The Deserter". Friedrich went on to write a smattering of superhero stories for Marvel, Atlas/Seaboard Comics and Topps Comics, and eventually left the comics industry. In 2011, he lost a federal lawsuit over a claim of ownership in the character Ghost Rider, but in July 2014, three months after an appellate court reversed that decision, the parties said they had reached a settlement. As of 2009, Friedrich lived in Jefferson County, Missouri with wife Jean and daughter, Leslie. He died on August 29, 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri. He had been suffering from Parkinson's disease and near-total hearing loss
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Born 1942-04-16. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Zvi Arad was an Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, and president of Netanya Academic College.
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Born 1921-06-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983).
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Born 1982-05-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Cory Allan Michael Monteith was a Canadian actor, singer, and musician best known for his role as Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee. As an actor based in British Columbia, Monteith had minor roles on television series before being cast on Glee. During his success in that show, Monteith's film work included Monte Carlo and a starring role in Sisters & Brothers (both 2011). Monteith had a troubled adolescence involving substance abuse from age 13, and left school at age 16. After an intervention by family and friends, he entered drug rehabilitation at age 19. In a 2011 interview with Parade magazine, he discussed his history of substance abuse as a teen, and in March 2013, he again sought treatment for addiction. On July 13, 2013, he died of a toxic combination of heroin and alcohol in a Vancouver hotel room.
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Born 1942-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Phantom of the paradise
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Born 1924-06-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Writer and biographer, member of the Oulipo.
He was, with Jacques Jouet, Paul Fournel and Hervé Le Tellier, from l'Oulipo, one of the regular participants of a radio braodcast on France Culture: « Des Papous dans la tête »
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Born 1897-10-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
One of the two last poilus at his death.
« La guerre ? Hay hay hay ! Un truc absurde, inutile ! A quoi ça sert de massacrer des gens ? Rien ne peut le justifier, rien ! »
« La gloire, l'héroïsme ? De la fumisterie ! »
« Le patriotisme ? Un moyen de vous faire gober n'importe quoi ! »
« Les médailles ? Certains de mes camarades n'ont même pas eu le droit à une croix de bois ! »
« La Légion d'honneur ? Je me serais bien passé. Dites-le bien que l'Etat n'a pas été correct avec moi. »
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Born 1939-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was the grand-daughter of Michel Simon.
She was Mme Chalamand, mistress of Simon in "Nous irons tous au Paradis".
She suffered of cancer, and the pain she had been enduring was unbearable. She could not bear to see her body irreversibly and awfully damaged, either. Then, she went in Swiss, where euthanasia is legal, and took Penthotal that was prescribed to her.
In an interview, she stated that she decided to put a end to his life in dignity. This interview was recorded just before she committed this medicamental suicide.
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Born 1917-03-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Irving Kaplansky was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician. Kaplansky or "Kap" as his friends and colleagues called him was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Polish-Jewish immigrants. Kaplansky made major contributions to group theory, ring theory, the theory of operator algebras and field theory and created the Kaplansky density theorem, Kaplansky's game and Kaplansky conjecture. He published more than 150 articles and over 20 mathematical books. Kaplansky was the doctoral supervisor of 55 students including notable mathematicians Hyman Bass, Susanna S. Epp, Günter Lumer, Eben Matlis, Donald Ornstein, Ed Posner, Alex F. T. W. Rosenberg, Judith D. Sally, and Harold Widom. He has over 900 academic descendants, including many through his academic grandchildren David J. Foulis (who studied with Kaplansky at the University of Chicago before completing his doctorate under the supervision of Kaplansky's student Fred Wright, Jr.) and Carl Pearcy (the student of H. Arlen Brown, who had been jointly supervised by Kaplansky and Paul Halmos). Kaplansky was also an accomplished amateur musician. He had perfect pitch, studied piano until the age of 15, earned money in high school as a dance band musician, taught Tom Lehrer, and played in Harvard's jazz band in graduate school. He also had a regular program on Harvard's student radio station. After moving to the University of Chicago, he stopped playing for two decades, but then returned to music as an accompanist for student-run Gilbert and Sullivan productions and as a calliope player in football game parades. He often composed music based on mathematical themes. One of those compositions, A Song About Pi, is a melody based on assigning notes to the first 14 decimal places of pi, and has occasionally been performed by his daughter, singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky.
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Born 1957-02-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Suicide
He made 2 discs, the first one in 1983 and the latest in 2001 (Les paradis bleus des coeurs couronnés).
He appeared on the punk scene in the beginning of the 80s, and collaborated with taxi girl and les Rita Mitsouko.He was a close friend of Fred Chichin.
He committed suicide by an overdose of medicament.
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Born 1905-01-08. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Age
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").
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Born 1922-07-18. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Cancer
An epistemological paradigm shift was called a scientific revolution by epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.
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Born 1930-04-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
"the second Darrin Stephens" on the hit television series Bewitched.
Later in life, he came out as gay, and supported gay rights issues. Previously he covered his orientation to men by marrying lesbian actor Fannie Flagg. He lived with his life partner, Albert Williams until his death. Sargent and his former co-star Elizabeth Montgomery, with whom he remained good friends, were Grand Marshals of the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade in June 1992.
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Born 1904-05-18. Domain:Religious. Cause of death:Accident
For his retirement, he was offered a 2CV. "It will lead me to the Paradise", he said.
Indeed, he was killed in that very car in a car-train accident.
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Born 1948-03-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French navigator. He died during the race "La route du rhum" in 1986.
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Born 1899-08-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:cancer (liver)
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
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Born 1897-10-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
After the death of his wife on June 16, 1970, Aragon came out as bisexual, appearing at gay pride parades in a pink convertible. Drieu La Rochelle had evoked Aragon's homosexuality in Gilles, written in the 1930s.
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Born 1898-07-07. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Paul Winkler was a French writer, journalist and publisher of Jewish-Hungarian ancestry. Before being the head of Press Alliance, Winkler operated Europe's largest feature syndicate, Opera Mundi, in France. Specializing in the distribution of bandes dessinées (comics), Winkler founded several popular magazines. Le Journal de Mickey, first published as an 8-page weekly in October 1934, began a tradition of French Disney comics publishing that continues until the present day. Le Journal de Mickey is now a weekly 60-page magazine, with sister publications Picsou Magazine, Mickey Parade Géant, Super Picsou Géant and Mon Premier Journal de Mickey printing Disney comics in French from around the world. In honor of his dedication to publishing Disney comics, Winkler was given a posthumous Disney Legends award in 1997. In April 1936, Winkler also published Robinson (périodique), a 16-page weekly filled with American adventure comics, and he followed this in December 1937 with Hop-là!, "L'hebdomadaire de la jeunesse moderne" (the weekly for the modern child). The letters from the readers of certain women's newspapers gave Paul Winkler the idea of a title which would be partly devoted to the stories and confidences of the readers. It is also inspired by the craze of American magazines for “true stories”, embodied in particular by the title True Stories. In April 1938, he launched Confidences, considered the first newspaper of a new genre: the press of the heart. Quickly, at a time when the magazine press (on the American model) was in full expansion and democratization, the title saw its success grow. In December 1938, Confidences was distributed in 500,000 copies; in 1939, to nearly a million copies. The publication of Confidences ceased in 1940, banned by the Vichy regime which also deprived Paul Winkler of French nationality, forcing him into exile across the Atlantic. The publisher returned to France and relaunched the title at the end of World War II. Confidences ceases to appear completely in 1986.
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Born 1900-09-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, much of the development was done by Curry. Curry is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry-Howard correspondence. He has the distinction of having two programming languages named after him, Haskell and Curry.
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Born 1912-05-27. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
In the summer of 1981, a tumor was discovered in Cheever's right kidney, and in late-November he returned to the hospital and learned that the cancer had spread to his femur, pelvis, and bladder. Cheever's last novel, Oh What a Paradise It Seems, was published in March 1982; only a hundred pages long and relatively inferior (as Cheever himself suspected), the book received respectful reviews in part because it was widely known the author was dying of cancer. On April 27 he received the National Medal for Literature at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues were shocked by Cheever's ravaged appearance after months of cancer therapy. "A page of good prose," he declared in his remarks, "remains invincible." As John Updike remembered, "All the literary acolytes assembled there fell quite silent, astonished by such faith."
Two of Cheever's children, Susan and Benjamin, became writers. Susan Cheever's memoir, Home Before Dark (1984), revealed Cheever's bisexuality, which was confirmed by his posthumously published letters and journals.
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Born 1948-04-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
He died in a plane crash at Athens Airport in an incident that has fueled many conspiracy theories. He was buried on his father's private paradise, the Greek Ionian island of Skorpios. Approximately two years later, Aristotle Onassis died too, and was buried beside Alexander. Many people have said or written that Alexander's death was the end for Aristotle, in terms of his desire to go on living, that he died in all but fact along with Alexander.