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Farina Sergio (b. 1926-09-08 / d. 2012-07-03) alias Sergio Pininfarina
He was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the driver, but ahead of the rear wheels. The resulting Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale was presented at the Paris Motor Show in October, although it would be another two years before the cars were offered for sale. After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company. In 2006 Sergio and his son Andrea, who died in 2008 were named Honorary Chairmen of Pininfarina,
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Born 1977-00-00. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Daniel Auster was the son of writers Lydia Davis and Paul Auster. He was arrested and charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the death of his 10-month old infant daughter on April 16, 2022, who consumed heroin and fentanyl he was using. On April 26, 2022, Daniel, who was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia, died from a overdose.
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Born 1970-12-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Earl Simmons, known by his stage name DMX ("Dark Man X"), was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies within its first week of release. He released his best-selling album, ... And Then There Was X, in 1999, which included the hit single "Party Up (Up in Here)". His 2003 singles "Where the Hood At?" and "X Gon' Give It to Ya" were also some of his most popular. DMX had spoken openly about his addiction to crack cocaine, which began when he was 14 years old after he smoked a marijuana cigarette laced with the drug. He also said that he had bipolar disorder. On April 2, 2021, at approximately 11:00 pm, Simmons was rushed to a hospital in White Plains, New York, where he was reported to be in critical condition following a heart attack at his home possibly resulting from an overdose. The next day, his attorney, Murray Richman, confirmed Simmons was on life support. That same night, tabloid journalism outlet TMZ, who first reported on the hospitalization, stated that Simmons had suffered oxygen deprivation to his brain as paramedics attempted to resuscitate him for 30 minutes. Simmons' former manager, Nakia Walker, said he was in a "vegetative state" with "lung and brain failure and no current brain activity". His manager, Steve Rifkind, stated Simmons was comatose and that he was set to undergo tests to determine his brain's functionality which would allow his family to "determine what's best from there". On April 9, 2021, Simmons had reportedly lost functionality in multiple essential organs, including his lungs. Simmons was pronounced dead later that day, age 50, according to a statement released by his family.
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Born 1947-04-25. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Catherine Evelyn Smith was a Canadian occasional backup singer, rock groupie, drug dealer, and legal secretary, who served 15 months in the California state prison system for injecting original Saturday Night Live cast member John Belushi with a fatal dose of heroin and cocaine in 1982. Smith had been paid for a front-page headline story in the Hollywood tabloid the National Enquirer, where she stated she was the person who injected Belushi with a fatal drug overdose. Smith co-wrote the book Chasing the Dragon (1984) which told her life story; its title alludes to Smith's heroin addiction. Smith appeared prominently in the Bob Woodward book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (1984) and was played by Patti D'Arbanville in the 1989 film adaptation.
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Born 1988-09-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Clark James Gable , also known as Clark Gable III, was an American actor, model, and television presenter. He was born in Malibu, California. Gable was a past host of the television reality show Cheaters from the 13th to the 15th seasons. His grandfather was actor Clark Gable. Gable was found dead in Dallas, Texas of an accidental fentanyl overdose, aged 30.
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Born 1966-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
Kristoff St. John was an American actor. From 1991 to 2019, St. John portrayed the role of Neil Winters on CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, which earned him eleven Daytime Emmy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, and ten NAACP Image Awards. St. John was married and divorced twice. He had a son, Julian (1989–2014) and a daughter, Paris Nicole (born 1992) with his first wife, boxer Mia St. John. Julian died by suicide on November 23, 2014, following a long history of mental illness. St. John was married to Allana Nadal from 2001 to 2007, and they had a daughter, Lola (born April 15, 2003). On August 31, 2018, he was engaged to Russian model Kseniya Olegovna Mikhaleva. St. John was a vegan and animal rights advocate; he appeared in two PETA ad campaigns. St. John died at his Los Angeles, California home on February 3, 2019, at the age of 52. His death was ruled accidental with the cause listed as hypertrophic heart failure. It is more likely to be an overdose of alcohol.
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Born 1986-11-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Yurizan Beltrán Lebanue was an American pornographic actress, model and mainstream actress. In addition to her successful pornographic and modeling career Beltran also starred in the 2006 horror film Werewolf in a Women's Prison and later in 2017 the romantic comedy White on Rice. During her fairly successful pornographic career Beltran received positive attention from her critics and peers. Over the course of her career Beltran received multiple high industry award nominations from Adult Video News, NightMoves, XBIZ and the X-Rated Critics Organization. In December of 2017 she was found dead in her California apartment of an apparent drug overdose.
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Born 1958-06-07. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. A guitar virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist known for his eclectic genre-crossing work, flamboyant and androgynous persona, energetic live shows and wide-ranging singing voice, in particular his far reaching falsetto and high-pitched screams, Prince is regarded as one of the most talented popular music artists of his generation. His innovative music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, R&B, rock, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. Prince pioneered the late 1970s Minneapolis sound, a funk rock subgenre drawing from synth-pop and new wave. On April 20, 2016, Prince's representatives called Howard Kornfeld, a California specialist in addiction medicine and pain management, seeking medical help for the star. Kornfeld scheduled to meet with him on April 22, and he contacted a local physician who cleared his schedule for a physical exam on April 21. On April 21, at 9:43 am, the Carver County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call requesting an ambulance be sent to Prince's home at Paisley Park. The caller initially told the dispatcher that an unidentified person at the home was unconscious, then moments later said he was dead, and finally identified the person as Prince. The caller was Kornfeld's son, who had flown in with buprenorphine that morning to devise a treatment plan for opioid addiction. Emergency responders found Prince unresponsive in an elevator and performed CPR, but a paramedic said he had been dead for at least six hours, and they were unable to revive him. They pronounced him dead at 10:07 am, 19 minutes after their arrival. There were no signs of suicide or foul play. A press release from the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office in Anoka County on June 2 stated that the star had died of an accidental overdose of fentany at the age of 57.
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Born 1969-12-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
She was an American professional wrestler, glamour model, actress, author, and bodybuilder. Outside of wrestling, Chyna appeared in Playboy magazine twice, as well as numerous television shows and films. She was considered to be a sex symbol. In 2005, she was a cast member on VH1's The Surreal Life, which led to several other celebrity reality appearances on the network, including The Surreal Life: Fame Games in 2007 and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew in 2008. Chyna was also known for her tumultuous relationship with fellow wrestler Sean Waltman, with whom she made a sex tape released commercially in 2004 as 1 Night in China, which won a 2006 AVN Award for Best-Selling Title. She starred in a further five pornographic titles, including AVN's 2012 Best Celebrity Sex Tape, Backdoor to Chyna. Laurer was found dead at her home in Redondo Beach, California. She was 46 years old. Her manager Anthony Anzaldo had become concerned when Laurer did not post updates or content to her usual social media outlets for several days and subsequently found her body in her apartment. Initial police reports stated she probably died of an accidental drug overdose or natural causes. Anzaldo suggested that any overdose was accidental, claiming that she was prescribed drugs but tended to use them improperly.
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Born 1971-04-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was an American professional wrestler. In the early 1990s, he was a part of the tag team The Bad Breed with Ian Rotten. He had a short stint with World Championship Wrestling in 1991, but he was best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1993 to 1999. Knighton suffered from a spine injury in his final years that forced him out of the ring and required the use of a wheelchair. He was living in Anchorage Rehab Center in Salisbury, Maryland. Knighton was found dead by police in a McDonald's bathroom in Linthicum, Maryland. An autopsy showed that Knighton's cause of death was a heroin overdose.
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Born 1995-05-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2011. Bukavshin was three-time European champion in his age category. Bukavshin died in Tolyatti, and was originally thought to have suffered a stroke, though now it is reported that it was a massive overdose (or poisoning) of No-Spa that caused his death. Drotaverine (INN, also known as drotaverin) is an antispasmodic drug, used to enhance cervical dilation during childbirth. It is structurally related to papaverine, is a selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4, and has no anticholinergic effects. It is available in Asian and Central and Eastern European countries under several brand names. An article from 2013 described the effects from overdose (in a 19-year-old woman) as including vomiting, seizures and fatal cardiac toxicity.
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Born 1950-10-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Known as Jeff Conaway, he was an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the U.S. television series Taxi and Babylon 5. He directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer II. On May 11, 2011, Conaway was found unconscious from what was initially described as an overdose of substances, believed to be pain medication, and was taken to Encino Tarzana Medical Center in Encino, California, where he was listed as being in critical condition and in a coma. After the initial reports, Dr. Drew Pinsky, who had treated Conaway for substance abuse, said the actor was suffering not from a drug overdose but rather from "pneumonia with sepsis", for which he was placed into an induced coma. Though his pneumonia was not directly caused by drugs, his use of them hampered his ability to recognize how ill he was, and prevented him from seeking treatment for pneumonia until it was too late. On May 26, 2011, Conaway's family took him off life support after doctors decided there was nothing they could do to revive him. Conaway died the following morning at the age of 60. Pinsky attributed his death to his addiction, stating, "What happens is, like with most opiate addicts, eventually they take a little too much ... and they aspirate, so what's in their mouth gets into their lungs ... That's what happened with Jeff."
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Born 1952-03-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
She was a French actress. She is best known for playing Jeanne opposite Marlon Brando in the 1972 motion picture Last Tango in Paris. Schneider was born Marie Christine Gélin, the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris. In 1974, Schneider came out as bisexual. The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, and a suicide attempt. By the 1980s, however, she had turned her life around: "I was very lucky — I lost many friends to drugs — but I met someone in 1980 who helped me stop. I call this person my angel and we've been together ever since. I don't say if it's a man or a woman. That's my secret garden. I like to keep it a mystery."
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Born 1978-09-08. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a British comic, writer and director.
He started his comedy career in the sketch and improvisational group Wayward Council. He co-founded Phone Book Live, in which guests attempted to be funny from reading out of the phone book.
Taylor suffered from bipolar schizoaffective disorder all of his life. He turned his suicide attempt in 2008, in which he slipped into a drug-induced coma in the Komedia comedy club in Brighton, into an acclaimed show, No Straightjacket Required, at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Taylor died at the age of 32 after taking an overdose of drugs.
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Born 1968-07-13. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Lynn Turner (born Julia Lynn Womack), was an American convicted murderer.
In 1995, Turner, then 27, murdered her husband, Cobb County, Georgia police officer Maurice Glenn Turner, age 31. Maurice Turner went to the emergency room on March 2, 1995, complaining of flu-like symptoms. He was treated there and when he felt better, he went home. The next day, he was found dead when Lynn came home. On January 22, 2001, she killed her boyfriend, Forsyth County firefighter Randy Thompson, age 32. She had been having an affair with Thompson at the time of her husband's murder. Thompson reported to the emergency room complaining of a stomach ache and constant vomiting. He was treated and released on January 21. She made him some Jell-O. By the next day, he was dead. She collected around $153,000 in death benefits for her husband's death and $36,000 in her boyfriend's death.
According to a Georgia Department of Corrections website, Turner was serving a life sentence at Metro State Prison. She faced the death penalty for the 2001 murder of Randy Thompson but she was instead sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The cause of Turner's death is an apparent suicide by toxic overdose of blood pressure medication.
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Born 1970-01-04. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Suicide
Kanyon was found dead in his Sunnyside, Queens, New York apartment, due to an apparent overdose of medication. Initial reports indicated a possible suicide.
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Born 1964-11-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Accident
He was an American singer-songwriter living in Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success came with the release of the 1996 tribute album Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation.
Chesnutt died from an overdose of muscle relaxants that had left him in a coma in an Athens hospital.
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Born 1969-11-19. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Suicide
Her last work had been as a presenter of the television program, Entre 4 Paredes com Leila Lopes.
The cause of death is believed to be a heart attack brought on by an overdose. Suicide has not been ruled out. Officials state that antidepressants were found next to her body.
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Born 1932-09-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
She was an American heiress, socialite, and philanthropist. Her husband, Claus von Bülow, was convicted of attempting her murder by insulin overdose, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. A second trial found him not guilty, after experts opined that there was no insulin injection and that her symptoms were attributable to over-use of prescription drugs. The story was dramatized in the book and movie, Reversal of Fortune. Sunny von Bülow continued to live almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state until her death in a New York nursing home.
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Born 1969-09-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was an American musician. He was the second bassist for Alternative Metal band Marilyn Manson, during which time his stage name was created through the fusion of the names of Gidget and Ed Gein.
After being clean from drugs and alcohol for a year Gein accidentally died of a heroin overdose shortly after midnight October 8, 2008 at a friends home in Burbank, California.
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Born 1961-09-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
She was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. In later years she became an outspoken critic of the direction the country was taking, in terms of cultural and political values.
She was born in Čačak, Yugoslavia. She died in Belgrade, Serbia; the cause of death was reported to be a heroin overdose.
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Born 1967-03-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Bowman retired from competitive skating after the 1992 World Championships. For some years thereafter, Bowman worked as a skating coach, first in Massachusetts and then in the Detroit, Michigan area, where he had lived from 1995 until 2007. He also worked as a skating commentator.
Bowman had recently returned to acting prior to his death, with a role as an assistant coach in Down and Distance.
Bowman was pronounced dead on January 10, 2008 at 12:06 p.m. after being found in a motel in the North Hills area of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Coroner determined that Bowman died from an accidental drug overdose.. At his death, he weighed an estimated 261 pounds (118 kg), The Associated Press reported.
He was divorced from Annette Bowman, and married television producer April Freeman on Christmas Day 2007, just 16 days prior to his death.
He had had appearances in 2 episodes of "the little house on the prairie" (1978-1979).
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Born 1981-09-30. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Moore began acting at age four. Sid Kozac, chose her for a role in a "B.C. Chicken" commercial when she was just five. Other commercials followed and then the series The Odyssey began. Moore played in split roles as Alpha and Donna. The show lasted three seasons, ending in 1994 with 39 episodes.
Moore's most famous role came in 1995 when she was cast as Chrissy in the film Now and Then. She dyed her hair neon red and gained an extra 20 pounds for her role.
According to her brother Jaysone Moore, on December 10, 2007, Moore died of pneumonia and bronchitis. In reality, she died of an alleged accidental drugs overdose.
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Born 1969-08-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
She was an English bounty hunter.
Harvey's fame was increased posthumously by the 2005 release of the film Domino that was loosely based on her life, with Harvey portrayed by Keira Knightley.
Harvey was found dead in a bathtub in West Hollywood after she became unresponsive while talking to Peter Dice, a "sobriety guardian." Harvey had hired Dice to help control her drug use. On 3 September, the Los Angeles County coroner reported that a toxicological exam determined that Harvey died from a overdose of fentanyl, an extremely potent opiate painkiller. Her mother Paulene Stone suggested that Harvey may have been prescribed fentanyl for injuries she sustained in February 2005 when she fell taking her dog for a walk. Her funeral took place on 1 July 2005. Among the attendees were Tony Scott, Mickey Rourke, and Steve Jones.
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Born 1973-01-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She is best known internationally as Nadine in the 2000 film Baise-moi.
While staying at a friend's house in Paris's XIVth arrondissement, she committed suicide on the night of January 28, 2005 by overdosing on sleeping pills.
« Double péné par 5 °C, suivie d'une éjaculation. Couverte de sperme, trempée, morte de froid, personne ne m'a tendu une serviette. Une fois que t'as tourné ta scčne, tu vaux plus rien. »
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Born 1965-08-22. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer) was a Canadian man born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy. The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. The academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer's realization he was not a girl crystallized between the ages of 9 and 11 years and he transitioned to living as a male at age 15. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went public with his story to help discourage similar medical practices. In addition to his difficult lifelong relationship with his parents, Reimer had to deal with unemployment and the death of his brother Brian from an overdose of antidepressants on July 1, 2002. On May 2, 2004, his wife Jane told him she wanted to separate. On the morning of May 4, 2004, Reimer drove to a grocery store's parking lot in his hometown of Winnipeg and took his own life by shooting himself in the head with a sawed-off shotgun. He was 38 years old. He was buried in St. Vital Cemetery in Winnipeg.
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Born 1954-06-21. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Robert Joseph Pastorelli was an American actor. Having acquired a reputation as a skilled character actor in the 1980s and 1990s, Pastorelli's career went into decline after the death of his girlfriend under mysterious circumstances at his home in 1999. He died of a narcotic overdose in 2004. Pastorelli was found dead at the age of 49 at his home in the Hollywood Hills from a narcotics overdose. At the time of his death he had been forewarned that authorities were planning on arresting him for further questioning regarding the shooting of Charemon Jonovich in March 1999. A review of the original evidence had resulted in her death being reclassified as a homicide, with Pastorelli being identified as a suspect for further investigation. The Coroner's Office reported Pastorelli died of a "fatal blood concentration of morphine". Pastorelli's body was interred in the mausoleum at Saint Catharine's Cemetery in Sea Girt, New Jersey.
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Born 1955-07-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Epstein died of complications due to drug use; but not an overdose as has been reported. Investigators were told Epstein had been using heroin. Howie was driven to St. Vincent Hospital by his girlfriend, who described him as "under distress."
Epstein was taking antibiotics for an illness, and he had recently suffered from flu, stomach problems and an abscess on his leg, friends said.
"Apparently he passed out in the bathroom, and his girlfriend drove him to the hospital.
Reportedly he was extremely despondent over the death of his 16 year-old German Shepherd dog a few days earlier. In recent interviews, Tom Petty admitted that Epstein's behavior had become unpredictable: "He was just degenerating on us to the point where we thought keeping Howie in the band was actually doing him more harm than getting rid of him. His personal problems were vast and serious."
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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 1951-09-18. Domain:Music. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Douglas Glenn Colvin, known professionally as Dee Dee Ramone, was a German-American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, songwriter and bassist for punk rock band the Ramones. Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared clean in the early 1990s but began using heroin again some time later. Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002 by his wife Barbara at his apartment in Hollywood, California. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to perform at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor.
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Born 1933-03-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Kohl was found dead aged 68 in her Ludwigshafen home. She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills, after years of suffering from what was claimed to be a very rare and painful photo allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years.
Kohl is known for her collection of German-style cooking recipes published as Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions) which was published in 1996.