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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1928-04-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Hardy Krüger was a German actor and author, who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards. After becoming a film star in Germany in the 1950s, Krüger increasingly turned to roles in international films such as Hatari!, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Wild Geese, Sundays and Cybele, A Bridge Too Far, The Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, The Red Tent, The One That Got Away, and Barry Lyndon.
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Born 1939-08-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Carole Augusta Shelley was a British-American actress who made her career in the United States. Her many stage roles included the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical Wicked. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The Elephant Man in 1979.
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Born 1994-08-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a Canadian pornographic actress and model. She appeared in almost 290 movies, including a non-pornographic film in 2016, and was nominated for several AVN Awards. In 2017, at the age of 23, Ames died by suicide after a particular event of social media backlash following a Twitter post that she had made. Her death was ruled a suicide due to asphyxia by hanging by the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office. Upon her autopsy, toxicology results revealed that she had cocaine, marijuana, the antidepressant Sertraline (Zoloft), and the anxiolytic Alprazolam (Xanax) in her system at her time of death. Close friends stated that cyberbullying led her to end her life. An investigation into her suicide was covered in the Audible series The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson after her husband, Kevin Moore, encouraged Ronson and his producer to look into the cyberbullying that he claimed had led to Ames's death. In the podcast, Ronson duly investigates the cyberbullying aspect of the story but then goes further and looks more closely at Moore's role in Ames's death by examining his prior relationships and Ames's history of mental illness. Ronson concludes that a number of people around Ames contributed to the poor mental state that led to her death and draws comparisons between Ames's suicide and the fictional suicide of the young girl in J. B. Priestley's seminal play An Inspector Calls. In the wake of Ames' death, and the deaths of several other adult performers that year, several initiatives within the industry were proposed to deal with the issue, including The August Project, a hotline conceived by Moore, and Pineapple Support, a non-profit launched in April 2018 by British performer Leya Tanit.
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Born 1991-08-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Marcelo Augusto Mathias da Silva, simply known as Marcelo, was a Brazilian footballer who last played as a central defender for Chapecoense. Marcelo was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.
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Born 1913-02-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1942-05-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:AIDS
Amadeus August was a German actor and singer. Amadeus August became famous throughout Europe as protagonist of the successful European TV series Quentin Durward (based on Walter Scott's novel of the same name), broadcast for the first time in 1971. Although it turned out that this role marked the peak of his career, he frequently was a guest star in TV shows, sucjh as Derrick. He also had a supporting role as the Count of Haugwitz-Reventlow in The Barbara Hutton Story in 1987. He died of AIDS. His sepulchre is in the cemetery of Unterhaching.
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Born 1906-01-12. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Kurt August Hirsch was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. His research was in group theory. He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion. The Hirsch length and Hirsch–Plotkin radical are named after him. He taught at the University of Leicester from 1938 (except for a brief internment as an enemy alien in 1940), moved to King's College, Newcastle in 1948, and then moved again to Queen Mary College in London in 1951, where he stayed for the remainder of his career and worked with K. W. Gruenberg. Hirsch's doctoral students include Ismail Mohamed and Ascher Wagner.
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Born 1884-01-28. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland. Showing an intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in 1922, the same year his son Jacques Piccard was born. He was a member of the Solvay Congress of 1927.
Auguste Piccard was the inspiration for Professor Cuthbert Calculus (French: Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, Dutch: Professor Zonnebloem, German: Professor Bienlein, Spanish: Profesor Tornasol, Arabic: بروفيسور برجل) in The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
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Born 1862-10-19. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
In 1995, to celebrate the centenary of the invention of cinema, the Bank of France wanted to honour the Lumiere brothers on a note to their effigy. The Association of Action Networks of France Combattante protested: "The Lumiere brothers inspire us a profound scorn. They can not be honoured without insulting the victims of the collaboration. "
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Born 1868-06-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Auguste Bluysen was a French architect. He is the conceptor of the pavilion de la grande source in Vittel.
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Born 1863-03-30. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Joseph Marie Auguste Caillaux was a French politician of the Third Republic. He was a leader of the French Radical party and minister of finance, but his progressive views in opposition to the military alienated him from conservative elements. He was accused of corruption, but was cleared by a parliamentary commission. This political weakness strengthened the right wing elements in the radical party. Again rehabilitated after the war, Caillaux served at various times in the left wing governments of the 1920s. He died, almost totally forgotten, several weeks after the liberation in 1944.
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Born 1867-07-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). As a sportsman, he was French rugby XV champion in 1896 and also won a double silver medal in sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics. In September 1936, back from Greenland, where he went to deliver scientific material to the mission of Paul-Émile Victor who had just crossed the ice sheet in 50 days, after completing a polling mission, the Why-Not? IV makes a stopover in Reykjavik on the 3rd of the month to repair the boat's boiler. Commander Charcot and his crew set sail in good weather on September 15 for Saint-Malo. On September 16, a violent cyclone storm rose and sank the Why Not? IV on the reefs of Álftanes around 5:30 a.m. The toll is 23 dead, 17 missing and only one survivor: the master helmsman Eugčne Gonidec, a native of Douarnenez and nicknamed Penguin. He will tell that Commander Charcot, understanding the inevitable destruction of the Pourquoi-Pas? IV on the reefs, freed the seagull Rita, mascot of the boat, from her cage. The frigate captain Charcot, with at his side the captain and officer of the 1st class crews Le Conniat and the master chief pilot of the Floury fleet, remained on board and sank with the ship, according to the purest traditions of the navy. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who died at sea, but whose body was found, was buried in Paris at the Montmartre cemetery, on October 12, 1936 after a state funeral that took place at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral.
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Born 1841-02-25. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Other
Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of "Les Collettes," a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast. Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life, even when arthritis severely limited his movement, and he was wheelchair-bound. He developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to adapt his painting technique. In the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers.
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Born 1878-05-30. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
He was the last French soldier killed during World War I. He was shot 15 minutes before the Armistice came into effect, at 10.45am on 11 November 1918. The French Army, embarrassed to have sent men into battle after the armistice with the Germans had been signed, recorded the date of his death as earlier by one day.
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Born 1825-02-11. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Chocolate maker
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Born 1840-11-12. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Age
Fifty-three years into their relationship, Rodin married Rose Beuret. The wedding was January 29, 1917, and Beuret died two weeks later, on February 16. Rodin was ill that year; in January, he suffered weakness from influenza, and on November 16 his physician announced that "congestion of the lungs has caused great weakness. The patient's condition is grave." Rodin died the next day, at his villa in Meudon, Île-de-France, on the outskirts of Paris. A cast of The Thinker was placed next to his tomb in Meudon; it was Rodin's wish that the figure serve as his headstone and epitaph.
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Born 1876-12-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Murder
Born in Paris, Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a Parisian deputy in the National Assembly with ties to the Vatican, and the grandson of Augustin Cochin, a French politician and writer. His Catholic upbringing helped him to remain detached from the French Revolution and study it historically in a new light.
Cochin was drafted into service in World War I in 1914, and he was wounded four times in service before being killed at Maricourt, Somme.
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Born 1833-09-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Henri–Auguste Delannoy was a French army officer and amateur mathematician, after whom the Delannoy numbers are named. Delannoy grew up in Guéret, France, the son of a military accountant. After taking the baccalaureate in 1849, he studied mathematics in Bourges, near where his family lived, and after continuing his studies in Paris entered the École Polytechnique in 1853. He served as a lieutenant in the French artillery in the Second Italian War of Independence, in 1859, and became a captain in 1863. He continued to serve in the military, but shifted from the artillery to the supply corps; he served in Africa, became governor of a military hospital in Algeria, participated in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and eventually became an intendant in Orléans before retiring in 1889. His military decorations include the cross and officer's rosette of the Legion of Honour, awarded in 1868 and 1886 respectively. Beginning in 1879, Delannoy began a correspondence with Édouard Lucas on the subject of recreational mathematics and probability theory; he eventually published eleven mathematics articles. Along with his mathematical interests, Delannoy wrote about local history, painted, and from 1896 to 1915 served as the president of the Société des Sciences Naturelles et archéologiques de la Creuse
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Born 1887-01-03. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Murder
He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. Like a true artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Macke's career was cut short by his early death at the front in Champagne in September 1914, the second month of World War I. His final painting, Farewell, depicts the mood of gloom that settled after the outbreak of war.
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Born 1825-04-07. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Augustin Mouchot was a 19th-century French inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine, converting solar energy into mechanical steam power. Augustin Mouchot died in 1912 in Paris in poverty, due to mistreatment.
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Born 1861-04-21. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Louise Augustine Gleizes, usually mentioned by her first name Augustine, born Louise Augustine Bouvier in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died in Rennes, is a French maid. She is best known as the most notorious patient of neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpętričre hospital in Paris. When Augustine refuses to participate in the experiments, she is put in isolation. She ended up escaping from the hospital in 1880 dressed as a man. In 1895, then without a profession and domiciled in Clichy, she married in Saint-Denis Alphonse Ferrand, a rentier. The latter, born in Dol-de-Bretagne in 1855, who became a doctor like his two brothers, settled in Paris. He died, still married, in 1903 in Paramé. We lose track of Louise Gleizes after this date. Widow and "owner", she died in Rennes at the Saint-Yves clinic.
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Born 1834-08-02. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Frédéric Bartholdi died of tuberculosis in Paris.
In 1879, Bartholdi was awarded design patent U.S. Patent D11,023 for the Statue of Liberty. This patent covered the sale of small copies of the statue. Proceeds from the sale of the statues helped raise money to build the full statue.
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Born 1835-01-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He is best known today for a series of two essays he published in 1883 in le Journal des Sciences Militaires ("Journal of Military Science") entitled La Cryptographie Militaire ("Military Cryptography"). These articles surveyed the then state-of-the-art in military cryptography, and made a plea for considerable improvements in French practice. They also included many pieces of practical advice and rules of thumb.
In 1885, Dr. Kerckhoffs became interested in the constructed language Volapük, and for several years was a leading member of the Volapük movement, and Director of the Academy of Volapük. He published several books on the subject and introduced the movement to France, Spain, and Scandinavia through a series of public lectures.