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Cowan George (b. 1920-02-15 / d. 2012-04-20)
He was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. Cowan received a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. He continued his nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos. Because he was transferred to various locations as a technological troubleshooter for the effort, he was among the very few people with knowledge of the separate components of the bomb, kept apart for security reasons. He joined the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950. Weeks after his arrival at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949, he directed the detection of radioactive fallout from samples collected near the Russian border indicating the Soviets were in possession of a nuclear bomb. He later served on the Bethe Panel that convinced government decision makers the radiochemistry detected represented weapons uses rather than peaceful pursuits.
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Born 1940-01-19. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Élisabeth Rappeneau was a French film director and screenwriter. She was the sister of the French director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, the aunt of musician Martin Rappeneau and of the screenwriter Julien Rappeneau.
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Born 1942-11-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Stewart Robert Einstein was an American actor, comedy writer and producer. He created and performed the satirical stuntman character Super Dave Osborne, played Marty Funkhouser in Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Larry Middleman on Arrested Development. Einstein got his start as a writer on several television variety shows, including The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Einstein won two Emmy Awards as a writer and was nominated four other times. He also won a CableACE Award for acting as Super Dave, along with five other nominations. Einstein was the son of radio comedian Harry Einstein, and the older brother of fellow actor and comedian Albert Brooks.
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Born 1944-10-10. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens was the founder of éditions P.O.L.
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Born 1956-06-01. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
He was a French Trade unionist, and leader of the French trade union CFDT (French Democratic Confederation of Labour or Confédération française démocratique du travail).
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Born 1933-01-18. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
He was an alpine ski racer from France. An Olympic gold medalist, he was born in Le Bardo, Tunisia. His wife Edith and youngest son Patrick were among the members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult who committed suicide in 1994. He married his second wife Christiane in 1999; she died of a heart attack in 2012. After a stroke, Vuarnet died at age 83 in 2017 at Sallanches, Haute-Savoie.
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Born 1946-01-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
Known as Michel Delpech, he was a French singer-songwriter and actor. Delpech had long been a heavy smoker, going through a pack of cigarettes daily starting at the age of 18 and quitting only after his diagnosis to throat cancer in 2013.
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Born 1953-11-05. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American video game composer known for his work for Atari, Inc. and Atari Games. Fuller composed the soundtracks for Marble Madness, released by Atari Games in 1984, Blasteroids, released in 1987, and Tengen Tetris, which was originally released in 1988. He also served as the Director of Audio of Atari, in which he oversaw all of the company's soundtracks and music for its video games. Fuller was promoted to Director of Engineering in 1993. He remained at Atari until his departure in 1996.
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Born 1938-10-24. Domain:science (economics). Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Stephen A. Resnick was an American heterodox economist. He is well known for his work (with Richard D. Wolff) on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis.
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Born 1930-09-16. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
She was an American actress. Francis was best known for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956) and for having starred in the television series Honey West (1965–1966) which was the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title. She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series.
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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 1936-07-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
Gilborn guest starred in a number notable television series including JAG, ER, The West Wing, and NYPD Blue. He also appeared in the show Ellen (as "Harold Morgan", Ellen's father). Another notable recurring role was his three episode stint as "Mr. Collins", Kevin Arnold's algebra teacher on The Wonder Years. Film credits include "Mr. Phillips" in The Brady Bunch Movie.
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Born 1972-03-01. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
On December 25, 2007, he successfully defended the WBO Inter-Continental flyweight title with an unanimous decision victory over Heri Amol. In the 12th round, Choi was dropped with five seconds remaining, but beat the count and went on to win the fight. He collapsed while still in the ring after the bout and was rushed to the Soonchunhyang University Hospital immediately after the fight in order to undergo emergency brain surgery. Choi died on January 2, 2008, when he was removed from a ventilator after having been pronounced brain-dead the day before.
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Born 1917-01-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He created le théatre de la Huchette in Paris.
Discovered actors like Suzanne Flon, Jacqueline Maillan, Pierre Mondy or Claude Gensac.
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Born 1930-11-17. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Cancer
She is criticized with severity for the treatment she was reserving to her animals.
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Born 1912-02-09. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Cancer
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Born 1888-07-14. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
"Silbermann".
He was a member of "les croix de feu".
His grand-daughter, Hortense de Labriffe, married Arnaud Montebourg.
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Born 1919-09-15. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Other
At the end of 1959, while on a cycling and game hunting trip in the African Upper Volta (now known as Burkina Faso), Coppi caught malaria. When the illness broke out, after his return to Italy, it was not recognized in time for effective treatment. Coppi died at the age of 40 years in the hospital of Tortona.