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Wittgenstein Ludwig (b. 1889-04-26 / d. 1951-04-29)
His last words: "Tell them I've had a wonderful life."
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Born 1927-12-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Paul Guers was a French film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1955 and 1996. He starred in the 1963 film Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance. He was born in Tours, France and died in Montsoreau. He portrayed the curé in Marie-Octobre. He was married 4 times: To Rolande Ségur (m. de 1953 à 1956), actress, mother of Olivia Dutron Françoise Brion (m. de 1958 à 1963), Karin Petersen, (m. de 1969 à 1982), actress, mother of Laurent Dutron Marie‑Josèphe Legros, writer, (m. de ~1983 à 2016). Legros committed suicide just after the death of Paul Guers.
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Born 1984-06-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a Costa Rican footballer who played as a defender. Badilla was participating in a local marathon known as Lindora Run. Shortly before reaching the finish line, Badilla collapsed. After a long attempt to revive him, he was declared dead due to a cardiorespiratory arrest.
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Born 1950-03-03. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a French writer. She commited suicide just after her husband who died from cancer.
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Born 1919-05-06. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French racing driver. He was born in Mazagan, Morocco. He participated in one Formula One World Championship race, on 19 October 1958. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races. At the time of his death he was the oldest living Formula One driver and had been since the death of Robert La Caze on 1 July 2015.
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Born 1922-09-16. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was an English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.
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Born 1992-10-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a French cyclist. He died on the road, struck by a truck.
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Born 1953-04-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was a Scottish professional darts player who competed in the 1970s & 1980s.
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Born 1926-10-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She acted in the first of her more than sixty films in 1942 using her birth name but then adopted the stage name Delorme. She is best remembered for her starring role in the 1948 original French production of Gigi and in the 1950s Minne, both of which were based on novels by Colette.
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Born 1930-07-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was a French singer and songwriter. Béart was born Guy Béhart-Hasson (originally spelled Béhar-Hassan) in Cairo, Egypt to Lebanese Jewish parents.
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Born 1930-07-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French rugby player, racing driver and later a Formula One team owner.
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Born 1927-10-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was widely regarded as Germany's most famous recently living writer. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, which includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
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Born 1950-01-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a French tennis player.
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Born 1959-08-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and producer, considered one of the most important and influential figures of Ibero-American rock and a Latin American rock legend. Cerati died on 4 September 2014 at the age of 55, after suffering a stroke four years earlier in Caracas, Venezuela which resulted in a coma.
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Born 1965-11-06. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
She was a French actress and theater director. Her most successful television role was in the series Avocats et associés, in which she appeared from 2000 to 2005.
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Born 1982-00-00. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
The first ever death of an acrobat from "Le cirque du soleil" during a performance. During the final battle scene of Kà, the stage is oriented vertically and performers use harnesses attached to cables to move about. During this scene at the 9:30pm show on June 29, 2013, Guyard-Guillot was hoisted up the side of the stage to a height of at least 50 feet (15 m) (some eyewitnesses said it may have been over 100 feet (30 m)). According to an eyewitness, she "then just plummeted down." Her harness apparently slipped free from its safety wire, causing her to fall into a pit, out of the audience's view. A spokesperson confirmed that the harness itself remained on Guyard-Guillot during her fall. "Initially, a lot of people in the audience thought it was part of the choreographed fight," said an eyewitness. "But you could hear screaming, then groaning, and we could hear a female artist crying from the stage." After her fall, the show was quickly stopped and a recording asked the audience to leave and said refunds would be offered. The other performers watched helplessly as they dangled in the air, before being lowered to safety. Guyard-Guillot died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. She was pronounced dead at 11:43 pm. Guyard-Guillot's death was the first on-stage death in Cirque du Soleil's 30-year history. She is survived by her two children aged 8 and 5. She was 31 at the time of her death. On July 2, 2013, the Clark County Coroner's office said Guyard-Guillot fell around 90 feet (27 m), which is almost twice the distance reported initially. She died of blunt force trauma.
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Born 1951-05-14. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Stroke
He was a French specialist of constitional laws. He was Claire Bretecher's partner.
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Born 1926-05-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Chinese mathematician. He graduated from National Chekiang University (Zhejiang University) in 1948, and received a doctorate degree in physics and mathematical science from Moscow University in 1959. He was primarily engaged in the research on partial differential equation, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. He served as vice president of Fudan University and from 1988 to 1993 president of the University of Science and Technology of China. In 1980, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Born 1958-05-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. He died of lung cancer in April 2012. The disease was diagnosed in 2010.
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Born 1930-10-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan. Guardiola was born in Barcelona, Spain. He performed and recorded mostly Spanish versions of foreign songs and reached his maximum fame in Spain and Latin America in the early 1960s with versions of songs like "Sixteen Tons", "Mack the Knife" and "Ya Mustafa". He was known as the Spanish Crooner due to his style and the types of songs he sang. He represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1963, placing 12th. At that time he also sang a few songs with his infant daughter. He retired in 2008.
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Born 1920-03-16. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
Tonino Guerra was an Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors of the world.
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Born 1929-06-13. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award. McQuarrie died aged 82, in his Berkeley, California home, from complications of Parkinson’s disease.
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Born 1932-11-14. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Suicide
Günter Sachs was a German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist. A trained mathematician and economist, Sachs was an investor and industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researches the claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker and documentary photographer. He was "passionately interested" in astrology and its connection with mathematics/statistics. His first wife, Anne-Marie Faure, died in 1958 during an operation. He courted his second wife, Brigitte Bardot, by flying over her villa on the French Riviera in a helicopter and dropping hundreds of roses. The couple were married on the 14 July 1966 in Las Vegas. They divorced in 1969. His final marriage was to Swedish former model, Mirja Larsson, which lasted from 1969 until his death. He had one son with his first wife, and a further two sons with his third wife. Sachs committed suicide through a gun shot wound to the head at his home in Gstaad. The suicide note stated that he acted because of what he defined as "no hope illness A" adding that "The loss of mental control over my life was an undignified condition, which I decided to counter decisively".
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Born 1938-07-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
She was a Japanese-born American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. She developed breasts very early and, despite being an excellent student, was constantly harassed for her figure and Asian heritage. Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off. This prompted her to learn the martial arts of aikido and karate and, over the next 15 years, she claimed that she had tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." Satana dated Elvis Presley but turned down his marriage proposal, though she did keep the ring.
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Born 1928-05-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Heart
He was a French film actor. He was born in Morlaix, Finistère.
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Born 1940-00-00. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Unknown
He was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He has spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math. He is the author of Numbers: The Universal Language and of the novel The Parrot's Theorem.
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Born 1936-07-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
He was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyaté and was a member of the Mandinka ethnic group.
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Born 1916-11-28. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Guy Lapébie was a French professional road bicycle racer. In the 1936 Olympics, Lapébie won two golden medals and one silver medal. He was born in Saint-Geours-de-Maremne and died in Bagnères-de-Luchon.
Lapébie's older brother was Tour de France winner Roger Lapébie. Guy's son Serge (9 June 1948 – 2 October 1991) was also a professional cyclist
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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 1933-07-21. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
She was a French radio chronicler.