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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 1930-09-25. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age
Nino Cerruti was an Italian businessman and stylist. He founded his own haute couture house, Cerruti, in 1967 in Paris. He managed the Italian family business Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, which was founded in 1881 by his grandfather. According to imdb.com, Mr. Cerruti had cameo appearances in the following Hollywood movies: Holy Man (1998), Catwalk (1996) and Cannes Man (1996). In 1994 Cerruti was the official designer of Scuderia Ferrari.
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Born 1943-08-19. Domain:Music. Cause of death:cancer (pancreas)
He was an American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. He was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He (as leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers) was probably best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" (1968–69), which was included on the "Songs of the Century" list. The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".
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Born 1927-08-23. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: Department S (1969–70) and Jason King (1971–72). His flamboyant dress sense and stylish performances led to success, and he was considered a style icon in Britain and elsewhere in the early 1970s; Mike Myers credited Wyngarde with inspiring the character Austin Powers. Peter Wyngarde's birth name, Cyril Goldbert, was confirmed when details of his estate were published in The London Gazette on 2 May 2019. His full name may have been Cyril Louis Goldbert, but facts about his early life are difficult to confirm and verify. Wyngarde appears to have fabricated a false biography when he changed his name, including a later year of birth, a father with a different name, profession and ethnic background, and a false education history. The Guardian said in March 2020 that "his life story is shrouded in mystery" According to his own account, he was born on 23 August 1933 to a French mother and a British father at an aunt's home in Marseille, France. A 1956 Straits Times article about his mother gives Marseille as his birthplace. He claimed to be a maternal nephew of French actor-director Louis Jouvet.
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Born 1927-02-17. Domain:Other. Cause of death:Age
Paul Lombard, was a French lawyer.
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Born 1914-01-10. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age
He was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in twelve films between 1934 and 1959, and directed nine films between 1951 and 1963.
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Born 1937-06-26. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
He was a Ukrainian scientist, jurist, politician, and doctor of legal sciences.
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Born 1940-02-17. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age
He was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed seventeen films between 1972 and 2009.
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Born 1932-03-03. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Pneumonia
He was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
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Born 1974-12-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Operation
He was a Finnish enduro rider and a five-time world champion. He was also a seven-time winner of the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) World Trophy with Team Finland, and was the fastest overall in the competition in 1999, 2001 and 2002. Mika Ahola announced his retirement from enduro racing on New Year's Day 2012. Ahola died of internal injuries on 15 January 2012 at a hospital in Barcelona, a few weeks after crashing while training in Girona, Spain. The question is that he had been to hospital just after the crash, and released after being told everything was OK. His health then deteriorated at the point that he returned to the hospital for a kidneytomy. But nothing could be done to avoid the tragic end.
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Born 1973-09-20. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Accident
He was a Scotland's leading cyclist and was killed while out training near his home in Fort William. Jason MacIntyre, a three-time British champion and Scottish record holder, was training on the A82 road when he was hit by a vehicle, said to be a council vehicle which overtook him and then turned into his path. The 34-year-old was airlifted from the scene but died on his way to hospital in Glasgow.
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Born 1982-07-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:alcohol, other drugs
Knoxville, Tennessee: He struck a plea bargain on cocaine and marijuana charges and agreed to undergo random drug screening. [3 July 1998]
He was arrested in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, when police pulled him over and allegedly found cocaine and marijuana in his pants and socks. [5 June 1998]
Arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a grand theft charge for allegedly trying to steal a 45 foot yacht. He and a companion failed to untie the boat from the dock, causing damage to both the boat and the dock. [28 August 2000]
Sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay more than $4,000 for repairs on a yacht he tried to steal in Fort Lauderdale. [5 January 2001]
While on probation in Florida, arrested May 16, 2001 for underage drinking as car was pulled over. Released from jail after $500 bond posted. [May 2001]
January, 2002 - Knoxville, Tennessee Brad was arrested and charged with public intoxication and driving without a license. He was stopped after a traffic violation near his house.
Ordered back to jail for remainder of probation by Florida judge due to his drunk driving arrest in January. [February 2002]
Until he was discovered and cast in The Client (1994), he attended Fountain City Elementary School in Knoxville, Tennesee.
Won the "Hollywood Reporter's Young Star Award" in 1995.
Raised by his grandmother.
On December 23, 2005 he was arrested, together with 14 other suspects, during a random drug sting operation in downtown Los Angeles while allegedly trying to buy heroin.
Was arrested for allegedly trying to buy heroin from an undercover police officer in the skid row section downtown Los Angeles on December 22, 2005.
Had not acted for a year at the time of his arrest for attempting to buy heroin.
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Born 1898-12-19. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age
One of the last four French veterans of the Great War.
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Born 1922-05-16. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age
Poniatowski approved in September 1983 the merger of the electoral list RPR-UDF with the far-right National Front (FN) party, headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen, during the partial municipal election of Dreux.
French quote: « Le danger fasciste en France ne vient pas de la droite, il vient de la gauche, dont c'est la vocation d'esprit et de méthode. Il faut donc voter contre les fascistes de gauche. »
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Born 1920-09-24. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Cancer
Leo Marks was an English cryptographer, screenwriter and playwright. “ In January 1942 I was escorted to the war by my parents in case I couldn't find it or met with an accident on the way. ” So begins his book, Between Silk and Cyanide, about his work in cryptography. Marks joined the Armed Services and went to Bedford to train as a cryptographer. Although personally in charge only of agent codes, the young Marks frequently walked into bureaucratic lion's dens in order to save lives in the field. One of his first challenges (stubbornly resisted by the establishment) was to phase out the use of double transposition ciphers using keys based on preselected poems. These poem ciphers had the limited advantage of being easy to memorise, but a number of significant disadvantages, including limited cryptographic security, substantial minimum message sizes (short ones were hopelessly easy to crack), and the fact that the method's complexity caused a significant number of encoding errors. Cryptographic security was greatly enhanced by Marks's innovations, especially "worked-out keys". He was widely credited with inventing the letter one-time pad, but while he did independently discover the method, he would later find that it was already in use at Bletchley. While attempting to relegate poem codes to emergency use only, he enhanced their security by promoting the use of original poems in preference to widely known ones, thus forcing a would-be cracker to work it out the hard way for each message instead of being able to guess an agent's entire set of keys after breaking the key to a single message (or possibly even just part of the key.) Something of a poet himself, Marks wrote many poems later used by agents, the most famous being the one he gave to the agent Violette Szabo, the poignant The Life That I Have, which gained popularity when it was used in the 1958 film about her, Carve Her Name With Pride. According to his book, Marks wrote the poem about a girlfriend, Ruth Hambro, who was killed in an air crash in Canada. The life that I have is all that I have And the life that I have is yours The love that I have of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have, a rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause For the peace of my years in the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.
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Born 1873-03-16. Domain:Science (Physics style). Cause of death:Age
He is the father of the French Caisse d'Allocations familiales. He had composed the following text: O Jésus qui, par votre exemple, nous avez imposé à tous de travailler pour gagner notre vie et réaliser notre progrès spirituel, nous vous demandons , par l’intercession de Marie ménagère et de Joseph artisan : - de faire disparaitre les abus contraire à la doctrine sociale de l’Eglise et dont souffrent la religion, la famille, l’entreprise, la profession, la cité, l’humanité ; - de faire surgir les institutions nécessaires au bien temporel de tous les travailleurs, employeurs et employés ; - et ainsi, faites-nous la grâce d’un ordre social chrétien, d’où sortira la paix sociale et, par elle, la paix mondiale.