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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 1926-01-13. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British author. He is best known for a series of fictional stories for children, featuring the character of Paddington Bear. More than 35 million Paddington books have been sold around the world, and the characters have also been featured in film and on television. His first book was published in 1958 and his last in 2017, a span of 59 years.
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Born 1948-07-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Swiss theatre and film director. He has had numerous health problems all his life long.
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Born 1935-07-31. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Geoffrey Bond Lewis was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He typically portrayed villains or quirky characters. He played a bodyguard in the Jean-Claude van Damme film Double Impact.
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Born 1937-02-16. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Accident
The accident that killed Valentin Bondarenko was caused by a flash fire in a training simulator that had been pressurized with pure oxygen. During the test Bondarenko had biosensors attached to his body. When he removed these, he washed the skin area with a piece of cotton wool soaked in alcohol. In an act of carelessness Bondarenko threw away the piece of cotton wool without looking at the direction he threw the piece in, and the cotton wool landed on an electric stove hot plate, where it ignited. In the oxygen-rich atmosphere a flash fire followed that set fire to Bondarenko's suit. The observing technician saw the fire and attempted to open the door to the chamber, but this took several minutes due to the pressure, and Bondarenko was badly burnt, dying sixteen hours later of shock. An attendant who treated him prior to death attested that he had suffered third-degree burns over much of his body. Reputedly, the only place that attending physicians could find to insert an IV line was the sole of his feet. This is similar to the accident that befell the crew of the Apollo 1. The death was not announced and, as Bondarenko had appeared in group films and photos of the first cosmonaut group, it fuelled stories in the west of unnamed cosmonauts being killed during failed launches. The accident was only revealed to the outside world in the 1980s. Some reports claim that fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was assigned to "death watch" duty, spending several hours at Bondarenko's bedside before he finally expired.