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Farina Sergio (b. 1926-09-08 / d. 2012-07-03) alias Sergio Pininfarina
He was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life. In 1965 it was Sergio Pininfarina who personally persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a "mid-engined" engine configuration for a new line of road cars, with the engine positioned behind the driver, but ahead of the rear wheels. The resulting Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale was presented at the Paris Motor Show in October, although it would be another two years before the cars were offered for sale. After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company. In 2006 Sergio and his son Andrea, who died in 2008 were named Honorary Chairmen of Pininfarina,
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Born 1945-06-19. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Timothy Poston was an English mathematician and polymath best known for his work on catastrophe theory. His PhD thesis on "Fuzzy Geometry" was supervised by Christopher Zeeman and the PhD was awarded in 1972. This topic, otherwise known as “tolerance spaces”, is similar to topology and should not be confused with fuzzy logic.
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Born 1923-08-20. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
He was an American analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks.
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Born 1933-11-12. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a French TV news show presenter on TF1, in the 80's. He was a Dutch professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1956 to 1972. Post competed in road and track racing. Many of the British riders Post was involved with, found Post very difficult to get on with. Some claimed he didn't want any British riders in his teams. Some claimed Post's mind had been damaged by all the hard racing, and several bad crashes he had been involved in. Post had mostly Dutch or Belgian riders in his teams. Several of the riders Post managed died young, or had personal problems in their lives.
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Born 1946-02-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
Peter William Postlethwaite was an English character actor, who appeared in In the Name of the Father (1993), Sharpe (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Dragonheart (1996), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Brassed Off (1996), Amistad (1997), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Animal Farm (1999), The Constant Gardener (2005), Clash of the Titans (2010), Inception (2010), and The Town (2010). Postlethwaite died of pancreatic cancer at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. The cancer had been diagnosed in March 2009. Postlethwaite continued acting almost to the end of 2010, showing clear signs of weight loss during his last performances. In his last two years, he worked on his memoir A Spectacle of Dust with Andy Richardson. It was published on 1 June 2011.
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Born 1943-08-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Operation
Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death. In his lifetime he was known as the "god of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence on the medium. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work. In 2012, Postel was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society. The Channel Islands' Domain Registry building was named after him in early 2016. Perhaps his most famous legacy is from RFC 760, which includes a robustness principle often called Postel's law: "an implementation should be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior" (reworded in RFC 1122 as "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"). Postel died of complications from heart surgery in Los Angeles, nine months after the DNS Root Authority incident. He was recovering from a surgery to replace a leaking heart valve.