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Overton Joseph Paul (b. 1960-01-04 / d. 2003-06-30)
He was a senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He held a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Overton is known for conceiving of the idea now known as the Overton window, the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream at a given time. He died at age 43 from injuries suffered in a crash while piloting an ultralight aircraft, soon after taking off from the Tuscola Area Airport near Caro, Michigan. Overton had just married a few weeks before the accident.
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Born 1937-03-31. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Claude Allègre was a French politician and scientist. His work in the field of isotope geochemistry was recognised with the award of many senior medals, including the Crafoord Prize for geosciences in 1986 and the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1995. His political service included a three-year term as Minister of Education in France, from 1997 to 2000.
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Born 1972-03-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Accident
Christian Oliver was a German actor who was mainly known for his role in the Cobra 11 television series. Born Christian Klepser in Celle, Oliver grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Oliver relocated to the United States to work as a model and subsequently took acting lessons in New York and Los Angeles. From 2002 until 2004, Oliver co-starred in 28 episodes of the German action TV series Alarm für Cobra 11. Oliver and his two daughters, Madita and Annik, were killed after the four-seater private plane they were on crashed off the coast of Bequia. Everyone on board, including the American pilot, Robert Sachs, was killed on impact.
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Born 1955-10-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Victoria Leigh Blum, known by the stage name Tanya Roberts, was an American actress and producer. She was best known for playing Julie Rogers in the final season of the 1970's television series Charlie's Angels, Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, and Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show. On December 24, 2020, Roberts fell out of bed and could not get up, following intestinal pain and breathing difficulties that began on a hike the day before. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and was later placed on a ventilator. It was initially reported that Roberts died on January 3, 2021, after her partner, Lance O'Brien, told her manager that he had visited her in the hospital and "said goodbye". O'Brien later clarified that this was an end-of-life visit; he had not been permitted to see her during her hospitalization due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was invited to return when Roberts was taken off life support. She was critically ill from a urinary tract infection that entered her organs and bloodstream, leading to a blood infection made worse due to Roberts's history of hepatitis C. After the premature reports, O'Brien was informed by the hospital that she died in the evening of January 4, and confirmed this to the media on January 5.
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Born 1932-02-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Barbara Shelley (born Barbara T. Kowin) was an English film and television actress. She appeared in more than 100 films and TV series and was particularly known for her work in horror films. Shelley was admitted to hospital in December 2020 for a check-up and there contracted COVID-19. After recovery she fell ill with another infection. She died at the age of 88.
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Born 1929-04-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
Emilio Giletti was an Italian racing driver. He made a name for himself in the early 1950s, after the racing experience took possession of the family factory, and was later the owner of Giletti S.p.A. His son Massimo Giletti is an Italian television host. Despite his passion for speed, he abandoned motorsport when he inherited the family business, Giletti S.p.A., one of the leading companies in the production of yarns. Under his control, the company became a technologically advanced company in the development of its production cycle, as well as their technical socks for sport. In October 2012, Emilio Giletti was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, suspended, for manslaughter following the death of a Giletti S.p.A. employee, Massimo Sasso, in September 2008.
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Born 1946-09-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (throat)
He was a Swedish actor. He became recognized for his roles in the television programs Stjärnhuset and Rederiet; in Rederiet he appeared in 318 episodes. In 2013, he won a Guldbagge award for his role in the film Avalon. He also had several roles in theater.
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Born 1941-12-29. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
Raymond Thomas was an English musician, flautist, singer, founding member and composer in the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single "Nights in White Satin" is regarded as one of progressive rock's defining moments. In 2018, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues. Fellow band member Lodge said, "Ray was my best pal. I met Ray when I was 14. We were two young kids from Birmingham who were reaching for the stars — and I think we got there. I'm really pleased that Ray was around to know we'd be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I spoke to Ray just before Christmas — because his birthday was after Christmas, on the 29th — and we had a long conversation. We're very close friends — or were very close friends. Very sad. Very, very sad."
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Born 1924-08-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French orchestral and opera conductor.
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Born 1922-10-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor.
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Born 1921-10-23. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a French Air Force pilot and test pilot celebrated for flying the first prototype of Concorde for its maiden flight. Turcat was born on 23 October 1921 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) into a family in the automotive industry. He studied at Ecole Polytechnique.
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Born 1928-01-15. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film director. His films addressed many issues, such as the Algerian War, French colonialism in Africa, pollution, racism, women's rights, and apartheid in South Africa.
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Born 1950-06-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was a French musician, singer and actor, best known for is reccurring role of Framboisier in "club Dorothée" during the 80's.
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Born 1947-04-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
He was a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician best known for his solo hits "Baker Street" and "Right Down the Line", and "Stuck in the Middle" with the band Stealers Wheel. . In November 2010, Rafferty was admitted to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, Dorset, suffering from liver failure. He died at home of liver disease.
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Born 1966-04-28. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
He was the younger son of the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his third wife, former Empress Farah Diba, and member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family. Ali-Reza Pahlavi died by apparent suicide in his Boston apartment: he was found at his home after reports of a gun shot.
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Born 1916-03-16. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer (stomach)
A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi when the city was bombed on 6 August 1945. The following day he returned to Nagasaki and, despite his wounds, returned to work on 9 August, the day of the second atomic bombing. In 1957 he was recognized as a hibakusha (explosion-affected person) of the Nagasaki bombing, but it was not until 24 March 2009 that the government of Japan officially recognised his presence in Hiroshima three days earlier. He died of stomach cancer in January 2010.
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Born 1987-01-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Also known as Jizelle Salandy or Jizelle Joseph, she was an unbeaten world-class female boxer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is ranked as the # 1 female light middleweight boxer all-time by the Boxrec.
Salandy died in a serious vehicular accident, when she crashed into a concrete pillar while driving west into Port of Spain on the Beetham Highway. She succumbed to her injuries at around 8:29 a.m. She was 21. The other occupant of the vehicle, national footballer Tamar Watson is said to be in a critical condition, having suffered massive internal injuries and broken limbs. She was recently released from hospital and is said to be in good spirits.
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Born 1956-11-09. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer
He was a Belgian professional footballer, who played as a tough defender. He was mainly associated with the club Y.R. K.V. Mechelen, with whom he won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup.
Also a prominent member of the Belgian national team, he is the late father of tennis players Kim and Elke Clijsters.
Upon his death Belgian newspapers like Het Laatste Nieuws revealed that Clijsters suffered from a recurrence of a malignant melanoma which had spread to the lungs and other organs. Clijsters had first suffered from a bout with this disease twenty five years earlier.
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Born 1887-08-12. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Tuberculosis
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Born 1913-11-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Accident
Camus died in a car accident near Sens, in a place named "Le Grand Fossard" in the small town of Villeblevin. In his coat pocket lay an unused train ticket. It is possible that Camus had planned to travel by train, but decided to go by car instead. Ironically, Camus had uttered a remark earlier in his life that the most absurd way to die would be in a car accident.
The driver of the Facel Vega car, Michel Gallimard — his publisher and close friend — also perished in the accident.
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Born 1859-10-18. Domain:Philosophy. Cause of death:Other
After his retirement from the Collège, Bergson faded into obscurity, because he was suffering from a degenerative illness. Later in his life, he extended his philosophical theories to the realms of morality, religion and art. It was respectfully received by the public and the philosophical community, but all by that time he realized that Bergson's days as a philosophical luminary were past. He was, however, able to reiterate his core beliefs near the end of his life, by renouncing all of the posts and honours previously awarded him, rather than accept exemption from the antisemitic laws imposed by the Vichy government. Though wanting to convert to Catholicism and having personally become a Christian in 1921, he held off instead and showed solidarity with his fellow Jews by signing the registry books.
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Born 1844-11-24. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age
Friedrich Jolly was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a native of Heidelberg, and the son of physicist Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884). He studied medicine at Göttingen under Georg Meissner (1829–1905), and in 1867 received his doctorate at Munich. In 1868 he became an assistant to Bernhard von Gudden (1824–1886) and Hubert von Grashey (1839–1914) at the mental institution in Werneck, and in 1870 was an assistant to Franz von Rinecker (1811–1883) at the Juliusspital in Würzburg. In 1873 Jolly became director of the psychiatric clinic in Strassburg, where he was named as successor to Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902). In 1890 he succeeded Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890) as director of the neuropsychiatric clinic at the Berlin Charité. Jolly is remembered for his pioneer research of myasthenia gravis, including the electrophysiological aspects involving abnormal fatigue associated with the disease which forms the basis of Jolly's test. He is credited with coining the term myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica for the disorder. He was the author of an influential treatise on hypochondria that was published in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie". His "Untersuchungen über den elektrischen Leitungswiderstand des menschlichen Körpers" (1884) was fundamental to the study of electrical diagnostics.