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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 1939-07-30. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
Peter Bogdanovich ComSE (Serbian: Петар Богдановић, romanized: Petar Bogdanović) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. Bogdanovich died from complications of Parkinson's disease at his home in Los Angeles.
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Born 1927-02-20. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Sir Sidney L. Poitier KBE was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and ambassador. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Black male and Bahamian actor to win the award. He received two further Academy Award nominations, ten Golden Globes nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, six BAFTA nominations, eight Laurel nominations, and one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination. Poitier was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema, and after the death of Kirk Douglas in 2020, was the oldest living and earliest surviving male Academy Award winner until his own death in 2022. From 1997 to 2007, Poitier served as Bahamian Ambassador to Japan.
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Born 1931-07-11. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
David Ramon Toschi (/ˈtɒski/; July 11, 1931 – January 6, 2018) was an American law enforcement officer widely known for his efforts in the San Francisco Police Department as an inspector in the Zodiac Killer case. His personal style was the model for Bullitt and Dirty Harry.
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Born 1938-08-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was an American film and television actress. York never married. She once said, "Like Cinderella, I always wanted to marry the handsome prince...but they don't make glass slippers in size ten!" She died in Van Nuys, California from cancer, aged 78.
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Born 1921-08-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French film and television actor.
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Born 1961-11-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Metin Kaçan was a Turkish author who is best known for his novels Ağır Roman (Cholera Street), and Fındık Sekiz. Kaçan committed suicide by jumping from Bosphorus Bridge. On that day he took a cab, ostensibly going to the Üsküdar section of Istanbul, but asked the driver to stop near the Bridge so that he could take photographs. He got out of the vehicle, ran to the Bridge, and threw himself off.
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Born 1948-07-17. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American guitarist and co-songwriter with Iggy Pop for the rock band The Stooges.
He is ranked as number 29 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Asheton was found dead in his Ann Arbor, Mich. home of a reported heart attack on January 6th, 2009, having died several days earlier.
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Born 1962-12-28. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Infection (Lungs)
Michel was born with osteogenesis imperfecta which is a genetic disease that causes brittle bones and in his case short stature. It is also often linked to pulmonary ailments. In his early career his father and brother occasionally carried him, literally, because he could not walk far on his own unaided. In certain respects though he considered it an advantage as it got rid of distractions, like sports, that other boys tended to become involved in.
He had three significant relationships. His first marriage to Italian pianist Gilda Buttà ended in divorce. He also fathered two children, one being a son named Alexandre. One of these children inherited his condition. He also had a stepson named Rachid Roperch.
Michel Petrucciani died at 36 from a pulmonary infection.
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Born 1917-10-21. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
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Born 1938-03-12. Domain:Art. Cause of death:AIDS
He socialized with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, but he developed an intolerance for non-celebrities.
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Born 1887-01-11. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Marie Noémie Gardès, known as Renée Gardès, born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, where she died in the 15th arrondissement of Paris was a French actress. An astonishing physique specialized Renée Gardès in shrewish roles: Mouloudji's alcoholic mother in André Cayatte's Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952), the Chouette in André Hunebelle's Les Mystères de Paris (1962), a gossip in Pierre Etaix's Le Grand amour (1969). But she also played more sympathetic characters of old maids: Cette sacrée gamine, La Grande Lessive (!), La Maison de campagne.
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Born 1892-07-01. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age
He was a French painter and tapestry designer.
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Born 1895-09-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Suicide
Jacques Vaché was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said:
"In literature, I am successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most"
He was born in Lorient, France, and died with a friend in Nantes from an overdose of opium. He was known for his indifference and for wearing a monocle.
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Born 1845-03-03. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Other
Cantor's youngest son died suddenly in 1899 (while Cantor was delivering a lecture on Shakespeare and Bacon), and this tragedy finally drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics. Cantor suffered from chronic depression for the rest of his life, for which he was excused from teaching on several occasions and repeatedly confined in various sanatoria. He did not abandon mathematics completely, however, lecturing on the paradoxes of set theory (Burali-Forti paradox, Russell's paradox, and Cantor's paradox ) to a meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker–Vereinigung in 1903, and attending the International Congress of Mathematicians at Heidelberg in 1904.
In 1911, Cantor was one of the distinguished foreign scholars invited to attend the 500th anniversary of the founding of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Cantor attended, hoping to meet Bertrand Russell, whose newly published Principia Mathematica repeatedly cited Cantor's work, but this did not come about. The following year, St. Andrews awarded Cantor an honorary doctorate, but illness precluded his receiving the degree in person.
Cantor retired in 1913, and suffered from poverty, even hunger, during World War I. The public celebration of his 70th birthday was cancelled because of the war. He died in the sanatorium where he had spent the final year of his life.