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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 1933-06-20. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:cancer (brain)
He was a British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. He put the first computer on the ARPANET outside of the US and was instrumental in defining and implementing TCP/IP alongside Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. He is "often recognized as the father of the European Internet". Peter Kirstein died from a brain tumour.
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Born 1942-02-11. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack
He was an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music. In 2013, Clay was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame.
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Born 1926-11-11. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age
She was an Italian racing driver, and the first woman to race in Formula One. She participated in five World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1958, but scored no championship points. Though her Formula One racing career was brief, she won races in other series and is remembered as a pioneer in the sport. Maserati was a successful Formula One chassis manufacturer in the 1950s, supplying several teams and winning numerous races. In 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio won the drivers' title in a Maserati 250F, his fifth and final championship win. The team officially withdrew from the sport at the end of the year but many of the cars remained, being driven by privateers. On 18 May 1958 de Filippis was given the opportunity to enter the Monaco Grand Prix, the second round of the 1958 Formula One season, in one of the 250Fs. Of the 31 entrants only half set a time good enough to qualify, with de Filippis missing out alongside fellow debutant and future Formula One Management and Formula One Administration president Bernie Ecclestone. De Filippis's time of 1'50.8 was 5.8 seconds behind the qualifying time of the fastest 16 which included future world champions Mike Hawthorn, Jack Brabham, and Graham Hill in his first race. Fangio gave de Filippis plenty of advice during the season. In a 2006 interview she recalled that Fangio told her, "You go too fast, you take too many risks."
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Born 1923-02-03. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
She was a French actress. She had appeared (2003-2005) in a serie of short sketches entitled "Chez maman" on Canal+. She portrayed an old freak mother.
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Born 1929-07-26. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was a Bulgarian naturalized Frenchman pianist.
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Born 1922-10-09. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age
He was born at Grand Bassam in Ivory coast. He was a singer who gained notoriety during 60's. His voice was very charecteristic (Si toi aussi tu m'abandonnes). He had been deported in the concentration camp of Neuengame during WWII.
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Born 1925-10-31. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age
He was a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic. He managed a number of publications over the course of his long association with Daniel Filipacchi. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the influential radio show and magazine Salut les copains. From 1995 to 2001, he was mayor of the town of Marnay-sur-Seine. The Foundation Ténot involved in supporting artistic creation with the art center CAMAC in Marnay-sur-Seine.
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Born 1916-10-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
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Born 1942-08-07. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
In 1988, he allegedly beat his second wife Alicia Muñiz so many times that she, scared and bloody, ran to the balcony of their second floor apartment. According to the investigation performed later, he followed her there, grabbed her by the neck, and then picked her up and pushed her off the balcony, to her death, after which he followed her in the fall injuring a shoulder. Upon hearing his sentence, Monzón did not show any remorse for what had happened.
In 1995, he was given a weekend furlough to visit his family and kids, and upon returning to jail after the weekend, he crashed near the jail building, dying instantly. There have been rumors that he committed suicide by crashing the car, but there has been no evidence found that supports that claim.
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Born 1886-11-20. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Suicide
Stavisky fled. On January 8, 1934, the police found him in a Chamonix chalet agonizing from a gun wound. Officially Stavisky committed suicide but there was a persistent speculation that police killed him.
Alexandre Stavisky was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Meanwhile,
in Switzerland, the probationary period before an immigrant could be
granted the status of a Niedergelassener was set at five years, but some cantonal
authorities wanted to extend this to include even long-term resident aliens
in order to limit their access to the labour market. During 1934 and 1935,
the French authorities also continued to tighten their grip on aliens in general
and refugees in particular. The period of residence required for protection
against expulsion and/or restriction within the labour market was extended
from five years to ten in 1935. It became increasingly difficult for potential
immigrants to obtain visas unless they could prove they had sufficient assets
or a means of supporting themselves. A more right-wing government, increasing
xenophobia fuelled in no small part by the Stavisky affair, and increasing
economic stagnation did nothing to alleviate matters. The French
authorities also began to realize the practical difficulties of policing their extensive
frontiers and 1935 saw the appointment of 25 new inspectors for the
border police and the use of customs officers to control immigration.
There is an interesting theory developed by Gerard Noiriel on that matter. he makes a parallel with the current Sarkozy's dubious thesis and what happened during this period.
These dubious thesis are always based on that kind of real facts, though they have nothing to do with the problem. They deeeply strike people's minds that are weakened already by a slowing down economy.
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Born 1884-10-16. Domain:Sculpting. Cause of death:Suicide
Unfortunately, Rembrandt Bugatti suffered from mental health problems and he gradually slipped into a severe depression. During the war the Antwerp Zoo was forced to kill most of its wild livestock which deeply affected Bugatti many of whom he used as objects for his sculpture. In 1916, at the age of 31, he ended his own life by natural gas. He is interred in the Bugatti family plot at the municipal cemetery in Dorlisheim in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region of France.
His older brother was Ettore Bugatti who became one of the world's most famous automobile manufacturers.