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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 1931-03-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Peyroles was a French writer and journalist. In 1980, he created the TV series Julien Fontanes, magistrat with Jean Cosmos.
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Born 1961-03-25. Domain:Society. Cause of death:AIDS
Gilles Bertin was a French musician and singer, and a member of the punk band Camera Silens from 1981 to 1986. Born in Paris, Bertin moved to Bordeaux with his parents as a teenager. In Bordeaux, he founded the punk band Camera Silens as a bassist and a singer. The band enjoyed significant success in the French punk rock scene. After he became a drug addict and tested HIV positive, he fell into delinquency. On 27 April 1988, Bertin participated in a robbery on the Toulouse department of Brink's along with a dozen other robbers, after two years of preparation. The group stole 11,571,316 francs, despite never firing a shot. To this day, most of the loot has never been found. After police launched "Operation Sangria", all participants of the robbery were arrested within two years, except for Bertin. He fled to Spain, and then later, Portugal while running a record shop dedicated to alternative rock. In 1995, Bertin fell ill with AIDS, but survived thanks to tritherapy. In 2000, he returned to Barcelona and worked in a bar owned by his family while living under several identities. On 26 November 2016, Bertin returned to France to face justice. His trial began on 6 June 2018, and he faced 20 years imprisonment. However, Bertin was only sentenced to five years with suspension, after the prosecution cited "good conduct." In February 2019, Bertin published an autobiography, titled Trente ans de cavale, ma vie de punk with the publisher Éditions Robert Laffont. Gilles Bertin succumbed to AIDS after spending several weeks in a coma. He was 58.
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Born 1926-02-20. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, DBE (née Pyrke) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. At age 87, she was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours List. The New London Theatre, where the original West End production of Cats played, was officially renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre in 2018. This made Lynne the first non-royal woman to have a West End theatre named after her. Lynne died at a London hospital from pneumonia, aged 92.
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Born 1927-02-12. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American actress, best known for her film roles as a child actress. She was sometimes credited as Anne Gillis or Ann Gilles. She performed the voice of Faline in the 1942 Disney animated film Bambi. Gillis died in a nursing home in Horam, East Sussex, England.
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Born 1934-03-23. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
Per Sune Evaldsson Gillbrand (23 March 1934–30 November 2016) was a Swedish automobile engineer. Born in Tidaholm, Gillbrand is best known for his contribution to the development of several engines for Saab, and in particular their turbocharged engines.
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Born 1957-06-11. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Belgian journalist, best known as a music critic and rock expert. He died accidentally from a fall in the steps.
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Born 1919-10-03. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
He was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which in 1986 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' self-interest and non-economic forces affect government economic policy. He was a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and professor at George Mason University.
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Born 1968-10-25. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Murder
Gilles Jacquier was a French photojournalist and reporter for France Télévisions. Jacquier worked as a special correspondent for Envoyé spécial, one of France's best known documentary programs which airs on France 2. He had a successful career, has covered major international military conflicts and won many awards during his life. He was killed on 11 January 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Homs, Syria. Jacquier was the first Western journalist killed in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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Born 1927-08-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
Walter Giller was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading men. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in Roses for the Prosecutor. Giller was born in Recklinghausen. In 1956, he married actress Nadja Tiller; they had two children and appeared together in a number of films. The couple resided in Lugano, Switzerland for many years. In 2009, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent a major (but unsuccessful) operation. He died in Hamburg in 2011, aged 84.
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Born 1943-04-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
He was an American pornographic actor and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.
Gillis was born in New York City. He appeared in more than 470 movies as an actor." He also directed several adult movies. A bisexual, he appeared in gay porn, but never had homosexual sex on film.
Gillis died in New York City from melanoma, which was diagnosed four or five months earlier.
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Born 1925-04-05. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Margery Jean Gill was a British illustrator of children's books.
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Born 1932-10-24. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Unknown
Nobel Prize in 1991. Invented "superglue".
Played a role in "les palmes de M. Schultz" by Pinoteau. Was one of the two coachmen (the other is G. Charpak)
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Born 1919-11-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart
He was nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1969 and in that same year won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, both for The Battle of Algiers.
he died from congestive heart failure in Rome
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Born 1925-06-18. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Suicide
Deleuze, a heavy smoker, suffered from lung cancer. Although he had a lung removed, the disease had spread throughout his pulmonary system. Deleuze underwent a tracheotomy, lost the power of speech and considered himself 'chained like a dog' to an oxygen machine. By the last years of his life, simple tasks such as handwriting required laborious effort. In 1995, he committed suicide, throwing himself from the window of his apartment.
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Born 1917-10-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
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Born 1962-03-21. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a motorcycle racer, who died in a collision with an official car of the Dakar organization. He just had taken the decision that this race would be his last race as a motorcyclist, and that he would switch to 4-wheel races.
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Born 1950-08-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was a judge. He instructed the terrorist attacks in Paris, in 1986, attributed to Iran.
He commited suicide because he could not bear the pressure of media and politicians.
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Born 1950-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
On his final qualifying lap for the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, Villeneuve was attempting to beat Pironi's faster time. As he came up behind Jochen Mass' March-Ford, the front left wheel of his car came into contact with the right rear wheel of Mass' car, who moved aside to let Villeneuve through. Villeneuve moved the same way to pass Mass' car and was launched into the air before nose-diving into the soft earthen embankment just outside the armco and somersaulting along the side of the track. The violence of the accident reduced the car to its cockpit, and ripped Villeneuve's seat from the back of the monocoque. Villeneuve, still strapped to his seat, was thrown across the track and into the catch fencing just outside the corner. When the medical team arrived, he was not breathing. Villeneuve was resuscitated at the scene, but his injuries were fatal. He died in a local hospital that evening, his fatal injuries were likely caused by the force of his car landing for the first time after the initial impact.
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Born 1855-01-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
He was almost bankrupt at the time of his death, due both to his having spent large amounts of money on property, and to his having lost much of the value of his corporate shares as a result of the Great Depression.
The Gillette Company continued to thrive and sells products under a variety of brand names including Gillette, Braun, Oral-B, and Duracell until 2005, when the company was sold to Procter & Gamble for $57 billion USD. It is now known as Global Gillette, a business unit of Procter & Gamble.