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Wiesel Elie (b. 1926-09-30 / d. 2016-07-02)
He was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Utah senator Orrin Hatch paid tribute to Wiesel in a speech on the Senate floor the following week, in which he said that, "With Elie's passing, we have lost a beacon of humanity and hope. We have lost a hero of human rights and a luminary of Holocaust literature.
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Born 1946-09-30. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
Jochen Richard Mass was a German racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1982. Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren. In endurance racing, Mass won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1989 with Sauber. Mass died in Cannes, France on 4 May 2025 due to complications from a stroke that he suffered in February of the same year.
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Born 1943-11-28. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was an Italian motorcycle designer for Cagiva, Ducati, and MV Agusta, and one of the founders of Bimota. Tamburini's designs are iconic in their field, with one critic calling him the "Michelangelo of motorbike design". His Ducati 916 and MV Agusta F4 were included in the Guggenheim Museum's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit of 1998–1999. Tamburini was diagnosed with lung cancer in November 2013 and underwent chemotherapy near his residence in San Marino.
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Born 1935-07-28. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Pierre Massimi was born in Calanzana. He was a former student of the École centrale de Paris. He got his first role in 1956 in Sacha Guitry's film If Paris was told to us. After a few secondary roles, he made himself known in the television serials Fontcouverte and Belle et Sébastien in 1965. From then on, he would appear mainly in television films or series. He was known for his portrayal of Henry de Monfreid in Les Secrets de la mer rouge. He stopped filming in the early 1990s. He then ran an air transport company by helicopter for a few years.
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Born 1934-02-11. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He was an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA (with Xuejia Lai) and SAFER, and the Massey-Omura cryptosystem (with Jim K. Omura).
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Born 1908-05-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
After his criticism of the policy of de Gaulle in 1961, he was fired from his positions of military governor of Metz and of the Sixth military region. In March 1966, he was made chief of the French forces in Germany in Baden-Baden. On the 29 May 1968, Charles de Gaulle came to visit him and sought his advice during the events of May 68.
After his retirement in July 1969, he spent the rest of his life in his home at Conflans-sur-Loing writing his mémoires.
Charles de Gaulle : "So, Massu, still that stupid ?"
Jacques Massu's answer : "Still that gaullist, General !"
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Born 1953-02-09. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Murder
Massoud was the target of a suicide attack which occurred at Khvajeh Ba Odin. The attackers were two Arabs who claimed to be Belgians originally from Morocco. However their passports turned out to be stolen and their nationality Tunisian. The assassins claimed to want to interview Massoud and set off a bomb either in their video camera or in a belt worn by the cameraman while asking Massoud questions. The explosion also killed Mohammed Asim Suhail, a Northern Alliance official, while Mohammad Fahim Dashty and Massoud Khalili were injured. The assassins may have intended to attack several Northern Alliance council members simultaneously. One of the attackers was killed by the explosion and the other was shot while trying to escape. Massoud was rushed after the attack to the Indian Military hospital at Farkhor, Tajikistan which is now Farkhor Air Base. The news of Massoud's death was reported almost immediately, appearing in European and North American newspapers on 10 September 2001. It was quickly overshadowed by the September 11, 2001 attacks, which proved to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against.
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Born 1896-01-04. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
Masson's stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant.
Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went on to the United States. Upon arrival in New York City, U.S. customs officials inspecting Masson's luggage found a cache of his erotic drawings. Denouncing them as pornographic, they ripped them up before the artist's eyes.