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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 1946-10-08. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Jean-Jacques Beineix ([bɛnɛks]) was a French film director whose work is generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look. Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular (studio based) and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax. Luc Besson, like Beineix, was much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired. In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire (in French only). The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire (Paths of Glory).
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Born 1951-03-27. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:cancer (blood)
Marielle de Sarnez was a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who represented the Paris 11th in the National Assembly. She served as Minister for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from May to June 2017. She died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, following an acute leukemia, at the age of 69.
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Born 1951-02-14. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Cancer
Sylvain Mizrahi, known professionally as Sylvain Sylvain, was an American rock guitarist, most notable for being a member of the New York Dolls. After living in Atlanta for several years, Sylvain resided in Nashville since 2015. On April 27, 2019, Sylvain announced that he had cancer. He set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to help pay for treatment. On January 13, 2021, Sylvain died from cancer.
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Born 1989-04-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Cancer (breast)
Sophie Kratzer was a German ice hockey forward.
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Born 1930-03-07. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
He was a British photographer and filmmaker who married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Snowdon was married twice. He was married first to Princess Margaret (1960 to 1978), and second to Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg (1978 to 2000). Lord Snowdon died peacefully at his home in Kensington
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Born 1982-04-14. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Suicide
She was a pornographic actress, born in Owensboro, Kentucky. In his biography of Wray, performing arts researcher Harris M. Lentz III referred to the actress as "a star of alternative pornography." During the 2007 Ozzfest tour, Wray began dating Static-X frontman Wayne Static. On January 10, 2008 the couple wed in Las Vegas. She announced her retirement from the industry in August 2008. Wray reported quitting drugs in 2009. In 2009, Static-X released their sixth studio album, Cult of Static. This album features two tracks, "Tera-Fied", a reference to Tera's name, and "Stingwray," a reference to her Corvette Stingray. Wray was widowed after Wayne Static died on November 1, 2014. She died by suicide at her home in Joshua Tree, California. Wray was 33 years old. Her roommate and friend, Jay'e Jones, discovered Wray's body at their home that evening. A note left by Wray instructed Jones to call Wray's mother, her attorney, and several others.
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Born 1980-05-01. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Unknown
Jay Reatard, was a force in the worlds of punk and garage rock, was found dead in his home in Memphis.
The Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported that a roommate had found him in bed, and the police have opened an investigation into his death. A spokeswoman for the Shelby County medical examiner in Tennessee said an autopsy had been performed but that a cause of death had not been determined.
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Born 1928-03-19. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz.
He appeared in 1981 Scanners, a science fiction/horror film by Canadian director David Cronenberg that has since attained cult movie status.
McGoohan died January 13, 2009, age 80, at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California after a brief illness.
At the time of his death, McGoohan was mostly retired, living in Los Angeles with his wife of 57 years, Joan Drummond McGoohan.
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Born 1896-09-18. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
Do you think of death ? Of course yes, but I don't want to get sick with this.
Interred in Arradon.
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Born 1907-09-15. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Cancer
Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette was an American Menominee singer, waitress, convict, and lecturer known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s. Frechette is known to have been involved with Dillinger for about six months, until her arrest and imprisonment in 1934. She finished two years in prison in 1936, then toured the United States with Dillinger's family for five years with their "Crime Doesn't Pay" show. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades.
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Born 1916-01-25. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Other
He was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker. In early 1940, a section called "Hut 6" — named after the building in which it was initially housed — was created to work on solving German Army and Air Force Enigma messages. Jeffreys was chosen to run the hut alongside Welchman. Jeffreys was in charge of "Sheet-Stacking and Machine Room activities", while Welchman handled "Registration, Intercept Control, Decoding, and relations with the intelligence people in Hut 3". In May 1940, Jeffreys took a vacation, but became ill and was diagnosed with tuberculosis and diabetes. He died in January 1944.
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Born 1882-02-02. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Operation
He underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. While at first improved, he relapsed the following day, and despite several transfusions, fell into a coma. He awoke at 2 a.m. on 13 January 1941, and asked for a nurse to call his wife and son before losing consciousness again. They were still en route when he died fifteen minutes later.
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Born 1848-03-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
Wyatt Earp died at home in the Earps' small apartment at 4004 W 17th Street, in Los Angeles, of chronic cystitis (some sources cite prostate cancer).
The youngest Earp brother, Morgan, was murdered in an ambush on March 18, 1882.