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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 1974-08-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Silvio Horta (August 14, 1974 – January 7, 2020) was an American screenwriter and television producer widely noted for adapting the hit Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea into the ABC series Ugly Betty. Horta served as head writer and executive producer on the series. Horta was openly gay, coming out to his family at 19. He was found dead in a Miami hotel room . Variety reported that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Born 1912-05-14. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
Fernand Pouillon was a French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer. Pouillon was one of the most active and influential post-World War II architects and builders in France. He is remembered for his use of ‘noble’ building materials (especially stone), his seamless integration of all phases of the building process, his inexpensive and efficient building techniques and for his harmonious juxtaposition of forms. He was a humanist, as well as an architect. His stated goal was to meet human needs, and especially, those of middle-class and poorer families who faced severe shortages of dignified housing in the post-War period. Due to his success, ostentation and his imperious personality, he attracted the jealousy and ill-will of many. His was a tumultuous life, including prison time and a prison escape. Some architectural critics say he will be remembered as one of the great French architects of the 20th century. By the 1970s, influential people in France were having second thoughts about the treatment accorded to Pouillon: In 1971, he was pardoned by the French President Georges Pompidou. In 1978, he was reintegrated into the French Order of Architects. Pouillon returned definitively to France in 1984. In April 1984, he was named an Officer of the Légion d’Honour (the French Order of Merit), an honour conferred in person by the French President François Mitterrand. He spent the last years of his life at Château de Belcastel, a medieval castle in the Aveyron department, which he had restored together with Algerian craftsmen. He died in the Château de Belcastel. It is said that he had requested that his final resting place not show his name.