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Tait Peter Guthrie (b. 1831-04-28 / d. 1901-07-04)
Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory. His work on knot theory contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. He is also one of the namesakes of the Tait-Kneser theorem on osculating circles.
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Born 1956-04-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Christine Boisson was a French actress. Boisson died from lung disease at a care home in Paris.
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Born 1983-11-03. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Simon Fieschi was a French webmaster and writer. He was wounded in the 2015 shooting at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and left with severe injuries. On 7 January 2015, he was the first staff member injured in the shooting. A bullet from a Kalashnikov rifle perforated his lung and damaged his spinal cord. He was evacuated to hospital and spent a week in an induced coma. Having lost the use of his legs and hands, he remained in hospital for eight months, learning eventually to walk with the aid of crutches but never regaining full use of his fingers. Fieschi died in his hotel room in Paris, at the age of 40. An investigation was opened to determine the cause of death. He notably received tributes from President of France Emmanuel Macron, former president François Hollande, the cartoonist Coco, and the writer Yannick Haenel
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Born 1941-07-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet) was a French actor and filmmaker. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Perrin was born in Paris. His father, Alexandre Simonet, was a theatre director and his mother, Marie Perrin, was an actress. He is also the nephew of the actor Antoine Balpêtré. Perrin was trained as an actor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. He married Valentine Perrin in 1995. He had three sons, Mathieu (born 1975), Maxence (born 1995), and Lancelot, born 2000. The two eldest are actors.
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Born 1962-09-07. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Cliff Simon was a South African athlete and actor, best known for his portrayal of Ba'al in Stargate SG-1. Simon died in a kiteboarding accident in Topanga, California.
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Born 1923-07-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Maria Pacôme was the daughter of Maurice Pacôme and Germaine Hivonait. Her father was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp and her brother was shot for being a Communist. When her father came back, Pacôme often found herself defending her mother against her father's violence. Maria began her higher education at Cours Simon in 1941, when she was 18. She was classmates with Michèle Morgan, Danièle Delorme, and her future spouse, Maurice Ronet. Pacôme married Ronet in 1950. She would set aside her career until their divorce in 1956. Maria Pacôme died in Ballainvilliers, France following a tumor near the amygdala.
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Born 1921-12-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She was most known for a series of novels about a heroine called Angelique
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Born 1927-07-13. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
She was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. Veil was born Simone Annie Liline Jacob in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the daughter of Yvonne (Steinmetz) and André Jacob, an architect.
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Born 1949-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
He was a Belgian racing driver. He participated in 14 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 16 May 1976. He was notable for being the very first driver for Williams Grand Prix Engineering. He scored no championship points. His younger brother, Guy, was also a racing driver.
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Born 1920-02-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She is considered to have been one of the great French actresses of the 20th century. Morgan was the inaugural winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1992, she was given an honorary César Award for her contributions to French cinema.
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Born 1920-08-17. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American and Irish actress and singer. She was a famous redhead who was known for playing fiercely passionate, but sensible heroines, often in westerns and adventure films. On numerous occasions, she worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. O'Hara was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Born 1955-06-06. Domain:Business. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)
He was an American director, producer, writer, boxing manager, tournament poker player, and philanthropist, most noted as co-creator of the television series The Simpsons. While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. Simon submitted a spec script for the sitcom Taxi, which was produced, and later became the series' showrunner. Over the next few years, Simon wrote and produced for Cheers, It's Garry Shandling's Show and other programs, as well as writing the 1991 film The Super. In 1989, Simon developed the animated sitcom The Simpsons with Matt Groening and James L. Brooks. Simon was diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer in 2012 and given only three to six months to live.
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Born 1987-01-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Simoncelli was involved in a fatal accident with Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi during the 2011 Malaysian GP at the Sepang International Circuit. In fourth position during lap two Simoncelli's bike veered across the track and straight into the path of Edwards and Rossi. Edwards also fell off but was unhurt, but Simoncelli lay still on the track after the crash, his helmet having come off during the incident. The race was immediately red-flagged. He was taken by ambulance to the circuit's medical centre, but at 16:56 local time it was announced he had died from his injuries.
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Born 1921-08-02. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1970-03-09. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Accident
He was an English screenwriter, film director, film producer and make-up artist. He was the widower of American actress Brittany Murphy. Monjack was found dead in his house in Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Law enforcement sources say the Los Angeles Fire Department was called there for a medical emergency after Murphy's mother, Sharon, found Monjack unconscious in the master bedroom around 9:20 pm, and then called 911. Paramedics arrived; Monjack was pronounced dead at 9:45 pm after suffering a fatal myocardial infarction. The coroner's report found the cause of Monjack's death to be acute pneumonia and severe anemia, similar to the causes attributed to his wife's death five months earlier in the same house. He was buried at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills next to Murphy.
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Born 1926-07-21. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1981-02-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Other
His personal best jump was 16.87 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Odessa. He has 17.05 metres on the indoor track, achieved in March 2004 in Fayetteville. He also has 8.01 metres in the long jump, achieved in May 2004 in Baton Rouge.
LeJuan Simon died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from complications of primary pulmonary hypertension.
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Born 1922-12-08. Domain:Painting. Cause of death:Age
He took French nationality in 1966. He is a painter generally associated with abstract art.
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Born 1939-11-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was the grand-daughter of Michel Simon.
She was Mme Chalamand, mistress of Simon in "Nous irons tous au Paradis".
She suffered of cancer, and the pain she had been enduring was unbearable. She could not bear to see her body irreversibly and awfully damaged, either. Then, she went in Swiss, where euthanasia is legal, and took Penthotal that was prescribed to her.
In an interview, she stated that she decided to put a end to his life in dignity. This interview was recorded just before she committed this medicamental suicide.
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Born 1908-12-31. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
In October, 2006, the Vienna city council overwhelmingly approved renaming a street in Wiesenthal's honor. The newly-named Simon-Wiesenthal-Gasse was formerly known as Ichmanngasse. The former name honored Franz Ichmann, a songwriter in the early 20th century, and card-carrying member of the Nazi party.
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Born 1911-03-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Simone Renant was a French film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1934 and 1983. She was born in Amiens, France and died in Garches, France
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Born 1933-02-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
She took are stage name frome Simone Signoret.
Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness or tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, worsened by a bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-sixties, but was kept secret until 2004.
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Born 1965-10-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
His first role was in "Pauline à la plage". He has had scenes in "37°2", but they were all cut out in the commecial version.
« Acteur, c’est le seul métier qu’on peut apprendre tout seul, où l’on ne fait appel qu’à soi et à son imaginaire. Mais je crois que, tous les jours, les acteurs sont tentés de s’arrêter et se disent : Mais pourquoi je n’ouvre pas un restau ? C’est vrai que c’est un peu un métier de fêlé où on alterne de grands moments de doute avec d’autres, plus brefs, où on a un peu confiance en soi. Il faut savoir aller au bord du gouffre, le plus près possible, sans y tomber… »
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Born 1908-01-09. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
She was bisexual and had an affair with her adoptive daughter.
She had shared the life of Claude Lanzmann for 6 years.
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Born 1921-03-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1901-04-30. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:Age
His work on the business cycle and disequilibrium aspects of economic growth helped launch development economics. He also studied inequality over time, and his results formed the Kuznets Curve.
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Born 1905-04-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Unknown
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux.
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Born 1895-04-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
embolie pulmonaire
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Born 1903-08-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a French actress born in Perigueux, Dordogne. She appeared in a number of films, most notably director Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog, 1929).
After World War II she returned to her native region where she fell into a deep depression. She committed suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square.