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Einstein Albert (b. 1879-04-14 / d. 1955-04-18)
He died at 1:15 AM in Princeton hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
An autopsy was performed on Einstein's barin. One found nothing unusual with his brain, but in 1999 further analysis by a team at McMaster University revealed that his parietal operculum region was missing and, to compensate, his inferior parietal lobe was 15% wider than normal. The inferior parietal region is responsible for mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition, and imagery of movement. Einstein's brain also contained 73% more glial cells than the average brain.
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Born 1968-02-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart
Lisa Marie Presley was an American singer and songwriter. She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate after her grandfather and her great-grandmother died. Presley developed a career in the music business and issued three albums: To Whom It May Concern in 2003, Now What in 2005, and Storm & Grace in 2012. Her first album reached gold certification with the Recording Industry Association of America. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using tracks he had released before he died. Presley left Scientology in 2014, though she had been experiencing growing discontent with the organization as far back as 2008. Presley suffered cardiac arrest at home in Calabasas, California, on January 12, 2023 at about 10:30 am. Her heart was restarted after CPR was administered en route to a hospital in Los Angeles, but she died later that day at the age of 54.
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Born 1979-02-05. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
Paulo Gonçalves was a Portuguese rally racing motorcycle rider. He won the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship in 2013. Gonçalves crashed during the seventh stage of the 2020 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, at 276 km. He was found unconscious, resuscitated at the scene, and then flown by helicopter to a hospital in Layla, where he was pronounced dead. He was less than a month away from his 41st birthday.
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Born 1936-01-24. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Etsuko Ichihara was a Japanese actress. She appeared in over one hundred films.
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Born 1928-01-07. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
He was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation. He also wrote and directed the sequel The Exorcist III. After the success of The Exorcist, Blatty reworked Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane! (1960) into a new novel titled The Ninth Configuration, published in 1978. Two years later, Blatty adapted the novel into a film of the same title and won Best Screenplay at the 38th Golden Globe Awards. Some of his other notable works are the novels Elsewhere (2009), Dimiter (2010) and Crazy (2010). Blatty died of multiple myeloma at a hospital in Bethesda, five days after his 89th birthday.
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Born 1995-05-03. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
He was a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2011. Bukavshin was three-time European champion in his age category. Bukavshin died in Tolyatti, and was originally thought to have suffered a stroke, though now it is reported that it was a massive overdose (or poisoning) of No-Spa that caused his death. Drotaverine (INN, also known as drotaverin) is an antispasmodic drug, used to enhance cervical dilation during childbirth. It is structurally related to papaverine, is a selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4, and has no anticholinergic effects. It is available in Asian and Central and Eastern European countries under several brand names. An article from 2013 described the effects from overdose (in a 19-year-old woman) as including vomiting, seizures and fatal cardiac toxicity.
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Born 1956-01-15. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Operation
Stephen Gold was a skilled hacker and journalist who in the mid-1980s was charged with, convicted and later acquitted of, 'uttering a forgery' in what became known to the popular press of the time as "The Great Prestel Hack". Gold, and fellow hacker Robert Schifreen, were said to have accessed, inter alia, the personal message account of Prince Philip. The facts as outlined in The Hacker's Handbook are that he was 'fitted' up, having tried, repeatedly and unsuccessfully, to warn BT's Prestel via Micronet of the security holes. Gold later became a "respected information security journalist". In 1984, Gold and fellow journalist/hacker Robert Schifreen demonstrated an "ad hoc penetration test" of a Prestel network which, according to the writer Nick Barron, used "a combination of clever shoulder surfing and good old-fashioned hacking skills". An archive telling the story of how the 1980s hack of Prince Philip’s mailbox led to UK anti-hacking legislation is held at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley. Gold and Schifreen were convicted in 1986, (after a series of pre-'trials') at Southwark Crown Court on a charge of misusing passwords: the actual charge sheet read "uttering a forgery", under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981. They appealed successfully and were twice acquitted by higher courts on the basis that they had not obtained any material gain from their exploits. The appeals were pursued right up to the House of Lords by BT at taxpayers expense during the Thatcher era. Their case, it has been said, "led directly to the introduction of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act". Gold was 'de facto' author of the fourth edition of The Hacker's Handbook, previous editions of which had been completed by "Hugo Cornwall", Professor Peter Sommer. Gold is commemorated by webpage Silent Modems created by friends and followers in his memory. Steve Gold, who died from complications arising from a heart operation on January 12th 2015, was an internationally renowned expert and commentator in the field of IT crime and cyber terrorism.
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Born 1934-07-01. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Stroke
Thomas Langmann is his son.
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Born 1922-03-07. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Russian: Óльга Алекса́ндровна Лады́женская) was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She is the author of more than two hundred scientific works, among which are six monographs. Two days before a trip to Florida, she passed away in her sleep in Russia.
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Born 1949-12-22. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Other
Maurice Gibb died unexpectedly at a Miami Beach, Florida, hospital on January 12, 2003, of complications resulting from a twisted intestine. Following his death, his surviving brothers Barry and Robin announced that they would no longer perform as the Bee Gees.
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Born 1926-07-15. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
In July 2002 new civil charges were brought concerning the kidnapping and disappearance of 18 leftist sympathizers in the late 1970s (while Galtieri was commander of the Second Army Corps), and the disappearance or death of three Spanish citizens at about the same time. Galtieri was placed under house-arrest. With his health declining, he was admitted to a hospital in Buenos Aires to be treated for cancer of the pancreas, where he died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
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Born 1930-07-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (prostate)
When he was 15 years old, Fukasaku's class was drafted, and he worked as a munitions worker during World War II. In July 1945, the class was caught in artillery fire. Since the children could not escape artillery fire, they had to dive under each other in order to survive. The surviving members of the class had to dispose of the corpses. Fukasaku realized that the Japanese government lied about World War II at that point; Fukasaku had a burning hatred of adults in general for a long time.
In 1980, Fukasaku directed Virus, Japan's most expensive production at the time, which became a financial flop.
Near the end of his life, Fukasaku branched out into the world of video games by serving as the director of the Capcom/Sunsoft survival horror game Clock Tower 3. Although the game sold poorly and received fair to lukewarm reviews, the game has been praised for its cinematic cut-scenes, which some consider to be worth playing through the game in order to watch. In 2000, Battle Royale was released, which received positive critical praise as well as becoming a major financial success, grossing ¥3.11 billion domestically. Because he suffered from late stage prostate cancer during preparations for the film Battle Royale II: Requiem, the film's production was organized so that Fukasaku's son Kenta Fukasaku could take over the film's direction after he died. Fukasaku died after directing a single scene with Takeshi Kitano.
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Born 1913-05-20. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Hewlett-Packard's first commercially viable product, developed in Hewlett's Stanford lab, was the audio oscillator. The Walt Disney Company purchased eight of the first ones for $71.50 each, for use in the 1940 film Fantasia. The product was also of use to medical doctors, hospitals and clinics, geologists, engineers, oil and mining companies, and the military, among others.
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Born 1936-03-01. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Heart attack
In 1991, L'Idiot international was one of the only newspaper to criticize the Gulf War, and Jean-Edern Hallier went to Iraq to cover the war. Some time before, he had published Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988), and personally delivered an exemplary of the book to the Iranian embassy in Paris.
He died opportunedly from a heart attack while riding his bike.
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Born 1904-06-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was Master Po in the film series Kung Fu.
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Born 1913-02-10. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Murder
Marcel Bascoulard was a French designer, photographer and poet. A “tramp artist” and transvestite, he is renowned for his urban landscapes drawn in India ink or pastel. On January 12, 1978, he was assassinated in Asnières-lès-Bourges, at a place called Les Gargaudières, strangled by a 23-year-old marginal, who was sentenced to fifteen years in prison the following year.
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Born 1907-11-20. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Heart attack
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Born 1890-09-15. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age
On 8 December 1926, while living in Sunningdale in Berkshire, she disappeared for ten days, causing great interest in the press. Her car was found in a chalk pit in Newland's Corner, Surrey. She was eventually found staying at the Swan Hydro (now the Old Swan hotel) in Harrogate under the name of the woman with whom her husband had recently admitted to having an affair. She claimed to have suffered a nervous breakdown and a fugue state caused by the death of her mother and her husband's infidelity. Opinions are still divided as to whether this was a publicity stunt. Public sentiment at the time was negative, with many feeling that an alleged publicity stunt had cost the taxpayers a substantial amount of money. A 1979 film, Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgrave as Christie, recounted a fictionalised version of the disappearance.
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Born 1864-06-22. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Infection
He was a German mathematician of Lithuanian Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity. Minkowski died suddenly of appendicitis in Göttingen in 1909.
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Born 1853-03-14. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Other
Max Saenger (German: Max Sänger) was a German obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of Bayreuth. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, then continued with graduate studies in OB/GYN and pathology under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé (1819–1892). He later became a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Leipzig, and in 1890 was appointed professor of OB/GYN at the German University in Prague. In 1894 he co-founded the journal Monatsschrift für Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie. In 1882 he introduced the practice of sutural closure of the uterus following Caesarean section operations. The previous autumn, Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer (1837-1914) performed the first lower segment Caesarean section in Europe. Sänger's contribution preserved the mother's uterus and helped reduce the chance of infection. Afterwards, Kehrer and other surgeons adopted Sänger's methodology. Sänger used silver and silk thread as suture material. Silver sutures had been introduced into medicine by the American gynecologist James Marion Sims (1813-1883). Sänger was originally Jewish, but later converted to Lutheranism. Despite his conversion, he suffered discrimination due to his Jewish background. In 1899, Max Sänger was appointed as full professor and board member of the obstetric-gynaecology clinic at the Charles University of Prague. He finished teaching in 1902 as a result of a nervous disorder, but headed the clinic until his death in 1903 at the age of 49.