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Born 1930-09-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions over the course of 42 years of active NASA service. He is the only person to have piloted and commanded four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command and Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle. Young died on January 5, 2018, at his home in Houston of complications from pneumonia.
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Born 1918-10-16. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
She was a French soprano, particularly associated with the French repertory, especially Marguerite, Thais and Salomé (Massenet). She was born in Toulouse. Following her career in France and other European centres, she was a teacher and "perceptive observer of the French operatic scene". She was married to French baritone Roger Bourdin in May 1944, with whom she had two daughters, one of whom is Françoise Bourdin.
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Born 1936-06-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
French trainer for Federation Française d'Athlétisme.
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Born 1925-03-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world.
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Born 1926-09-06. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He was a Russian / Soviet computer scientist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was involved in the development of the first Soviet computers.
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Born 1983-02-04. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
Born in 1983 in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Melet grew up in Hérault before becoming an engineer. He worked as an engineer for four years before quitting in 2008 to turn his full attention to outdoor sports with Julien Millot. The pair began with the slackline and more particularly an elevated version of it known as the highline. After a few years, Melet started focusing on performing arts, presenting himself as an "artist of the void." He was the co-founder of the Flying Frenchies, a group which combines artists, athletes and engineers. Melet, as well as the group, became known for mixing traditional circus arts (Chinese pole, Korean Teeterboard) with more daring stunts (BASE jumping). On January 5, 2016, while preparing a show, he died in Aurel as a result of a fall from a hot air balloon that had dragged him up while taking off.
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Born 1937-04-26. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Stroke
French car racer and initially a motorbike racer. Tragedy struck in Giunti's first drive in 1971 whilst racing in the 1000 km Buenos Aires race, when Giunti's Ferrari 312PB prototype ploughed into the back of the Matra 660 of Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who was pushing the car along the track after it had run out of fuel. The impact and the subsequent fire gave the popular Italian no chance of survival.
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Born 1942-01-25. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Heart
He was a Mozambican-born Portuguese football forward. He is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. Eusébio died at his home of heart failure.
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Born 1925-01-18. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Cancer (lung)
He was an American novelist. He was known for his book The Warriors which became a major motion picture.
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Born 1972-01-13. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:flu
He was a Romanian comedy actor.
He died in a Matei Balş Hospital in Bucharest, due to complications from swine flu, at age 37. His death created a panic in Romania and after his death the rate of vaccinations has increased.
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Born 1910-03-05. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Heart attack
The inventor of world's first instant noodles and cup noodles
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Born 1906-08-09. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Robert L. Surtees was an American cinematographer who won Academy Awards three times, for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben Hur.
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Born 1922-04-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:orphan disease
By the mid-1970s, Mingus was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease), a wastage of the musculature. His once formidable bass technique suffered, until he could no longer play the instrument. He continued composing, however, and supervised a number of recordings before his death.
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Born 1875-04-05. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
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Born 1897-07-24. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Accident
She was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. She was declared offically dead in 1939.