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Leonard Joe (b. 1932-08-04 / d. 2017-04-27)
He was an American professional motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
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Born 1927-03-24. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Martin Walser (German: [ˈmaʁ.tiːn ˈvalˌzɐ]) was a German writer, especially known as a novelist. He began his career as journalist for Süddeutscher Rundfunk, where he wrote and directed audio plays, and travelled to England, France, Italy, Czechoslavakia and Poland as part of the job. He was part of Group 47 from 1953. Walser is regarded, along with Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, and Siegfried Lenz, as one of Germany's most influential postwar authors. Walser died in Nussdorf at age 96.
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Born 1937-03-02. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age
Martine Allain-Regnault was a French scientific journalist and television presenter.
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Born 1962-01-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
Bruno Martini was a French footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His professional career was closely associated with Auxerre, for which he played 13 years. Having won more than 30 caps for France during nine years, Martini represented the nation in two European Championships.
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Born 1945-10-31. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
John David "Moon" Martin was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was given the nickname "Moon" because many of his songs had the word moon in the lyrics. Martin died of natural causes in Encino, California at the age of 74. Live albums: Bad News Live (1993, Fnac France)
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Born 1930-03-14. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a French engineer, a graduate of the Special School of Public Works, "mechanical-electrical" section. He designed automobile internal combustion engines including the "Poissy engine" that powered various cars from Simca, Matra, Chrysler, Talbot, Plymouth, and Dodge from 1961 until 1991, and perhaps more famously, the successful V12 Matra Sports engine for Matra's Formule 1 team.
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Born 1928-06-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist. His career began in the 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played regular roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award) and Space: 1999. Landau died at the age of 89 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, Los Angeles, California; he had been briefly hospitalized. The cause of death was hypovolemic shock brought on by internal bleeding and heart disease.
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Born 1962-09-17. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a German luger who competed during the 1980s, representing East Germany. She won two Olympic gold medals in the women's singles event, two gold medals at FIL World Luge Championships, one gold medal at FIL World Luge Championships, and two silver medals at FIL European Luge Championships. Martin died from cancer. She had been diagnosed in October 2016
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Born 1941-12-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Steven "Dusty" Farlow in the 1978 series Dallas and for roles on two science fiction TV series, The Fantastic Journey and War of the Worlds.
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Born 1925-11-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American character actor known for playing scientist Dr. Rudy Wells in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off, The Bionic Woman, from 1975 onward (a role originally portrayed by Martin Balsam and then by Alan Oppenheimer).
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Born 1931-09-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
He was an American film and television actor best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas, and befuddled astronaut Major Anthony "Tony" Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. He underwent a life-saving liver transplant in 1995. Although Hagman was a member of a 12-step program, he publicly advocated marijuana as a better alternative to alcohol. He died on November 23, 2012 from complications of throat cancer.
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Born 1995-02-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African American male who was unarmed; George Zimmerman is a 28-year-old Hispanic American, who at the time of the shooting was a community watch coordinator. Martin was walking back to a home in a gated community where he was staying when Zimmerman began following him, while contacting the Sanford Police Department to report Martin's behavior as suspicious. Soon afterward, there was a confrontation that ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin.
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Born 1944-02-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an English jazz drummer who played with Ronnie Scott (1927-1996) and Oscar Peterson (1925-2007).
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Born 1928-09-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
La porteuse de pain.
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Born 1914-10-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
For over a quarter century (1956-1981), Gardner wrote a monthly column on the subject of "recreational mathematics" for Scientific American. It all began with his free-standing article on hexaflexagons which ran in the December 1956 issue. The SA editor suggested he write a regular feature and the January 1957 issue contained his first column, entitled Mathematical Games. The columns were first collected in book form in 1959 as The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Fourteen more followed over the next four decades. In the 1980s the column began to appear only irregularly. Other authors began to share the column and the May 1986 issue saw the final installment under that title. Gardner was famously shy and declined many honors when he learned that a public appearance would be required if he accepted. (He once told Colm Mulcahy that he "never gave a lecture in his life and that he wouldn't know how to.") However, in 1993 Atlanta puzzle collector Tom Rodgers persuaded Gardner to attend an evening devoted to Gardner's puzzle-solving efforts. The gathering was repeated in 1996, again with Gardner in attendance, which convinced Rodgers and his friends to make the gathering a regular event. It has been held since then in even-numbered years near Atlanta, and the program consists of any topic which could have been touched by Gardner during his writing career. The event is called "Gathering for Gardner", and is written "G4Gn", with n being replaced by the number of the event (the 2010 event thus was G4G9). Gardner only attended the 1993 and 1996 events. Gardner's wife died in 2000 and two years later he returned to Norman, Oklahoma where his son, James Gardner, was a professor of education at the University of Oklahoma. He died there
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Born 1930-08-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American actor, scriptwriter, voice actor and director, widely known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965–1968), the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents.
The 79-year-old Culp often went hiking at Runyon Canyon, a park near his Hollywood Hills apartment. On the morning of March 24, 2010 Culp left the apartment to go for a walk. A jogger found him lying on the sidewalk near the lower entrance of Runyon Canyon. Police and paramedics were summoned, but were unable to revive him. Culp was declared dead at a little after 11:00am at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Although initial police reports indicated that Culp died from striking his head when he fell, it was later determined that he collapsed and died due to a massive heart attack. The only injury from the fall was a minor cut on his head.
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Born 1921-09-25. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer and artist of comics. He is one of the classic artist of Le Journal de Tintin magazine, alongside with Edgar P. Jacobs and Hergé, of whom he was a longtime collaborator. He is best known for his series Alix.
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Born 1924-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He died at his home in Carolina Beach, North Carolina of leukemia, having been diagnosed with myelodysplasia in November 2006.
Pat Hingle is traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. One of his notable roles is the father of the character played by Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass (1961). While he is probably best known in recent times for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman and its three sequels, Hingle has a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948. Among them are Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), Muppets from Space, and Shaft (2000). Along with Michael Gough, who played Alfred Pennyworth, he is one of only two actors to appear in all of the first four Batman films.
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Born 1933-06-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
At the end of his active career, he suffered from a creative drought, becoming increasingly pompous and self-infatuated, repeating ad nauseam the same unfunny jokes he always used since the beginning of his career (For instance : the works of Schubert and Schumann have all been written by the same composer whose name was Schubermann). He suffered of a stroke in 1998.
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Born 1961-05-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
Her debut as a film actress was Wings of Desire (1987). She was able to learn the challenging circus acrobatics in only eight weeks, and performed the full role without using a stunt double. She co-authored Until the End of the World (1991) with Wenders and travelled around the world with him in search of locations for the project.
She is interred in Bulgneville.
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Born 1948-00-00. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Birthdate unknown. Widow of Claude Mulot.
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Born 1921-08-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Other
Carl Martin Rudolf Möhner was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1949 and 1976. He was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in McAllen, Texas from Parkinson's disease. His most famous role was as Jo "le Suédois" in the 1955 classic French heist film Rififi.
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Born 1928-01-21. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians. He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the dissertation: Über den Rand von Parallelkörpern. His advisor was Erhard Schmidt. His name has been given to Kneser graphs which he studied in 1955. He also gave a simplified proof of the Fundamental theorem of algebra. His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups. In graph theory, the Kneser graph KGn,k is the graph whose vertices correspond to the k-element subsets of a set of n elements, and where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the two corresponding sets are disjoint. Kneser graphs are named after Martin Kneser, who first investigated them in 1955.
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Born 1909-06-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny was a German-American mathematician and photographer.
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Born 1913-08-27. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was co-discoverer (with Sam Ruben) of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley.
Kamen was a target and victim of American anti-communist fervor in the 1940s and 1950s. He described his experiences during this era in his autobiography, Radiant Science, Dark Politics. He first aroused suspicion while working at Oak Ridge. A cyclotron operator prepared radioactive sodium for an experiment, and Kamen was surprised that the resulting sodium had a purple glow, indicating it was much more intensely radioactive than could be produced in a cyclotron. Kamen recognized immediately that the sodium must have been irradiated in a nuclear reactor elsewhere in the facility. Because of wartime secrecy, he had not been aware of the reactor's existence. He excitedly told his colleagues about his discovery. Shortly thereafter, an investigation was launched to find out who had leaked the information to Kamen.
The House Committee on Un-American Activities summoned Kamen to testify in 1948. A Congressional investigation established that Russians had received classified information from Kamen concerning uranium stockpiles. Subsequently the State Department refused to issue him a passport. In 1951 the Chicago Tribune named him as a suspected spy. Kamen attempted suicide. After a 10-year effort to establish his innocence and prove that he had been blacklisted as a security risk, he won a libel suit against the Tribune in 1955 and was able once again to obtain a passport.
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Born 1909-07-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American actress of stage and television who was best known for her role as Weeping Wanda on the sitcom Good Times and as Pearl Shay on the sitcom 227. She had a minor role in Death Wish. Helen Martin died of a heart attack in Monterey, California.
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Born 1919-11-04. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In twelve angry men:
The jury consists of the following (identified only by numbers, all are white men):
The Foreman (Juror #1, played by Martin Balsam) A high-school assistant football coach; An every-man who clearly wants to do the right thing, but isn't quite sure what it is. He's neither too bright, nor too dumb, and tries not altogether unsuccessfully to maintain order throughout the deliberations.
Juror #2 (John Fiedler)
Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb)
Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall)
Juror #5 (Jack Klugman is the only survivor at this time - 2007-03-16)
Juror #6 (Edward Binns)
Juror #7 (Jack Warden)
Juror #8 (Henry Fonda)
Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney)
Juror #10 (Ed Begley)
Juror #11 (George Voskovec)
Juror #12 (Robert Webber)
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Born 1917-06-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
At his side in his last years was ex-wife Jeannie (Bieggers) Martin, whom he had divorced years earlier. The pair became close again, although they resisted suggestions that they wed and seemed content to just being together.
Martin died of respiratory failure, at home with Jeannie by his side, on Christmas morning 1995.
Martin's world began to crumble on March 21, 1987, when his son Dean Paul Martin was killed when his jet fighter crashed while flying with the Air National Guard. A much-touted tour with Davis and Sinatra in 1988 sputtered, with Martin's heart just not into it. On one occasion, he infuriated Sinatra when he turned to him and muttered "Frank, what the hell are we doing up here?" Martin, who always responded best to a club audience, felt lost in the huge stadiums they were performing in (at Sinatra's insistence), and he was not the least bit interested in drinking until dawn after their performances.
In fact, Martin never completely recovered from losing his son, and as a lifelong smoker was suffering from emphysema. In September 1993, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He courageously kept his private life to himself, emerging briefly for a public celebration of his 77th birthday with friends and family.
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Born 1908-11-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Martin Erich Fritz Held was a German television and film actor. Roses for the Prosecutor (German: Rosen für den Staatsanwalt) is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and starring Martin Held (portraying prosecutor Schramm), Walter Giller and Ingrid van Bergen. It was one of the few German movies of the 1950s which openly addressed the German Nazi era. It was shot at the Göttingen studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag.
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Born 1914-03-02. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Ritt's 1964 film The Outrage, is an American retelling of the Kurosawa film Rashomon, and stars Laurence Harvey, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, Howard Da Silva, and William Shatner. The film uses the Western genre to tell the same story as the Japanese movie. Like the original Kurosawa film, this film contrasts the stories of various witnesses to a crime. Shatner and Robinson listen to four different versions of a rape/murder, told alternatively by Harvey, Bloom, Newman and Da Silva. Harvey is the one murdered, but tells his story through an Indian medicine man. Each story is a biased opinion of what happened, and the movie never resolves which story is true (if any). Like the Kurosawa original, Ritt's film is an example of nonlinear storytelling.
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Born 1908-10-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
In October, a viral flu forced him to interrupt « Quelque part dans cette vie », by Israel Horovitz, that he was playing at Bouffes parisiens with Jane Birkin.