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Chwatt Aaron (b. 1919-02-05 / d. 2006-07-13) alias Red Buttons
José Ferrer chose Buttons to appear in a Broadway show The Admiral Had a Wife. The show was a farce set in Pearl Harbor, and it was due to open on December 8, 1941. It never did, as it was deemed inappropriate after the Japanese attack. In later years Buttons would joke that the Japanese only attacked Pearl Harbor to keep him off of Broadway.
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Born 1931-04-28. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Robert C. Hermann was an American mathematician and mathematical physicist. In the 1960s Hermann worked on elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, and published books which revealed the interconnections between vector bundles on Riemannian manifolds and gauge theory in physics, before these interconnections became "common knowledge" among physicists in the 1970s.
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Born 1933-05-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French writer, filmmaker and film critic.
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Born 1906-07-16. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
At the age of 96, this legendary director appeared at the Hollywood Collectors Show in North Hollywood, California. There he greeted well-wishers and signed vintage stills, in which he was pictured with legends such as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore and others.
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Born 1909-10-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British-Australian mathematician who was a leader in the study of group theory.
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Born 1897-02-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine. At the age of 85, Newman began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. He died in Cambridge two years later.
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Born 1885-11-09. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as pure disciplines including number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important member of the Institute for Advanced Study during its early years.
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Born 1893-01-12. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Though he defended himself vigorously, he was sentenced to death by hanging. The judgment stated that:
"There is nothing to be said in mitigation. For Goering was often, indeed almost always, the moving force, second only to his leader. He was the leading war aggressor, both as political and as military leader; he was the director of the slave labour programme and the creator of the oppressive programme against the Jews and other races, at home and abroad. All of these crimes he has frankly admitted. On some specific cases there may be conflict of testimony, but in terms of the broad outline, his own admissions are more than sufficiently wide to be conclusive of his guilt. His guilt is unique in its enormity. The record discloses no excuses for this man."
Göring dispatched an appeal in which he said he would accept the court's death penalty if they allowed him to be shot as a soldier instead of hanged as a common criminal, but the court members refused to allow him this honor. Defying the sentence imposed by his captors, he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was supposed to be hanged. Where Göring obtained the cyanide, and how he had managed to hide it during his entire imprisonment at Nuremberg, remains unknown.
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Born 1884-11-08. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Peritonitis
Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality. His method has come to be referred to as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders. Rorschach continued to refine the test until his premature death at age 37. One year after writing Psychodiagnostik, Rorschach died of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix. He was still associate director of the Herisau Hospital when he died, aged 37.
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Born 1843-01-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was a student of Karl Weierstrass. He became professor at the University of Berlin in 1892, where his students included Lipot Fejer, Paul Koebe and Ernst Zermelo. He died in Berlin.
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Born 1864-06-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Infection
He was a German mathematician of Lithuanian Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Minkowski died suddenly of appendicitis in Göttingen in 1909.